icon fanny liou hamer, this tim talking specifically about guns and it happens over and over and over again and the united states government seems to do nothing about it. cory booker bought a lot of goodwill by going right to that issue, squeezing his fist, bringing that audience to their feet for the first time really among any of the contenders that spoke this afternoon. others got a good reception. i would say he got a great reception for talking about guns. drew, i want to ask you about that translating policy into something voters will get behind. this is an election in which gun policy is being talked about being introduced more as a principal policy. you have cory booker who beth mentioned, eric swalwell, staging his campaign on gun control, gun policy as well. is it gaining steam in a way it hasn t in years past? it is gaining steam. interestingly while there are new moderate house democrats who
on california this weekend for the state s democratic convention which is taking place there. missing from the fold, however, is the frontrunner, vice president joe biden, opting instead to campaign in ohio. team coverage tonight with drew l lipman and beth fouhy who has been at the convention all day. help us understand the importance of this. there s more than a dozen candidates made the trip to san francisco to be there. reporter: yeah, that s right. it is 14 total, david. what s important about it? a couple of things. one, the biggest state in the country by far, largest number of democrats voting in one state, and moved up the primary. used to be a june primary. now california has a march primary the first time in many years. it will be on super tuesday next year. suddenly california plays a bigger role in selecting the party s nominee than it typically does. it typically cedes to iowa, new
reporter: so she had a couple of appearances today. she spoke at a women s caucus this morning where there was discussion of planned parenthood and abortion bans passing in several states. she was well received. today s message from kamala harris and most of the rest of them was electability and need to bounce president trump out of office. she talked about the need to impeach president trump. she s one of those democrats firmly in that camp, different from nancy pelosi who had spoken earlier in the day, she too, a california lawmaker, but the most powerful democrat now, certainly the most powerful democratic woman putting the brakes on the notion of impeachment. kamala harris spoke about it in a very impassioned tone andrew b and drew applause. listen to the junior senator, to kamala harris and what she had to say. let s talk about this so-called commander in chief.
he parrots lies over the word of american intelligence and law enforcement leaders. he denies that russia interfered in election of the president of the united states. he obstructed justice and then hired an attorney general to clean up the crime scene. we need to begin impeachment proceedings, and we need a new commander in chief. drew, i would love you to react. and react to what beth was talking about, the degree to which this path to the nomination changed as a result of california playing a bigger role in the primary process. well, it is a radical change because super tuesday was originally set up to enable democrats to compete in compact group of southern states. if you are running low on funds, you could still be competitive through super tuesday, but over time, massachusetts has been added, minnesota, now