This truly unprecedented moment in american president ial politics. First lets go to cnns jeff zeleny, hes in des moines, for us. Jeff, what is the latest . What are you learning . Reporter wolf, good morning. Im told at this hour the chair of the Iowa Democratic party and some of the other top officials there will be briefing campaign officials, president ial advisers shortly. Giving them an update on the progress overnight that is going to eventually lead to some results. We believe at some point later this afternoon perhaps. The timing is still uncertain. We are getting a new statement a short time ago from the chairman of the Iowa Democratic party and walking through these inconsistencies that we have been reporting and really for the last 12 hours or more or so it became clear something was indeed wrong here in iowa with those counts. The statement walks through talking about the integrity of the process, it does not say anything about the results. But it does say this, wolf, lets
Ridiculously harsh. Steve here is a we are getting ahead of the and this is bringing balance game. Let the voters in iowa go to it. And the president deserves steve there they were at the professional sportscaster. Brian Third Straight come first. Let the voters in new every bit of the credit for back never done especially hampshire go second. This and i hope he will by that deficit. Lets listen to them. See how close things are see Kyle Shanahan the offensive remind americans of the things that he has done that indeed who wins and see the falcons when they ble lose way it starts to shakes out. Has won both sides of the by 10. Aisle support. Brian only one that would i dont like to get ahead. Have done it. Ainsley Patrick Mahomes is republicans were not leaning finale. Shakira played as j. Los not only 25 years old. Its guesswork. True or false, the towards criminal justice now he has a super bowl reform. President wants bernie . Oh, yeah. That wasnt on their thing daughter. Played get
Cabins in crews ships as a new mystery are virus spreads now to a dozen people in the the u. S. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. President trump acquitted and emboldened. Taking victory laps and spewing spite today. First a at the National Prayer breakfast where he seemed to question the faith of nancy pelosi and senator mitt romney and showed off the acquitted headline on the front page of usa today. And again this afternoon, showing a similar headline on the Washington Post in the east room of the white house where the president delivered a 63minute angry and rambling speech. A stream of conscious in front of a crowd. Calling democrats vicious and horrible people accusing romney of using his faith as a crutch to explain his guilty vote. The president railed against what he called dirty cops and leakers and liars. He claimed the witch hunt sta started from the time he ae announced his campaign. It was to say the least, not exactly an effort to heal
Nancy pelosi and the president. My mind is not on disco right now. Brian why . Steve complicated dance between the president and the speaker. Holy cow. Ainsley yesterday, quite a day. If you didnt see it, we have a lot of soundbites to play for you. Steve do you know what today is. Ainsley friday. Steve we are exhausted. We worked last week. We worked ladd weekend so 12 days in a row. We are ready to get this show done. Ainsley not have an alarm clock for one day tomorrow. Brian the world has given us a lot to talk about with a lot of intrigue. I want to say this to nancy pelosi we are not sedated in doing the show. We are drugfree. Steve im having some coffee. Brian i am not. Ainsley its out of my system. Brian straight to a fox news alert. Major take down. Ainsley white house confirms a top al qaeda leader is dead killed in a drone strike in yemen. Steve you are going to want to hear about that man. Aishah hasnie is in the newsroom with that killers dead buy past. We have been lookin
Now so rapidly it could soon take over the sars outbreak of 2003. The infection rate going up dally. Nearly 35,000 people now nearly have the virus, the vast majority still in china. Well over 300 cases of the coronavirus have now been documented, though, outside of Mainland China. Fears of it spreading have led to the quarantine of two cruise ships. One in hong kong, the other in japan. A third ship stranded at sea after being turned away from several asian ports, and yet another ship under scrutiny docked in new jersey. But it is the ship anchored in yokohama harbor, the diamond princess, where the greatest concentration of the virus has been found outside of china. At least 64 people on the ship testing positive so far. Cnns matt riversisinyokohama for us. Bring us uptodate and tell us about these latest deaths ap, an american and japanese citizen. Reporter yeah, michael, thats the late breaking news. And frankly we dont know a ton about these two individual cases other than theyre