attorney general william barr says investigators determined the saudi armed forces officers who killed three u.s. sailors were motivated by jihadist ideology. 21 people were expelled today. erin burnett starts outfront. pelosi's big move leading with democratic leaders about sending over the impeachment articles as more republican senators come forward to say they are open to hearing from new witnesses. more breaking news this hour. we are learning state department officials were never told of any imminent threat to four embassies which completely undermines trump's rational for killing iran's top general. he's not ruling out spending a billion dollars of his own money to baeeat donald trump. trump is taking notice. good evening. tonight the breaking news. a major move ahead on trump's impeachment trial.

just moments ago house speaker nancy pelosi wrapping up a meeting with senior democrats. a crucial meeting ahead of a vote to name the impeachment managers which majority whip hoyer says could be wednesday. who will serve as impeachment managers is crucial. these are the prosecutors. they are the ones you'll see there on television. their job to make the argument to the nation, to senators that trump needs to be removed from office for abusing the power of his office. it comes as the number of republican who is say they are open to new witnesses is growing. lamar alexander says he is opening joining susan collins and mitt romney who just said this moments ago. >> i'd like there to be witnesses and be able to hear from someone like john bolton. >> there it is. romney wants to hear from john bolton. perhaps the most important witness when it comes to what president trump did with ukraine and remember democrats just need four republicans to join them to

call new witnesses like john bolton in order for that to happen. tonight's meeting outer loop i democratic leaders are coming before new votes. we're hear. it's now full speed ahead. >> we expect the senate trial to begin in just a matter of days because the house is going to send over those articles of impeachment. according to democrat lead rser emerging there's an expectation that a vote could occur as soon as wednesday to name the impeachment managers and would lead to sending the articles from the house over to the senate. the impeachment managers would reed those articles aloud on the senate floor and the senators themselves would be sworn in. those arguments would take place by next week. we could learn the names of

those impeachment managers as soon as tomorrow morning. that's when nancy pelosi will meet behind closed doors with her caucus to discuss the next step of the trial. arguments they plan to make in the days ahead. i just asked nancy pelosi about the criticism she's been receiving from republicans about her decision to delay transmitting those articles over amid concerns that democrats had that trial was not going to be fair. mitch mcconnell said he is a strange gam bet and achieved nothing. she said flatly he's wrong. she continued on forward. she did not reveal much about her precise thinking of the time frame and moving these articles over. we do expect it to happen imminently. then we'll get into the trail phase. that's when the big questions will emerge about whether they will bring forward witnesses. whether that will be enough votes to compel witnesses to come forward. all it would require is four republicans breaking ranks to join with democrats.

while some republicans are voicing interest in hearing from witnesses, there are not 51 votes at the moment even as the white house is seeking to end this quickly, end the proceedings altogether and they have support from the republican leadership. will they have enough support from the full republican conference. >> they have to have the full 51 to do that. thank you very much. i want to go out front to democratic senator tammy baldwin. i know you're anticipate iing t. he said he wants to hear from john bolton. you need four republicans to vote your way to get new witnesses to testify. have any other republicans told you that they support that idea? >> i think that republicans are hearing from their con stitch we -- constituents. we all have a sense of what a

trial involves. it involves evidence and witnesses. it would be unusual for there to be an impeachment trial without witnesses and documents for us to review. the american people want a full, fair and honest trial. as they are talking to their elected senators, i think they are feeling the pressure that they shouldn't make a mockery out of this but they should take it seriously. now, we heard last week leader mcconnell indicate that he had the vote wrapped up to prevent witnesses and documents. it is unclear to me whether there might be a little bit of a presentation of the case and then another opportunity to vote on documents and witnesses. >> can i ask you a question on that. it seems that the process could be the trial begins and you hear three days from one side of arguments. three days from the other. you senators get to submit your questions and after all of that

we vote on witnesses. we could be a solid eight days in before we get resolution on this issue, sdplecorrect? >> it could be. i think what is frustrating the speaker pelosi has said time and time again that her managers, her selection of managers might be based on whether they will be cross examining witnesses or whether they will simply be arguing the case. if we -- i still believe that it's important to show the american people that nobody is above the law. that presidents aren't above the law. when we have these two very important articles of impeachment, abuse of power when president trump basically used the power of his office to withhold congressionally approved dollars to the ukraine for personal and political benefit, the american public

deserves a full, fair and honest trial with witnesses and documents. >> if you win this on allowing witnesses, we heard mitt romney. he said john bolton n. susan collins suggested witnesses from both sides. in other words, with bolton may come hunter biden. would that be acceptable for you in world in which hunter biden appeared if john bolton did? >> let's talk about this. if four witnesses that were identified by democrats in the senate all have first hand knowledge of what's exactly at the heart of this case about the telephone conversation between president trump and president zelensky and the related activities of this president to with hold congressionally approved aid from ukraine. we want to hear from witnesses

who have direct knowledge and it's very clear that hunter biden was not involved in monitoring this phone call or has nothing to do. i would welcome the president to submit a case to the senate. i fear that the fact that we're not hearing witnesses that the president wants to call that are relevant to the articles of impeachment, it gives me great concern they are more about cover up than about getting to the truth. the american people want the truth. >> the president, you mentioned him. president trump will be in your home state tomorrow. he's going to be holding campaign rally. t there are many who believe wisconsin could be the most important state in 2020. a recent poll asked voters in your state whether the senate should vote to convict the president and remove him from office. it was close but 48% said no and only 44% said yes.

does that have any baeearing on how you'll vote? >> absolutely not. i will take an oath to do impartial justice. that's what i intend to do. a poll asking before a trial has occurred what the out come should be. it's in my miepds mnd is mislea. we want a full, fair and honest hearing and we want the american people to get to the truth just like we want to get to the truth. something wrong happened here regardless of what they think the vote should be at the end. as the president comes to wisconsin and tomorrow night the very same time coming the democrats will be debating each other in the primary debate, people of wisconsin care about

health care. they care about whether preexisting conditions are going to be covered. they care about whether a court will strike down the affordable care act. president trump is on, has sabotaged health care. people of wisconsin want to know they have champion in next president. >> i appreciate your time. thank you very much. next, rudy giuliani is now pressing president trump to make him part of the white house impeachment defense team in the senate. he's at the center of the entire case. is the senate trial about to become a complete circus? plus state department officials said they were never told of imminent threats to american embassies. how then does president trump explain this? >> i can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies. >> four embassies in an iminnocent threat that no one involved knew about. the fight for 2020 is

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sources close to president trump telling cnn that rudy giuliani whose actions in ukraine as the president's personal em baa sar is lobbying trump now. lobbying trump directly and personally because he wants to defend trump on the senate floor. can you imagine that? this as the white house pushes mitch mcconnell to include the option of dismissing the charges against the president as soon as the opening statements are over. what are you hearing behind the scenes about rudy giuliani, who is at the center of this, wanting to go and defend trump and be the face of this in the senate? >> reporter: i think if it was up to rudy giuliani he would be there on the senate floor arguing the president's case and while the president does like rudy giuliani, that is why he still his personal attorney on the outside. i think people inside the white house who have been working on this impeachment strategy say it's very unlikely that rudy giuliani will have any kind of a

public facing role when it comes to the president's defense. the white house counsel has been working for weeks now on what the defense is going to look like. we know the president has pushed for jay to have a public facing role in all of this. he wants to hear from him on the senate floor because he thinks he's really good at making arguments on television. people today have said the idea that rudy giuliani will actually join this team in a formal way is incredibly unlikely not just because he's rudy giuliani and you've seen from his numerous television appearances where he reveals things about the president that people find unflattering but because he's at the secenter of this scandal wh it comes to ukraine since-going to ukraine and traveled there in recent weeks and said he was going to come back with this information that he's yet to divulge to reporters. the question about who could be on the defense team does have a few question marks left to it. it's still unclear if he's going to. our latest sources have been

saying it's up to dirshowitz. tree g trey gowdy has been meeting with the president. he will join in an innormformal manner. a lot of question about which house members could a peer. rudy giuliani is not likely to be one of those people out there. >> now, former special counsel at the defense department and editor of just security. rudy giuliani, either it's the gal of genius because it makes it look like you have nothing to hide or it's insanity or something in between. he truly believes that it would be great if he were there. >> yeah, i have no doubt he truly believes that. i don't think there's any geniuses involved in this gall.

rudy is such a spectacle now. he's lucky he's not a prime witness for the house managers given his central role in this. i think they want to stay away from it because it will turn it into a circus. >> that's what he'll do. if he were to come out and tell everything in an honest and forthright manner, they would want him. they don't because he won't. >> john bolton and nick mulvaney have more information. it's a terrible idea for the president but this is donald trump. the normal standards of what people think are right and wrong get turned upside down every day. >> here we are with these impeachment managers. this is something that every one in america needs to care deeply about. it matters a lot. rudy giuliani, making his lobbying case.

we understand nancy could make this choice as soon as tomorrow morning. she's not going have to make the choice not knowing whether they will be making case or also having to cross examine. which way does she go? >> it's hard because it is dynamic. we don't know yet whether there be any witnesses. we don't know if they could include hunter biden which could turn this into a circus. you have to pick people that are flexible. both who can prosecute the case and prepare themselves for what might be a dynamic environment and it turns in different directions. >> i want to syou about justin amash. he became independent because he decided to support articles of impeachment. the party wanted no parts of him. here is what he told me about wanting to be an impeachment manager. >> it's something i told my democratic colleague who is have

asked me that i'd be happy the talk to the speaker about. i haven't had that discussion. be the speaker wants to have that discussion. i'd be honored to have that conversation. >> then the next day when i had one of the house leadership representative he sort of pretty clearly dismissed that idea. should he have? >> i don't think so. there are some democrats that have rallied behind this idea of having justin amash. he has a law degree from michigan. he's practiced law. he's been a very eloquent person and the idea this is about non-partisan and putting the country first and it's a moment that calls for people like that. i think it would be a brilliant stroke to include him as one of the managers. why not. >> as all of this comes, you do have mitch mcconnell sort of trying to get this. could he just dismiss the whole trial even as you have three republican senators indicating not only do they not want it dismissed but they would want witnesses.

that's different than voting to have witnesses but they're saying they want witnesses. mitt romney saying like john bolton. >> yeah. >> what about this 51 vote to end the trial? >> there was a motion to dismiss in 1999 that senator robert burr put forward. there's nothing outrageous about after the first phase of trial looking to make a motion. this happens in trials all the time. not in a trial that doesn't have any witnesses and not -- the significance of the beginning of the more public talk from republicans is a reflection of the polls. the president when they first about a month ago there was about 70% of the public who said they wanted witnesses. republicans hit it hard.

the president hit it hard, no witnesses. it's still a hoax. it's still at 70% including 40% of republicans. i think each of these vulnerable senators and a couple of them for institutional reasons are looking and saying i'm not sure it's in my interest to be part of something that is a sham. >> if hunter biden appears then what. >> it's kind of bizarre because he isn't relevant to the direct case that's being put up about what the president's wrong doing was or wasn't. >> and his intent. >> that's right. and his intent behind it. on the other hand i think it's fair to give the other side who they want because it's not really relevant. it might have an upside of bringing the american public in because it will be a spectacle and what might have more public attention to what is faa public trial. >> hunter biden has talked about mistakes he's made and has gone through many things. thank you. trump doubling down clamg his administration is on the same page when it comes to his claim that iran was imminently

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tonight breaking news. no warning. two state department officials telling cnn that officials involved in embassy security were not told of imminent threat and they did not issue warnings. this is bizarre and shocking because the president said multiple u.s. embassies were in danger and that's why the united states had to kill iran's top commander immediately. >> i can reveal that i believe that it would have been four embassies. >> if this is true, four embassies, and it was imminent and they knew about the plans then how is it possible the people in charge of embassy security were not aware.

what are these officials telling you? >> sources are telling me that u.s. officials hear at the state department who work on u.s. embassy security were amazed. they were shocked to learn of the fact that president trump had said there were four u.s. embassies facing an imminent threat. one senior state official described that justification to me as something that blind sided them because the state department officials didn't know about those specific threats that president trump is alleging against four embassies. they did reach out to embassies in the middle east and worldwide. they did warn them of threats that could come due to increasing escalation from iran and iranian proxies. a state department spokesperson clarified there were calls that followed up on that worldwide security warning to embassies in the region. they asked them if they needed any additional reenforcement in

terms of security. the bottom line here is there were not four u.s. embassies that folks here at the state department knew about that were facing this imminent threat. what our reporting demonstrates is there's some challenging here with regard to president trump and what he is saying again today that every one was totally consistent on the same page with regard to this intelligence. >> thank you very much with those developments. i want to go now to democratic congressman deny hack, member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, i appreciate your time. what's your reaction to the reporting that the senior people in charge of embassy security were not told of any imminent threat? >> because there were no imminent threats, erin. i think it's as orve bvious as nose on our face. if you doubted it before, you shouldn't doubt it that the administration has said the

strategy was deterrence. you have to have a target, time and you have to have some approval from the upper authorities to actually execute the plan. none of those elements were present here. there were no imminent threats per se. >> so you point out some trump administration officials indicating what you're saying and it is true, congressman, that some of them were not able to confirm the president's claims there were plots to attack four u.s. embassies. here are a couple of them. >> look, it's always difficult even when the exquisite intelligence to know what the targets are. >> he said he believed. >> are you saying there wasn't one? >> i didn't see one with regard to four embassies. >> okay. you have the secretary of defense. he departmenidn't see any threa. the national security adviser didn't know what targets are. do you believe that general qassem soleimani posed an iminnocent threat to four

american embassies or not? >> i do not. i believe that general soleimani represented a continuing threat of bad behavior in the mideast. he was a bad guy and he was doing bad things. that's a separate question from whether or not there's there's an iminnoceminent threat and wh the president possessed the legal authority to do this. at the end of the day an action like this, set aside the fact of whether it was legal or even illeg illegal. at the end of this day this ought to be about furtherance of american policy objectives. the administration said what our objectives are in region. keep iran from getting a nuclear bomb. two, keep them from getting a ballistic missile and number three deter bad behavior in the region. take them one at a time. number one, they have lifted the lid on yuranium enrichment and

hezbollah has now announced we're targeting all u.s. bases in the region. >> secretary of defense esper went further with what appeared to be a new standard. you're talking about the standard of imminent threat to have a legal strike. there as a new standard he seemed to be putting forth for launching lethal attacks for someone who wished ill will against america. >> my expectation was they were going the go after our embassies. it's the most prominent display of american presence in a country. >> that's a statement of fact. if the expectation that people who wish americans harm will target embassy baskecause they the most prominent display of power, if that's the standard. how many people does this add to america's kill list? >> i don't understand the question. if we're going to say if someone wants to go after an american embassy because it's the most prom innoceinent display, it's r

to strike. how long does the kill list get? >> infinite. if the standard is we're going after bad actors then we would be in the business of dropping a whole lot more bombs than we already are. the fact of the matter is there were no imminent threats, per se and there is no evidence to suggest the embassies were targeted. the absolute proof of that is as you said at top of the conversation is the embassies were not notified. >> i want to get your take, if i may, i don't know if you've seen but it crossed a few moments ago. the new york time s reporting that russian military hackers targeted burisma which hunter biden served on the board of and experts are saying the timing of this hacking was sort of as all this story was breaking about hunter biden. this is happening over the past few months. the suggestion is rush sia is looking for information o thn

story and on joe biden. what ado you make on that? >> if they are not looking for it, they'll make it up. the most frequently asked question i would get is do you think the russians will be back in next election and my response was back. they've never left. this is standard operating procedure for vladmir putin's russia to use cyber warfare weapons in other words to further advance their objectives. this doesn't surprise me in the slightest and moreover i wouldn't trust a thing they shared or revealed as a consequence of their illegal hacking of that company. >> i appreciate your time. thank you, tonight. >> your welcome. next, the gloves are off. bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. it's now punches to face. sanders accused of telling warren that a woman can't win. what does this mean? weeks before iowa when they are about to stuck in washington in an impeachment trial. mike bloomberg asking why

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breaking news. elizabeth warren tonight is fighting back. a woman can't win is the bottom line of what she said bernie sanders told her. she said it surprised this way. i thought a woman could win, he disagreed. she said he said that. earlier today when the story broke, bernie sanders said it's a lie. he never said it. now she is saying among the topics that came up in this private meeting is what would happen if democrats nominated a female candidate. i thought a woman could win. he disagreed. now again, he's come out point-blank and said this is a lie. out front now, karen dunn. this is a fascinating story. it goes at the heart of what democrats have been talking about now for four years which is whether a woman can win. it goes at the heart of a deeply

personal friendship between two people who are calling each other liars. elizabeth warren said that's what happened. bernie sanders came out point-blank and said it's a lie. what happened? >> well, we're going to find that out tomorrow night. this was a private meeting with two people in it and both of those people are going to be on the debate stage tomorrow night. so far bernie sanders come out very forcefully denying this happened. elizabeth warren is not commenting for the story. her campaign is silent which suggests either it's true or she thinks it's to her advantage for people to think it's true head into tomorrow's debate. i think all eyes will be on the he said, she said that will happen on the stage tomorrow. >> i mean they are setting stage for that tonight as she's coming out. the story leaked about this closed door meeting after the sanders campaign put out a script to volunteers. they give them a script so when they are making phone calls or

going door to door and one is elizabeth warren is only able to attract highly educated, affluent women. so she can't win. now team sanders said it appeared clearly the leak came from team warren about this. this is now unleashing the flood gates. it's deeply personal among two people who claim to be good friends. >> yeah, erin. happy new year. secondly, i just really hate to say us going down this road at this time. it's been practically a year of a campaign, a democratic primary campaign largely focused on the issues in putting people, the voer voters at the center of the conversation. now as things are heating up, we're in the final couple of weeks of this iowa caucus, things are getting little tough. i really hate to see that. i think both of these candidates and quite frankly all of them on the stage tomorrow night will be well advised to try to keep

voters at the center of the debate. if we go down these rabbit holes which frankly, do nothing to improve the lives of every day americans, i think neither of them will be advantaged by that. they may be throwing the opportunity for someone like people pete pubuttigieg or joe biden pick up what trails from them. >> bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are no matter what bernie sanders may say about her supporters, are trying to go after some of the same voters, the same progressive voter block. they will be stuck in washington for the next few weeks while buttigieg and biden are in iowa. the reason i say this is there a personal level to this that is quite compelling which is here is how they have talked about each other for years. >> i'm always glad to be anywhere with bernie. >> we've been friend frs a long,

long time. a long time before i got into politics. >> i've never said a negative word about elizabeth warren. no one will be attacking elizabeth. >> she's been a friend of mine for 25 years. >> karen, it's words like that that makes this so compelling to people. it's now a he said, she said. who's a liar about what happened in this private meeting about whether a woman could actually win. >> i think it's fair to say that the non-aggression pact is dead. frankly non-aggression pacts are something we all watch to wait until they fall apart. that's what's happening now. i agree this is an opportunity while elizabeth warren and bar a bernie sanders are asked what happened at that meeting for joe biden to come in and make a positive comment about women running for and winning the presidency and amy klobuchar to come in and make her point.

the way the iowa caucuses work is every one is playing to be second favorite. everybody is trying to get to be the second favorite. >> final word to you. >> well, i mean, first of all, i don't think it benefits the two people engaged in it. that's for sure. we should draw that conclusively. the other thing is hillary clinton has already shown us that a woman can get three million more votes than a man. now what they have to do is put together to calculus to ensure votes are coming and the states make the difference many the electoral college. i think it's a ridiculous suggestion. a woman can compete, can win, can earn more votes and can be president of the united states of america. if elizabeth warren is the nominee, i know i will be out there along with many others doing everything we can to see that she wins. i don't believe that a debate

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bloomberg campaign and longtime political strategist pat bloomberg. you have known him for decades. so president trump is now calling mayor bloomberg mini mike, a nickname he has used before. obviously, this is getting under his skin that he chose to respond today. is that what you want to hear? >> yeah, listen, i think trump wants to be everything that mike is. he wants to be a real leader. he wants to be someone that has actually delivered on healthcare, he wants to be someone that's actually created a real business. he wants to be a rell billionaire. mike has led the city in ways that brought people together and trump tears people apart. bloomberg is the antithesis of what trump tries front end he has. >> bloomberg's strategy has a lot of people obsessed, what he's doing. he argues in an op-ed today on cnn, the primary process is undemocratic and politically harmful to the nominee. he says, the first two voting states, iowa and new hampshire, are among the most homogenous in the nation. and the two early voting states

are unlikely to be consequential in the election, yet he also said this about the nominee process just five days ago. kevin, here he is. >> i think we've got a tradition here of four states, two with caucuses, two with elections. they have worked very hard. they love the attention. the system has gotten used to it and i guess the democratic party probably shouldn't take it away. >> how can he think both of those things at the same time, let it stay the way it is and it's inconsequential. >> the part that got cut off is that the rules don't really make any sense. and he wrote an op-ed that says, hey, these don't make any sense. the big issue that's missing for a lot of people is donald trump is winning this election. it's a hard thing to hear and a tougher thing to believe. but a general election is only six states. it's fought in this year, used to be 10 or 14, this year it will be six. wisconsin, pennsylvania,

michigan, north carolina, florida, and arizona. that's it. those there competitive states. democrats have spent a year, my party, investing in the state of iowa, knocking on every door, seeing every available -- >> 99 counties. >> 99 counties, raising every nickel we can from every democratic donor around the country and investing in iowa. democrat, republican pollsters agree on one thing. donald trump will win iowa this year. so weapon spent a year and every nickel we can raise on a state we're going to lose. what mike is saying, if i was president of the united states and had the honor of running in the democratic party, i would change that and the first state would be wisconsin, the second would be michigan, the third would be pennsylvania, the fourth would be north carolina. imagine what would happen now if cnn was headed to wisconsin tomorrow to host a debate. >> totally different conversation. >> and we as democrats would be on the road to winning wisconsin. whereas, right now, we're on the road to lose a state that donald trump won by a mere 23,000 votes in the last election. >> and he'll be there tomorrow night when the democrats are in iowa. >> and he'll be there tomorrow. and he's stronger now than the day he was he won. >> so bloomberg has not ruled

out spending $1 billion. it's a lot of money by any stretch of the imagination. however, i think relative comparisons always matter. that's 1.7% of his note worth, according to "forbes," just so people know that, it's $58.4 billion by their running total. is there a limit on what he's willing to spend? i know he stayed out of this for a while. you guys did the math. you felt that there was a return on that investment that you could get. is there a limit? >> yeah, listen, i think that mike didn't use the term billion dollars. "the new york times" says, would you spend $1 billion and mike didn't answer in the positive or the negative and that's the headline that they wrote. mike has spent an awful amount of money on this election so far. and what he has said, with great clarity is, i will spend whatever it takes to remove donald trump from office. he has said, i will -- i didn't want to sit on the sidelines. i got in this campaign because i think i have a role to play. and if i'm the nominee, i can put together the most diverse, the strongest campaign to defeat the president. and if i'm not the nominee, then i will support whoever the nominee is, with my money to

make sure that we can fight in those battleground states i mentioned. >> and just to be clear, if president trump spent that amount of money, which he wouldn't, because he'll use other people's money, donors and rnc, it will be a third of his fortune according to "forbes" versus 1.7%. thank you very much. next, jeanne moos on the white house tweet that was met with a flurry of replies. [happy birthday music] ♪ ♪

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here's jeannie. >> reporter: first snow of the year read this white house tweet sunday. snow or snow job. what are they on? temperatures in washington sunday reached a high of around 70. first snow? ♪ oh, the weather outside the frightful ♪ >> the response was frightful. people were wearing shorts today in baltimore! my son asked if we could put on the ac. at the time, the white house snow tweet was posted, it's 54 degrees. is there anything you don't lie about? actually, the snow fell almost a week earlier. >> maybe we'll see some wet snow. >> reporter: that day, the white house first posted its snow shot on flickr, but when they tweeted

it on a sunday so warm it generated fog, the tweet got roasted. the last time the weather man in chief got slammed was when "the washington post" reported he used a sharpie to doctor a hurricane map. >> this one right here. >> reporter: even his description of the weather at his inauguration got cold water poured on. it >> but god looked down and said, we're not going to let it rain on your speech. >> no, he didn't! first, it did rain while you were speaking. that's why your wife was holding up an umbrella and people behind you were wearing ponchos. >> reporter: already, critics are calling the snow tweet early entry for stupidest trump lie of 2020. our forecast is that they're saying maybe a 70% chance that the white house tweet was posted accidentally. >> reporter: maybe someone tweeted an earlier draft. the gop's rapid response director suggested that hostilities with iran meant there were more important things to communicate, so the white

house just saved the tweet. or maybe were just looking at it wrong. what you're actually seeing is the ashes of the constitution. ♪ let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ♪ . >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. a big night. breaking news on the shape of the impeachment trial, including republican senators now talking about wanting to hear from witnesses and not wanting to immediately vote to dismiss the charges. also late word that the president's tv lawyer and alleged bag man, rudy giuliani, has been lobbying to join the impeachment legal team. new reporting as well on the president's claim that killing the iranian general prevented imminent attacks on four american embassies, and big developments as democrats lose another contender today. we close out the hour by marking ten years since an earthquake devastated haiti. we begin, though, this hour, right now, with more breaking news. it concerns the ukrainian