So, heres the breaking news, president elect joe biden preparing to battle the surge in the covid pandemic the day he takes office. In an interview with cnn, he said he will ask americans to wear masks for his first 100 days in office to slow the spread of the virus. This coming with 200,000 new cases and he said that the task force will operate independently without being influenced by politics. Joining me, john dean, good evening to both of you, john, i see you every night. John harwood, thank you both for joining. John harwood, more americans than before hospitalized with the coronavirus. 26 Million People dont have enough food to eat. This is acolossal crisis, the president is ignoring it and the next president is telling the American People how he is going to take it all on. Well, thats, everything in a contrast that you could hope to get between joe biden and donald trump. Donald trump is somebody who he doesnt read, he doesnt prepare. He spent most of the time as president prete
Defense against two articles of impeachment. This mornings 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, were 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 dont 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 ca
Wbur and msnbc contributor. Kimberly, youve seen the documents and all of the reporting about it. What do you see as being significant about them . Well, what it does is it creates a clear connection between this effort to remove the ukrainian ambassador, to recall her, and secretary of state mike pompeo and Rudy Giuliani. It just adds more factual basis to the two weeks of testimony that we just saw in the impeachment hearings, which shows an effort to remove yovanovitch from her post because giuliani and others who were a part of this parallel tract focused on this investigation, getting an investigation by ukrainian officials of joe biden. They saw her as an impediment to that, and this is a key part of this entire narrative that the democrats were laying out this week. And these documents show exactly how that took place, with the phone calls leading up to her recall. Okay. So, you have the state department denying congressional investigators access to the documents. And the way th