Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by you can do the things you like to do with a wireless plan designed for you. With talk, text and data. Consumer cellular. Learn more at consumercellular. Tv and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thanyou. Woodruff it is the eve of impeachment. The United States house of representatives convenes tomorrow to consider the case against President Trump. But first, lawmakers spent long hours working out the rules for those proceedings. Once again, Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins begins our coverage. Desjardins in a small room on the capitols third floor today, the last step before impeachment goes to the house floor. Here today. E we have to be desjardins the House Rules Committee will decide thepr ess for the impeachment debate expected tomorrow. And it beganthith a first in p
Next with senator tom cotton of arkansas who says that democrats are distorting effect. He wants sessions to testify before congress and set the record straight. Plus, everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. Every problem can be solved. Chris we will ask or send a whether this will get in the way of passing the trump agenda. And our power player of the wee week. A political outsider and former navy seal takes charge in missouri. Thats what too many politicians have said. Chris all right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. President trump has dramatically escalated the battle over his alleged collusion with the russians, accusing president obama of tapping his phones at trump tower during the campaign. In has president obamon, watergate, of. In the summer they transition folks and claims, alleging the surveillance communications, bue to have a cput. Wires tapped juse neither president or obama or any official ever ordered surveillanc
York city, and chicago, all of which are grinding to a halt. This is a moment we need to make tough decisions. This is a moment where we need some Straight Talk and we need to tell people the truth. We need to bend the curve in the state of california. Were going to close the valve, all right, because the rate of increase in the number of cases portends a total overwhelming of our hospital system. We need everyone to be safe. Otherwise, no one can be safe. The easy thing to say today is that soon everything will go back to the way it was. But i want to be honest with you about that, too. We dont know yet all the steps we are going to have to take to get this virus under control. As of tonight, the coronavirus has claimed the lives of 223 americans, with the number of confirmed cases in this country reaching nearly 18,000. Thats more than double the total of two days ago. The world also marked a grim new milestone as the mounting death toll from the virus exceeded 10,000. Yet as million
White house official said sparked trumps series of tweets accusing investigators of tapping his phone. Cnn is told there was no warrant on this evening isser. Questions about the connection between the server and russian bank were widely dismissed four months ago as an attempt by alpha bank to block spam but anderson, the fbis courter Intelligence Team looking into the suspected interference and 2016 election is still examining it and one official said the server relationship is odd and seen as perplexing and investigators are not ignoring it but the fbi has a lot more work to do to determine what was behind the unusual activity. The fbi did klined to comment a declined to comment and the white house did not respond to our request. What was odd about these communications between this russian bank . Sure, anderson. This can get technical fast. What is soed a, th ed odd, thisk looked up the unique address out computer server in the u. S. The computer world is the equivalent of looking up
Congress. Vet tomorrow night, judiciary co committee announced they will n start the markup phase, the debate over the language in the articles, the two articles are tightly focused on just one subject, trumps actions to pressure ukraine for political , investigations. And the reasoning is made clear in the language. And we quote from the articles. President trump by such conduct has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national ns security and the constitution if allowed to remain in office andd has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with Self Governance and the rule of law. President trump thus warrants impeachment and trial removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. That last part, of course, requires a trial and a vote in the senate. The document, however, continues. And we quote. President trump thus interposed the powers of the presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the house of represen