Page 2 - Facing Reelection News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Protesting after the Supreme Court threw out a petition to delay tamars vote with the country deeply divided there are fears of violence here in kenya with the latest also coming up a surprising twist in the case of a german human rights organizer on trial in turkey prosecutors are reportedly demanding he be released. And a german president can call their steinmeier says he wants better ties between berlin and moscow steinmeyer meets with president Vladimir Putin as part of his visit to russia will ask our correspondent in moscow what kind of reception he received. Also the Anti Semitism scand...

Infected when he called the wuhan flu. at the same time congressman rice is one of the only republicans still standing up to trump's growing insurrection. if that's the defining issue in american politics right now, you're saving american democracy, that needs recognizing that he's doing that especially since four of the ten republicans who voted to impeach trump second time around our retiring from congress instead of facing reelection. nearly half of them. a few republicans, conservatives were even standing up to the threat posed by trout long before he incited insurrection and got impeached...

Rights. >> how does the white house handle this? these are people they need to have in their corner, but, you know, sort of the elite in washington, if you will, have an eye towards the midterms and getting everyone sort of on the same page for november. what do you think? >> look, i think they're handling this the best way they can and that is just trying to show they're doing everything they can possible. and that includes the speech today. it includes what chuck schumer is going to be doing in the senate, having a vote on these rules in the senate to keep the filibuster or not. but the real...

And what james madison once said when he was speaking out at the constitutional convention, and by the way, i think he's a pretty good size for a president, he was 5'4". and what he said, he said the reason we have these impeachment articles in the constitution, that the provisions are in there, is because he feared that a president would betray the trust of the american people for a foreign power. that is what happened here. watergate -- this is a global watergate. in the case of watergate, a paranoid president facing reelection looked for political dirt on an opponent. he did it by getting p...

Does have some relationships there, even though that started to fray a little bit with the loyalties of trump we see from lindsey graham. but the president is not going to have as much support when it comes to pushing the senate to become this sort of reality tv style body where he can sort of do his 2020 campaigning. there is going dobto be a lot o pushback from the senators facing reelection, but also the institutionalists who want to see this process take place in a stayed and highlighted form, and it's clear the president isn't going to get what he wants from those senators. >> so the ques...