Answers. We will get the home. Reality setting and for joe biden tonight as he admits he took a gut punch and iowa landing in fourth place. We do have an update, the growing concern among democrats that he doesnt have what it takes. They werent at the far left contenders could be hobbled of the general election by the progressive policies. Hello and welcome to fox news at night. I am Shannon Bream in washington. We start net with rich edson. Good evening. Democrats needed twothirds of the senate to remove president rouhani from office. They failed to even hit 50. His impeachment ends on an almost Party Line Vote to acquit the president. With that more than five months of impeachment inquiry and trial conclude. The senate acquitted President Trumps on house impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Its in the rearview mirror. I think what is appropriate now is to know it all began for political reasons. They all voted to commit the president , republicans nearly
And formally asking for answers to get them. Reality sitting in for joe biden as he admits he took a good punch and iowa landing in fourth place. We havupdate, growing concern among democrats that biden doesnt have what it takes and worries the far left contenders could be held in the general election by their progressive socialist policies, we are digging in. We start with richardson to break down the acquittal of the president and the fallout. Democrats needed 2 thirds of the senate to remove donald trump from office, they failed to even hit 50 is impeachment ends on an almost partyline vote to acquit the president. With that, more than 5 months of an impeachment inquiry and trial concludes, the senate acquitted donald trump on house approved impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. It is in the Rearview Mirror and i think what is appropriate now for political reasons. Democrats voted on to complete the president. Republicans nearly offered donald trump unan
But we start with a newly emboldened President Trump going on offense. An hour from now the president expected to address the nation on the senates vote to acquit him. Nbcs Geoff Bennett starts us off from capitol hill. This has been an incredibly divisive time in congress, geoff. What can we expect to hear from the president roughly an hour from now . Reporter well, we expect, craig, that the president will take that victory lap that hes been aiming to take ever since the senate trial started. I know my colleague kelly o odonnell can tell us more about that. We expect to hear the House Speaker brief the press shortly. The big question for her substantively as it relates to impeachment is when or whether House Democrats will subpoena john bolton as a way of ferreting out what he knows. Our colleague told Rachel Maddow refused to submit a sworn affidavit after the senate refused to admit the evidence into the senate trial. Impeachment is now over but it would be one way for House Democr
Were sort of putting it all on the line. This 30 days. So important because we have to get back. We also heard from dr. Birx today. I want to play some of what she said. Take a listen. I think every one understands now that you can go from 5 to 50 to 500 to 5,000 cases very quickly. We see this in many metropolitan areas. Were very worried about every city in the United States and the potential for this virus to get out of control. I want to turn in and bring some of our guests. We have been covering these daily briefings. Some are more inform tiative th others. I think there was significant agreement were not prepared to lift the restrictions on physical contact. Its important to maintain physical distance for the foreseeable next few weeks. This will give us more time to prepare hospitals, to prepare equipment. To allow diagnostic testing to be distributed more broadly across the nation and we still need to be able to do our best to immaterial plemt pplement pu measures for individua
Chairman schiff is with us. Hes interest in doing an after action report some time in the future when the situation is clear enough to go back and figure out everything the federal government did right, everything it did wrong. I think we have a feeling the section on what it did wrong will be longer than what it did right but thats what hes going to do when he gets his chance. I have some suggestions for topics in the table of contents in that report. I can tell you now. I think they are taking notes watching your friend. Thanks, lawrence. Like i said, chairman adam schiff will be with us tonight. Well get the latest situation on his Congressional District in the Los Angeles Area and chairman schiff has a new plan for what congress feeds to do about the failures of the Trump Administration and defending us against the coronavirus pandemic. Chairman adam schiff will join us later in the hour and at the end of the hour, well be joined by my favorite mask maker. She has already gotten th