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criminal nature. the president of the united states should be working from his own stated policy and in this case, his stated policy was to provide aid to ukraine and to help them in their anti-corruption efforts not to help them do corruption. right. and ukraine is sort of the knock on ukraine has been that it s a particularly corrupt it s had a particularly corrupt government since it broke off from the ussr and has struggled to be its own country in some instances wanting to be an eu country, wanting to move more into the european sphere and having that resisted both by russia n sometimes by leaders of ukraine who wanted to stay in russia s orbit. would you consider a president trying to get that country that s in that position, that s also at war with russia, trying to get them to do an investigation or to find credence for a russia-clearing conspiracy theory. would the president of ukraine in that instance have any choice
sights now that she s surged into the top tier of candidates. harris is now in second in the democratic field based on cnn s latest national poll. her 17% edges out elizabeth warren s 15% and bernie sanders 14%. joe biden still leads by a smaller margin now at 22%. somewhat enterprise surprisurpre order holds for iowa cauc caucusgoers. before this post-debate boost, the harris campaign was mainly focusing on the primary in south carolina, which falls about three weeks after the iowa caucus in february. but now that an iowa win could be within reach, can her campaign adapt and build a ground game there? it s a good problem to have. joining me now to discuss is a democrat who endorsed harris in the 2020 race, cnn political commentator, bakari sellers. so bakari, harris has visited iowa fewer times than sanders, warren, and booker.
tom foreman has the breakdown. reporter: when the democrats do it, there s debate, horse-trading, a real raucous caucus. but the republican caucuses all around the state are much more low key. step one, show up. any voter can take part as long as he or she is already a registered republican or willing to become one at the door. step two, listen up. after the pledge of allegiance cauc caucusgoers hear speeches from people representing the candidates. they can be from in state or out, big names or small town folks. they make a quick pitch for their pick. step three, mark it up. pieces of paper are passed out. attendees write down a candidate s name and the ballots are corrected. it is more or less a secret vote depending on the formality of that caucus site. and step four, count them up. the votes are added and a winner is declared.
hour three of the candidates are taking part in a rock the caucus rally, targeting younger voters. i want you to listen in here. i think we got michele bachmann, ron paul, rick santorum, all of them looking for the last-minute vote. let s listen in to do business if you re a job creator because of our tax code. i m a tax lawyer. i want to abolish the tax code and do away with it and put it in its place a pro-growth code so that you can wildly succeed with your future and with your plan. i want a future for you. i want a hope for you. and we can do that if we open up the opportunities in the tax code. change our climate for doing business. and grow the economy. that s my goal for you. and what i want to do, too, is bring down the price of a gallon of gas. gasoline was $1.79 a gallon the day that barack obama became president. we can get it back to that again because the united states is the number one energy resource-rich nation in the world. and i want to open that up f