Politics for the National Journal and she covers washington and politics for the washington the articles of impeachment will be delivered on tuesday. Did you look at the 435 house seats up for grab, from the democratic perspective will impeachment be a factor in democrats keeping the majority in congress . Bethe biggest factor will that we right now have 42 freshman in the Democratic Caucus who were in some of the toughest districts anywhere in the country who have proven themselves to understand what is important back home. Before we started airing this we talked about something i do at home called supermarket saturday. You can multiply that by all of these freshmen who go home and do things, whether they call it supermarket saturday, they are using their two ears and one mouth proportionately. The people want health care, not impeachment. They stay hyper local focused. Isn i advise anybody who running for congress or anybody who will be running for their first reelection i always say
40s on the temperatures for most of us. We will end up in the 60s and 70s. We will be above average again. It was crazy for a moment. It is better now. It is quite outside. We felt guilty about not having the rain. It is an easy drive. Especially on this president s day holiday. We are looking at the commute. Here is westbound 580. This is in the valley. Theres a tiny bit is flowing at the 205. We are looking at the north bay down to richmond and berkeley. There are no problems. Once you get to the toll plaza it is nice and open. Thank you. The time is 6 01 am. There is a developing story. The search and rescue team is looking for a missing couple. We are in the area. Tell us about what they are doing and what they know so far. Good morning to you. The Sheriff Office said this missing couple had been visiting the area for a few days. There has been no siding or close on where they were may be. They may have been hiking. They were seen at a rental home on friday. The couple never checke
To the senate. There has been a shakeup in the russian government. President Vladimir Putin replaced his long serving Prime Minister and called for sweeping constitutional changes. The move fuel speculation that the russian leader is moving to extend his grip beyond the end of his term in 2024. The appeal people included the removal of Dmitry Medvedev who has been an office for nearly eight years. Irans president is warning european soldiers in the middle east could be in danger after nations talent challenge tehran after breaking limits of its nuclear deal. His remarks in a televised Cabinet Meeting represent the first direct threat he has made to europe as tensions remain high between tehran and washington over President Trump withdrawing the u. S. From the nuclear deal in may of 2018 and the recent killing of irani and military leader qasem soleimani. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 cou
Present the case against the president , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent
Global tugofwar. Critical tests. A spacecraft explodes minutes after launch. Why Todays Mission was a success. And a world war ii veteran finally gets the recognition he earned at 103 years old. Gods been good. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im omar villafranca. The countdown has begun to the Historic Senate trial of President Trump. It begins tomorrow morning. House managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill sunday to work on strategy. Senators are getting ready for what could be a grueling few weeks listening to hours of testimony with no questions allowed. Ben tracy starts us off from the white house. Well be sitting there in our chairs probably on the order of six hours a day. Reporter senators are now preparing to be jurors, deciding in just weeks whether or not President Trump remains in office. Republicans dont have enough votes for a quick dismissal, but they are confident the president will be acquit