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Newsroom up next good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin the hour with Donald Trump returning in front of a judge this morning as lawyers for the former President And E Jean Carroll are set to square off in manhattans federal Appeals Court Trump is seeking an appeal after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former columnist, awarding her 5 following a trial last year, the case is separate from the related Defamation Trial that was held ear...

he shared with so many. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." im jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with a warning from law enforcement. we do not know where he is. those chilling words minutes ago from the top fbi agent in san jacinto county, texas, about this man, 38-year-old francisco orapeza. he has been the focus of a desperate manhunt since friday night. thats when neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle in his front yard because they were trying to get a baby to g...

win over unthuziastic democrats and taking digs at his former and potentially future opponent donald trump. a rape allegation lawsuit against trump goes to trial with opening statements in new york. we will have the latest on e. jean carrolls civil case against the former president and trumps defense. and in war-torn sudan, americans are a part of an urgent race to flee the country as bursts of violence mara fragile u.s. ceasefire. this amid fierce of a biological nightmare after p...

>> reporter: what we definitely learned, anderson, is you know, a lot more about the timeline in court today, much of it linked to the alleged internet searches that walshe conducted on december 27th, january 1st, the second and fourth internet searches about things such as dna, divorce, and a decomposing body. >> i think the number one concern is finding ana and finding out what happened. >> reporter: the timeline in the mystery of what happened to ana walshe spans more than two weeks...

decomposing body. >> i think the number one concern is finding ana and finding out what happened. >> the timeline in the mystery of what happened to ana walshe spans more than two weeks, starting on new years day. that is when her husband, brian walshe, claims she left their cohasset home in a rideshare or taxi to fly to washington d. c. for work. but prosecutors say there is no evidence that ana got a ride or went to the airport. brian walshe tells investigators, on this day, he ran e...

Nasty -- doesnt have a nasty word to say about anybody. and i find particularly compelling, as in the other "me too" cases, the fact that two independent people will testify that jean carefuroll told me th story about what happened at the department store, you know, within a day or two after it happened. i mean thats always -- if youve read the work of ronan farrow in "the new yorker" and jody cantor in "the new york times," that kind of evidence is extremely important in establishing something ...

Going into a case like that. one is circumstantial evidence. and the other is the double jeopardy factor which is if you get it wrong the first time and you find the body a year later, you cant go back on it. so, prosecutors weigh these very carefully. in this case, part of what theyre doing is fronting what appears to be somewhat overwhelming circumstantial evidence. >> mary ellen, there is another kind of evidence you think is important, pattern evidence. can you talk about that, what that mea...

You think is important. pattern evidence -- can you just talk about? that what that means? >> sure. pattern evidence has to do with a victims pattern of behavior. so you are looking at, for example, in a missing persons case, an adult can go voluntarily missing. that is not a criminal act. however, if there is going to be a prosecution without a body, they have to establish the fact that the person did go missing, and that the person is dead, and that the cause of the deaths homicide. part of wh...

Majority in 2020, will you regret backing impeachment? >> no. >> your chairman on the intelligence committee adam schiff defended the decision today to not include obstruction of justice in the articles of impeachment. there is obstruction of congress not obstruction of justice which would have been from the mueller investigation. you believe president trump obstructed justice i assume? >> im with chairman schiff and i believe the pattern of conduct of asking the russians in the past to help him...

The courts right now. and that reflects that as it relates to the mueller obstructive acts the president took. we are hopeful that successful court rulings will allow us to introduce, as pattern evidence, the presidents conduct at the senate trial. >> you were a presidential candidate. youre in the middle of this impeachment process. you may very well become an impeachment manager. do you believe the entire democratic party, whether those running for president, do you think this should be the pr...