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Majority, have said theyre open to witnesses. Yeah, so well see. All right. There is speaker pelosi. She is going to meet with members of her caucus. Lets hope theres some news out of it. Waiting for a lot of answers. The white house doesnt even want it to get as far as potentially calling witnesses in the middle of this trial. The president s team wants a quick end to the impeachment, and some in the party backing him. The white house wants to put immediate dismissal of this whole thing up for a vote on the senate floor. So far Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell doesnt have enough votes to make that happen. Lets go to our congressional reporter lauren fox. I heard you. Valiant effort to get pelosi to answer those questions as she was heading in. Mum is the word, right . I will tell you that members going into this meeting this morning have a lot of anticipation because everyone is waiting to see whether or not pelosi will announce who those house managers will be during this caucus meeting. Those managers are the individuals who will make the case on the senate floor for why President Trump should be removed from office. And those individuals, obviously, this is a very highly anticipated decision by pelosi because they are going to have the major job of making the case for why President Trump needed to be impeached, and why senators should vote to remove him. They could also have an influence on those on the fence moderate republicans as to whether or not those individuals want to hear from witnesses. Poppy and jim . As we look at this, lauren, help me do a vote count here. Lamar alexander, the latest republican senator to say hes open to witnesses down the line. And by my count, mitt romney, Susan Collins, senator murkowski on the list. Thats if they decide to vote yes. At least the possibility of witnesses is very real now. Well, look, jim, we know at some point there will be a vote on witnesses, and that republicans and democrats have equal weight but call up who those witnesses should be and force the full senate to vote on them. Whether or not Lamar Alexander who is going to retire would vote to have john bolton be deposed or come to the well of the senate is another question entirely. What weve heard from alexander is he might be open to witnesses. He might not be. Hes going to wait and see. The biggest question today is what is that organizing resolution look like in the senate that will govern the rules of this senate trial . We dont know at this point but john cornyn who is a Top Republican in leadership said we could expect that to be unveiled soon. Well have more details on how this will be structured. We have to wait and see whether there are enough moderate republicans to vote for witnesses. Jim and poppy . Lauren fox on the hill, thanks very much. Joining us to discuss all this, Laura Barron Lopez for politico and shan wu. Thank you for being here. Shan, let me begin with you. Republican and other republican senator from missouri, roy blunt, heres what he said in terms any of effort to dismiss this trial before it really even begins. I think im safe in saying theres almost no interest in a motion to dismiss. Certainly there are not 51 votes for a motion to dismiss. You think republican senators potentially in politically dicey reelection zones are wrong to think that they need at least the optics of a full airing of a fair trial here. Why . I actually think they are wrong because the base they are concerned with is not going to care whether its a motion to dismiss some legal term or a trial which may not have any witnesses. They just care that the president is going to be acquitted. So actually their idea that they need to appear fair by having a full hearing is misplaced. They are much better off getting through it as fast as possible. Mcconnell has the right strategy even though i dont really agree with the outcome. Okay. It does look a little like, though, laura, thats not going to happen. They dont have the votes there, but this question of witnesses, and its interesting. Its a reminder in this whole process, never forget there could be surprises because it was only a few days ago the talk on the hill was there arent the votes there for witnesses. But now you have Public Comments from sitting republican senators saying they would go there. As you look at this, is that becoming a probability as opposed to a possibility hearing from witnesses . I think we can expect a vote on the witnesses and when that vote finally comes, you know, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer is going to be happy about that because it allows democrats to place pressure on those vulnerable republicans. And whether or not Susan Collins is sure what the best route is for her, shes clearly facing pressure back in her state of maine. She made comment to politico just a few days ago, very aware of the fact that democrats are spending a big amount in her state to try to flip that state. So a number of these republicans are feeling intense pressure. Especially adding to that, the fact that bolton said hes willing to come up if they subpoena him. Thats true. Shan, john cornyn, influential republican senator, really does not want the white house to use members of the house to be on their defense team in this trial. He said lets not infect the senate withs circuslike atmosphere of the house. Is that wise counsel . I think that is wise counsel. I dont think theyll make the best impression if they just have people throwing bombs on the floor. They want to get lawyers in there or the house managers defense team who can cut through the circus atmosphere and get the substantive legal defenses. There are ways of looking at the elements of the impeachment articles and trying to put on the substantive defense. And as long as they do that, they know they have the votes to win. Rather than just contributing to this partisan atmosphere. Laura, on the question of witnesses, Mitch Mcconnell has warned both his republicans and i think democratic colleagues of mutually assured destruction on the question of witnesses that say, okay, say you have the votes and call a john bolton which could be damaging to the president. You may have a demand to call in hunter biden. Of course, which would not be great for joe biden who may be the president s opponent in 2020. How would that work, exactly . Would it be a complete witness list that senators would vote on, or would they vote on witnesses one by one or have to negotiate prior to the vote . Well, those are the details that were still waiting to hear from Senate Majority leader mich mcconnell. We dont know how these votes will be taken. I wouldnt be surprised if they were taken one by one. And again, not only mcconnell but, of course, senator rand paul, fierce defend er. Bringing hunter biden forward if additional witnesses are added. All right. Well have you guys back. Thank you very much. Laura, shan, appreciate it. The Russian Military successfully hacked, guess which company . Ukrainian company burisma. Thats the same company tied to the president s ukraine scandal and this whole impeachment. And remember what happened in 2016 . Russia hacked the dnc, they hacked john podesta, Hillary Clintons campaign manager, stole the emails and released them for maximum effect around the national convention. The democratic Partys National convention. I always remind people how many minutes after the release of the access Hollywood Tape did the Podesta Emails get released. It was 22 minutes. So stolen materials like this could have political effect if russia chooses to follow the same path. Matthew chance joins us live from moscow. Tell us what more we know about the hacking, where it came from, and what was stolen. Right. Look. They were going all over this again. What they are saying is that they detected activity by Russian Military intelligence hackers, the gru. Remember fancy bear, cozy bear, names bantied around as pseudonyms. Its the same people it seems that are engaged in a phishing attack, probing attack, whatever you want to call it against burisma. That gas company that employed hunter biden. We dont know what information they were seeking, what information they were taking and how deeply burisma was compromised. But as you say, there are stark similarities to the attack that took place on the dnc server. Those emails released that were stoat cause political disruption. And there is concern that the same pattern is being repeated now. Weve reached out, of course, both to burisma. Burisma havent answered their phones. Weve reached out to the russians. Theyve not given us a response to these allegations either. But in the past, of course, as we well know on this show, every time you put these allegations to the russians, they say its laughable. They deny any knowledge of any kind of hacking and say its antirussian kind of sentiment. And my expectation is that theyre going to say exactly the same when they respond this time. U. S. Intelligence knows definitively those same russian groups are the same ones that hacked the dnc and john podesta in 2016. They dont have a good track record for credibility. They are emboldened when people as high as the president say, maybe its ukraine. Mat matthew, thank you. Progressives clash hours before they are face to face on the debate stage. Senator warren says senator sanders did tell her in a meeting that he thought a woman could not win the white house in 2020. Sanders team calling that accusation ludicrous. Well take you live to des moines. Plus, as doubts grow over white house claims that there was an imminent attack from iran before the soleimani killing, now the state Department Says it was not aware of any embassy threats before the strike that killed irans top general. Normally youd have such warnings if the intelligence indicated that. And the air in australia is so smokey from bush fires, it sent a player at the Australian Open into a coughing fit and suspended practice. Well have the latest ahead. Knor almost anything. Even a gold medal grizzly. sports announcer what an unlikely field in this final heat. Hang on. Youre about to see history in the making. burke not exactly a skinny dipper, but we covered it. At farmers, we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum vo visit farmersdotcom and get a quote today. Tonight is the night. The stage is set for the first president ial debate of the decade. Its right here on cnn tonight. Look at these candidates. These are the six faces youll see on stage vying for position with the Iowa Caucuses just 20 days away and it could get tense. After a monthslong unspoken pact, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are going after one another in public. The latest attack, warren says that sanders told her during a december 2018 meeting that a woman could not win in 2020. Sanders says thats ludicrous. Joining us is leyla santiago in des moines, chris cillizza, Senior Editor at the atlantic, ron brownstein. Warren and sanders have been bidens primary challengers, really, for frontrunner status here. And the conventional wisdom has been they split the progressive vote to his advantage. I wonder if this public spat between them also helps biden, particularly coming off some good polling lately for him in iowa. One thing we know from the past is when youre still at the point of the race where you have a lot of candidates in the field. When candidate a and candidate b get into a fight, that often helps candidate c. That was the case when howard dean and gephardt tore each other apart. So in that sense, it benefits biden. But its been remarkable how much warren and sanders have had this nonaggression pact. They do have demographic differences in their support. Her support, as he accurately pointed out in his script for his volunteers, is more upscale than hers. They are competing for the left flank of the party. Perhaps, jim it was inevitable to get to the point where theyre conflicting. Cillizza, you write in your column about cory booker and why this positive Come Together Campaign does not work right now. Anger, not hope, is the defining trait. And booker learned the hard way. So what does that if that is the case, and you are a smart guy. Glad i came on. On given days. What does that mean for the debate stage and the 20 ensuing days before if anger wins out here. I do think there is this frustration coursing through the democratic electorate aimed at donald trump. The message of, we can all come together is joe biden is running sort of on that message, too, that he can fix things. The reason sanders and warren have been able to stay top tier while competing broadly speaking for the same voter is the fact there are a lot of people who think, we need to stand up to donald trump. This is no long eer this is little tweak. We need to overhaul this whole thing. Thats one of the fundamental arguments. Joe biden saying we need to go back to where we were. Yeah, things went off track but we can get them back on. Things are so broken, the idea we can tweak, turn one knob and get back on course is fundamentally different. Those are the two visions of the party broadly, and in that embodied in those three candidates. Leila, youre in iowa on the ground here. We could have the beginning of a trial of the president. That, of course, the news in washington. I wonder, with iowa voters, how much are they talking about impeachment . Well, listen. You know, when we released on the cnn poll the top issues here, there was climate change, there was medical or excuse me, like the medicare for all health care issue. Among them foreign policy. Not really seeing impeachment as the top issue. But why that will matter in terms of the candidates and their 2020 campaigns is because that could mean three of these senators or that will mean that three of the senators will now not be in iowa in the three weeks leading up to the caucuses. Senator klobuchar, senator sanders and senator warren that will now have to find a way for surrogates to step in and speak on their behalf. Maybe find creative ways to do it through the internet. To skype into town halls or meetings. To maybe find time to get on air through the media after the hearings, to take a stand and have a moment through the impeachment trial. Or the trial in the senate anyway. So they are really going to have to find a way, even if it may not be the number one issue for voters here in iowa to get around it in order to gain ground in the weeks leading up to the caucuses. I would just note something that just crossed is jerry nadler just told manu raju he expects he will be named as an impeachment manager. Well see. We should learn those roles today. It was already somewhat of a snub to him that schiff was the lead in the house impeachment. Maybe well hear those names today. Ron, you have a new piece out thats really important that people read because its about the potential cost, if Bernie Sanders becomes president , in terms of cost of the programs that he has promised the American People. They would have to get through congress, but assuming they do, you talk to folks at the committee for responsible federal budget. And you think that voters and the media have not pressed sanders enough on this. What is the top line . Theres been no discussion about the full magnitude of his agenda. To the extent there has been, its been about medicare for all. The rest of his agenda would cost at least as much as medicare for all which would put the price tag for the entire set of proposals hes put out at about 60 trillion over a decade. That is equal to the total expected federal spending over the next decade. Were talking about doubling the size of the federal government. Measured as a share of the economy, poppy, he is proposing spending increases 30 times as large as Hillary Clinton ran on in 2016. 15 times as large as obama ran on in 2008 and 2 1 2 times as large as mcgovern in 72 or the actual increase in new deal spending according to an historical analysis of these other programs by larry summers, the top adviser to obama and treasury secretary for clinton. Were talking about an incredible peacetime increase. But the other candidates, clinton in 16 and the field this time, have chosen not to directly engage him because they dont think he can win, which may be an outdated view, and they dont want to alienate his fervent supporters. You did see very quickly, guys, joe biden, it wasnt directed at sanders but more generally at sanders and warren. Joe biden was saying, how are we going to pay for it in the debate. I wonder. Thats a big problem if Bernie Sanders is the nominee. Everyone needs to read that. Because that is the easiest thing to say. Bernie sanders wants government to solve all your problems. Its going to cost 60 trillion and how is he going to pay for it . Raise all your taxes. If electability is the most important thing, thats an issue that should be litigated in the democratic primary, even if its not a priority for democratic voters. Although in fairness, Neither Party has shown much interest in pay zero interest. Youre right about that. Weve seen a lot of proof of that. Leyla, the monmouth poll, most recent poll showing biden with a lead in iowa. Bigger than previously weve seen there. Who has the momentum as youre speaking to the campaigns there in iowa who feels they have the momentum going into the caucus. Thats what the caucuses are going to be. Thats why they are so important because up until now, weve had the polls sort of as a marker. Weve had the campaigns themselves saying, look at everything. The momentum weve been able to drive through town halls and even online, social media. The caucuses three weeks away will be the first time that its really on the scoreboard. That will be the first time were not just talking through pundits or polls but the first time we can actually see, look, this person came in with this much. And so that scoreboard will be the first time that we can get a better understanding. And that is just three weeks away. This debate is so important in terms of momentum and february 3rd, what comes out of the caucuses here. Thank you all. Sorry, ron. Well have you back. I theres more time, yes. There is more time next time. Next hour well talk more about the lack of diversity for a party that touts inclusivity, not a Single Person of color will be on that stage tomorrow tonight. Not tomorrow, tonight. Thank you. We appreciate it. Again, it is tonight. The debate, 9 00 eastern in des moines, only right here on cnn. We have this just in to cnn. A statement from the Biden Campaign. Joe biden on the burisma hack. Here it is reading, this proves that both donald trump and Vladimir Putin understand the true stakes of this election. Joe biden is running to bring our country together and restore American Leadership in the world, repairing the damage donald trump has done to our National Security and alliances. Donald trump tried to coerce ukraine into lying about joe biden and a major bipartisan International Anticorruption victory because he recognized that he cant beat the vice president. Now we know that Vladimir Putin also sees joe biden as a threat. Any american president who had not repeatedly encouraged foreign interventions of this kind would immediately condemn this attack on the sovereignty of the elections. The Biden Campaign taking this seriously and America Needs to take it seriously. Russia has played this game before in 2016. Are we seeing the groundwork being laid for the same in 2020 . We have much more on that ahead. 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The question becomes why should outside governments like canada who lost more than 60 of their nationals or ukraine for that matter, trust irans investigation . We dont even know where irans investigation is going. Its success is going to be on its transparency. Iran wants this international support. Are they talking about arresting the guys that push the button that fired the missile . Are they talking about the commander that called and said is this a u. S. Incoming missile or not . Or does it really go to the root of the issue for many iranians at the moment which is, you know, who was responsible for not grounding all the civilian aircraft that night . Will it go to that level . And we dont have that. Rouhani does say that the world is watching, but that doesnt mean theyll be transparent in what they do. Listen, there are other questions, too. Why didnt european air authority recommend no flights over iran as well, which theyve now done. But late. I want to ask another question because things are moving forward with irans compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. Britain, france and germany are closer to reinstating their own sanctions on iran over its Nuclear Program as iran breaks various levels of that agreement. Are they ready to take action . Europe wanted to stay in this nuclear deal. Trump withdrew. They were trying to rescue it. Now iran forcing their hand. We got a hot clue on that this morning. The british Prime Minister in an interview said that actually he he was prepared to back a new plan if President Trump has a plan but they want to see that plan. I think the implication, what the europeans are doing here is trying to take a diplomatic lead on the situation in iran. Theyre trying to use President Trumps tactics. President trump essentially calling out the iranians over their increase in violence by killing soleimani. The europeans using diplomacy here calling out iran over its continued escalating, although telegraphing noncompliance with the nuclear deal, increasing the centrifuges, increasing the level to which the uranium is enriched. They are calling them out. We have to go to this dispute resolution mechatism which in the space of a few weeks ends up at the u. N. Security counsel. Is that the diplomatic path . It does seem the dwrueuropeans trying to take the diplomatic lead here. Nic robertson, thank you for your reporting on those fronts. The president is defending the messaging on the threats leading up to the taking out of irans general qassem soleimani. Now the state department is granting something very important. That it was totally unaware that any u. S. Embassies were in imminent danger. Thats important. Lets bring in kylie atwood. Kylie, as you know, if there was an imminent threat, wouldnt a warning have gone out to those embassies . The president has claimed they could stake steps to protect their diplomatic staff . Our reporting is there was a warning that went out, but state Department Officials who were involved as you say in u. S. Embassy security, these people who should know about an imminent threat, they were not made aware of an imminent threat against four specific u. S. Embassies. And as a result, there was a worldwide security warning that went out to all u. S. Embassies. It was warning of potential escalation with iran and then there was a followup phone call to gcc countries, to the Regional Security officers in those regions to essentially say, you need to Pay Attention to this security warning. If you need additional resources, tell us. But the fact that these Security Officials at the state department didnt know of an imminent threat to four u. S. Embassies is really, really important here because that is the exact justification that President Trump has given for the u. S. Strike that killed qassem soleimani. Now secretary of state mike pompeo hasnt specifically backed up the president s statement there. But he did appear to come out against our reporting with a little bit of some critical comments yesterday. Lets listen to what he said. That is both false and dangerous and intentionally undermining what it is this administration did to protect the amazing men and women who worked at our embassies. President trump would never have put our diplomats in a position where they were at substantial risk and we never would have undertaken risk like this without notifying them but making sure they had the time and resources they need. Now, just to clarify, however, our reporting does not say that the state department wasnt in touch with u. S. Embassies worldwide. What we do say is that Security Officials at the state department didnt know they should have specific operations with regard to four u. S. Embassies facing an imminent attack. Not unusual for the secretary of state to take aim at the media. Not necessarily answer the key question here. How imminent was the danger . How far was it communicated . Kylie atwood, thanks very much. Another key republican senator says he wants to hear from witnesses during a senate trial of the president. That number is growing of republicans. Could we see those witnesses . Could get interesting. Well be on it, next. Was extremely depressing. Now, i know how happy i am. There was all the feeling good about myself that i missed and all of the feeling bad about myself that was unnecessary. At aspen dental, were all about yes. Like yes to free exams and xrays for new patients without insurance. Yes to flexible hours and payment options. And yes, whenever youre ready to get started, we are too. Dont wait, book at aspendental. Com or call today. A general dentistry office. My hands are everything to me. But i was diagnosed with dupuytrens contracture. 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If you hear from a john bolton and he were to repeat the story others said, how he viewed the withholding of ukraine aid, is that necessarily a foregone conclusion, or is the result of this trial an open question . Well, im not going to speculate on the trial. But what i think people in america want to hear and the reason im glad that weve heard from four republicans who want to hear from witnesses is people want a fair trial. They want a fair process. And they want to hear from those people who might be able to firsthand shed some light on what actually was said. And, you know, i dont understand it, if the white house and the president , this was such a perfect phone call and the president says he has nothing to hide, then lets hear from those people who were in the room. Lets see those documents that we havent that havent been shared because the white house has been unwilling to do that. Mitch mcconnell has warned of mutually assured destruction if witnesses are called. The meaning of that being, okay, fine, democrats, you might get your john bolton, but hunter biden mighton that list as well. How would you react to that . Would you be willing to hear from biden in effect as the cost of hearing from bolton and others . Well, what we need to do is hear from those people who were in the room who have a firsthand knowledge of what occurred. Thats what the American People want. We need a fair process as ive said and hunter biden wasnt in the room. Its a totally unrelated issue. Its a red herring the republicans have thrown out to try and confuse the situation. One of the things we have to take as senators who are sitting on this process is a second oath in addition to our oath of office and our responsibility to the constitution. Thats an oath that says well try to get to the truth. Its hard for my constituents to see how that happens when we have some members of the senate, including Mitch Mcconnell who are saying that theyre going to do whatever the white house wants. Fair point. Senator, stand by. We have some breaking news relating to the trial. This from our colleague manu raju on the hill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has suggested that a resolution to name impeachment managers will be on the floor tomorrow. Manu raju, you are on the hill. Tell us what the news is here. Yeah, she just told her colleagues exactly that behind closed doors, that the house will move tomorrow, have a vote and transmit the articles of impeachment over to the senate. First theyll name vote to name those managers as part of the resolution. Those managers will then go and transmit the articles of impeachment over to the senate and that will begin the senate trial. This has been the big question for some time. When those articles would be delivered over to the senate to begin the senate trial. She made it clear to her colleagues the expectation is that that would occur tomorrow. We dont know yet who the managers will be who actually prosecute the case on behalf of democrats, but she has not she indicated to her colleagues she would not make that announcement here behind closed doors. Well see if we learn more names, any of those names later today. But at the moment, jim, the news here, nancy pelosi makes clear that tomorrow is going to be the day that the house will finish its process essentially vote to name its impeachment managers and then vote to transmit those articles of impeachment over to the senate and that will begin the senate trial about whether the president should be removed from office. Manu raju on the hill. Senator jeanne shaheen, is back with us. Youll be sitting as a juror in the trial of this president. Youre up for reelection in 2020. One consistent result from polls is how low on the list of topics for voters impeachment is. Well behind health care and other issues. Trump lost New Hampshire by less than 1 in 2016 . I just wonder, are you worried that impeachment has strengthened the president . Might strengthen your republican opponent this november . Well, we have, as i said, a responsibility as senators and members of congress probably the most serious responsibility next to the ability to declare war that we have as elected members. And so its important for us to do everything we can to ensure that this process goes forward in a fair way and to complete it in a way so that i want to be able to go back and tell my constituents that i have done Everything Possible to ensure that as much information came out as we could get and that i tried to do what i thought was the right thing to do based on the evidence. And then the voters will have to decide. There are a lot of other issues that i hear about when i go home, including health care and National Security. So there are a lot of things voters are worried about. Before i let you go. Two questions. First, on iran, a lot of questions about how honest the president and the administration was about intelligence before the soleimani strike. Youve been unique as a democrat. You said yesterday you were not as upset about it as some of your colleagues. Given the briefings you had, were you satisfied the u. S. Had specific intelligence about the threat from soleimani prior . I thought a case was made there was a threat to the United States, and my top concern is the safety and security of our diplomatic personnel and our men and women serving in the military, including 80 members of the New Hampshire National Guard who were serving across the middle east. But thats the wrong question. The question should be, was the killing of soleimani the best option with the least risk to ensure safety for the United States . And the followup question is, what we should be discussing now is what is our strategy . What is our plan in the middle east . We dont have a coherent policy to address the middle east and address iran. Thats what we ought to be talking about. Washington post reports this morning President Trump is planning to divert further money from the pentagon, 7. 2 billion, to be exact, in pentagon funding to build a border wall. Acknowledging once again he never got congressional approval for this money. Your reaction to that . Well, i think thats just wrong. When we passed the appropriations for Border Security and money for the wall that he could use and he continues to steal from our military, from those projects that congress has authorized, that our men and women in the military need. So i think its wrong. I hope that republicans will again join us in trying to prevent the president from taking those dollars. Senator jeanne shaheen, thank you. So in australia there are still 100 fires burning, officials there say it could take years and billions of dollars to recover. The scale of this, i think, it really hard to fathom. This morning, here is a sign, it was so bad that a tennis player collapsed in a coughing fit during the qualifying rounds of the Australian Open in melbourne. Many hundreds of miles away. She couldnt finish the match, had to leave the court. Will ripley is in australia with more. Reporter in australia, nobody imagined the fire could move so quickly. The front line was miles away from davids home and store last week. Then we saw the sky go red. And, i go, thats not normal. We heard the sound of the fire. Like a furnace, like a Freight Train right next to you. Reporter that familiar sound followed by a terrifying almost apocalyptic scene. Another house gone. Reporter the morton fire so intense, it created its own weather, raining down fiery embers on this village of about 500. Houses exploding, fire everywhere, the houses are gone for sure. Reporter that picture you took you thought would be the last you would ever see of this place . I thought thats it, its gone. Reporter the fire captain mark wilson. It is different when it is your own town. Ive been everywhere else, helped out everywhere else, but the emotions and everything keep you going, this is my house, my friends, my loved ones. Reporter wilsons team of volunteer firefighters battled throughout the night. It is a feeling like youre losing. You dont realize how much you have saved until the next day. We saved well over 80 houses that night. Reporter even the most seasoned firefighters say it doesnt make sense how a house like this can be standing, the bushes are green, and yet just a few steps away everything next door gone. Fire danger is far from over. We got a fire at samonas. Reporter as temperatures heat up, small fires reignite. But how quickly can a small, you know, hot spot turn into a dangerous situation . Very quickly. We have a lot of unburnt trees on this property and very quick, especially with a little breeze that picks up. Reporter here in new south wales, australias hardest hit state, the fire season is only halfway through. With the shop, there is no other shop here. Were the center of where everything is. Reporter he says hes doing everything he can to help neighbors who lost everything. We thought we should have lost 50 houses and people dead. No one died. No one injured. And we lost a dozen houses. But also taken care of now. It is a miracle. I call it the miracle of wingello. Reporter no one knows how long that miracle will last. Will ripley, cnn, wingello, australia. Wow. All right ahead, Speaker Nancy Pelosi meeting with democrats on capitol hill right now. What we learned from the meeting next. When crabe stronger. 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