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these are images from anti-government protests saturday. the protesters are shouting death to the supreme leader. president trump tweeting support for those protesters in both english and farsi. team trump sees it as a decisive moment and a decisive victory. so the president bristles at sharp questions including from a modest numb of fellow republicans about why congress was kept in the dark about the soleimani strike and about whether the white house is telling the truth now as it constantly changes the rationale for ordering the attack. the chairman of the joint chief of staffs said it was an imminent threat against military personnel but the intelligence did not specify a location and then closed with this from the president on friday. >> i can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies and i think baghdad

already started. they were amazed that we came in with that force. we came in with a powerful force and that ended almost immediately but baghdad would have been the lead but i think it would have been four embassies. could have been a lot of other things too, but it was imminent and then all of a sudden he was gone. >> democratic senators say there was no mention -- no mention -- of a threat on four embassies in any of their classified briefings. >> i have been told nothing matching that specificity matching the briefings. if that were the truth we would have heard that in the very first briefing that we had and not only do we not hear it then, we have to wait till the president goes on fox news three or four days later for his latest justification. so i doubt very much there's any intelligence that supports what the president is now saying. >> with us this sunday to share their reporting and insights

julie pace of the associated press. cnn's jeff zeleny and vivian salama and karoun demirjian. master stroke or madness? >> that is the question, right? i mean, if you are in the white house right now, you think that you really pulled off something significant here. you did take out a leader who was plotting against americans for years. now just in this moment but for years been plotting against americans but as the american president you also have a responsibility to explain to the public why you're doing things and certainly explain to lawmakers why you're doing things. by all accounts even republicans who support this president if you talk to them privately, you talk to some of their aides privately, yes, there was a threat because soleimani was always a threat but there's some skepticism if there was a specific, imminent threat that justified taking this

provocation. >> and they unsuccessfully tried to take out another military commander in yemen, you get the idea that they wanted to punch back anyway. >> and since the briefers have been to capitol hill they also suggest you kind of saw them pivoting away from the word imminent because that's very vital if you're trying to make the case that it's a self-defense move against something that's forthcoming. this is a perfect example of how the domestic and the international politics don't ever match up. and do you want them to come and deliberate for three weeks after if we have an opportunity to take out someone who is a potential threat and has been in the past oar in the future an then congress sticking to the authority on war powers which you know don't work and they don't have time to percolate through congress and the administration wants to take a solitary strike.

>> that goes back to the whole definition like imminent as julie just said. secretary pompeo said it was imminent and then back tracked so congress is saying what's the story? if it's imminent how is you should tell us the information and the president himself said if it's classified then you know it's not something that we want to talk about. of course he ended up to divulge some of the details on fox news anyway. but this is something they're facing now. >> and the question is the credibility questions predate this crisis. this is not a debate over health care policy but a war and peace moment and when the president has a history of not telling the truth, it's a fact. secretary pompeo even though he's from the congress no, we don't have to tell you things. you have to take what we say as proof. there's no doubt about it. the administration says as julie noted the iranians didn't do much in retaliating.

they had an olympic medalist defect. but that's no question if you go back to the past week there are good reasons to question the white house's credibility. >> soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel. >> if you're looking for i believe nens look to further than the beginning of the week. >> he was looking at our embassies and not just in baghdad. >> we don't know when and we don't know where. but it was real. >> we had specific information on an imminent threat and those threats included attacks on u.s. embassies. >> i can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies. >> "a," that's all over the map anyway. "b," in the wake of the iraq war debate when the administration got it wrong about intelligence, and our business was not as skeptical as we should have been about the intelligence they

should know if you've going to do something like this, you better have a consistent, clear explanation and they did not. >> no question. i mean, the imminent threat aside, just the where it was going to be, the justification for it and the white house took the president quite a bit of time to address this publicly. now he's been out there several times but look, i think a couple things. no question that soleimani, bad guy. you know, this was a justified in that respect. of course this is -- a lot of people on the trump campaign and others are saying that democrats are against this because, you know, they're sympathetic or something. set that aside, the credibility test as you said earlier is something that's key here and the president doesn't have it. it's unclear at that briefing -- i was talking to senators right after they came out of that briefing. nonmention of this at all. i can look in the look in senator mike lee's eyes when he said the worst briefing ever. no one mentioned embassies or things so i think the point of that is --

>> if they have good intel about the embassies, said that at day one, we would have had a different conversation. >> and there's something about declaring victory after one week and iran is playing a much longer game here. yes, in this exact moment, iran retaliated, they seemed to have backed off here. i'm hard pressed to image then is the extent of what iran is planning given how significant it is that the u.s. took out this general. >> and remember what was happening on the streets of iran was radically different before and after they shot a passenger jet out of the sky. you cannot control all of the factors of this at all and i wonder if we had a different conversation if that horrible event had not happened because that flipped things in iran and trump is sitting pretty, look they're against soleimani too.

they're saying death to the supreme leader, not to america right now. >> it's a great point about the limited shelf life of almost anything developing in that region and a couple of weeks ago there were a couple of demonstrations against the regime. death to america comes back on the street and now they shoot down the plane and it's about the government. who's right? this is wendy sherman who worked in the obama administration, the president is the arsonist and the fireman. when he decided to kill soleimani and now he wants to be the fireman saying i put it out and that president obama caused all the problems and president trump caused the problems. and i think the chances of sitting down with the iranians and getting to a deal have improved significantly. the iranians have realized they don't want a military confrontation with the united states. i think those plays are over

now. when don't know. we just don't know who's right. >> well, also the administration has been playing this game where despite the fact that it's taken this maximum pressure campaign, despite the fact it's taken a hard line on iran hay keep on insisting they are for the iranian people and the president's tweet in farsi was indication of that, we're for you, we want to help you. and the president has of course named iran as part of his travel ban and he said he would consider targeting cultural sites in iran that resonates poorly with the iranian people. on the one hand to go out and say we're there and we continue to support you this regime and then make comments like that, the iranian people don't know who to trust on this. >> we were looking at the potential of a war and now this sunday it's what's next. up next, the house now ready to send the trump impeachment articles over to the senate. the trial now just days away.

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♪ democratic house this week will name the impeachment trial managers and after a four week hold, transmitt the two articles of impeachment to the senate. the trial there will begin within days and majority leader mitch mcconnell so far holding firm to his plan. that plan, ignore the democrats for now and settle the question of new witnesses or evidence later. after both house democrats and president trump's lawyers make their trial presentations. >> a majority of the senate has decided that the first phase of an impeachment trial should track closely with the unanimous bipartisan precedent that all 100 senators supported for the first phase of the clinton trial. it neither guarantees witnesses

or forecloses witnesses. it leaves it to later in the trial where they belong. >> but there is this weekend wild card. republican senator susan collins of maine who faces a very tough re-election race this year telling reporters back home she thinks new witnesses is a good idea and is working on finding a few other republicans to force the issue. >> i am working with a group of republican senators and our leaders to see if we can come to an agreement on some language that would include an opportunity for the house to call witnesses and the president's counsel to also call witnesses. >> she says she wants it in the initial resolution set up the senate trial. is that wishful thinking, is that someone trying to seem reasonable back home in a state

that's bluish and purple or susan collins going to get three or four other republicans and push mitch mcconnell? >> she may -- she may be pushing mitch mcconnell and get others to push mitch mcconnell. is she going to say no, i won't vote for this if it doesn't have this in it, that's a very different question. i think what she's talking about is what's been the debate between democrats and republicans this whole time about what's a fair trial. like should we hear from witnesses or not. if you open the floodgates to witnesses you do get the mick mulvaney and john bolton's of the world and mcconnell has been clear this whole way through he wants to avoid it. the fact that collins is saying this is not surprising. she's potentially in the middle in this and in the middle on health care and on war powers. she tries to be a broker of some deal at the end and in the indit doesn't always work. but the magic number is four, four republicans who feel strong

enough about it they that'll cross -- that they'll cross the leader and maybe lamar alexander, cory gardner in the races but we don't have the number for. >> we don't. so what democrats say beginning with speaker pelosi as it shifts this week is during the hold, you did get the emails from thing officials telling the office of management of budget about the freeze on the ukraine aid. emails proving that 90 minutes after the president's call with president zelensky the pentagon was ordered to continue the freeze and keep quiet about it and clear check have been from the president of the united states saying that that money was put on hole and john bolton said i'm willing to testify. if you're collins trying to broker this deal and lisa murkowski and mitt romney and cory gardner saying maybe look at that list. but then you listen to the president if we open the door to the democrats we have to open it

to this. >> in many ways i'd like a trial and i'd love to have sleepy joe biden. i'd love to have his son. i call him where's hunter, i'd love to have the whistle-blower who wrote a fake reporter and there was a second whistle-blower i want to know what happened to the second whistle-blower. >> the word you hear most often when you talk to people about this deliberation is they're worried about having a circus. >> that is the unknown question there. the president is actually very engaged in this upcoming trial. it is going to be a television show in some respects and he likes that very much. so we do not know what is going to happen between now and the end of the trial. we know he will almost certainly be not convicted. we do know that. we do not know the drama that will up fold between here and there so everything short of the president walking into the floor of the senate which is possible not likely, we don't know what

is going to happen. i'm very skeptical of susan collins and others actually coming around. mitch mcconnell had held the line on this very well and i don't see discomfort on this. but we don't know what the president is going to do. he's the wild card in this. he may want some kind of a dramatic show or witnesses or something so mitch mcconnell is trying to keep him in bay. >> his lawyers are telling him you do not want mick mulvaney and john bolton to testify publicly. here's the issue we don't know how this will play out but at a time on the calendar when there's a lot of consequence. look at the calendar on tuesday when the house democrats will meet there's a democratic debate so the democratic senators who would be on the jury get to go to iowa and go for the debate. those running for president. then some time in this period there's a vote in the house. they'll name the impeachment managers and transmit it to the senator and mitch mcconnell can call them in as soon as friday and the complicating factor

there is the martin luther king holiday. you have some weeks there, and then you have the iowa caucuses, the state of the union, so on and so forth. they're threading a needle or going to collide with interesting, important things. >> it's so interesting because at the end of last year after we got through the house process, the thing you heard from both parties in the senate was we want to get this over as quickly as possible. nobody knows how the politics plays in 2020. neither party really wanted this to be something that lingered deep into the year. they wanted to be able to move on to other issues and for the democrats they want to move on to picking their nominee. now we're in this position where we can find ourselves in the february in the middle of the primary process and still dealing with an active trial in the senate. it's an extraordinary moment in a time in washington that has been extraordinary. >> i remember bill clinton's state in the union in the middle of this. and the democratic senators are complaining a little bit. elizabeth warren said of course it matters. don't tell me it doesn't matter

to do a face-to-face. they're worried they'll be hostages in washington during the trial. bernie sanders says he came up with the idea of sharing a plane. so after from trial, when the trial ends presumes 6:00 or 7:00 at night. they can go to iowa, get on the plane and come back for the next day, jury trial. i mean, what? >> i mean that will cut down on the expense because it will be quite pricey to charter the flights. look, the democrats were always going to be gummed up by this calendar. there was no way that nancy pelosi and the democrats would be able to get through the entire primary and caucus and the decision was made. actually, you know, push through all of january and february without having the senate trial so the fact -- that was always there. i think that, you know, that that puts the candidates in a difficult spot, but it does prevent the situation that you have the iowa caucuses now and the president gives the state of the union and taking a victory lap. so now, yes, there's colliding

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beater than any adjective took. there's no real leader when you look at iowa. it's a four-way muddle at the top. senator sanders is on top. this is a statistical tie in the competition for the first big win. the iowa caucuses, klobuchar and yang round it out here. let's look at how it changed since the last poll in november. senator sanders is up some and that's worth watching. he has some momentum. pete buttigieg is down a bit. and everyone else is the same. andrew yang up a little bit. elizabeth warren is up a little bit. that's margin of error stuff there. and here's something that helps senator sanders if you get in a close race to the caucus. 49% of his supporters say they're extremely enthusiasm about their choice. energy and enthusiasm matter. only a third of elizabeth warren's voters say that. and buttigieg and biden's are

different. they need to juice that up. we have had four polls in iowa in the last seven months. these aren't leaders but a different candidate on top in each of the four polls. that tells you how up settled the race is. here's another way to look at that. the votes again are three weeks from tomorrow. only four in ten iowa democrats have made up their mind and 45% say they could change their mind and 13% say they have no first choice. it's wide open in iowa. sanders among all of the candidates deciding it's time to get more aggressive. looking at the rivals to elizabeth warren in a minute. listen here, bernie sanders sees an opening to go an joe biden on the iraq war. >> joe biden voted and helped lead the effort for the war in iraq. joe biden voted for the disastrous trade agreements like

nafta and permanent normal trade relations with china which cost us millions of jobs. do you think that will play well in michigan, wisconsin or pennsylvania? if we're doing to beat trump we need turnout and we need energy and excitement. i don't think that kind of record is going to bring forth the energy that we need to defeat trump. >> a direct attack there. the biden campaign -- i mean, the sanders campaign putting out a statement essentially backing that up, making it clear they want this discussion and to have it every day single day. sanders volunteers have a script when they knock on doors and i'm thinking of mayor buttigieg and he's said publicly that elizabeth warren is my friend. he's attacking her as part of the upper crust. the votes are in three weeks. this is getting chippy and sanders more than anyone else has decided let's start

punching. >> without question. he has one other advantage he's done this before. most recently he ran four years ago and almost won iowa against hillary clinton and some think he did. one of the issues for senator sander, some of the undecided voters are not open to him. there's a lot of movement out there so his supporters are locked in and they're energetic but can he grow that at all? some of the others have a potential for expansion. but i think at the debate on tuesday night the things i'm looking for, bernie sanders is going after joe biden's foreign policy record and go after it in a way we have not seen examined. and at the same time, others i think will be going after bernie sanders. like amy klobuchar. remember what she did at the ohio debate that launched her a little bit, she called for a reality check on some of the plans. that's not going to take away bernie sanders' supports but it will add to hers and buttigieg has a strong campaign.

he wins the endorsement a bit from the retiring congressman, so it's unsettled and uncertain. he can campaign there every day. >> julie, i want to show the debate lineup. only have six candidates on the stage, you have biden and sanders in the middle no question this is going to be a chippy debate. warren has plateaued if not dropped down. sanders has momentum and that means a target on your back. >> one of the interesting thing we are seeing a sanders and biden collision, they represent different poles of the party and both see each other for fighting for a similar pool of voters. they appeal to the white, working class voters that trump may have won over in pennsylvania, wisconsin and they come at it with two different perspectives. if you think that joe biden is the best person to pull back

pennsylvania, hold on a second let's really take about where he is on trade and let's talk about where he is on the economic issues. >> so in the foreign policy arena, joe biden says i have the experience and bernie sanders cochair nina turner in south carolina, joe biden has repeatedly let us down. we have in the ring now. this is punch time and it's interesting to watch sanders mitch more than his other rivals, okay, it's time, let's go at the other candidates. >> this is his opening to do it. he can do this in iowa and then new hampshire, then he sets himself apart. if he can't pull this out, he'll be clobbered after that. somebody else, aka biden is going to step up given his support among other parts of the electorate that are this not reflected in first two states. >> and iowa is always important.

more so for democrats. iowa tends to pick democrats. but new hampshire can be contrarian and john kerry surged late and he game over. we have this close race in iowa we don't know how it will change new hampshire. look at this. same four, the order is different. but that's a statistical tie. so iowa's role is always huge but in terms of convincing voters in later states move on here, three and four are nevada and south carolina. biden has the lead in both of the states and steyer has jumped up here because of the ad spending. but for biden to survive -- can survive biden losing third or fourth in new hampshire? history says unlikely. >> but i think it defends -- if it's a jump ball, bloomberg is in the middle of this. he's spending a ton of money. look, i think iowa is the most important for pete buttigieg. if he does not win there or do

very, very well there it's hard to imagine that sort of -- if barack obama would have lost iowa in 2008 the race would have been over. it's a must win state for everyone but i think buttigieg for sure. >> bernie sanders is going the distant regardless. he is going to the convention or as far as he can. probably no one else can say that in the race. >> buttigieg and biden, one of the advantages they have they're not in the senate so they don't have to worry about the whole trial. i think buttigieg had ten events planned over the next week and it's an incredible amount of facetime and warren and sanders will be locked in the senate. >> i think it's playing into the minds of the undecided voters where you have the word socialist floating around and that puts fear into some voters about what he stands for.

i think you'll see it playing into the health care and other issues moving forward. >> it's a great point. sanders uses that to brag. because the president is after me because he's worried about me. up next, fights between the white house and congress over war powers, but the latest clash has some remarkable wrinkles. since my dvt blood clot

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it was another whiplash week here in washington. reminding all of us we begin this election year an uncertain ground. anger thursday as the house voted 224-194 to put the president on notice that congress decides whether to go to war. >> you know what bothers me? when i see a nancy pelosi trying to defend this monster from iran who's killed so many people. when nancy pelosi and the

democrats want to defend him, i think that's a very bad thing for this country. i think that's a big losing argument politically too. >> friday began with a gift to any president showing the economy added 145,000 jobs and that unemployment is at a 50 year low. and this mixed message from iowa, which is key to the election map. 48% of iowa voters said the senate should not vote and remove the president. but it's a big but only 34% of iowans say they'll definitely support the president in his bid for a second term and look at the subset on that question. only 22% of suburban women in iowa call themselves definite trump voters. that's fresh proof the suburban struggles that hurt the gop into the 2018 midterms are now carrying over to this presidential year. just you can find data points that you say no president can

lose in that environment and you can find -- >> could really cost him. the numbers with women, suburban women are pretty atrocious for trump and we saw that bleed into the other republican candidates in 2018. how his campaign tries to get those voters back could be the singular question of this election. >> you see in the data and the focus groups and when you talk to the smart pollsters it's about tone. they don't like the twitter or calling people horrible. we did see what the president said there nancy pelosi is not mourning general soleimani. she's not saying i want soleimani back, she didn't say that. other republicans often on the tone track follow the president's lead. >> the only ones that are

mourning the loss of soleimani are our democrat leadership and our democracy presidential candidates. >> they are now the socialist democrats are defending iran over defending america. >> they're in love with terrorists we see that. they mourn soleimani more than they mourn the gold star families than the ones who suffered under soleimani. >> you can have a debate about the wisdom of the strike, about iran policy, about the use of military force without lying about what the democrats are saying. the democrats were not mourning soleimani. they said he was a bad guy. no one is going to miss him. blood on his hands. but that is -- my question is congressman collins apologized when he said that the democrats love the terrorists. he tweeted out an apology, i don't believe they love the terrorists. but is he connecting what he said to the tone problem? that's turned off the women in the suburbs they say, "a" it's not accurate, it's a lie, i don't like it. that's not how i live my life

and i don't talk that way. >> yes, i think that's what he stepped into and that's why he felt like he had to make a full about face that way. but this builds on itself. i mean, you have the president stting the tone, it works with the president's base. but then you can, you know, step too far into this and that's why you have this sort of a situation which you're demonizing the other side. >> the president is watching the television and he's seeing the supporters using the bombastic language that resonates with him and he goes back to the people and thanks them for it and he wants to work with those who are the defenders of the message. >> he had a couple of house republicans like matt gaetz, he's been consistent on the issues. he believes it's the congress' authority. you mentioned mike lee and rand paul complaining about the quality of the briefing and the senior white house official said it was uncool for gaetz to push the limit. it was one matter, it's one vote.

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let's head one last time inside of the politics table and ask our great reporters to share something from the notebooks to get you ahead of the big political news around the corner. julie pace? >> every presidential election a big surprise and tom steyer is saying it is him. he is clearing the debate qualification standards and surprised the people with the showing in the polls despite nevada and south carolina, and so far the styier story is about money. he has spent $60 million on ads and in some of the places where he is on the air, he is the only candidate who is spending on advertising. he can spend more because he is worth $1.6 billion and as an cotext and warning for him, michael bloomberg who is deploying a similar ad blitz is worth 40 times as much as styier and vastly outspent him in advertising. >> and to own a local tv station somewhere. jeff? >> and speaking of iowa with three weeks to go before the iowa caucus, a furious scramble

is under way for the second choice. over the next few weeks we will be hearing second choice over and over and cory booker and michael yang, and others who are asterisks in the polls are incredibly important and this is why. you have to get 15% on the support of the caucus night to be viable, and a lot of the candidates likely won't, and other candidate likes the biden campaign and the buttigieg and warren campaign are identifying the others in their areas and on caucus areas the precinct leaders and captains can pull them over to their side, and so it is about organization at this point. the warren campaign has been building the organizations since the beginning and much sooner that and the others and the question is that on caucus night, the precinct captains are so important, and maybe it is a local city council member or somebody who knows the members of the community and to get the second choice is so key to winning. >> 22 days. >> indeed.

>> fun. karan. >> yes. we have been talking about it, and in the middle, the europeans are watching the back and forth and they have an interesting role to play, and i am interested in the discussions they will be having and the next step. we heard the president, president trump to call on the europeans to abandon the iran deal and move in a different direction and so they are the power brokers that we don't give them credit for and right now the eu is in no mind to move away from it and revive it, and also, europe is going to be critical as the focus is not just the next steps of the proliferation of the nuclear power, but the arms embargo that should expire later in the year, and so how europe decides to manage the relationship, because there is some splintering going on politically, and economically and otherwise there, and it is going to be critical of where the legacy goes, because there are issues underlying it, and the united states is not the only decision-maker there. >> and the president likes to

poke our friends from time to time. vivian? >> the trade deal is going to be signed this week, and we will be watching it closely, and president trump is expected to meet with the chinese officials to get that signed. the deal is going to include tariff relief which is critical and increase of the chinese purchases of the u.s. agricultural products and the rules of the changes on technology and intellectual property, and now, obviously, this is critical going into the 2020 campaign and a lot of the farmers and states that are critical for the president's re-election were hard-hit by the tariffs in particular, and so they are going to be looking a that if there is some relief. and also this week, interestingly, the white house announced that they were going to start trying to have a bi-annual meeting to talk about trade and economic reforms, and the president has said that he would like to take tougher stance with china, but this is signaling a easing up with

china, and interesting to see going forward if he is changing the tune to china and the trade relations. >> he is mindful of that election thing coming up. and how close is the iran crisis and the impeachment dominated the news coverage friday and into the weekend, but three other friday developments are telling us a ton of where the president's 2020 strategy is going to mirror the 2016 approach and where it is going to be very, very different. immigration factors large. the associated press friday obtaining a document to outline the plans to expand the administration's travel ban and on that same day the acting homeland security travelled to the border to highlight wall construction, and then also a focus on health care. so back then, the urgent efforts to repeal obama care, and efforts in congress failed, but there is a court challenge that could invalidate the affordable care act, and the democrats want to fast-track the challenge so that the ruling is coming before the november election, but the

trump justice department friday asked the justices the go slow and wait for the next term, 2021, and why would the president deliberately plan to stall to keep a major 2016 promise? well, protecting obama care was a big piece of those gains in 2016, and so, team trump is seeing the political risk of disrupting health coverage for millions of americans before they vote. so that is "inside politics" and if you can catch us weekdays at noon. coming up next is "state of the union with jake tapper" and he is going to have guests mark esper, and senator mike lee and presidential candidate tom steyer. that is it for this sunday, have great day. you can see what others can't. ♪

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