Home about what she was going to accept in terms of witnesses, when she returned from the Holiday Season back to the senate, she essentially brought that 1999 clinton resolution to the floor, and she handed it to mcconnells staff, essentially asking them, okay, show me what is going to change in this resolution and what is going to stay the same. We know the majority leader had made it very clear he was going to follow the, quote, clinton motto. But she wanted to see it in writing. She wanted to understand what does that mean in terms of getting witnesses sochlt what transpired was weeks of negotiations between senator collins staff, murkowskis staff, Lamar Alexanders staff and leadership to go over word by word who was going to be in this resolution. So the expectation and we should be cautious here. We have not seen the resolution yet. It hasnt been released. But the expectation is that it will actually include a vote after the presentations of evidence by both sides and a debate from the senators, there will actually be a vote on whether or not senators are willing to entertain the idea of witnesses, not any specific witnesses, just the idea of needing more information. And that, of course, is going to be a very important vote for those moderates who are facing a lot of pressure back home. We should also note, brooke, just tend to be more independent minded when it comes to wanting more information. These are not people who had their minds made up. Theyre going into this trial, and they really view their role as being impartial jurors. Their role in these negotiations very important. Such great reporting, lauren, everyones creating this color behind the scenes before this whole thing begins. You nailed it. Thank you. Lets talk about these new lawyers hired to defend the president in his impeachment trial. Their common tie, they have all had their fair share of tv time. Youll recognize ken starr, the independent counsel for the white water investigation. His investigation and report let to the impeachment of bill clinton in 1999. Check out what starr said the year before about clintons refusing to cooperate with investigators. The president refused six invitations to testify before the grand jury, refusing to cooperate with a duly authorized federal criminal investigation is inconsistent with the general statutory duty of all executive branch employees to cooperate with criminal investigations. It also is inconsistent with the president s duty to faithfully execute the laws. Its interesting to note that welcome back, youre in 1999 the year of the clinton watching cnn on this friday, im impeachment trial, donald trump brooke baldwin. Said this. Thank you for being here. The lawyer President Trump once i think ken starr is a lunatic. I really think that ken starr is called a, quote, freak is now one of the newest members of his a disaster. Defense team for his impeachment i hated the way the president handled it. Trial. With opening arguments four days it was a long and terrible process. I really think that ken starr away, the white house has finally named who will be helping make the president s was terrible. Robert ray was starrs case before all those senators, and ken starr is among them. His work as independent counsel led to the clinton impeachment trial, so lets start there. Successor, Alan Dershowitz. He was highly vocal during the Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the russia investigation. White house for us. Dershowitz has been resisting joining the trump team. Its no the only starr whos a in a statement, the legal team big name on this team, tell us who else. Reporter no, two others, and pointed out that dershowitz robert ray may not be one thats voted for Hillary Clinton. These three Attorneys Join four as recognizable as ken starr and others defending trump, jane ras Alan Dershowitz but hes the one kin and pam bondi, a former who succeeded ken starr. Hes the one who finished the federal prosecutor, and shes final clinton report, the one also former Florida State that was attorney and the team will be led by the white House CounselPat Cipollone and the president s private attorney jay sekul sekulow. Thats the full picture for the Trump Defense team. With me now cnn legal analyst jan rogers, shes a former prosecutor. You heard the sound we dug up from then private citizen donald trump, starr, lunatic and disaster let me add to that the Monica Lewinsky from today, this is definitely an are you kidding me kind of day. Obviously shes alluding to ken starrs name. What did you make of ken starr, Alan Dershowitz being named to this team . I think its a mistake, brooke. I think its going to backfire on them. Listen, the trump team has had a lot of trouble attracting topnotch legal talent. Thats been the case this whole time. They want tv friend ly personalities who have proven themselves loyal. Dershowitz has lost so much credibility through the extreme positions hes been taking on tv defending the president against the mueller investigation. Hes even in litigation over whether he had sex with a minor, trafficked by epstein. So hes a disaster. And ken starr is going to be facing the exact thing that you just did to him, which is side by side comparisons of what he said then and what hes saying now. His job is to stand up and explain why its no big deal that trump wouldnt speak to investigators, blocked every single witness, blocked every single document, doesnt want witnesses. How is he going to do that credibly . Even though theyve had trouble with talent, they should have looked elsewhere. How does he square that with witnesses . We know that democrats have been consistent that no biden should take the stand. They feel like its the president of the United States on trial and the bidens actions have nothing to do with impeachment. So here is the minority leader in the senate, chuck schumer. The witnesses weve asked for are not witnesses that are our pals. Theyre trump appointees. They work for trump. Hunter biden has nothing to do with that. If they want to go on a fishing expedition because theyre so worried about what witnesses would find and try to ask for someone else, i dont think it will fly with the american people, and i dont even think it will fly with the senators. A few senators have called for it, but i think thats to try and scare people from the pursuit of real witnesses. Im curious, jen, just how you interpret his response, and is there room for these house managers to negotiate . Ill give you, you know, a biden in exchange for a john bolton and a mick mulvaney. There is room to negotiate, and i think thats whats going to happen here. His point is at the very beginning of all of this, the president was trying to mount a defense that went along the lines of theres corruption here. Hes really just trying to root out corruption, and thats what this was a that has been absolutely eviscerated by all of what weve learned since then. These dozen witnesses who have testified, the documents that have come out. Its now not even a question that hunter biden and joe biden had anything to do with this in the sense of a legitimate defense for the president. Theres no legitimate reason to call them here. Do you think that you mentioned the new evidence coming out, you know, lev par s parnas, the indicted giuliani associate, do you think it will force lawmakers hands on bringing witnesses to this trial . I think every piece of information that comes out including lev parnas forces their hand a little bit more. The problem is some of them are refusing to have their hand forced, right . Some of them have their head stuck so far in the sand they just refuse to be moved by anything. Okay. Jen rogers, thank you very much. We also know now more about irans missile attack against the United States. Now cnn is learning that american troops were injured after all, so the question were asking is why are we just now finding out about this . And a new book describes a president ial tirade against his top military brass telling star generals theyre all and im quoting losers. And andrew yangs wife opens up about being sexually assaulted by her doctor. It is a story you will not want to miss. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. We will be right back. If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable. 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Troops were indeed injured in that Iranian Missile attack on two military bases last week. The pentagon is revealing that 11 Service Members in the Al Asad Air Base in western iraq were hurt and several have been treated for concussion symptoms and are still being assessed. Remember initially the pentagon said no one had been hurt and so do the commander in chief. No americans were harmed in last nights attack by the iranian regime. Shortly after those missiles were fired by iran, the president also tweeted all is well adding that assessment of casualties and damages was taking place and so far so good. With me now iraq war veteran phillip carter, he served as Deputy Assistant secretary of state for detainee policy under former president obama. Thank you so much for joining me. And first things first, why are we just now learning about this . So it looks like were just now learning about this because the injuries assessed were concussions. It takes a while to go through the protocol to determine that someone has a blast injury from an explosion like this, and so it makes sense this is just coming out now. Id be hesitant to see too much of a political ghost here. This just looks like proof of the old military proverb that first reports are always wrong. I got you. I also wanted to ask you about this theres this new book called a very stable genius, donald j. Trumps testing of america with some pretty compelling details written by two Washington Post reporters. One of the details goes into this july 2017 meeting where then secretary of state Rex Tillerson called President Trump a moron with, you know, some colorful language thrown in there. The book reveals that trump then scolded his top military brass at that meeting. Heres the quote from him, this is, again, from President Trump. Youre all losers. You dont know how to win anymore, and then later in the meeting he goes on to say i wouldnt go to war with you people. Youre a bunch of dopes and babies. Now, phillip, i cant even imagine how heated some of those discussions must be in a room like that, but i mean, have you ever heard of language like this coming from the president . You know, if you looked inside the sit room from lbj or other president s, you may have heard similar things. This discussion in july 2017 was one of the first big meetings between President Trump and his war cabinet, and whats interesting is the way that both sides saw this completely differently, so the generals and secretary mattis and secretary tillerson wanted to educate the president on the way they saw the world, and the president by contrast knew exactly how we saw the world and was not looking forward to that educational session and let it be known. And so this ended up being a case of two ships essentially passing in the night and shooting at each other a bit as they did. It was sort of the antithesis of what we would expect to see as harmonious military revelations. Pointblank, did you wince a little bit or really you werent that worried . I wince ad a little bit becae no functioning o treats people like that. Leaders that ive served under and worked with tend to thrive when they respect the people they work with and inspire confidence both up and down. The distinction here is that he was asking fundamental questions of things that those military leaders took as articles of faith. Like, whether we should continue fighting in afghanistan, and that was very bitter medicine for some of those generals to hear, but in some ways the president was right to ask those fundamental questions. Thats why we have civilian control of the military. Sure. And then another quote from this book, because we know the Vice President was in the room and apparently he never said anything. Hes described as, quote, frozen like a statue, a quote, wax museum guy and a deer in the headlights. This is according to people in that room. The one person who did speak out was then secretary tillerson who said, quote, mr. President youre wrong. I ask my question to you, fil , phillip, if youre top military brass, take ting this verbal incoming from the president. Can you push back . There was a nonresponse to actually kind of keep it secret . Ive been one of the back benchers in meetings like that. You absolutely can push back. You should push back. Thats your job. Thats what lincoln understood what he created his team of rivals during the civil war. Thats what president s have done ever since, and it is absolutely the job of the secretary of defense and the secretary of state and the other senior folks there, and even to some extent the chairman of the joint staff to push back and engage in a healthy dialogue with a fair amount of friction when necessary. Phillip carter, thank you for your expertise in this area. I appreciate you. Thank you. More fallout today from those lev parnas interviews. Secretary of state mike pompeo finally breaks his silence, promises to take action over the alleged surveillance of a former u. S. Ambassador. And the wife of one of the president ial candidates is speaking out quite candidly about being sexually assaulted. Evelyn yang shares her powerful story with dana bash. Skin sin 17. Too many afterparties. New neutrogena® bright boost with dullnessfighting neoglucosamine. Boosts cell turnover by 10 times for instantly brighter skin. Bright boost neutrogena®. Everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. Expedia. For everyone you love. You will see at vgreat and look great. Ee guaranteed we say that too youve gotta use these because we dont mean it. Buy any pair at regular price, get one free. Really visionworks. See the difference. Here, it all starts withello hi . How can i help . A data plan for everyone. Everyone . Everyone. Lets send to everyone wifi up there . Uhh. Sure, why not . Howd he get out . a camera might figure it out. That was easy glad i could help. At xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. So come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. After 48 hours, secretary of state mike pompeo is breaking his silence over whether one of had of his ambassadors was being surveilled in ukraine. This is one of several revelations from this trove of documents from indicted Rudy Giuliani associate lev parnas. Among those documents were Text Messages from republican congressional candidate robert hyde suggesting that he had knowledge of marie yovanovitchs whereabouts in ukraine. Yovanovitch was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine before the president fired her last year, and secretary pompeo said he never heard of those surveillance efforts at the time. Ive not met this guy lev parnas to the best of my knowledge, never encountered, never communicated with him. We will do everything we need to do to evaluate whether there was something that took place there. I suspect that much of whats been reported will ultimately prove wrong, but our obligation, my obligation as secretary of state is to make sure that we evaluate, investigate any time theres someone who posits there may have been a risk to one of our officers, well obviously do that. The president of the Global Situation room, and former director of Global Engagement under president obama. A pleasure to have you here. Do you trust him . I think secretary pompeos track record has not been a great one when it comes to the safety of our people. Just take, for instance, a 23 cut in the last fiscal year to Embassy Security upgrades sochlt for a. So for all of his talk of swagger and restoring diplomats to their rightful place, the evidence tells a very different story, and i think his comments belie a certain distrust of the accusations. Im not certain whether or not we get to the bottom of this. I should remind people, ukraine launched an investigation. Lets take the secretary at his word. What if he genuinely did not know that she was being surveilled, if she was, thats even more worrisome, correct . Absolutely. Diplomatic security agents are supposed to be aware of any intelligence, counter intelligence, threats to our people, and certainly the ambassador absolutely in a country like ukraine. This could have been a group of terrorists. It could have been foreign agents from china or russia or any of those breakaway provinces in ukraine that pose add Real Security threat and certainly an intelligence threat as well. Yeah, lev parnas is talking. Hes revealing more details. He talked to Anderson Cooper about yovanovitchs firing, so heres what he told anderson. To my knowledge the president fired her at least fou