Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
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Are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way excited tol be so see you back, many of you on february 3. Without further ado, i wanted to do a quick introduce of someone who were very excited to welcome back to grinnell. Hes been here three times. I dont know if you were here the first time. It was a group of 20 students who were interested in meeting a young mayor from south bend, indiana, who president obama said might be a new leader of the Democratic Party. And so we got to
Caucuses are monday, february 3. Hello. So i am the cochair of the Democratic Party and we are the volunteers who have the exciting challenge of running the caucuses. So i just want to see a show of hands, how many of you are planning to caucus . Whoa. That is both inspiring and terrifying. Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way excited tol be
Terrifying. Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We at Grinnell College have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better