president joe biden. good friday morning, everybody. >> we made it to the end of the week. >> we're not actually there yet. >> i was going to say, it doesn't feel like the end of the week, since we're about to go into another crazy weekend with the news. >> and we have all day saturday as the republicans begin their arguments. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin, it's the third and final day for democratic prosecutors to make the case for president trump's impeachment. during the argument yesterday, democrats hammered on the idea that president trump put his own political interests ahead of american national security. >> president trump acted corruptly. he abused the power of his office by ordering u.s. diplomats to work with his political agent to solicit two politically motivated investigations by ukraine. neither investigation solicited by president trump had anything to do with promoting u.s. foreign policy or u.s. national security. president trump did not just break the law. he jeopardized our national security. because ukraine's national security is our national security. how? because a free and democratic ukraine is a shield against russian aggression in europe. >> on the basis of this russian propaganda, he withheld 400 million in military aid to a nation russia was fighting, our ally. we ask about, okay, what's the national security implication of what the president did. how much more clear can it be that he's not only pushing russian propaganda, that he's not only misleading americans about who interfered in the last election, that he's not only doing the kremlin a favor, but that he's withholding aid from a nation at war. >> now, in their arguments yesterday, democratic prosecutors also discussed ukrainian president zelensky's perspective and the reasons he might have felt pressure to comply with president trump's demand to investigate his political rivals. >> ukraine is a fragile democracy under relentless attack from russian backed separatists in the east, so when president trump asked for a favor on july 25th call, he knew that president zelensky would feel incredible pressure to do exactly what president trump wanted. president trump refused to schedule that oval office meeting until the ukrainian leader announced the phony political investigations that he demanded on july 25th. president trump exploited that desperation for his own political benefit. >> president zelensky tried different ways to resist the pressure of becoming a pawn in u.s. politics. president trump exercised his official power when he withheld an oval office meeting that was critical to ukraine. and he did this for only one reason and one reason only, president trump conditioned that oval office meeting on ukraine announcing investigations that would help him politically. this had nothing to do with official u.s. policy. >> and in their closing arguments last night, house democrats laid out their reasons for why removing the president from office is an urgent matter. >> now, you may be asking how much damage can he really do in the next several months until the election? a lot. a lot of damage. now, we just saw last week a report that russia tried to hack or maybe did hack burisma. can you have the least bit of confidence that donald trump will stand up to them and protect our national interests over his own personal interest? you know you can't. which makes him dangerous to this country. you know you can't. you know you can't count on him. none of us can. you can trust he will do what's right for donald trump. he'll do it now. he's done it before. he'll do it for the next several months. he'll do it in the election if he's allowed to. this is why if you find him guilty, you must find that he should be removed. >> no president has ever used his office to compel a foreign nation to help him cheat in our elections. prior presidents would be shocked to the core by such conduct. and rightly so. >> and republicans in the senate are beginning to weigh in on democratic prosecutors arguments on day two of the impeachment trial. heavily criticizing lead prosecutor adam schiff's argument, a spokesperson for senator ben sasse says ben isn't thinking about politics during adam schiff's clown show, he's doing his job by listening and taking notes even when schiff repeats himself over and over and over again. ted cruz slammed democratic prosecutors, our 23 redundant impeachment arguments, for those following at home, drinking game every time house dems say drug deal or get over it, drink a shot of milk. and a series of tweets writing in part, adam schiff is hailing alexander vindman as a patriot, how patriotic is it to criticize our great nation in front of russia. vindman's attorney hit back writing in a statement quote that a member of the senate at a moment the senate is undertaking its most solemn responsibility would choose to take to twitter to spread slander about a member of the military, senator black burn fires off tweets, vindman will continue to do what he has done, serve our country with duty and honor. president trump commented during an rnc dinner in florida, referring to the entire process as impeachment light, and argued what he is now experiencing is nothing compared to the dark days of president richard nixon and the watergate scandal. >> we're certainly not hearing from the senators on the senate floor. we are definitely hearing from them on twitter. not holding back necessarily. >> just like a normal juror would. >> exactly. joining us onset, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, former u.s. attorney for the district attorney, and joyce vance, full house. appreciate you coming in with us on this important day. >> making your "first look" debut. >> i think one other time. >> in person. >> yeah. give us your biggest moment, joyce, from yesterday, something that really stood out to you. >> i think the biggest moment and danny, i'm not sure if you'll agree with me, but it was the closing argument that adam schiff gave where he told the senate floor you all know that he's guilty, right, and then he talked about assuming that we all know that he's guilty, what comes next. that maybe is sa little ba leap. there will be no republicans publicly acknowledging that, but in that moment of silence on the floor of the senate, i think everyone understood that, and we see it this morning. none of these arguments are about guilt. they're about process or politics. they're not about the evidence. >> it seems even trump's defense is not to kind of combat the evidence. it's more to combat that it's not impeachable. >> exactly right, ayman. and i agree with what joyce said, the closing arguments were very compelling and that's actually going to be the defense. it's going to be a yeah, that's true, but so what. it's legal for the president to do what he did so why would we look at the motives, and i can't help but think that that's not really a very coherent argument because we have so many crimes in our criminal code that criminalize something that is otherwise lawful if done with a bad motive but that is what the defense is going to fall back on. they're going to say that because president trump has this article ii power to root out corruption, just because he happened to hone in on one particular person who just so happens to be the son of a political rival, that's still okay as long as there was any scintilla of corruption. i think that's what we're going to end up seeing. i think the democrats, the house managers did a very good job of building their case and addressing in advance the defense's case, which is a very effective tool because then when they stand up, the defense stands up with all of this, you know, passion, it's going to come in with a wimper. >> joyce, i want to get your take on the presentation of the hunter biden/joe biden burisma story line, and basically saying this is why it doesn't hold water. do you think by even addressing it on the senate floor gives republicans kind of ammunition to say this thing does hold water and gives them the chance to say, well, if we're going to call witnesses here, we want to call hunter biden and we want to call former vice president joe biden to the senate floor to testify? >> you know, this is a strategic decision that you almost always have to make as a prosecutor, right, are you going to address the defenses or wait for the defendant to raise them. here everybody knew that this was coming. hunter biden was always going to be invoked by the republicans, and i think it's smart of the democrats to go ahead and take it on, to put the facts out there, because on the time line, it's clear that there was no corruption. whether or not there was bad business judgment is something that business ethics, experts can debate. but in terms of pure legality and justification for the president of the united states who after all could have had the justice department investigate, he didn't need to go to the ukrainians, right, didn't need to signal out the one company that happened to have involvement from a political opponent, so i think the democrats they hadded of democrats headed off. they do a good job of that. ultimately whether it happens is in question. >> how do you feel when you as prosecutors hear members of the jury come out and say the statements they have been saying and demonstrating no impartiality like they were instructed to do by the chief justice of the supreme courtm. t it's got to be painful as a lawyer to watch that happen and no one is following the rules, and aside from people getting up, reading a book, cross word puzzles. >> i think it's painful as an american to see people take an oath of impartiality and sort of shred it immediately. yasmin and i were having this conversation. senators aren't really jurors, right, they're sort of amped up jurors, they have a certain ability to decide what the law is and what the process is, that typical criminal trial jurors do not have. nonetheless, their inherent inability to set aside plolitic, even to listen to the evidence, to weigh the evidence fairly. that should be disturbing to all of us. >> danny, we can go so far as to say, it seems misleading to the american public to identify these senators as jurors at this point when they have been completely forthcoming from the get go, from the start, from the jump of all of this, which way they stand, and which way they're likely going to vote. the majority of them, aside from four or five, that could vote in another direction if the tide changes. >> they're not jurors, and this was an issue that was addressed via objection during the clinton impeachment trial. one of the senators stood up and objected that they were being called jurors because they are, as joyce said, so much more than jurors. they are the folks with the sole power to try an impeachment case, so they are both juror, they are judges, they are in a sense they exceed what we would normally expect for jurors. >> they're making their own rules in some of these cases with the senate majority leader, they decide what rules they want to vote for. >> in what article iii trial would the jurors be able to overrule the justice, the judge presiding over the trial, that makes them very unique. >> i know this isn't a normal criminal case but nonetheless when you're choosing jurors in a criminal case, i know impartiality is of the utmost importance when choosing a juror. >> that's why this is a trial like none other because it is designed to have jurors who are the most partial biassed jurors you could ever have that would be totally unacceptable in any article three criminal trial in the judicial system. they were elected for their bias, for their partiality, and that's why those 100 jurors or whatever you want to call them, sit in those seats. >> danny cevallos, joyce vance, thank you both. >> we're going to talk about the president's defense in the next segment. be ready for that. >> i'll be ready. >> that's your specialty. we're going to dig into the reporting of kamala harris with a potential endorsement for the former vice president. and appears to have gone under the president's skin, we'll tell you why, those stories and a check of weather when we come right back. check or when we come right back. i must admit. i had a few good tricks to help hide my bladder leak pad. like the old "tunic tug". you know it, right? but i don't have to, with always discreet. i couldn't believe the difference. it's less bulky. and it really protects. watch this. the super absorbent core turns liquid and odor to gel, and locks it away. so i have nothing to hide. always discreet. for bladder leaks. it's a lifelong adventure finding all of these new connections all the time. greater details. richer stories. and now with health insights. get your dna kit at ancestry.com. welcome back, everyone, former 2020 contender, kamala harris is reportedly weighing whether she will endorse joe biden for president. "the new york times" reporting according to multiple democrats close to hairharris, she's cons the impact of her endorsement and mindful of amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren. her relationship with the former vice president became strained after the first primary debate june when she criticized him for his past opposition to school bussing with a little over a week until the start of the primary season, harris's endorsement could give a boost to biden's campaign. harris dropped out last month, and is a considered a front runner for biden pick if he gets the nomination. michael bloomberg's ads which take jabs at the president and air frequently in washington and florida where he is watching the trump grew frustrated on thursday after bloomberg's campaign manager appeared on fox news condemning trump's treatment of military leaders. after seeing the ad, he tweeted, mini mike bloomberg is playing poker with his foot hardy unsuspected democratic rivals. the fact is when mini loses, he will be spending very little of his money on these clowns because he will consider himself to be the biggest clown of all and he will be right. the associated press jonathan lemire reports as trump has become more focused on the democratic race and was initially irked by bloomberg's entry into the 2020 field, the president has told confidants, the mayor has picked up support and bloomberg has benefitted from a disproportionate amount of positive news stories. trump has continued to hit bloomberg on twitter, obsessing over his private wealth while avoiding the counsel of aides, including son-in-law jared kushner. still ahead, president trump is trying to walk back comments he made about possibly cutting entitlement programs. what he's now saying about social security benefits. that's next. s now saying about social security benefits that's next. how to cover almost anything. even a "gold medal grizzly." 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programs like medicare, medicaid, and social security, the president then tweeted this, democrats are going to destroy your social security. i have totally left it alone as promised and will save it. according to "the new york times," senior administration officials quote insisted that trump was not seeking to make a new policy announcement, however, the paper reports that but is reporting that trump's budget proposal could outline some of the administration's plans for additional tax cuts. the possible cuts, the paper notes, would invariably add to the deficit unless offset with spending cuts or tax increases. let's take a pause from politics and get a quick check of your weather with nbc meteorologist. >> weather can be political sometimes, i feel like. >> it didn't used to be. >> touche. >> good morning, let's track the winter storm, areas in the midwest, a little slippery. winter weather advisory in chicago. this is a march like storm again. a lot of rain from savannah, georgia, to atlanta, bring the umbrellas out. carolinas are going to get soaked. you can see where the blue is on the map. this shows you where we have snow leftover. kansas city and interstate 70 towards columbia. head toward the quad cities, chicago has been a wintry mixment it wimix. it will turn back over to a little bit of snow. winter weather advisories cover kansas city, quincy, davenport, chicago, and a few areas could get a little sleet this morning on the leading edge of the rain, to boone, and maybe even in the mountains of the poke noconos, snow forecast by january standards, the peak of kwirnwin not very impressive. green bay, northern wisconsin, illinois, not much in ohio, a coating on the grass, and that will be more tomorrow on the backside of the storm. the northeast, the i-95 corridor, no snow at all with the storm system. maybe a little bit in the mountainous areas. even there it looks like rain for the ski areas come saturday afternoon. here's how it plays out. as we go through 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that july 25th call, the president is bad mouthing this person fighting corruption. he's praising the former ukrainian prosecutor who's corrupt. are we to really believe this is about fighting corruption. it wasn't until 2019, after biden emerged as a considerable opponent, after special counsel mueller confirmed that president trump's campaign had welcomed russian assistance in 2016 that president trump, we are to believe, suddenly developed an interest in anti-corruption reforms in ukraine. when given the opportunity to raise the issue of corruption with ukrainians, the president never did. despite the request of his staff, the word corruption never crosses his lips. just the bidens. and crowd strike. >> and impeachment prosecutors defended joe biden against allegations that the former vice president sought to have ukraine's then prosecutor removed to stop an investigation into burisma. >> in short, president trump asked for the investigation into biden based on a made up theory that no one agreed with. no one. let's be very very clear. vice president biden called for the removal of this prosecutor at the official direction of u.s. policy because the prosecutor was widely perceived as corruption and with the support of all our international allies, common sense would tell us that this allegation against joe biden is false. and if there was no legitimate basis for any investigation. >> however, trump's defenders used that approach to argue that democrats have now made discussion of the bidens fair game in the senate trial. >> what did you think of the long defense of joe biden and the explanation of what he was doing there, getting rid of a corrupt prosecutor. >> what do i think about it, i think we're going to address a lot of those very issues. we are going to address those issues. the question was raised, they have opened the door. they opened the door, it's now relevant, so we will address the appropriate issues as defense lawyers would. the door has been opened so to speak on that, we will address it appropriately. >> josh hawley tweeted this, wow, house managers make extended argument that biden's work with burisma entirely appropriate and no conflict of interest with joe biden getting rid of prosecutor -- going to need to hear from both bidens. >> president trump has argued that the july 25th discussion with ukraine was a perfect call so lead impeachment prosecutor adam schiff tried to undercut that claim by asking why the white house wasn't forthcoming about what was said between the two leaders. >> no public readout was posted on the white house web site following the july 25th call. i wonder why that was. the white house instead provided reporters with a short incomplete summary that of course omitted the major elements of that conversation. if the call was perfect, if these investigations were legitimate, if the white house had nothing to hide, then ask yourselves, why did the white house readout omit any mention of these investigations? why not publicly confirm that ukraine had been asked by the president to pursue them? why? because it would have exposed the president's corruption. >> joining us here once again, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, also with us former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. let's get into the idea, danny, first of corruption. the democrats are calling into question the president's real motivation for focussing on corruption first and foremost, also bringing up the fact that in this phone call, the president called victor show kia good man, and marie yovanovitch, somebody who was combatting on the ground in ukraine. >> they have to focus on this. this is an essential thing. like joyce and i were talking about earlier, one of the things they have to do is address this because it's going to be the core of the defense's argument, that the president lawfully investigated corruption and just because it happens to benefit his political campaign that doesn't e vaviscerate his underlying core power to root out corruption. they have to hammer this home. they did hammer this home, and the reason they have to hammer this home is the crux of the defense's case is going to be that as long as he's rooting out corruption, whatever tangential benefit there is to his own campaign is i wa campaign is imma materiterial, presidents take actions and it might tangentially benefit their political prospects but when it's this obvious, we have to draw a line. we may not know what the line is, but this has to pass that line. >> i keep saying if joe biden was not running for president, would burisma be a name of a company that we know about. >> would this even be happening. >> exactly. and to that point, the other part of this is that the prosecutors, the house managers on their side, they have been trying to link the president in terms of what he's been doing and saying as a policy as working for or on behalf of russian president vladimir putin. is that a smart strategy do you think? >> you know, i think they have to work with the truth. i mean, there's a very different philosophy going on on the two sides and the democrats are trying to put forward the facts and talk about the truth. there is some implication that this serves russian policy, but the heart of what schiff and the democrats are saying is that presidents shouldn't get involved in decision making about individual criminal cases. right, that's always been an american policy. and if he thought there was something wrong involving bidens and burisma, then the appropriate thing to do would have been to turn it over to his attorney general and let his attorney general make whatever he could make with it. >> you know what i thought was astounding in that room yesterday was basically when adam schiff paints this picture of vladimir putin and what he's doing right now, and he's in a room, and someone walks in the room and says to vladimir putin, can you believe it they're actually talking about crowd strike. they actually believe the story line of crowd strike and laughing about it, and i thought to myself, there are individuals in this room on this senate floor right now that believe the story about crowd strike. >> right. and you know, something that we know about russia's long-term goals vis-a-vis our country is that their goal is to disrupt our way of life. if trump is a means to that end, well, all the better but their support is not for one candidate in our elections. their support is to disrupt the successful functioning of our country. so all of this in that sense, i think, schiff is accurate. democratic managers are accurate when they talk about it playing into putin's goals. >> danny, let's look ahead to what we might anticipate this weekend. you saw jay sekulow, the defense strategy is they opened the door, we're going to seize this moment and talk about it. beyond that moment of trying to muddy the water about the corruption issue and the hunter bide issue, what is the overarching strategy of the president's defense team that is going to consume us for the next three days, if they use those three days. >> at least as to article one. that's what we have been talking about the most is that the president, they're going to say, takes lawful actions even if you question the motive, if the overall action is lawful, then it's a lawful exercise of his presidential power. whether it be that he had some other side benefit or something to his benefit, none of that matters. it is a risky argument because you're essentially asking the american people to accept there's a lot of evidence that he did this with a really bad motive, but you must ignore that because as long as the overarching exercise of power was lawful, you cannot question the motive. and i think that's just a fundamentally stretched argument. >> joyce, we talked a little bit about this off camera, and i want to get into it here in that we talked about the fact that the republicans know how to deliver a sound bite. in spite of the fact that they are not basing their arguments on fact at all, and you in fact had cipollone standing up lying about instances that took place in this time period. they know how to deliver a sound byte. is that effective right now in this medium going forward with regards to their defense? >> you know, i think it is effective, and we have seen the president do it from day one, right. it was a perfect call. those sorts of short encapsulated messages really resonate with the public. >> read the transcript. >> exactly. this is in many ways about the election as it is about impeachment. this is political messaging. it's an effective strategy. the democrats' job is more difficult. it takes more words, more effort, more sentences -- >> a story line. >> right. and these are complicated facts. they're not simple facts. we saw the mueller report get bogged down because it was hard to explain. it's tough to follow the story of what went on here. >> do you think the prosecutors made a mistake that they brought the hunter biden to joe biden into this process. >> i think they had to do it, and danny made this point earlier, they really short circuited the impact of the defense because by the time sekulow gets up there and cipollone gets up there, at least the democrats have already told the republicans what their answers are. >> quickly danny l it work in the defense's favor to say we're going to do this in two days, that's all the time we need because none of this holds water. >> that's an effective defense strategy sometimes, at least in criminal trials, people don't realize, often the defense rests without calling any witnesses because they can sit back and say, look, the prosecution has the burden. they haven't met their burden. we don't have to prove anything. you may see a similar strategy, even though the same burdens of proof don't automatically ply in a senate trial, you may see 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least 26 people. and sickened at least 835 more. this morning, chinese officials have shut down transportation in at least ten cities with a total of about 33 million people on lock down. a major chinese cities such as beijing and wuhan have cancelled new year's celebrations, banning all large gatherings over the coming new year in an effort to contain the rapidly spreading disease as the death toll increased by more than a half dozen in 24 hours. the wuhan government announced it was building a dedicated hospital with a space of a thousand beds, dedicated to treating patients with the virus, many have been turned away from hospitals due to the overwhelming amount of patients. >> what a scary sight to imagine 33 million people on lock down. >> unbelievable but you can be comforted in the fact they are doing their due diligence in making sure people take the proper precautions. let's get a quick check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins who last time we spoke had some good news. >> a little bit. >> keep it that way. >> you said 33 million people, right, that's like everyone from new york city to philadelphia. that's crazy. >> and what's also unbelievable -- >> on lock down, can't move. can't leave the city, no trains. >> there is their extended time off. i believe they have a month or so off because of the lunar new year, and yet they can't go or travel. this is the time they would be coming to the united states, traveling around the world, taking time off from school, but they are all on lock down because of this virus now. >> hopefully next week you won't be seeing anything about additional spread. hope it doesn't spread. let's get to the forecast. the areas of concern this morning are in the midwest still, a little bit of rain, a little bit of snow. i don't think it's going to be horrible. if you're going to the airports today, o'hare will have some delays, possibly, i don't think they will have cancellations. same for st. louis, national 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"morning joe" starts right now. in your book "the america you deserve" you propose raising social security retirement age to 70. is that still your plan? >> not anymore. i want to take money back from other countries killing us and save social security. we're going to save it without increases. we're not going to raise the age and it will be just fine. >> entotalments ever on your plate? >> at some point they will be's we have tremendous growth. >> so donald trump favored changes to entitlements before claiming he didn't anymore. before he did again, and now he says he doesn't. if strong-arming ukraine doesn't get republicans attention, perhaps that will. good morning. and welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, january 24th. with us we have caolumn columni "usa today" opinion columnist and senior adviser for the house oversight committee, and former chief of staff to the cia and department of defense now an nbc news national security analyst is with us. and, joe, that's often what the president does when he says something. he just says, he didn't say it. that's where we are. >>
lisa murkowski you've got real problems and in particular in a circumstance when we are talking about trial where one vote could mean the difference between more evidence and witnesses or not and that is certainly the circumstance we are dealing with in this instance. let me tell you what seems to have upset the senator from alaska. she was upset by jared nadler's assertion that gop members voting against allowing new testimony and evidence would be engaged in a cover-up. she said this to reporters as one listening attentively and working to get a fair process, i was offended. added susan collins from the state of maine, i was stunned by congressman nadler's approach adding shortly thereafter, the chief justice did admonish both sides and i was glad that he did. we all saw that play out and keep in mind collins's complaint is noteworthy because she remains among a small group of senators thought to be possible swing votes during the trial. some like martha mc sally, cory gardner, mitt romney and others. democrats remain unbound by the criticism and they suggest it is the president who deserves to be admonished. >> impeachment is not a punishment for crimes. impeachment exists to address threats to the political system. the constitution is not a suicide pact, it does not leave us stuck with presidents who abuse their power in and for seen ways that threaten our security and democracy. >> jared nadler, judiciary chairman for house democrats, you may not have seen this but really giuliani made the hearing today, not in person, he made it in clip form and so while you were busy preparing for this evening's show you probably didn't get a chance to see this, there was a picture of rudy with liberty university's finest, shannon bream. >> funny how many people let you know when you show up at a congressional hearing. thank you for your thorough report. fox news alert, stunning newly declassified documents from the fisa court outlining that at least half of the applications for warrants to surveilled trump campaign associate carter page did not establish probable cause. trace gallagher has been doing into the story for more. >> this is a very public rebuke to a fisa court that operates in almost total secrecy, the court has admitted the two of the four fisa wants to wiretap and spy on carter page were not valid. for clarity, 3 and 4 are invalid, warrants one and 2 have not been ruled on. as for the invalid warrant, quote, there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe carter page was acting as an agent of a foreign power. it is also notable the two invalid warrants were signed by james comey and former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. the fisa judge went on to say using information obtained by the invalid warrant is a federal crime, but the next part of the judge's ruling was redacted so it remains unclear if the government potential user is using information from the carter page warrant in other cases but the judge also said information concerning, quote, related investigations must be turned over by next tuesday. carter page responded with this quoting today's unprecedented court filing represents another step on the road to recovery for america's deeply damaged judicial system. i hope this slated admission of deal from the civil rights abuses by the justice department marks continued progress towards restoring justice and remedying these reputational erroneous injuries. this is an embarrassment for the fbi which obtained a warrant for a series of mistakes commits misrepresentations and at least one falsified document, not a single one of those fell in favor of the president. >> trace gallagher, good to see you. >> congress is unprecedented in the 238 year history of our constitutional republic. it puts even president next and to shame. this conduct is not america first, it is donald trump first. >> the senate can remedy donald trump's unprecedented cover-up. >> we have seen a cover-up that we have never seen before in the history of the united states. >> democrats focusing on their abuse of power claim against donald trump in day 2 of their arguments. joining us, republican congressman from north carolina mark meadows. i want to read something from eugene robinson who thinks this is going great for house managers, the house impeachment managers have masterfully laid out a clear easy-to-follow narrative of trump's misconduct, more importantly they have made a powerful case that the senate must gather evidence including witness testimony and documents beyond what the house was able to obtain. that is a key issue trump's defenders are afraid to confront. your one of his defenders. >> when we were in the house it was our job to investigate. we knew that when the impeachment vote happened, when they rested through right before christmas, they said they had an indisputable case but what we are finding is not only was it flawed but unprepared, it's not ready for prime time so for the washington post to suggest this is a great case, i have seen this movie not just once but twice and three times, this is the third time i'm getting to see it, hard to pay attention because you know all the arguments. the reason why they delayed, i thought it was have these new impeachment pins by speaker pelosi but it was really so they could prepare their talking points in such a way to convince the american people, they are not buying it because there is no underlying facts that suggest, and i would say no underlying facts that would suggest that the president did anything appropriate. that is why they are wanting witnesses. if they want to do that, revoke and repeal the impeachment articles, bring it back to the house, why is there not a subpoena for some of these witnesses, we know why that is, because they don't trust donald trump but they also don't trust the judiciary. >> they elected not to go to the court battle, but it would take too much time in a divergent matter. so you say the house controlled this, they had the time to do that but do you worry they are making headway with these arguments in the pr battle with people because polls show majority of people think more witnesses would be appropriate at this point. >> whenever you want to adjudicate something everybody always wants more. i've seen in the past we had 17 different witnesses so i would ask my democrat colleagues this. how many more witnesses do you have to have come before congress to say the president didn't do anything wrong. we've had 5 different people, the president of ukraine number 2 and number 3 underneath him say there was no pressure. we had ambassador volcker come forward, the vice president, multiple public statements, tim morrison, these are people with firsthand knowledge where they talked to donald trump about this. all this is about hearsay and hurt feelings. we have a situation where everybody wants to convict the president of the united states and disenfranchise voters across the country because my democrat colleagues think there will is more important than the will of the american people but they want to do that in the hopes of sending a message and what is that message? that adam schiff and his team think their opinion is more important than the american voter and it is not something most americans are buying into. shannon: we had a soundbite, we can't trust the system but his argument has been all along there will be corruption if this president is not stopped by impeachment, the atlantic said no democrats are not trying to overturn a 2016 election. it is a surprisingly durable talking point. it finds a way to avoid talking about the substance of the accusations against him. it is a difficult task and there were very few substantive defenses of the president yesterday. >> whoever is writing that didn't tune in. the republican defense team didn't even get to go. it was amazing, chuck schumer went to the microphones today and said the trump defense team is doing a terrible job in defending the president. it took them 48 hours to come up with a talking point. they haven't even gone yet to to suggest once you've seen two days of arguments from democrats that somehow we can reach a conclusion the defense is coming, it is very strong and it is not going to bode well for adam schiff and the narrative they have been putting out. shannon: the way the schedule looks the president's team would get started on this saturday and a lot of his defenders say it will not get prime time coverage, people are taking their kids to soccer games and are not going to hear it. >> they are not getting primetime ratings right now running it through. if you look at the ratings it is a great time for the history channel and nick at night because everyone's tuning into other things other than this impeachment trial because they notice for outrage on behalf of my democrat colleagues. here's what i do see it is a strong defense that is not only fully articulated but well-documented as the defense of the president happens over the next 2 to 3 days. i think it will be shorter than that. i don't have any personal knowledge to suggest that other than i just know what the evidence supports and how concrete that is. as we go into that i am hopeful that by the end of next week that we have a vote where we vindicate the president of the united states and move on to what most americans want to focus on, lowering prescription drug prices, fixing our roads and bridges. they are tired of this drama on capitol hill because it doesn't really affect them. they know they can go to the ballot box in november of 2020 and make that choice for themselves contrary to what adam schiff -- >> we heard from democrats and republicans alike, we will see. thank you for taking the time to stay a plate with us. much more analysis on impeachment ahead but there's a major development on immigration. the trump administration takes new steps to stem the growing epidemic of what is called birth tourism. >> reporter: this new rule flips the burden of proof from the state department to say they suspect the case of birth tourism for a pregnant woman to be denied a visa but now a tourist can be denied if they can't convince the immigration officer they have another legitimate reason for visiting. >> we are the only country in the world where person comes in, has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states with all those benefits. it is ridiculous and it has to end. >> the president previewed a crackdown on birth tourism a year ago in an interview on hbo. his press secretary explained this rule changes necessary to enhance public safety, national security and the integrity of the immigration system. alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted this administration is targeting pregnant women. the cruelty is the point. hashtag abolish ice, hashtag break up cvp. birth tourism has become a lucrative business and last year officials took legal action against companies involved in the practice in southern california. those companies charge 80,$000 for combination of medical care for pregnant women which many of them travel from russia or china, then have secured citizenship for their child, probably leave the united states. >> some people do come here to have their children. >> there is no hard number on the number who come here to give birth to the numbers estimated in the tens of thousands. this rule change tries to cut down on that number but nothing to change birthright citizenship which is what chris*walt calls the rulebook otherwise known as the constitution. shannon: thank you. democrats say gop senators were dialed in and focused today. mike braun of indiana sitting through all the arguments will give us firsthand reaction live next. is helping people love what they love again. just one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartburn. because life starts when heartburn stops. take the challenge at prilosecotc dot com. well now 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during another day of long arguments. adam schiff is lavished with praise. with his argument be enough to sway the number of remaining senators. mike braun sent 3 days, see what he thinks at this point, good to have you bit with us. what is all this rule breaking and walking around and snacking that was not going to happen? >> we were warned if we spoke to another you could be put in prison. >> we heard jail. >> they said prison actually. i wondered how long that would last. a difference between talking and whispering and i think it has been monotonous in a sense. i paid close attention in the house proceedings and every piece of information is repackaged and we are hearing the same thing. for some senators it may not have -- picking up something here and there but the basics of the case have changed, listen to chuck. the evidence is overwhelming and they have been stressing and stressing that so that would beg the question why they need more witnesses. i really feel because it is not overwhelming. it is analogous to the brett kavanaugh hearing, the case started to stumble, delay, look for more witnesses. >> greg sargent has a piece, ask a tough question, talks about how you guys were stonewalling because you don't want to know. future revelation standard evidence of what gop senators cover-up but that is politically less risky from their perspective and taking the chance new evidence could be more damning than what is already known and they have to then a quit at that point. >> leader mcconnell put it very astutely that it was their case and it was put together after the mueller report fell apart and they weren't in a time squeeze because all along, i will give them one thing, they have been completely thrown off by donald trump. when i go back to the fact of hearing discussions of impeachment before he was inaugurated that that maintained the process. we as senators are taking on such a grave consideration, this is like if you end up with a conviction you could get probation. is like nikki haley said, the death penalty. they are trying to put together a circumstantial case on quid pro quo and all along, i have been a trump supporter on the agenda across the board, what the president did probably entangled him in this but it is not impeachable. pushing the envelope on investigating corruption, that is natural when one of the most corrupt places -- in the world. shannon: everybody can see that. >> when you talk about witnesses i'm certain that if we get there it will be reciprocal. that means the bidens, the whistleblower and the discussion might fall apart. shannon: you would call a perfect call. >> know. heather: but that doesn't mean you think it is impeachable. those are two questions. i want to play something else chuck schumer had to say about how intently you were watching today. >> the evidence was so compelling and schiff's arguments were so powerful, i looked around several times, every republican was looking at him and listening. our hope is this will have an effect. >> senator kennedy told us yesterday he did hear or learn some things he didn't know. do you think these arguments are connecting? >> there method is time of possession but no field goals and no touchdown. i did listen to almost every part of the house proceedings. it started behind closed doors, then had the public version, the four constitutional expert and every time you could see where they would bring up the same information. here they packaged it with audiovisual and have done a pretty decent job but if you watched it in the first go around all of that was there in the house proceedings. i have not seen anything new. shannon: you are going back for another day. are you taking -- >> my own snacks? probably not. i will work out of the cloak room, supply, maybe one of my neighbors might take a snack. >> we hear senator romney has some goods. don't get your self in prison because it is important what you do. good to see you again. joe biden with a 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sanders way ahead at 29%. one of the first big states followed by pete buttigieg, joe biden and elizabeth warren. everyone else in single digits and the overall national polling has biden first followed by sanders, warren, bloomberg and buttigieg. what do you make of this? there has been a lot of surging back and forth, iowa comes first, new hampshire is a big prize, you would think bernie who a lot of people forget won 21, 22 of the primary contest last time start picking up really once. >> rcp average is interesting but not relevant to the nomination process because it is not a national nomination process despite the fact democrat hate the electoral college, bernie sanders has been there, 3 years ago he ran in every one of the 50 states, came a whisper from hillary clinton, the best financed and biggest supported candidate the democrats never put forth in a contested primary and almost won. tell me why it is not bernie's to lose, he should be the front runner. >> charlie gasparino at foxbusiness tweeted this out, democrat party sources who have spoken with barack obama say they are increasingly anxious about bernie sanders's rise in national polls and worthy about socialist to take the country, he is considering a public statement addressing it. more on foxbusiness. president obama has spoken out a number of times over the past few and warning about progressives going too far to the left. do you think he would step up and get involved? >> maybe it would push him to the point to speak out and support his vice president, joe biden who is a hidden all the key states. iowa and new hampshire absolutely not representative of the united states or the democratic party in terms of diversity, very white state handler, south carolina, subsequent primaries, joe biden is crushing it and what is most surprising is michael bloomberg is jumping up very quickly, the most well-financed candidate, he can write billion-dollar checks without affecting his net worth. >> jim mussina, and obama campaign manager in 2012, here's what he says about the idea of bernie sanders. >> is bernie the worst candidate? >> no question. it is very clear to me with the swing voters i care about, the trump obama voters bernie sanders is not the candidate we need to beat donald trump in november. >> by what is happening on the 2020 campaign trail it is important for everything that circles back to dc. we cover the courts, you practice in these courts including the supreme court and somebody who wins, bernie will appoint different justices and donald trump. >> can't even begin to imagine what a bernie sanders appointed supreme court would look like. bernie sanders's effect on the court and the economy and american life as we know it will be profound and that is why people in the obama camp and hillary clinton camp are sounding the alarm on bernie sanders because they know he is fundamentally different from all the other democratic candidates in the race, a committed socialist who is determined to take america in a different direction from the one we have always known. >> i don't see him being that different from the mainstream of the democratic party today. they have embraced his ideas, medicare for all was his idea now elizabeth warren once it and half of the other candidates wanted, the power and energy in the house of representatives with aoc and ilhan omar, they are all bernie brokes in the roadway. bernie sanders best represents where the democratic party is. >> i do think one of the biggest rallies we have seen on the democratic side was bernie sanders and aoc in new york and it was giant. he definitely has energy behind him but i want to ask a little bit about impeachment, jim jordan tweets this about adam schiff. he says these are things he told you before, more than circumstantial evidence of collusion, nunez memo was process, fisa process was fine, the whistleblower will testify, parodied the president's call. mister z, referring to a different mister z, we are supposed to trust him. >> the case is very clear, the president went on tv to say i am withholding evidence from this trial. i have the evidence and we are not handing it over, the attorney general tried to tell the whistleblower to violate the actual statute, you shall turn this over to congress and tell him he didn't have to. no one is questioning whether the president strong-armed ukraine, they are deflecting from the process in a political way. this impeachment should be happening, republicans want to deny the reality of what is going on. shannon: there are things going on at this point about witnesses, executive privilege, document and subpoenas. the health withdrew some of those so they don't get to the question of whether or not they will testify but where do you see this going? there are questions. >> democrats need to wrap up their case. they have done a workmanlike job in making the case, don't know they changed anyone's minds. focusing the last day or so on the facts rather than the jerry nadler moral shaving of the republicans and the republicans turn, democrats are getting press coverage but now the spotlight is going to shift to the republicans and i'm eager to hear the republicans defense of the present that i want to hear their understanding of the constitution and what rises to the level of impeachment worthy and a robust defense of the president on the fact. we haven't heard it yet but we are going to hear it in the senate. shannon: that comes on saturday. we will dvring it. we will see what is going on with that, appreciate your time. much more on the 2020 front, senator elizabeth warren promising this. if she is elected her cabinet will be at least half female and non-binary people, that is a series focusing on her words, restoring integrity to the government. lori lightfoot sounds unimpressed with warren, sanderson's biden. in an interview with the chicago sun-times she says about the two progressive presidential candidates they didn't feel it was necessary to talk to the new black lgbt queue mayor, certainly not endorsing somebody that never bothered to reach out and a person i haven't heard from directly is biden. joe biden is think the trail with swing district democrats in an effort to win over moderates. jackie heinrich is live with more. >> good evening. in deep red country and western iowa there is a surprising challenge for establishment democratic candidates like joe biden who are trying to make inroads with independent voters or even trump voters. in the far west part of the state there were three light red counties donald trump won by a smaller margin, they are being targeted by several democrats including biden but during the 2016 iowa caucuses these counties referred democratic socialist bernie sanders over hillary clinton and the green on the map showing widespread bernie support the clinton campaign was bitterly contested by a razor thin margin. expert say it is not surprising to find a progressive pocket of blue in deep state red. >> activists spent a couple hours caucusing, going to be more ideologically strained. you will live in an intensely red area you might grab on and hold onto your progressive values very tightly. >> in the selection sanders's message isn't as unique as it once was. all democratic candidates support public health care were small business owners care about. candidates like joe biden and amy klobuchar on issues like agriculture and trade. klobuchar made the point to campaign and all 99 counties and biden's campaign is using surrogates who have a consistent presence in rural communities talking about how his connections with world leaders hurt in the trade war. >> farmers like the idea that trump was talking about trade but so far they have seen the results of that and they have gotten some bailouts, they want to grow and sell crops across the world. >> reporter: all democrats have had presence in western iowa with even more stop scheduled. 11 states. >> he has a brand-new book digging into the political corruption and has next time someone tells you hunter biden story has been debunked you're not getting the truth, peter schweitzer is next. am in real le not just on the internet♪ ♪all strength, we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait, we're taking everything we wanted we can do it♪ ♪all strength, no sweat ♪all strength, no sweat >> joe biden is one of the finest men i know but somebody needs to look at this. why did a biden get $1 billion when he had been in business for 60 days. >> impeachment managers say the biden family connection to ukraine has been debunked, no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of mister biden and republicans are responsible to keep promoting false conspiracy theories. lindsey graham calling them out saying when and where have those allegations have been debunked. let's turn to peter schweitzer who has a new book called profiles in corruption, abuse of power by america's progressively. i have to note, the claim senator graham just made is something, one of the major fact checking organizations has said this idea that hunter biden got $1 billion is not factual. >> he didn't get 1 billion a have dollars that was put on the board of directors of investment fund financed by the chinese government and this is the pattern you see with hunter biden, no background with china, no background in private equity, the question is why did he get that job. he got that position after he traveled on air force to with his father to beijing, china and that is what is so troubling. everybody gets in washington dc this your last name is biden or bush you will have some advantage but the timing of these matters, when you look at the ukraine situation, in february 2014 the russians moved into crimea. in march, barack obama says joe biden is our point personal policy towards ukraine, within 2 or 3 weeks hunter biden is hired by the ukrainians. those have to be connected. >> when we are told this is debunked because we hear that all the time, if you bring it up, there's nothing factual about that and you're besmirching a company that trades on their last name but there was nothing the various a criminal there. >> i don't know there's anything criminal. a lot of things in washington dc are corrupt but not necessarily criminal. the question is what was hunter biden being paid for. they were not just trying money at him. they wanted something in return. he got $3 million from the ukrainians. they were getting paid something. the question is what. my point, it goes back to the time they hired him several weeks after his father was put in charge of our lead policy, those events are clearly thai. a lot of people in washington say this is just the way things are done. when you talk to people outside the beltway it doesn't matter what their politics are, they think it smells. >> the former vice president talked about this on the campaign trail yesterday, here's what he said. >> nobody, nobody in his administration has questioned that i did my job. he said it was a mistake for him having done it because he didn't count on thugs like rudy giuliani and others using it as a means by which to try to hurt his father. >> you and i know there have been a number of people who are not republicans or conservatives who said they worried about this conflict of interest, at least the appearance of it. a headline in the new york times in 2015, obama administration concerned about biden ukraine corruption and a number of people in the state department and elsewhere who said we were worried at least about how it looks. >> to me the real tell, this happens in washington, people on both sides of the aisle do it but the big tell is when joe biden started getting heat from this what did he do? he announced if elected president no foreign deal for his family members, why wasn't that your policy in the first place? it is because he got caught and that is part of the problem. >> elizabeth warren said relevant witnesses, people who know what donald trump did and what his intent was and what his impact was on national security and the security of ukraine, hunter biden doesn't have anything any knowledge of that or any bearing on that. this conversation whether he should be a witness or not, where do you think that goes? >> that is the root question. the question is was it legitimate for the president of the united states to inquire about a deal involving ukraine, was there something real? that is the heart of the matter, hunter biden is central to it. if there's corruption going on and i believe there was. we know he wasn't qualified. we know the pattern of behavior regarding his dad and the ukrainians, that speaks to the question. corruption is a huge problem in ukraine. the new leader of ukraine, if you look at his who his chief sponsor was, a ukrainian oligarch who many people believe is linked to burisma. the point is this needs to be investigated. you can't just brush it off and say there's nothing here. this is the central question of the phone call. >> in a week we should know whether they decide to have witnesses and if hunter biden's name is on the wish list. the book is out and i'm sure it is getting a lot of eyeballs. thanks for dropping in. entire cities locked down with a mysterious deadly virus across china. with a confirmed case of the us, what you need to know next. not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa >> shannon: we need to make a quick correction on that change we need to make a quick correction on the last segment, the new york times have finally cited talking about the biden and hunter biden situation the headline reads joe biden, his son and the case against a ukrainian oligarch for the quote was incredibly of the vice president's anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son hunter biden with one of ukraine's largest natural gas companies, burisma holdings, with people who are concerned about appearance of conflict, we wanted to correct that headline. shine is attending the task of isolating 3 cities with a combined population of 18 million people in order to stop the threat of the deadly virus. there is a confirmed case of the us and fears about more. ice as neil has more on the coronavirus. >> reporter: this is breaking in the last couple hours, 25-year-old woman was hospitalized in new jersey, doctors are still evaluating her. they haven't quite diagnosed are just yet. medics are monitoring 16 people with close contact with patient 0 as he's being called in washington state. those people have not developed the illness that are being watched. another suspected victim is in a california hospital, that patient arrived at lax from mexico city and in texas a texas a&m student is being tested for possible exposure after traveling to china, let's talk about china, china is shutting down 6 cities in the bay problems, quite a feat, this was the heart of the outbreak, total of 20 million people who no longer have access to public transportation and are required to wear masks in public. the capital city of beijing canceling all major public events indefinitely. at last check 830 people are sick with a corona virus, 25 people are dead. despite the growing numbers the world health organization still not calling this outbreak a global health emergency. that would free up more resources to help fight this virus but doctor mike siegel tonight told me that could all change very soon. >> they are going to call this global health emergency very soon especially if it continues to spread beyond china. my biggest concern is there is likely a lot more cases in china and we are hearing about. they are closing down and locking down entire cities because there is more than 600 cases. >> doctor siegel does believe the cdc at our airports at home are doing a good job containing the virus. >> tonight at heroes for three american firefighters died when their water take a plane crashed in new south wales. all three were us military veterans, more than 200 us firefighters have gone to help, many were greeted with australian applause when they arrived earlier this month. authorities don't know why the plane crashed. american and australian firemen held a moment of silence today, lowering flags to have staff a comrades. we salute them for extraordinary service and sacrifice, we recognize them and all the men and women out there fighting those blazes, tonight's midnight heroes, most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us, good night from washington, i'm shannon 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talking about a trial where one vote could mean the difference between evidence and witnesses or not. that is the circumstance we are dealing with in this particular instance. let me tell you what seems to have upset the senator from the great state of alaska. she was upset with jerry nadler's assertion that g.o.p. members voting against no testimony and evidence would be engaged in a cover up. she this to reporters as one who is listening attentively and working hard, i was offended. susan collins from the state of maine, "i was stunned by his approach." she added this, "shortly after he admonished both sides, i was glad he did." we all saw that play out. keep this in mind, susan collins complaint is noteworthy because she remains among a small group who are thought to be possible swing votes during the trial. to some as you see here like martha mcsally, mitt romney, and others. however, democrats remain unmoved by the criticism. they say the president deserves to be admonished. >> impeachment is not a punishment for crimes. impeachment exists to address threats to the political system. the constitution is not a suicide pact. it does not leave us stuck with presidents who abuse their power in unforeseen ways that threaten our security and democracy. >> jerry nadler and the chairman of there. you may not have seen this, you have a busy schedule, but rudy giuliani made the hearing today. not in person, he made it an clip form. while you were busy preparing for this evening's show, he didn't get a chance to see this. there was a picture of rudy with liberty university's finest. our very own shannon bream. i just thought you might like to know that. >> shannon: it's funny how many people let you know when you shop at a congressional hearing. kevin corke, thank you for your thorough report. this is a fox news alert. we have stunning newly declassified documents from the fisa court arguing that half of the applications from warrants to surveilled carter page did not establish probable cause. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has been digging in this story. good evening. >> this is a very public rebuke to a fisa court that operates at total secrecy. the court has now admitted that two of the four pfizer warren spahn former trump campaign advisor carter page were not valid. for clarity, the three and four are invalid. the one and two have not yet been ruled on. as for the invalid warrant, the presiding judge road and come "there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that carter page was acting as an agent of a foreign power." it's notable of the two invalid warrants were signed by former fbi director james comey and former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. the judge went on to say that using information obtained by the invalid warrant is a federal crime. the next part of the judge's ruling was redacted. it remains unclear if the government potentially used or is using information from the carter page warrant and other cases. the judge also said information concerning "related investigations must be turned over by next tuesday." carter page himself responded with this, "today's unprecedented court filing represents another step on the road to recovery for america's deeply damaged judicial system." i hope this latest admission of guilt for the civil rights abuses by the justice department marks continued progress towards restoring justice and remedying these reputation injuries. this is also a course in embarrassment for the fbi which obtained they want through a series of mistakes, misrepresentations, an and one falsified document. not a single one of those errors fell in favor of the president. >> shannon: interesting. trace gallagher. thank you. >> it's unprecedented in a 200 and 30-year history of our country, constitutional republic. it puts even president nixon to shame. this conduct is not america first. it is donald trump first. >> the senate can remedy president trumps unprecedented cover-up. >> we have seen a cover-up in this context that we've never seen before in the history of the united states. >> shannon: democrats focusing on their abuse of power claim against president drop in day two. joining us now, a member of his congressional defense team, mark meadows. good to have you back. i want to read something from eugene robinson over at "the washington post." they think is going great. "the house impeachment managers have masterfully laid out a clear, easy to follow narrative of his misconduct. they made a powerful case at the senate must gather evidence including witness testimony, and documents beyond what the house was able to obtain." that is the key issue that they're afraid to confront. you are one of his defenders, what do you say? >> obviously it's the house job. it was our job to investigate. we knew that when the impeachment vote happened, when they rushed through christmas, you remember that. america remembers that. they said they had an indisputable case. what we are finding is, not only was it flawed, it was unprepared. it's not ready for prime time. for "the washington post" to suggest that this is a great case, i've seen this movie once, not just once, twice and three times. this is the third time i'm getting to see it. it's hard to pay attention because you know all the arguments. the reason why they delayed, i thought it was to have these new impeachment pens by speaker pelosi. it was that so they could prepare their talking points in such a way to convince the american people. they are not buying it because there is no underlying facts that would suggest, and i would say no underlying facts that would suggest that the president did anything appropriate. that is why they're wanting new witnesses. if they want to do that, revoke and appeal the impeachment articles. bring it back to the house. my eyes are not a subpoena for some of these witnesses existing? we know why that is, they don't trust donald trump, but they also don't trust the judiciary. >> shannon: that's true. they elected not to go through the court battle. you rightly say that it's a house, they controlled this and they had the decisions to do that. do you worry they're making headway with these arguments, at least in the p.r. battle? the majority of people think more witnesses would be appropriate. >> whenever you want to adjudicate something, everybody always wants more. i can tell you i've seen, we've had 17 different witnesses. i would ask the american people and i'd ask my democratic colleagues in this, how many more witnesses do you have to have come before congress to say that the president didn't do anything wrong. we've actually had five different people, the president of ukraine, the number two and three underneath him, say there was no pressure. we've had ambassador volker, the vice president, multiple statements, to morrison. these are people with first-hand knowledge of where they've actually talk to donald trump about this. all of this is about hearsay and hurt feelings. we've got a situation here where everybody wants to convict the president of united states and i might add, disenfranchise voters across the country. because my democratic colleagues think they're well is more important than the will of the american people. they want to do that in the hopes of sending a message. what is that message? adam schiff and his team think that their opinion is more important than the american voter. it's not -- it's not something that most americans are buying into. >> shannon: we saw a sound bite where he talked about the fact that this can't be settled at the ballot box because you can't trust the system. his argument has been that there has been corruption and there will be corruption if this president has not stopped. the atlantic talking about this, no democrats are not trying to overturn the 2016 election, they say that surprisingly durable talking point. it provides a way for trump and his allies to avoid talking about the substance of the allegations against him. the shifting stories make clear it's a difficult task. there are very few substantive defenses of the president yesterday. >> let me tell you, whoever is writing that, they didn't tune in. the republican defense team didn't even get to go. it was amazing, chuck schumer went to the microphones today and said, the trumpet defense team is doing a terrible job in defending the president. it took him 48 hours to come up with that talking point. they haven't even gone yet. to suggest that once you have seen two days of arguments from democrats that somehow we can reach a conclusion, the defense is coming and it's very strong. it's not going to go well for adam schiff and the narratives they've been putting out. >> shannon: can you tell us anything on that front? the president's team would get started on this saturday and his defenders say that's not great, it's not prime time coverage. people are taking their kids to soccer games. >> they are not getting prime time ratings right now. you look at the ratings, it's a great time for the history channel because everybody is tuning into other things other than this impeachment trial. why? they know it's outrage on behalf of my democratic colleagues. here's what i do see and is a strong defense and is not only fully articulated, but well documented as the defense of the president happens over the next two or three days. it will be shorter than that. i don't have any personal knowledge to suggest that. i just know the evidence supports. i know how concrete that is. as we go into that, i'm hopeful that by the end of next week that we have a vote where we vindicate the president of united states and we move on to what most americans want to focus on. lowering prescription drug prices, fixing our roads and bridges. they are tired of this drama here on capitol hill because it doesn't really affect them. they know they can go to the ballot box in november of 2020 and make that choice for themselves contrary to what adam schiff wants them to do. >> shannon: we've heard that from democrats and republicans alike. we will see you. thank you for taking a time to stay up late. good to see you. much more analysis on impeachment ahead. there is a major development on immigration. the trump administration taking steps to end the epidemic of birth tourism. good evening. >> this new rule essentially flips the burden of proof from the state department to stay they suspect a case of birth tourism. for a pregnant woman to be denied a visa. now, would be pregnant to a risk can be denied a visa as if they can convince the immigration officer they have another legitimate reason for visiting. >> were the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen for 85 years. it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous. it has to end. >> the president previewed a crackdown on birth tours more than a year ago an interview with axios. today his press secretary explained, this rule change is necessary to enhance public safety, national security, and the integrity of our immigration system. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted, "this administration is targeting pregnant women. when you single out the most vulnerable, cruelty is the point." birth tourism has become a lucrative business and lasher officials took legal action against companies involved in the practice in southern california. those companies generally charge up to $80,000 for accommodation and medical care for pregnant women. many of whom traveled from russia or china. then having secured citizenship for their child, they probably leave the united states. >> i don't think it's a secret that when people do come here to have their children. >> there is no hard number on the number of pregnant women who come to america specifically to give birth, but the number is estimated in the tens of thousands. this rule change essentially tries to cut down on that number. it does nothing to change birthright citizenship. that is what our friend chris stirewalt calls the rulebook. >> shannon: that seems pretty well-established at this point. thank you. democrats and g.o.p. senators were dialed and focused, or any minds changed? 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"future relations will stand as evidence with what g.o.p. senators covered. that is less risky from their perspective than taking the chance that new evidence could be more than what is already known. it would have to equate at that point." >> i think leader mcconnell put it varies totally, it was their case and it was put together after the mueller report fell apart. they weren't in a time squeeze. all along, they been completely thrown off by president trump. when i go back to the fact, i was hearing discussions of impeachment before he was inaugurated, that take to the whole process. we as senators are taking on such a great consideration. this is unlike if you end up with a conviction that you can get probation. it is like nikki haley said, it's the death penalty. they are trying to put together a circumstantial case on quid pro quo. all along, and i've been a trump supporter, because that is working. because while the president had their probably entangled him in this. it's not impeachable. pushing the envelope on investigating corruption, i think that is natural. it was one of the worker up to places in the world. >> shannon: everyone can see that. >> the volumes were entangled there. i'm nearly certain that if we get there, that would be reciprocal and that means the bidens, the whistle-blower, and then the whole discussion might fall apart. >> shannon: he would call it a perfect call? >> no. >> shannon: okay! but that doesn't mean you think it's impeachable? those are two different questions. want to play you with what chuck schumer said about how intently you are watching. >> the evidence was so compelling and schiff's arguments were so powerful that i looked around several times, every republican was listening. our hope is this will have an effect. >> shannon: senator kennedy told us yesterday that he did hear or learn some things that he didn't know before. do you think these arguments are connecting? >> their method is time of possession. there aren't many field goals and certainly no touchdowns. i did listen to almost every part of the house proceeding. it started behind closed doors. then you have the public version, the constitutional experts. every time you could see where they would bring up some of the same information. here they packaged it with audiovisual and they have done a pretty decent job there. if you watched it in the first go around, all of that was there in the house proceeding. i have not seen anything new. >> shannon: you are going back for another day tomorrow. are you taking your own snacks? 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do you think you would step up and get involved if he thinks bernie will win the nomination? >> i think it would maybe push them to the point and maybe support his vice president, joe biden, who is ahead. iowa and new hampshire absolutely not represented of either the united states or the democratic party in terms of diversity. they're very white states and their older. south carolina, nevada, the subsequent primaries, joe biden is crushing it. what is most surprising, michael bloomberg is jumping up very quickly. the most well-financed candidate, he can right billion-dollar checks without affecting his net worth. >> shannon: i want to play something that jim messina, he was an obama campaign advisor manager in 2012, here is what he said about the idea of bernie sanders being the nomin nominee. >> do think bernie is the worst candidate? >> i don't think there is a question. it's very clear to me, with the swing voters, the trump of obama voters, bernie sanders is the not the candidate we need to be donald trump in november. >> shannon: we were only distracted with impeachment with the campaign trail, but it's important for everything to circle back here. you practiced in these courts including the supreme court. bernie will point very different justice is then president jerome. >> oh, my god, we can't even begin to imagine. i think bernie sanders affect on court, the economy, american life as we know it would be profound. that's exactly why people who are in the obama and hillary clinton camp are sounding the alarm. they know he is fundamentally different from pretty much all the other democratic candidates in the race. he is a committed socialist who was determined to take america in a very different direction. >> can i just jump in? i don't see him being that different from where the mainstream of the democratic party is today. table embraced his ideas spread medicare for all was his idea. the power and energy within the house of representatives with aoc and ilhan omar, they're all bernie burroughs in their own way. bernie sanders best represents where the democratic party has ended up. >> it's if your tactic, come on. >> shannon: one of the biggest rallies we've seen on the democratic side of the tactic dominick pickett is when they were in new york and it was giants. he has energy behind him. i want to ask you about impeachment. jim jordan tweets this about chairman adam schiff, "these are all the things that he told you before. more than circumstantial evidence. the memo was false. the pfizer process was fine. the whistle-blower would testify and we haven't spoken with the whistle-blower. mr. z referred to us before, that was a different mr. z. today we are supposed to trust him." ethan? >> the case has very clear. the president admits it and he even went on tv to say, i'm withholding evidence. i have the evidence and were not handing it over. the attorney general has tried to tell the whistle-blower to violate the statute that says you shall turn this over. look, nobody is questioning whether or not the president strong-armed ukraine. they're all deflecting from the process. this impeachment should be happening, republicans are the ones who want to deny what is going on. >> shannon: there are real, live legal disputes about witnesses, executive privilege. about documents and subpoenas at all kinds of things. the house withdrew some of those so they don't get to the question with the witnesses. where do you see this going? there are some unresolved questions. >> the democrats need to wrap up their case. they have done a worthy like a job of doing the case. they made a good strategic judgment and focus in the last day on the facts, rather than the jerry nadler shaming. it will be the republicans turn. all the democrats have gotten press coverage and that's how it works, but now the spotlight will shift. i'm eager to hear the republican stephan's. i want to hear their understanding of the constitution. i also want to hear a robust defense of the president on the facts. we haven't heard it yet. i think we are finally going to hear it in the senate. >> shannon: that comes on saturday. i guess lb dvr unit. after you try sleep. gentlemen, thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time. much more on the 2020 frowned. elizabeth the one promising this, if she has elected her cabinet will be at least half female and nonbinary people. the latest pledge is part of a series focusing on her words, restoring integrity after president trial. they sound unimpressed, an interview with the "chicago sun-times" she said about the two progressive candidates, they didn't like it was necessary to talk to the new black lgbt mayor. i'm not endorsing somebody who has never bothered to reach out to. she says the other person i haven't heard from directly, that is biden. joe biden is hitting the trail with swing district democrats in an effort to win over moderates in the first emanation state. jacqui heinrich is live and the battleground state. good evening. >> good evening. here in deep red country and western iowa, there is a surprising challenge for establishment candidates like joe biden who are trying to make inroads with independent voters or even trump voters. in the fall west part of the state there were three light red counties president trump won by a smaller margin and 2016. those counties are being targeted by several democrats including biden. during the iowa caucuses, the counties actually prefer a socialist bernie sanders over then establishment candidate and hillary clinton. with a green on the map showing widespread bernie support, you will recall the clinton campaign was bitterly contested across the state. only winning by a razor-thin margin. local experts say it's not surprising to find a progressive pocket and blew of rent. >> party activists were likely to spend a couple of hours on a cold winter night caucusing or going to more ideologically extreme. if you're going to live in a red area, you might hold onto your progressive values very tightly. >> in this election a sanders message isn't quite as unique as it once was. all candidates support some form of public health care, which uninsured farmers and small business owners care about. the same goes for affordable education in all 99 counties and joe biden's campaign is using surrogates to have a consistent presence. talking about how his connections with world leaders will help farmers in the trade war. >> i think farmers like the idea that trump was talking about trade and to better deal for america and trade. so far they have seen the results of that. they've gotten some bailouts, but farmers don't want bailouts. they want to grow crops and sell those crops across the world. >> of course all the democrats have had some presence here and western iowa, with even more stop scheduled before the caucuses lemon days away. >> shannon: jacqui heinrich, thank you. he has a brand-new book, digging into political corruption and says the next time someone tells you that the hunter biden story has been debunked, are not getting the truth. the best-selling author is next. ♪ everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? 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>> shannon: democratic impeachment managers say the ukraine connection has been debunked. republicans are irresponsible to keep promoting false conspiracy theories. senator lindsey graham calling them out. when and where have those allegations been debunked? let's turn to peter schweizer who has a brand-new book out. good to have you with us. i have to know, the claim that senator graham just made and there something that -- i can look at my notes, one of the major organizations had this idea that hunter biden got a billion dollars that it's not factual. >> he didn't get a billion dollars, but he was put on the board of directors financed by the chinese government. this is a pattern you see with hunter biden. he had no background with china or equity. he got that position after he traveled on air force two with his father to beijing, china. that is what i think is so troubling. everyone gets in washington, d.c., that if your last name is bush or biden you will have advantage. it's the timing of these matters. you look at the ukraine situation, february 2014 the russians moved to crimea. in march they say joe biden is our point person and within two weeks hunter biden is hired by the ukrainians. >> shannon: when we are told this has been debunked, because we hear that all the time. people say there's nothing factual and you're besmirching somebody who may be traded on their last name, but it's, and washington. >> i don't know if there's anything criminal. there are a lot of things in washington, d.c., that are corrupt. i think the question is, what was hunter biden being paid for? they were not just throwing money at him. they wanted something in return. he got $3 million from the ukrainians. they were getting paid something, the question is want. it goes back to the timing. they hired him several weeks after his father was put in charge of all aid policy. those events are clearly tied. while people in washington say this is the way things are done, what you talk to people outside of the bald way, it doesn't matter what their politics are. they think it smells. >> shannon: i believe this was yesterday. here's what he said. >> nobody, nobody in his administration has question that i did my job. he said it was a mistake for him having done it because he didn't count on thugs like guiliani and others using it as a means by which to hurt his father. >> shannon: you and i know that there been a number of people who were not republicans or conservatives who said, they worried about this conflict of interest. we have a headline from "the new york times" and 2015, "obama administration worried about biden ukraine relationship." people have said, we were worried about how it looked. >> exactly. the real tell here and this happens in washington, the big tell is when joe biden started getting heat for this. what does he do? he announced, if he's elected president, no foreign deals for his family members. why was not your policy in the first place? i think he got caught. >> shannon: elizabeth warren, senator elizabeth warren said, relevant witnesses here in this trial are people who know what donald trump did and what his intent was and what his impact was on our national security. hunter biden doesn't have anything, any knowledge of that or any bearing on that. this conversation about whether he should be a witness or not, where do you think that goes? >> that is the root question. wasn't legitimate for the president to inquire about a deal involving ukraine. it was a completely made up? was there something real there? i think hunter biden is central to it. if there is corruption going on and i believe there was. we have the financial records. we know he wasn't qualified. we know the pattern of behavior. that speaks to the root question here. i think what's often overlooked is corruption is a huge problem and ukraine. the new leader of ukraine, mr. zelinski, if you look at his chief sponsor, it's a ukrainian oligarch who many people in ukraine believed his linked to burisma. this needs to be looked at. you can't just brush it off and say there is nothing here. this is the central question of the phone call. >> shannon: within a week we should know if they decide to have witnesses and of his name is there. peter schweizer, the book is out now and i'm sure it's getting a lot of eyeballs. thank you for dropping in. entire cities locked down. mysterious deadly virus across china, a confirmed case here in the u.s.ur what you need to know is next. ♪ so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa when we see you enter through our doors. we don't see who you're against, or for. whether tomorrow will be light or dark. all we see in you, is a spark. we see your kindness and humanity. the strength of each community. the more we look the more we find the sparks that make america shine. ♪ at outback, steak & lobster oh no! it's gone! phew! it's back, with lobster mac & cheese. it's gone again! it's back, with shrimp now! steak & lobster starting at only $16.99. hurry in before these three are gone again. outback steakhouse. what's going on? 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"the new york times" we decided, talking about the hunter biden situation. the headline reads, "joe biden, his son, the case against a ukrainian oligarch." the quote was, "the message could have been undermined by his son hunter biden, with one of the largest natural gas companies, burisma." they talked about the appearance of conflict. we wanted to correct that headline. next up, china is attempting the monumental task of isolating three cities with a combined population of 80 million people to stop the spread of a deadly virus. there is a confirmed case in the u.s. and fears for more. we have the very latest. >> good evening. this is breaking in the last couple of hours. a25-year-old woman was just hospitalized in new jersey this evening. doctors are still evaluating her. having quite diagnosed her just yet. meantime, medics are monitoring 60 people who have had close contact with patient zero, as he is being called in washington. right now they have not developed the illness, but they're being watched. another suspected victim is in a california hospital. that patient arrived at lax from mexico city and down in texas, a texas a&m student is being tested for possible exposure after traveling to china. let's talk about china. china is shutting down six cities in the province. this is at the heart of the outbreak. that is a total of 20 million people who no longer have access to public transportation and they're required to wear masks when they're in public. the capital city of beijing also canceling all major public events indefinitely. 830 people are sick now with the coronavirus, 25 people are dead. despite the growing numbers, the world health organization still not calling it a global health emergency. that would free up more resources to help fight the virus. dr. mike siegel told me that could change very soon. >> they will call this a global health emergency very soon. especially if it continues to spread young china. my biggest concern is there is likely a lot more cases than we are hearing about. if they're closing down and walking down entire cities, it's because there is more 600 cases. >> the good news is dr. siegel believes our airport here at home are doing a good job to contain the virus. >> shannon: thank you. tonight's heroes, three american firefighters were battling fires in australia died when their plane crashed. all three were u.s. military veterans. more than 200 firefighters who have gone over to help, many were greeted with applause when they arrived down under earlier this month. they don't know why the plane crashed. they held a moment of silence today and lowered flags to half-staff for their comrades. tonight we salute them for their extraordinary service for the u.s. and our allies. we recognize them at all the men and women fighting. you are are midnight here. was. most-watched, most trusted, most briefly spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i am shannon bream. ♪ [sneezing] ♪ you don't want to cancel your plans. 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"the russians are coming." watch. >> is one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry, united states aids ukraine and her people so that we can fight rush over there and we don't have to fight russia here. >> tucker: that's right, ladies and gentlemen. we could soon fight theia russis here in st. john's berry, not st. petersburg. stock up on milk. today in a reprise of the performance, schiff revived the character you just saw but with theological dimension. wartime general plus old testament prophet george patton meets jeremiah. suddenly, adam schiff, that herd to secular america, was dropping references to god like the two were oldnd friends. >> thank god putin said, thank god nobody is accusing us and more of interfering in the u.s. elections, now there accusing ukraine. thank god, putin says. i don't think we really want vladimir putin, our adversary, to be thinking god for the president of the united states. because they don't wish us well. we do not want them thanking god for our president and what he is pushing out. we don't want them thanking god for withholding money from our allies. >> tucker: say what you will, but as a piece of theater, it had literally everything. there was dastardly old vladimir putin rubbing his hands together and diabolically somewhere deep beneath the kremlin, those foolish americans, little do they know my troops will be in phoenix by nightfall. on the other side, god himself in heaven, looking down and sadness, hoping this lost nation will finally heed saint adams prophetic warnings and obey. it was the age-old battle of good versus evil playing out right there on the center for an c-span. senator from idaho was not impressed. he fell dead asleep the other day and he probably wasn't the only one to do it. if it weren't for the fact that most senators can nap with their eyes open, it would be clear that the whole chamber has been unconscious since monday. and can you blame them for that? it's interminable. and yet on cable news it's like christmas. america's newsroom is maybe the last place in the english-speaking world were adam schiff still considered impressive. to your average news anchor, adam schiff is not a bug eyed hysteric, he's a statesman. alexander hamilton reborn. get that man a musical. >> a very, very powerful and forceful speech almost two and a half hours by adam schiff, the very, very strong case. >> i thought schiff's performance was a virtuoso performance yesterday. >> adam schiff did master to masterfully what all prosecutors are trained to do, he has a really good lawyer. period, end of discussion. >> schiff did an exceptionally good job connecting his case to the founding fathers. >> i have to say watching that i thought adam schiff's opening was brilliant. >> this is a speech really aimed at the better angels. >> by most accounts it was aan virtuoso performance that drew praise from all sides yesterday. it was a stunning recitation of the facts. >> what did you think of thehe presentation by the lead house manager adam schiff? >> i thought it was dazzling. >> tucker: dazzling. stunning. it brilliant, powerful, forceful, masterful, virtuoso, whatever that means. those of the words the press uses to describe a man who's just called for a hot war against a nuclear armed nation.e did the talking heads on cnn believe what schiff is saying? o do they actually think russia is on the cusp of invading the united states? maybe they do. more likely they're not really listening to him. if the internal thoughts of her average news anchor for broadcast on the screen, and they should be, you see they revolve mostly around hair and makeup. to my look big? these are not policy people. if they don't about details. they just know for certain that schiff is on their team, and that's enough for them. that's how they spend the last few years studiously pretending that adam schiff is a serious person and not a wild eyed conspiracy not buried to keep pretending that they've had to ignore a lot of his actual claims, the things he's saying. very much including these thin things. >> you can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion, pretty compelling evidence. >> and there is significant evidence of collusion, there was ample evidence and indeed there is of collusion of people in the trump campaign with the russians. >> i think us plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy. >> all of this is evidence of collusion. >> tucker: to schiff, collusion was everywhere. on facebook, on television, inside the box of honey bunches of oats, sitting in the breakfast nook in his airless capitol hill apartment. at one point he beat and begin to suspect his cats, his many cats. schiff spent the entirety of 2017 and 2018 and talking just like that. by the end he accused 60 million americans of colluding with vladimir putin simply by the act of voting forti donald trump. a conspiracy that profound. except it wasn't, and that's the part. schiff was wrong. none of this ever happened and we now know that conclusively. so what schiff punished for this, driven from polite society for falsely impugning the mpintegrity of millions americas with lies, which he did? know he wasn't. he just got more famous and more revered in msnbc. you can find him most weekdays now having lunch in the best restaurants in the city, right across from the guys who planned the iraq war and got ripped from subprime mortgages. schiff seems happy, and why wouldn't he be? he got it all completely wrong but he wasn't punished, just the opposite.ea he was rewarded. that's a washington really works. keep that in mind as you watch adam schiff strut around the center this week playing whatever character he's chosen that day. g this is the guy making the big decisions. this is the guy they admire. kim strassel is someone we admire, "the wall street journal" editorial board, she swallowed it since day one, thanks so much for coming on. let me ask the question i've kasked every night this week, what is the point of this exactly? >> [laughs] i think it is to allow adam schiff to spread more falsehoods to the country. i mean, look, you just mentioned the collusion one. he's been doing the same thing again this week, repeating ad infinitum how many times -- i can't even tell you at this point, saying well, the president was installed by russia into his seat. russiahe won him this election. he cheated his way into this. there is simply no evidence for that anywhere. you won't find it in the mueller report, you won't find it in the senate report. even if you buy the argument from the obama administration, intelligence agencies, that russia was trying to help specifically trump, no one's ever made the claim that that effort in fact succeeded and yet he out there -- he repeats it as if it's just a commons fact. >> tucker: there something scary about that and this is not a partisan point in defense of the president. there something scary about a person with a lot of power and authority in our country getting it completely wrong for years. hurting people in the process. exposed as a liar. a fabulist, and not being punished and in fact getting more authority. what does that tell you about our system that that could happen? >> yes, and also, by the way, being lauded as a success in this. i mean, again, 180 degrees opposite. adam schiff has already failed in his job, okay? because his job as house impeachment manager is not to curry favor with the press or make the people in the gallery applaud him, it's to convince the jurors and the trial. he has convinced no one, but it's because of that lack of a credibility that you were just highlighting and that we've talked about, that the senate republicans know all of this history and they know that a lot of the things he saying on the floor are biased or misrepresented. you don't convince a jury that way. >> tucker: does it worry you that the level of propaganda, of dishonesty in this country, from the people who should know better, the ones who went to gail andt middlebury -- that they're lying so much that no one will ever believe that -- that one willt ever believe that the system is on the level again ever after this? i'm worried about that. >> no, it is, and it's become rampant and you want to know why? it's because the media isn't doing its job. media exists to call balls and strikes, to call out officials when they do this and they abdicated that roll about three years ago and when they're no longer serving as a neutral umpire, this is a behavior you end up getting. >> tucker: they defendnd the system they should be keeping honest because they're part of it. that's why. kim, great to see you tonight, thank you as always for your insight. >> thank you. >> tucker: one of the star witnesses during the house hearings was lieutenant colonel alexander vinh bin. remember him? he was the guy who gets extremely upset when people call him mister. >> mr. vindman, you testified in her dispositio depositions thatt know -- >> ranking member lieutenant colonel vindman. >> tucker: it's lieutenant carl to you, pal. he also may remember it lieutenant colonel vindman was the american citizen who somehow kept getting offered ukraine's top military post. >> you went to ukraine for the inauguration? >> correct. >> at any point during the trip did they offer you defense minister with the ukrainian government? h >> he did. >> and how may times did he do that? >> i believe it was three times. >> tucker: justin a quick -- how many times of the ukrainian government offered to give you control of this military? zero? mr. qasem soleimani to vindman has been offered three times. pretty remarkable. the show has learned that even after saying what you just saw, even after testifying against his boss, the president, even after admitting a foreign power keeps trying to recruit him, speaking of recruitment by foreign powers, mr. vindman is still serving on the white house national security council. right now. hard to believe that, but apparently it's true. he's not alone either. jennifer williams is a mike pence aid who also testified, in the same vein, she's still in her job too. congress and devin nunes represent the state of california he was elected,or unlike the people you just saw and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. this is a small thing that represents something much larger, i think. not our job to go after mr. vindman, but how could someonene like that keep his job in the national security counc council?f >> well, there's a lot of problems with the national security council. the trump administration is trying to get it under control. the new national securityt advisor is doing what the previous national security advisors under trumpy didn't do, and that is to try to reduce the size and scope, so there's hundreds and hundreds of people with c the national security council, which look, i've never been on the national security council, but if you go30 by 20,0 years ago during the reagan days, i'm told that you had a couple dozen people, maybe three, maybe before dozen people total that were on theit nationl security council. obama put hundreds and from all this, don't forget, you also had people that were on the national security staff that it went over to adam schiff's staff, that knew the whistle-blower. vindman, the guy served his country, that's great, he wants to be called lieutenant colonel, that's fine. his brother is also there is a lawyer. so all of these people colluded and coordinated with the whistle-blower, they coordinated with adam schiff's staff. it's a really what you had there it is you had a den of thieves o there are the council. look, i have said this over and over again, i said to mcmaster, i set it to bolton and i set it to the advisor o'brien, that they just need to get all those people out of there. like if you were there and worked for obama and you were a holdover, just -, you know, geta used building somewhere on the other side of the potomac. just get them out of there. >> tucker: it's a simple question, with the working -- >> couldn't agree with you more. >> tucker: wanted to say mr. vindman and your lawyer brother, take a hike? they're not in control of the government. it's not the government, no one elected mr. vindman to anything or his lawyer brother or any of these people. the government exists for our benefit and it's not working so why is it so hard to do that? i honestly don't understand having spent my life here, i don't understand that. >> look, i have no idea. that's why i think i take some very good advice, there's plenty of a few buildings, just say look, thank you for your y service, just get off the premises -- >> tucker: go work for ukraine. >> maybe he will at some point. >> tucker: yeah. i'm sorry this is frustrating from your advantage. >> it is very much. and look, i also think there's more going on here. i listen to your opening monologue under discussion with kim strassel. happening today in the senate floor in the last three days in the last two months previously in the house of representatives, this makes joseph mccarthy, the former senator in the 1950s look like nothing. it looks like nothing. remember, this is a man who was accused -- adam schiff has accused ash and pelosi. the leaders of the democratic party have accused me of being a russian accent, tulsi gabbard, democratic candidate, of being a russian asset. the senate majority leader of being a russian asset, donald trump of being a russian asset. i think even accuse you of being a russian asset. >> tucker: certainly did, and can i just say the irony is the city is brimming with agents of foreign governments and their influencing policy. it's just not russia. unbelievable. congressman, thank you so much. i wish we had more time. >> always a pleasure. >> tucker: one journalist and i, a friend of ours is reporting that president obama has told friends he may publicly attack bernie sanders. the man who broke that story joins us after the break. also continue to monitor the senate impeachment trial, air quotes there. assuming it does happen, we will bring it to you. >> an oval office meeting that was critical to ukraine. and he did this for only one reason and one reason only. ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading? 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>> tucker: great, this is kind of an amazing story. you're the first to confirm it, what do you? >> simply that president obama believes that bernie sanders is both unelectable in a general election and he's a bridge too far. ifit a you think about it, president obama was a very progressive president, but he did put together a coalition of blue-collar whites, african-americans, women. it was -- he did not socialize the banking system. a lot of people were calling for nationalization of the banking system, he continues to push bailouts. he did not socialize medicine, he created a new mandate, obamacare. took a lot of flak from bernie sanders but -- the party because of that. i was sitting there and he saying we have a candidate who is literally saying we should give away free stuff, he's not telling us how to pay for it. the far left like some, but hey is basically unelectable. my sources are people you should know that spoke directly with president obama, they are democrats. if they are people that work on wall street often. they're much more moderate then you would say a bernie sanders supporter, but i will say this, people talk a lot about all the fraying fractures in thee republican party, the conservative movement. but we have right now, and you know, president obama might not come out and do any of that -- i just want to make that clear, but what we have right now behind the scenes is a civil war in the democratic party. >> tucker: exactly right. >> look at it this way, the old democratic coalition of african-americans, blue-collar whites, women and progressives, okay, that is being frayed. now why is that? because you have on top of that fraying the whole coalition essentially woke young white liberals were far more liberal than the african-americans that have been pulled. far more liberal -- and angry and president obama knows this. he's hinted about this back in november, made a couple statements to donors about this. i hear he still talking about it and listen, he may or may not go public with this stuff. i think it's actually politically -- i spoke with some democrats, probably estate to go public because a new kind of like -- you know, you stir the hornets nest here, further disrupt the coalition, but it is definitely happening and it's an under covered story. >> tucker: he doesn't need to go public because now it is public. >> that's t true. >> tucker: the average americanuc voters are -- you wae up and discover the most moderate part of the democratic coalition. young white unmarried democrats by far the most radical and they are moving toward conflict. anst amazing story, thank you so much. >> anytime, thank you. >> tucker: bernie sanders is not the only candidate the democratic establishment hates and is trying to destroy.es from day one party leaders have opposed congressman tulsi gabbard of hawaii because she agrees with the 2006gr party platform that thinks foreign wars, when they're pointless, are a mistake. hillary clinton suggested that she was working for russia. >> i think they got there i am somebody was currently in the democratic primary. and they're grooming her to be the third party candidate. she is a favorite of the russians. >> tucker: groomed by the russians, hillary says of tulsi gabbard. this week she filed a $50 million defamation suit against philip benton, we're happy to help tulsi gabbard join us tonight, thanks so much for coming on. you've sued hillary clinton, no one saw that coming, why are you doing it? >> this is about my life, you know, for so many people in the media they are saying oh, what you know, this is just another news story, but this is my life that were talking about here. for me as a soldier, as every service member does, i took an oath of loyalty to our country, the country that i love, willing to put my life on the line for l our country, deploying twice to the middle east to do so. still serving in uniform in the army national guard today now for almost 17 years. the essence of this service, this love of country is who i am, so when you have someone as powerful as hillary clinton seeking to smear my reputation, essentially implying that i'm a traitor to the country that i love, what she essentially is doing is taking my life away. so what this lawsuit is about is actually valuing the honor and the loyalty and integrity that everyone of of our service members embodies and saying that no one can try to defame them. we will not allow that to go unchecked. >> tucker: so hillary clinton said the other day that she is behind all democrats and of course she's the woman's candidate, the candidate of female empowerment. why do you think she singled you out as a woman and accused you of colluding with a foreign government? i mean, that seems -- that's not the hillary they want us to think she is. >> i think it was a very clear and intentional message that if you dare to cross hillary clinton or her powerful allies that you too will see a reputation smeared. you too will get the kind of false and baseless accusations that we've seen from hillary towards me. it's an attempt to silence anyone who dares to cross her. >> tucker: i mean, grooming you like you're the manchurian candidate, like you going to school in moscow and are posing as an american. what do you think will happen in this lawsuit? what's her response been so far? >> to my knowledge, we have not gotten any kind of official or unofficial response. i think it's important to point out that this is all happening in spite of the fact that as i mentioned i have been serving as a soldier now for our country for almost 17 years, deploying twice to the middle east, serving in congress for seven, going on eight years on the foreign affairs committee, the a armed services and homeland security committees, dedicating my entire adult life in service to our country. all of this aside, she still goes on and makes these claims that somehow implying i'm a traitor to the country that i love. >> tucker: on the basis of no evidence. it looks like she's going to run for president, that's the sense you get, her spokesman said she was open to it on the show. do you think she's considering getting in the race? >> i have no idea. you know, i'm here in new hampshire, i'm focused on our campaign. election day new hampshire is a 19 days and i think the american people, what i'm hearing from across party lines, democrats, republicans, independent pilots, libertarians are coming to our town halls every single day, disagreeing on some or even maybee many issues, but coming together around this central point that you and i often talk about, about how our country needs to stop waging these wasteful regime change wars. we need a commander in chief who will work to end this new cold war and nuclear n arms race and redirect our taxpayer dollars towards really serving the needs of people here at home. that is what i'm seeking to do as president of a commander in chief and prepared to do so from day one. >> tucker: people are shocked to sued her. i didn't find it shocking. groomed by a foreign power to subvert the a country, we are rooting for you and us, thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks. >> tucker: a decade ago you heard a lot of o worrying abouta swine flu and then the snake f flu. now china, the biggest country and at battling a new virus transmitted by snakes and bats. is it a threat to us? how worried should you be? dr. marc siegel joins us. first we will have an update on the impeachment trial, the president himself may come to observe the proceedings there in the senate. who will tell you how and when next. ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading? legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. visit legacybox.com today, and get 40% off. >> tucker: this >> tucker: this is a fox news alert, the president's impeachment trial is still going on in f is our, needless to say. so for the president himself hasn't been there. that might change in the near future. for details we go, as we always do to chop to fox chief breaking news correspondent from trace from trace gallagher. >> enter johnson and bill clinton did not attend their impeachment trials, but it appears president trump is at least toying with the i idea, saying this before he left switzerland. watch. >> i'd love to go, wouldn't that be great? >> why wouldn't you go? >> sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces. i love to do it. don't keep talking, because i make -- may convince me to do it. >> the president did acknowledge that his legal team might have a problem with it, but since the senate controlss most of the tickets to the spectator gallery, it was fair game that kentucky senator rand paul extended the invitation. quoting her. "i heard donald trump would like to attend the impeachment trial. mr. president, would love to have you as my guest during this partisan charade." the president has yet to rsvp, he did retweet senator paul's offer. senate democrats did not appear amused. he said, "president trump also said he would like to testify under oath. that i would like to see." independence under angus king, who caucuses with the democrats that "if he comes, he should be prepared to answer questions." on the other side, texas g.o.p. senator john cornyn said the president should conduct his other business rather than be distracted by this. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher once again with the single most interesting nugget from the day's proceedings. great to see you,. thank you. congressman o mike johnson of louisiana is serving on the president's defense team enjoins usoi tonight. thanks so much for coming on. >> glad to be her. >> tucker: is the president going to go to the gallery and get heckled by the democrats? >> personally i would love that. as a member of the legal defense team i probably would advise against it but we are going to miss a lot of fun. >> tucker: what are they going to do to him? if he did that -- hypothetical, needless to say, but what do you think would happen? >> i think it would intimidate greatly the managers for putting on this false case. we are into the third day of the hoax now.ha i love what senator blunt said this morning. he summarized it pretty well. he said you know, bless their hearts, as we say in the south, they have about a one hour presentation. the problem is we sought for six hours over and over and over on tuesday or eight hours on wednesday and t then today you e the drudgery. it still dragging on. they're not convincing anyone, they're doing more harm for their cause and were glad about that. >> tucker: i'd like to see him stand in the press gallery and shout epithets in russian to the people beneath him. doubtless you guysg are pulling on this i assume. >> no, but if you gauge the viewership, for example, the estimate is that dropped 20% of the viewers over yesterday. that's not a good sign for the managers. i think it willck be an uptick n that when we get to finally present our case and we are really looking forward to that. the president is as well. this hasn't been a fair fight until now. finally the truth will ben presented in the president is anxious for that to happen and we are too. >> tucker: is a little baffling, i'm just being honest aas a tv person how badly produced this is, this is the party of p hollywood. liberals made "the wizard of oz," did a pretty good eyes to job and they can't pull off and impeachment that anyone wants to watch? >> part of the problem, the reason that it's drudgery to watch is that the manager are literally reading the script that wasas apparently drafted by staff. adam schiff is the only one that really has any command for the facts and the fact that he engineered and manufactured for this process. so, look, it's been an abysmal presentation. it's funny to see the other networks of say it's just glorious, it's one of the greatest presentations ever. everyone knows that's notot tru. >> tucker: is not just glorious, it's brilliant. it's remarkable. it's something called virtuoso. do you have any idea what that means? >> not in this context. >> tucker: [laughs] i tell you, congressman, it's virtuoso, okay? they told me that on msnbc, virtuoso. great to see you tonight, thanks for that. >> you too. >> tucker: a college student could be tonight the second case of the deadly chinese coronavirus. is there a threat to americans? clearly there is. is it growing, should you be worried? dr. marc siegel joins us next. we continue to monitor what happens in the united states senate. ifhe anything happens you want o know about we will bring it to you immediately. ♪ robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees and account minimums. so, you can start investing wherever you are - even on the bus. download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. ♪ >> tucker: a mysterious virus spreading in china has >> tucker: a mysterious virus spreading in china has gotten hundreds of people sick. at the top off the hour the deah count has doubled to nearly 25 so far that we know of. now the virus is spreading to this country and fast. the coronavirus is believed to have jumped from bats and snakes, which are commonly eaten in this part of china, to people. china's government has quarantined the city where the virus and originated but in one case in this country is already confirmed. now it appears a student at texas and i may be infected with that as well. how serious is this, how concerned should you be? the man we gol is to fit his questions, thanks much for coming t on. how worried should we be? >> how worried should we be? well if we were in china right now i think we should really be worried, because the chinese government is locking down five cities. as you mentioned, it began with exotic animals in a market in these animals, by the way, harbor this virus. they pass from one species to another and then humans get infected occasionally. here's the problem. it's now spreading from human td human. we don't know how many cases there are and i frankly don't believe that it's only 600 cases. i'm suspicious that it's many more cases than that and many more deaths than that. and that's the problem, is going on in china. so that's one reason why i would really urge people not to travel to china right now. until we figure this out. here's the billion dollar question. exactly how contagious is this from human to human? over here in the united states i am much less worry because as you said, we have one, possibly two cases. we have the centers forev diseae control and several other agencies on the job. monitoring these cases. isolating them, making sure they're not coming in contact with other people, but there's y another problem, which is you can spread this virus without knowing it. a week to two weeks before you start to develop symptoms. so even screening at airports has limitations, especially in flu s seasons. your screen for a favor or your screen for a rapid heart rate, lack of anything and there's a lot more flu out there than there is this. if we look back in history to the early part of the century when you and i were discussing this in one of the best interviews i've ever had, by the way. we talked about sars. a very similar coronavirus and we said at the time we are worried about this, we are concerned about it but we still don't know how contagious it is in public health measures help to contain that right now i'm optimistic that we can contain this in the united states. we still don't know though. >> tucker: i mean, this is not the first virus we've seen in china specifically jump from animals to humans. we have to say all cultures are the same and behaviors the same, but it's not. mistreating animals, eating koalas and snakes and bats and dogs, which is common, apparently, in t the city of w wuhan, that's the reason why we have this, correct? caging animals too close together, l mistreating them, eating them live. why should we say something about that? >> that's an extremely important scientific point and you left out bamboo rats and badgers. but bats are often the reservoir for this and we are literally talking about a culture where people and animals are living right on top of each other and as you mentioned, people are eating exotic animals that are not fully cooked and that's how it spreads to humans in the stfirst place. most of the time it ends there. occasionally it doesn't and this coronavirus is of the same family as i mentioned, some more severe viruses that have a very high death rate, can cause pneumonia. we've got to contain and isolate this and i think you'reit absolutely right that it starts with the culture over there. >> tucker: yeah, and we should say that. thanks so much for coming on tonight. >> thanks. spew what i expect will be talking with you about this soon. >> you bet. >> tucker: so michael blumberg is one of her present, he is worth about $60 billion, enough to make them one of the ten richest people on planet earth. he spent more than a decade as the mayor of new york city, the biggest city in this country and overall most people live there w would believe he did a prettye good job. so even on politics he's distinguished himself as a savvy operator, is personally bankrolled the 50 state effort to roll back our gun rights and it's been pretty effective. so by his measurements you think you have nothing left to prove, but suddenly l at 77 he's decidd to get into the race and by so doing, humiliate himself. less than a year ago in march of 2019, blumberg said he was not interested in becoming president or running for it because it would force him to apologize for all of his achievements and even apologize for who he is. here's what he said. >> it's just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me starting where i am, unless i was willing to change allws my views and go on what cn called an apology to her. joe biden went out and apologized for being male, overm 50, white, beto, whatever his name is, he's apologized for being born. >> tucker: everything you just that clip is true and there were a very good for mike bloomberg not to run for president this year. he must still know that. you don't make $60 billion by being a moron. but in the consultants got to him and they flattered him, they appealed to his vanity, which is considerable. and bloomberg decided to go ahead and do it and humiliate himself. in the exact way he said he would have to. so back when he was mayor of new york, one of his biggest accomplishments was building what mayor really giuliani so much alike really giuliani did. was arty safer than most american cities and he made it one of the safest major cities on planet earth. one reason he was able to do that was his stop and frisk policy, the policy took thousands ofof illegal guns -- illegal guns -- actually took them off the streets along with dangerous criminals. in that save, particularly the lives of young black men, who are the most frequently the victims of violent crime. that's a legacy. while system that? has amy klobuchar done i? know. bloomberg did. he could be running on that but no, the current democratic party requires candidates to side with criminals over normal people, so bloomberg abandoned his old faith for his new faith. watch. >> i got something important really wrong. i didn't understand that back then. the full impact that stops were having on the black and latino communities. i was totally focused on saving lives but as we know, good intentions aren't good enough. i was wrong. sorry. >> tucker: the something poignant about watching 77 roll billionaires get woke. also something amusing about it. sorry for saving all those lives. at my bad, will you please vote for me now? it's what he's saying. those of the words he's reading written by some 28-year-old wesleyan grad who works for him, but bloomberg didn't stop there. last year he was mocking beto o'rourke for going on the view and apologizing for his skin color and he was right to mock him. shouldn't apologize for something you can control, but now just last weekend in tulsa, oklahoma, bloomberg did exactly the same thing. >> as someone who has been very lucky in life, often say my story would only have been possible in america and i think that's true. but i also know that my story would have turned out very differently if i had been black. and that more black americans in my generation would have ended up with far more wealth have they been white. >> tucker: how much would you pay the internal dialogue going on inoo mike bloomberg's head as he said that? what you really thinking as he reads those words? will never know. politico watched it and called it a bit for african-american support. right. people not so easily fooled. maybe you should call beto o'rourke to find out how well that works.ur couldn't do much shouldn't be hard to reach him because he's not very busy these days. as bloomberg's campaign is continued its only become more grins where they come increasingly, look a little sore so mike schooler with low self-esteem in which parents he tried to buy his popularity.o so established -- low sellers can live in motels to support a candidate they actually believe in. not bloomberg. blumberg's campaign pouches staff with goodies. even at the state level people who work for mike bloomberg for president -- there is a short-lived job -- can earn $12,000 a month. every staffer gets a free iphone 11 and a macbook pro on the very first day. they are fed three catered meals. shockingly, all of the gifts, the apologies, the, the selma basement, none of them is working. all it's doing is embarrassing electrically rich, money can buy influence, it can by power, it cannot, even now, buy democracy. his polling in the single digits and has been since the first day of his campaign because in the end there is a god. he missed out on a less democratic debate for the iowa caucuses. and is desperate for attention, his campaign twitter account said -- spent the evening comparing his appearance to a meatball. posting bizarre statements designed to get your attention likete "mike can telepathically communicate with all things" and "mike can fit 9d batteries in his mouth at one time." okay, show us. because he can't even do that.ng imagine if instead of running on all the mistakes he made, running away from them, committing -- admitting to all the sins like being born, bloomberg actually ran unapologetically on the things he's really done, leg built a massive company. like made new york better. he still might not win. the democratic party is pretty broken but at least he would live out his final years on earth with dignity. and he won't have that in the end. president trump's trial is not the only thing going on rightri now. harvey weinstein is also on trial inn new york city. the testimony there has notla helped hillary clinton or herhe claim that she knew nothing about weinstein's behavior. an amazing moment that we don't want you to miss. plus, weof ar still keeping an n the senate, if there's any news there we will tell you. >> as well as every agency within the president's own administration. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: we are in the third full day of the impeachment trial in the senate. it is still going on late into the night. we've been watching that trials all week and of course, we will continue to do it. if anything happens, you will learn about it right here right away. there's a lot going on, including harvey weinstein's trial. y if it wasn't from the protection he received from many powerful friends. one of those friends was hillary clinton. he said that weinstein often bragged about his opposers to the clintons. yet, she claims total ignorance. she had no idea, no idea what he was doing. again, a trial testimony indicates she and her husband, bill, certainly her husband bill, spoke to weinstein every t other day on the phone. he joins us tonight. so, geraldo, you've been around a long time. you know everybody. >> i have. >> tucker: when you saw the testimony that, you know, weinstein always bragged about knowing the clintons. were you surprised? >> no. i had a flashback to when i met harvey weinstein for the first time. he was thanking me for my work in helping the president. he was very complimentary. he said way to go and made it very clear that he took it as a personal complement to him, a favor to him that i had been so strong. there is no doubt, i don't know if the clintons carried him in high regard. i never asked them about harvey weinstein, but there was no doubt that harvey weinstein thought that he was close to the clintons and took it personally that i had assisted president bill clinton in defeating the forces of impeachment back then. >> tucker: i worked for a company 20 years ago that was run in part by harvey weinstein. i know him, but everyone in the company knew he was a -- everyone knew. used to light a cigarette in the elevator. could the clintons not have known? how could they not have known that? >> people recognize andig accept what they want to. they have a different view of themselves. i can't answer for hillary. i just think it is unlikely, given that harvey was so, you know, impassioned about his defense of the clintons and thanking me for my work on their behalf. it seems to me unlikely that the clintons didn't hold him also in high regard, you've got to think. >> tucker: i got to ask you about the fox nation, "i am geraldo." what is that? >> well, september will be my 50th anniversary and broadcastra journalism and fox news and fox nation have graciously agreed to put four hours retrospective of my career, the biggest story in the early stage of my career. it was mygg expose of developmentally disabled people. over 5,000 people in horribleab conditions. i busted in with my camera, exposed it all for the first time. it was shocking and it led to a change in the way that population is cared for. now, they are in group homes, in a very much more humane, youou know, wonderful environment. >> tucker: 50 years in journalism. i don't know how you've done it. in better shape than i am. >> well, i don't know about that. >> tucker: it's the mustache. thanks, geraldo. we are done, unfortunately. we are back though tomorrow night 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying,nf pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. stay with fox. sean hannityty next. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." we began tonight a fox news alert. we begin with major breaking news. we were right yet again. look at this. in a letter to the fisa court, the department of justice admitted that at least two of their applications against trump campaign associate carter page lacked probable cause and that the surveillance of page should not have continued. a stunning admission of guilt that they admitted. not only the rights were trampled, but that means all of the spying, yeah, that was happening too. we first will have all the details coming up. at this hour, yep, the
defense against two articles of impeachment. this morning's session is expected to be brief. just a few hours, with the bulk of their arguments coming monday and tuesday. the house impeachment managers, the democrats, wrapped up three days of their side last night. one of their goals had been to convince four republican senators to support a vote for more evidence and hear from witnesses. did they accomplish that? >> the debate over witnesses will continue until next week. there is new evidence coming up. new evidence just coming out. this morning, we're hearing in the president's own words in the dinner, spring of 2018, the president can be heard speaking with lev parnas and igor fruman, the indicted associates of rudy giuliani ordering someone to fire ambassador yovanovitch to the ukraine. listen. >> get rid of her. get her out tomorrow. i don't care. get her out tomorrow. take her out. okay? do it. >> joining us now, john deane, joe lockhart. john dean, the president's attorneys make their case today. they're upset it's a saturday morning it's just a teaser, because the president doesn't like the viewership on a saturday. what are you listening for this morning? >> what i'm listening for, if we have a repeat of what happened during the amendment process and they dissembled. i find it stunning, the house managers corrected them repeatedly. there will be nobody there to check them this morning. and we know a lot of their defense is based on misinformation so i'll be curious to see how that plays. fortunately, i think i think the members of the senate are educated enough to not really think well about that kind of approach, you know. >> they're going to accept, obviously, people are locked into their sides and their own belief systems. i think you pose a really good question, what does happen if the president's lawyers are not fact-based. and we have evidence to suggest in the past they haven't been. if they don't tell the truth, what happens over the next three days? >> well, the entire presidency is not fact-based. we have "the washington post" cataloging 16,000 lies, misstatements, deceptions. so i think the president has made clear, or the legal team has made clear from their comments they are going to start from a place that they think it's a perfect call. my guess the president has told them, you better not say anything was wrong with that. so almost by definition, their defense has to be based on the information. no one in the room believes it was a perfect call. because it wasn't. so, i think what you're going to see is a little bon fire started. just throwing -- i think adam schiff did a very good job of previewing them and knocking them down. >> they kind of put them in a box where they're likely to be. >> yeah, but it's all based on misinformation. and the tragedy is there's no sense down there that there's any penalty on the line. and if you're with trump, you've gotten comfortable with that. >> john dean, this is not an actual trial in a courtroom, let's be clear about that. but if an attorney in a courtroom did say something that was provably false, factually false, in an argument, what would happen normally in a courtroom? >> a judge would admonish and if it was repeated, contempt. so theoretically, i was talking to another lawyer last night michael gerhart with cnn. we were talking about this very issue, there is a criminal statute that applies. these are lawyers in a federal form, in the u.s. senate and there is a statute 18 usc 1001 which is the general false statement before federal officers and officials that theoretically could apply. >> there's a thought of things that could apply. as we heard the chief justice was going to throw people in jail if they spoke. and sometimes, those things don't come to pass. and as we have talked about, joe, so many times, new evidence comes out. and last night, there was new evidence that seems really important. and it is this dinner conversation that was captured on tape with president trump and igor fruman and lev parnas, the two guys that the president said he doesn't know. we're told that the tape is more than an hour long. he does know them. and he's as so upset about what they're telling him about marie yovanovitch which we don't believe was true. they were feeding him lines to their agenda. they wanted her gone because she was trying to bust the corruption that they were reportedly up to. he just wants -- he immediately orders that she be fired. so listen to this moment. >> the biggest problem there, i think, we need to start, we got to get rid of the ambassador. she's still left over from the clinton administration. >> the ambassador to ukraine? >> yeah, she's basically walking around telling everybody, wait, he's going to get impeached, just wait. >> get rid of her. get her out tomorrow. i don't care. get her out tomorrow. take her out. okay? do it. >> we haven't heard the full context of that tape. there will be more. and it will come out, or the senate could hear it now. >> yeah, the senate could hear it now. the senate could see the cable from ambassador taylor. the senate could see the back and forth between mick mulvaney and the president and the omb. remember, mick mulvaney was simultaneous for running both of these places. the senate could hear from john bolden, why did you call it a drug deal, sir? why did you call rudy giuliani a human hand grenade. but the senate is not likely to hear this. this came out last night, adam schiff made a historic and i think stirring and important speech what our country is about. what did we hear from republicans, we heard them railing against one line in the speech about whether the president intimidates them or not. you know, it's just not on the level. they're not taking it seriously. schiff's thursday night close will be what people remember. which is the president can't be trusted to put america first. and i think that extends to the senate. this is a gut check for them, whether you're personal interest is that the republican party come first or america's interest. right now, there's every indication that they'll fail that test. >> as a piece of evidence, john, what does this case reveal? the president has said he didn't know lev parnas on this tape. that sure seems to be a lie. they're having a conversation. >> it certainly puts the lie to that claim. but it also makes him sound like a mafia figure, take her out. you know, this is not just the normal way you talk. about one of your ambassadors. i don't know if it's the first time in the sequence that he'd heard about yovanovitch and what she was doing, didn't play ball with rudy. or whether this is part of the sequence. but it's just quite surprising conversation. with a bunch of strangers. >> well, or not. or not. >> yes. >> either he's with people he knows, or he's with donors who bought their way to a table. >> yes. >> and you would think that the president of the united states, with russian money who worked with a company called freud guarantee or whatever it is. and talking about firing ambassadors right in front of them. >> right. the way he did it and the fact he did it i guess shouldn't surprise us with donald trump. >> but it's deeply troubling. >> it is troubling. >> if you look at whether he knew hem before or whether they got there with their money or their corrupt partnership with rudy giuliani, we get a window into this tape that this thought in the president's head, that ukraine is somehow trying to -- is out to get me, drove u.s. foreign policy for a year and a half. and maybe even longer, and the president of the united states held up this aid because he believed that they had something, you know, that they had wronged him. and then took a further step and developed this -- i'm going to get joe biden here two. this is going to be a twofer for me. that, i think, is the value of the tape. we knew this intellectually, but when we heard it, this is what they're doing, this is real. how do senators say they don't want to hear more? >> we're going to hear more about joe biden in the coming days. >> joe biden, i think the democrats should not say that joe biden is irrelevant to this. joe biden is at the center of this. the reason this is corrupt and impeachable and removable is because the president tried to manufacture and bully an ally into disgracing joe biden. he's at the center of this. without joe biden, i'm not sure we'd be sitting here today. and -- >> and during the trial, what they tried to do generally in the scheme is just muddy it up. >> and it might work in the trial because you have three a unadulterated days without any interruptions. let's move into this breaking news that finds that bernie sanders has leapfrogged the path. sanders 25% outside the margin. pete buttigieg in second, 18%. joe biden, 17%. elizabeth warren, 15%. amy klobuchar, 8%. >> you get to talk to people in the green room, and we were talking about this yesterday. this is an incredibly muddled field this late. but it feels like the last turn may have been for bernie sanders. all of the polls are based on the model who do you think is going to turn out. so there's a poll last week that shows sanders in fourth place but that poll shows that only older people are going to show up, not younger people. i suspect this poll is more accurate, the younger people are going to show up. >> the question, clearly, sanders is on the upswing and people have to start asking the question what happens if bernie sanders wins in iowa and new hampshire where he has won before and that's a real possibility. how does that affect the race going forward? >> quickly, joe. >> well, i think he has momentum, and there's not a lot of precedent for winning iowa and losing. for two things, one is sanders has never faced deep scrutiny as front-runner. he's benefitted from being in washington. and the iowa race being frozen because he was the last one to have a good week. secondly, sanders has never proven that he connects with african-americans. part of the base. he's going to run into that in south carolina. he's going to run into is it, potentially, with a huge tailwind. but that tailwind could meet a road block in south carolina. and then the race opens up again. biden, bloomberg, klobuchar, who knows, fun to watch. >> joe lockhart, john dean, thank you for being with us you. as the president's legal team prepares its arguments we are learning more about the fight over witnesses. will enough republicans vote to hear from them, a senate democrat next. you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ and you may know us from your very first sandwich,esh, your mammoth masterpiece, and whatever this was. oscar mayer is found in more fridges than anyone else, because it's the taste you count on. make every sandwich count. because the tempur-breeze™makes stransfers heat. away from your body. so you feel cool, night after night. and now tempur-pedic is ranked number one by jd power in customer satisfaction with retail mattresses. ♪ ♪ ♪ everything your trip needs for everyone you love. expedia. the ups and downs of frequent mood swings can plunge you into deep, depressive lows. 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we're joining from democratic senator from michigan, gary peters. thank you for being here. we appreciate you taking the time. do you think any of your republican colleagues have been moved by the case the democrats laid out? >> it's hard to say at this point, but i certainly think the house managers laid out an excellent case. they brought an awful lot of evidence forward. they put it together in a very methodical way. and it certainly is some very disturbing facts. so, i would certainly hope that my republican colleagues would think that it's wise for us to have witnesses that can speak to this with first hand knowledge. you know, you think about what happens in our country all across america as trials are conducted we have witnesses on the stand. under oath, giving the facts to jurors. we should expect nothing less in the united states senate. we hope that a few republicans will do that. and quite frankly, i'm waiting to hear what the attorneys for the president have to say today. but i would think that if they have witnesses that they think will help their case, they'd want them to testify, they'd want them to come forward. you know, under federal rules of judges if you don't bring a witness forward, that probably tells you that would be an adverse witness. perhaps their telegraphing that they don't have a witness to bolster the president's case. >> what happens if the president's attorneys don't tell the truth today? what happens if they're not fact-based? >> well, we'll be calling them out -- i'm sure our house managers will call that out. actually, we've odd had adam schiff lay out what he thought some of the arguments would be. he did that last night. really, we'll get to the bottom, what i found in my time here, during the question and answer period that we can really drill down to those facts. when the white house attorneys are done presenting their case, we'll have 16 hours of questions. i know i have many question, my colleagues have lots of questions. we're going to have an opportunity to really get to what's the essence of this case. >> there's no evidence that has come out last night. there's a chunk of this audiotape, and it is reportedly of a dinner in 2018 between igor fruman, lev parnas, it sounds like rudy giuliani and president trump. and in it, you can hear -- i mean, we've only gotten a portion of it. abc news secured this but we're told it's an hour and a half long. and you can hear lev parnas beginning to poison the well against ambassador marie yovanovitch. and you can hear pled trump responding very angrily to what lev parnas is suggesting. let me play a portion for you. >> the biggest problem i think we need to start to we got to get rid of the ambassador. she's still left over from the clinton administration. >> what the ambassador from ukraine. she's walking around basically telling everybody wait, he's going to get impeached. >> get rid of her. get her out tomorrow. i don't care. get her out tomorrow. take her out. okay? do it. >> get her out tomorrow. take her out, do it. >> right. >> do you think that this should play some role in the senate trial? >> you know, i think we've heard heard evidence related to the president's involvement in moving the ambassador out. there's testimony from other folks that came forward. but certainly, that's the kind of things that need to come out. when you look at the process in the courtrooms every day, new evidence will come out, when you're in trial. new witnesses may come forward and you bring that forward. the ultimate goal of all of this is to get to the truth. to have the fact to get to the truth and allow senators to make a decision based on facts and based on the truth of the matter. we should be about doing that, my republican colleagues i would think would want that going forward. you want to have a fair right. you want it to be a legitimate trial that all of the american people believe all of these facts and all of the information that was aired out. and when republicans refuse to do that, it basically demeans the process and it certainly shows that we're not engaged in a fair process in an attempt to find the truth. >> i think you make an interesting point. in most courtrooms if new evidence or witness comes forward, that is presented in the record. >> yes, that's how we've all watched it on television unfold. that's how we've seen it in our own lives. this is following a different pattern. why haven't you -- because you're in michigan, there are three people in michigan that are being tested and monitored because of the coronavirus, what do you know about or what do you fear is happening with this in the u.s. right now and in your state? >> well, we have to watch it very closely. i think we're all concerned about that, the cdc is on it. i'm the ranking mechan ining me homeland security committee. this is a homeland security issue making sure we're protecting folks. i talked to the chair yesterday. i think we're going to try to get more facts through the committee and may even be doing a hearing going forward. this is something that we have to watch very closely, i'm concerned about and we'll be on it. >> senator gary peters, we appreciate you taking the time to be on. thanks so much. >> thank you. there was actually a new case of the coronavirus confirmed on the west coast. so what is being done to stop the spread of the virus? we'll discuss, next. ♪ take your bad days with your good ♪ ♪ walk through this storm i would i'd do it all ♪ ♪ because i love you, ♪ i love you unconditional, ♪ unconditionally i will love you unconditionally ♪ there's a booking for every resolution. book yours, and cancel if you need to. at booking.com can be a sign your feeling digestive systemhed down isn't working at its best. taking metamucil every day can help. its psyllium fiber forms a gel that traps and removes the waste that weighs you down. it also helps lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption, promoting healthy blood sugar levels. so, start feeling lighter and more energetic by taking metamucil every day. take the metamucil two-week challenge, lighten up. just take metamucil every day for two weeks. available at your local retailer. wthat's why xfinity hasu made taking your internetself. and tv with you a breeze. really? 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"the wall street journal" is reporting that the u.s. government is preparing a charter flight to evacuate citizens and diplomats from the chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak. meanwhile, the number of cases continues to grow around the world, including now confirmed patient in seattle and chicago. joining me now is the secretary of health for washington state dr. john leaseman, and cnn medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. >> can you give me an update of the condition of the patient in washington state? >> absolutely. thank you for asking. the patient as of yesterday afternoon was in satisfactory condition, resting well in the hospital. we don't have a discharge date yet. i just want to thank the health care providers and folks who got him to the hospital. everything is going smoothly with him and we wish him well. >> how is he being treated at this point? >> he's being treated really well in an isolation room being monitored for his health and public health folks have been interviewing him and things are going well. >> i understand he's being treated by a robot? what can you tell us about that? >> yes, in isolation rooms that we use as mobile robots to interact with the patient to minimize the health care provider interactions. sometimes, they listen to the heart or blood pressure, allow the provider to talk with the patient while they don't need to be in the room. so, it's just a way to help prevent infection control. >> dr. gupta is here for you as well. he has a question for you. sanjay. >> yes, doctor, thank you for joining us. good morning. how do you know when this patient is able to leave the hospital? what are you looking for and specifically how do you know he will no longer be infectious? because people can be infectious even after the symptoms go away? >> great questions, well, we have folks on from centers for disease control on the ground helping us helping to take care of the patient. they're monitoring the operator for fever and other symptoms constantly. and taking additional tests to see if we're still seeing the virus in any of his samples. so that's one of the reasons we're having him in the hospital. he's doing well. but we want to make sure that we understand the course of this clinical disease, given that this virus is so new. >> sanjay, i know you have a question about the timing of detection as well. >> yeah, i think that's one of the big questions, i know we're dealing with something brand-new here, dr. weisman, the idea that someone could develop symptoms could actually be, as we call it, shedding the virus, and spreading the virus. do we know that's happening? we know there's some 50 contacts now being monitored of this patient. how worried are you that he was spreading this virus even before he came picbecame sick? >> well, it's a really good question. we know this is a new virus and we're cautious in the approach. you don't believe that you're infectious until you start developing symptoms and coughing. this is droplet spread. so when you cough or sneeze is what we believe the case to be and we're looking at other coronaviruses to see how this may actually be spread. but this is also why we have cdc here with us. our 50 contacts, as you mentioned, are being monitored. and we're going to be going through sort of additional medical monitoring of those folks to see what we can learn about potential exposures. >> sanjay, i'll going to ask you the question i asked you questioned because it keeps haunting me and the people i'm talking to here, which you see the actions being taken in china, the cities with tens of millions of people shut off for the rest of the world. china is not known for its transparency. it just makes one wonder are their things that the chinese are not telling the world about the dangers of the virus, on conversely, are the chinese overreacting? >> that's a really important point. those are the two possible answers. is this overly aggressive? or are we seeing a response to numbers or concern in china we're not completely aware of it. here's one way to think about it, china is acting in what you call a grade "a" fashion in terms of how they're responding to the virus but the numbers, if you were to sit down and calculate them are more of a grade "b," very concerning but wouldn't necessarily lead to this significant isolation, quarantine that's going on. my guess is, john, and i've been talking to my own contacts now, some of whom are very familiar with the situation in china the numbers of people who are infected are going to be much higher than reporting now. part of that being that people haven't been tested yet. they haven't been confirmed yet or it could be that we're not hearing it. we're hearing the numbers, 1300 now of people roughly who have been diagnosed with the infection. if all of a sudden we hear that the numbers have gone to a couple thousand. or even 3,000, i would not be surprised, john, given sort of the situation that we're hearing there and china's response to it. i also wouldn't be surprised if we hear numbers going up in other countries. the united states there are currently 63 people under investigation in 23 states. only two people have been confirmed as positive so far. we're going to hear about a lot more people who are being screened in this way, john. >> dr. gupta, dr. weiseman, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. well, the vfw is demanding an apology from the president. we'll tell you why, next. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with... ...an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. they changed how the world fights cancer. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. pd-l1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. pd-l1 saved my life. saved my life. saved my life. what we do here at dana-faber, changes lives everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. the pentagon now said 34 u.s. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in the iran missile attack in iraq. president trump had downplayed the severity of those injuries now the vfw is demanding an apology. cnn's ryan brown is live in washington. what are they saying, ryan? >> well, the vfw is asking the president to apologize for what they call his misguided remarks. and they said he owes an paul y to u.s. service members. awe how concussions have become a major concern for military. in the last 18 years, american military have been in explosions and suffered from situations that don't manifest immediately. in fact, the shock wave, the blast had caused thrown concussions or traumatic brain injuries to 34 service members. 17 of which were treated locally and then returned to duty. but the remainder of being treated in germany and some have even flown back to the united states for additional specialized treatment. kind of underscoring that these injuries were in fact fairly serious, because they do have sophisticated systems there in germany. so the fact that they had to bring them back to the united states really shows how serious the injuries were. the president, though, seemed to call them headaches, when he made his remarks, promising this call for apology from the vfw, john. >> ryan, thank you. appreciate it. we're waiting for a few hours from now for the president's defense team to begin laying out its case in the impeachment trial of president trump. they've given some signals about how they might approach things, namely, the senators in the room. john avila with a reality check. >> guys, this is a jump ball moment in american history. departme democrats have laid out the argument. and now there's a debate behind the scenes that is going on that's important as what's in front of the camera. of whether the facts will matter or this will be the first impeachment trial in history to not have witnesses. the vast majority of americans believe there should be witnesses. we're hearing three arguments designed to convince republicans of swing state senators to become supine. the hassle factor, that listening is hard. >> it is shard to listen to things you don't want to hear, true. >> it may be hard to listen to things you don't want to hear, but grow up. do your job. i'm sorry if it impinges on your sleep schedule or social life. another one is too boring. jimmy kimmel. >> they are boring people to death. this is boring. >> monotonous, dull, boring. i fell aleap. >> i think the american people are bored with it. >> boring politician with bad haircuts. >> yeah. up next, circular firing squad logic. look, we all heard republicans argue that democrats don't get first hand witnesses, that's because the republicans blocked the witnesses. since then, some key people have come forward saying they would testify, including john bolton, lev parnas. now democrats are arguing that if additional witnesses were called, the white house would block them, dragging it through the courts which is exactly why democrats didn't pursue witnesses being blocked in the first place because the court battles could have dragged on even after the election. this is serve self-ing lserving logic. >> they're really not bringing forth the new information. >> he voted eight times against allowing new witnesses and documents. finally, fear, fear, is what president trump told bob woodruff was his fear. real power, publicly attacking anyone who breaks ranks. sherrod brown. >> they're scared. i talk to republicans quietly individually. many of them tell me trump's a liar. a few of them have said trump's a racist but they're all afraid of him. they're afraid he'll attach a nickname to them. >> even with fear being a corralling technique. cbs report says vote against the president and your head will be on a pike. that comes from an anonymous source cited by adam schiff in his closing arguments. this isn't "game of thrones" stuff. power doesn't corrupt, power reveals. and what power has revealed in the trump presidency is how quickly some adults can be bullied into abandoning their principles out of fear, laziness or partisan group. and your reality check. >> and no one can call that boring. john, no one, on any side of this. thank you very much. all right. so today is president trump's turn. he will make his case. what will his lawyers say about all of the evidence that's been presented about the ukraine scandal? 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>> you know, it's tough to make the argument to say i don't want to hear more evidence. mitch mcconnell has a strong hold on the caucus. and i think you haven't heard much about the negotiations tab the typical senate. we're goinging into have a gan rough group, you haven't heard people say we're going to negotiate a deal on witnesses. but we've got a few more days and we'll see where this leads. i'm very interested to see in particular, does the president's team introduce new evidence in the case. they obviously didn't cooperate with the house proceeding in large part. they did not send up their key witnesses. but they've got access to documents and if there's exculpatory evidence they may want to bring that up in the case. it sounds like today is a preview and they're waiting for people to be paying more attention on monday and tuesday, they have that right. and that will put the chief justice in the presiding position does he jump in and say that's not procedural. so far, we've seen a somber by the book trial. there haven't been people jumping up making objections. but if they go down that road of making new evidence and trying to bring things in the case that haven't already been in the case does the chief jump in. >> let me just say, have you seen any single coverage or writing about him from those who know him or what he's thinking that he would ever insert himself in this? >> it seems unlikely. you can tell he's kind of giving instructions to the secretary of the senate. but we'll see how this goes both in the period that we talked about before, about the president's defense team. but later next week, you'll have the question and answer period. he'll have a starring role in that. i brought a prop to help with the clinton trial. this is the question card we used during the clinton trial. it's a small card here. a 3 by 5, you'll have senators actually writing these down. hopefully, they have good handwriting, handing them to the clerk and the chief justice to read. this will be somewhat planned, of course, behind the scenes to have a coordinated approach to questions. but the supreme justice will be reading then and if they want to bring in things about bidens or foreign policy or the economy, does he allow those kind of questions when we get to that phase of the trial. very interesting. you're right, he hasn't shown an activist role so far. >> you should get that card lam minute natured. laminated. john dean who has been through a process of his own over the last several days raised the possibility of what happens if the president's lawyers say things that aren't true. that's more than speculative because they have said things that weren't true at least in the initial presentation in the opening arguments. again, in a normal courtroom, a judge would intervene or there would be an objection where the judge is asked to intervene but this isn't a normal courtroom. >> this isn't a normal courtroom. i have a hard time believing that the chief would get involved in things that are opinion. if there's a flat out lie, i can see things from minority member schumer raising a motion. but it has to be something clearly not factual as opposed to an opinion around, you know, corruption in ukraine. or the president's rights on the legal side around privilege. so i think it would have to be a pretty outlandish claim. and i assume the president's lawyers are going to try to create the moments to provide an opening to bring the chief justice into the fray. >> jay sekulow gave a little hint. maybe he gave a hint or at least he wanted people to think that he was going to talk about the bidens. listen to this. >> for the life of me, they've done it. and why they opened up the door as wide as a double door on the hunter biden/joe biden burisma issue, i guess they figured that was their way of getting ahead of it. we will address it. >> how much should he go into that, do you think? >> it's hard to imagine they won't go down this road because this has been the core of their defense for months now. it's hard to imagine they wouldn't at least try to spin that theory out a little bit. i -- you know, i think they're going to raise it and probably let it stand. i think they're also likely to talk about how the president in general has been tough on russia. with ukraine and the aid that was eventually given and other means, they're going to try to position this as a tougher foreign policy than their predecessor. and again, that ought to be thought out more on the table on the news shows than on the floor. again, i assume they're going to drag the bidens in. i'm more than skeptical that we're ever going to see joe biden or hunter biden, deposed during this trial, behind the scenes or on the floor. i just don't think we'll get to that point. i think more likely if they end up with witnesses, it's going to be a very narrow bunch aim ted first article, depositions that give some type of cover to the republicans who want to say they did look into this a little further. and then get the acquittal that i think most people expect. >> stewart verderry, thank you for your work. >> thanks for having me. okay. john, it's a big day. >> indeed. >> cnn's special coverage of the impeachment trial of donald trump continues with wolf blitzer and anderson cooper right after this. relationships. when you use location technology, you can see where things happen, before they happen. with esri location technology, you can see what others can't. ♪ i need all the breaks, that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ walk through this storm i would i'd do it all ♪ ♪ because i love you, ♪ i love you unconditional, ♪ unconditionally i will love you unconditionally ♪ there's a booking for every resolution. book yours, and cancel if you need to. at booking.com quitting smoking andis freaking hard.st,to. like quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so, try making it smaller. and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette because the tempur-breeze™makes stransfers heat. away from your body. so you feel cool, night after night. and now tempur-pedic is ranked number one by jd power in customer satisfaction with retail mattresses. ♪ i'm wolf blitzer live in washington alongside anderson cooper. this is cnn's special coverage of the impeachment trial of president donald j. trump. we're just an hour away from the critical next phase in the trial. this morning, the president's legal team begins their defense. they call today coming attractions of the full-throated arguments they plan to present starting on monday. and this follows three days of evidence given by house impeachment managers, evidence that they say makes an overwhelming case to remove the president of the united states from office. in their final statements last night, democrats called on their republican colleagues to defend the fabric of the u.s. constitution by demanding witnesses as this trial moves forward. >> this is a determination by president trump that he wants to be all powerful. he does not have to respect the congress. he does not have to respect the representatives of the people. only his will goes. he is a dictator. this must not an
live at the white house today. >> hi, there, dana. this 190 190112 page memorandums it was called as a much deeper legal drive than the six-page response of the president's legal team gave to the summit over the weekend. he gives us a look as to how the president's legal team is going to be defending the president and the upcoming days and weeks. according to this trial memorandum which we have been through, it says according to the legal team here that the house did not identify any impeachable offenses against the president. they also describe the house process as "irredeemably flawed as they say had violated president and due process. they also add that in their estimation no evidence supports the claims made by democrats and they are ready to do a little bit of lawyering here claiming that the articles are "structurally deficient." the issue of whether there will be live witnesses will determine just how long the senate trial might go. robert ray who was one of the members of president trump's legal team said earlier this afternoon that the president's team is preparing to go forward without any witnesses at all. >> the question of witnesses comes down to two things. one, our witness is necessary in order to resolve these articles impeachment? we have showed them how it's not necessary. >> as for the second thing, robert ray obviously gave some credence to the idea of reciprocity meaning if there are witnesses, it's not just one side that gets the column, both sides would get to call witnesses. >> dana: are we getting an idea of who to call first? >> we are. when you look at through the memorandum, i did a search for hunter biden and that name appeared a total of 19 different times. earlier we heard from kellyanne conway who suggested that hunter biden could be the very first witness out of the gate. watch here. >> of the fact that democrats want to go down the road of possible witnesses is when our grandmothers always told us, be careful what you wish for. witness number one would have to be a hunter biden. how else would we know about the corruption in the ukraine? >> democrats also might want to hear from john bolton who of course was the president's former national security advisor, if there are witnesses and this idea of reciprocity. the white house today suggested that if it were to get to that point at some point down the line, that potentially, the white house as it relates to bolton could exert executive privilege. >> dana: i would imagine so. team fox coverage continues, chad pergram is live on capitol hill. chadha, there are filings and counter filings today in preparation for the trial. what's the bottom line of what they say? >> if this is that 110 page document that we got this morning. let me take you down the rabbit hole. this is something they say house democrats were determined from the outset to find out some way, any way to corrupt the power of impeachment as a political tool or to overturn the 2016 election and interfere in 2020. that's a dangerous perversion of the constitution. now a replication, this is kind of a rebuttal that the house democratic impeachment managers filed just a bit ago, president trump maintains the senate cannot remove him even if the house proves its case. that's a chilling assertion and it's dead wrong. if president believes otherwise, he will engage in the contact. house managers are preparing the case and they went over to the senate to do a look-see and a walk-through. they kind of recalibrated the senate floor and it's no longer a legislative assembly, it looks like more like a courtroom. we will get to that tomorrow at around 1:00. >> dana: tell me what the rest of the week looks like so i know how to plan. >> the bottom line is bring your red bull. if we don't have the resolution here from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. it is a proposal that will have the house presenting its case on tuesday and wednesday, long days, 12 hour days probably going well past midnight. then the defense on friday and saturday. keep in mind that chief justice john roberts, the court says that tomorrow and wednesday he has to be across the street at the supreme court for oral arguments and then come over to us preside over the senate trial. the one thing that is at issue is democrats are saying how can mitch mcconnell run a fair process at the house managers and prosecutors still don't have the parameters for debate? you wouldn't do that in any other trial but these will be very long days. in fact one senior democratic aide describes this as "preposterous" and suggests that they are trying to bury the trial and the dead of night. >> dana: let's bring in james trusty, could you listen to alan dershowitz, talking about what the constitution does and doesn't do in his viewpoint. on watch. >> my conclusion which i will present in a systematic way is that the framers of the constitution did not permit impeachment on the grounds of the power of congress. they rejected open-ended criteria that could be recognized for partisan purpos purposes. >> dana: let's get your take on that argument. >> it's a great argument, the number one argument for the president. the first is it legal sufficiency. just saying, right out of the box this is not an impeachable offense. the defenders of the white house will say, look. at the language of the constitution is bribery, treason, high crimes and misdemeanors. when the other side is reduced to legislative intent and trotting out a hamilton quote and saying this is what they meant, that's uphill. you have to start strong where dershowitz is which is saying that constitutionally speaking this is not impeachable. then you could move on to process, and then lastly but not completely ignoring are the pure fact saying, these facts wouldn't add up to a crime anyway. >> dana: what about this issue that you brought up last week, moving to dismiss right away. it's provocative and interesting. although senator ted cruz has a different take because of what he thinks the president needs. listen to him. >> i think dismissing this case is a much less attractive option then rendering final judgment and acquitting the president. the reason is twofold. if you do a dismissal, dismissal doesn't reach the merits. an acquittal, a verdict of not guilty, that stands for all time. secondly, if we dismissed at the outset, the president would never get a chance to defend himself. the white house lawyers would never get the opportunity to put on the affirmative case. >> dana: if you have set also this is like civil litigation and in this case many of those are settled. where are your thoughts on that? >> he may be making the best of a political reality. many senators say they don't have enough political support to dismiss it outright. my view is the critical juncture may not be at the beginning but certainly before any witnesses. the obstruction of congress claim is absurd on its face. you are allowed to defend yourself, are allowed to appear as you are subpoenaed. that's the one that i think it's more damaging in the long run, to have that considered a viable charge, like it's a crime. i'm thinking at some juncture that one gets carved out. the only thing i can say about witnesses is, that's a wild card. if you represent the president, you say right now the facts are not sufficient to cause 20 republicans to flip over and remove you from office. but if you start getting into witnesses, anything goes. it can be a very strange process with all the horsetrading and hunter biting and all the other thing is, you never know how that will break. >> dana: let me ask you something. blake burman just brought up if the democrats got enough republicans with them and decide to have witnesses, besides hunter biden, you have someone like john bolton and the democrats think that might be a good witness for them to have. i'm skeptical, but that's what they want. how long though with a debate within the core it's about the executive privilege that the president gets to assert, how long would that take? >> he could take a long time. i would think the courts would be very accommodating knowing what's going on in the background but it's absolutely something that's in play and it's not a matter of bolton's willingness to testify. bolton has said to come if i'm subpoenaed, i will come. the privileges something they that gets asserted by the white house and not by john bolton. that's what democrats are saying about john bolton. >> dana: tomorrow is like a pretrial hearing so when you lay out all the rules, if you are republicans or democrats, what's the most important thing that you think they could get done tomorrow when they set up the procedure? >> i think the biggest issue from my perspective as a litigator is talking about cross examination. right now it sounds like house managers will only be "cross-examined" by questions from justice roberts. that's a filtered kind of antiseptic noncross-examination wait to see that. >> dana: but the senator asked the question for them. >> right. so you lose the spontaneity and it's going to be very difficult. that could drag on into the middle of the night without a lot of effect. if they get to the point of having witnesses, i would be curious about those time limits and the nature of the cross-examination and who is conducting it because that will be huge. >> dana: it we won't know that for a little while. jim trusty, thank you. "the new york times" editorial board is endorsing not one but 22020 democratic candidates. up next, howie kurtz on what he calls an obvious cop-out and who it really benefits. ♪ snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress get relief finally, with magnilife® pain relieving foot cream. while also restoring cracked, damaged, and itchy skin. and get living. available at your local retailer. well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. try downy fabric conditioner. unlike detergent alone, downy helps prevent stretching by conditioning and smoothing fibers, so clothes look newer, longer. downy and it's done. >> dana: at "the new york times" editorial board announced its endorsement for the 2020 democratic race for the white house but in what they call a break from convention they are not picking just one candidate, but two. the radical and the realist models want serious consideration. if there were ever a time to be open to new ideas it is now. if there ever were a time to seek stability, now is it. that's why we are endorsing the most effective advocates for each approach. joining me now as a host of media buys, howie kurtz. i'm trying not to be derisive, but two people can't win this contest. >> you had one job. voters only get to pick one candidate, otherwise you go to jail. it's kind of a chinese menu approach. one from column a and one from column b. i think this is an endorsement of amy klobuchar. warren is described as having questionable political instincts, from climate change to gun violence whereas amy klobuchar is described as a very definition of midwestern grid. but she is in single digits so she could be out of the race in iowa. >> dana: i thought also in the warren section, it highlighted something the president trump has been able to do and of course he will talk about it on the campaign trail. he said warren campaigns trail in general as an approach to policymaking, and sometimes a conservative federal judiciary will be almost as significant roadblocks for progressive change. i thought that was interesting because they are saying basically that warren was unwilling to wrestle with those questions in their interview. >> they like her very liberal policies, but newspaper endorsements don't matter nearly as much as they once did but to the extent that they still do it's really locally. so i used to have endorsements like chicken soup, doesn't hurt. but i much rather have the endorsement. >> the other thing that happen happened, matt hill is a press secretary for the biting campaign. basically when biden went to do his interview at "the new york times" he was in the elevator, the elevator attendant loves joe biden and took a second dome i consulted with him. the secretaries tweeted, when you are ready to endorse but you don't win. in this case not getting the endorsement might and not have been good. the other thing they say is biden, when he maintains the lead in the polls, the only thing he's pitching to voters is donald trump. but isn't that what they say they care about? >> that's a whole point of the process. but you make an argument for in this case to candidates, you have to say joe biden is a nice guy but he's too old. so they end up with a dual endorsement. >> dana: what did you think about this whole -- bernie sanders put out a video about social security and joe biden. joe biden is furious because it looks like he's agreeing to cut social security, but the burning campaign is sticking to their guns and i was thinking about that former governor of vermont and he said bernie is not above playing dirty. >> this is a blatant misrepresentation of the sanders campaign. obviously when you watch it, biden is mocking paul ryan for wanting to cut social security and medicare. and biden says he wants to protect those two social programs. any serious person in any party knows if you don't reform social security, it's going to go bankrupt. but this kind of demagoguery, and about whether he said the woman won't win. joy reid had a body language experts on to see if bernie was lying. >> i think bernie is lying. if you look at his eye level where he normally answers questions when he makes the denial, and his whole shoulders come up like a little kid getting caught. his eye level is below his shoulders. this is trying to hide in plain sight. >> dana: it's like it's his posture. >> come on. it's obviously that he does not like bernie sanders, so she brings on this huckster who can decline magically by the truth. that's my honest reaction. >> dana: i could tell that you are absolutely telling the tru truth. howie kurtz, thank you. second amendment supporters flooding virginia's capital city today. we are live on the ground in richmond, virginia. up next ♪ rock music >> man: so i'm not taking any chances when something happens to it. so when my windshield cracked... my friend recommended safelite autoglass. >> tech: hi, i'm adrian. >> man: thanks for coming. >> tech: oh, no problem. >> tech: check it out. >> man: yeah. they came right to me, with expert service where i needed it. that's service i can trust... no matter what i'm hauling. right, girl? 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hunter biden has nothing to say about that. >> dana: let's get your take on what chairman nadler just said. >> who has ever heard of a trial without witnesses? it's up to donald trump and his legal team to decide what witnesses they want to call. they get to decide who the defense calls to make their ca case. one of donald trump's defenses will be that under biden's contract was corrupt it wasn't just self-dealing. so that brings into relevancy, their argument is hunter biden's contract corrupted? and so they can call not just hunter biden but amos hoax dean who has said in the new yorker that he went and had at the meeting with joe biden to tell him there was a problem with his son's contract. they can call chris hines who was his business partner who broke business ties with hunter biden over this and he informed the state department he was doing so. the contract was corrupt and they can bring in his dealings in china and romania. and then they can bring joe biden in to say why didn't you read o yourself? >> dana: do you think anyone on the democratic side thinks calling for witnesses is a double-edged sword? >> no, i don't think anybody else and i think they think this is the total destruction and an effort to again pull attention away from the president who is being impeached for two specific articles. so when you get into this, you can say, you know vladimir putin is out there and he says of russia didn't fear, ukraine interfered. why don't we bring in witnesses about that. just look at the public opinion post. so it might be an effective strategy to confuse people but i think would also anchor people and that is not to the good of republicans. >> dana: i don't think anyone's going to call for vladimir putin to be witness at trial, although some people might like that spectacle. the republicans have the majority but it's not by the largest of margins. they can't afford to lose too many people on these votes but do you think in the end it will be party line? >> i think it will be party line to begin with. they will follow the clinton model in 1999 which is, in clinton's trial there was 100- nothing vote, and then senators to question it. after that happened and people heard that questioning, do they deal with the question of witnesses or dismiss the charges? i think the same thing will happen here. is feeling all right, thank you. mitch mcconnell said presidents impeachment trial should work the way president bill clinton's did. next, a look at what that might mean with a man who covered the clinton case in depth. with va mortgage rates near record lows, i want to tell as many veterans as possible about newday's va streamline refi. it's the closest thing to automatic savings that we've ever offered. at newday, veterans can refinance their mortgage with no income verification, no appraisal and no out of pocket expenses. and we've extended our call center hours so that every veteran can take advantage of these near record low rates. >> dana: senator serving as jurors and president trump's on impeachment trial will have to unplug their smartphones. obviously that's not something they had to worry about during the clinton trial. ron fournier covered the impeachment trial back in 1999 at he was a washington bureau chief at the associated press. he joins me now from detroit. great to have you. tell me what you think as you look back, is the biggest difference between the clinton impeachment where the republicans were the house managers and this one, for the democrats are the house managers? >> there's a lot of things that i find similar. i guess the most striking differences, democrats in 1998 and 1999, although they were not unbiased jurors and they would not convict bill clinton, they were not afraid of criticizing his actions. so they criticized his actions openly and rather harshly and then acquitted him. where in this case we have the republicans almost to a person not willing to criticize. >> dana: do you think one of the reasons though is because, bill clinton early on was like sorry, i shouldn't have done that. he even said it was wrong. whereas president trump maintained he had the perfect phone call all along. >> i would like to give president clinton that much credit but, for a long time he denied it. it wasn't until august of 1998 before impeachment that he confessed to having a inappropriate relationship. and he never went into what that relationship was. so he he wasn't perfect but i think that explains it. >> when clinton was being impeached, he said this. if the cycle of recrimination and scandalize and continues, the people will become more alienated and shaken. let us shake hands and say we are now going to go forgo political gain. let us not make it a sport to expose those weaknesses. and maxine waters basically said we will not stop whether this leads to another impeachment activity, i don't know. we must continue the work that our congress has come to do. in a way, i don't think that partisanship ever ended. >> i think clinton's impeachment was the beginning of a hyper polarized effort in our country. the biggest similarity is what you are hinting at, and it's such a polarized time both then and now that there is travel is asian. if they are guilty of the crimes and i will say that. >> just a quick thought from you about how this trial might affect the outcome of the democratic primary. we have three of the senators needing to be in washington, d.c. >> impeachment is not about throwing the president out of office, it's about the next election. republicans -- that is why bush became president. i don't think the presidents have done a very good job with the slam-dunk case, using the powers of his presidency to undermine the election and stopping the aid which congress presented it, that could be a pretty potent campaign issue. >> was also different is the president is up for reelection. thanks for giving us your perspective. >> of the country is pausing to remember the life and legacy of the civil rights giant with events today paying tribute to martin luther king and thousands attending a service and taking part in a march and a rally. jonathan, thank you. >> that rally is going on as we speak. this church behind me was the focus of this morning ceremony, a church where dr. king preached and his father preached here and his grandfather preached its congregation. it has been part of the atlanta landscape since the late 1800s urging people to partake in civil rights activities. the mlk holiday is not just about remembering the past, the king center has been holding builder education activities and voter education activities. they seek to reduce some of the tensions around today's polarized political climate and people need to focus on their shared humanity. >> this is an election year. for many people this is a dire election year and i say that on both sides of the equation, both sides of the aisle. people see this as a dire election year. >> reverent howard john leslie the keynote speaker here is that they tried to put dr. king in a box to confirm the beliefs that make them comfortable today. he reminded people that dr. king was a prophet who made people complacent uncomfortable so they would change for the better. >> dana: i think is so much. up next, the latest on the heartbreaking case of a toddler who fell from a cre cruise ship. the royal caribbean is placing the blame on the grandfather of the little girl. we have more details coming next. next. musical even those who don't have a voice. we are people helping people. eh, not enough fiber- chocolate would be good- snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress >> dana: royal caribbean blaming a grandfather for the death of his 18-month-old granddaughter last july. the cruise line reporting surveillance video proves the grandfather is at fault for the toddlers fall from the cruiseship window. todd fire is here with more. what do we know about that surveillance video? >> a sad story all around. the video shows just a sliver, the cruiseship claims the grandfather first pops his head out of the window and then dangles the 18-month-old named chloe wiegand over the edge. you can see when the video actually rolls, he allegedly puts his head out the window for eight seconds before picking up chloe and holding her for what royal caribbean claims is 34 seconds before that young girl fell to her death. the claim from the family against royal caribbean is that the grandfather does no did not know the window was open and he thought glass was there. statement that's what royal caribbean is saying that the family says what? >> the families claim surrounds that hidden danger, that's what they claim, and here is royal caribbean statement. "the only reasonable conclusion from the video is that mr. anello knew the window was open before picking up chloe. he nonetheless lifted the child over the wooden rail and at the open window for a considerable period, recklessly endangering her life. there was no hidden danger, mr. anello knew the window was open." that is you can imagine the family is not too happy with that response. >> dana: i'm sure that's a tough issue all around. >> the family is sticking to the claim that the freedom of the sea is, the name of the ship in question, it was not compliant with fall prevention laws. here is what the family lawyer has to say. "it is clear that royal caribbean's tactic is to blame chloe's grandfather rather than to accept that royal caribbean did not implement industry standards, that's their big phrase, industry standards for toddler safety aborted ships which ultimately led to chloe's tragic death, while claiming the video is deceptive. it's so important to remember throughout all of this, it's a human tragedy. we will cover the battle of the lawyers and it's a human tragedy. we have some sound from the grandfather speaking earlier. >> i just wanted to express how sorry i am, and that you have to sit here today. i sit here broken, we all sit here broken. but our family is strong and we will stay strong together. >> can you imagine being that grandfather? charged with negligent homicide in puerto rico. unclear if he will have any jail time, it doesn't look like so. but all of this is coming out as part of royal caribbean's motion to dismiss. >> dana: a federal health officials on high alert as a new virus emerges out of china. over the weekend, the number of people infected has tripled and at least three people have died from the illness. authorities are screening passengers at three major u.s. airports. alex hogan has more. what can you tell us about the illness? >> the first patients to contract the virus got it at a seafood in animal market in central china. the chinese ark an chinese are t spreading from human to human. the coronavirus is spreading, and at least 162 were diagnosed in china this weekend alone. at least two people caught it from family members and some medical workers have also not contracted it. china is not the only place this virus is popping up, we are seeing cases also reported in thailand, south korea and japan where travelers who were recently visiting the city in china where this illness was first detected on december 31st. the steep increase also comes at one of the busiest travel times of the year there, the chinese new year, january 25th. millions of people are expected to travel across china and overseas to celebrate. as a precaution, federal health officials are now screening arrivals from china at san francisco, los angeles and new york's jfk airport. that's because airports see high numbers of passengers from china, 100 extra federal health workers were staffing all of these airports all weekend long. >> when passengers disembark from these flights, they will get questioned. most passengers will get questioned, if their temperature taken and be sent on their way. >> the world health organization just announced it will hold an emergency meeting on the coronavirus tomorrow, and that is to determine if this is a international health emergency and if so, they will figure out whether measures need to be put in place. >> dana: amazon is looking into a new way for you to pay. brett larson has the details on how you could soon pay with your palm. no wallet, no credit card, just a wave of your hand. but first, let me check in with bill hemmer. >> thrilled to be here with you. how will the senate management of this impeachment trial, also, we are a year from the inauguration day. brad parscale of the president's campaign manager is here exclusively and we will talk to kevin sheekey who runs michael bloomberg's campaign. it's a big hour, day number one and we hope to see you at the top of the hour for version one ofud bill hemmer reports. it lets you shortcut the loan process and refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $2000 every year. call my team at newday usa right now. cia 8jqhta' >> man: what's my my truck...is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked... the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me. >> tech: hi, i'm adrian. >> man: thanks for coming. ...with service i could trust. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >> dana: prince harry breaking his silence on mexit, claiming they had no other option then to give up their royal duties. is this talk of the city? >> it suddenly has been for a while. with all the other big news going on this is the one that they are most concerned with at the moment. prince harry said he has no option and he's actually right, but it wasn't his choice. it was a queen is that there is no half in or have followed. they had hoped they could play it on both sides and he talked about this yesterday. >> our hope was to continue to serve the queen, the commonwealth and up my military and associations but without public funding. unfortunately that wasn't possible. i've accepted this knowing that it doesn't change who i am or how committed i am. >> so no royal titles or public money and he's lost his beloved military association including the honorary commander general of the marines. this is the price to pay after he suddenly announced he wanted out of the royal family to pursue his agenda. meanwhile, megan -- they had this powerful force that had it out for them so to speak and he said hopefully he will be able to stand up to that powerful force. the big question, what's next? he wants to follow his own agenda and in fact he got on a plane to canada just a few hours ago. >> dana: amazon wants to let you pay with a swipe of your hand instead of your credit card and that's what people familiar with the plan tell "the wall street journal." i kind of excited about this. >> it's different. you know, we are learning all these new ways to pay. you have apple pay, you have the contactless cars that you can tap on the reader. amazon wanted to be as simple as a coming boom. it takes a biometric scan of your hand, and you do have to touch something. i think both of us are in that camp. an interesting side effect of this, and "the wall street journal" has this quote talking about reminding shoppers that amazon is there. a roadblock to store is having this technology and it would risk them going there instead of buying stuff from the stories which would be a challenge. the other challenge they will have his privacy. with apple pay, apple handles the transaction but they don't know. they don't know where you are or who you are, they just know this is a transaction and that's the end of it for them. that's likely not going to be the case with amazon so they will know who you are, where you work, how much you paid for it. so that will give amazon even more data about customers habits. >> dana: i know china is trying to accelerate the way you pay an america from a national security standpoint in my opinion should be the dominant player there? >> absolutely. we are a little behind the eight ball here. we are still using a magnetic stripe technology because it is the standard payment processor in a lot of parts of the count country. in updating that infrastructure is very expensive. if you go to europe, they have the chip and pin system. in china they have the mobile pay with the phone. >> dana: we got to catch up. thank you for joining us come on dana perino and i will see you on "the five." it's my great pleasure to say, here's bill hemme bill hemmer. >> bill: you are great. i thank you, dana. ♪ reporting live from studio h in new york city, i'm bill hemmer. every weekday at this hour wait report the news and talk to the newsmakers and we aim to bring you the whole picture. more on that in a moment. but first, the historic stage is now set for president trump's impeachment trial which begins tomorrow. the president's lawyers laying out the defense today calling the charges frivolous in a blazingly political act by house democrats. house impeachment managers firing back saying there is overwhelming evidence that president trump is guilty and
president's speech as it ended. >> sandra: divisions over impeachment flaring up over a final vote in the senate at 4:00 p.m. today. president trump's all but certain acquittal ignoring impeachment in the speech last night. >> president trump: three years ago we launched the great american comeback. tonight i stand before you to share the incredible results. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. [cheering and applause] >> president trump: we passed landmark criminal justice reform into law. everybody said that criminal justice reform couldn't be done. i got it done and the people in this room got it done. [applause] members of congress, we must never forget that the only victories that matter in washington are victories that deliver for the american people. [applause] and my fellow americans, the best is yet to come. thank you, god bless you, and god bless america. thank you very much. >> sandra: what a night that was. in just a few moments we'll hear from counselor to the president kellyanne conway at the white house. but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> one leading house democrat says that president trump could have done a much better job of unifying the american people. >> it really depressed me. it was the most partisan state of the union i've seen or witnessed. i had hopes that somehow maybe i'm a dreamer, can't stop dreaming that he would come in and tried to pull us together. issues we have to work on like lowering prescription drug prices. >> when you consider the overall political environment these days a key republican senators says he is impressed by what president trump did not say. >> here is the president of the united states still sitting under an open impeachment hearing in the united states senate and he didn't mention that once. i give him full credit for that. it took a lot of discipline. he is often criticized between not having a filter between his brain and mouth but last night he showed great discipline. >> president trump had a strong economic message to sell. democrats counter not everyone is benefiting from it. >> sandra: what about the huge day ahead on capitol hill with the vote happening on impeachment? >> vermont senator and presidential candidate bernie sanders insists this is not a happy day whatever your political views may be. >> if the senate does not vote to impeach trump, and i do not believe the senate will vote to impeach trump, what it will set is a precedent for future presidents to the end of time and what that precedent is is that if you're president of the united states, you are above the law. >> while president trump is expected to be acquitted later today, some suggest the house impeachment managers had their moments last night. >> those house managers got their own role because she wanted them front and center to be staring at our president while he spoke. he didn't talk about impeachment. adam schiff, nadler, the others sitting there. all they did was dream about impeaching this president since the day he got elected. >> expect senators to continue their speeches on impeachment for much of the day. up and down votes expected in the 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. >> sandra: mike, thanks. >> ed: the long delayed iowa caucus results still delayed. they're coming in drip by drip. the scoreboard now showing pete buttigieg holding a narrow lead over bernie sanders but no official winner yet. correspondent mike tobin is live in des moines, iowa, with more details. good morning, mike. >> late last night we saw the numbers of precincts move again up to 71% from 62%. when it comes down to the scorecard that counts. pete buttigieg the former south bend mayor holding the number one spot here in iowa. >> caucus results are coming in from the state of iowa. they aren't complete but results are in from a majority of precincts and they show our campaign in first place. [cheering and applause] >> buttigieg number one, bernie sanders number two when it comes to state delegate equivalents. break it down to the first and final alignment, more or less it would amount to the popular vote you have senator bernie sanders doing better than buttigieg by a small margin. third place when you start talking about the state delegates, elizabeth warren. joe biden moved up to number four. caucuses that have been totaled thus far and amy klobuchar in the fifth place spot. the reason there were so many problems the iowa democratic party chair blamed it on a phone app that recorded the data well, it did not transmit that data well. it was backed up on paper. they're going through it the old-fashioned way and taking such a long time. 29% of the precincts left to go. >> sandra: a lot to take in there. let's bring in dan henninger from the "wall street journal." where do we begin? we have the results trickling in from iowa. your thoughts as we get a first look. >> we're trying to figure out who won iowa. i don't think we have to wait for the results. it is clear to me that mike bloomberg won iowa. look, his candidacy is based on the idea that joe biden might fade. joe biden just faded in iowa. coming in fourth was pretty bad. i think the expectation he might make it to third. bottom line for most democrats. a divided party. the bottom line is they want to beat donald trump. the top two finishers buttigieg feel interesting young politician not quite ready to run for the presidency. bernie sanders a socialist is going to be a hard sell in a general election. i think a lot of democrats including the ones i talk to think mike bloomberg has got the money, the gravitas, willing to fight with trump. his numbers are going to rise smartly over the next month. >> sandra: when i say what a week. look back at the last 48 hours or so. talk about a divided party. they are aoun united in wanting to beat the president. the iowa caucus fiasco, a blow to political legitimacy. have lessons been learned by what we saw happen there? >> i think so. the democrats for the better part of three years have been challenging the legitimacy of donald trump's presidency saying he stole the election. now an election they themselves were in control of we have to question the legitimacy of that. they couldn't run their own election. another footnote to that. a lot of democrats after the 2016 election which donald trump won through the electoral college said we should abolish the electoral college in favor of the popular vote. the problems we could have if a mass popular vote with states running their own systems rather than an electoral result state by state. >> sandra: final thoughts state of the union last night. >> i thought it was very strong state of the union from start to finish, it was about substance and let's cut to the chase. the events at the end when nancy pelosi rips up the speech. we have to understand that for three years there have been two trumps. donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states and the trump of the democrats fantasies which is this kind of darth vader figure presiding over an evil empire and they still think that. that's why nancy pelosi simply dismissed him by ripping up a speech that was about policy from start to finish. and i think at some point the democrats especially their presidential candidates are going to have to start running against the president represented in that state of the union speech, not the president they have created and run against for the last three years, this darth vader-like figure. >> sandra: everybody is talking about the handshake snub by the president. we'll ask kellyanne conway if the president intended to do that or didn't see it. there is the ripping up of the speech at the end. marc thiessen was pointing out the way nancy pelosi introduced the president. instead of saying it was her high privilege and distinct honor she introduced him as the president of the united states. so many moments emerging from last night. more reaction coming up on all that. dan henninger. you are writing your piece for tomorrow. what are you thinking? 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what is the matter with her? she looked like she was reading the cheesecake factory menu all night going through every single page and then to -- she should either be censured or the same woman who led a resolution in the house to denounce a tweet last summer there ought to be a senate resolution denouncing her behavior last night. >> sandra: is that your feeling or the president's feeling this morning? >> you see where i am. i will tell you that's the feeling of many people who believe in the decorum of the united states congress. sanctity of the state of the union. i've been here from day one. the fourth address to the nation the president delivered including the joint session back in 17. for four consecutive years the president has 90 to 120 minutes or so alone with the american people on their computer screens, in their living room and places of work and phones in the radio. over the radio. you know what he is doing? speaking to them unfiltered, uninterrupted and uninsulted by these people who criticize him all day long. it has worked for him every time because people get to hear what is happening in their country. they don't get the information. for the fourth year the content of the speech didn't leak ahead of time and i'm happy to say the guests have never leaked. those guests and first lady fox is a very fine process commanded with a small group of us. as you probably run everything around here. the guests have never leaked. >> sandra: i have a lot i want to get to. thanks for being here. but when you look at this two big headlines that came out the book end moments of that speech last night you've already mentioned one of them, nancy pelosi tearing up the president's state of the union address. that was before her as she stood next to the vice president. the president had his back to her at the time. what did he say when he learned that was happening and that happened? >> that's typical her. we've seen it here again and again in the situation room, saw it in the cabinet room twice. saw it in another meeting. she has a temper tantrum and leaves. now the country saw it. there is no silly picture of her standing with the men around the cabinet. >> sandra: let me ask you about the moment. >> america saw a child ripping up a state of the union that is meant to be delivered to the people. >> sandra: there was a moment before the speech when the president walked into the room and he was greeted by the vice president and the house speaker. she extended her hand to the president. he seemingly snubbed the handshake. he didn't shake the hand of the vice president. we didn't see his hand extended. was that purposeful on the part of the president? >> i'm not sure it was purposeful or if he even noticed her or her extended hand. who cares? she is one of the faces of impeachment. she wants to impeach the president on the articles. they made fools of themselves. in less than 48 hours. follow me. in less than 48 hours from monday at 9:00 p.m. when the caucus results were supposed to come in to wednesday at 4:00 p.m. this president would have hit the trifecta. the other party we have no idea who won the caucus. he delivers an unbelievable state of the union to the nation and the world that guests, the people's state of the union representing the best of american optimism and today he will be acquitted. donald trump will forever be acquitted. she is irrelevant. >> sandra: steny hoyer was asked and pressed by reporter after nancy pelosi ripped up the speech last night and here is how he responded. i'll get your reaction. >> let's hope they didn't distract you from the lack of factual accuracy in the speech. the divisiveness of the speech and the blatant appeal to his base and very similar to his speeches in his rallies. >> sandra: the majority leader there he hopes that moment doesn't distract what they are saying are inaccuracies in the president's speech and taking on some of the things the president touted about the economy and all. two other things i want to get to. iowa. what is the results from the white house with the results? what do you see as the state of the 2020 race? >> i won't talk too much about that here. in iowa i think it tells you everything you need to know about the state of the democratic party. we have no idea who their nominee will be. we got a preview last night how the two conventions will operate. donald trump's convention will be the people's convention. democratic convention will be what you saw last night. a four-day version of the nancy pelosi ripping up the 100-year-old airmen and mueller's memory. an anti-trump grievance fest? in philadelphia in 2016 it was a victimology. i want to push back on leader hoyer in this way. they're on the wrong side of the school choice scholarship. they're on the wrong side of elli born at 21 weeks 6 days. upset because they're on the wrong side of the tuskegee airman and reuniting a military family. they're on the wrong side of history and these issues that animate the american people. sandra, when you talk about how people feel 74% say they'll be financially better off next year according to the gallup poll where the president has a record high approval rating. >> sandra: there is a vote on his impeachment in the senate this afternoon. likely acquitted. >> acquitted forever. >> sandra: great to have you on this morning. thank you. >> ed: the iowa democratic party facing more fallout for all that chaos. we'll dig deep on that next. americans come to lendingtree.com to compare and save on loans, credit cards and more! but with the new lending tree app you can see your full financial health, monitor your credit score, see your cash flow and find out how you can cut your monthly bills. download it now to see how much you can save. wow! that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. >> ed: check the calendar. it's wednesday and we're waiting on all the results from monday's caucuses in iowa now. pete buttigieg leading with more than 70% of the precincts reporting. still waiting for more. we'll bring in the bureau chief of the des moines newspaper. npr quotes a computer scientist at the university of iowa, one of many experts warning for weeks they say why bring out an untested new technology when the whole nation is watching? why did nobody listen to those warnings? >> that's going to be one of the questions that i think the state party is going to have to answer in the coming days and weeks as this thing gets more and more attention. i talked to a lot of precincts leaders, my colleagues and i did throughout the state. and heard a lot of frustration with the app. some people who didn't bother using it. some people who had trouble downloading it. and a lot of people who gave up on it and then that's when the phone lines got flooded. the lack -- it does seem like from talking to precinct leaders there was a lack of preparation in using this new app. >> ed: there will be investigations looking backward. let's look forward at the results. what are you hearing on the ground? the latest information for our viewers when we'll get 100% of the precincts reporting? >> there is not a lot new there. the state party hasn't given any indication today of when we might expect more results. i think the general feeling is that we'll know by the end of today. there is no promise of that. as you just noted, we got the first 62% dumped yesterday afternoon. sometime last evening got bumped up to 71%. there has been no timeline given. we're all kind of in wait and see mode just like everybody else. >> ed: the longer it stretches out the closer we get to the new hampshire primary next tuesday. a lot of people in both parties wonder if any of the candidates can rely on the results or people will be looking beyond iowa. the last question looking forward. how does iowa keep its first in the nation status? quickly an editorial in the "boston globe" this morning that you would think the globe being close to new hampshire would say let's push out iowa and keep new hampshire. they say both should be knocked out. the country is changed. what's iowa's case for keeping first in the nation given these problems? >> well iowa's case has always been you have to come here and do retail politics. you can't just throw up a bunch of ads and expect to win. you have to get out in front of the people and shake hands with them and look them in the eye and answer their questions. that will remain their case. now that said, there are expectations if you'll be the first state in the nation, you have to be able to execute that and perform in a certain way. the state party on the democrat side was not able to do that this time. there have been other troubles in the past. 2012 and the republicans announcing the wrong winner between romney and the caucuses. >> ed: an expectation if you're first in the nation. we'll get a results in a reasonable time. aaron murphy, appreciate your report from on the ground. thank you. >> sandra: the senate is about to meet ahead of today's final vote on impeachment. will any senator break party ranks? 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adam schiff there pleading for one republican to cross party lines as the senate prepares to vote on articles of impeachment this afternoon. it is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. eastern today. joining me now is senator roy blunt. good morning. good to have you. when you saw the cutaway shots last night of adam schiff and jerry nadler they didn't look too happy watching the state of the union. >> what they've done is they pursued something that was never going to work. defied all the advice anybody would be given not to go down a totally partisan impeachment line. from the day they had their vote in the house anybody who knew how this process worked knew that a partisan vote in the house would result in a partisan vote in the senate. it has all been political. there is a certain amount of politics in any impeachment discussion but this has been totally political, timed in a way to actually have this vote today after the president's state of the union, after the election ballots have already started being cast. i think it's outrageous and frankly i don't think any senators are really paying much attention to what adam schiff and jerry nadler now believe is the best thing to do. >> ed: there is one republican senator wondering where he will go. mitt romney. when adam schiff was pleading for a republican to vote for conviction. romney is the only one undecided. what indications are you getting where he is? >> my discussions with other senators i really wouldn't want to talk about publicly. i would be more surprised if we don't get a democrat than i would be if we lose a republican. i think all the republicans understand that this was a partisan issue. some republicans thought we needed to hear more witnesses, a couple did. no republicans thought more witnesses would change the outcome. the outcome has been certain for a long time. i think we'll have a democrat or two vote with us today just like several democrats two or three democrats voted on the house side not to impeach. the bipartisan vote on this up to now has been the vote not to do it. i think that likely is the bipartisan vote again today. >> ed: that was in the house. now in the senate looking forward to the vote today as you mentioned. how important is it for the president to get a joe manchin or doug jones in alabama a more conservative democrat to vote to acquit given that speaker pelosi set up this idea he'll be impeached forever. you get a bipartisan acquittal how important is that for this president? >> i'm sure the president would like to see that. frankly i think it's more important to both of them that they very seriously consider and vote to acquit because i guarantee the majority of people in west virginia and alabama don't believe the president should be removed from office. i don't know how the president will be impacted. i think he is remarkably looking forward here. he didn't mention this last night. he started a nine-month conversation with the american people about who should be sworn in president 11 months from now. i think it will be him. >> ed: one of the republican swing votes susan collins yesterday revealed she will vote to acquit. here is what she told cbs news about why. watch? >> i believe that the president has learned from this case. the president has been impeached. that's a pretty big lesson. i'm voting to acquit because i do not believe that the behavior alleged reaches the high bar in the constitution for overturning an election and removing a duly elected president. >> ed: senator, are you confident the president has learned a lesson because his critics are saying he didn't learn anything except maybe he got away with it and is now going to be emboldened. >> i don't think he feels like he got away with anything. he believes he was doing what was the right thing to do. the president has had a big learning experience over the last three years. people wanted somebody in that job who was going to come in and shake up washington he has done that. i think every single week he has learned how to use this system. how to work within the system better than he did the week before. mentioning the great results on judicial appointments. not just two supreme court appointments but changing the court of appeals level, federal judges. lifetime impact of his presidency. i think he has a much better sense of that and i think the president learns just like i do every single day. he has had a great three years. >> ed: last question. what is the specific lesson. if you say the president did nothing wrong what lesson should he take from this? >> well, i think you should take the view here that a lot of people are watching. there is a legitimate congressional oversight responsibility. he has a legitimate responsibility to argue executive privilege on some of the advice he gets. on a lot of the advice he gets. i think you can't have gone through this and not realize that all of your actions can be misinterpreted by the other side who is looking eagerly as a way to misinterpret them. because of that be a little more thoughtful as you move forward. i thought he did a great job last night not getting bogged down in the impeachment discussion. i think he won't get bogged down in it over the next several months. >> ed: he was looking forward. we'll do that today as well. senate coming back into session this hour. watching the vote this afternoon. appreciate you coming in. >> welcome to the show by the way. >> sandra: we continue to welcome ed to the show. thank you, senator. two more flights evacuating americans from the epicenter of the coronavirus virus in china landing at a california military base a short time ago we're told. there are now more than 24,000 cases of this illness worldwide including 11 here in the u.s. at least 490 people have died. william la jeunesse live from the naval air station in san diego where a third flight is expected to arrive soon. what are we learning on that? >> sandra, really these are rescue flights when you consider the military lockdown in china. as you said two flights arriving at travis air force base near sacramento in the last two hours. 350 u.s. citizens aboard who have been living and working in china. after refueling one of those planes will land at the marine corps air station in san diego in about two hours. evacuees will stay 14 days until the cdc is certain they don't carry the coronavirus virus. no contact with the public or military. >> d.o.d. will only providing housing report and dhs will remain responsible for security of these individuals. they will not be in direct contact with the individuals or these individuals have access to the base facilities beyond the housing. >> here on the base they will be in 150 hotel-like rooms. the others besides travis and miramar. one in san diego and one in colorado springs. if anyone gets sick they will be taken to a local hospital. that happened on monday with a child from the march air force base showing symptoms. there is another part of this story. virtually all flights directly from china have been ceased. passengers are entering from non-direct flights and could carry the virus. they'll be directed to 11 airports. monday a traveler at lax was sent for quarantine after officials scrubbed their travel history and saw he had visited the affected area. >> dhs is looking at travel history to make sure they haven't been someplace they haven't disclosed. >> 11 confirmed cases here in the u.s. officials stress the risk is very low but that's one of the reasons they're being proactive. back to you. >> sandra: we'll watch that. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> ed: in the meantime president trump and the first lady honoring several guests at last night's state of the union including the widow and son of a soldier killed in iraq. they'll join us next hour to talk about their mission to help our military heroes. >> to kelly and gage. chris will live in our hearts forever. he is looking down on you now. thank you. four years clear. five years now. i just look and feel better. see me. cosentyx works fast to give you clear skin that can last. real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if you've had a vaccine... ...or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur. i look and feel better with cosentyx. five years is just crazy. see me. ask your dermatologist if cosentyx could help you move past the pain of psoriasis. >> ed: fox news alert. 28 people killed after two avalanches hit eastern turkey. rescue workers were responding to one when a second happened. several rescue workers were buried under the snow. some taken to the hospital after they either escaped or were pulled out. officials say they have recovered the bodies of 23 people so far. >> this is an effort to overturn the results of one election and to try to interfere in the coming election. the only appropriate result here is to acquit the president and to leave it to the voters to choose their president. >> you can't trust this president to do the right thing. not for one minute. not for one election. not for the sake of our country. you just can't. he will not change and you know it. >> sandra: both sides of the impeachment battle making closing arguments yesterday. senate set to hold a final vote today with the verdict all but certain at this point. tom dupree, a former assistant attorney general under george w. bush. always great to have you. so everyone is trying to predict or forecast what the world looks like after this is all over. what does this mean for the precedent that is now set when it comes to the attempt to impeach the president? >> sandra, look. every impeachment in our history is a precedent for the next impeachment. there have been so few of them. as we've seen in the context of the current impeachment everyone was pointing back to what happened the last time around. i think that lesson that history will draw from this impeachment it can't be done on a partisan basis. this was a process in this case was birthed in partisanship. no surprise the vote in the senate this afternoon will likely be along partisan lines. there will be bipartisan support for acquittal if anything. >> sandra: what impact does it have on presidential power? >> in the constitutional sense the answer is none. the president's constitutional powers are the same as they ever were. the lesson that historians or legal scholars might draw on b the impact on presidential power a president is free to exercise his constitutional authority in a muscular way. absent a bipartisan consensus that power has been abused he will remain in office. why the founders put the 2/3 requirement in the constitution. they wanted to make sure that a president couldn't be removed just by a bare majority. you need that constitutional 2/3 super majority. >> sandra: i asked with this headline this morning grabbing attention in the hill. trump's acquittal may have profound impact on presidential power. in the piece they write it may take years or decades to truly determine what kind of mark trump's trial leaves. historians and legal experts say an acquittal will lower the bar for permissible presidential conduct and give the executive branch for power in the face of congressional oversight if it's based in part on the legal team's expansive view of presidential power. to that you say what, tom? >> i say we're not going to know the reasons why each senator voted the way that he or she did. in some cases they might say i don't think it rose to an abuse of power. again at the end of the day all we'll have is vote of acquittal. if and when another impeachment people might say this is the lesson we draw. it is not like a court decision where you'll get a single reasoned opinion. we will have 100 different rationales for why senators voted what they did? if we look for an overarching precedent you'll look a long time for that. >> sandra: the piece makes that very point. a lot of how history looks back at this will depend on whether senate republicans tie their votes to the central argument of the president's defense team that he should be acquitted because impeachment articles must allege statutory crimes. that being said you expect any surprises this afternoon, tom? >> i don't think there will be any surprises on the republican side. i think there could be surprises at least to some people on the democratic side. that's what's fascinating to me. at the end of the day adam schiff and his team may not have persuaded any republicans but may end up losing democrats. manchin, sinmen and how the democrats come down on this issue. >> sandra: very many people are interested in seeing of the reaction of schiff and nadler watching the president the state of the union address last night. one of the big conversations this morning finally, tom, is that question of lessons learned. will there be any? final thoughts. >> my final thought the democrats knew it would be a partisan enterprise. none of the presentation before the senate changed a single republican vote. that's a lesson you learned. if you go down the impeachment road you need to do it in a bipartisan way. that didn't happen here. >> sandra: always great to have you. >> thank you. >> ed: a touching moment during last night's state of the union putting school choice back in the headlines. that surprise announcement from the president and how the white house is using it to push its plan forward. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ everything your trip needs for everyone you love. expedia. >> ed: president trump last night touting his school choice plan during the state of the union while announcing a scholarship for a philadelphia fourth grader. correspondent doug mcelway has more. >> the house sees support for school choice as a winning position in the 2020 elections. they believe the democrats are beholding to teachers unions and to the paralysis they believe is failing children who are stuck in decaying public schools. last night's state of the union address president trump singled out ms. davis and her mom. she is a fourth grader from philadelphia. lost her chance for a scholarship when the pennsylvania governor vetoed an expansion of that state's tax credit. gives tax credits to businesses and individuals who donate to scholarships for private and parochial schools. >> i have some good news for you because i am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over. i can proudly announce tonight that an opportunity scholarship has become available. it is going to you, and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice. [cheering and applause] >> last night the president called on congress to give a million american kids the same opportunity as her urging them to pass the scholarship and opportunity act. republicans believe it forces public schools to compete and improve but see it as a way to lure african-american voters away from the democratic party. ron desantis. many believe he won the 2018 governor's race against andrew gillum because he support evidence school choice, gillum did not. 650,000 black women who voted in florida, 18% chose republican desantis based largely on school choice. what condoleezza rice called the civil rights issue of our time. that margin was enough to put desantis over the top in the tightly-contested race. >> ed: thank you. pretty remarkable that -- a moment there where the president is helping a young girl get a scholarship. democrats didn't stand including the speaker because the teachers unions don't like school choice. you have to sometimes put politics aside. it is helping a kid. >> sandra: kyrsten sinema stood giving credit for the tax cuts. >> ed: they have their differences and setting up the president's reelection battle. >> sandra: fox news alert on capitol hill. moments away from a news conference with republican leaders ahead fd a final vote on the president's impeachment in the senate this afternoon. stay tuned. brand-new hour coming up. atch starting at $35. and up to $700 toward our best phones. the network more people rely on, gives you more. with our moving and storage solutions. pack what you want, we store it for as long as you want. then, we deliver it where you want, so whether you need to move or store your things, pods is here to help you with flexible moving and storage solutions. it's unacceptable that americans pay vastly more than so whether you need to move or store your things, people in other countries, for the exact same drugs. but they aren't listening. they've just raised the prices of over five hundred drugs. president trump supports a bipartisan plan, that would force drug companies to lower prices. but the senate won't act. tell senate leaders to stop drug company price gouging and lower drug prices now. this round's on me.eat. hey, can you spot me? come on in. find your place today, with silversneakers. included in most medicare advantage plans. enroll today by calling the number on your screen or visit getsilversneakers.com >> ed: fox news alert. house republican leaders holding a news briefing now following their weekly meeting. house democrats also speaking later this hour. we'll monitor all that. this comes ahead of the impeachment vote this afternoon 4:00 p.m. eastern. first president trump delivering his third state of the union address followed by the democrats' rebuttal. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm ed henry. >> sandra: good to be back together this morning. a night of emotional moments. the president standing before congress and the nation in prime time making his case for a second term. the 78-minute speech president trump touted the strong economy and historically low unemployment and stressing how the middle class and blue collar workers are benefiting from his policies. >> the word impeachment never came up ahead of his expected acquittal later today. he struck an optimistic tone about the future. >> president trump: this nation is our canvas and this country is our masterpiece. the american age, the american epic, the american adventure has only just begun. our spirit is still young. the sun is still rising. god's grace is still shining. >> sandra: let's bring in our a-team. brad blakeman, former defp tee assistant to george w. bush. richard fowler and james freeman from the editorial page of the "wall street journal." good morning to all of you. go around the table. thoughts on the state of the union last night. >> i thought it was effective. a forceful, compelling, patriotic speech as you saw there. i think a win as you mentioned. there are sometimes weird comments on twitter. you didn't get any of that in the state of the union. focused and effective. >> ed: democrats seemed to think maybe nancy pelosi ripping up the speech took -- distracted away from the actual democratic rebuttal on policy. >> i sympathize with the argument. vintage donald trump. a campaign speech he was giving and a rally speech. uses similar flourishes with facts that are misleading. one was he talked about creating -- building all these factories. if you look into the numbers. i dug in this morning. there weren't 12,000 factories and things. for his base the speech worked. for the people who like donald trump the speech worked. if you didn't like him the speech didn't work. when you think about this nancy pelosi ripping up the speech moment which has been the focus of all of the media i think you miss where donald trump didn't shake her hand. there is bad blood between these two individuals. obvious on both sides. >> sandra: we don't know that we asked the white house maybe he didn't see that. important to point out they did not say it was purposeful. could have been, though. >> the handshake if you look at it from every angle was not purposeful. the president delivered his remarks to the vice president and the speaker and he turned away. he didn't shake the vice president's hand and he didn't shake her hand. it was not purposeful. ripping up the speech was purposeful and premeditated. she knew what she was doing and when she introduced the president she didn't follow the proper protocol in the respect of the president. you guys are barking up the wrong tree. you need to get over the hate and his speech was not to the base. >> it was to the american people. a lot of the policies he prescribed are bills passed by the house. the house has passed -- excuse me. >> you talk about what he has done. >> house passed the prescription drugs bill. house passed an infrastructure bill. sitting on mcconnell's desk. >> sandra: one thing absent and expected he didn't talk impeachment >> this maybe has something to do with ripping up the speech. this was an angry speaker pelosi. there was a democratic hope once they pinned that scarlet i word on him it would damage him politically. it looks like he is coming out of this stronger. i think you saw a confident maybe happy president trump last night and a disappointed speaker pelosi. >> you say pelosi's move was partisan. debbie dingell, here is what she said. >> it really depressed me. it was the most partisan state of the union i have seen or witnessed. i had hopes that somehow maybe i'm a dreamer, but can't stop dreaming that he would come in and tried to pull us together. issues that we have to work on like lowering prescription drug prices. that chamber was not a chamber that was brought together last night. >> ed: respond to that. the president had an optimistic tone about the economy and future of america but also wasn't reaching out to democrats let's say. >> i heard it differently. i heard he was. >> ed: where? >> on infrastructure and healthcare. we have to have bipartisan support. you can deliver a house bill to the senate. it doesn't mean they'll pass it, richard. there has to be compromise which democrats aren't willing to do. >> ed: family leave. there were a lot of items free market conservative ideas. if you were a big government person looking for common ground there was a lot in that speech. >> i don't think it was a big government issue with family leave. that's an american issue. i appreciate the president for saying that. that being said there are parts of this speech and parts of the tone of the speech were very partisan. to say they weren't you were listening to the wrong speech. >> sandra: critics say was it worth the distraction as steny hoyer called it to rip up the speech at the end? nancy pelosi was pressed on that by reporters as she left the chamber and here was her response why she did it. [applause] >> it was the courteous thing to do. >> she said it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative richard. >> i don't understand why she ripped up the speech. what i will say she has managed to take the news cycle from the president. nobody is talking about the speech. everybody is talking about nancy pelosi ripping it up. >> so it was a stunt. >> i don't work in the speaker's office or what she was thinking. she managed to take the news cycle from the president. with that being said i think the president had opportunity to bring americans together. the president had an opportunity if he was talking about healthcare to sit there and say i will protect -- protect previous conditions. in the course their white house is fighting against preconditions. it speaks to the facts this is not a bipartisan address. how could you say one thing and your white house is doing something else? >> because you talk to the president and he needs a global solution to the disastrous plan of obamacare. you guys don't want obamacare anymore. it was a way station for universal government control healthcare. it was a ruse all the time. >> don't be a moving target. >> a global solution to a national problem. >> the president was very clear on the fact that he would protect and do everything in his power to protect pre-existing conditions. in the courts his white house is currently fighting against pre-existing conditions. >> sandra: final thoughts. >> he is against the affordable care act. that doesn't mean you can't achieve healthcare goals by some other vehicle. our corporate cousin summed it up, tore loser. >> sandra: okay. more on this now. ed's had it. all right. we have our a-team coming back in a moment. first 2020 democrats are still waiting for the final results. can you believe it from iowa? right now pete buttigieg on top 71% of the votes are in. bernie sanders a close second in the battle for state delegates. >> ed: they're shifting their focus to new hampshire. peter doocy is already getting ready for the big primary. good morning. >> good morning, ed and sandra. we caught up with joe biden in new hampshire for -- at first event since he is in a distant fourth place in iowa. >> any reaction to the iowa results, the partial results so far? >> let's wait until they're all in. i feel good so far. >> biden also singled out bernie sanders last night making the case the senator from the state next door is inflexible supporting medicare for all because biden argues it could never get through congress. sanders is the leader in new hampshire now according to the real clear politics average of polls. sanders has to go back to d.c. again to vote against president trump's acquittal in the impeachment trial. something he admits is likely to happen anyway. before sanders left he flattered the locals. >> for some reason in iowa they're having a little bit of trouble counting votes. but i am confident that here in new hampshire i know they will be able to count your votes. >> the sanders team sees a silver lining in partial iowa results. lead with the popular vote. pete buttigieg is claiming victory with the most state delegate equivalents. >> what we already know amounts to just a phenomenal victory for this campaign. the idea with the message of unity and boldness we could connect in rural, suburban and urban areas. for a campaign that i don't think was expected even to come this far. i remember a year ago starting this effort with four people. >> buttigieg is trying to harness any kind of momentum he could get out of iowa with those partial results. he campaigned until after 11:00 p.m. last night with more events in new hampshire than anybody else in the field. sandra and ed. >> peter doocy, thank you. >> sandra: the a-team is back. they took a deep breath. so your thoughts, brad as these results trickle in. >> the democrats want to run a country and they can't run a caucus. it was disgraceful that days afterwards we still don't have an accurate count as to who won. i quite frankly feel bad for the democratic candidates because they spent $40 million. they were supposed to get the iowa ballots and tickets out of iowa. they were denied that. i think it's a terrible reflection on their party. >> ed: you can react to that, richard. james carville was on msnbc i believe it was talking about the future of the democratic party. listen to this. >> look at the british labor party. we're like talking about people voting from jail cells, all right? talking about not having a border. i mean, come on, people. every day people are out there struggling. >> ed: this is a guy who said to bill clinton it's about the economy stupid and they win. now he is saying you have candidates who don't even want a border. is your party listening? >> our party is listening and you see it. i think brad is right. definite missteps in iowa that made it hard for some of our candidates. if you look at the race where we sit today pete buttigieg likely the winner of the iowa caucus, bernie sanders a close second. pete buttigieg speaks to the moderateness of our party. solutions in the center. this race is still very early. both iowa and new hampshire are older and whiter states. south carolina and nevada becomes real and super tuesday more real. biden camp is what they're looking to. for the bernie camp and mayor pete camp they'll have trouble. can they build a coalition. black folks, white college educated folks, white folks and young people. >> your buttigieg example is exactly what carville is trying to say. buttigieg is the relative moderate in the race and yet he is for $5 trillion in tax increases, get rid of the electoral college. restructure the supreme court to get the political outcomes he wants. the success of bernie sanders and what has people like carville so upset. sanders has shoved that party to the left whether or not he ends up winning. we keep getting these partial results out of iowa. compounding the errors they made on monday. >> ed: will we get the results by tuesday when new hampshire votes? at what point do the iowa results don't matter anymore? >> i don't think they matter. i don't. with new hampshire coming up and nevada caucus. that will be interesting. how is the nevada caucus work? what system will they use? of course, you move into super tuesday. unfortunately iowa will be a distant memory and the only guy who got a pass on this thing is joe biden. joe biden otherwise this would have been huge news to come in fourth or fifth moving into new hampshire where he won't do well. >> sandra: "the new york times" made that point. >> the joe biden campaign has a lot of work today. as a party is iowa the right first state to go to. a caucus the right thing to do? as the party goes into the next presidential cycle after this one they'll think are we sure we want iowa to be first? >> sandra: "boston globe" is making that point. new hampshire and iowa should not vote first. some things must die. >> media commentary. iowa is too old and too white. doesn't represent america. iowa is younger and more diverse than the five leaders in your democratic slate right now. the median age out of the top 5 is 70. you don't see a lot of diversity among that. >> when you look how our party votes and how the candidates look you see a party that's very much representation of americans. lgbtq folks and african-americans, latin americans make up our party. if we'll be a primary and the big 10 party we have to go to a state where all the votes are represented. can't be third and fourth state before you get from time to time voters. >> this is a harbinger of things to come in the national election. when you make voting so onerous and unpredictable. voting weeks before a national election. this is a prescription for disaster. go back to a simple, stupid system that everybody understands and it's fair to everyone. >> i agree with that. all the stipulations we've seen happen in places like georgia and florida, voter i.d. laws or laws that say voter purge. get rid of that to make voting as easy as possible. >> voter i.d. is important. >> make voting a holiday. >> it is a national holiday for presidential elections. >> , no it isn't. >> to think you have to build a custom app. >> there was not an app for that. >> we could work together voting a holiday across the nation. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: one of the american children evacuated from the province in china at the center of the coronavirus now in the hospital after developing a fever. the latest on that next. >> sandra: plus mike bloomberg doubling his campaign spending after the chaos in iowa this week. can he take advantage of all of that in the hawkeye state? 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yes, all over the airports, transportation centers everywhere. people are wearing them here at home. is that necessary? >> , no it is treating the fear of the coronavirus. when you wear one you are sending a message that the coronavirus may be around you. i don't like it. now, you could conceivably wear a mask to restrict the spread of flu over 20 million cases alone. people don't always wear the masks properly. i'm in favor of wearing them on planes by the way. i think a lot of coughing and sneezing goes on on planes. i like it in general. i don't want to signal coronavirus when we only have 11 cases. >> ed: a commissioner of the food and drug administration before. if the virus is silently spreading through people and only a fraction develop pneumonia it might take dozens of infections to notice an outbreak and by that time an epidemic will be hard to prevent. square that in terms of the concerns he is raising. >> very great point, ed. the issue is there may be some low level infections which would point that maybe the death rate is even lower than we think. this might actually have a mild component to it. many people getting it we don't know about. i think that was true in china. i think in china there is not just 25,000 cases. i think there is probably 50, 70,000 cases. what dr. gotlieb is suggesting is that if the virus takes root in other countries and starts to spread among people in other countries, we have what we call a pandemic. i think we're heading in that direction. we're heading in that direction but i also think that we should tell our viewers something that no one has said on tv before which is that these viruses the end to stop around spring and summer. so we're likely to see this outbreak stop and then could come back in the fall. i don't want everyone to think it will go on and on into the summer. probably not. >> sandra: we'll continue monitoring that situation. meanwhile another cancer diagnosis from a name that so many people have come to know over the last couple of decades, shannon dority, an actress on 90210. she battled breast cancer and now announced she has stage 4 breast cancer. here she is. >> it is going to come out in a matter of days or a week that i have stage 4. so my cancer came back and that's why i'm here. >> sandra: she decided to go public after keeping it to herself for some time. >> there is 27% five year survival rate for stage 4. what does that mean? usually means it spread to the liver or bones or lungs, brain. that's where it goes. she probably is still getting treatment. we don't know what kind she has. we don't know if it's hormone receptor positive or the exact kind she has. one thing for sure she is sending a message to cancer survivors everywhere. stay at work. she did a reboot of 90210. don't give up. keep going. another message that's extremely important and we have a breast radiologist that works with me here at fox. get screened. start at 40. no matter who you are or what your family history, get screened. >> ed: message of strength about rush limbaugh as well and what a moment it was in the state of the union with stage 4 lung cancer battling it. so many people praying tore rush limbaugh. >> he maybe has immunotherapy as an option. something we started to use for stage 4 lung cancer. >> appreciate you coming in. >> ed: it was a night of surprises and strong emotions at the state of the union. first lady melania trump presenting rush limbaugh with the nation's highest civilian honor. >> sandra: how this woman is turning her loss to help others who have served our nation. kelli hake is our headliner this morning. she and her son will join us next. >> president trump: sergeant haik now rests in eternal glory in arlington and his wife, kelli, is in the gallery tonight, a 13-year-old son and doing very, very well. any comments doug? 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[applause] >> sandra: what a moment that was last night. president trump in one of the most emotional moments from his state of the union address telling the nation about staff sergeant christopher haik killed during his second tour of duty in iraq. >> ed: his wife and young son were special guests. the roadside bomb that killed staff sergeant hake by solomony who was killed recently. >> sandra: welcome to you both. what a special moment that was last night. how did it feel for you? >> amazing. an honor to be there. >> ed: gage, you had private time with the vice president. you're in seventh grade in oklahoma. you told the vice president a little bit about what you want to be when you grow up. >> yes, i want to be in secret service maybe. >> ed: why? >> maybe just to make my dad proud that i'll be maybe i'll get to be in service like he was. >> ed: he certainly was and we're proud of him. >> sandra: tell us about your husband. >> yes. he was the most caring, amazing father and husband you can imagine. i like to call him the kind hearted comedian because he would make anyone laugh or smile. you could be having the worst day in the whole world and he could make you smile or brighten your day no matter what. he was an amazing man. >> ed: we mentioned the terrorist -- the vehicle was hit by a device. moving forward you're going after some of the banks that helped the iranians that fund the terror. >> we need help with congress and the department of justice to have our backs in helping -- we have an appeal right now and we need them to help us to talk to the courts and have our backs and push this forward and to show that have the courts interpret the terror law and how it should be. >> ed: go after the money that was laundered. >> right. right now it's not being interpr*eted the way i believe it should have been. we definitely need some help from congress and the department of justice. if we can have anyone to help the more the better. and it will help thousands of gold star families and veterans. >> sandra: thank you for what you are doing and for your family's service. you have a piece on the hill. surviving family members and victims of terrorist attacks now need both congress and the justice department on how courts to interpret the terrorism act to insure the people who helped maple thousands of america face accountability for what they've done. we saw the emotional moment at the state of the union last night. there was a moment as i mom i watched that so special and your son consoled you. gabe, that was a special moment. i hear you took a ride in the motorcade. how is that? >> it was breathtaking. i really don't know how to describe it. it's just awesome to get to do something that not everyone else gets to do. >> ed: kelli, the president talked about how your late husband said he wanted to be there for your son, all the special moments he is missing. when you look at this strong young man it must bring you a lot of pride to see how he is growing up. >> it does. chris would be proud of the man that gabe is becoming and i know that he is looking down at gage and knows he is a strong, kind hearted young man that is growing up to be the best man he can be. i'm so proud of him. >> sandra: why do you feel you want to take on this new effort, this mission? >> i feel like if i can have a voice to do anything for the american soldiers that have been hurt or the families of other soldiers that have been killed, then someone needs to talk. someone needs to tell everybody we need help and other people's help with our lawsuit and everything. if i can be the one to talk then i definitely want to do it. >> sandra: good for you. >> ed: when we visit the white house in a few years we might see a young man with a badge protecting the president of the united states. how cool would that be? >> that would be awesome. >> the president said if it comes round give him a call. >> ed: you have some high-level connections now. >> sandra: what do the kids think at school when they saw you at the state of the union address? >> we haven't had a chance to talk to anybody or anything yet. >> ed: gage and kelli we honor your husband's and father's legacy and you are keeping his memory alive about wanting to serve our country like he so bravely did. thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> sandra: for a look at some of the other significant moments from that state of the union address last night. >> president trump: i have good news for you. i am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over. i can proudly announce tonight that an opportunity scholarship has become available, is going to you, and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice. [cheering and applause] tonight we have a very special surprise. i am thrilled to inform you that your husband is back from deployment. he is here with us tonight, and we couldn't keep him waiting any longer. [cheering and applause] i am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. >> ed: the power of that moment with rush limbaugh. the soldier who came home. wife and kids didn't know he was coming home. >> sandra: amazing moment. >> ed: you see limbaugh there and the family not knowing until that very moment. >> sandra: that was just an amazing moment last night. what an honor it was to talk to kelli and her son gage now. that moment got me last night. they are incredible people and really living out -- >> ed: gage was nervous beforehand. i can't believe i'll talk to this many people. you saw how brave and composed he was. >> sandra: he has a very bright future. >> ed: mike bloomberg digging deeper shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars as he orders his campaign to double -- that's right, double his tv ad spending after iowa. >> sandra: president trump offering a strong economic message in the message last night. charles payne has brand-new reaction to that next. >> president trump: after decades of flat and falling incomes, wages are rising fast and wonderfully. this is a blue-collar boom. 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[applause] we're advancing with unbridled optimism and lifting our citizens of every race, color, religion and creed very, very high. since my election we have created 7 million new jobs. >> sandra: that was president trump last night taking credit for economic accomplishments over the past several years. charles payne with the making money on the fox business network joining us now. so he took a victory lap on the economy last for sure. >> and if his speech was tonight he would have added today the adp said 291,000 jobs were created last night. we found that refinancings were up 183% from a year ago. today we found out that gallup poll came out and they asked americans are they better off than a year ago? it came out at a record high. that's if the speech was tonight. since last night this is the news we've gotten. >> the governor of michigan gave the democratic response and not as excited as you. >> doesn't matter what the president says about the stock market. what matters is that millions of people struggle to get by. american workers are hurting. in my own state our neighbors in wisconsin and ohio, pennsylvania and all over the country. wages have stagnated while ceo pay has skyrocketed. >> ed: particularly that point about wages stagnating. that's not really true based on the data. >> that's an old speech. you took out the democrat speech book. you can say the opposition playbook, right? that's a speech that the party not in power gives all the time. there is a lot of truth to it. over the last 20 years blue collar wages have gone down considerably and this isn't even adjusting for inflation. they've just gone down. those things have turned around in the last two years. i look real good at the nuances. they came out with earnings last night. everything was up. transactions, average costs, group one auto have automobile dealersships in 30 states. sales through the roof for new cars and used cars. if you look at the surveys, whether it's a gallup poll or consumer confidence stuff we got late last week or the actual data from corporate america who has businesses on the ground, it speaks to a nation that is certainly on the rise. >> sandra: mike bloomberg spending a lot of money on the 2020 race. $300 million since getting in the race in november. >> wow. after iowa, there are a lot of people thinking about jumping in this bad boy. i have a shot. >> ed: he is saying he will double his ad spending. >> the wheels are coming off. he had a sort of gentlemen's agreement with biden. he saw biden was getting wobbly so entered anyway. biden one thing we know from iowa that's clear, two things. it was unmitigated disaster for the democratic party but more so for biden who at some point who was number one in the polls there, a couple months ago. bloomberg is smelling something here. i can buy my way into this bad boy because it's a rudderless ship. if you add sanders and warren well over 40% there. maybe sanders wins new hampshire. it will be hard to beat out the socialist part of the democratic wing. >> ed: as you say, if you consolidated that support there is a lot more on the left than in the so-called moderate. >> they're more energized as well. the argument over who can beat trump might be central when a democratic convention happens. right now it's looking like unmitigated disaster. that commercial bloomberg made spent $11 million on the super bowl. if you have $2 million it would have been equivalent to $300. that's how rich he is. an extra $300 million ain't much. >> sandra: a gain on the dow this morning. is that all the jobs report? >> we had the jobs report and this thing called -- an economic report on the service side of the economy that came out better than expected. a big part ofist is the state of the union address. >> sandra: a few more big days for the dow you're looking at 30,000. is that coming? >> people keep tweeting me. if we have a big jobs number on friday the official government number, i think we can see 30,000 in the next week. >> sandra: oh, charles payne optimistic. >> ed: a legal battle heating up between ancestry.com and law enforcement as police want to get to the database. why the case could go all the way to the supreme court. that's next. lease the 2020 rx 350 for $419 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? lease the 2020 rx 350 for $419 a month for 36 months. memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. garcy young woman: yeah, thanks mom mother: of course and i love these flowers young woman whispering: hey, did you bring the... the condoms? 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i'm a former homicide prosecutor myself. sometimes we develop dna profiles at crime scenes and no suspects. i think what law enforcement is trying to do is get into the ancestry database because they have the dna profiles from individuals trying to put family trees together. in this particular case, it is a case where there was a search warrant for information. ancestry published this transparency report from 2019 that said that we did not provide the data. so they say no, even with the search warrant it is defying a court order if they want to go that way and why it would go up the chain all the way up to the supreme court one day. >> sandra: what's the biggest hurdle for police here? >> the biggest hurdle is the fourth amendment of the united states constitution provides against unreasonable searches and seizures. with that means is when there is an expectation of privacy like this database, police would have to get a search warrant. when you get a search warrant you need to have probable cause a crime has been committed and there is evidence in a particular place. that's where i think the biggest hurdle would be. for law enforcement to say we have probable cause that the dna profile that matches is in the database, other than that it is a fishing expedition and they would be able to get warrants. >> sandra: a major resource considering this holds 16 million dna profiles. >> absolutely. major resource. there is a law enforcement database where law enforcement proper actively gets dna profiles for convicted felons, in that case that's why they get the profiles. not for family trees and ancestry. it's why there should be a stopgap by courts and judges to say if you don't have specific probable cause this dna profile is in the database there shouldn't be a warrant. >> ed: might it go to the supreme court? >> there is no track right now. this pennsylvania case did not lead to any appeals but i think ultimately it will. i think this issue front and center should be in the supreme court also cell phones. we hear about the terrorists in florida where apple is refusing to comply with law enforcement track. >> ed: same with san bernardino. >> you go on and on. ultimately we'll have to get an answer to these dna databases and whether or not track phones. >> sandra: the search for the genetic profiles that partially match dna from crime scenes and they build the family tree from the relatives to find the suspect. could be a major resource. those companies want to protect the privacy. >> we should all have expectation of privacy when we deliver our dna to this company that it won't be used. >> ed: thanks. >> sandra: impeachment trial expected to end in acquittal today with a final vote at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. will senators from either side of the aisle break ranks? house minority whip steve scalise will be joining us live next. we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. i'm good at my condo well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. this round's on me.eat. hey, can you spot me? 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we can be discouraged. but you're here. and the way i see it is i look at where we are. we've done iowa, we have new hampshire in just a week. are we ready to do new hampshire? [cheering and applause] >> the problem with the caucus tally is blamed own a new phone app where it recorded results fine by malfunctioned transmitting the data. it is backed up on paper. the result will be slow but accurate. >> the reporting of the results and circumstances surrounding the 2020 iowa democratic party caucuses were unacceptable. as chair of the party, i apologize deeply for this. >> troy price says every four years the nation has a conversation about iowa's first in the nation status. no doubt he says it will happen again. indeed it is. back to you. >> sandra: mike tobin on the ground in iowa. >> ed: more now with matt whitaker former attorney acting general who hails from iowa. >> proud iowan. >> ed: still proud this morning days later? >> what you saw is actually the tale of two parties. the democrats had all sorts of problems. the republicans. i was there and the president trump's reelection campaign was a well organized machine and republican party of iowa reported the results for the biggest turnout for a reelect ever. it was really a tale of two parties and it's a shame the democrat party of iowa couldn't do something they've been doing since 1976 when jimmy carter won the caucuses. just get the votes to the headquarters and count them. >> ed: no argument there is chaos and more chaos for iowa democrats. there was chaos for republicans in 2012 when mitt romney was initially declared the winner in iowa and counting hang on, it was rick santorum. >> i think the vote was close. 7 or 14 votes difference. i see the same thing playing out here. we keep holding at 62% and somehow buttigieg has this advantage in the delegate equivalent but bernie is leading the popular vote. it will be interesting when the dust settles to see who actually wins iowa. >> ed: you are a proud iowan. proud supporter of the president. you talked about being on the ground. he had an incredible turnout for an incumbent. setting records in all the rest. but i wanted to have you on to talk about the investigative aspect of this. one thing to figure out the results and we're waiting for that. you as a former acting attorney general of the united states, what kind of investigations may there be? there have been supporters of bernie sanders saying wait a second, we think there is some funny business going on here. it is leading to conspiracy theories. will there be an investigation to find out if there was something nefarious? >> iowa caucus is a party function. the secretary of state doesn't run the election. both parties are in charge of tabulating the results. the key is full transparency. each of the candidates -- i was down in centreville on monday night and i saw a very strong buttigieg turnout. so it's hard to tell depending where you are looking at this state who was the most popular candidate. in some of the college towns bernie sanders was more popular. but that being said, i think fundamentally since they have the paper back-ups it is going to be -- there will be full transparency and we'll know the exact tally on all three. listen, the fundamental issue is the democrat party of iowa made this too complicated. it is not that hard. 1600 caucus sites. to collect those, have people call in the results and tabulate them. something that has happened since 1976. >> ed: we had dan henninger on earlier and told sandra maybe the winner of all this may not actually be the folks who were caucusing that day, it might be michael bloomberg. watch. >> it's pretty clear to me that mike bloomberg won iowa. look, his candidacy is based on the idea that joe biden might fade. joe biden just faded in iowa. mike bloomberg has the money, the gravitas, he is willing to fit with trump. i think his numbers will rise very smartly over the next month. >> ed: react to that and the idea we've spent so much time saying how would joe biden do head-to-head with president trump? he may come in fourth here or worse in iowa and he is having trouble in new hampshire. talk about the state of the race. >> really, the demise of the iowa caucuses on the democrat side will be mike bloomberg. if you can show you can spend enough money, millions if not a billion to get the nomination the iowa caucuses in new hampshire, south carolina and nevada are irrelevant. it's all about the big states super tuesday and beyond. the state of the race is very interesting. i know this president is not afraid of any of these folks in a head-to-head match-up. joe biden has had challenges. he has been in iowa since the 90s running for president. to get fourth in iowa caucuses demonstrates that he is not the preference of the democrat party and where they stand today. warren and sanders and the liberal wing, it's their turn. their backers are enthusiastic and i expect one of those two will be the nominee. >> ed: when you say the democrat is not afraid, why the tweeting about mike bloomberg and the money he is spending? is the campaign concerned that if bloomberg does emerge after super tuesday as either the frontrunner or leading contender, higher up in the polls than he is now, that he could be formidable with that war chest? >> i just heard yesterday or the day before mike bloomberg saying the president is formidable and has a large pile of cash. bloomberg when he is not the nominee he might as well put his millions if not billions of dollars in a fireplace and burned it. the american people do not want what he is selling. may be effective sometimes as the mayor of new york following rudy giuliani's policies, i think ultimately he is having to step away from all the things that made him successful. mike bloomberg, the president i was with him last thursday and i just think he is excited about a general election where he can demonstrate what he has accomplished for the american people and lay out another four years of what he can accomplish. >> ed: he had that stage last night and laid out the accomplishments. last point on iowa's first in the nation status. you mentioned this. one of the deans among the reporters there on the ground in iowa had interesting tweets. had a good time. as i told john and amy from pbs this will probably be the last caucus we have to worry about. after the gop fiasco of 2012 iowa probably should not even try. here you have the dean of the media establishment in iowa admitting this may be done. what say you as a proud iowan? >> i will take the contrary to that. i think the iowa caucuses will be back in 2024. there is no better way to start this process. iowans are very engaged as you know in kicking the tires on all the candidates and finding out who is presidential timber and i think there is -- once the parties go back to the drawing board and figure this out and the democrat party in iowa figures out how to count votes i really think at the end of the day the iowa caucuses will be back in 2024 and be successful. >> ed: all right. optimistic view of what might be ahead. meantime matt we're still waiting for the results from the iowa democratic party. we have most but not all of them. appreciate you coming in. >> sandra: president trump mean while delivering his first state of the union address last night republicans chanting four more years. the tension with democrats was on full display especially between the president and speaker of the house nancy pelosi. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. reaction still coming in this morning. mike, good morning. >> good morning. leading republicans say president trump delivered a phenomenal state of the union address. >> i could have been no more proud of my president when he got up and fwaukd accomplishments and the american people and the blue collar worker that is watching this show and going to work. more worried about their jobs, kids, ballgames tonight than they are about the petty politics of nancy pelosi and adam schiff and the rest of them. >> on the other side democrats say the president delivering the state of the union did not receive rave reviews from top democrats. >> it was demagog, undignified. highly partisan and in too many places just untruthful. instead of a dignified president, we had some combination of a pep rally leader, reality show host and carnival barker. it's not what presidents are. >> today senators are giving 10-minute speeches laying out their views for each lawmaker on impeachment. >> that individual, that president betraying the trust of the american people undermining the strength of our constitution, that president must be removed from office. >> republicans keep insisting this is all pure politics by democrats. >> impeachment is a profoundly serious matter that must be handled as such. it cannot become a hail mary pass of a party to remove a president. effectively nullifying and election and interfering in the next. >> speeches continue for five more hours and the critical up or down votes on impeachment in the 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching all of it. mike emanuel on the hill for us, thank you. >> ed: still no winner in the iowa caucuses as we await the final results to come in at some point today. pete buttigieg and bernie sanders leading the pack at this hour. what it means as the candidates hit new hampshire. >> sandra: fresh reaction to the drama last night with speaker pelosi ripping up a copy of the president's state of the union address. bret baier was covering every minute of it last night and he will join us live here next. >> to have her stand up and tear up that speech really dishonored the moment and i really thought it was beneath the dignity of a joint session of congress. for veterans. va mortgage rates have dropped to near 50-year lows. newday usa can help you refinance your mortgage and save thousands a year. newday's va streamline refi makes it fast and easy because there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. i urge you to call newday usa now. with 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statement a few moments ago. we expect him to deliver a speech on the senate floor in about 10 minutes or so among other things he says with the eyes of history upon us he stays in a statement i'm acutely aware of the precedents this trial will set for future presidency. i'm particularly concerned we have now set a precedent that a fair trial in the senate does not include witnesses and documentary evidence even when those witnesses have firsthand information and the evidence would provide the senate and american people with a more complete picture of the truth. so interesting sandra because you have somebody the republican leaders will still be looking to see what joe manchin, another conservative democrat from west virginia will do here. whether he might even split the difference and vote to acquit on one article and vote to convict on the other. he gave a speech a few days ago joe manchin suggesting he would have preferred censuring the president instead of trying to remove him from office. that may have tipped his hand. doug jones is a tough reelection back home in alabama while republicans will be disappointed he is not voting with them to give them a quote, unquote, bipartisan acquittal they'll be happy to use it against him in alabama politically. >> sandra: democrats were sure heading into this and confident he would go in this direction. but he did leave the door open a couple days ago saying i'm getting through and going through all my notes and through everything. he did single out the second article on obstruction for scrutiny saying he is troubled the house didn't fight harder to bring in witnesses and that the administration had blocked. he also criticized the white house defense team along the way for concentrating on hunter biden's job on the board of that ukraine energy company burisma. he did share his concerns along the way that ultimately led to this decision. >> ed: doug jones seems to have tough words for the house democrats. impeachment managers but in general saying i'm also deeply troubled by the partisan nature of these proceedings from start to finish. so he is repeating something we've heard from republicans that adam schiff, jerry nadler and others were partisan from the start. doug jones a democrat says i implored my colleagues in both houses the stay out of the partisan corners. many did, so many did not. the country deserved better. we need to rise above the things that divide us and find the common good. doug jones now saying he will vote to convict. >> sandra: ahead of the vote this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. president trump and speaker nancy pelosi trading silent barbs at the state of the union address. the president appeared to ignore pelosi's outstretched hand at the podium. later the speaker ripped up the copy of the speech when it ended of the bret baier, thank you for waking up and being with us. it was late last night. we were watching your coverage. out of the state of the union address you jumped in and said wait, nancy pelosi is ripping up the speech. >> i think it was a moment. it was happening realtime. she was making her feelings clear behind the president throughout the speech. but that moment was just front and center. got a lot of attention from the media as he was saying thank you and saying goodbye essentially getting off of the dais there. she is doing that for everyone to see. these are moments. these are images and i think any fair-looking viewer of this would say that the president got the better of the images in the state of the union. they are words critics say he is reading words but they were more than that. they were moments. and when the african-american girl gets the scholarship, the opportunity scholarship, that's directly a policy point to how this administration wants to go after perhaps the african-american vote in some communities. when the family who lost their daughter to all baghdadi and others who lost family members to -- it takes on a new meaning for people watching. as you hold up the picture of the girl who was killed it takes on a different feeling. so he won the image moments. >> sandra: we just had kelli hake and her son on in the last hour. what a special family that is. there were a lot of moments like that last night. there was the book ended moments that are grabbing a lot of the headlines. the tearing up of the speech bret, of course, also the handshake or lack there of, the snub if you will. not sure what happened if the president deliberately did not shake her hand. she clearly extended her hand and the president did not shake it. we asked kellyanne conway about that for some clarity this morning and she said this. >> i'm not sure it was purposeful or if he noticed her or her extended hand. who cares? she is one of the faces of impeachment. she wants to impeach the president on the articles. >> sandra: she is not even sure if it was deliberate or not. maybe we'll hear from the president or not. the president took a big opportunity to take a victory lap on the economy. taking credit for booming growth in this country and the drop in the unemployment rate among other things. he did take the opportunity to tout democrats as a socialist party in that speech. >> president trump: as we work to improve americans' healthcare there are those who want to take away your healthcare, take away your doctor and abolish private insurance entirely. 132 lawmakers in this room have endorsed legislation to impose a socialist takeover of our healthcare system. to those watching at home tonight i want you to know we will never let socialism destroy american healthcare. [cheering and applause] >> sandra: that received applause and standing ovation in that room by the vice president. >> in that speech he is taking direct aim at the battle that's going on in the democratic party right now. the fact that in the wake of the disastrous iowa caucuses for the democrats, there is still this battle and uncertainty where the party is going. but for the most part it has tracked dramatically left especially when you think about the debate on obamacare where we were back then to where we are now on healthcare. healthcare is still a vulnerability for this white house, for this president. there has to be some movement on that issue because that is the issue as you heard from the governor of michigan last night democrats will hit time and time again because that's what won them seats in 2018. >> sandra: i'm sure you heard the red state democrat doug jones announcing his decision on impeachment for the president. vote to convict. let's listen to doug jones after making that announcement. >> he was also a fierce patriot who loved this country. although fortunately he was never called on to do so, i firmly believe he would have placed his country even above his family because he knew and understood fully what america and the freedoms and liberties that come with her mean to everyone in the country and to people around the world. i know he would have put his country before any allegiance to any political party or even to any president. he was on the younger side of that greatest generation who joined the navy at age 17 to serving our great military. that service and love of country shaped him into a man of principle that he was. instilling in me those same principles. think of him, his patriotism and principles and how he raised me i'm reminded of robert kennedy's words mentioned in this trial. few men are willing to brave the dils approval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. moral courage is a rare commodity in bravery in battle or great intelligence. the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. candidly to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle i fear that moral courage, country before party, is a rare commodity these days. we can write about it and talk about it in speeches and in the media, but it is harder to put into action when political careers may be on the line. nowhere is the dilemma more difficult than in an impeachment of the president of the united states. very early on in this process, i implored my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in both houses of congress to stay out of their political and partisan corners. many did, but so many did not. even the media continually view this entire process through partisan political eyes and how it may or may not affect an election. that is unfortunate. the country deserves better and we must find a way to move beyond such partisan divides. the solemn oath that i have taken have been my guides during a difficult time for the country, my state, and for me personally. i did not run for the senate hoping to participate in the impeachment trial of a duly-elected president. but i cannot and will not shrink from my duty to defend the constitution and to do impartial justice. in keeping with my oath as senator and my oath to do impartial justice i resolve that throughout this process i would keep an open mind to consider the evidence without regard to political affiliation and to hear all of the evidence before making a final decision on whether -- on either charge against the president. i believe that my votes later today will reflect that commitment. with the eyes of history upon us, i'm acutely aware of the precedents that this impeachment trial will set for future presidency and consciouss. unfortunately i don't believe those precedents are good ones. i'm particularly concerned we have now set a precedent that the senate does not have to go forward with witnesss or review documents even when those witnesses have first-hand information and the documents would allow us to test not just the credibility of witnesses, but also test the words of counsel of both parties. it is my firm belief that the american people deserve more. in short, witnesses and documents would provide the senate and the american people with a clear picture of the truth and i believe the american people deserve nothing less. that's not to say, however, that there is not sufficient evidence in which to render a judgment. there is. as a trial lawyer i once explained this process to a jury as like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. when you open the box and spread all the pieces on the table, it is just an incoherent jumble. one-by-one you hold those pieces up and you hold them next to each other and see what fits and what doesn't. even if as was often the case in my house growing up you are missing a few pieces, even important ones, you more often than not see the picture. as i've said many times i believe the american people deserve to see a completed puzzle, a picture with all of the pieces. pieces in the form of documents and witnesses with relevant first-hand information which would have provided valuable context, corroboration or contradiction to that which we have heard. but even with missing pieces, our common sense and life's experiences allow us to see the picture as it comes into full view. throughout the trial, one piece of evidence continued to stand out for me. it was the president's statement that under the constitution we have article 2 and i can do anything i want. that seems to capture this president's belief about the presidency. that he has unbridled power, unchecked by congress or the judiciary or anyone else. that view dangerous as it is, explains the president's actions toward ukraine and congress. some of what we've seen and heard is unfortunately a picture of a president who has abused the great power of his office for personal gain. a picture of a president who has placed his personal interest well above the interest of the nation and in so doing threatened our national security. the security of our european allies and the security of ukraine. the evidence clearly proves that the president used the weight of his office and the weight of the united states government to seek to coerce a foreign government to interfere in our election for his personal, political benefit. his actions were more than simply inappropriate. they were an abuse of power. when i was a lawyer for the alabama judicial inquiry commission there was a saying that the chairman of the inquiry commission and one of alabama's great judges used to say, randall cole. he said about judges who strayed from the cannons of ethics. the judge left his post. sadly president trump left his post with the withholding military aid to ukraine and a white house visit for the new ukrainian president. in so doing, he took the great powers of the office of the president of the united states with him. impeachment is the only check on such presidential wrongdoing. the second article of impeachment obstruction of congress, gave me more pause. i struggled with the house east strategy to fail to pursue witnesses. after careful consideration of the developments in the hearings and the legal precedents in the trial i believe the president deliberately and unconstitutionally obstructed congress with refusing to cooperate with the investigation in any way. i'm sensitive to protecting the immunity to the president and his advisors it's critical we also protect the authorities of the congress of the states. here it was clear from the outset that the president had no intention whatsoever of accommodating congress when he fought both witnesses and documents and smeared the reputations of the civil servants who did come forward and provide testimony. the president's actions demonstrate a belief that he is above the law. that congress has no power whatsoever in questioning or examining his actions and that all who do so do so at their peril. that belief unprecedented in history of this country simply must not be permitted to stand. to do otherwise risks guaranteeing that no future whistleblower or witness will ever come forward and no future president republican or democrat will be subject to congressional oversight as mandated by the constitution even when the president has so clearly abused his office and violated the public trust. accordingly i will vote to convict the president on both articles of impeachment. in doing so i am mindful in a democracy there is nothing more sacred than the right to vote and respecting the will of the people. but i'm also mindful that when our founders wrote the constitution they envisioned a time or at least a possibility that our democracy would be more damaged if we failed to impeach and remove a president. such is the moment in history that we face today. the gravity of this moment, the seriousness of the charges and the implication for future presidency and congress. i'm mindful that i'm standing at a decks that was once used by john f. kennedy who wrote profiles in courage and so many who will simply look at what i'm doing today and say it is a profile in courage. it is not. it is simply a matter of right and wrong. where doing right is now a courageous act, it is simply following the road. mr. president, this has been a divisive time for our country but it has nonetheless been an important constitutional process for us to follow. as this chapter of history draws to a close one thing is clear to me. as i've said before, our country deserves better than this. they deserve better from the president, they deserve better from the congress. we must find a way to come together to set aside partisan differences and to focus on what we have in common as americans. while so much is going on in our favor these days we still face great challenges both domestically and internationally. it remains my firm belief that united we can conquer them and remain the greatest hope for the people around the world. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent my full statement be printed in the record. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. >> ed: you listened to senator doug jones waiting to hear. >> sandra: the red state democrat doug jones said he had a lot of thinking and reading to do. democrats were hopeful he would move in that direction. he will vote to convict the president on both articles of impeachment formally making that announcement on the senate floor. >> ed: let's bring in steve scalise. republican of louisiana to weigh in on this and a lot of other issues. state of the union last night. thank you for coming in. >> great to be with you, thanks. >> ed: quick on doug jones as a democrat hopes in your party you would have a bipartisan acquittal. now it's down to since he wants to vote to convict joe manchin a few moments ago asked how to vote and he said three times 4:00 when the roll call vote is. he won't tell anyone beforehand. how important sit for the president to get at least one democratic senator to vote to acquit? >> in the house we had a bipartisan vote against impeachment. every republican voted no and we had democrats that joined with us. if you're voting based ton facts you would vote against impeachment. they never were able to identify a crime. they looked for one. the mueller investigation for 22 months. at the end of the day look, i think this will be a stain on the democrat party on speaker pelosi's speakership. they set out from day one to impeach this president. nothing to do with crimes. over 50 democrats voted to impeach donald trump because he criticized nfl players who kneeled during the pledge of allegiance. they put this country through this and wasted a year on their majority not fighting for men and women of this country. what president trump has been doing for families. they're focused on their own political power and it will be a stain on speaker pelosi's legacy. >> you say the democrats have put the country through this. a few moments ago democrat jerry nadler told reporters that either his committee the house judiciary panel or another committee will subpoena that man, john bolton. so a, i wonder your reaction to why democrats didn't do this months ago as you've been saying, why they're doing it now on the day that the president will be acquitted and b, doesn't this suggest the democrats after the acquittal are going to keep on investigating? >> they've tipped their hat a long time ago they're the party of impeachment. they said they might still try to impeach him more. read multiple articles of impeachment filed long before the whistleblower and long before the ukraine call. 58 democrats voted to impeach him for criticizing nfl players who kneeled during the pledge. it's all they have. they have no eye -- agenda. they sat down when president trump is talking about this young girl getting an opportunity scholarship to go to the school of her choice instead of a failing government school. that's where they are as a party. that's not where the country is by the way. there are democrats across the country looking in disgrace as what nancy pelosi did ripping up the speech containing the names of tuskegee airmen and soldiers who gave their life for this country and so many other great people. what makes this country great is what the president was celebrating and that's what they ripped up. they don't celebrate the success of america like president trump does and frankly that's why president trump has such a great case to make going into the election. they're the party of impeachment. it's all they've got. >> ed: were you surprised when rush limbaugh was honored. he is battling cancer in the fight of his life. i get the other democrats disagree with him politically. you didn't see the speaker standing when rush limbaugh was honored. >> it was another disgraceful moment. rush limbaugh inspired million else of people and still does to this day. i was inspired. i listened to him when i was a student at lsu learning about politics and government. he speaks truth to power on both sides, by the way. the fact that president trump celebrated him not just for what he has done on radio but in his battle against cancer. rush is a tough guy. i hope he beats cancer. everybody should have stood for that. it makes them look little as a party when they don't do that. democrats across the country are going that's not where i am. whether they agree or disagree with the president. if you can't stand up and celebrate what's great about this country. people battling for their lives. men and women giving their life. the killing of a terrorist who murdered hundreds of servicemen and women they can't stand for killing that terrorist. says a lot about them. >> ed: steve scalise. we appreciate you coming in. thank you, sir. >> sandra: some brand-new numbers now on the coronavirus. more than 490 deaths and 24,000 cases confirmed worldwide. the state department is still evacuating americans from china. jonathan serrie is on that story. >> approximately 350 americans are evacuating the epicenter of this outbreak flying from wuhan, china, to military bases in california. this morning two state department chartered flights landed at travis air force base. one of the planes refueled heading to the marine corps air station. the passengers will remain quarantined for 14 days as a precaution. public health officials say a child arriving with a group of returning u.s. travelers last week that was quarantined, the child is hospitalized after developing a fever. after the 11 confirmed cases in the u.s. 9 involve people that traveled to china and two are spouses of travelers. 99% of the world's coronavirus cases are in china. the limited spread outside of china gives the international community a window to invest now in controlling the virus. >> it's time to act, not to speculate and spread fear. >> in his state of the union speech president trump mentioned it as one of his healthcare priorities. >> president trump: we're coordinating with the chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in china. my administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat. >> investigators trailsed it to a wuhan market that sold live animals for meat. in two studies researchers say genetic analysis of the coronavirus originated in bats before being spread to humans. just moments ago the cdc announced it will be screening additional u.s. passengers arriving on additional flights later this week. those flights arriving at four military bases around the u.s. they, too, will face that mandatory 14-day quarantine. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: a student protest to fossil fuels getting personal. their university offering to grant their wish by 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sandra: they wanted the school to sell off investments in shell and bp. he said i can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. let me know if you support this proposal. they did not, kat. one protestor complained he was flippant. it is january and be dangerous they started to threaten. another suggested he was being provocative. he then issued this statement. you are right, i'm being provocative. i hope it is easy to request things that carry no permanent -- personal cost to yourself. >> if you don't give into their demands of doing something that won't effect them people equate that with not caring about the environment. it is possible to care and say what is a good way to approach this and a bad way to approach it and think critically. much harder than holding a sign to think critically about the issues. the only way to solve problems in a real way is to actually have those kind of conversations with yourself about these issues. >> 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the iowa that we can't do, but come in and see what we can do. caucuses which were supposed to we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. shift the nation's attention ask. shop. discover. at your local xfinity store today. away from the unsuccessful effort by democrats to remove donald trump from office after he was impeached by the house of representatives have instead thrust the tuesday's new hampshire primary while putting the best spin possible on what happened in iowa. >> math, for one thing we know, is that we are arriving with the momentum in the 2020 presidential campaign right now and we had a victorious night in iowa that shocked the public and will propel us to victory. >> iowa is what it is. right now i'm in new hampshire to talk to people about why i'm in this race and how we all need to pull this party together and we need to focus on beating donald trump. >> let's stay in a good spirit because you all know what happened out there in those precincts. >> now it is time for new hampshire to seek. and speak loudly. >> now it is on to new let's give them time. and i'm not being critical. let's give them time to work out hampshire. nevada. south carolina. the issues carefully because a lot depends on it. so we don't know precisely how california. and on ward to victory. many delegates we have but i feel really good about getting >> but for all of the energy and optimism, the candidates more than our fair share. frustration beginning to spill >> i'm really disappointed. out into the open. we came out of iowa knowing it here is mayor pete earlier today. >> the frustration is the is a tight three-way race at the timing. the results will come in and i will trust the results but we top. and that the three of us, wanted to see those results last night so that we could address buttigieg and bernie and i, will our supporters with a firm divide up most of the delegates official account in hand instead we're waiting for the official from iowa. numbers and at the same time we and that's important to note. know for the road ahead. >> unfortunately for mayor pete and all of the candidates for >> more reaction from joe biden that matter, that firm official and elizabeth warren after last count is not what was promised night's iowa debacle. as we expect to hear the first sat 5:00 p.m. tonight. results in about 35 minutes. but other candidates may argue it is a start. biden there urging the democratic party to be cautious iowa caucus confusion is where in reporting early results even we start with our favorite reporters. as elizabeth warren seems to former democratic senator claire name names and suggest the mccaskill, from the root jason results won't put him in the top johnson, chief public affairs officer from move on.org and tier. let's go to ali vitale. deon de pierre and michael what is the mood from there. jackson. and we'll start with the action. >> reporter: we know there are three tickets out of iowa and cal perry is in iowa reporting elizabeth warren is claiming one of them and we don't know which on the chaos thatten shoed last one, she's not jumping feet night. von hilliard is still in iowa. first into the i won pool like in new hampshire ahead of next competitors but she is trying to week is ali vitale on the road stake a claim and frame the argument that she's one of the and mike men alley is there and top three which tracts with the expectations her campaign has shaquille brucester has just been setting all week. and there is consternation landed with the sanders around the results and the chaos campaign. we just played mayor pete's last night and the number of man hours and months the campaigns reaction and it is on brand for mayor pete to speak to the spent on the ground preparing for the iowa caucus. on a call today with the iowa frustration that people feel. but the vibe or the signals democratic party and i was on coming out of supporters were there, troy price facing they were on track to have a questions from campaigns and not giving that many answers. decent showing last night. a lot of people trying to >> reporter: nichol, i just calculate if it is better for the results to come out in part talked to a came aide and they or if it is better to wait and expect, when the results -- do them in full. of course there is this desire to just plant the flag and that in about 56 minutes when the is kind of the fear when we were initial results are supposed to be released, the iowa democratic on this phone call, some of the people for the biden campaign parties has indicated that a majority, at least 50% of the for example saying, hey, wait a results, will be displayed here second, didn't we agree to a 99 at the top of the hour. but for the buttigieg campaign, county strategy and what are we that campaign tells me they doing with the 50% of the expect the results to indicate them to be competitive. results coming out. the pert to planting the flag is what you've been talking about really going mano a mano with throughout this entire segment, is that you want to have that bernie sanders. what you saw from the entrance iowa moment. it is all about momentum. polls but also in the numbers it is all about bouncing into they tabulated. new hampshire with buzz. they have their own results from the thing is, it is 4:30 almost about 75% of the precincts which the day after the iowa caucus indicate them to have a good shot at the lead in iowa and and we still don't know who won. and guess what is coming that is why you heard the south tonight? state of the union. bend mayor strike that tone. tomorrow we're back in he said at one point it was impeachment. those are a lot of news stories implausible hope and now it is that could swall up who won. that doesn't mean they don't undeniable reality that he has a want to win, it is bragging real shot at winning this rights and making clear they nomination and that is why he spent time and resources for a good reason but at same time you wanted to make that speech last do it for the buzz and i'm not night. it ultimately happened at 11:30 sure how much buzz the but it was a iowa moment he wanted to capture. candidates will get regardless the midwest man that needed to of the outcome. >> you get all of our buzz for win here or be highly competitive because if you look standing in the cold for us for beyond at polling in nevada, the first half hour of this show. south carolina and the i'm really grateful. super-tuesday states, he's still thank you so much, my friend. at single-digits. we have one more friend standing he needed to send a signal to in the cold. the rest of the country, his it is mike menially in concord campaign did, that he is new hampshire with joe biden. relevant to this race and if the so i'm most intrigued, not just results come out in about an by what the candidate is saying hour we'll know and have better and what the campaign is doing, understanding whether that is but by how they're feeling. truly the case. because my hunch is that they're >> and did you say it was 75% of feeling a little relieved. the vote in that they counted on this may have bought them one their own? he thinks he's in the lead? more day to say that they're closer to the top than they may >> reporter: they think that they are in the lead or at least actually be, at least in iowa. almost in the lead compared to bernie sanders. >> reporter: you're absolutely they said, yes, they have about right about that, nicolle. 75% of the results and to put because i think if not for the that in perspective, we're not debacle in iowa, we would have a expecting much more than 50% to real conversation right now come from the folks here in the about the precarious state of iowa democratic party. the former vice president of the united states and one-time >> von hilliard, it is never boring following your reports front-runner for the democratic from out there. nominee, joe biden. thank you for spending time with i base that in part on the body us. let me bring in cal perry. language leading up to iowa from the candidate and his campaign. he's still in iowa city. what all of those visuals we saw i enjoyed our conversations from caucus sites and the eds we were getting from others around immensely last night. and you have some incredible reporting. take me through what you -- what the state about how many places joe biden wasn't viable when you reported online, the emails they had promised they were going to be viable all across that you uncovered. just take me through what you've the state. and also on the numbers that unpacked in terms of how this we're getting from the other campaigns and even from the went down and who knew what, biden campaign itself, instead when. what you see and you heard from >> reporter: so every caucus has a chair. the former vice president at the 1600 and each has a charp top of the block here, he is sounding like the good cop while his campaign is very much playing bad cop. chairperson and they were putting out that letter to the talking online and complaining iowa democratic party last night talking about the acute about the app. i'll read you some emails at failures, the considerable flaws of this process. 9:09, nobody having trouble with kate benningfield the campaign the app. should feel dumb. manager talking about the and then i've given up on the integrity of the process being at risk. app i'm not going to use the they wanted to get the results app. i'm going to call in my results released to them, have a chance to review them before the someone jokes don't submit your release publicly. they are not at this point results and then at about 9:39 appearing to get that. so it is a real question of how a.m. the makers of the app email we go forward. the group with a new pin number, meanwhile the campaign, some of a new way to get into the app the staff is still in iowa deciding if and where to but it failed. i want to bring in mike carbury redeploy resources and shoring who was here in iowa city. up campaign donors who are how did the night go for you? skittish and wondering whether they're backing the right guy. >> the caucus went great. >> let me ask you two questions. the new procedures and if what we're getting at 5:00 is preference cards, that all went 50% of the vote, i'm guessing very, very well what the problem was getting the results in. that is easily accessible vote i realize that 5:00 when they said it was live, i put my pin and it may under-count some biden vote. in and got the error code and are they anxious about this 5:00 called the 800 number and they couldn't give me any help and said you're just going to have announcement? to call it in. >> reporter: absolutely. they're clear position has been >> did you talk to anybody on they should see all of the results before we see some of the 800 number, because people were trying to call. them. and nicolle, one of the points >> i got in early, at 5:00 and last night with all of the we tried to put my pin number in caucus results that we were seeing, the places were the and it still didn't work and i cameras were last night are not had had been trying to do this since the middle of last week necessarily where the biden and reached out to them but they said okay you have to use the campaign spent time. i spent time to rural, motel and phone-in portion. >> reporter: before i let you go. are we doing this again in four kc general store than bigger years, should we do this again cities that a lot of folks were in four years? >> iowa is a great place to looking at last night. and so if we're getting the start but caucus is maybe not results from bigger places and not the rural areas it may not the way to do it. there is all sorts of problems reflect what they consider their with the caucus system and we strength -- their strong areas saw them last night and the last -- in the last caucus. reporting process and we saw >> mike, you're certainly one of the most interesting spots at them four years ago when republicans announced the wrong this point in this. winner or maybe eight years ago. i have one last question for you. how many planes flew direct to but it inherently caucusing is new hampshire and how many planes carrying biden staff knew hard to do and run by direct to south carolina? volunteers. we have great volunteers here and the great staff. but we do elections really well. >> reporter: well that is a great question because i think and iowa should step up and say, my conversations with the listen, we don't have to be campaign leading up to this were first. but we could be second, third or depending -- they had different fourth. because this is a great place to campaign. you could go door-to-door. redeployment strategies based on different outcomes so without people in iowa loved to pick the knowing what the outcome is, they don't know where where to president and they think they do put their bodies. they had over 150 staff and they a pretty good job of it. surged resources into iowa and >> reporter: thank youment just there are people hanging out in to echo what mike was saying, a lot of people here are very des moines wondering where to go next. >> i'm guessing many will head upset. thousands of volunteers out for straight to south carolina. and i know we have to get you hours at a time and getting the caucus site up and running and inside before you literally freeze, but it is sort of like a you saw it last night, you were tenth life. if joe biden is at nine anchoring, and people left in the middle when the rules political lives having this changed. uncertainty lets him say as so people in iowa are upset about the way it went last claire mccaskill said this will night. have an asterisk by it until the >> stay up for our conversation. end of time. i want to bring in michael steel, as chairman of the let them count new hampshire and national party, i don't even south carolina as the new first know where to begin with what the state party has done to two. >> reporter: nicolle, i interviewed the former vice president last week and he said nothing that happens here on monday is going to end this the -- it is from their own party candidates. campaign. their whole argument is this is >> typically what would happen is from the state party a long haul and they would win and do well in the subsequent perspective is working in the primary, the first four primary contests and this gives them an states, you're going to be opportunity to make the case before we even know what the pretty much lockstepin final result is. but again with michael bloomberg coordinating and making sure all in the wings, this campaign once it moves beyond the first four of the principal parts are in and is an air war and not a place. so you rely on and trust the ground war and he needs state party. resources to compete and that is they're the ones who ultimately where the donor situation really choose what they use and how becomes a big concern. they put together their process. >> mike, your reporting is second to none on this biden beat. thank you so much for standing unfortunately tom perez is going outside for the longest of all to get the short end of this of our colleagues. very, very short stick. we'll send you some hand because as the national warmers. chairman, he has to account for thank you. michael steele, this is to me how this ultimately plays out. one of the more interesting and it is a little bit of an inside so on the back end you have to be able to go in and assess, analysis. but this may have bought biden a little bit of breathing room iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, you guys ready? that he might have needed. are all of the pieces you need again we don't know the results from last thiet. in place? but if it wasn't good for him what do you need from us? and that is where this thing this might buy him some time. began to break down. >> i may be off rails with the there was very little rest of the political -- >> which means you're probably coordination and conversation, at least from the folks that right. >> iowa and biden -- joe biden i've talked to from the dnc, with we got there and we're good never staked a claim in iowa. and then now all of a sudden we realize they're not. get over it people. >> claire, same question. he never came to play in iowa. he did -- he did i'm here. how does the party take a case okay. to the country that they can run but he never put it on the ground here. it when they can't run 179,000 he probably figured from the very beginning fourth, maybe person caucus. third on a good hit, a good >> i would say that the president, when he gets an acquittal, it will have an night. his play has always been south asterisk because of the unfair trial. well the iowa caucus this year carolina, his play has always will always have an asterisk. been grab a little bit maybe out i talked to someone answering of new hampshire, we'll be very the phones in the boiler room, who was a volunteer and he said competitive in nevada, south carolina. then you get into super-tuesday that people were calling in and actually giving results that where a whole lot of the base of indicated that a group that the democratic party shows up, wasn't viable in the first alignment became viable in the second. aka black folks, and he's just well that is not allowed under the rules. start picking off the states. this is a new rule -- and we saw now the x-factor in this is it last night. so what happened when they michael bloomberg. everyone thinks michael called in and said two delegates bloomberg is only going to play an air war. don't make that mistake. for candidate x, even though michael bloomberg is fully they didn't have enough for viability after the first go prepared to play a ground war around. he said well we had to take it. too. his staffing is well over -- because everybody had gone home. so that means that they've what 1,200 people -- awarded delegates to candidates >> making good money. that did not earn them under the >> very, very good money. >> so i think we need to step rules. back from the significance of which is really unbelievable when you think about that. iowa, what it means to joe and they're going to be able to biden, in my estimation and look go back and show that because when they did the first at what joe's team -- that last alignment, if a group went question was an important one viable they weren't entitled to with, how is he redeploying? any delegates at that caucus that night under the rules that where is he putting emphasis. they put out. so changing all of the rules, we wait to see thatment everybody will play the game in for a by enlarge older volunteer 30 minutes or less on numbers crowd that have been doing it from iowa but he's thinking a for years, on top of the app, on little bit ahead of the game and more long ball than a lot of top of them being ill equipped folks are doing. a lot of folks want to come out tops in iowa and think that to handle the questions. they've done more to switch to a barack obama and get slingshot to the nomination, sorry folks, primary than probably anybody that is not happening. predicted that they would. that is not in election. >> jason. >> it is such a smart take, >> yeah, this is -- it's just ridiculous how you could allow michael steele and such on brand something like this to happen. for joe biden. he has the threshold for a and the calls and contacts that little bit of pain. he could take the hits. i had last night and people but he had to count on two around the country, oh, gosh now people coming in above him or we can't trust the process. three or however many are ahead but when i look at the of him who were polling candidates, this is for mayor literally at negative zero among pete and bernie sanders, this is a la la land sort of moment and african-american voters in south moonlight. carolina. i was supposed to have my big >> right. >> right. moment and announce it and it >> exactly. >> who is going to beat him was taken from me by a mistake. there. >> it is so funny because i spent the last couple of days in in bernie sanders won, he didn't iowa and when you are there you get the opportunity to say i saw who had the impressive won. ground game. and if mayor pete -- and he it was pete buttigieg, warren might do well in other states, he could go to his donors and and sanders. and there were stories and say that he want and that is the stories that show that biden worst thing for both campaigns. didn't have then enthusiasm and >> and it was a year of work. it was thousands of volunteers. the excitement that there it was millions of dollars. weren't a lot of crowds and when if they were robbed of those you get out of iowa, in the opportunities, and i guess the past, whoever won would get the point is we don't even know if enthusiasm, would with get that. our pity is going to the right the money bump, the polling would be in their favor and now people. >> exactly. we don't know. that is gone. it doesn't matter what -- it is >> so we don't even know if they're the right recipient of gone. so now that enthusiasm that our sympathy. everybody was complaining that >> my pity goes to the staff. he didn't have, he's kind of the thousands of staff, hundreds like zeroed on out. of staff in iowa -- >> it is like a ball drop. >> the caucus-goers. like if the balloons dropped and >> the caucus-goers who put now you can't go back to the their blood and sweat and tears ballroom. >> he does have like nine lives into this process for almost a year and look at had a happened so he has another opportunity. now can they do it? to try to push the democratic process forward, this happened. can -- did they send folks to look, last night democrats were south carolina? will they have a ground game? supposed to bring their a-game. you have to bring your a-game if can they bring it? and that is the question that we you're going against donald don't know. trump and they failed miserably >> really quick. >> it is like when you were a and it is going to be an kid and you're like i didn't study for the test and it is a asterisk. snow day and is it doesn't and how do you convince new count, right. this was a snow day for joe hampshire, how do you convince nevada which would have the same problem and in south carolina biden. whoa, now we're doing the that you know, democrats got project and south carolina is this. your vote is going to matter, where he is good at and so he your vote is going to count. got a snow day. >> you just gave me a pit in my >> lovely to see your face stomach and i'm glad we have another 46 minutes. again. happy to see you. we're going to shaq brewster thank you for spending time with us. after the break, donald trump traveling with bernie sanders. and his campaign capitalizing on and in new hampshire. so let me play a little bit of conspiracy theories in iowa, bernie sanders but let me give imagine that. you something to address on the stories next. back side, jason johnson said if as a struggling actor, this is bernie sanders' night, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... he was robbed, so keep that in cut. liberty mu... line? mind. cut. >> obviously i am disappointed. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance i suspect i could speak for all so you only pay for what you need. of the candidates, all of their supporters and the people of cut. liberty m... iowa. am i allowed to riff? that the iowa democratic party what if i come out of the water? has not been able to come up liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. with timely election results. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance can't understand why that so you only pay for what you need. happens, but it has happened. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> he's got a point there. >> reporter: exactly, nicolle. whit looks like this. heart failure look like? ♪the beat goes on and you hear senator sanders entresto is a heart failure pill saying he's disappointing that the timely results weren't that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. produced but later on in the interview with reporters as he don't take entresto if pregnant; was answering questions on his it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. campaign plane, he said it would be unfair to suggest that the ♪la-di-la-di-di results that do come in are don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. inaccurate. and you get a sense of why. this campaign feels good about the most serious side effects are angioedema, what happened there. they think they are on the winning end of the iowa caucus low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. despite there are no official ask your doctor about entresto. results. just as von hilliard mentioned ♪the beat goes on yeah! that the pete buttigieg campaign released their unofficial doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? results and they did the same thing and updated it on the plane. memory support brand. it was only 45% -- or 60% of you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. precincts that they released today on the plane and they said prevagen. healthier brain. better life. they're ahead when you look at the numbers. so, yes, there are many supporters that i've spoken with, volunteers that i talked to, that say this is a moment that they didn't get to have. they were at the party last night and the drinks were flowing and they were ready to celebrate and didn't have the celebration. one interesting thing about last night is that senator sanders came out very quickly after vice president biden. he came out, he gave his speech and it was about ten minutes long and then what you had was his surrogate nina turner come on stage and say we don't know if there are more results. if there are more results, he a clear plan for retirement to help cover the essentials, will come back out to the stage as well as all the things you want to do. and address you then. because when you have a retirement partner he was in the hotel room for an who gives you clarity at every step, hour because they thought he there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. might have a chance to come out and have that moment. he didn't get to have the moment there to declare victory but hoping to get that moment here in new hampshire. nicolle. >> jason, i want to come back to you because nina turner -- vicariously, i'm still sweating just from watching that debate that you had with her. i mean, this is two sided for bernie sanders. i wrote down both the numbers, brgt maintained it was 75 and they're in the lead. bernie said with 60% and they're in the lead. it is double-edged, right, because neither of them may be in the lead and they may use this window to say we did better than we actually did. >> exactly. and here is the thing, nicolle, both campaigns have 100% of reporting in and they don't want to end up being contradicted by the state party. there is no way that the sanders campaign didn't have somebody at every single precinct with their own numbers. >> i'm familiar with recount spin myself. >> exactly. and the funny thing is the position of the surrogates right we're just a few moments now, because whether it is nina away from a big announcement in or nina speaking for mayor pete iowa. the party chair who is under and the other surrogates trying fire will take questions from to figure out what do we say? reporters, or at least address do we say we won. them. we'll bring that to you live elizabeth warren said i'm here when it begins. to talk to new hampshire. in the meantime, no stranger to everybody is in a bad position chaos and disorder, donald trump right now and your donors are also like i don't know. is rather predictably delighting in what is happening in iowa this afternoon. am i still supporting amy more than a dozen tweets and klobuchar because i don't know if he came in a strong fourth or re-tweets since last night on the topic and several hit double-digits. >> does this jam up that insinuating sinister activity. you might remember that is the moderate lane and after '16 i kind of environment in which he said i would not use the lane thrived and ultimately won in again but from watching the 2016 and repeatedly insisted that that election was rigged caucus-goers there were a lot of people with biden and klobuchar even suggesting he might not accept the results it if he and mayor pete as the first lost. now he's employing a similar choices and does that jam them up in that one of the three may strategy in this election aiming at democrats in iowa promoting have been dismal. >> no more so than elizabeth suspicion about a rigged warren and bernie jam up a process. joining our conversation just in time, former assistant director little bit the lane that is further to the left, those that want free college for everybody for counter intelligence frank and stuff like that. figliuzzi and from "the so -- >> that good stuff. washington post" and co-author >> yeah. of the "new york times" so i don't know how this shakes best-seller "a very stable out. amy is under a tremendous amount genius", and co-author carol of pressure because iowa, like pete, frankly, was very lentic and carl rucker is here. important to her. a tweet caught my attenti boile she is next door neighbor, she russia to sort of make us doubt spent -- she was all in and the credibility and the veracity pushed all of the chips into of our elections. iowa. so if she doesn't finish in the top three, if elizabeth noses explain. >> well, russia did a great job her out which is what we're of prepping the -- the prepping hearing, the top three are in the battlefield. so they softened us up and some order, bernie, buttigieg causing us to doubt anything we and elizabeth, then it is tough see. but i can only imagine what it on her. looked like inside of the and maybe she -- i don't know kremlin this morning with putin what she does. probably calling in his head of >> elizabeth warren has been intelligence and saying, hey, did we do that thing in iowa invoked and we have joe biden and we have reporters on the last night? and the head of intelligence trail with both of them on the other side of this break. saying, no, sir, the americans plus as we wait for the first results out of iowa. we'll turn to our friend frank managed to screw it up all by figliuzzi about the damage themselves. if this happened in a vacuum and already done about chaos around the caucus and what that could we had this in iowa without two do to the public trust in the final result. also ahead, a author of a dozen russians indicted for messing with our election, we very stable genius looks ahead would have said it is a technical disaster but we'll fix to what democrats fear will it and move on. but now we're all doubting all of the results and russia wins embolden donald trump following his impeachment and expected acquittal in senate. when that happens. and going to the big board with they've had this very effective steve kornacki to understand impact on our own perceptions and i've got some bad news in what the results will tell us about last night. stay with us. this regard, if you don't like d and flu symptoms without a prescription, what is happened in iowa, we're going to see it happen again in try theraflu multi-symptom. one shape or another. theraflu dissolves in seconds, get used to this new so it's ready to work before your first sip, and absorbs quickly to target and attack battlefield, this new lack of 8 cold and flu symptoms fast. trust and credibility we have in try theraflu. our systems because the longer we rely on technology, the more vulnerable we've become. >> claire, you were on the homeland security committee and this is where i miss a senate intel committee or a functioning bipartisan -- any of the national security committees to have gone out today and stood shoulder to shoulder and have said at a federal level, we're going to redouble our efforts to help maintain or restore the public's faith in the credibility of our elections. >> it is very frustrating as the ranking member on homeland security and keep in mind that the committee in the senate is also the government affairs committee. which is the oversight committee of the united states senate. ron johnson was the chairman. i kept pushing and prodding and writing him letters, we need more hearings on election security, we need more disclosure about what happened with russia. he just wanted to talk about hillary clinton's emails and some conspiracy, lisa page and peter strzok. >> well they had their own committee. they did that too, right. >> right. but they would not -- we maybe had one here -- hearing or maybe two on election security. when you look at what happened and the 12 russians indicted, the fact there hasn't been aggressive oversight of what happened and how to fix it for the next one, or legislation -- mitch mcconnell is sitting on the election security bill that came over from the house. he is refusing to bring it to the floor for a vote. outrageous. >> it is so upsetting. and if you look at the way the senate has handled itself in the context of the impeachment case, that the house managers put forward, they're going to do donald trump's bidding and his bidding seems to be in the opposite direction, to sow distrust of the election. >> before he was even elected president donald trump had had a strategy to sow distrust in american institutions, first and foremost our election system and trying to do that on the campaign trail in the fall of 2016. but across the board remember after he took office he complained about alleged voter fraud and said there were three to 5 million illegal votes cast in california and that is not true and he insisted it in front of congressional leaders, speaker pelosi among them and this is just more evidence for him to create doubt about our elections throughout this campaign year this year so that when the election happens in november, his supporters may believe that the results aren't to be believed. >> it is a terrifying prospect. you've got some reporting and your colleagues today about an emboldened donald trump. i have a hard time imagining other than streaking across the south lawn what that would even look like. he functions as a -- but he functions as highly emboldened and unrestrained and uninhibited person right now. just explain what that might look like? >> well we've seen it -- >> leaving my example out of it. >> we've seen before after the mueller investigation concluded for example when the president feels like he gets off without the accountability that his actions may have deserved, he feels emboldened and pushed through the guardrails. the guardrails at this point are gone. there is no jim mattis or john kelly or reince priebus at the white house and the expected acquittal tomorrow in the senate is just another step that our reporting shows is likely to embolden him and make him trust his own impulses and instincts and feel there is nothing that could stop him. >> and largely because he's not being held accountable. so you take accountability out of the system, that is the ultimate guardrail. that is not an individual, it is the entire piece. you get what you get. >> i want to explain what we're waiting for now. ahead of the first results being released out of the iowa caucus from last night, that is expected but ahead of that the chairman of the iowa state democratic party is expecting to come out and frank figliuzzi, i come back to you and see if you could stitch together what feels like desperate dots but the frez was just impeached by the house of representatives for trying to cheat in the 2020 election and the first contest in the democratic prime of 2020 is now as claire mccaskill and jason johnson said forever stained with an asterisk. what is the sort of role for law enforcement or for congress or for local officials in terms of right now, right now today reassuring the public's faith in the credibility of american elections? >> this is all about accurate, honest, candid messaging. it is crucial to get this right. even if it means that somebody at the state party level may have to announce they're resignation. we need people to come out -- and by the way, i've spent the morning talking with my contacts in various federal government agencies and the good news is there is absolutely no evidence that this is foreign meddling. this is a technology screwup but more importantly this is a failure to test the system, to train how this app works but they had plenty of notice. we've all been saying, it is not about the tabulation of the votes, it's about the transmission of results and here it happened. so we need an honest explanation, we need a way forward and we talked about senate walking away from this. mcconnell saying it is not a federal problem, we don't want to take ownership of this. there is one reason they don't want to take ownership because it is highly complicated and fraught with peril but we need somebody to step up and say this is what happened and this is how we're going to fix it. we own this problem. we're going to hake it better. if we don't hear that today, the public is right to be very troubled and concerned about moving forward with election results. >> and jason johnson, that is from a counterintelligence world view and federal law enforcement view. what is your view as someone more familiar with the complicated contours of the democratic party? is this scalp worth giving to reassure confidence in this process? >> they need to reassure confidence but i think the problem is who is the democratic party you're speaking to. you have supporters of bernie sanders who were skeptical of the process anyway and the joe biden people who say this is bad because the other party is bad. you don't knee who the propaganda -- who the apology letter needs to go to because democrats are in so many different places and again as a whole, do i think this worries somebody in california voting on super-tuesday. probably not. but does this worry people in nevada and make people in general doubt the effectiveness of the process, that is a bigger issue. >> and other than sort of gleefully enjoying the mess of all of this is the trump campaign picking up anything about this murky field when we reported that michael bloomberg made a decision to double down and to spend more, to advertise even -- i don't know what doubling infinite looks like in terms of the math there. but this seems to be strengthening some of the people that donald trump should be most nervous about. >> that is right. and if you look at the last several months, this is probably the best day on the trump campaign. the gap on poll shows his approval at the highest point since his presidency began and approval in the economy is higher than in two decades, he's about to address tens of millions of americans tonight in the state of the union and claim victory for the economy and for killing terror orrists and the democrats can't seem to count the heads in the gymnasium in iowa, literally, so it is a real problem for the democratic party at a moment when trump is gaining steam and about to be acquitted. >> so a perfect time to go back to von hilliard on the left side of the screen. because iowa's democratic party chair is about to make an announcement ahead of releasing the very first results. you heard it from phil rucker, the easy sort of insult for democrats on the part of the president is they can't even, as a party, count the heads in a gymnasium. do you think we'll get a answer to that, von hilliard? >> reporter: a couple of staffers have walked into the iowa event center. this is where the results were supposed to be announced last night. we're awaiting troy price, the chairman of the iowa democratic party to take the podium at any moment and he was slated to take it here at the 45 mark and the initial results in which they're indicating a majority of the results meaning at least 50% of the results were supposed to be posted here online in the next 11 minutes. we're waiting for troy price and this is an uncommunicative party. when it comes to communication with the press, the only communication taking place outside of paper statements was last night in the 1:00 a.m. in which troy price held a conference call in which he spoke for 74 seconds before abruptly hanging up. there is a litany of questions this which you were were just tg about, as well as our colleagues have been asking these questions here of the party for months. in terms of who has tested this app, when was the app prepared. who was the company that was reviewing the app. these are the questions they did not answer all the way up to caucus day. why was it not required that these precinct chairs. you had individuals, locals that were trying to run this app, there is no statement that's been made as to why these individuals were not required, why there was no testing of this app, because the party is blaming a large part of this on coding. why was there not a required testing of this. there are issues that the party has not answered. consequently you have every presidential candidate leaving the state. all of us here to parcel entrance polls as well as these campaigns putting out their own individual standings of the results based on what their organizers were telling us here. this is the sight here, i'm trying to get a sense of, as you can see the cameras, our photog who we've been hanging out with in iowa. the cameras have left the podium and are moving up, this is an operation in which the reality is, there's serious questions about whether the iowa caucus will be taking place again. four years ago, there were question marks. this is complex, and i think the question is also, when we're looking at these results, i was on the phone with a buttigieg aide it could are real that perhaps bernie sanders is the top or elizabeth warren. ultimately, these other precinctses come in, that's when results could change. i was talking with tom courtney, he was one of those precinct chairs, he initially sent in the information from his precinct. i called them in the last hour, he said that several chairs were all meeting up with the local union hall in burlington and actively sorting through their paper trails. and who are they waiting for some someone from the iowa democratic party to join someone in burlington three hours away. do we have that information from burlington, iowa. we don't know. i guess that's a lot of what we don't know. we haven't known much for the last 22 hours. hopefully troy price will do more than make a statement and answer some of these questions here. >> steve kornacki has some answers to our question. i think phil rucker crystallized it until a gut punch of a way. the republicans have a decent argument to make, if they can say the democrats can't count 179,000 people in auditoriums. >> you say 179,000, let's see what the turnout is. we have the iowa democratic party giving us an estimate, let's see if and when we get these returns if it matches up with that. they are saying in a few minutes at least the most recent statement we have, we're going to get about half starting at 5:00, could that be all at once? will that be trickling in, that's something we don't know. the other thing we don't know, let's say we get half of the vote, let's say we get half of the results, very critical here where that half is coming from. there are five counties here we've been talking about. if it's coming from those five and not the rural areas, that would be advantage sanders. if he leaves and you're seeing johnson county, where iowa city is, university of northern iowa, if you're not necessarily seeing some of the rural areas where sanders struggled a bit, that's context if he were to take the lead in this conversely, if you were not to see those counties reporting that's also context, we're going to hopefully get returns here, and we're going to start to get some clarity, again, the indications are we're going to get half of the vote that's out there, we don't know which half, we don't know what form the iowa democratic party said in advance of this thing, they're going to give us three numbers, the initial preference, the state delegate equivalent we are hope that's what we get here. there's a lot of hoping that's been going on for the last 24 hours here, we're sitting here at this moment with zero, we'll see. >> michael steele it is a stunning indictment of the process so far. i mean, this was four years in the making, it's been four years since the last iowa caucus. vaughn's reporting on the app not working. gave me chills. the app didn't work, no one knew if it would or wouldn't work. i mean, people put more thought into things without consequences that they do on their phones. >> the thing about something like this is, what we would always do at state level, when i was the state chairman, especially at the national level. you bring something new to the table, you stress test it, you run a mock trial if you will, in this case, a mock caucus to see where your bugs are and try to work those out beforehand. the fact that no one paid attention to that is stunning. >> again, a little bit contrary in here, i wouldn't be doing this right now. >> yeah, i would not be holding this conference. >> ten minutes late, he might -- >> you'll release all at one time. >> all right, let's listen. see what he has to say. troy price, the chairman of the iowa state democratic party. >> thank you for taking a little time today to chat a little bit about what happened last night. the reporting of the results and circumstances surrounding the 2020 iowa democratic party caucuses were unacceptable. as chair of the party, i apologize deeply for this. last night we were faced with multiple reporting challenges and decided out of an abundance of caution, to protect the integrity of the iowa caucuses. and their results by taking the necessary steps to review and confirm the data. a thorough transparent and independent examination of what occurred yesterday will follow. let me be clear my number one priority has been on ensuring the accuracy and integrity of results. we have been working all night in the best position to report results. here in a couple minutes. we will be reporting 62% of precincts from all 99 counties. the bottom line is, that we had a stumbling block on the back end of the reporting of the data, the one thing i want you to know, we know this data is accurate. and we also have a paper trail and documentation that have been able to use to provide information to help verify the results. this is personal to me. i'm a lifelong iowa an. i have caucused for 20 years. and i know how important it is for -- to our party to our state and to everyone from our neighbors to new voters to be able to come together all across the state. we want iowa ans to be confident in the results and in the process. and we are going to take the time that we need to make sure we do just that. i know folks are going to be wanting to see the results as they come in. i'm happy to take a couple quick questions before that happens. >> how can anyone trust you now. >> we have been working day and night to make sure these results are accurate, the one thing i will say, is that the underlaying data, the raw data is secure. it was always secure. this was a coding error in one of the pieces on the back end. the raw data is secure. and i can assure iowa ans of that. >> are you worried it could cost you your first in the nation status or endanger the caucuses as a nation? >> this is a conversation that happens every four years, there's no doubt that conversation will take place again. right now, my focus is making sure we get these results out. we are going to continue to do that, we will have the results out as soon as we can. jeff? >> when do you believe you will get to a higher percent. >> how can you ensure americans that these are verifiably accurate results. >> we're going to take the time we need to get these results done. now that we have the first patch that's going to be coming out here in a couple minutes. we're going to go through our processes, verifying everything. we have a paper trail, we have always said all along throughout this process, that we have backups to this system, that we have redundancies built in. one of the ways we do that, is through the paper trail. the fact is, is that as we started doing this last night. it took longer than we expected. the paramount concern is making sure that these results are accurate, and reflect what happened last night in caucuses across the state, we're going to do just that, and that's -- we're going to take the time we need to do that. >> when was -- when was the app submitted for an independent clear party? why was the app never tested statewide and why would the party deny testing the app? >> i have no knowledge of the department of homeland security making that offer to us. i will say that we have worked with cyber security experts to test this app and to do testing and security checks on this app. we have -- we took the steps we thought were necessary, but we found a coding error last night, once we discovered some irregularities as the results started coming in. >> why was it never -- will you have internal testing? >> were there any coding discrepancies during the third party testing? >> no, there weren't. >> that's why what happened last night is
former mayors, mike bloomberg and pete buttigieg seem to be gaining ground while joe biden is down 11 points from last month. let's go to our road warriors. josh, mayor bloomberg is preparing for his first presidential debate and the campaign is on the defense again after more comments from the mayor's past have resurfaced. walk us through it. >> that's right, stephanie, mayor bloomberg trying to climb out of a mountain of past controversial comments that have been brought back into light over the last week or so as he's been surging in the polls. just in the last 24 hours or so, we've seen new comments he's had to try to respond to, including comments about blacks and latinos faring more poorly in schools. as well as remarks he made as recently as last year where we referred to transgender women as he, she or it. a in all of these instances mayor bloomberg saying this doesn't reflect the way he feels. emphasizing his record as mayor shows he cares very much about trying to support minorities and other communities that have been disinfranchised. the big question heading into tonight's debate, how will he explain this, deal with this. the bloomberg campaign saying he plans to flip the switch and go after his competitors, more i have no deals that could happen in russia because we have stayed away. specifically bernie sanders. joining us is robert lang, and i have no loans with russia. i have no investments in russia. none whatsoever. joel payne, brett stephens, and i don't have property in russia. i mean, i have nothing to do with russia. i don't have any jobs in russia. former democratic congressman i'm all over the world but we're from new york, steve israel. not involved in russia. i have nothing to do with russia, folks. the congressman has thrown his i have nothing to do with russia, i told you i have no support behind former vice deals there. president joe biden. i have no anything. brett stephens, let's talk about >> it is time for money in mayor bloomberg, this is the first time we are going to see politics and that of course was the president saying over and him alone on the stage. over that he's got no deals, no not with his very skilled, very nothing in russia. despite his own fact that expensive machine behind him. >> i think he's going to have a don jr. once told a manhattan hard time. you have candidates who have conference, russian makes up a gone through nine debates. even if you're not a good pretty disproportionate part of our assets. debater, that gives you tremendous practice. so the truth, the truth is still up clear but if there's one i don't think mike bloomberg is used to the intense questioning, i don't think he doesn't do well place that it could intersect under it. it's deutsche bank. one of the most oldest financial i hear he's been prepping extensively, as he should, he's going to face tough questions institutions in the world. i spent eight years working for and if he's not able to answer deutsche bank and the next guest them or change the subject, he's has written about the ties to president trump. the result is the latest book, going to be in real trouble. "dark towers." if that happens, he will have he's the finance editor of "new destroyed the moderate lane while not advancing his own case. >> take us to the state of york times." david enrich. some executives at deutsche had nevada. what are you watching out for discussed the pit falls of the tonight? robert, can you hear us? trump relationship and they were worried. they talked about trump's well >> yes, i can hear. documented ties to organized can you hear me? >> yes. what are you looking for tonight? >> can you hear me? what we're looking for tonight crime and the possibility that trump's real estate projects were laundry mats for ill list from las vegas is this. it funds from countries like las vegas is the first really truly big city the democrats are russia. elaborate. going to be in, because it's a >> well, this is -- it's been globally connected place, it has publicly known for a long time over 2 million population. that he's had brushes with the the biggest city before this is organized crime world. des moines. this is the first time the and what's less publicly known democrats are in a space that is that trump has been in democrats typically win. you have to win places like las business with russians and in vegas because if you with win las vegas you can win phoenix some cases deutsche bank and charlotte and other cities facilitated the relationships. in the sun belt that are the i found that deutsche bank held alternate strategy to the gatherings, partying, events midwest that democrats have that they would introduce trump traditional won in the past. to wealthy russians and people >> i want to go back to mayor closely connected to the bloomberg. when he was running for mayor in kremlin. and these russians were looking for places to park their money in the west in particular in 2005 he had to answer a question i have a feeling he's going to real estate. and they were introduced to have to address tonight. trump for those purposes and, take a look. >> four years ago, you warned you know, that's something that has not gotten i think quite as much attention as it deserves. against obscene spending. >> then why is your book the how did you define obscene only place we're seeing this? spending then and how do you define it now? >> i'm trying to get my message right? deutsche bank has been out to everybody. subpoenaed. the president tried to block it. every community, every single the next place it's going to the person regardless of where they supreme court. why? and will we ever actually see live. i'm doing it by buying time on at? >> well, it's interesting, we'll television, radio and in print. >> what's his argument going to see next month when the oral -- be? he spent $400 million. the oral arguments at the supreme court if they have to comply with subpoenas from is the argument if you're going to win the game you got to bring congress. i think it's a good chance they a gun to a gun fight? >> i think that's a part of it. have to hand over all of the materials it has on donald look, i'm a former opposition trump, and one of the things i have tried to do in the book is researcher too and mayor really explain the kinds of bloomberg has proven himself to stuff the bank has that could be be an opposition researcher's damaging to the president which dream. we've seen over the last two explains why he's fighting tooth weeks unprecedented unloading of and nail to keep this stuff secret. >> are they fighting to keep it secret, do they cooperate with opposition of the mayor from his you? >> no the bank didn't really comments to stop and frisk, cooperate. they answered some of the redlining, to his attitudes questions late in the process. about transgender people. but i would not describe our i think tonight will be the relationship as cooperative. >> what was your biggest first opportunity the other takeaway with this pack? candidates have to frame him for >> the biggest takeaway with the a national audience. book i think is that shows how he's essentially run an when one institution is run in a unopposed, over the top reckless, out of control, amoral campaign. it's the campaign that joe biden kind of wanted to run, he was manner the consequences for the just not able to do so because he had to be a part of the mix. world -- not just for the banking industry who bloomberg tonight has to be part care about money or investing of the mix. but the consequences are huge. he has to survive in advance. i don't know if he has to win not just the election of tonight, i think he has to president trump, although that's endure tonight. one point. it's the economies all over the he has to take the punches, give world that have been destroyed, companies, individuals' lives. it's really a tragedy in a lot of ways and i think it shows the some counter punches and stand up to the bright lights of perils of big institutions pursuing short term profits tonight, which his supporters feel he'll do. above everything else. >> congressman, the last time >> it's a tragedy yet, the you joined us was just before new hampshire. you said that was the opportunity for vice president president sits in the white biden to go big and maybe senator amy klobuchar to step aside. house and deutsche bank is since then she's revved up and literally at the new york stock he's moved down. do you feel the same way? >> we're at the early stages. exchange ringing the bell. >> i didn't know that. we had a conference call with >> is the bank suffering any consequences? i mean in this book one of your vice president biden and his sources is the adopted son of wife and campaign manager last a -- of the former cfo of the whole bank who has since killed friday. i would characterize that himself. there's tragedy all over this conference call as one of realistic concern but not thing. >> yeah. dispair. here's why -- it's part of the grisly pattern >> what does that mean? of the bank where a number of >> biden's path is anything but executives including one who had been involved -- the manager of forclosed. if he comes in second in nevada, the making all the trump loans committed suicide. first in south carolina, he goes as a reporter it has been very weird and difficult honestly to be dealing with these people who to super tuesday with a slight delegate edge and then he has to do well on super tuesday. are many of whom are suffering that's over 1,300 delegates. severe personal problems. he does have a path. and you know the bank i think it's not the path we considered has suffered real consequences. the reputation has been hugely at the beginning of this, but it is a realistic path. the second is, i think history is instructive, look at 2008 on tarnished not just by the trump the republican side, john mccain connections but the losses they have suffered as a result of their recklessness. but look the people in charge of entered as the clear front the bank have a lot of work to runner and then struggled for do in cleaning it up and i think several weeks. he had to reset his campaign. one of the first steps they should be taking is being as he goes on to win the transparent as possible about nomination. we have one or two percent of all of the work they have done the electorate accounted for for donald trump and their family. >> but they haven't. >> well, not yet. i think they're ready to comply with the congressional subpoenas if the supreme court gives them now. there is clearly time. the all clear. but my candidate, joe biden that's anybody's guess if that's needs to do well in south going to happen. carolina and reset on super >> we'll soon find out. tuesday. >> john mccain won new hampshire congratulations on this book. in 2008 that's what made the "dark towers." difference for him. >> he did win new hampshire, but he still -- he continued to debate day is here it's hosted struggle in other states. by msnbc and nbc news tonight. we know that michael bloomberg and ledid need to go back and will be on the wing and bernie kind of consolidate his campaign, his money gbegan to dy sanders and joe biden in the up, had to put it in a different middle. dynamic and he went on to win. i will be joining kristen welker >> when you look at the latest on nbc news now for predate coverage. we'll be right back. nbc news poll, you have bernie l estate cr, solar incentives... sanders with a double digit lead and we have no way to integrate all that? 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>> i think that -- you know, you have to ask culinary about why they didn't endorse anyone in this race. i think it's their prerogative to get in or stay out. but i think they've been vocal, if you will about the kind of health care plans that would benefit their membership. if you look at what they said, that health care plan is biden care. there will be a number of people on that debate stage tonight, stephanie, and other people watching, like donald trump, who is in court right now trying to take away folks' health care. and there's folks on the stage wanting to do away with obama care all together. so joe biden is the only person on the stage that's going to defend obamacare and build on its success with a public option, lower cost across the board. that's the exchange you can expect tonight on this stage. >> then the second lane is going to be to focus on guns and gun control. how can he fare against michael bloomberg who even the nra considers their number one foe not john bolte biden. >> joe biden is the only one that's beaten the nra twice. tonight votersaken on big fits and won. when it comes to obama care and guns, joe biden has done that. looking at folks' track record, joe biden is the one to deliver on this. >> in order to deliver you have to get the delegates, 145 days left until the convention starts in milwaukee. right now he has six delegates. what's his path to get to 1,991? 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when you think about the rise of elizabeth warren, at one point she was in first. when she saw things trail off was when she explained how she would pay for medicare for all. he's never had to explain that. is she going to press him on that point given her sensitivity? >> reporter: we'll see. i think medicare for all was the turning point and their explanations were different. elizabeth warren asked about the impacts on middle class taxes she said here's how i would pay for it would raises taxes one penny. however she came out with her transition plan, people said that wasn't good enough. some surrogates for bernie sanders, i'm thinking alexandria ocasio-cortez, have said there could be compromise on medicare for all, i feel like that could come up on the debate stage. while they're the same the consequences have been different for one candidate versus the other. >> i'm going to bring in john ralston, editor of the nevada independent and one of the five moderators at the debate. moments ago you tweeted you have big news about nevada. i want you to break that right here. >> of course i saved it for you, stephanie. the news is yesterday, the last day of early voting in nevada, there's four days and the caucus is on saturday, 33,000 or so turned out. not all the ballots are counted yet. let me put that in perspective. that's almost as many as turned out in the first three days combined, meaning about 70,000 have turned out, only about 80,000 turned out total in 2016 on caucus day. so there's going to be huge turnout in nevada. maybe a sign of enthusiasm. >> who is the enthusiasm by? is it by centrists who maybe for years and years never felt like they needed to participate in a primary, or is it by a whole new crop of voters who are saying i'm done with this system, i'm ready for a change? >> that's a great question. let me say a couple things about that, stephanie. first of all, the data that's been extracted so far that i know of, shows that more than half of the voters are new caucus goers, they didn't caucus in either 2008 or 2016. so that tells you something. but i got to tell you another thing. the best organization here is bernie sanders' organization. he is exciting young people, as you know. so i think that bernie sanders' campaign thinks that the big turnout benefits him. >> john, news rooms like the one i'm in new york and washington are saying that tonight is all about senator sanders and mayor bloomberg, is that what people are talking about because mayor bloomberg is not part of the caucus. >> right. he's not on the ballot here or spending part of his fortune in ads here. but i think there's curiosity in nevada about michael bloomberg, nobody knows about him. his group actually spent a lot of money here in the 2016 cycle, i forget the exact number but probably about $10 million, so he got some name recognition because the opponents attacked him in their paid media. but people don't know anything about him and he's the wild card in tonight's debate, and i think there's a lot of interest in him here in nevada. >> things get wild in vegas, we'll see what happens. john thank you so much. good luck tonight. joining us is steven kluback, a substantial donor to the democratic party specifically in the state of nevada. this is your territory, steve, how do you see the caucus playing out? >> i think the caucus is playing out well. i've been involved with the state party for decades and they've done a wonderful job. >> you have blasted democrats in the past for attacking millionaires and billionaires. right here on this show you told me that you spoke to house speaker pelosi and senate minority leader schumer, saying if they use the term billionaire again you're done. what happens if bernie sanders wins? i'm sure he has a lot to say about billionaires. >> no one but bernie. come on, he's an anarchist, he would love to burn down the united states. corbyn didn't work in england, bernie ain't going to work in the united states. >> steve you said over and over that enough is enough when it comes to president trump. is it truly an emergency if bernie sanders is the candidate -- if he's the candidate and you can't vote for him, are you really saying that donald trump is that much of a threat to our future? >> anyone but bernie. anyone but bernie. >> then is the democratic party still your party? senator sanders is in nevada this week with ten, 15,000 people going to rallies. are you not part of the democratic party? it seems like a whole lot are right there. >> well, i think tom perez needs to step down. he's a joke, he's a clown. he can't run the democratic party anymore. it's lost its way. and, you know, fortunately we need somebody in the democratic party that's made a payroll. bernie hasn't made a payroll, elizabeth hasn't made a payroll. you have two candidates that have made a payroll, the mayor and the mayor, choose one. >> well, if's in a t that's they didn't culinary choose one? nevada's culinary union did come out against bernie sanders in terms of medicare for all, but they didn't endorse a moderate candidate. what does that tell you? >> what it tells me, stephanie, is first of all the culinary union never really endorses anyone in a primary. it's not what they're about. and the culinary union has the best health care system in nevada for its workers. i'm a big pro union guy, especially for the culinary union and i support them. and i don't believe bernie's system nor elizabeth's system works. please, let's talk to somebody like myself or both mayors who have paid for health care and have made payrolls. we know how to run health care and we'll always take care of the people that work with us and for us and we want them to rise up and become well to do and live the american dream. >> if your take is anybody but bernie and you look at the latest polls where he now has a double digit lead, what should the moderates do? do some of them need to drop out, and if so, who? >> you know what, let's see what mayor bloomberg does tonight because i think we're going to be pleasantly surprised. he's extremely well versed. and remember, intelligence is measured from the head up. and he has the quips against the president of the united states, and he could be the best nominee that we have today. >> so are you backing mayor bloomberg? >> yes. i am backing mayor bloomberg. even though i have friends that are running and i love them all to death, i think he's the best equipped to run the united states and beat donald trump in the cycle. >> should the other moderates drop out because mayor bloomberg is not going to get anywhere unless he gets the delegate count. >> stephanie we've known each other a long time. we know attrition happens. we'll see how things play out over the next few weeks. and i think we'll see mayor bloomberg as our nominee. >> let's talk about president trump in nevada, he's making his way there and holding a big rally. he still has a hard core base, many of whom are in your state. will he be able to hang onto them? >> i just shake my head because i don't know what to tell my children, stephanie. remember the children are watching. and really, you have children, too. is this the president you want to lead this country and tell your children you're proud of? the answer is, no. how about civil discourse once again. enough with the quips, mr. president, enough. >> all right. we're going to leave it there. thank you for joining us. steve clooback former ceo and chair of diamond resorts. straight ahead, it is one of the most awesome powers a president has, the power to pardon political allies. who got the get out of jail free card and who else president trump might be prepping for one. turn on my tv and boom, it's got all my favorite shows right there. i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable, so you focus only on what you want. okay, it's got screeners and watchlists. and you can even see how your predictions might affect the value of the stocks you're interested in. now this is what i'm talking about. yeah, it'll free up more time for your... uh, true crime shows? 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>> prosecutors don't like pardons we spend years pouring our hearts and soul into investigating and prosecuting crimes. it's not just the prosecutors, though, it's fbi agents, witnesses and victims, paralegals, judges and jurors and court staff. we all work to hold public officials who abuse the public trust in a real sense, abuse the american people hold them accountable. and trump with a wave of his regal hand does away with all of it. it's an insult first and foremost to the victims. >> but pardons aren't new, we see every president do it. >> we do, but do we see them pardoning people who are sort of deeply corrupt and who abuse -- >> sure. mark rich. >> i agree that the rich pardon was not a good look for anybody, in my opinion. here's what i think trump is trying to accomplish. he's trying to soften the ground of public opinion because what do we know azure as we're sitting here we know he's considering pardons for roger stone, michael flynn, and paul manafort. this way the public will become numb to pardons, saying that's just trump issuing pardons he's done it before. and he's also trying to normalize corruption and normalizing corruption always works to jeff's advantage. >> jeff, you were on the tarmac yesterday when the president discussed the pardons? did he give any insight to why now? we normally see it just before the end of a president's term. >> he didn't. you're right, looking at the obama administration and the clinton administration came as they were on their way out the door. this president has shown the willingness to do a pardon any time he wants. he didn't give a sense of the timing yesterday. we know that he's been on under some pressure -- whether it's pressure or just influence from having watched television, fox news with regard particularly to the governor and his wife having appeared there. he was lobbied by other friends, giuliani, for example, with regard to some of the other pardons. i'm not sure about the timing. it's something he stood by as he was talking to us yesterday. he did not, you referenced this, give us any sense of what his plans are with roger stone. he told us he hasn't even given it any thought. not sure if that's true. >> glen, let's go to bill barr and the latest. he's now saying he's considered resigning over president trump's tweeting. but the president says he has total confidence in bill barr. but he also said this. >> i chose not to be involved. i'm allowed to be totally involved. i'm actually, i guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country. but i've chosen not to be involved. but he is a man of great integrity. but i would -- i could be involved in i wanted to be. >> okay. do you buy this, bill barr saying he's considered resigning. he might have something to say that creates a headline, fwlgle but as far as what he's done, it's what president trump wants. >> i don't believe bill barr for a new york minute. this is the same bill barr who stood up and said bob mueller's investigation resulted in a finding of no obstruction, no collusion. and then bob mueller had to actually stand up and contradict the attorney general of the united states. and, you know, donald trump saying, i could interfere if i want but i choose not to. what was that 2:00 a.m. tweet when he lashed out at the career political prosecutors who said seven to nine years is exactly the right sentence for roger stone? the president lashed out and said it's a travesty of justice, a miscarriage, and it will not stand. if that's not interfering, i don't know what is. >> since so many colleagues are in vegas, what are the odds bill barr resigns? >> it seems unlikely to me. it's right to say the white house is very fond of bill barr. president trump is a big fan. he may not have loved the way the attorney general gave his interview to abc. but he -- the white house's initial reaction was that it didn't bother him. the president may have pushed back just a little bit, but in general, particularly contra contrasting him with his previous attorney general, he's very happy with bill barr. >> gentlemen, thank you both so much. coming up one of the world's most powerful banks and its twisted ties to russian money and president trump. we'll speak with the man who has been reporting on deutsche bank and president trump and russia. that's next. at today's best western, stay two nights and get a free night for your next stay. one night, two nights, free night. book now at bestwestern.com. these are our sales... free night. by product, by region. you can actually see taste- trends. since when can we do that?
it's been such a weird give them food and drink and winter here. then we have no money. have we even had a snowfall >> you are feeding them for free. what is the number one problem here, a little dusting. you found that failing restaurants have? steve: that's okay. that's enough. >> families, money, food. thank you very much for joining us. the big show tonight is in las vegas and that's where we are going right now. president trump landed in it is is like the military, you las vegas overnight for a have to direct people. campaign blitz as democrats prepare for a showdown in there is nothing -- you do in sin city. the military. >> people call you to fix their situation. in the back of their head they ainsley: six 2020 contenders will take the debate stage tonight including michael bloomberg who made at the are thinking we will get free advertising that will be great last minute. for our business and you come pete: griff jenkins has a like a drill sergeant and start yelling at them. ryu view. >> i walk in the door and tell good morning. griff: good morning, pete, ainsley and steve. the sign ma may be up but there you everything sucks, why don't you clean the floors? >> fear is part of it. is no roll out for him. take a look at elizabeth warren's most recent tweet. she said it's a shame shah then you ignore everything i have done wrong financially and mike bloomberg can buy his food wise and at the end they way into a debate. love me. >> we love the show. but at least now primary voters curious about how each candidate will take on restaurant impossible on the food network, thank you for donald trump can get a live joining us. >> congratulations. >> we are back in a couple demonstration of you who we minutes. each take on an eg ego maniac that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. billionaire. candidates were asked whether they would consider taking bloomberg money at with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. some point. watch. >> if mr. bloomberg wins, don't use if you're allergic to otezla. and i certainly hope he does it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. not, i will support the otezla is associated... democratic nominee. as of now, we have not ...with an increased risk of depression. taken -- we don't have a tell your doctor if you have a history of depression... super pac. >> sure, i'm not going to ...or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. reject that help because it came from a very wealthy some people taking otezla reported weight loss. person. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. >> to be clear, mike upper respiratory tract infection bloomberg's name is not on the ballot here. and headache may occur. let me show you now in the tell your doctor about your medicines, national, most recent national poll how he is and if you're pregnant or planning to be. doing. the nbc, "wall street journal" sanders opening up otezla. a double digital lead on top show more of you. at 27%. biden at 15%. bloomberg tied for third with warren at third at 14%. buttigieg at 13%. klobuchar at 7%. lest you should think president trump left out of the conversation. and my side super soft? 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ainsley: people are wondering if the dnc changed these rules they are so, you can emerge your best, with emergen-c. establishment. not bernie. not fair. they want to hear from him. if is he a frontrunner and doing well then he deserves to be on that stage. pete: i think you have got 100% online car buying. carvana's had a lot of firsts. an authentic socialist who car vending machines. and now, putting you in control has built a real movement of your financing. with 15 bucks here and 25 at carvana, get personalized terms, bucks here across america. browse for cars that fit your budget, versus the best candidacy then customize your down payment and monthly payment. money can buy michael and these aren't made-up numbers. it's what you'll really pay, right down to the penny. bloomberg. republican democrat republican and now a whether you're shopping or just looking. democrat again. who you will see going after it only takes a few seconds, bloomberg the most is and it won't affect your credit score. finally! a totally different way to finance your ride. probably elizabeth warren and joe biden. they are baiting in the national polls and in only from carvana. statewide polls, the the new way to buy a car. interesting part will be i watched a few of bloomberg's mayoral debate performances. walkabout wednesdays are back! get a sirloin or chicken on the barbie, it's not impressive and not fries, and a draft beer or coca-cola - dynamic and certainly not that kind of stage. all for just $10.99. what kind of first hurry in! wednesdays are for outback. performance he puts on will say a lot about how he goes outback steakhouse. aussie rules. out of his unscripted. ainsley: they say is he milk toast. boring, not as charismatic. is he funding his entire campaign. that's why they changed the rules in this ninth debate. he won't be reaching that fundraising threshold. steve: the president in route to california did some back and forth with mr. bloomberg. at one point he went on twitter and you know the president, he has nicknames >> we'll have a push-up contest for people. he said the dnc essentially after the show. taking away from bernie >> crunches. again mini mike, good luck >> we talked about protein bars, what are they called? and remember no standing on >> big crunch. boxes, which the president >> have a good one. has reminded mr. bloomberg of before. >> ed: good morning, fox news nonetheless, gets down to the core what are the alert. democrats and the official rob blagojevich is a free man democratic party doing to this morning. the former illinois democratic bernie? here is the president. governor one of nearly a dozen >> it just seems unfair what's happening to bernie to have his sentence pardoned sanders to be honest with or commuted. you. i happen four back home in illinois and years ago. and always be careful what thanking president trump for cutting his sentence short. you wish for. and i'm not wishing for anything. whoever it is, i will be very happy. but, it seems that bernie >> i'm julie banderas. sanders and that whole big the now white-haired democrat section of the democratic returning to his home in party or as i call it the democrat party, which is chicago overnight. he was convicted in 2011 as you really the correct name. all remember on more than a it seems they are being dozen counts including taken advantage of like they were four years ago to me. attempting to sell president pete: pointing out what a lot of people thinking not elect obama's vacant u.s. just the left but senate seat. now blagojevich republicans watching their process and saying all the energy seems to be with bernie but he can't seem to win. who is in charge? ainsley: we heard the president saying it's not fair to bernie and michael bloomberg was on twitter why do you want to run against bernie so badly. the president tweets back mini mike, no. i would rather against you. bloomberg tweets back can't believe a word you say and now you want us to believe you? see you in november. steve: question is which michael is going to show up tonight. is the guy the mayor, kind of a nonpartisan mayor of new york city who was for stop and frisk before he was against stop and frisk. he was against the teacher's union. he railed against teen pregnancy or will it be the guy who has now apologized for stop and frisk and you know the whole democratic party has been beaten up on billionaires oh, yeah. he's a billionaire. how is that going to work? pete: a big billionaire. rush limbaugh has a few thoughts on this and we want to hear from him. here it is. >> they think trump is a walking disaster that he got away with a lot of things that normal politicians would have been destroyed by. so here comes bloomberg, who has said all of these things in the past documented on videotape. that'that flies in the face of what democrats believe. they think in the trum ear wrath trump. they are so discombobulated by trump and inability to get rid of him they are resorting to accepting anybody or anybody in their race who they think might be able to beat him. pete: there is talk of debate prep. different members of bloomberg's team playing different roles of different candidates. you know this has been a scripted poll tested candidacy from the beginning. everything from should he stand on a box or not to how should he engage in w. these other candidates? who should he hit? not hit? should he apologize? not apologize? what previous policy position does he defend or cave on? steve: they have figured all that out. they have an answer tonight for everything. the big question is will most people buy it? we talked about it for years on this couch. it comes down to when you are watching a tv debate with presidential candidates, you want to vote for the person you feel so comfort being with you would want to go out and have a beer with. will you feel like you will want to go out and have a beer with michael bloomberg at the conclusion of tonight's festivities over on another channel or not? ainsley: if you don't want to watch it, we will watch it for you and show you the highlights tomorrow. the president is -- he is putting a huge ad in what's the newspaper it's the las vegas review paper state of nevada's largest newspaper. slam big government socialism and says that these democrats will kill november jobs. he talked about how he has created jobs, dropped unemployment and economy best in 50 years. full page ad. if you live in the state you will be able to see it and of course the debate is in the state tonight. if bernie sanders or michael bloomberg inoldest. tom steyer. the first new york mayor, of course, would be bloomberg as president. steve: let's talk a little bit about this. pete buttigieg who has been on a town hall or two here on the fox news channel went over to cnn and at one point he answered a question from a woman about his faith. and he talked about how god did not belong to any kind of a political party. and then the moderator, erin burnett is about to ask him a question that elicited this response. listen carefully to the question and the answer. >> do you think it is impossible to be a christian and support president trump? >> well, i'm not going to tell other christians how to be christians, but i will say i cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself and anything that i find in scripture. ainsley: what do you all think about that? first of all, her question, yeah there are a lot of christians that do support president trump there are a lot of pro-lifers that support president trump. there are a lot of people that believe that that is scripture. pete: the question is beyond loaded. do you find it impossible, is it impossible to be a christian. ainsley: there are christians on both sides, christians who are democrats and republicans. pete: of course there are you could have asked the question. where do you find the overlap or compatibility between christianity and president trump or yourself. there is a way to ask the question. then there is the way cnn would do it isn't it impossible that all these tens of christians in america evangelizes who overwhelmingly support the president they are all democrats, right? steve: that's a dog whistle, if you are a christian, you cannot support donald trump? pete: that's a question in the form of a statement in the form of a question. ainsley: then he said i cannot find any compatibility between the way the president conducts himself and anything i find in scripture. anything? scripture can be -- you read that as a guide. as a christian, i open my bible, i read what it says. i try my hardest to do what it tells me to do. but there are a lot of christians that are pro-lifers that would say since he is -- he is pro-choice they might say look, if you read the bible, don't murder. that life is formed at conception, that you are beautifully and wonderfully made in the womb. there are pro-lifers that would say that to him. i don't think it's fair to say you are not a christian if you are supporting this president. pete: thank goodness as individuals we give grace and redeposition from scripture. as a result then you need to mandate the government to do all these sorts of things about how we redistribute your wealth. jesus didn't talk about that. they tend to -- they try to take that mantel and say that thankfully we live in a country with a free market system which has lifted more people out of poverty. not just here but around the world. and the result of that is should be celebrated. not deconstructed. steve: cnn did have that person at the town hall who had the question. he did answer the question that way. we would like to know what you thought about the exchange. email us friends@foxnews.com. we are also, of course, on facebook. all right. ainsley: we wish them all the best. we will be praying for every single candidate. pete: nancy for sure. jillian over to you. good morning. jillian: former illinois governor rob blagojevich is waking up at home in chicago for the first time in 8 years. is he thanking president trump for commuting his corruption sentence. >> i speak for patty, for my daughters amy and annie for me when i express a most profound and everlasting gratitude for pump for what he did. he didn't have to do this. a republican president. i was a democratic governor. and my fellow democrats don't treat him very good. jillian: blagojevich sentenced 14 years for trying to sell barack obama's senate seat when he was elected president. president trump granted clemens to 10 other people including former 49ers owner edward debartolo jr.: and now to this, a new case of coronavirus confirmed california overnight. the patient is being treated in isolation in county. another person under investigation. they were both evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship from japan. group in china allowed to go home after two week quarantine. the coronavirus has killed 200 people worldwide and sickened 75,000 including 29 americans. bill barr has no plans to resign. he says the president's tweets make it impossible to do his job. the president acknowledging that claim. >> do i make his job harder. i do agree with that i think that's true. he is a very straight shooter. social media for me has been very important, because it gives me a voice because i don't get that voice in the press. jillian: barr reportedly wants the president to stop weighing in on doj investigations. actress d dubois has died. >> the word is out you and i have something going on. can you imagine? getting all these strange phone calls. >> >> condolences. woods, the evans family neighbor in good times. she also had a big part in the jeffersons. ♪ we're moving on up ♪ to the east side ♪ moving on up ♪ to a deluxe apartment in the sky. jillian: the show's famous theme moving on up. she died in her sleep at her home in california. she was 74. that is a theme that everyone knows. steve: beautiful voice. ainsley: i loved that show. i didn't know that was her name. she is french, i guess. ddubois. ainsley: we grew up with her. we are thinking about her family this morning. steve: we are indeed. meantime the mother of a british teenager killed in a crash involving an american diplomat's wife is now asking president trump for help. >> you have no idea how much your heart can break until you lose a child. steve: bryan llenas as you see right there has that exclusive interview. he is going to join us live next. jillian: rumors swirling will hillary clinton be michael bloomberg's vice president? 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>> yeah. and it was just an immediate no. >> i offered to bring the person in question in and they weren't ready for it. >> the u.s. government has denied the u.k.'s official request to extradite secolus to the u.k. >> how did you feel about your government and the u.s. government? >> let down. tremendously let down. disappointed. like we have been cast aside. like our boy's life didn't matter and it still does matter. >> charlotte says prime minister boris johnson has not spoken to the family. >> they say that they are working to help us, that we have not seen any proof of that yet. it's just words. >> if ann secolus is watching this right now, what is your message directly? >> come back to the u.k. face the justice system. get it over and done with show her children right from wrong. move on with her life and allow us to move on with ours. but but with ann secolus not not facing the justice system, it's making things a hundred times harder than it should be. ainsley: it's touching. we can all feel her pain. what does ms. secolus say. >> we reached out to ann. asked for an interview. they did not want this tragic ad would do anything she could to bring harry back. she continues to grieve for harry and his family recontinue to work with the family. she took part in an immediate interview with police. she admitted to driving on the wrong side of the road. then she took the advice of her government and took diplomatic immunity and left. harry's mother would say she doesn't deserve diplomatic immunity. there is reports out there. we don't know what ann sacoolas does or what her husband does. they don't believe they have diplomatic immunity. ainsley: thank you so much. appreciate it? >> of course. ainsley: robb blagojevich back in chicago this morning by having his sentence commuted by president trump. we are outside the former governor's home next. plus, michael bloomberg facing growing backlash over his comments about farmers. >> i could teach anybody to be a farmer. it's a process see. you dig a hole and pu put a seed in dirt on top and add water up comes corn. ainsley: appalled by michael bloomberg and is he going to join us next ♪ ring on my fingers ♪ i got my game on ♪ yeah, i got my game on president trump warned the drug companies. it's unacceptable that americans pay vastly more than people in other countries, for the exact same drugs. but they aren't listening. they've just raised the prices of over five hundred drugs. president trump supports a bipartisan plan, that would force drug companies to lower prices. but the senate won't act. tell senate leaders to stop drug company price gouging and lower drug prices now. tit's great actually, i've been listening to audible. it's audiobooks, news, meditations... gotta go! ♪ ♪ hey! you know, i do think it's weird you've started commuting when you work from home. i'll be in my office. download audible and start every day off right. (howling wind) (howling wind) steve: we have a fox news alert. former illinois governor robb blagojevich is back home in chicago after president trump commuted his 14-year corruption sentence. [shouting] >> what's the plan tonight. >> i want to kiss my wife and my daughter. steve: there you go. michelle from our affiliate in chicago is live outside blago's home. michelle he has a message for president trump, doesn't he? >> they absolutely do. supporters were here, in fact, as robb blagojevich arrived home late last night. they were just cheering for him, excited. they seemed to see him home with his daughters and his wife once again. there is this banner that they dropped off thanking the president for commuting robb blagojevich's sentence. also dropping off some balloons and some flowers. and it was just a sea of people out here late last night. let's go to some video from the airport when he arrived here in chicago from denver that was around midnight local time. robb blagojevich all smiles. he didn't have a whole lot to say as he was rushed through the terminal to a waiting car that then took him straight home. he arrived home then about 25 minutes later from the airport. and this is all thanks to an appeal from his wife, patty blagojevich. she appealed his case on fox news. and pleaded with the president to commute her husband's sentence. and now this family is together once again. here's what he had to say. >> i speak for patty, for my daughters amy and annie for me when i express a most profound and everlasting gratitude for president trump for doing what he did. he didn't have to do this. he is a republican president. i was a democratic governor. and my fellow democrats don't treat him very good. >> now robb blagojevich served nearly 8 years of a 14-year sentence for trying to, among other things, sell barack obama's seat when he had become president of the united states. governor, former governor is expected to be speaking to the media here around 11:00 local time. asked what he wants to eat now that he is home again banana split with cherries on top but no nuts because his daughter is allergic to them. steve: pete, over to you. pete: thank you, steve. 2020 hopeful mike bloomberg facing rising backlash after these comments resurfaced about america's farmers. >> i can teach anybody, even people in this room no, offense intended, to be a farmer. it's a process. you dig a hole put a seed in, dirt on top and water and up comes corn. building a economy is fundamentally different. built around replacing people with technology. tough have a different skill set. you have to have a lot more gray matter. pete: have to have a lot more gray matter. here to react is ohio truck driver and lifelong democrat who voted for president trump geno defabio. geno, thank you very much for being here this morning. we appreciate it? >> thanks for having me, pete. i appreciate it. pete: when you hear a billionaire who is running to be the nominee for the democrats, dismiss farmers as you don't really need any gray matter for that, your reaction? >> my reaction is it's the same thing he said that about the farmers planting a seed. i would like to see him go on a farm and work a farm for one thing. i would like to see him climb in a combine and plow a field. he said the same thing about factory workers. i am in youngstown, ohio, steel valley. we have industry and farms. ohio is a big state. this guy is alienating everybody. like the democrats, that's their game. they completely have written off the middle class, the working man from the farmers to the coal minors to the factory workers. and it's ridiculous. don't think it's not making an impression on people, pete. pete: that's the question. geno a guy like you who was a democrat. works hard for a living, crossed over for president trump. somewhat strategy of a michael bloomberg to try to reach folks in ohio and wisconsin who he would need to win the white house if he is just talking down to them? >> you know, he talks down -- it's the same thing. i hate to go back. obama said the same thing. he told entrepreneurs, guys like the guy who owns our company who built it from nothing. he told them you didn't build that hillary clinton called us deplorables. now bloomberg is calling us stupid. they are not winning hearts and minds. i will tell you that. pete: you are in touch -- you used to be a democrat. you know democrats. what are the choices between this ego maniac billionaire who wants to talk down to people or a socialist, a democratic socialist who says i want to control your entire economy? >> well, exactly. i will tell you what, the choice is not going to be between those two as far as i'm concerned. one guy our grandfather 70 years ago went to europe to fight a war to stop that to end socialism so it didn't spread to this country. now you think people are going to vote for it? i don't think their base is as big as they make it out to be. i mean, you look at president trump's rallies. you have been to them. i have been to them, of course. inside the rallies, outside the rallies, when they check the registration 20% of those people are democrats. in trumbull county, absolutely, in mahoning and trumbull county, party opposites they have a spot on the floor. when a democrat comes in and says how do i change my affiliation i want to be a republican. they mark it on the floor, pete. it's great. best thing that's happened to the republican party in forever. pete: republican party best recruiting tool. geno did i fabio thank you very much for your hard work and time this morning. >> i appreciate it. thank you, thanks for having me. pete: you got it a fox news alert. ryan newman awake and talking with his doctors this morning after his terrifying crash at daytona. cory la ohio bumped into newman causing that wreck. he joins us coming up next. it's either testing an array of advanced safety systems. or it isn't. it's either the peace of mind of a standard unlimited mileage warranty. or it isn't. for those who never settle, it's either mercedes-benz certified pre-owned. or it isn't. the mercedes-benz certified pre-owned sales event. now through march 2nd. only at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer. that's a reason to switch to jackson hewitt. our tax returns come with a free lifetime accuracy guarantee. life may change. your lifetime accuracy guarantee won't. tax prep guaranteed at jackson hewitt. ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. nascar driver ryan newman is awake and he's talking after that terrifying wreck at the daytona 500. pete: newman's car hit a wall flipped and crashed into another car during the final lap on monday. he's hospitalized in serious condition but his injuries, thankfully, not life-threatening. steve: after the crash, cup series driver core la joy coreye was hit. he joins us this morning. >> good morning, guys. steve: we saw it from the tv point of view. you were a couple of cars back. explain what happened through your windshield. what you saw. >> it's hard to really describe it because it's all kind of snapshots. steve: yeah. when i'm going back and running through my head. i saw ryan get -- i saw a light colored car get hooked, which is common. in a speedway race because you are going for the daytona 500 win so you are trying to do everything you can to block and get your car across the finish line first. so i saw one car get hooked. and after that, you are going 205 or so miles per hour. all you see is a wall of smoke. and you are obviously not wanting to have any damage. you are wanting to cross the finish line as fast as possible. next thing i know the smoke cleared for a split second and i had a car sitting on my lap more or less. i didn't know where i hit him. i didn't know who i hit. i came to a halt and got out because my car was on fire. and the wind was knocked out of me. and i was trying to collect my thoughts and just figure out what happened. we finished what would be -- we finished eighth which is great day for out go fast team. i was trying to collect my thoughts. i didn't know the extent of the crash or where i hit ryan until -- i didn't even know who i hit until i got out of infield care center and they told me they took ryan right to the hospital. which obviously scared me because ryan has been a good friend to the garage and he has been around for almost two decades now. and i think everybody in the nascar community would agree that ryan is probably the toughest guy in the garage. so there is no question he is going to make a full recovery and be back soon. ainsley: that's great. he is 42 years old. tell us more about him. i know you are a close nit clost family. tell us what you are hearing from the family. >> i haven't heard directly from the family. i hear from social media and some inside sources. not too much-i i'm trying to give those guys their privacy. but the fact that ryan is talking to doctors and his family, i think it's a miracle. and i think it just goes to show the power of prayer from the nascar community and all the fans because that is the most vulnerable spot to be hit on a race car. it was a compromised position for him to be. in everyone knows ryan is one of the bigger guys in the cup series. it was just a recipe for disaster that was diverted just from the safety advances that nascar has made over the past 10 or 12 years or so. so, that just goes to show, man, nascar has invested a lot of money in keeping the cars and the drivers safe as well as trying to put a good product on the racetrack. pete: cory, a remind of what a dangerous sport it is. when you are on that last lap of the daytona 500. are you bracing for something knowing that people are going to make a move and what's going through your mind? are you hoping it will finish clean but wondering if something like this is going to happen? was this a surprise? >> it's not a surprise. i mean, i think everybody, as soon as you see a white flag fly at a super speedway race. everybody is reaching up and pulling the belts tight. you know the next flag whether it's the caution or checkered is where you are going to end up. you really commit to going more or less hell or high water across the finish line with a the steering wheel especially the daytona 500 that's the granddaddy of them all. as we have seen in several times years past coming in to the checkered flag are the most dangerous because you really -- it's hard to slow down. it really is. you are going so fast. you are referrally committed to try to get a good finish. unfortunately that was a worse case scenario for ryan and myself because i took a big lick, too. i'm really sore but not as sore and i was very lucky to come out of there unscathed. steve: cory, we are looking at the still pictures and we see the smoke. something happened ryan's car got hooked you said and there was the smoke. and there was a car. and it was flipping on you. when you saw that car coming at you, and you were going 200 miles per hour and they were going 200 miles per hour, what did you think was going to happen? >> honestly i didn't see it. i was trying -- i had no clue where he was at. by that point in the race your windshield is pitted up from rocks and it has dry on it already looking through a foggy surface to begin with pair that with smoke and just the concentration of trying to get to the finish line and you are almost trying to look through whatever obstacle is in front of you. next thing i know he was sight on my lap. i just really wanted to touch on there was some people giving ryan blainy a hard time. there is no difference. steve: who is ryan blainy? >> ryan blainy was the yellow car behind ryan newman that gave him the shot ryan was going to win the race. ryan, i know, him and i are really good buddies and certainly meant no ill will. is he obviously tore up about it just the fact that ryan is a great friend of the garage, ryan newman that is we are, like you said, we are a small community. we travel together for 38 weekends out of the year. and we certainly don't want to see anybody get hurt. it was no fault to ryan. both ryans were going for the win in the biggest race of the year. ainsley: cory, i know you are asked this all the time going almost 200 miles per hour, it's a very dangerous sport. why do you do it. >> i get that question asked a lot. i love it, it's a great job. it's a great platform to influence people charity stuff i get to work with. and you get to be a pretty cool, you know, i guess i could change that and say it really puts in perspective sometimes where you almost feel invincible when you put that that helmet on and strapped in a race car. we have all been in countless crashes and walked out unscathe. it puts one moment like that to put in perspective how dangerous our jobs are. the fans sometimes take that for granted, too. when we strap in each and every week, we put our lives on the line. because we love it. because it's our dream to do. and we just appreciate the fans coming out to support us and all the support they have been showing us the last couple days. steve: that's right. ainsley: you entertain america. thanks for what you do for charity. he and hesitate wife gave up a month salary back in the fall in august give all of that month's salary to children that don't have shoes around the world. samaritan's feet. thank you so much. steve: very cool. pete: corey lajoie, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you very much. ainsley: so snug in those cars. steve: there is no moving. ainsley: they didn't know the crash had happened or the severity of it until they got out of the cars. jillian has headlines for us. jillian: good morning to you and to you at home as well. the victim of a baby kidnapping plot is speaking out. the mother says julia parker posed as a photographer to take free photos of her newborn baby in washington state. >> this is my house. she violated that she violated my safety, tried to kidnap my daughter. >> alicia miller says parker drugged her with a tainted cupcake in order to steal her baby. parker abandoned her kidnapping scheme when miller became sick and called 911. >> i'm super spacey. like it's hard to talk. and like my hands and my feet and my arms are super numb. jillian: parker has pleaded not guilty. a new law is advising police not to arrest illegal immigrants for driving without a license. cambridge, massachusetts unanimously passing the bill which encourages officers to issue a summons to court instead of arresting drivers. one city counselor says illegal immigrants need protection. >> there is no other reason why the police should arrest this person. we need to protect our community members from a federal government that's out of control. jillian: both cambridge and nearby boston are sanctuary cities. hillary clinton shut down rumors she could be michael bloomberg's running mate. the former secretary of state was asked about the possibility at an event in puerto rico. clinton responding in part saying, quote: oh, no. i'm just waiting and watching as this plays out. i will support whoever the nominee is. last week the drudge 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>> good morning. steve: you say this is a gigantic scheme. >> hugesteve: by who. >> criminal organizations on the united states. we have a horrible policy in place. ou automatically get access into the states and you get a notice to appear. steve: right. >> so the criminal organizations who immigrants, illegal immigrants are hiring they go to these guys and say look, i will give you $5,000. help me. in here is a child. they are kidnapping children in central america. steve: to use them as props. >> use them as pawns to get them in, they are props, exactly to get them in. 76,000 unaccompanied minors are in the care of the united states government. those are the ones that the border patrol agents caught. imagine the ones they didn't catch that are in our country being hurt and trafficked. we are the number one consumers of child sex consumption in the world, right? so, a lot of these kids are now in our child sex markets. it's horrific fraud. steve: do you know what? the president has talked about this, tim, and he said look. they are not always family units. they might say yep, we are a family unit, but our agents, like you, know that that is just a lie to get in because then we are never going to see them again. >> with so many people coming across, our border agents don't have time to vet every single one, thank goodness they vetted who they could and 76,000 kids were thankfully rescued. but the president has put forth amazing policies that are curbing this. by deincentivizing the traffickers. you can't give them this loophole basically what they are doing. the wait in mexico program where, you know, you don't get to come in with a kid anymore. that has to be the policy if we want to protect children. steve: you say this is another one of the reasons why we need the wall as well. >> absolutely. the wall basically pushes traffic in through the ports of entry to law enforcement officers who are trained to look for trafficked children. that's how you save children. the wall saves children. steve: when you tell people this story, you know a lot of people don't realize. this they go well, you know, laws are the laws, and they are working for everybody. but this is obviously still a loophole. >> i tell people if you focus the solutions on the children in this world who are being hurt, things become very clear what you need to do. steve: no kidding. tim ballard former dhs agent and founder of operation underground railroad. thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: straight ahead on this wednesday, some are crying foul over attorney general bill barr's handling of the roger stone case. where was the outrage when apparently president obama's attorney general eric holder got involved in political cases as well? a double standard? let's talk about that next. ♪ i want no trouble ♪ i want no trouble ♪ ready to juvéderm® it? correct age-related volume loss in cheeks with juvéderm® voluma™ xc. add fullness to lips with juvéderm® ultra xc. and smooth 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say the gloves are about to come off not just on the stage tonight. but apparently the bloomberg people say they have a ton of opposition research on bernie. brian: best money can buy. steve: no kidding. ainsley: 8 candidates on the democratic side still in the race. six of them on the debate stage, steyer and gabbard did not make the cut. but bloomberg made the cut by the skin of his teeth a few days ago. they changed the rules for him. he will be up there and we will get to hear from him the first time since. pete: who knows how many debates we will have with him. ainsley: president is doing a four day trip. steve: president started flying to california. president trump touched down in las vegas overnight during that campaign swing to campaign on all sorts of issues and raise some money. ainsley: he is going to hold three rallies in three days. and he is wasting no time slamming democratic leaders in california. pete: our own kristin fisher joins us with more from the white house on the president's trip. kristin, good morning. >> good morning, guys. this is unusually long domestic trip for president trump. he will be on or very near the west coast for about four days. and his first stop or one of his first stops is to a state that he has really been at odds with for most of his presidency. i'm talking about california. one of the first stops he made was to a fundraising dinner in beverly hills last night. but, first, he went to a meeting with organizers of the 2028 olympic games what you are seeing there. during that meeting the president was asked a question about the rising number of homeless people in that state. here was his response. >> you have needles, you have things that we don't want to discuss all over the streets flowing into the oceans. and, you have beaches. and it shouldn't happen. and if they can't do it themselves we are going to do it. the federal government is going to take it over and we're going to do it. >> so far no direct response to those comments from the state's governor. the city's mayor. speaker pelosi or chairman schiff. it's as who who of the president's least favorite politicians. he has been battling with california's democratic leaders on everything from impeachment typically congratulation to environmental regulations. and tonight president trump is going to be taking his message to phoenix, arizona for a big rally there. then tomorrow, it's on to another rally in colorado springs. and then finally on friday, a big rally in vegas, just one day before the state's caucuses, guys? steve: all right, kristin, thank you. i was reading in the "l.a. times" about the president who was in los angeles yesterday and did a fundraiser. also met with the olympic committee for 2028. and wit at one point after he was done with the meeting at the montage beverly hills talking with reporters how los angeles and san francisco are sanctuary cities and the homeless problem has gotten so bad out there. he said it was very dangerous. he said both of the cities, san francisco and los angeles had one thing in common and that was the leadership. and he said he was very specific, taking aim at the democratic leaders of l.a. he said if l.a. does not clean it up fast, if they can't do it themselves, we're going to do it for them. and he is talking about the federal government. ainsley: it's a big problem out there. because every time we interview someone from california, we will ask them how bad of a problem is it really? it's terrible. it's ruining businesses. people are camping out in front of their businesses. they work really hard. they have to move business locations because they are stepping in all kinds of junk while they're trying to get to the front door of their houses or businesses. pete: perfect preview of left wing lawlessness where you care so much you don't care at all. ultimately citizens who pay the price in that scenario. and it's predictable. and, yet, here we are on the debate stage where a socialist who calls himself a democratic socialist is prohibitive national frontrunner of the democrat party. and advancing precisely those kinds of policies for the entire country. if you want a preview, take a look. steve: i have got news for you. there is a terrible homelessness problem in new york city. have you noticed the number of people around this midtown area who are homeless? every night? we notice because we come in in the middle of the night and it's freezing. and there they are out on the grate. it's heart breaking. ainsley: our church has something on friday nights and wednesday nights feed the homeless. homeless population can go on every single night and every meal basically they can get a meal at one of these locations. we do it on wednesday at lunch and friday night. pete: faith groups and charitable groups step in the gaps so often in so many places. if the government knew how to let the free market work or enforce the rule of law the way they should in inner cities maybe there wouldn't be as work to be done. steve: let's talk about this before he left for his west coast trip, the president of the united states either pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 people yesterday. one of them, we know him as -- there he is robb blagojevich. he was a democrat convicted of 17 charges of corrupt providg political favors in exchange for financial benefits including trying to solicit campaign money in return for, remember president obama's senate seat? how much are you willing to pay for this essentially. he was serving a 14-year prison sentence in colorado. the president, yesterday, on the tarmac, at joint base andrews said that the sentence was ridiculous in length and it did not fit his crime. ainsley: the president is serious about nonviolent offenders with disproportionate sentences. we saw what he did with alice maria johnson. he served blagojevich served 18 of the 14 years. 18 -- eight of the 14 years. he wanted to eat a banana split without nuts because his daughter is allergic. no nuts because his daughter is religious. pete: can't get hair die in prison. ainsley: age or stress? pete: probably both. also pardoned bernie kerik amongst other people as well. steve: nonetheless, blagojevich came out and those are the people that we might as well put it up for a moment, again. we will show the pardons and the commutations. people who are famous eddie debartolo the guy from the 49ers. bernie kerik. commutations rod blagojevich who had this to say after he was released. listen. >> i speak for patty for my daughters amy and annie and me when i express our most profound and everlasting gratitude to president trump for doing what he did. he didn't have to do this. he is a republican president. i was a democratic governor. and my fellow democrats don't treat him very good. ainsley: he said he was grateful to the president. steve: he said if you are asking me what my party affiliation is. he went on to say i'm a trumpo-crat. ainsley: he got to go home six years early i'm sure is he grateful. pete: talked to the guy from ohio who drives a truck and supports the president. 25% of the people at the rallies are democrat. almost none of them have been to a political rally before. that's a fact. i have been there. i have seen it. trump owocrats you can mock it whatever you think it's a thing. steve: eddie debartolo sentenced to two years probation and received 1-million-dollar fine in '98 after pleading guilty to filing felony, after he paid $400,000 to former louisiana governor edwin edwards in exchange for a river boat gambling license. and as it turns out a couple of football greats were at the white house yesterday talking about eddie and what the president did for him. >> i take my hat off to donald trump for what he did. 30 years ago i got the opportunity to play the greatest game ever nfl football. and it was because of eddie debartolo. he has done so much in the community and so much for nfl football and today is a great day for him. >> eddie d debart to low is a great man. i'm here to support him. i'm behind the humanity and he has done a great, great fredged of mine. ainsley: i think that's really sweet. you serve your time. you ask for forgiveness. and now you have a second chance at life. pete: apparently been involved with charter school and anti-gang violence initiatives done good after getting caught up in that. steve: meanwhile, once again, tonight's big debate out in las vegas. and you got to figure that because michael bloomberg so far has spent $350 million, he has -- he has hired 1700 people who work in offices in 43 states. this is not for bloomberg the news agency. this is for bloomberg for president. tonight he is going to step outside his very expensive comfort zone and try to be a charismatic politician while at the same time his opponents and the moderators are going to ask him about embarrassing things he said. including this regarding farmers who dig holes and plant things. >> the society lasted 3,000 years. and we could teach processes. i could teach anybody, even people in this room so, no offense intended, to be a farmer. it's a process see. dig a hole, put a seed in, put dirt on top put water and corn will grow. fund fundamentally different. it's built around with replacing people with technology. you have to have a different skill set. you have to have a lot more gray matter. >> so charlie daniels, the musical legend pleaded this out. hey, bloomberg, you know as much about farming as a hog knows about an airplane. how are you going to teach somebody else how to do it. better stay in new york city where corn comes in cans. [laughter] steve: burn. wow. we have heard some of the bloomberg people say that that quote is being taken out of context. so i would imagine that will be how he responds tonight regarding that nobody is going to ask him how do you feel about charlie daniels saying you know -- pete: there was a lot of context in that clip we just played. i mentioned geno defabio lifelong trucker voted for president trump. >> i would like to see him go on a farm and work a farm one day. i would like to see him climb in a combine and plow a field. he said the same thing about factory workers. this guy is alienating everybody. like democrats, that's their game. they have completely written off the middle class, the working man from the farmers to the coal minors t miners to e factory workers. he told entrepreneurs guys like the guy who owns our company who built it from nothing. he told him you didn't build that hillary clinton called us deplorables. now bloomberg is calling us stupid. steve: keep in mind the dnc made this possible for michael bloomberg to be on the stage tonight by changing the rules and everybody has -- had to live by until he came along and self-financed his campaign. of course, the other candidates are furious with that, particularly bernie sanders who smells like the dnc is out to derail him like they did last time. pete: yeah. you needed a certain number of donors. bloomberg has one. they said okay. no problem. steve: that's all you need when you are down. ainsley: what does this mean going forward? will they change the rules back for the next election? pete: supposed to change it this time. now they found another way to ---kick bernie out. steve: people dropped out so far because they didn't make the poll number or something like that. it's like hey, wait a minute, why are you doing that for him you? could have done that for me. pete: there you go. sounds fair to me. ainsley: jillian has more headlines for us. good morning, jillian. jillian: begin with this fox news alert now. nascar driver ryan newman is awake and talking following his terrifying wreck at the daytona 500. newman's car hit a wall, flipped and crashed into another car during the final lap. it landed on driver corey lajoie's car he joined us earlier and described the aftermath. >> it was like the smoke cleared for a split second and i had a car sitting on my lap more or less. ryan is probably the toughest guy in the garage so there is no question he will make a full recovery and be back soon. jillian: newman is hospitalized in serious condition. his injuries are not life threatening: 2020 bernie sanders request as partial recount in iowa after a recanvas shows him in a virtual tie with pete buttigieg. wants. the recanvas result buttigieg narrowly leading sanders by less than 100 unable to declare a winnernt as the results may not be co rescue border wall. climbed on top but couldn't get back down. first responders used 35-foot ladder to rescue the man near san diego. is he now 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as great of an ability to do the job in a meaningful way. and that's who, look, that's who this attorney general is. steve: but, that's also hot president is. i mean, we saw him out on the tarmac. he said, yep, i'm making his job harder. but it's because the press, all these people right here, are against me. it's my only way to get my voice out. >> yeah. the attorney general has been taking action because he thinks it's the decision that is right based on the law and the facts. the president tweeting why does he make it hard? because the president lives in a political world and has to deal with the political aftermath of many decisions. but, the attorney general is a strong, level-headed, calm, you know, individual that wants to plod through every day and makes a good as a decision as he can. steve: sure. then there is the hypocrisy that some have cited where there are a bunch of democrats members of the department of justice and whatnot, investigators, who are calling on the attorney general to resign over the roger stone situation. but the hypocrisy is the double standard. when eric holder got involved and asked -- was asked to get involved in politically sensitive cases, where was the outrage then, preted? >brett. >> you noticed there weren't letters signed by thousands of conservative, you know, former u.s. attorneys or deputy attorneys general calling for holder to resign. there is a double standard. and the aggravation really have you now see congress jumping on that and look at the result. you have a president who is doing his job. he is pardoning people in meaningful analysis. why is he having to do that? because congress and the democrats are too concerned about the attorney general and this president than doing their job and passing legislation that can fix our criminal justice system. steve: ultimately, don't you think this is just phase 2 after the impeachment thing didn't work out so now the narrative is going to be, look, this president guy, he is breaking all the rules. and have you got these well-regarded people of law enforcement community saying he has got to go and we are going to hear that right up to election day. >> yeah, steve. i think you create the very fire you claim to be reporting on by, you know, putting into the media that there is controversy or putting into the media that there is a strain between the attorney general and the president. and you see a lot of that going on. and that's what they are focused on. let's impeach him now for a tweet that he is going to send out and for the attorney general doing his job. steve: i think that's probably about right. i don't think the president is going to stop tweeting. but that's just the way it works. >> i don't think so. steve: all right. brett tolman joining us esident, he has been slamming the l.a. maher eric garcetti for protecting illegal migrants in his city. our next guest's son murdered by illegal immigrant in california. now she is running for congress and she 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that's how much money a chick-fil-a worker returned to a guest after he found it at georgia restaurant. listen. >> i just try to stick to my christian values. and know what's right and what's wrong. >> the guest says it was her rent money and glad she got it back. pete: donald trump calling out democratic l.a. mayor democrats in his city. >> no matter their immigration status. i want every angelina to know their rights and how to exercise them. remember, you have the right to remain silent. you don't have to open your door to an ice agent that doesn't have a warrant signed by a judge. most importantly, i want you to know you do not need be afraid. your city is on your side. and rest assured here in los angeles, we are not coordinating with ice. pete: in a tweet, president trump firing back saying the mayor's efforts to shield illegal aliens endangers the lives of the p enforcement who have to go in to the field to apprehend those released. he shouldn't be urging illegals to beat the system. he should be urging them to safely turn themselves in. ainsley: our next guest agrees with the president. her son, there is his picture, ronald desilva murdered by illegal immigrant in california in 2002. his mother agnes begin bonnie legal immigrant now running for congress in california. she joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. ainsley: are you running because you are tired of these policies in your area. >> absolutely. after my son's murderer was released early in november of last year and i finally got him deported. i felt very strong and very empowered to fight for american, to fight for my country that i love and respect. pete: agnes, it's one thing for democrats to look the other way. it's another thing for a mayor to stand in front of the camera with their chief of police there saying here's how you avoid police and we're going to help you do just that. how do you overcome that sentiment? >> both ought to be arrested. number one, the chief of police is only agreeing with the mayor because he is afraid to lose his contract and be fired. and garcetti ought to be arrested. he is saying he is protecting the immigrant community. well, the immigrant community has no fears or concerns about trump's policy. what garcetti is refusing to say he is protecting illegal aliens, those that commit crimes i'm not saying every illegal alien commits crime but they commit a significant number of crimes. they take jobs from americans. they steal your identities. and this is not okay. ainsley: you say they undercut wages. democrats all want citizens to pay for their healthcare. tell us your story, agnes. i know you immigrated here legally from hungary. >> my parents left hungary after the soviet union invaded the country. might parents left everything behind to enjoy freedom. and we are either going to be trump 2020 or socialism. and i would choose trump 2020 a million times over. never socialism. because socialism oppresses you and takes your freedom away and i will not sit back and allow my country to turn into a socialist country. and president trump was so correct when he said america will never be a socialist country. if i can help it, united states will never be a socialist country. my family fled that disaster. i was 2 years old. and when we imgrated to the united states, i was stateless because the government took our citizenship away. this is the only country i have citizenship of. and i took my oath of citizenship extremely seriously to defend and protect my country. and the mayor and the chief and everybody else who is in power should do the same and including those in congress. that's why i decided to run, to bring some integrity back to the house of congress. pete: if you have seen socialism, you know you don't want what it actually means. agnes gibboney, thank you for your time this morning. we appreciate it. we also asked mayor garcetti's office for a statement. no response as of yet. ainsley: it is 7:33 on the east coast. 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take a look at what they had to say. >> how do you feel about the democratic party and mike bloomberg trying to buy this election? >> it's a sad reality. oubigmoney should not influence politics. >> i'm incensed and outraged and incredibly disappointed with the democratic party. >> how do you feel about bloomberg's comments. another week about him saying stuff about minorities. >> it's despicable and something that you expect from an oligarch like him. >> i think we all know bloomberg wants policies have not been recently -- >> say bernie doesn't win, could you ever support a guy like bloomberg. >> i would begrudgingly vote for him, yes. >> i would have a really hard time doing that. >> as you can see, guys, a lot of people are troubled with what the party is doing. they changed the rules to benefit one guy. and many people are saying that it's unfair to the other candidates that are already out of the race. steve: and the problem for the democrats then as you know, lawrence, because you have been to those rallies, they love bernie so much. if he is not on the ticket and they feel that the dnc ripped him off, they are just not going to show up to vote for anybody in november. >> yeah. these are the hard core progressives. they don't want incremental change. interesting twist, guys, in an interview yesterday with the vanity fair the campaign manager for bernie sanders said that they believe that fox news is more fair to the bernie sanders campaign than liberal msnbc. pete: i saw that and if you are one of these campaigns spending a lot of time raising small dollar donations so can you reach the threshold to get into the debate and then they erase it there is a reason for a lot of frustration. one of the camps that did just that was pete buttigieg. he has been on the stage. he will be on the stage tonight. he did a town hall in las vegas as did many other candidates on cnn. he was asked a question by erin burnett. the question reveals as much as the answer. we are going to play it and get your response, lawrence. watch. >> all right. >> do you think it is impossible to be a christian and support president trump? >> well, i'm not going to tell other christians how to be christians. but, i will say i cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself and anything that i find in scripture. pete: do you think it's impossible to be a christian and a trump supporter was her question? >> look, i'm not going to get into theology because we will be here all day. i'm a preacher's kid. i'm not going to go back and forth on it. the question set up says a lot about cnn. steve: exactly. >> i think pete needs to worry about the conservatives that are now going to be in that primary. because there are a lot of black voters. a lot of brown voters that are very concerned that don't line up with his ideology. i think he needs to be more concerned about reaching people in his own primary instead of republicans that support the president to have christian values. ainsley: christians flawed. christians on both sides, democrats, republicans. the bible is there so they can keep us in check. it's a guideline for us to live our lives. it doesn't mean we follow every single thing in the bible. we try to. but we are failures. >> and i don't think the government paying for everything is quite christian doctrine. i also don't think killing kids is christian doctrine as well. but, again, like i said, i can go back and forth with mayor pete on that all day about the value system on the left. they become even more progressive. get in the way of those christian values. again, the democratic party used to value that evangelize vote. right now they shun those people. he needs to be worried about how he is going to get those voters. right now we are cece ago lot of christian voters out there supporting mayor pete. steve: joining us from the so-called sin city of las vegas. ainsley: i know. pete: it all comes together. ainsley: don't get in trouble, lawrence. >> they hate that they hate that. steve: i know they do. check out his shows on fox nation "keeping up with jones" and man on the street. which we just saw a little of it there at the bernie rally. thanks, lawrence. >> thanks, guys. ainsley: jillian is upstairs. jillian: that's right. a community mourns the loss of a 6-year-old girl at vigil in south carolina last night. faye swetlik died through asphyxiation from her neighbor cody taylor. her body was dumped in wooded hours. he killed himself in his home. officials found one of faye's boots and a soup ladle covered in dirt in his trash can. there are no other suspects. a former major leaguer is outraged after being excluded from the san francisco giants world sear years reunion. the team is barring aubrey huff from tweets they say is inappropriate. on "fox & friends first" he called the decision political. >> my twitter account is basically a spinoff of you who i was in the locker room from 2010 through 2012 with the giants. it was okay then. it's not so okay now. this world of political correctness just drives me nuts. critical. jillian: huff was criticized for this post among many others. the caption here reading in part getting my voice trained up on how to use a gun in the unlikely event bernie sanders beats donald trump in 2020. a 94-year-old world war ii marine veteran is gearing up to meet president trump at his rally in colorado tomorrow. >> i'm delighted to meet that guy. mr. president, i'm as excited when you first came down that escalator and i have prayed for you that time on. >> don whi don whipple will also meet vice president pence. battle of iwo jima. a look at your headlines. send it to you. steve: thank you very much. outside our world headquarters yesterday was kind of chilly. today, janice dean, it's close to 50 now. janice: it is. what goes up must come down. lynn what's your name. >> learn da virginia. >> pete from buffalo. >> williamsburg, virginia? >> and catherine from virginia. janice: you know it's going to snow in virginia tomorrow. >> it is. janice: take a map and show you why. cold front moving through, arctic air going to plunge southward and eastward. see all that rain across the south, worried about the mississippi river valley obviously with historic flooding there. some of that moisture is going to get cold. and it's going to be cold enough for snow in parts of the carolinas and virginia tomorrow. that is going to be a big story, my friends. because that could be more snow than new york and boston this season. so, you came to new york city to not get snow, right? >> we came to get snow and now we are going to get it at home. janice: all right, my loves. thank you so much. wave to pete, steve and ainsley. steve: we will wave back. ainsley: 47 minutes after the top of the hour. honeymoon nightmare texas nolle weds trapped on a cruise for weeks because of the coronavirus. they are finally back in america but under quarantine. how they are staying positive and what they're looking forward to the most. they are going to join us live next ♪ ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ the better question would be where do i not listen to it. while i'm eating my breakfast... on the edges of cliffs... on a ski lift... everywhere. ♪ download audible and start listening today. ♪ ainsley: welling it is a honeymoon they will never forget. rachel and tyler torres were among hundreds trapped on the princess cruise japan. they are now under quarantine military base in home state of texas. joining us now rachel and tyler. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. can you turn up the volume just a little bit? ainsley: back here in the control room i am sure they are going to do that. turn it up, please. so what a way to kick off your wedding. your marriage. tell us what happened from day one. >> yeah. so, we got married on september 8th. we decided we were going to do a little bit of a late honeymoon. we flew out to tokyo 17th of january and got on the cruise ship on the 20th. we did a full tour of asia. it was nice and great. and then on the 3rd of february, we went into tokyo bay. they quarantined us for 24 hours. then we had positive cases for 14 more days. so, of course, got with our jobs. they were fine with it. then again a little while back, 14 more days. and we decided to take evacuation flight into america and we landed in san antonio. we didn't know where we were going to land until we landed. ainsley: so many questions for you. steve and pete had a question for you. were you able to drink alcohol on this -- when you were quarantined? [laughter] >> well, we tried to order corona beers. >> specifically. they had other beer. ainsley: i'm sure they ran out of alcohol fast on that ship. did you have people going door to door and serving food. >> the way it worked. they had the normal chefs cooking in the kitchen, and then all of the wait staff were delivering door to door for everybody -- for all 1,300 state rooms three times a day. we were a little bit concerned that they were working elbow and elbow and deliver to all of us. we think maybe it was a little too much exposh for them. ainsley: how scary is that. if you even just coughed a little bit were you freaking out? >> we were a lot more worried about being separated in japan than we were about really contracting the virus, even. ainsley: i'm sure your folks are so upset. how are they handling it. >> my mom is a little bit of a worry wart, she is doing pretty good. she is hawaii today. >> a great support system. they have been really wonderful. ainsley: i know you were on that plane on monday with 300 americans brought back. thank goodness you are safe and sound in texas in your home state. what are you looking forward to the most? >> i think seeing our families. seeing our dog and eating some wanna burger. ainsley: are you from san antonio? >> we are from the dallas area. ainsley: okay. well, we wish you all the best. and one last question. did you see anyone on the ship? were any americans? did they test positive? >> so, we knew that there were 14 people on the plane. as far as people that we have seen positive, i don't know about americans. but our neighbor, two australians were positive. our neighbor at dinner, he tested positive and our state room attendant tested positive. so people all around us, luckily we have been fine though. ainsley: i'm glad you are all okay. god bless you. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. still ahead, oregon conservatives fed up with liberal leaders are petitioning to join idaho and the governor there is welcoming them with open arms. is he going to join us live in the next hour ♪ moving up ♪ then i'm moving out ♪ i'm moving out ♪ ♪ ause of my psoriasis. i was covered from... ...head to toe with it. i was afraid... ...to show my skin. every time i moved my arm... ...my skin cracked and bled. it really hurt. then i started... ...cosentyx. that was four years ago. how are you? 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>> "fox and friends" on the cable morning news show. wave at your self. >> that is a good one. should we jump right into the news. my jump right in says home free crazy life. >> you can just listen to the show for free, save a buck. our third and final hour. $0.95 by itunes. we have a busy final hour and start in vegas, all part of the west coast campaign blitz and prepare for a big debate in las vegas. >> there are 6, 2020 contenders that made it to the debate stage including michael bloomberg who qualified at the last second. >> live in los angeles with preview in the script. >> there is no welcome mat as michael bloomberg prepares to make his debut on the debate stage. michael bloomberg is going to dance about a lot of things from his stop and frisk record as mayor of new york city as well as recently on its comments about farmers but the question the candidates talked about and bloomberg is trying to buy his way into this debate and here is what they said. >> what else do you call it when you dip into your endless reserves of millions and billions and don't go through the process? >> mister bloomberg has every right to run as president of the united states as an american citizen but doesn't have the right to buy this election. >> reporter: there are six on stage, here is bloomberg followed by buttigieg, sanders, warren, klobuchar and biden. he is not on the ballot but nationally he is rising in the polls. if you look at the latest in bc wall street journal poll, opening up a lead at 27% followed by biden at 15% but warren tied in third, 14%. p buttigieg, 14. klobuchar 7. we will see what tonight brings but to add to the excitement, donald trump spent the night in his hotel, has a rally in nearby arizona and later in the week will have a rally. >> how close are you to the crosswalk? i can hear the walk don't walk sign. >> 25 paces behind me. 20 leaf blowers surround the sand, there are jobs in las vegas in the middle of the night. >> interviewing kellyanne conway. >> it is not in city. >> i was looking at the washington post and they published the washington post abc poll. everyone is talking about bloomberg. guess who is in number one position? mister bernie sanders. keep in mind, one month ago, joe biden was the national front runner and according to abc bernie has 32% which is double joe biden. joe biden is at 16. these are the new results and michael bloomberg in 14 has bought $350 million worth of commercials and elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar who did so well in iowa and new hampshire at the back of the pack. >> polls like this will continue to send panic throughout the establishment of the democrat party that believes a socialist can't win in november but if the energy is with him, crowds for bernie sanders. >> 17,000. >> young people, how you put that back in the box even with a billionaire if he build a delegate lead as they give delegates proportionately, he builds the lead you keep the lead when you keep getting delegates unless michael bloomberg can buy enough. >> bloomberg was elected. if biden were elected, if bernie were elected, they would be the almost persons elected president. bloomberg and bernie would be the first jewish president, styron bloomberg would be the richest president ever and if bloomberg won he would be the first new york mayor. >> it would be interesting to see the dynamic tonight. we have all seen michael bloomberg when he ran for mayor. is not a dynamic debater. bernie sanders has more enthusiasm, he is in your face. we will find out how that works. we were talking about how behind-the-scenes at the bloomberg campaign and been doing mock debates. >> pretending to be different people, they are playing for a draw and declare a win. if he survived to move on. >> it should not be about policy, when you watch these debates you are looking for someone with charisma. this president has it, bernie sanders has it for fun to watch and interesting not only what they say but there hand movements. >> if the moderators don't, what do you mean when you bullet are farmers and people who work with their hands, what do you mean when apologizing for stop and frisk, when crime went down in new york city, when you were mayor, wasn't stop and frisk part of the reason it went down 32%. >> >> a comment, someone felt - it does condescend to people who don't have the same view he has. >> bloomberg, you know as much about farming as a hog knows about an airplane. how you teach somebody else how to do it? better stay in new york city where corn comes in cans. >> some people using hogs is the support animals. >> the former mayor of new york city billionaire new yorkers, back and forth yesterday, the president talked about how the dnc is trained to stack the deck against bernie sanders. and many mike, good luck, no standing on the boxes and then he had this observation on the tarmac about how the dnc is treating bernie. >> it is unfortunate what is happening to bernie sanders, always be careful what you wish for and i'm not wishing for anything but whoever it is i will be very happy. in that section of the democratic party, it seems they are being taken advantage of. >> we had lawrence jones asking whether to crossover for michael bloomberg, that is a rubicon to cross for a lot of these people. why would i vote for him when i reject the billionaire class. big problem for democrats. >> bloomberg was asking on twitter, why do you want to run against bernie so badly? the president responds many mike, i would rather run against jews and blue because cans trust a word use and now you want us to believe you? >> the slogan his promises made promises kept promises kept, he ran a lot of things. most politicians actually did it. good luck running on the he didn't follow through on what he said. >> is the attorney general william barr about - and he keeps tweeting about the doj he is out of here. do you believe these headlines, and he mulls residing over trump's tweet. these are unnamed sources. and bars irritation, and underage, bar warns trump, i will walk if you keep tweeting. it is a showdown at the department of justice. >> but then the department of justice, the spokesperson addressed those rumors saying addressing beltway rumors, the attorney general has no plan to resign. >> lindsey graham will be happy, was praising them and praising the president for appointing him. >> a lot of people who appreciate what the attorney general has done, you can support two things at once, you can love the attorney general and understand what the president needs to do with twitter to go around the media. the media are the ones driving the stories which is they can because they realize how effective william barr has been and driving that which would be good for them, not good for the president. >> that is what we are seeing, that is what a former us attorney suggested and he looks at the back and forth and it was just last week the attorney general said the tweets are making my job much harder, impossible in some cases but also said i won't be bullied by congress or newspapers or editorial boards or the president and yesterday the president said my tweets do make it hard but nonetheless here is brett coleman on the ag, not calling it quits. >> the attorney general expressed some frustration but that is not the way he communicates. he is not going to be dealing with ultimatums. he wants to have as great an ability to do the job in a meaningful way and that is who this attorney general's. >> if you were to believe that story, in all the papers this morning you have to believe the attorney general throwing up his hands, saw the latest tweets and is gossiping with people. i don't really know. he said that is not the way this guy operates. >> he would probably stay in office but sending a clear message please stop tweeting, start telling me how to do my job. >> it hasn't affected the way he does his job. he said i'm going to take another look at michael flynn's case because i feel he was severely mistreated in the process too. you look at enough data points and you see a lot of smoke trying to drive that wedge. >> but you got to know the president is not going to stop tweeting. regarding the attorney general stone as paul manafor 20 part in the bunch of people, we are going to be in the next batch. >> the president has been very outspoken about reforming what is happening in the prison system. >> the president said of all those people their sentences were very unfair. >> do you think the folks that hate on his tweets are truly offended or they realize it is effective? >> let's take it to some headlines. >> rod blagojevich at home in chicago for the first time in eight years thanking donald trump for commuting his corruption sentence. >> for my daughters and me, my everlasting gratitude to donald trump for doing what he did. i was a democratic governor, my fellow democrats don't treat him very good. >> rod blagojevich was sentenced for 14 years for trying to sell barack obama's senate seat when he was elected president, donald trump granted clemency to ten other people including edward d bartolo junior. ryan newman is awake and talking following his terrifying wreck at the daytona 500. his car hit a wall, slipped and crashed into another car during the final lap and landed on another car. he joined us earlier and described the aftermath. >> i have a car sitting on my lap, the toughest guy in the garage, no question he will be back soon. >> newman is hospitalized in serious condition but the good news is his injuries are not life-threatening. a mexican man is charged with being a russian spy in the us. police arrested hector cabrera at the miami airport as he tries to leave the country. a russian contact allegedly recruited him to get the license plate number of the us government worker in formula. he is scheduled to appear in federal court friday. the queen is reportedly banning prince harry and megan markel from using their royal label in their brand, weeks after the couple said they would step back from royal duties. megan and harry sent thousands of dollars on a new sussex royal website and working on trademarking their brands. the fallout seems to continue. >> it is not their brand if they can't use it. >> you are not using our label. >> i think harry and megan is a better website anyway. let's register that. >> work on that. >> it is 8:15 on the east coast. >> switching gears the illegal immigrants cleared in the killing of kate steinle ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial on a gun charge. what will happen next? 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creative to escape their state's liberal leaders, starting a petition to move the border westward so they can join their state. two counties have approved putting initiatives on the ballot in oregon if they get enough signatures. our next guest loves the idea. grabbed little joins us now and thank you for being here this morning. what is your case to these counties in oregon to say come over to idaho. >> what takes place in the portland area has a big impact in parts of oregon, looking at idaho fondly, because of the regulatory atmosphere that doesn't surprise me one bit. >> the lead petitioner putting together the movement to do that agrees with you and here's part of the statement. rural county and oregon have become increasingly outraged by the oregon legislature that threaten our livelihoods, industry, wallet, gun rights and values. we tried voting them out but it oregon is "outnumbered" and this is our last resort. let's say that they were able to do that and pass it in the legislature and you and yours. are we talking about redrawing the lines of idaho. >> i saw the map from the news piece and it didn't surprise me because i know a lot of people. there are a lot of hurdles and legal hurdles that jump before they could do that. >> u.s. congress, idaho and oregon state legislature would have to approve it but if it gets on the ballot in oregon which it looks like it will, they need a couple thousand signatures, it could be a big political discussion. any thoughts on what the new idaho would be named? >> i don't think we are excited about changes. >> you can -- you have your choice. who gets to name the state? >> no matter what happens we will maintain our name which is probably what they are interested and would like to have more control and freedom. >> a lot of folks in this country feel like certain cities dominate the politics of the entire state and don't - thank you for joining us, governor brad little of boise, idaho. thank you very much. bernie 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gun charges. jury selection begins in robert durst's murder trial, he is accused of killing his best friend nearly 20 years ago. he was subject of the hbo series jinx where he was unknowingly caught admitting this. >> war. >> he pleaded not guilty. >> 2020 hopeful bernie sanders vowing to end greed and corruption. >> the only way that change every takes place in this country is from the bottom on up, not the talk down. what this campaign is about, not just beating trump. it has taken on corruption of wall street. >> there he is talking about greed and corruption but our next guest is sanders has a little problem. in his new book profiles and corruption, peter schweitzer claims sanders has funneled campaign cash to his wife jane for years and peter joins us live. you say that jane sanders has immediate company and is profiting from her husband's candidacy. >> this goes back to the 1980s when bernie was mayor of burlington, vermont. one of the first things is he put his then girlfriend, y on the payroll, the city council objected, bernie ignored them and that began this pattern of steering money, taxpayer money and campaign money to his family. his wife set up a media buying business registered to their home in vermont and started doing media buying for her husband's campaign. she had no background in advertising or media buying and the dirty little secret is when you do a media by the buyer is entitled to a commission of 10 to 15%. it can be quite lucrative. we know that at least 150,$000 was funneled to jane sanders this way. we also found out in a couple cases allies of bernie sanders who ran for governor of vermont in 2000 and ran for lieutenant governor in 2004 were expecting bernie's endorsement. bernie didn't give it. bernie decided to endorse these candidates. he seems to be leveraging his position as well. >> i don't think most people knew that and i'm sure a lot of the bernie sanders crowd listened to him talk about ending greed and corruption don't realize that but being a media buyer, what she is doing is not against the law. >> now, it is not. part of the issue is it is hard to create laws to fix these problems. the conflict of interest laws in corporate america, if you did this as with a family member and did not disclose it to shareholders in a public traded company would be in trouble with the securities and exchange commission but the problem is politicians get to write their own rules. they want to apply conflict of interest laws and requirements to corporations that they don't apply to themselves. >> at the same time there seems to be some hypocrisy because bernie is honest and every day talking about greed and corruption and people standing right there who really want him to be president don't realize what may be going on behind-the-scenes when it comes to every one of those media purchases. >> the hypocrisy or inconsistency goes deeper because bernie's worth several million dollars. he has a stock portfolio but when you look at his stock portfolio he is not investing in socially responsible investment funds, he's not buying solar company stock or buying into an organic cattle farm. he is buying fortune 500 companies so he attacks wall street, attacks big pharma, big oil. he is invested in those companies, that is where he is putting his assets so it is a major problem for bernie, the gap between the image he portrays in the reality of how he actually conducts his own affairs. >> this is the campaign season and we are learning more about the candidates. are you the only person looking into their personal finances? because your book profiles in corruption is the only place i heard about this the bidens and all those other people, where is the curiosity? >> great question. there doesn't seem to be a lot. what this book does and my previous books have done is the oldest story in political journalism is follow the money. we need to know who joe biden's family is, how bernie is doing things, what amy klobuchar is up to and for people to know whether they are conservative, if you are voting in the democratic primary we need to know this stuff now rather than 6 or 8 months from now. >> the book is go profiles and corruption, abuse of power, new york times bestseller, thank you for joining us live. by the way we did reach out to the bernie sanders campaign for a statement, they have not gotten back to us. we will keep you posted. chris murphy now admitting to secretly meeting with iranian leaders but critics say that sounds like a violation of the logan act, the same law michael flynn was accused of breaking. democrats? molly hemingway will talk about that and joins us live coming up next. ♪ g him... -[ gasps ] -up and at 'em! ...into his father. 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>> people are forgetting donald trump is running a campaign. he went to iowa and new hampshire and there were republican primaries and caucuses in those states and it is to get them out for his 2020 election hope so need to start contacting them now and getting them excited. he's going at the same time democrats are but that is because there are republicans as well as democrats. >> if he squares off against bernie sanders who will be able to raise a lot of money or michael bloomberg who has a lot more money than donald trump he needs to raise money for his campaign and that is why he is doing a fundraiser with larry ellison who runs oracle and is doing a fundraiser out west as well. >> michael bloomberg and donald trump -- michael bloomberg really is one of the world's wealthiest people, already spent $400 million in advertising, a lot of money as he attends to purchase the democratic nomination. >> i love that that is fair. >> ironic for democrats many of which are running against wealth saying we want billionaires out. wealth taxes a big part of the debate tonight. >> the establishment seems to like michael bloomberg, not the democratic voters but the establishment. >> let's talk about chris murphy from the state of connecticut. he met with a member of the iranian regime and the irony is this sounds a lot like what michelson was accused of, violation of the logan act. >> reporter: i found it interesting, i broke the story a couple days ago that he had a meeting with the iranian foreign minister and what is interesting is a few years ago when michael flynn and the incoming member of the trump administration had a conversation with his russian counterparts the treatment was illegal, mike flynn needed to have his life ruined and the department of justice, media figures said this was the logan act violation even though michelson was the incoming national security adviser but chris murphy having secret meetings in the hotel rooms of uranium leaders, a sanctioned individual by the us government and only admitted it after my story broke. now it is a very good thing. a lot of hypocrisy on display. he says because he is a senator he is allowed to do this but it is reported people who weren't senators like john kerry were in this meeting which would mean john kerry violated it. >> maybe an alternative foreign policy. do you have the new york times? i am sure the story is in the new york times right now. is that right? >> not sure. now that chris murphy admitted he did take part in this meeting, they might have covered it. >> not sure it is on the front page. >> democrat senator from connecticut chris murphy says i am a rank-and-file us senator. i cannot conduct diplomacy on behalf of the whole of the united states government and don't pretend to be in a position to do so but if trump isn't going to talk to iran then someone should. lack of dialogue leaves nations guessing about their enemies intentions and getting wrong can lead to catastrophic mistakes. >> he actually contradict himself in that brief statement. he says i'm a senator, doing anything but i'm trying to conduct foreign policy here. he had publicly at this meeting in munich slammed the us policy publicly. it is likely he did the same in private as well. a lot of people say having mixed messages from us figures can cause problems. >> if part of your approach is to not talk to the regime in light of the regime's conduct and a senator walks in and says that president guy, pay no attention to that. >> what was reported to him? >> he was talking about various issues, iranian supporting terror groups and what's not. it would be in contradiction to stated us foreign policy and when you do these things you let the state department know what you are doing and make sure you are not missing anything up that you don't know about. >> 14 minutes before the top of the hour. >> an update to the story we continue to follow, 6-year-old girl at a vigil in south carolina overnight. faye swetlik died by asphyxiation to by her neighbor woody taylor. she was dumped hours after -- he killed himself in his home. officials found one of faye swetlik's booth at a soup ladle covered in dirt in his trashcan. there are no other suspects. two women found that after their car rolls off a fairy. their body found inside a mercedes between miami and nearby fisher island. it is not clear how the car fell overboard, they are typically closed off by metal chains. harry styles attends awards days after being mugged. styles with threatened by a man with a knife when walking through london. he handed over his cash before the fee for an away. he was not hurt and no arrests have been made. >> he gave up the money and they are looking for the guy. he is a world-famous chef transforming failing restaurants into booming businesses. what is his recipe for success? >> host of restaurant impossible robert irvine joins us live next. >> let's check in with ed henry for what is coming up at the top of the hour. >> see if he does anything with his arm. >> did he really dog food yesterday? let's move on. >> people want to know why i left him. big three hours of news coming at you. new details on the cause of death for young faye swetlik and the involvement of a neighbor and we are getting ready for live news conference with rod blagojevich over the pardon he and others received. we will talk about that with our headliner and ask about reports that william barr may be threatening to resign. join us at the top of the hour. you can actually see taste- trends. since when can we do that? since we started working with bdo. 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why are investigators focusing on this north carolina pond? enormous explosion. the biggest refinery on the west coast rocked by a blast. l.a.'s biggest highway shut down as flames shoot into the sky. the latest on what set off the blaze. call him harry. the royal formerly known as prince publicly drops his title. the dramatic turn tonight. and taking down barriers. they took on a sport once reserved for men. tonight they're on the road to being champions. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west. we are going to begin tonight with breaking news of another mass shooting. a gunman went on a rampage in milwaukee this afternoon, multiple people are dead, including the shooter. it happened at the molson coors complex where miller beer is brewed, as the gunfire rang out workers were told to shelter in place as police swarmed the scene. dean reynolds leads off our coverage tonight from milwaukee. >> reporter: police responded to calls of a shooting at the molson coors compound this afternoon. a total of six people who worked there are dead, including the shooter who took his own life. milwaukee mayor tom barrett. >> this is a tragic day for our state. five families, six families, actually, are grieving and will be grieving because of this horrific act of this individual. >> reporter: as officers donned tactical gear employees of the brewery were warned via e-mail to find a safe place to hide. at least one woman texted her husband that she was locked inside a room with coworkers. emergency responders described the scene to dispatchers. >> i just overheard on the radio seven victims. >> reporter: neighboring schools were locked down. this bus driver says students were in the process of dismissal when it all began. >> we're not going to let them out until it's over with, so that could be a long time. >> reporter: ryan hull's son let him know what was happening. >> he had called me and told me they were all in lockdown and they can't even leave the classroom. >> reporter: hours later the two were reunited. >> all of us were just in shock because we didn't know what was going on. >> o'donnell: now to the other breaking news. president trump appeared this evening before reporters alongside his coronavirus task force. for only the second time in his presidency, he spoke to the press from the white house briefing room and announced he's putting vice president mikepenc. coronavirus cases worldwide now top 80,000 with more than 2,700 deaths. three more cases were confirmed in the u.s. all that today bringing the total to 60. that led to another triple-digit loss on wall street today. we have two reports beginning with paula reid at the white house, and paula, it is rare to see the president come into the white house briefing room. >> reporter: yes, this is only his second appearance on that podium. earlier today, the president called his top health officials to the white house for an emergency briefing on the virus and this press conference is an opportunity for the president to defend his response to this crisis. tonight, president trump defended his administration's handling of the coronavirus response and said the vice president would be the new point person. >> but we are very, very ready for this, for anything, whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are, you know, at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. >> the president was especially frustrated that comments from the cdc tuesday stoked fears over the virus and sent stocks tumbling after he told reporters the situation was under control. health and human services secretary alex azar tried to convey the president's position to concerned lawmakers. >> he's trying to calm a public that-- we see in china panic can be as big of an enemy as virus in these situations. so there is always that balance- >> mr. secretary, i don't want to panic over this either. the stock market is crashing. he's trying to stop the stock market. he's outright contradicting everything that you all have just said, outright contradiction. >> reporter: administration officials insisted yesterday the virus was tightly contained, but azar said today it is spreading. >> i was informed that we have a 15th confirmed case. there is now community transmission in a number of countries, including outside of asia, which is deeply concerning. >> reporter: democrats accused the administration of downplaying the crisis and underfunding the response. >> what he's doing is late, too late, anemic. hopefully we can make up for the loss of time. >> reporter: a strong economy is central to the president's reelection strategy, so getting out ahead of a virus that could spread and slow economic growth is critical. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, paula, thank you so much. tonight health officials on long island, new york, are monitoring more than 80 people who visited china and may have come in contact with the coronavirus, and all over the country, there is a run on masks and protective equipment. meg oliver reports hospitals are gearing up. >> your gown goes on first. >> reporter: here at holy name medical center outside new york city, everyone from surgeons to security guards are training on how to best protect themselves from the highly contagious virus. how hard is it to protect your staff? >> most likely it's spread through droplets. so we can isolate ourselves by wearing a mask, gloves, gown, this is of the utmost importance. >> reporter: as hospitals stock up on supplies, their suppliers across the country are running out of protective equipment. this factory in georgia is adding shifts to more than double production to meet the demand for masks. >> we'll be running 24 hours a day, six days a week. >> red oak uniform and medical supply. >> reporter: in houston, this medical supply store ran out. >> there is a very limited supply, and they're allocating that supply for high-risk agencies, hospitals, and government agencies. >> reporter: coast to coast health officials are sounding the alarm. >> it is best to prepare now. >> reporter: and it's not just the healthcare system gearing up. at least six universities are recalling their students studying in italy and south korea, all in an attempt to keep the virus from spreading. >> we don't have any natural immunity. we don't have a vaccine. and we don't have anti-virals to treat this. so really right now prevention is an ounce of cure. >> reporter: in addition to hospitals, schools across the country are drawing up emergency plans to deal with a possible outbreak. one school here in new jersey tells us if three or more students show symptoms, they will notify health services and deep clean their classrooms. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, meg. thank you. we'll turn now to campaign 2020 on the day after tuesday night's debate here on cbs. bernie sanders is keeping up his populist attack on joe biden while biden picked up a big endorsement from a south carolina party power broker. and with the primary there just three days away, the race is going down to the wire. ed o'keefe reports tonight from charleston. >> reporter: bernie sanders is leading nationally, but not here in south carolina, which explains why today he went after joe biden. >> joe, you're not going to bring working people into the political process when you voted for a terrible bankruptcy bill. >> reporter: the former vice president, an establishment favorite, today earned the most establishment of endorsements from congressman jim clyburn, a kingmaker in south carolina. >> south carolina should be voting for joe biden. >> reporter: biden predicts victory on saturday, which would be his first of the campaign. >> i'm here, heart and soul, with everything i've got, to earn the sup o of south carolina. >> reporter: if he does prevail, it will likely be because of biden's support among african americans, who account for roughly six in ten democratic primary voters here. today the contenders stopped by a civil rights breakfast. >> we're going to bring people together. >> reporter: the tone was far different from tuesday night's debate, seen by more than 15 million people, the highest rated yet on broadcast television. >> i dug in, i did the work. and then bernie's team trashed me for it. >> reporter: the candidates didn't hold back, knowing it was their last chance to slow sanders' momentum before saturday's primary and super tuesday. >> i like bernie. we came into the senate together, but i do not think this is the best person to lead the ticket. >> imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. >> o'donnell: ed joins us from the campaign trail. so, the candidates are focused on south carolina, but with super tuesday just right around the corner, whose campaigns are best organized and positioned to do well? >> reporter: sure, norah. you can measure this in a few different states, but by far michael bloomberg and bernie sanders have the most robust operations in those 14 states. bloomberg is spending at least $153 million on tv ads there, and sanders has deployed more than 200 staffers. by comparison, former vice president biden is spending just six figures on tv ads in eight of those states. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, ed. thank you. today federal prosecutors charged five people connected to a white supremacist group with plotting to intimidate journalists and others, including a cabinet secretary, by terrorizing them in their homes. jeff pegues has more on the suspects. >> reporter: the arrest involved members of a neo-nazi group called atomwaffen, which has been on law enforcement's radar for several years. >> they vowed to accelerate the collapse of civilization using violence, mass murder, hate, and threat. >> reporter: the five individuals are all charged with making threats. four were involved in a plot to send hate-filled posters like this one to the homes of journalists and activists, many of them jewish. the fifth, john cameron denton, is alleged to have called in fake threats to a virginia university, a historic black church, and even then department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen. earlier this month fbi director christopher wray elevated racially motivated violent violent extremism to a national threat priority. >> not only is the terror threat diverse, it's unrelenting. >> reporter: according to the anti-defamation league, domestic extremists were responsible for at least 42 deaths last year alone and 90% of those were linked to right-wing extremists. >> the violence associated with oups has surpassed thessed the violence associated with groups that we deem international terrorism groups here in the united states. >> reporter: the f.b.i. has now created a domestic hate crimes and terrorism fusion cell to investigate these cases, and that involves working undercover and tracking what suspects are doing online if, norah, there is evidence that they are planning violence. >> o'donnell: it's now one of the top threats. >> it is. >> o'donnell: all right, jeff, thank you. in north carolina, an intense search is under way today for a 15-month-old girl from tennessee who has been missing since december. her mother and grandmother are under arrest after giving police conflicting stories about the toddler's whereabouts. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: investigators searching for a missing tennessee toddler didn't find any clues today in this north carolina pond. they were looking for evidence of 15-month-old evelyn mae boswell, last seen just after christmas in tennessee. evelyn's mother megan boswell says she left the little girl with her mother, the child's grandmother. >> we went to go out to eat. and my mom came and got her. she was wearing a little hot pink tracksuit with a matching bow and little matching shoes. >> reporter: the little girl was reported missing last week and an amber alert was issued. investigators want to know why megan boswell waited nearly two months to report her child missing. the sheriff of sullivan county says her story keeps changing, and boswell was charged with false reporting. >> many of the false statements that megan made delayed our investigations. >> reporter: angela boswell, the toddler's grandmother, and william mccloud, were arrested in north carolina on unrelated charges. there are still no signs of the little girl. omar villafranca, cbs news. >> o'donnell: winter storm alerts are posted tonight in more than a dozen states from the great lakes to northern new en d as far south a north carolina and tennessee. parts of michigan and indiana got up to four inches of snow today, and more is expected tonight. as the storm pushes east, parts of upstate new york are bracing for up to three feet of snow by saturday. tonight investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a tremendous explosion and fire at the largest fuel refinery on the west coast. the blast was heard miles from the plant in carson, california, and mola lenghi is there tonight. >> a huge ball of fire in the center of the refinery. >> reporter: flames shot through the night sky, visible throughout much of southern california after an explosion at the largest refinery on the west coast. >> there were several explosions, up to potentially three explosions that preceded the fire itself. >> reporter: the boom could be heard at least 25 miles away. one of the busiest freeways in the nation, the 405, shut down overnight as more than three dozen l.a. county firefighters battled the blaze for nearly five hours. it happened at the marathon five petroleum refinery south of los angeles, but what burned was not crude oil. fire officials tell cbs news that all this was a massive propane explosion. the cause still under investigation, and the bulk of the refinery back up and running. well, 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