democrat witnesses. that statement is wrong too. there were a number of witnesses who testified the exact opposite, that security was conditioned and it is a simple is 2 plus 2 equals 4. they put it in writing and testified about it, they neglected to tell you gordon sondlasnd said no quid pro quo, but, here is the quid pro quo. no quid pro quo but zelinksy should want to. that is the quid pro quo. maybe they don't -- maybe they consider him a democratic witness. what about mulvaney? no words from the president's

mouth, he admitted in a press conference just like this of course we did. it happens all the time, get over it, no mention of the president's chief of staff. my final point before i turn it over. to look away from the fact the president's own chief of staff has admitted to the most pernicious part of the scheme to get ukraine to do these -- why would they make no mention of that. it gets back to something they argued in the first two minutes of their presentation when they were attacking the house managers, that the goal should be to give you all of the facts. that is our goal. but it is not there is because mick mulvaney has some of these facts. another name you didn't hear was john bolton. john bolton has some of these

facts. you didn't hear the name duffy or blair or other witnesses that the president who is so confident that this was about corruption and not trying to smear an opponent want you to hear, the one question they did not address at all is why they don't want to give the american people a fair trial, they want this to be the first impeachment case in history without a single witness and a single document turned over. that ought to tell you what you need to know about the strength and weaknesses of their case which is they know what the president did, the president's men know what the president did, we proved what the president did and the last thing they want is more of the truth to come out. mister nadler. >> thank you very much. i want to make a number of

points. first the general point. you heard adam and i and most of the managers say over the last few days that predict that the president's case would not deal with the substance of the accusations because they can't defend the accusations, they were going to process. talking about how -- the house procedures were denied due process but wouldn't address the reality of the case and they couldn't address the reality of the case. when they say the house should have brought the witnesses, where are the witnesses? remember the president gave a

blanket order to everyone not to testify. all members of the executive agencies, people who testified in front of the intelligence agency were defining direct orders from the president. there are witnesses we wanted in the judiciary committee and others in the intel committee, we have gone to court for them. we've been incorporated 9 months and haven't gotten them. why haven't they testified? the president told them not to testify. they will eventually when the courts force them to and you hear the president's council say they should have had the witnesses after doing everything they can to prevent any testimony. that is point one. .2, you heard them say today as they said the other day >> the democrats, the ones who made their case for the impeachment of the president of the united states were not

impressed with the republican theme and their legal representatives. if it ever ends, i'm told eventually it will, is it going to change minds? republicans leaning against any such action against the president going to change their minds? are democrats in the senate predisposed to going after the president going to change their mind or were they going too far in targeting the president? unlikely at this point but we will see. it is early in this process. we continue fox news coverage, here's john scott. >> in january donald trump's defense team making its case on the senate floor for the first time this morning saying the president did, quote, absolutely nothing wrong in his dealings with ukraine. i'm john scott. the president will have two more days, to decide whether to

common additional witnesses. chad program is on capitol hill with everything we know so far and what we might expect next. >> in the senate trial, there were three saturday sessions in president clinton's trial in 1999 and from the get-go it was different when the defense presented its case. pat cipollone indicated they would be respectful of their time. he was trying to contrast the length of the defense arguments compared to the exhaustive arguments presented by the house process acute are. he immediately started to turn this back around and undercut the arguments the house managers made. >> they showed you a selective part of the record, their record and they, remember this, they

have the heavy burden of proof. the president is forced to mount a defense in this chamber against the record the democrats developed. >> a vote on witnesses may come next week. republicans are talking about the bidens, they discussed them 236 times on tuesday. angus king from maine caucuses with the democrats and he thinks bringing in the bidens is a stretch. >> it would be like colin hunter biden to be a witness in the oj trial. he doesn't know anything about whether the president tried to pressure zelinski. it would be relevant. >> our senators being swayed by these arguments? and a lot of republicans indicate they are not moved at

all, some -- this issue of witnesses, kevin kramer of north dakota said a couple minutes ago that if they went to witnesses, they wouldn't vote on that it would be opening a rabbit hole. if they don't have witnesses they might have votes on the articles of impeachment by next week. at the beginning of this session, barry black, the senate chaplain, usually his prayers are very poignant, on the issues of the day. he had a message in this morning's invocation. >> lord, you have been our help in ages past. you are our hope for the years to come. we trust the power of your prevailing providence to bring this impeachment trial to the conclusion you desire.

>> a very abbreviated session. we expect longer sessions monday and tuesday when the house counsel will continue their defense. they have 24 hours like the house prosecutors and we think they will be more brief and that will be a way to appeal to senators who have sat through long sessions starting on tuesday. neil: the question of whether to call witnesses, is that a majority vote and if that vote takes place, when are we expected? >> absolutely, it is a simple majority vote unless you have an agreement that chuck schumer has concluded the idea of 1-to-1 parity. if he calls john bolton, will comic mall they need or john bolton, call the bidens or something like that. that is probably not going to happen. a lot of senators even though they will tell you those who want witnesses think this is

opening a rabbit hole, that vote would be later next week. you could have a vote on a slate of witnesses or on individual witnesses. if they vote to truncate the process that is why for the end of next week, thursday, friday, saturday, you could have a verdict in this trial. but they have to get through arguments by the president and question where senators are allotted 16 hours of written questions. through the chief justice they go through that tuesday, wednesday next week toward the witness question in detail end of next week. >> we appreciate it. >> for the legal and political impact of what we are hearing in the impeachment proceedings let's bring in our panel, executive editor mike allen and defense attorney and former

prosecutor bob be on key. it was be first chance for the president's team to take a swing at the ball. in your experience, how did it go? >> i was impressed. i'm not going to lie to you. they mapped it out well. they weren't bombastic, they weren't overly officious. they did not bring in the bidens which was a smart play. i found myself saying after today i don't know if i would go back to my office as a prosecutor or defense lawyer and say we may need to change the strategy and not go forward because all this comes down to are they going to get those 3 or 4 republican senators to ask for witnesses. all they are trying to do is make their -- they present enough information to pass the straight face test in not calling for those witnesses and in my mind it will be a done

deal. unlike a jury we know what the senators are inclined to do, so less is more in this situation. >> are you hearing there are 3 or 4 republican senators inclined to vote for witnesses? >> at the moment you can count three if you squint. we are not saying four so far, top senate aides tell ask he is they don't see getting to four at this moment but picking up on the point about the bombast this was a very lawyerly arguments. in the senate gallery, he was expecting the burden on the house today but we saw the president's lawyers making pretty conventional arguments, speaking to their point there were holes in the case, testimony you didn't hear which was an effective device they didn't show you and saying they will make their own legal

arguments in the days ahead. >> one of those legal arguments came from one of the president's lawyers who said he is being charged with obstruction of justice or not providing witnesses are asking requests for documents, those requests came from the judiciary committee, they were not authorized by the entire house, they were authorized by nancy pelosi. i thought it was an effective argument. >> i watched the congressional hearings and i don't know if i missed anything but that was the first time i heard that as well and what i liked about that lawyer whose name escapes me, he was a very intellectual, kind of an appellate lawyer. he wasn't gyrating. he was bringing out facts, responding to the house saying you have not done what you need to do for a compulsory process and i was like this is if it is

true that i'm hearing it, this is in my mind, the first time hearing it an absolute defense, you have not done the prerequisites of what you can do in ordering a subpoena and require compulsion of witnesses and documents, that is a strong defense and that is one of the reasons i'm saying if that is accurate they have data to back it up which i imagine they did or they wouldn't say it you may want to pull back a little bit and say we hit it out of the park, those three senators were not convinced they should get witnesses because we did such a good job today. when you stand well, an old judge told me when i won an objection in court in a homicide case and still argued afterwards, he brought me out of the courthouse and showed me something in latin, you know what that means? when you stand well, standstill. in other words, shut up and start making arguments.

>> when nancy pelosi was dragging her feet on impeachment, she was saying it is a serious issue that could split the country. when you look at a monmouth poll taken just before the senate testimony began this country is very much split. now that he has been impeached by the house you think he should or should not be removed from the presidency by the city? 49% say he should, 48% say should not, only 3% say they don't know. this country is very much split on this question. >> we just popped up some data on actio's.com showing how little any of these indicators have moved over the course of this trial. 49% figure you showed, it was september when they began this process, 47. some have 51. very little movement, mostly in the margin of error. look at the president's approval rating.

what was it when the impeachment inquiry began? 42. what is it today? 43. unchanged. the president's approval at 42%. the other one unchanged, move around a little bit but joe biden, the national front runner, 2020, also unchanged, i checked real clear politics, the very luxuriously appointed green room, 6.2% lead in national polls, those matters which are snapshot of the country unchanged through many months. >> it is luxurious because washington dc gets all the money. real quickly, the votes may or may not be there for witnesses that are the votes which their for impeachment? >> i don't think the votes for impeachment are there.

that is what i am saying what they are saying. the democrats did a good job presenting their case, it was very professional but what it comes down to is the jury. we already know where they are. don't mess that up. right now if you take a vote there would not be enough votes to move forward with this so they should consider slowing down, continuing in a professional way if at all and letting those people already making the decision not to move forward with it stay there before you do something to miss it. >> what is your crystal ball say? >> not only are there not votes to remove the president, to convict the president at this moment, all our reporting indicates there is not a single republican vote to convict the president. at the moment donald trump would not lose a single republican senator based on what we learned on capitol hill.

>> thank you both, happy lunar new year and to you as well. for more on this watch fox news sunday, chris wallace will speak with alan dershowitz, a member of donald trump's impeachment defense team and a well-known lawyer and harvard professor. check your local listings for time and channel. also on media buzz howard kurtz talks to the white house press secretary about the media's coverage of this impeachment trial tomorrow at 11 am, 10:00 eastern on fox news channel. airports across the country on the lookout for passengers who might be in touch with the deadly corona virus. more on that ahead.

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>> the scare continues in china as the state department orders all-americans to evacuate from wuhan. ryan has the latest. >> the city of wuhan is the epicenter of this crisis. the central government has sent

hundreds of military doctors into the city and is building two makeshift hospitals the first of which they hope will be ready to go a week from monday. that will lead 2000 did. they were turned away from hospitals as recently as yesterday because they don't have the capacity to deal with the them. the vast majority of 1400 people infected globally has risen from 40 a week and a half ago are in wuhan. all-americans were ordered to leave the city. it is also closing the consulate and flying the american embassy workers home on a private jet to try to limit their exposure to the virus. china has expanded its lockdown to 16 cities surrounding wuhan with a population of 50 million people, greater than that of london, moscow, paris combined

come all trains and planes to wuhan have been shut down for three days. authorities have closed many big tourist destinations including shanghai, disney, the for been city, or group tours for domestic and international travel have been halted effective immediately. the chinese new year began today and it is a time when many of the country's 1.4 billion people are on the move. president xi called the spread of the virus a grave situation and it is an international situation. the virus has been to europe where three cases were announced yesterday. in france, all three infected people, potentially good news that one of the country's most senior epidemiologists said the chances of an epidemic in europe are week. one thing to keep in mind is it is not clear whether the crisis is getting worse, the virus is

pretty more quickly or whether the monitoring and reporting are just getting better but clearly it has the attention of a lot of governments. >> thank you. in the united states, health officials are confirming a second case of the coronavirus outbreak in chicago as the cdc is monitoring 63 other potential cases. christina coleman has more on that. >> reporter: federal officials making caution, the us arranging for the charter flight from wuhan, china where the outbreak began. according to the wall street journal the plane will have medical personnel on board to help anyone who could be sickened is expected to bring home american diplomats, travelers and their families as well as offering available seats to non-us citizens. the wall street journal also reporting the us plans to temporarily close its consulate

in wuhan until the outbreak is contained. a second topic in the united states was confirmed yesterday, a woman in her 16 of that returned from wuhan, china, january 13th. a few days later she called the doctor to report possible symptoms. she is being hospitalized and monitored but is in stable condition according to health officials. >> this is exactly what we have been educating health providers to do, ask about travel history and reach out to your local health department to discuss any ill patients who recently traveled to wuhan, china. >> the chicago patient arrive at o'hare airport two weeks before the cdc began screening passengers arriving there, screening for symptoms of the virus also taking place at san francisco international airport, lax, jfk airport and parts of jackson in atlanta and earlier in the week a washington man became the first person with a confirmed case of this strain in the us.

cdc officials say he is doing well and should be released from the hospital soon. >> thank you. the impeachment saga continues for donald trump's defense team, day one laying out a case. mark meredith is at the white house with more. >> the president's defense team gave us a preview what we could expect over the next several days as they try to counter the argument by house democrats for impeachment, we will take a deeper look at their strategy from america's news headquarters after the break. it'll ruin your house. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like meow. eh, not enough fiber- chocolate would be good- snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress

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peter trial of donald trump began on tuesday. up to now it has been all prosecution evidence but today the president's lawyers had their chance to rebut what we heard. mark meredith has more on the white house strategy going forward.

>> reporter: house democrats have been trying to remove the president from office since the 2016 election and they believe the impeachment that is underway is all about trying to hinder the president going into 2020. there has a lot of build up with a chance you would hear from the president's lawyers and what white house counsel had to say on the senate floor. >> we are asking you not only to overturn the results of the last election but as i said before, to remove donald trump from the ballot in any election that is occurring in approximately nine months. they are asking you to tara paul the ballots across this country.

take that decision away from the american people. >> reporter: the president's lawyers will argue the security assistance on anything in particular, they will point out, there was no quid pro quo and he did not feel any pressure when it came to making a deal into the end ukraine got the money. it only happened after people began asking questions. they accuse democrats of picking and choosing and omitting key facts to fit america have of alleged wrongdoing. >> we know the ukrainians did not know security assistance had been causative time of the call. there is no evidence anywhere that donald trump ever linked security assistance to any investigations. most of the democrats witnesses have never spoken to the president at all. >> earlier on twitter the president asked to watch the proceedings, to impact the schedule going into next week. he's going to be holding two

campaign rallies including one in iowa and one in new jersey and we are waiting to see if the president has a tweet from the first few hours of the defense team making their point. what was interesting is the president pointed out friday he felt saturday was not the best time to begin the rebuttal and that is why they are making the bulk of their case on monday. >> let's get to capitol hill, congressional correspondent chad program with senator jeff merkley, democrat of oregon. >> thank you, they start again monday. >> they fly out and -- >> what were you listening to the president's counsel? >> they start with that theme, burden of proof.

the prosecution has the burden of proof and also understand with that goes other keywords, witnesses and documents. may be there is burden of proof without access to witnesses. maybe and russia you have burden of proof without access to documents but not in the united states of america. they made a democrats case today, there should be a full and fair trial with access to witnesses. >> did you hear anything the counter the democratic house managers? >> i was struck by the emphasis on the july 20 fifth transcript. it is a more random. the transcript has never been released in the central phone call, why not? even in the memorandum, when the president of ukraine brings up the investigations you want us to undertake but that wasn't raised by donald trump.

was raised by president zelinski, briefed by us ambassador sondand. when he raises that, how does the president respond right afterwards? i want to make sure you go after the bidens. certainly not what we heard from the president's lawyers today. >> these lengthy and abbreviated sessions. when you talk to your colleagues, where do you think they stand on witnesses? maybe the bidens but it comes down to 51 votes. >> they are under tremendous pressure as you have seen from the information that has been brought from the house there are these references to conversations with mike pompeo mark s for, national security adviser mick mulvaney, the chief of staff. none of them want a full inquiry

into documents and witnesses. they don't want the world to see your americans to see what was really behind this pressure on ukraine, personal ever to have ukraine interviewed in the 2020 election. >> another lengthy week at of us on capitol hill as we get into question and answer session later this week. senator jeff merkley, thank you for joining us. >> thank you as well. iran's foreign minister said his country is willing to negotiate despite the drone attack that killed tehran's top general. >> in an interview, iran's top to that would not relax future talks but is waiting on donald trump to make the first move, quote, the trump administration can correct its past, lift the sanctions and come back to the negotiating table. we are still at the negotiating table, they are the ones who left. a stop in ireland on the way

home, mike pence met at fort bliss, in el paso, texas, roughly 20,000 more us troops have been sent to the reason bringing the total to 80,000. >> all our information continues to stand down and we demonstrated american strength, military personnel that responded with incredible professionalism. >> two weeks since they fired 11 short range ballistic missiles at a base in iraq house american troops. the us solitary cannot ascend shooting those missiles down because there was no defense assets in place, a plan exploited by iran's foreign minister, quote, the damage you have done to the us is extensive because of all the military might, cannot prevent the missiles from hitting the base. it shows how vulnerable the us is.

34 troops suffered concussions or traumatic brain injuries, eight were sent for additional treatment, nine at a u.s. army medical facility, half have returned to duty in iraq. it is not clear how severe those injuries are. 5000 american troops remain in iraq and patriot air defense systems protect those troops. >> thank you. five navy air crew members have been rescued and are in stable condition after helicopter crash. they were accepting routine operations when their chopper went down, japan and the us took part in the search and rescue missions, two crew members were brought back to the blue ridge while the other ones were taken to naval hospital okinawa for evaluation. harvey weinstein's can all try was pressing on in new york city, we have new details and the allegations that are coming to light. the latest updates from his trial after a short break. where's the truck? what? parked it right there.

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>> reporter: day 3 of the heidi weinstein trial features testimony from the prosecution expert witness. on friday jurors heard from a forensic psychiatrist considered a blind expert and did not speak about weinstein's accuses directly. instead, educating jurors about commonplace myths, she told the vast majority don't media the report when it occurs especially in cases where they knew the attacker. it is common for victims to maintain contact with the perpetrator, often because they can't believe the attack happened to them. >> it was important for her to educate the jury about these cultural assumptions. >> prosecutor's looking to counter doubts from weinstein's attorneys asked why some weinstein accusers continue to interact with the movie mogul after the alleged incidents occurred.

one of those accusers being annabela shyora who talked about how weinstein attacked her in the 1990s. they address the same topics during the 2018 trial of bill cosby resulting in his conviction on charges he drugged and molested a woman. weinstein maintained the sexual encounters were all consensual. if convicted he faces life in prison. john: a judge allowing actress rosie perez to take the stand, she testified about shyora saying the actress to tell her she was raped by weinstein but felt she could not go public because weinstein said he would, quote, destroy her. emile brown once again in the news leaving jail after he was released on bail friday. brown has been charged with burglary and battery for

attacking a moving truck with his trainer. the altercation reportedly began after brown refused to pay for services rendered after the 7 time pro bowler was dropped from the patriots in 2019 after sexual assault and rape allegations. the bodies of three american firefighters who died when the water take a plane crashed in australia. captain ian mcbeth and paul hudson of arizona and flight engineer rick morgan junior of florida have been recovered. more about their mission and their loss next. you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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you wants's clientele to get back to the dance floor. the bodies of three american firefighters who died when their tanker crashed in australia have been recovered from the crash site. laura angle has more on what happened. >> investigators are coming through the devastating crash site which took the lives of those three heroic firefighters who flew across the world to be part of the massive firefight in australia which scorched 7 million acres of land to date. the bodies of 3 americans who died when their plane crashed this week were removed from the still active fire zone as family members arrived in sydney. all three men were military veterans, two were fathers. captain ian h, paul claes verizon and flight engineer ricky morgan junior of florida. husband and morgan junior, they working as flight engineers.

it was contacted from canada base, sultan aviation, sending executives this weekend. crash investigators of not been able to claim why the for propeller plane crashed in a ball of fire in turbulent conditions. >> what we did find was the aircraft cockpit voice recorder and tail section of the aircraft, we also convinced the painstakingly meticulous mapping of the side takes, it is a wide debris field so we meet all those cases of debris. >> 33 people, and 1 billion animals have been killed in the fire that started 5 months ago. there are over 100 fires burning across the country right now, some of which were deliberately lit.

australian officials said the americans who arrived today, their relatives will be offered an opportunity to visit the hillside crash site as the investigation continues. >> what a sad story, thank you. a moose get stuck on live railroad tracks. coming up.

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news channel. and that's it for this hour of america's news headquarters, the news continues here in new york with eric sean and arthel neville, i'm jon scott, see you back at 6:00 p.m. eastern with special 2-hour edition of fox news. eric: president trump's legal team taking center stage on this saturday morning, launching its defense against the two articles of impeachment and historic senate trial, the president's attorneys argue this morning it is the democrats trying to interfere in the 2016 election by trying to erase results of that election in what they claim politically-motivated effort to remove the president from office, hello, everyone, welcome to america's news room, i'm eric sean. arthel: and i'm arthel neville, today the defense team refuted the house managers' case for

impeachment and accused democrats of trying to undermine the will of american voters. >> they're asking you to remove president trump from the ballot in an election that's in nine months, they're asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative, take that decision away from the american people and i don't think they spent one minute of their 21 hours talking to you about the consequences of that for our country. arthel: let's go to chad, live on capitol hill, chad, what would you say is the maintaining away from this morning? >> brevity, brevity is the word of the day. the president's defense team made a point that this was going

to be a shorter session, they weren't going to take quite as much time today and the idea of appealing to senators by talking less an contrasting that to the lengthy exhaustive speeches by the democratic house managers, that was certainly a tactic, again, i will read you a couple of quotes here from deputy white house counsel mike purpura, there's no evidence that president trump linked security assistance to any investigations, most democratic witnesses have never spoken to the president at all let alone about ukraine and security assistance, this was kind of an effort by the white house team to undercut the arguments by the house democratic impeachment managers and the witnesses, you remember those witnesses back in november and december, they were always saying that they never had direct custody of the information and a lot was interpretation, that's key, arthel. arthel: what was the early reaction from lawmakers by brief opening session today?

>> mark meadows, he's the republican congressman from north carolina, he immediately came out and said that the white house lawyers an -- i think a lt of people were moved to the fact that it was a lot shorters and republicans in south carolina said it was static that it was shorter, you had the republicans running to microphones, adam schiff and house managers running to microphones as well as chuck schumer, everybody is trying to put their own contour and spin on this, arthel, that's why they went to press gallery. arthel: the other big question is witnesses, is that going to materialize in any way next week? >> it will come to the math 51 votes dancing on a razer's edge, we will listen to democrat and

republican, republican kevin kramer of north dakota. >> my strong impression from the first two hours that the case for witnesses and documents has gotten even stronger and i hope my colleagues when we get to the end of this and the senate's questions will embrace the need that would be required in a trial even in the traffic decision of the richmond district court. >> open a whole can of warms, definitely. i'm strongly inclined to be against witnesses unless somebody else asked -- >> that's why everybody is, you know, very worried about going down the rabbit hole, are they willing to have witnesses, you could have a scenario where maybe the republican witnesses and not the democratic witnesses and if that's the case, the democrats will turn that back around on republicans running for reelection this fall in

swing states, those roll call votes coming later next week on witnesses will be key to 2020 elections, arthel. arthel: and you will be watching for us chad, thank you very much for that update. eric. eric: so, arthel, the president's defense team making its case this morning following 3 days of arguments by the democratic house managers, right now republican reaction for you, let's bring in first, former chief counsel to dianne feinstein, what stands out for you this morning? >> i'm glad that chad highlighted the portions that did, the part that stood out was purpura's argument that we had not heard from people who had spoken directly to president trump, we had basically hearing from mid-level in the administration, that really demonstrates the need to bring those people in who did speak

directly to president trump, that's mick mulvaney, john bolton, bring in witnesses who haven't appear before, when you have mid-level people, they are not going to be talk to the most parent, it's upper-level people, mick mulvaney, john bolton who did speak directly to donald trump and let's hear what he did have to say. eric: don't you think ambassador headphone calls with the president, he's the top person? >> he is -- he is a top person, certainly the secretary of state, national security adviser are above a specific ambassador, but ambassador sondland's testimony did support the house managers' case that all the president cares about is the investigation of the bidens and we heard that from a number of different angles. eric: let's listen to sound bites, first exactly what you just said about having direct evidence, then we will listen to

sondland, to what he testified to, let's go to first sound bite regarding the fact that there's no direct witness. >> most of the democrats' witnesses have never spoken to the president at all, let alone about ukraine security assistance. were told no connection between the two, when ambassador of the european union gordon sondland, the president i want nothing, i want nothing, i want no quid pro quo. >> that was my belief, that was my presumption, yeah. i presume that might have to get done in order to get the aid released. it was a presumption. i've been very clear when i was presuming and i was presuming on the aid, you know, guess work on

my part, speculation, i don't know. that was the problem, mr. goldman, no one told me the aid was tied to anything, i was presuming it was. eric: there's the argument from the republicans that there's no direct evidence, what do you think is going to happen, would the republicans, will four senators support and try to support witnesses? >> i actually think that mr. purpura's argument was helpful in building the witnesses, the republicans say more things they could further demonstrate, well, we need to have witnesses, we need to have evidence, you can't criticize the house managers for not having the evidence and then refuse to produce the evidence. >> what do you think will happen on monday? >> well, i think we will hear

arguments about process, a lot of assertions that -- that president trump didn't get his fair process in the house, attacks on the house manager, attacks on congressman schiff who have been their most effective advocate and i think it'll be a lot of talking about things other than what donald trump did with regard to ukraine. >> and finally, quickly, what are those things, hunter biden, we are told lawyers said that they're going to bring that up on monday, certainly raised that issue. >> well, you know, that wouldn't surprise me, i think they're looking for anything to distract from the actions of president trump himself. eric: thank you for joining us today. >> thank you, eric. eric: more reaction from the other side of the hill, senator,

your review as you at sat there this morning and what you heard? >> well, eric, now we are starting to hear the rest of the story and what we see coming out is, i think, evidence that undermine the democrat case and undermine congressman schiff's credibility, i think he lost credibility significantly this morning as the evidence was presented, so many things -- eric: how is that specifically, what do you mean by that? >> well, as you know, they first read from the transcript between president trump and the president of ukraine and then they played a video of adam schiff in congressional hearing in the house with his made-up fictional version of that phone call and as this was being played, you saw it in adam schiff's face as the blood drained from it, what people have been seeing from adam schiff was just false and then

the white house layed out other areas that had been left out, there are some videos that the house managers played 6, 7, 8 times, i wished they let them run a little longer because sometimes the next statement out of the witness' mind and mouth is one that just turns around completely what we had seen in that small clip played by the democrats. >> you just made a very important point, your view of adam schiff and the other senators and because viewers at home, because of this the senate which let me go on the record saying i think that's wrong, i think that it should be open to the press, we can't see the reaction of the senators, they don't show that to us, so when that clip of mr. schiff was being played, did you look around and did senator roll their eyes or eyebrows, what kind of reaction did you guys have? >> a lot of smiles on the republicans' side and democrats' side people making tight face,

it was the body language was so different, it was astonishing, i think at that point republicans thought, finally the president's case after months and months is finally starting to come out because we know the process in the house was not fair, only one in 3 americans think it was fair, that's why we come back monday and tuesday and hear more from the white house defense what we are going to hear, i think, is more about the flawed process, very flimsy case that the house is bringing. >> finally, mr. schiff responded and gave his review after the testimony, let me play you a sound bite of adam schiff and what he said after the hearing. >> this is the overarching argument, continue to maintain that the president did not nothing, this may be the most dangerous point they make because that means basically you can seek as president of the

united states to get a foreign nation and you can do it through any means you'd like. >> how do you respond, senator, to what schiff said? >> he's 100% partisan, he thinks the 2016 election was fixed and unfair and he thinks the 2020 election isn't going to be fair because he doesn't trust the american voters, he wants to be the judge, the jury and the executioner, he wants to take donald trump not just out of office but his name off of the ballot, i think trying to influence the upcoming election just as much as the last one and it's what we would expect from partisan process that was rushed, that basically was a political stunt and holding the articles for 33 days before sending them to the senate and that's what you get when you have a sloppy rush process that is 100% partisan.

>> senator john borrasso without any electronic device, just taking notes when the trial resumes, senator barrasso of wyoming. >> thank you. arthel: the death toll in the coronareviews outbreak in china hits 41 while the number of confirmed cases has risen to about 1400. this as the wall street journal reports, the state department is planning to evacuate americans from wuhan china, officials have confirmed a second case of the coronavirus as it spreads to 10 countries. but first latest from the illness of the u.s. from kristina coleman, he's on our west coast bureau. >> cdc is investigating as many

as 66 cases in 2 states and just yesterday deadly virus confirmed in chicago woman in her 60's as being hospitalized as she's treated for this illness, she returned from wuhan, china on january 13th, a few days later she called to report symptoms. earlier in the week a washington man in his 30's became the first person with confirmed case of this coronavirus in the u.s. in both cases the cdc health officials prepared for handling these cases. >> we identified the potential risk of this virus early and worked through all levels of the u.s. healthcare system especially with state and local health departments to start preparing, this is an essential part of cdc's function, we are working to prepare for expect

the unexpected and unimaginable. >> screenings for this illness are also taking place at san francisco international airport, lax, new york's jfk airport and heartfeld jackson in atlanta. trying to develop a vaccine for the strain of corona virus, arthel. arthel: christina coleman thank you very much for the update. eric: for more of the corona virus, european authorities are watching out for any potential spread, brian. >> the home to 11 million people remains epicenter of outbreak, over the last 24 hours the central government has sent in about 400 military doctors, they

are also building 2 make-shift hospitals in the city of wuhan, the first of which will be ready to go a week from monday, that's going to add and people reported turned away because they don't have the capacity in wuhan, the vast majorities of fatalities reported globally so far and approximately 1400 cases, they've all been in wuhan, a number that is up from 40 from a week and a half ago. meanwhile china has expanded lockdown to 16 cities surrounding wuhan with a combined population of more than 15 million, that's greater of the population of new york, london, paris and moscow combined and all trains and planes into and out of wuhan have been shut for 3 days, authorities closed tourist destinations, shanghai disney

and domestic and international travel has been halted immediately, the chinese new year, the year to have rat begins today, many of the countries 1.4 billion people are on the move, earlier today china's leader called spread of the virus a grave situation and international situation, the virus spread here to europe where 3 cases were announced yesterday in france, all 3 infected people in france came from wuhan, potentially good news, the chances of an epidemic in europe are extremely weak and one big question we have, eric, is we have seen this number of fatalityies, a number of infected people rise dramatically in the week and a half, is that because the virus is getting much worse or is it because the monitoring and reporting is just getting a lot better, that's something that we don't have the answer to, eric. >> it is comforting for us that

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♪ ♪ ♪ arthel: two workers killed and 20 others injured in predawn explosion at a houston warehouse, the building reduced to burning rubble and debris, the last earlier yesterday morning caused extensive damage to buildings and homes nearby, authorities say it also woke up frightened people from their sleep miles away. >> we were sleeping right there, she sleeps with me and like i said, when it boomed, whatever happened, the explosion, it

knocked the window in and the head board. >> i saw glasses everywhere, windows were chattered, my kids were crying and so we got up and looked at the wall and, yeah, separated from the wall itself. arthel: officials are trying to find out what exactly caused the blast. ♪ ♪ eric: with the first of the neighboring caucus and primary fast-approaching 2020 democratic presidential candidates are hitting the trial, vice president joe biden making campaign swing in new hampshire, they have to find creative ways to campaign because they are serving, of course, as jurors in the president's impeachment trial. jacqui heinrich where elizabeth warren will be later this afternoon, she had to jet off from the senate chamber and will be landing in iowa soon, have to squeeze the campaign spot in before the trial resumes on monday. hi, jackie.

>> hi, eric, certainly a lot of juggling the senators have to do, the four candidates confined to the senate chamber for the impeachment trial in washington, they're relying on surrogates to carry their messages, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is in iowa today canvassing for senator bernie sanders just 9 days out from the caucuses, last night she held a rally in iowa city talking about changing the system from affordable health care to green energy to abolishing ice and in an interesting move she actually didn't mention sanders' name even once during her speech and said focusing of values to have campaign, sanders got to ask for support himself, though, in a phone call from washington before aoc's speech. >> we are going to win in iowa, we will win the democratic nomination because we have what speaks to the needs of working families. >> senator elizabeth warren also

stuck in washington is relying on supporters, yesterday her campaign announced they received their 3 million grassroots donation and said they have over a thousand staffers across 31 states work to go grow her volunteer base, former vice president joe biden is not wasting stoplight making stops in iowa and new hampshire where he talked foreign policy mostly focused around dismantling trump doctrine, new ads in iowa touting his electable and potential matchup with president trump and touting his lead in the polls in early-voting states, eric. eric: may not be completely solid? >> yeah, new poll that just came out today and challenges those ads that the biden campaign put out, shows that he's actually lost first place spot here in iowa, that now goes to bernie sanders, he's -- biden is in third place behind sanders and

major pete buttigieg despite sanders' lead the same poll actually shows that 55% of people said they want a candidate who is more moderate than most democrats and just 38% said they want a more liberal candidate, now another thing happening tonight, the des moines register is going to be announcing who they are endorsing their editorial board and it's something to watch especially earlier this week split their endorsement for two female candidates senators elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar, eric. eric: thank you so much. arthel: we will get back to the top story, the other stop story of the day and that's the growing corona virus outbreak, officials confirming 41 people have died in china with cases confirmed at least 10 countries including right here in the u.s., dr. amy compton phillips, clinical officer and executive of providence st. joseph health, she's in charge of the hospital treating the first u.s. patient

with corona virus in washington state, very glad that you could take time out to speak to us because this is a question that many people, many questions that people want answered. first of all, how does the corona virus attack the body and how quickly does it work? >> well, the corona virus is very similar to cold viruses, the fact that it's relative virus and so it gets into the body through droplet transmission, sneezing, could having, touch it, other people get infected and so when you do get exposed to it the symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath and so so like we do with the flu we ask people to cover hands, use purell. arthel: so it is quite contagious if it's the flu then? >> well, we believe it's quite

contagious at this point although the jury is still out, it's a brand-new thing but all corona viruses are transmitted that way and so our assumption is at this point that's human to human mechanism of transmission. arthel: don't just -- not to scare anybody, just like the flu, if you do have the fever and symptoms that you just mentioned don't take those for granted. as we said earlier that you run the hospital providence health and seattle treating first u.s. patient with corona virus, how are you treating the patient and how is that patient doing? >> the treatment for corona virus is supportive, it's a virus so we can't use antibiotics to take care of the pneumonia-type symptoms that come in from the infection and so we have to make sure people are getting enough oxygen and that they are staying hydrated, so those kinds of supportive treatments and while we can't give health information for the

patient we are treating, we can say course has gone quite well. arthel: let me see if i got this right, you can or cannot treat with antibiotics? >> you cannot treat with antibiotics, antibiotics kill bacteriaial -- bacterila infections. >> sure, i understand that. since the ebola scare 5, 6 years ago, hospitals in the u.s. have gotten much, much better about being prepared for novel infections and so when the two patients that are confirmed already in the u.s., when they identified themselves and by the way that was just wonderful on their part to identify themselves of being at risk, when they identified themselves the hospitals were ready with the appropriate infection

prevention protocols so that when they came in they were immediately put in isolation so other people weren't at risk, they've been put in isolation facilities in the hospitals so it protects not only other patients but the healthcare workers themselves to really minimize any potential that this is spread from the people who got it in china directly to other people here in the u.s. arthel: but quickly, doctor, is there a way to contain this virus and what are the chances of more cases popping up here in the u.s.? >> well, i think the chances are still pretty high, as you heard earlier, 60-some odd patients at the moment tested and screened because before we knew about it, the people were coming back in from wuhan and so i think the potential is there that we will hear about more cases, the health authorities, the cdc,

state, local officials, individuals, workers and facilities have been focused on it, i think we are jumping on the prevention which is what we have to do. arthel: dr. compton phillips, thank you very much and we will be right back.

arthel: fox news confirms to investigate potential threats against former u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, president trump calling in 2018, in a tape obtained by abc news, the voice of what appears to be the president, quote, get rid of her, get her out tomorrow, i don't care, take her out, do it. just over a year later yavonovitch was formerly recall

ed. that reporting and also, john, congressman ingels have been raising questions about diligence of the state department to investigate threats against ambassador yavanovitch, are his concerns valid? >> something that the state department and other entities will look into, another question that obviously is being asked and rightly so is whether this changes in any way the dynamics of the impeachment trial that is going on and will continue to go on into next week, for that, arthel, the answer is no, this is obviously backing much of the narrative already seen out by the house impeachment managers; it's corroborating evidence more than anything else and to a certain extent it goes to what the white house has been saying all along about how the president felt about the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie

yovanovitch and the president has it within his right to have people serving in the ways that obviously make forward and put forward the best interest. arthel: here is a bit more from chairman inglel's statement, i want to know what the state department knew about it then and what actions have been taken, i will use all the tools at my disposal, where would this lead, john? >> powerful committee house of representatives, he can certainly subpoena documents, and you would think that the state department would comply with those subpoenas for documents but we've also seen as

this impeachment process has played, congressman, chairman engel on issue. arthel: i want to play sounds from president trump, he spoke with raymond arroyo on the alleged meeting mr. parnas? >> no, i have a lot of people, he's somebody i guess from pictures goes to fundraisers but i'm not a fan of the ambassador. >> you have a state department. >> well, i wouldn't have been saying that, i probably would have said rudy or somebody, but i make no bones about it, i want to have ambassadors, i have every right, i want ambassadors that are chosen by me, i have a right to hire and fire ambassadors. arthel: and that's something you

pointed out, let me play sound from chuck schumer from the alleged meeting between the president and parnas. >> thisthis is the despicable tt the president engages in. a woman who dedicated her life to this country and because she's standing for truth and won't let him break the law, he -- he is vicious to her. no president should be like that. arthel: john, i've got about 30 seconds with you, do you feel that this new information propping up will compel the president's defense lawyers to address this come monday and tuesday? >> i doubt very much, i think that the next time you're going to hear a mention of this idea of lev parnas audiotape or lev parnas once we get through arguments being put on by the president' defense team and the questions being asked by

senators and then it goes to witnesses and i've maintained all along, arthel, that i don't think we will see any witnesses on either side of this impeachment trial. arthel: all right, we have to leave it there, john decker, thank you very much. eric. eric: well, secretary of state mike pompeo and a long-time national security reporter with national public radio at odds over interview that got testy and pretty heated in a discussion that was after the tape was paused, this happened yesterday during a one-on-one with mr. pompeo, the host of npr, she asked about former ukraine ambassador marie y yovonovitch left after being at odds with the president. >> i built the great team. >> sir, respectfully, where have you defended marie yovanovitch. can you point me toward your

remarks where you defended yovanovitch? >> thank you. eric: moments asked ms. kelly to meet with pompeo privately. >> i was taken to the living room where he was waiting and where he shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself had lasted, he was not happy to have been questioned about ukraine, he asked, do you think americans care about ukraine, he used the f word in the sentence and many others, he asked if i could find ukraine on a map, i said, yes, he called out for his aides to bring him a map, i point today ukraine, he put the map away, he said people will hear about this. eric: pompeo disputes ms. kelly's accounts saying she was not able to identify the ukraine on the map and said she violated journalistic on and off the record standards, the statement says part, quote, npr reporter kelly lie today me twice, first last month and

setting up interview and then again yesterday and agreeing to have our post interview conversation off the record, it is shameful that this reporter shows to violate the basic rules of journalism and decency, but ms. kelly is saying that she never agreed to any part of the meeting being off the record and she says that she never would have. arthel. arthel: iran's foreign minister perhaps taking a softer tone saying tehran is still willing to negotiate with the u.s. despite the killing of its top generals, can relationships really improve, we will look at that coming a head. oral or nasal. rowithout the commission fees and account minimums. so, you can start investing wherever you are - even on the bus.

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to unauthorized access, changes were ordered to address those issues. eric: officials say they have retrieved bodies of 3 american firefighters who were killed when plane went down battling the brush fires in that country, australia has been grappling with the worst fire seasons in the nation's history blamed so far for at least 33 deaths, more with what we know about the 3 american firefighters who gave their lives, laura. >> hi, eric, all 3 men came from different areas of the united states to help australians in their massive fire fight, all 3 were military vet remembers and two of them had years of experience with this particular type of aircraft that went down, captain mcbeth of montana was a father of 3 and served in the iowa and montana air national guard, first officer hudson of arizona spent 2 years in the u.s. marine corps where he was a

c130, the father of 2 flight engineer rick of florida spent 18 years as flight engineer on the c130, the trio died when the water bombing plane crashed this week after dumping a load of water with additive in turbulent conditions, bodies were removed from the crash scene today, investigators found all important black boxes, voice and data recorders, they haven't been able to explain why the four-propeller plane fell. australian officials will offer to visit as the investigation continues. eric: where do things stand in terms of fighting the fires themselves? >> the things are still really bad, the fires have scorched 27 million acres of land, there are still over 100 entires burning across the country, new blazes being smackerred almost daily by extremely hot and windy

conditions and lighting strikes have been deliberately lit, hundreds of fire fighting aircrafts are being used to fight the fires with at least 3700 firefighters on the ground at any given time, authorities say this crash this week is an important reminder of just how dangerous the job at hand is. eric: they certainly are heros and our hearts go out to their families. >> absolutely. eric: fighting for the people of australia. arthel: reminds you that it is very sad, tragic and such a devastating, story, eric and i will be back in one hour, hopefully you can join us at 4:00 with more news you can earn more when you invest your cash. you can get a satisfaction guarantee.

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♪ ♪ >> we don't believe that they have come anywhere lose to meeting their burden for what they're asking you to do. in fact, we believe that when you hear the facts and that's what we intend to cover today, the facts, you will find that the president did absolutely nothing wrong. >> welcome to journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot, that was white house counsel pat cipollone previewing defense as impeachment trial comes to a close, trump's