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welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. the trump impeachment trial begins in earnest and new memos filed by the president's lawyers preview the brawling political battle and the democratic trial managers laid out their brief that runs more than 100 pages. quote, president trump's conduct is the framer's worst nightmare and it will judge each senators' willingness to view the facts honestly and defend the constitution. the president's lawyers have until tomorrow to file their brief, but in a six page brief they took a scorched earth approach. trump denies each and every allegation in the articles of impeachment insisting the president's dealings with

ukraine were perfectly legal, taken in furtherance of our national interest. setting the tone for the trial ahead, the president's lawyers assert quote the articles themselves and the rigged process that brought them here are a transparently political act by the democrats. 100 u.s. senators will decide the case and it will be the first test of whether republicans are open to breaking from their president. the chamber's republican leader has guaranteed that the president will not be remove from office. mitch mcconnell's first test will be approving the rule and whether new documents and witnesses will be allowed. the white house denied to the house denied to the impeachment inquiry or the memos and witnesses that have emerged in the month since the vote. it details how several witnesses have valuable information including john bolton, the chief of staff mick mulvaney and cites

documents provided recently by lev parnas, an invited ukrainian american who said he was rudy giuliani's fixer in pushing the new president in ukraine to announce an investigation of the bidens. >> president trump knew exactly what was going on. he was aware of all of my movements. he -- i wouldn't do anything without consent of rudy giuliani or the president. >> did vice president pence know? >> of course. >> bolton? >> bolton. >> mulvaney? >> mulvaney. attorney general barr was basically on the team. >> with us is julie davis, michael bender, cnn's nia-malika henderson and molly ball. okay, the first test is tuesday. mitch mcconnell trying to get through a resolution that sets the ground rules. the briefs filed last night

suggest this is a venus and mars and it will be brawling. >> i mean, to read through the initial filing from the white house and the house democrats, the managers, the case, you can really tell this is nothing to be an incredibly politically charged set of arguments. impeachment obviously is a political process, nobody had any delusions about an election year impeachment trial being politicized but the president's lawyers are saying this is a blatant, dangerous attack on the election and the voters right to pick their president and you have the democrats who are doing to argue the case against president trump saying this is part of a pattern of conduct, this president welcomed election interference in 2016 on his behalf. then tried to cover it up and did the same thing or tried to do the same thing leading up to the 2020 contest. so there's a lot of sort of locking of horns, procedurally and there's going to be a big brawl.

>> and yesterday's short submission does not file the brief, but my big question because -- they keep saying the president did nothing wrong, it's a shoddy case, doesn't reach the bar for impeachment. if you read the democrats memo 111 pages of it it painstakingly lays out presidential conduct hard to defend. you can argue if it's impeachment, but are they going to insist that the president did absolutely nothing wrong? >> well, the short answer is they'll try to do both. but the longer answer there is that they'll focus on the process here more than the substance. and i think that that is one of the calculations there is that they view that as a better argument with the senate. including a republican majority that a lot of members there feel like what the president did with his interactions with ukraine, that phone call with ukraine were inappropriate but not impeachable. the brief is interesting or the answer is interesting in that it sort of lays for the first time an official response from the

white house to some of that. there's a quote in there referring to the july 25th call, that calls it legal, taken in furtherance of the national interest. i'm not sure if that's what the vote was on in senate that would pass the chamber or pass the republican caucus let alone the majority of the chamber. >> and it's interesting, we're at a math question. there are only 47 house democrats. even if they all stuck together and that's an open question, you would need 20 republicans to convict and remove the president. there is zero evidence, zero evidence that will happen. but there are questions about well, whether enough republicans will break on some procedural issues, like when the democrats want to call bolton or mulvaney or call mr. parnas. we don't know. he has a lot to say, some of it is quite damning but he has credibility issues. you have lisa murkowski from alaska, she's more of an

independent, first we'll here hear the case and then the senators will ask questions and then i'll think about the witnesses. >> i know there are political pressures that are on all of us. i understand that. my responsibility is not to -- not to focus on the politics of where we are. i'm going to take my constitutional obligations very, very seriously. >> i would say wait and see approach there from a republican we all be watching and martha mcsally, she's up for re-election. she's up for election, she's an appointed senator running for her first full term. this could be a competitive race, but martha mcsally has made her choice. >> should the senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial?

>> you're a liberal hack, i'm not talking to you. >> you're not going to comment? >> you're a liberal hack. >> that is an interesting choice in the sense that she has decided -- he's a great, objective reporter, but arizona might be tough but if i don't have the trump base 1,000% on my side i'm toast. >> absolutely. when you look at murkowski i think her life would be a lot easier if she decided to be supportive of the president the way that her partner in the delegation has. so i just wand to defend her. i don't think she's making a political calculation in this moment or many others where she's bucked the republican party. that's part of her persona as a senator and has been for a long time and there are other senators looking at an election calculation and they may be in a bind if they're in any state less than sort of dark, dark red. because as you mentioned, the trump base is going to be very

sensitive to any seeming hint of disloyalty and you're not going to win an election without your own party's base. at the same time, there are independents and we have seen that independents are pretty open to some of these impeachment arguments or pretty skeptical of the president's conduct here. and if you need any crossover from democratic voters, they could react badly. now, both parties seem on the grappling with the idea that actually this election is not going to turn on impeachment. it might be an argument in the case for or against your candidacy. but the time we get to november 2020 we'll be talking about the president's race and health care and other things but still, they're trying to game out how this is going to affect them. >> how it games out. so the house managers, it's seven democrats, all loyal to nancy pelosi. a diverse group ideologically, geographically, philosophically. they have to prosecute two case at once.

if they ask for witnesses, will the republicans say that was your job in the house. we have a solid case, the president abused the powers, the president obstructed congress but they have to prosecute it in a way but in the interest of fairness, it would be a stronger case if the american people heard from these new witnesses. my big question is we know they want to ask for bolton who has through his deputy called this a drug deal, the president's behavior. and they want mick mulvaney who said it was a quid pro quo, get over it. will they ask to bring in lev parnas, rudy giuliani's right hand man in ukraine and he says this. >> i basically told them very strict and very stern that several things. "a" that he needed to make -- zelensky needed to make an announcement within the next 24 hours that they were opening up an investigation on biden. if they didn't make the announcement basically there

would be no relationship. not just -- there was no specific military, there was no aid. there was going to be no inauguration. pence wouldn't be at the inauguration. and there would be no visit to the white house. they would have no communication. >> again, he's under indictment and he has reasons to curry favors with prosecutors or congress or anybody who can help him and he's released a whole bunch of documents that back up much of what's saying. there's no disputing he was rudy giuliani right hand man, fixer, call it what you will. but do the democrats -- in his case do they want to take the credibility risk and can they use that to make the case -- you keep saying we don't have first hand knowledge. he worked with rudy giuliani let him talk. >> that's a big question. he's saying one thing in the studio who knows what he would say under oath or other evidentiary documentaries and we have seen the democrats mention

lev parnas and there's more information in the briefing. but whether or not they call him, or whether or not they're allowed to call him is a big question. whether or not any of the witnesses whether it be bolton, par vas or mulvaney will they be called. you heard murkowski, she's under political pressures from the other republicans so will they fall in terms of you know this array of witnesses? will there be zero witnesses or a few that look like sort of the bipartisan wishes of the senate? >> part of that will play out based on the success or the failure of the house democratic managers and when we come back also on the role of the president's big named defense team and how it plays out its strategy with the senate trial. "inside politics" is brought to you by -- if your glasses aren't perfect, we'll fix them.

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detailed look at the president's impeachment defense strategy tomorrow. that's the senate trial deadline for white house to file the detailed legal brief. the shorter six page filing last night was noteworthy because the into is highly political. saying the impeachment process is nothing more than a dangerous attack on the american people themselves and their fundamental right to vote and it is signed by president's two lead attorneys, jay sekulow and pat cipollone. a half dozen other lawyers will assist them at the senate trial including three big legal names who caught the president's attention taking issue with the democrats' case on television. >> it's a lesson and a nasty lesson on how not to do impeachment. it's an example of raw power being exercised. >> it's hard to see how there's no accusation of a crime much less evidence of one. >> no question that the two articles of impeachment are unconstitutional. they do not satisfy the constitutionally required criteria for impeachment.

>> and you see right there in those clips what we are told from the white house legal team each of those gentlemen will argue. dershowitz will say it doesn't meet the test for impeachment and ken starr will say if you look -- there's not a lot of history to go through but judges being impeached it doesn't meet the standard of impeachment and mr. ray will say where's the crime? this is the argument. and my question is again we don't know yet how substantive they will be. will they say that gordon sondland was lying when he said this -- >> was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. mr. giuliani conveyed to secretary perry, ambassador volker and others that president trump wanted a public statement from president zelensky

committing to investigations of burisma and the 2016 election. we all understood that these prerequisites for the white house call and the right white house meeting reflected president trump's desires and requirements. >> that is a trump donor turned trump appointee, not a democrat. do they -- especially with the math being what it is, they could make a case that you don't like some of this. we understand you don't like some of this, it does not rise to the level of impeachment and they would be safe. the president wants them to say everything that happened here was perfect. >> well, i mean, we don't know what's in the brief tomorrow. we don't know what they'll say and one notable thing about this legal team is how late in the game it came together. i think some of this is being decided on the fly and certainly they're aware that the president wants them to argue the latter. that everything was perfect. if you look at the filing they submitted yesterday that's the road they're going down. they stipulate to a number of the facts here.

they talk about the transcript. we have all read the reconstructed transcript of that call in which he asks for the investigation of biden. they talk about the withholding of the aid being perfectly appropriate so they're not de denying that the $400 million in military aid is being withheld. they're not in the mode of denying the facts, but they're trying to argue as many republicans did during the inquiry itself that this was him acting as president. he was completely within his rights. and there's nothing about any of that that was illegal. they talked about corruption in the filing and trump they're arguing is trying to root out corruption and burden sharing. the other argument for why he was freezing this aid. i think that's probably what we'll see from them when it comes time for them to make the arrangement on -- argument on the senate floor. >> and they used sondland, he was an imperfect witness and they chose his testimony. that the president told him

there was no quid pro quo. and in another piece of the brief that i thought was interesting too, the answer was that they take some time complaining about schiff's caricature of the call on the house floor which the president has viewed as a fabrication of the call. but very few people other than him have that view. >> it was a mistake by schiff and a -- and at the beginning of the proceedings he did but it's not relevant to the facts of the case. as the democrats make their case, they're going to say well, why didn't the president mention corruption or why did the president outside the white house keep saying things like this. >> what exactly did you hope that zelensky would hope to do to biden after the phone call? >> i would think if they're honest about it they'd start a major investigation into the bidens and likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens.

it say that president zelensky, i would recommend that they start an investigation into the bidens. >> i mean, is trump being trump? is that a legal defense at an impeachment trial? >> you know, i think at some point somebody asked him if there were other countries that he was interested in investigating because of corruption, he said he would get back to them. it's interest how closely in brief is like his initial words, read the transcript so his legal team is boxed in by his ability to admit that anything is ever wrong with anything he ever does. very different of course from the bill clinton impeachment. he was contrite. so it will be interesting to see if this boxes in republicans, right? it was always this time when people thought the final word

from the republicans particularly ones in tough races would they cite this is bad but not impeachable? you won't see that at this point. >> and you want to go to the unpredictability. the senators asks the questions and we'll see. in the clinton trial not many senators jumped understood and said point of order. we'll see if they want to make a point. one of the interesting things to me is there are some then and now moments. democrats argued against witnesses they said it wasn't necessary. and now they want witnesses. ken starr is defending a president, right, who has refused to give congress anything. bill clinton did fight with the special counsel back in the day. he did stall and did not want to give documents. nowhere anywhere near the scope of president trump. this is ken starr back in the day. >> with respect to this phase of the investigation, the

administration has been uncooperative. to the contrary it's litigated numerous issues. it may be that the considered judgment of this body is any privilege can be invoked no matter how unmeritorious one thinks it is. i disagree with that. >> disagreed with that back then. he's about to agree with it i think. right? it's okay? president article two i can do whatever i want. >> yes, he definitely is. and the white house and the legal team are just -- you know, they have -- they don't blink when it comes -- you ask the questions about the things that ken starr said in the past or ties to past and current controversies the members have and that's no blinking and they're going to proceed along the path. i mean, you hit on it earlier. i mean, the idea here of these folks -- of the legal team and how it came to be is that trump

likes what they say on tv. we're going to see pat cipollone lead this team but it's first time that any of us see him on camera since he's been a member of the trump administration. these other folks are all relatively household names. they have tv experience. that the president values. and once again the president shows he's willing to overlook these kinds of controversies when he's populating his orbit of -- >> ken starr in one of the tv interviews said that president trump once called him words i won't say on television. up next, sanders and warren clash over whether a woman can beat the president. feeling sluggish or weighed down

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as a matter of fact, i didn't say it. anybody knows me knows it's income prehenceable to think i can't think a woman can be the president of the united states. >> bernie is my friend and i'm not here to fight with bernie. can a woman beat trump? look at the men on the stage they have lost ten elections. the only ones on this stage who have won every election we have then in are the women. amy and me. >> that from the debate this past week. iowa votes two weeks from tomorrow and it offers the first test of who democrats think is their best democratic candidate. let's go through a through a interesting points. number one, we had a historically diverse field including six women at the

beginning of the contest. three are left. tulsi gabbard, elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar. elizabeth warren, this is our "des moines register" poll runs stronger among women in iowa than men. sanders is running stronger among men than women. the same with buttigieg. stronger with men. former vice president biden and klobuchar you don't see it as much in the numbers. remember, we went through in in 2016 with the clinton campaign. "usa today" and ipso asked a few months ago, are you comfortable with the female president? 83% that's a big number 83% said they're personally comfortable. but run it through psychology class. only 39% said their neighbors were comfortable with a female president so there's something going on there. remember back on the debate night, elizabeth warren approached bernie sanders after the debate saying he had called

her a liar. quickly though both campaigns have decided to move on. this is warren yesterday. >> i believe you 100% because i looked at you and i looked at him and i'm like, he did that. i know that bernie sanders said those things to you. >> we fight for the same issues. we have been allies in these battles long before i ever got into politics. i knew bernie and worked with him on a whole lot of issues. that's all i want to say about that topic. because what i truly believe is we're going to have to pull together. >> is that last point it? it comes up in the debate. sanders denies it. warren gets in his face after the debate essentially saying you called me a liar and after 24 hours wants no more of this. why? >> if you look at the time line of the story coming out and her immediate response was her pulling back.

she essentially said oh, this was bernie being a pundit. he's a good friend of mine. you saw him at that debate, her say, you know, i'm not here to fight with bernie. and she fought with bernie and everyone else on that stage over the issue of gender and wrapped in the idea of gender and electability. making a case for her open -- own electability. this doesn't necessarily seem like it's a good idea for either one of them. democrats who were looking at this don't necessarily want to see this sort of infighting. it is also true that women when it comes to sort of sticking the shiv into a candidate they get oftentimes much more blow back. right? it's hard to be an aggressive woman running for higher office in any way. so i imagine she's trying to walk a tight rope, trying to gin up support and also sort of hide her hand. you know, i think a lot of women face that conundrum. >> sanders number one his ads have changed.

there's a new ad promoting his record on women's rights and they added a visit to the women's march in new hampshire. >> the message of today from me is that men and women -- by the way, men, if you think abortion rights, if you think equal pay for equal work is just a women's issue, you are dead wrong. it is a human issue and the men have got to stand with the women is. we are in this together. >> you can argue his campaign might push back, that's a let's protect myself here. let's be careful. let's make sure i'm covering my bases here but it's interesting that among progressives there was a gas because they think they're going at it, somebody from the center sneaks through. >> you had a bunch of progressive groups come together and issue a unity statement. many of them endorsed sanders, many warren. because there's a level -- i

don't think it's too much to call it panic among the democratic base about a potential splintering. i think we have seen candidates all over the spectrum be punished by voters when they're perceived as going negative too strongly. the irony is that within the democratic base the candidates fan bases are quite negative toward each other. there are a lot of bernie people who hate vice versa. the supporters are quite nat but don't want to see the actual candidates go too far because there's a fear of splintering the base and they're all preoccupied with beating trump and just because there's a desire for whoever the nominee is to be able to rise above and to be able to be a unifier. so you have a lot of them trying to fill that role. >> good luck with the race

xeftive. there's a big debate, joe biden complaining yelled about a video we'll play you here. a senior sanders campaign adviser retweeting this video of joe biden that cuts him off abruptly when he's making a point about social security. >> paul ryan was correct when he did the tax code. what's the first thing he decided to go after? social security. and medicare. now, we need to do something about social security and medicare. that's the only way you can find room to pay for it. >> now, the video cuts off there. if you actually want it to be fair, you'd listen as the former vice president went on. >> we need a progrowth progressive tax code that treats workers as job creators, as not just investors. that gets rid of loopholes and it raises enough revenue to make sure that the social security

and medicare can stay and still meets adjustments but can stay and pay for the things we all acknowledge will grow the country. >> so yesterday, and it will continue to play out today, you get a debate -- we saw a lot between the clinton and the sanders camp in 2016. the sanders campaign saying oh, so what, grow up, we abruptly cut off the video because joe biden did back when they were having debates about the budgets, joe biden is on the record over the last 20 or 30 years we should means test social security. there was a times when washington had discussions about the budget debates and you can have a conversation about joe biden's report. but they get very prickly when you say you should have it in a respectful way not abruptly edit a video to make it appear as if he said something he didn't. >> right. we're in the phase of the

primary where things are starting to get very nasty. it is fair for the biden campaign to complain about the way that video was edited and you can't quote him saying we need to touch social security and medicaid and by the way, we also need to raise taxes and reorder the priorities of the tax code so we can pay for all of this. it is also fair to point out and this is going to be a theme from bernie sanders or whoever these surviving progressive candidates is in the primary in several weeks. that you know joe biden is a centrist on this. he has been willing to go and touch what he's called the third rail of talking about potential cuts and slows to the growth of social security and medicare in order to balance the budget and get the country to a place where, you know, the fiscal picture is not as skewed as it is now. that's an issue that many candidates have not been willing to talk about and it's interesting to see if joe biden has talked about that or backs

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iowa votes two weeks from tomorrow. and new hampshire the week after that. this is campaign crunch time but it's also impeachment trial time for the senators who happen to be running for president. >> by the way, i wish i could be back in new hampshire and iowa. but i will be in washington doing my constitutional duty. >> i'm a mom and i can balance things really well. >> those of us who are running for president we have a constitutional duty to be there. >> elizabeth warren and michael bennet are in a similar bind

beginning tuesday when the senate begins a six day a week trial that will run at least two weeks. and maybe more. so it will run up to the iowa caucuses if not through and beyond the iowa caucuses. they have no choice which is why they say, you know, constitutional duty. but they cannot like it. especially given the race is so close in both of those states. >> absolutely. i mean, this is the team when you want to be making your closing argument to the voters. we still see a large bloc of undecided voters hanging out there particularly in iowa where they're notoriously late deciders. it can be pivotal to be able to see the candidate in person one last time so it will be interesting to see how they work around this. are they coming up with holograms? teleport people into the town halls? they're have surrogates, try to have events with their supporters and try to continue the campaign by other means but there's no substitute for the candidate being there. and you have, you know, senator

mcconnell talking about the trial not only being six days a week but possibly 12 hours a day. so it's not like you can even, you know, get done with your day and make a quick trip on a jet. >> to that point, look at tomorrow, it's the martin luther king jr. holiday. so all of the candidates are out in different places. and they'll all be in south carolina, some iowa as well. but when we blank this out, you get into the week. biden and buttigieg, iowa. south carolina, d.c., massachusetts, new hampshire, look at and these guys. that's all of d.c. now, bernie sanders to your point is trying to get to iowa wednesday night for a late event but he's assuming the trial ends at 7:00. you can hop on a plane, go out and do a town hall and then get back for the next day's trial proceedings. that will depend. they're stuck. >> they're stuck here. listen, this advantage is biden and buttigieg. listen, if they're not able to win in some ways in iowa and take advantage of this, you know, i think it says something about their campaigns.

it says something about the sort of enthusiasm. we'll see what sanders and warren are able to do. and they'll send out the surrogates, i'm sure they're blasting the airwaves with ads. we were there last week and that have the case. but listen, if you're biden and buttigieg you have to feel pretty good and you have to know you've got an advantage. see if either can take advantage of that. >> i'm particularly interested in biden in the sense that he does have the freedom to campaign but his name is going to come up in this trial. deal with it as you go. but on the trail you have to deal with. >> it the other thing that's true about the senators in washington, it's not even like they're able to go out and sort of talk a lot about their agenda and their proposals. they're sitting in the senate chamber at their desk. >> can't tweet or talk. see how they work it out. our reporters share from the notebook next including on the president's power to wage war. ee you will see great and look great. "guaranteed" we say that too!

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let's head one more time around the "inside politics" table and ask the reporters to share something from the notebooks to help you out with the big political news around the corner. >> the world does not stop for impeachment and the senate can consider legislation and grapple with the issues coming up and one of issues as early as next week is the possible vote to rebuke president trump for using military action in iran without congressional coordination. and tim kaine has a resolution to essentially force the president to come back to congress before any further military action in iran. he has 51 votes for the resolution that he announced last week and four republicans have joined on to the effort, and so we could see a vote in the morning, either this week or the week after to essentially

rein in the president's powers before removing him from office. >> something else that he is not likely to enjoy. michael? >> we have been spending a lot of time to talk about impeachment but over on the trump campaign, they are looking at a lengthy list of what they view as a bigger threat to the election and one of them is michael bloomberg and the billion dollars he has to spend. not many people at the campaign think that he is a nominee, and single digits in the poll, and the tv blitz has not done much to improve that, but one thing that he is very good at is getting under the president's skin. so every trump tweet like we have seen over the last few weeks aimed at mike bloomberg has the chances of lifting mike into the central conversation into the democratic presidential nomination and this is something that the new york mayor has not been able to do for himself. >> a little bit of the manhattan at play here. >> 2020 also governors races are 11 in all and the gop are coming in with an advantage and 26

governor's mansions to 24 for democrats, and we know that in the past cycles, the gop have paid attention to state races in a way that democrats haven't. i think that the big race that people will be watching is north carolina. an incumbent democrat roy cooper is going to be facing a tough challenger, and that state is going to be obviously in the sight of whoever the democratic nominee as well as the president, and why is 2020 so important? redistricting. we saw the democrats make up some ground in 2018 and much harder for them to keep making up that ground this go around because of the large majorities that the gop have stacked up over the last years. >> big test of the trump coattails if there are such a thing in 2020. molly? >> we have talked about the impeachment trial being a potentially scrambling the equation for the iowa caucuses with the multiple senators having to stay in washington, but there is another x-factor that we are reminded of in the past week in iowa and that is the weather. there is a big blizzard in iowa

that forced many of the candidates to cancel campaign events and that a reminder that every four years when you have caucuses in a state that is subject to so much weather, it is always going to be something campaigns have to take into account whether it is in previous cycles where campaigns have handed out branded snow shovels to the supporters, but generally the rule of thumb is the more intense of the support, the more advantage that you have in the event that there is extreme weather, because if your supporters are determined to go out for you, it is the marginal supporters who tend to fall off and that could advantage a candidate whose supporters are more passionate and i'm not a meteorologist, and i won't try to predict the weather in iowa weeks from now, but it looked like it is warming up this coming week, but you never know in iowa. >> i remember my first iowa white house many, many years ago carefully. and another case that guarantees the supreme court something that the justices insist they don't want, and that is a big role in

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after months of build-up, president trump's impeachment trial begins with the legal teams preparing through the weekend. >> the house's hour is over, and the senate's time is at hand. >> what are both sides revealing about the strategies? one of the attorneys speaking for the president, alan dershowitz is next. and house manager jason crow in moments. and also, ground rules, the trial is going to put all 100 senators on the record with potentially damaging information about the case still emerging. will the senators vote to hear more? >> to have no witnesses is a