bureau today. we appreciate it. >> it's a wrap. >> bye, everyone. >> sandra: president trump delivering his third state of the union address to a country sharply divided over impeachment. >> ed: president trump touting the great american comeback saying the state of our union is stronger than ever. tensions between the president and democrats on full display. the president appeared to snub and attempted handshake from speaker pelosi before the speak. republicans chanting four more years and applauding the president. democrats mostly remained seated. in a stunning scene the speaker actually tore up a copy of the

president's speech as it ended. >> sandra: divisions over impeachment flaring up over a final vote in the senate at 4:00 p.m. today. president trump's all but certain acquittal ignoring impeachment in the speech last night. >> president trump: three years ago we launched the great american comeback. tonight i stand before you to share the incredible results. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. [cheering and applause] >> president trump: we passed landmark criminal justice reform into law. everybody said that criminal justice reform couldn't be done. i got it done and the people in this room got it done. [applause] members of congress, we must never forget that the only

victories that matter in washington are victories that deliver for the american people. [applause] and my fellow americans, the best is yet to come. thank you, god bless you, and god bless america. thank you very much. >> sandra: what a night that was. in just a few moments we'll hear from counselor to the president kellyanne conway at the white house. but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> one leading house democrat says that president trump could have done a much better job of unifying the american people. >> it really depressed me. it was the most partisan state of the union i've seen or witnessed. i had hopes that somehow maybe i'm a dreamer, can't stop dreaming that he would come in and tried to pull us together.

issues we have to work on like lowering prescription drug prices. >> when you consider the overall political environment these days a key republican senators says he is impressed by what president trump did not say. >> here is the president of the united states still sitting under an open impeachment hearing in the united states senate and he didn't mention that once. i give him full credit for that. it took a lot of discipline. he is often criticized between not having a filter between his brain and mouth but last night he showed great discipline. >> president trump had a strong economic message to sell. democrats counter not everyone is benefiting from it. >> sandra: what about the huge day ahead on capitol hill with the vote happening on impeachment? >> vermont senator and presidential candidate bernie sanders insists this is not a happy day whatever your political views may be. >> if the senate does not vote to impeach trump, and i do not believe the senate will vote to

impeach trump, what it will set is a precedent for future presidents to the end of time and what that precedent is is that if you're president of the united states, you are above the law. >> while president trump is expected to be acquitted later today, some suggest the house impeachment managers had their moments last night. >> those house managers got their own role because she wanted them front and center to be staring at our president while he spoke. he didn't talk about impeachment. adam schiff, nadler, the others sitting there. all they did was dream about impeaching this president since the day he got elected. >> expect senators to continue their speeches on impeachment for much of the day. up and down votes expected in the 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. >> sandra: mike, thanks. >> ed: the long delayed iowa caucus results still delayed.

they're coming in drip by drip. the scoreboard now showing pete buttigieg holding a narrow lead over bernie sanders but no official winner yet. correspondent mike tobin is live in des moines, iowa, with more details. good morning, mike. >> late last night we saw the numbers of precincts move again up to 71% from 62%. when it comes down to the scorecard that counts. pete buttigieg the former south bend mayor holding the number one spot here in iowa. >> caucus results are coming in from the state of iowa. they aren't complete but results are in from a majority of precincts and they show our campaign in first place. [cheering and applause] >> buttigieg number one, bernie sanders number two when it comes to state delegate equivalents. break it down to the first and

final alignment, more or less it would amount to the popular vote you have senator bernie sanders doing better than buttigieg by a small margin. third place when you start talking about the state delegates, elizabeth warren. joe biden moved up to number four. caucuses that have been totaled thus far and amy klobuchar in the fifth place spot. the reason there were so many problems the iowa democratic party chair blamed it on a phone app that recorded the data well, it did not transmit that data well. it was backed up on paper. they're going through it the old-fashioned way and taking such a long time. 29% of the precincts left to go. >> sandra: a lot to take in there. let's bring in dan henninger from the "wall street journal." where do we begin? we have the results trickling in from iowa. your thoughts as we get a first look. >> we're trying to figure out who won iowa. i don't think we have to wait

for the results. it is clear to me that mike bloomberg won iowa. look, his candidacy is based on the idea that joe biden might fade. joe biden just faded in iowa. coming in fourth was pretty bad. i think the expectation he might make it to third. bottom line for most democrats. a divided party. the bottom line is they want to beat donald trump. the top two finishers buttigieg feel interesting young politician not quite ready to run for the presidency. bernie sanders a socialist is going to be a hard sell in a general election. i think a lot of democrats including the ones i talk to think mike bloomberg has got the money, the gravitas, willing to fight with trump. his numbers are going to rise smartly over the next month. >> sandra: when i say what a week. look back at the last 48 hours or so. talk about a divided party.

they are aoun united in wanting to beat the president. the iowa caucus fiasco, a blow to political legitimacy. have lessons been learned by what we saw happen there? >> i think so. the democrats for the better part of three years have been challenging the legitimacy of donald trump's presidency saying he stole the election. now an election they themselves were in control of we have to question the legitimacy of that. they couldn't run their own election. another footnote to that. a lot of democrats after the 2016 election which donald trump won through the electoral college said we should abolish the electoral college in favor of the popular vote. the problems we could have if a mass popular vote with states running their own systems rather than an electoral result state by state. >> sandra: final thoughts state of the union last night. >> i thought it was very strong

state of the union from start to finish, it was about substance and let's cut to the chase. the events at the end when nancy pelosi rips up the speech. we have to understand that for three years there have been two trumps. donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states and the trump of the democrats fantasies which is this kind of darth vader figure presiding over an evil empire and they still think that. that's why nancy pelosi simply dismissed him by ripping up a speech that was about policy from start to finish. and i think at some point the democrats especially their presidential candidates are going to have to start running against the president represented in that state of the union speech, not the president they have created and run against for the last three years, this darth vader-like figure. >> sandra: everybody is talking about the handshake snub by the president. we'll ask kellyanne conway if

the president intended to do that or didn't see it. there is the ripping up of the speech at the end. marc thiessen was pointing out the way nancy pelosi introduced the president. instead of saying it was her high privilege and distinct honor she introduced him as the president of the united states. so many moments emerging from last night. more reaction coming up on all that. dan henninger. you are writing your piece for tomorrow. what are you thinking? >> we'll have to talk about whether trump is darth vader or the 45th president of the united states. >> sandra: we'll watch for that. thank you. ed. >> ed: not a lot of love between the president and speaker as you just heard. fresh reaction from kellyanne conway to all the drama but the meat of the president's speech. >> sandra: senate holding a final vote on impeachment hours from now. guilty or not guilty.

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>> sandra: we're getting new reaction this morning to the president's state of the union address last night before a divided congress in the chamber where he was impeached back in december. kellyanne conway is counselor to the president joining us live from the white house now. good morning. what is the president saying this morning as he sees the reaction we're all seeing this morning to that speech? >> the president knows the reaction came from the american public last night. i saw cbs poll showing independents approved of his speech. it makes sense. independents by their nairt reject partisanship. the president was talking last night about the great american comeback. that includes people of all walks of life. i think it's very disappointing for people to literally watch democrats sitting on their hands. nancy pelosi shredding the memory of the mueller, shredding the airman, shredding

the -- people sitting on their hands when a crying man with cancer was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. how partisan the democratic party became. the armchair psychiatrist, shift their craft to nancy pelosi? what is the matter with her? she looked like she was reading the cheesecake factory menu all night going through every single page and then to -- she should either be censured or the same woman who led a resolution in the house to denounce a tweet last summer there ought to be a senate resolution denouncing her behavior last night. >> sandra: is that your feeling or the president's feeling this morning? >> you see where i am. i will tell you that's the feeling of many people who believe in the decorum of the united states congress.

sanctity of the state of the union. i've been here from day one. the fourth address to the nation the president delivered including the joint session back in 17. for four consecutive years the president has 90 to 120 minutes or so alone with the american people on their computer screens, in their living room and places of work and phones in the radio. over the radio. you know what he is doing? speaking to them unfiltered, uninterrupted and uninsulted by these people who criticize him all day long. it has worked for him every time because people get to hear what is happening in their country. they don't get the information. for the fourth year the content of the speech didn't leak ahead of time and i'm happy to say the guests have never leaked. those guests and first lady fox is a very fine process commanded with a small group of us. as you probably run everything around here. the guests have never leaked. >> sandra: i have a lot i want to get to. thanks for being here. but when you look at this two

big headlines that came out the book end moments of that speech last night you've already mentioned one of them, nancy pelosi tearing up the president's state of the union address. that was before her as she stood next to the vice president. the president had his back to her at the time. what did he say when he learned that was happening and that happened? >> that's typical her. we've seen it here again and again in the situation room, saw it in the cabinet room twice. saw it in another meeting. she has a temper tantrum and leaves. now the country saw it. there is no silly picture of her standing with the men around the cabinet. >> sandra: let me ask you about the moment. >> america saw a child ripping up a state of the union that is meant to be delivered to the people. >> sandra: there was a moment before the speech when the president walked into the room and he was greeted by the vice president and the house speaker. she extended her hand to the

president. he seemingly snubbed the handshake. he didn't shake the hand of the vice president. we didn't see his hand extended. was that purposeful on the part of the president? >> i'm not sure it was purposeful or if he even noticed her or her extended hand. who cares? she is one of the faces of impeachment. she wants to impeach the president on the articles. they made fools of themselves. in less than 48 hours. follow me. in less than 48 hours from monday at 9:00 p.m. when the caucus results were supposed to come in to wednesday at 4:00 p.m. this president would have hit the trifecta. the other party we have no idea who won the caucus. he delivers an unbelievable state of the union to the nation and the world that guests, the people's state of the union representing the best of american optimism and today he will be acquitted. donald trump will forever be acquitted. she is irrelevant. >> sandra: steny hoyer was

asked and pressed by reporter after nancy pelosi ripped up the speech last night and here is how he responded. i'll get your reaction. >> let's hope they didn't distract you from the lack of factual accuracy in the speech. the divisiveness of the speech and the blatant appeal to his base and very similar to his speeches in his rallies. >> sandra: the majority leader there he hopes that moment doesn't distract what they are saying are inaccuracies in the president's speech and taking on some of the things the president touted about the economy and all. two other things i want to get to. iowa. what is the results from the white house with the results? what do you see as the state of the 2020 race? >> i won't talk too much about that here. in iowa i think it tells you everything you need to know about the state of the democratic party. we have no idea who their nominee will be. we got a preview last night how the two conventions will operate. donald trump's convention will be the people's convention. democratic convention will be

what you saw last night. a four-day version of the nancy pelosi ripping up the 100-year-old airmen and mueller's memory. an anti-trump grievance fest? in philadelphia in 2016 it was a victimology. i want to push back on leader hoyer in this way. they're on the wrong side of the school choice scholarship. they're on the wrong side of elli born at 21 weeks 6 days. upset because they're on the wrong side of the tuskegee airman and reuniting a military family. they're on the wrong side of history and these issues that animate the american people. sandra, when you talk about how people feel 74% say they'll be financially better off next year according to the gallup poll where the president has a record high approval rating. >> sandra: there is a vote on his impeachment in the senate

this afternoon. likely acquitted. >> acquitted forever. >> sandra: great to have you on this morning. thank you. >> ed: the iowa democratic party facing more fallout for all that chaos. we'll dig deep on that next.

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>> ed: check the calendar. it's wednesday and we're waiting on all the results from monday's caucuses in iowa now. pete buttigieg leading with more than 70% of the precincts reporting. still waiting for more. we'll bring in the bureau chief of the des moines newspaper. npr quotes a computer scientist at the university of iowa, one of many experts warning for weeks they say why bring out an untested new technology when the whole nation is watching?

why did nobody listen to those warnings? >> that's going to be one of the questions that i think the state party is going to have to answer in the coming days and weeks as this thing gets more and more attention. i talked to a lot of precincts leaders, my colleagues and i did throughout the state. and heard a lot of frustration with the app. some people who didn't bother using it. some people who had trouble downloading it. and a lot of people who gave up on it and then that's when the phone lines got flooded. the lack -- it does seem like from talking to precinct leaders there was a lack of preparation in using this new app. >> ed: there will be investigations looking backward. let's look forward at the results. what are you hearing on the ground? the latest information for our viewers when we'll get 100% of the precincts reporting? >> there is not a lot new there. the state party hasn't given

any indication today of when we might expect more results. i think the general feeling is that we'll know by the end of today. there is no promise of that. as you just noted, we got the first 62% dumped yesterday afternoon. sometime last evening got bumped up to 71%. there has been no timeline given. we're all kind of in wait and see mode just like everybody else. >> ed: the longer it stretches out the closer we get to the new hampshire primary next tuesday. a lot of people in both parties wonder if any of the candidates can rely on the results or people will be looking beyond iowa. the last question looking forward. how does iowa keep its first in the nation status? quickly an editorial in the "boston globe" this morning that you would think the globe being close to new hampshire would say let's push out iowa and keep new hampshire. they say both should be knocked out. the country is changed. what's iowa's case for keeping first in the nation given these

problems? >> well iowa's case has always been you have to come here and do retail politics. you can't just throw up a bunch of ads and expect to win. you have to get out in front of the people and shake hands with them and look them in the eye and answer their questions. that will remain their case. now that said, there are expectations if you'll be the first state in the nation, you have to be able to execute that and perform in a certain way. the state party on the democrat side was not able to do that this time. there have been other troubles in the past. 2012 and the republicans announcing the wrong winner between romney and the caucuses. >> ed: an expectation if you're first in the nation. we'll get a results in a reasonable time. aaron murphy, appreciate your report from on the ground. thank you. >> sandra: the senate is about to meet ahead of today's final vote on impeachment. will any senator break party ranks? senator roy blunt joins us next.

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>> every single vote, even a single vote by a single member can change the course of history. it is said that a single man or woman of courage makes a majority. is there one among you who will

say enough? adam schiff there pleading for one republican to cross party lines as the senate prepares to vote on articles of impeachment this afternoon. it is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. eastern today. joining me now is senator roy blunt. good morning. good to have you. when you saw the cutaway shots last night of adam schiff and jerry nadler they didn't look too happy watching the state of the union. >> what they've done is they pursued something that was never going to work. defied all the advice anybody would be given not to go down a totally partisan impeachment line. from the day they had their vote in the house anybody who knew how this process worked knew that a partisan vote in the house would result in a partisan vote in the senate. it has all been political. there is a certain amount of politics in any impeachment

discussion but this has been totally political, timed in a way to actually have this vote today after the president's state of the union, after the election ballots have already started being cast. i think it's outrageous and frankly i don't think any senators are really paying much attention to what adam schiff and jerry nadler now believe is the best thing to do. >> ed: there is one republican senator wondering where he will go. mitt romney. when adam schiff was pleading for a republican to vote for conviction. romney is the only one undecided. what indications are you getting where he is? >> my discussions with other senators i really wouldn't want to talk about publicly. i would be more surprised if we don't get a democrat than i would be if we lose a republican. i think all the republicans understand that this was a partisan issue. some republicans thought we

needed to hear more witnesses, a couple did. no republicans thought more witnesses would change the outcome. the outcome has been certain for a long time. i think we'll have a democrat or two vote with us today just like several democrats two or three democrats voted on the house side not to impeach. the bipartisan vote on this up to now has been the vote not to do it. i think that likely is the bipartisan vote again today. >> ed: that was in the house. now in the senate looking forward to the vote today as you mentioned. how important is it for the president to get a joe manchin or doug jones in alabama a more conservative democrat to vote to acquit given that speaker pelosi set up this idea he'll be impeached forever. you get a bipartisan acquittal how important is that for this president? >> i'm sure the president would like to see that. frankly i think it's more important to both of them that they very seriously consider and vote to acquit because i guarantee the majority of people in west virginia and

alabama don't believe the president should be removed from office. i don't know how the president will be impacted. i think he is remarkably looking forward here. he didn't mention this last night. he started a nine-month conversation with the american people about who should be sworn in president 11 months from now. i think it will be him. >> ed: one of the republican swing votes susan collins yesterday revealed she will vote to acquit. here is what she told cbs news about why. watch? >> i believe that the president has learned from this case. the president has been impeached. that's a pretty big lesson. i'm voting to acquit because i do not believe that the behavior alleged reaches the high bar in the constitution for overturning an election and removing a duly elected president. >> ed: senator, are you

confident the president has learned a lesson because his critics are saying he didn't learn anything except maybe he got away with it and is now going to be emboldened. >> i don't think he feels like he got away with anything. he believes he was doing what was the right thing to do. the president has had a big learning experience over the last three years. people wanted somebody in that job who was going to come in and shake up washington he has done that. i think every single week he has learned how to use this system. how to work within the system better than he did the week before. mentioning the great results on judicial appointments. not just two supreme court appointments but changing the court of appeals level, federal judges. lifetime impact of his presidency. i think he has a much better sense of that and i think the president learns just like i do every single day. he has had a great three years. >> ed: last question. what is the specific lesson. if you say the president did

nothing wrong what lesson should he take from this? >> well, i think you should take the view here that a lot of people are watching. there is a legitimate congressional oversight responsibility. he has a legitimate responsibility to argue executive privilege on some of the advice he gets. on a lot of the advice he gets. i think you can't have gone through this and not realize that all of your actions can be misinterpreted by the other side who is looking eagerly as a way to misinterpret them. because of that be a little more thoughtful as you move forward. i thought he did a great job last night not getting bogged down in the impeachment discussion. i think he won't get bogged down in it over the next several months. >> ed: he was looking forward. we'll do that today as well. senate coming back into session this hour. watching the vote this afternoon. appreciate you coming in. >> welcome to the show by the way. >> sandra: we continue to welcome ed to the show.

thank you, senator. two more flights evacuating americans from the epicenter of the coronavirus virus in china landing at a california military base a short time ago we're told. there are now more than 24,000 cases of this illness worldwide including 11 here in the u.s. at least 490 people have died. william la jeunesse live from the naval air station in san diego where a third flight is expected to arrive soon. what are we learning on that? >> sandra, really these are rescue flights when you consider the military lockdown in china. as you said two flights arriving at travis air force base near sacramento in the last two hours. 350 u.s. citizens aboard who have been living and working in china. after refueling one of those planes will land at the marine corps air station in san diego in about two hours. evacuees will stay 14 days until the cdc is certain they

don't carry the coronavirus virus. no contact with the public or military. >> d.o.d. will only providing housing report and dhs will remain responsible for security of these individuals. they will not be in direct contact with the individuals or these individuals have access to the base facilities beyond the housing. >> here on the base they will be in 150 hotel-like rooms. the others besides travis and miramar. one in san diego and one in colorado springs. if anyone gets sick they will be taken to a local hospital. that happened on monday with a child from the march air force base showing symptoms. there is another part of this story. virtually all flights directly from china have been ceased. passengers are entering from non-direct flights and could carry the virus. they'll be directed to 11

airports. monday a traveler at lax was sent for quarantine after officials scrubbed their travel history and saw he had visited the affected area. >> dhs is looking at travel history to make sure they haven't been someplace they haven't disclosed. >> 11 confirmed cases here in the u.s. officials stress the risk is very low but that's one of the reasons they're being proactive. back to you. >> sandra: we'll watch that. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> ed: in the meantime president trump and the first lady honoring several guests at last night's state of the union including the widow and son of a soldier killed in iraq. they'll join us next hour to talk about their mission to help our military heroes. >> to kelly and gage. chris will live in our hearts forever. he is looking down on you now. thank you.

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>> ed: fox news alert. 28 people killed after two avalanches hit eastern turkey. rescue workers were responding to one when a second happened. several rescue workers were buried under the snow. some taken to the hospital after they either escaped or were pulled out. officials say they have recovered the bodies of 23 people so far. >> this is an effort to overturn the results of one election and to try to interfere in the coming election. the only appropriate result here is to acquit the president and to leave it to the voters to choose their president. >> you can't trust this president to do the right thing. not for one minute. not for one election. not for the sake of our country. you just can't. he will not change and you know

it. >> sandra: both sides of the impeachment battle making closing arguments yesterday. senate set to hold a final vote today with the verdict all but certain at this point. tom dupree, a former assistant attorney general under george w. bush. always great to have you. so everyone is trying to predict or forecast what the world looks like after this is all over. what does this mean for the precedent that is now set when it comes to the attempt to impeach the president? >> sandra, look. every impeachment in our history is a precedent for the next impeachment. there have been so few of them. as we've seen in the context of the current impeachment everyone was pointing back to what happened the last time around. i think that lesson that history will draw from this impeachment it can't be done on a partisan basis. this was a process in this case was birthed in partisanship. no surprise the vote in the senate this afternoon will likely be along partisan lines.

there will be bipartisan support for acquittal if anything. >> sandra: what impact does it have on presidential power? >> in the constitutional sense the answer is none. the president's constitutional powers are the same as they ever were. the lesson that historians or legal scholars might draw on b the impact on presidential power a president is free to exercise his constitutional authority in a muscular way. absent a bipartisan consensus that power has been abused he will remain in office. why the founders put the 2/3 requirement in the constitution. they wanted to make sure that a president couldn't be removed just by a bare majority. you need that constitutional 2/3 super majority. >> sandra: i asked with this headline this morning grabbing attention in the hill. trump's acquittal may have profound impact on presidential power. in the piece they write it may take years or decades to truly determine what kind of mark trump's trial leaves. historians and legal experts say an acquittal will lower the

bar for permissible presidential conduct and give the executive branch for power in the face of congressional oversight if it's based in part on the legal team's expansive view of presidential power. to that you say what, tom? >> i say we're not going to know the reasons why each senator voted the way that he or she did. in some cases they might say i don't think it rose to an abuse of power. again at the end of the day all we'll have is vote of acquittal. if and when another impeachment people might say this is the lesson we draw. it is not like a court decision where you'll get a single reasoned opinion. we will have 100 different rationales for why senators voted what they did? if we look for an overarching precedent you'll look a long time for that. >> sandra: the piece makes that very point. a lot of how history looks back at this will depend on whether

senate republicans tie their votes to the central argument of the president's defense team that he should be acquitted because impeachment articles must allege statutory crimes. that being said you expect any surprises this afternoon, tom? >> i don't think there will be any surprises on the republican side. i think there could be surprises at least to some people on the democratic side. that's what's fascinating to me. at the end of the day adam schiff and his team may not have persuaded any republicans but may end up losing democrats. manchin, sinmen and how the democrats come down on this issue. >> sandra: very many people are interested in seeing of the reaction of schiff and nadler watching the president the state of the union address last night. one of the big conversations this morning finally, tom, is that question of lessons learned. will there be any? final thoughts. >> my final thought the

democrats knew it would be a partisan enterprise. none of the presentation before the senate changed a single republican vote. that's a lesson you learned. if you go down the impeachment road you need to do it in a bipartisan way. that didn't happen here. >> sandra: always great to have you. >> thank you. >> ed: a touching moment during last night's state of the union putting school choice back in the headlines. that surprise announcement from the president and how the white house is using it to push its plan forward. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ everything your trip needs for everyone you love.

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>> ed: president trump last night touting his school choice plan during the state of the union while announcing a scholarship for a philadelphia fourth grader. correspondent doug mcelway has more.

>> the house sees support for school choice as a winning position in the 2020 elections. they believe the democrats are beholding to teachers unions and to the paralysis they believe is failing children who are stuck in decaying public schools. last night's state of the union address president trump singled out ms. davis and her mom. she is a fourth grader from philadelphia. lost her chance for a scholarship when the pennsylvania governor vetoed an expansion of that state's tax credit. gives tax credits to businesses and individuals who donate to scholarships for private and parochial schools. >> i have some good news for you because i am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over. i can proudly announce tonight that an opportunity scholarship has become available. it is going to you, and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice. [cheering and applause]

>> last night the president called on congress to give a million american kids the same opportunity as her urging them to pass the scholarship and opportunity act. republicans believe it forces public schools to compete and improve but see it as a way to lure african-american voters away from the democratic party. ron desantis. many believe he won the 2018 governor's race against andrew gillum because he support evidence school choice, gillum did not. 650,000 black women who voted in florida, 18% chose republican desantis based largely on school choice. what condoleezza rice called the civil rights issue of our time. that margin was enough to put desantis over the top in the tightly-contested race. >> ed: thank you. pretty remarkable that -- a

moment there where the president is helping a young girl get a scholarship. democrats didn't stand including the speaker because the teachers unions don't like school choice. you have to sometimes put politics aside. it is helping a kid. >> sandra: kyrsten sinema stood giving credit for the tax cuts. >> ed: they have their differences and setting up the president's reelection battle. >> sandra: fox news alert on capitol hill. moments away from a news conference with republican leaders ahead fd a final vote on the president's impeachment in the senate this afternoon. stay tuned. brand-new hour coming up. atch starting at $35. and up to $700 toward our best phones. the network more people rely on, gives you more. with our moving and storage solutions. pack what you want,

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>> ed: fox news alert. house republican leaders holding a news briefing now following their weekly meeting. house democrats also speaking later this hour. we'll monitor all that. this comes ahead of the impeachment vote this afternoon 4:00 p.m. eastern. first president trump delivering his third state of the union address followed by the democrats' rebuttal. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm ed henry. >> sandra: good to be back together this morning. a night of emotional moments. the president standing before congress and the nation in prime time making his case for a second term. the 78-minute speech president trump touted the strong economy and historically low unemployment and stressing how the middle class and blue collar workers are benefiting from his policies.

>> the word impeachment never came up ahead of his expected acquittal later today. he struck an optimistic tone about the future. >> president trump: this nation is our canvas and this country is our masterpiece. the american age, the american epic, the american adventure has only just begun. our spirit is still young. the sun is still rising. god's grace is still shining. >> sandra: let's bring in our a-team. brad blakeman, former defp tee assistant to george w. bush. richard fowler and james freeman from the editorial page of the "wall street journal." good morning to all of you. go around the table. thoughts on the state of the union last night. >> i thought it was effective. a forceful, compelling, patriotic speech as you saw there. i think a win as you mentioned. there are sometimes weird

comments on twitter. you didn't get any of that in the state of the union. focused and effective. >> ed: democrats seemed to think maybe nancy pelosi ripping up the speech took -- distracted away from the actual democratic rebuttal on policy. >> i sympathize with the argument. vintage donald trump. a campaign speech he was giving and a rally speech. uses similar flourishes with facts that are misleading. one was he talked about creating -- building all these factories. if you look into the numbers. i dug in this morning. there weren't 12,000 factories and things. for his base the speech worked. for the people who like donald trump the speech worked. if you didn't like him the speech didn't work. when you think about this nancy pelosi ripping up the speech moment which has been the focus of all of the media i think you miss where donald trump didn't shake her hand. there is bad blood between these two individuals. obvious on both sides. >> sandra: we don't know that

we asked the white house maybe he didn't see that. important to point out they did not say it was purposeful. could have been, though. >> the handshake if you look at it from every angle was not purposeful. the president delivered his remarks to the vice president and the speaker and he turned away. he didn't shake the vice president's hand and he didn't shake her hand. it was not purposeful. ripping up the speech was purposeful and premeditated. she knew what she was doing and when she introduced the president she didn't follow the proper protocol in the respect of the president. you guys are barking up the wrong tree. you need to get over the hate and his speech was not to the base. >> it was to the american people. a lot of the policies he prescribed are bills passed by the house. the house has passed -- excuse me. >> you talk about what he has done. >> house passed the prescription drugs bill.

house passed an infrastructure bill. sitting on mcconnell's desk. >> sandra: one thing absent and expected he didn't talk impeachment >> this maybe has something to do with ripping up the speech. this was an angry speaker pelosi. there was a democratic hope once they pinned that scarlet i word on him it would damage him politically. it looks like he is coming out of this stronger. i think you saw a confident maybe happy president trump last night and a disappointed speaker pelosi. >> you say pelosi's move was partisan. debbie dingell, here is what she said. >> it really depressed me. it was the most partisan state of the union i have seen or witnessed. i had hopes that somehow maybe i'm a dreamer, but can't stop dreaming that he would come in and tried to pull us together. issues that we have to work on

like lowering prescription drug prices. that chamber was not a chamber that was brought together last night. >> ed: respond to that. the president had an optimistic tone about the economy and future of america but also wasn't reaching out to democrats let's say. >> i heard it differently. i heard he was. >> ed: where? >> on infrastructure and healthcare. we have to have bipartisan support. you can deliver a house bill to the senate. it doesn't mean they'll pass it, richard. there has to be compromise which democrats aren't willing to do. >> ed: family leave. there were a lot of items free market conservative ideas. if you were a big government person looking for common ground there was a lot in that speech. >> i don't think it was a big government issue with family leave. that's an american issue. i appreciate the president for saying that. that being said there are parts of this speech and parts of the tone of the speech were very partisan. to say they weren't you were

listening to the wrong speech. >> sandra: critics say was it worth the distraction as steny hoyer called it to rip up the speech at the end? nancy pelosi was pressed on that by reporters as she left the chamber and here was her response why she did it. [applause] >> it was the courteous thing to do. >> she said it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative richard. >> i don't understand why she ripped up the speech. what i will say she has managed to take the news cycle from the president. nobody is talking about the speech. everybody is talking about nancy pelosi ripping it up. >> so it was a stunt. >> i don't work in the speaker's office or what she was thinking. she managed to take the news cycle from the president. with that being said i think the president had opportunity to bring americans together. the president had an opportunity if he was talking about healthcare to sit there and say i will protect --

protect previous conditions. in the course their white house is fighting against preconditions. it speaks to the facts this is not a bipartisan address. how could you say one thing and your white house is doing something else? >> because you talk to the president and he needs a global solution to the disastrous plan of obamacare. you guys don't want obamacare anymore. it was a way station for universal government control healthcare. it was a ruse all the time. >> don't be a moving target. >> a global solution to a national problem. >> the president was very clear on the fact that he would protect and do everything in his power to protect pre-existing conditions. in the courts his white house is currently fighting against pre-existing conditions. >> sandra: final thoughts. >> he is against the affordable care act. that doesn't mean you can't

achieve healthcare goals by some other vehicle. our corporate cousin summed it up, tore loser. >> sandra: okay. more on this now. ed's had it. all right. we have our a-team coming back in a moment. first 2020 democrats are still waiting for the final results. can you believe it from iowa? right now pete buttigieg on top 71% of the votes are in. bernie sanders a close second in the battle for state delegates. >> ed: they're shifting their focus to new hampshire. peter doocy is already getting ready for the big primary. good morning. >> good morning, ed and sandra. we caught up with joe biden in new hampshire for -- at first event since he is in a distant fourth place in iowa. >> any reaction to the iowa results, the partial results so far? >> let's wait until they're all

in. i feel good so far. >> biden also singled out bernie sanders last night making the case the senator from the state next door is inflexible supporting medicare for all because biden argues it could never get through congress. sanders is the leader in new hampshire now according to the real clear politics average of polls. sanders has to go back to d.c. again to vote against president trump's acquittal in the impeachment trial. something he admits is likely to happen anyway. before sanders left he flattered the locals. >> for some reason in iowa they're having a little bit of trouble counting votes. but i am confident that here in new hampshire i know they will be able to count your votes. >> the sanders team sees a silver lining in partial iowa results. lead with the popular vote. pete buttigieg is claiming victory with the most state delegate equivalents.

>> what we already know amounts to just a phenomenal victory for this campaign. the idea with the message of unity and boldness we could connect in rural, suburban and urban areas. for a campaign that i don't think was expected even to come this far. i remember a year ago starting this effort with four people. >> buttigieg is trying to harness any kind of momentum he could get out of iowa with those partial results. he campaigned until after 11:00 p.m. last night with more events in new hampshire than anybody else in the field. sandra and ed. >> peter doocy, thank you. >> sandra: the a-team is back. they took a deep breath. so your thoughts, brad as these results trickle in. >> the democrats want to run a country and they can't run a caucus. it was disgraceful that days afterwards we still don't have an accurate count as to who won. i quite frankly feel bad for

the democratic candidates because they spent $40 million. they were supposed to get the iowa ballots and tickets out of iowa. they were denied that. i think it's a terrible reflection on their party. >> ed: you can react to that, richard. james carville was on msnbc i believe it was talking about the future of the democratic party. listen to this. >> look at the british labor party. we're like talking about people voting from jail cells, all right? talking about not having a border. i mean, come on, people. every day people are out there struggling. >> ed: this is a guy who said to bill clinton it's about the economy stupid and they win. now he is saying you have candidates who don't even want a border. is your party listening? >> our party is listening and you see it. i think brad is right. definite missteps in iowa that made it hard for some of our candidates. if you look at the race where we sit today pete buttigieg

likely the winner of the iowa caucus, bernie sanders a close second. pete buttigieg speaks to the moderateness of our party. solutions in the center. this race is still very early. both iowa and new hampshire are older and whiter states. south carolina and nevada becomes real and super tuesday more real. biden camp is what they're looking to. for the bernie camp and mayor pete camp they'll have trouble. can they build a coalition. black folks, white college educated folks, white folks and young people. >> your buttigieg example is exactly what carville is trying to say. buttigieg is the relative moderate in the race and yet he is for $5 trillion in tax increases, get rid of the electoral college. restructure the supreme court to get the political outcomes he wants. the success of bernie sanders and what has people like

carville so upset. sanders has shoved that party to the left whether or not he ends up winning. we keep getting these partial results out of iowa. compounding the errors they made on monday. >> ed: will we get the results by tuesday when new hampshire votes? at what point do the iowa results don't matter anymore? >> i don't think they matter. i don't. with new hampshire coming up and nevada caucus. that will be interesting. how is the nevada caucus work? what system will they use? of course, you move into super tuesday. unfortunately iowa will be a distant memory and the only guy who got a pass on this thing is joe biden. joe biden otherwise this would have been huge news to come in fourth or fifth moving into new hampshire where he won't do well. >> sandra: "the new york times" made that point. >> the joe biden campaign has a lot of work today. as a party is iowa the right first state to go to. a caucus the right thing to do?

as the party goes into the next presidential cycle after this one they'll think are we sure we want iowa to be first? >> sandra: "boston globe" is making that point. new hampshire and iowa should not vote first. some things must die. >> media commentary. iowa is too old and too white. doesn't represent america. iowa is younger and more diverse than the five leaders in your democratic slate right now. the median age out of the top 5 is 70. you don't see a lot of diversity among that. >> when you look how our party votes and how the candidates look you see a party that's very much representation of americans. lgbtq folks and african-americans, latin americans make up our party. if we'll be a primary and the big 10 party we have to go to a state where all the votes are

represented. can't be third and fourth state before you get from time to time voters. >> this is a harbinger of things to come in the national election. when you make voting so onerous and unpredictable. voting weeks before a national election. this is a prescription for disaster. go back to a simple, stupid system that everybody understands and it's fair to everyone. >> i agree with that. all the stipulations we've seen happen in places like georgia and florida, voter i.d. laws or laws that say voter purge. get rid of that to make voting as easy as possible. >> voter i.d. is important. >> make voting a holiday. >> it is a national holiday for presidential elections. >> , no it isn't. >> to think you have to build a custom app. >> there was not an app for

that. >> we could work together voting a holiday across the nation. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: one of the american children evacuated from the province in china at the center of the coronavirus now in the hospital after developing a fever. the latest on that next. >> sandra: plus mike bloomberg doubling his campaign spending after the chaos in iowa this week. can he take advantage of all of that in the hawkeye state? money man charles payne will be here to break down those numbers and more. >> i'm the untrump. think about it. he breaks promises, i keep them. he divides people, i unite them. >> man: what's my safelite story?

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>> sandra: fox news alert on the coronavirus. one of the children under quaranty at a carolina air base has been hospitalized after developing a fever. one of the people evacuated from china at the center of the epidemic. >> ed: a cruise ship is under a two-week quaranty in japan after 10 people tested positive for the disease on board. >> sandra: researchers are tracking the spread of the virus at home which may be here to stay with seasonal outbreaks.

dr. marc siegel. professor of medicine and fox news contributor. good morning to you. ed and i have traveled a lot over the past week. did you see a lot of facemasks? yes, all over the airports, transportation centers everywhere. people are wearing them here at home. is that necessary? >> , no it is treating the fear of the coronavirus. when you wear one you are sending a message that the coronavirus may be around you. i don't like it. now, you could conceivably wear a mask to restrict the spread of flu over 20 million cases alone. people don't always wear the masks properly. i'm in favor of wearing them on planes by the way. i think a lot of coughing and sneezing goes on on planes. i like it in general. i don't want to signal coronavirus when we only have 11 cases. >> ed: a commissioner of the food and drug administration before. if the virus is silently spreading through people and

only a fraction develop pneumonia it might take dozens of infections to notice an outbreak and by that time an epidemic will be hard to prevent. square that in terms of the concerns he is raising. >> very great point, ed. the issue is there may be some low level infections which would point that maybe the death rate is even lower than we think. this might actually have a mild component to it. many people getting it we don't know about. i think that was true in china. i think in china there is not just 25,000 cases. i think there is probably 50, 70,000 cases. what dr. gotlieb is suggesting is that if the virus takes root in other countries and starts to spread among people in other countries, we have what we call a pandemic. i think we're heading in that direction. we're heading in that direction but i also think that we should tell our viewers something that no one has said on tv before which is that these viruses the end to stop around spring and

summer. so we're likely to see this outbreak stop and then could come back in the fall. i don't want everyone to think it will go on and on into the summer. probably not. >> sandra: we'll continue monitoring that situation. meanwhile another cancer diagnosis from a name that so many people have come to know over the last couple of decades, shannon dority, an actress on 90210. she battled breast cancer and now announced she has stage 4 breast cancer. here she is. >> it is going to come out in a matter of days or a week that i have stage 4. so my cancer came back and that's why i'm here. >> sandra: she decided to go public after keeping it to herself for some time. >> there is 27% five year survival rate for stage 4. what does that mean? usually means it spread to the liver or bones or lungs, brain. that's where it goes.

she probably is still getting treatment. we don't know what kind she has. we don't know if it's hormone receptor positive or the exact kind she has. one thing for sure she is sending a message to cancer survivors everywhere. stay at work. she did a reboot of 90210. don't give up. keep going. another message that's extremely important and we have a breast radiologist that works with me here at fox. get screened. start at 40. no matter who you are or what your family history, get screened. >> ed: message of strength about rush limbaugh as well and what a moment it was in the state of the union with stage 4 lung cancer battling it. so many people praying tore rush limbaugh. >> he maybe has immunotherapy as an option. something we started to use for stage 4 lung cancer. >> appreciate you coming in. >> ed: it was a night of surprises and strong emotions at the state of the union.

first lady melania trump presenting rush limbaugh with the nation's highest civilian honor. >> sandra: how this woman is turning her loss to help others who have served our nation. kelli hake is our headliner this morning. she and her son will join us next. >> president trump: sergeant haik now rests in eternal glory in arlington and his wife, kelli, is in the gallery tonight, a 13-year-old son and doing very, very well. any comments doug? yeah. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. con liberty mutual solo pagas lo que necesitas. only pay for what you need... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ eh, not enough fiber- chocolate would be good- snacking should be sweet and simple.

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>> president trump: on easter sunday of 2008 chris was out on patrol in baghdad when his bradley fighting vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. that night he made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. to kelli and gage, chris will live in our hearts forever. he is looking down on you now. thank you. [applause] >> sandra: what a moment that was last night. president trump in one of the most emotional moments from his state of the union address telling the nation about staff sergeant christopher haik killed during his second tour of duty in iraq. >> ed: his wife and young son

were special guests. the roadside bomb that killed staff sergeant hake by solomony who was killed recently. >> sandra: welcome to you both. what a special moment that was last night. how did it feel for you? >> amazing. an honor to be there. >> ed: gage, you had private time with the vice president. you're in seventh grade in oklahoma. you told the vice president a little bit about what you want to be when you grow up. >> yes, i want to be in secret service maybe. >> ed: why? >> maybe just to make my dad proud that i'll be maybe i'll get to be in service like he was. >> ed: he certainly was and we're proud of him. >> sandra: tell us about your husband. >> yes. he was the most caring, amazing

father and husband you can imagine. i like to call him the kind hearted comedian because he would make anyone laugh or smile. you could be having the worst day in the whole world and he could make you smile or brighten your day no matter what. he was an amazing man. >> ed: we mentioned the terrorist -- the vehicle was hit by a device. moving forward you're going after some of the banks that helped the iranians that fund the terror. >> we need help with congress and the department of justice to have our backs in helping -- we have an appeal right now and we need them to help us to talk to the courts and have our backs and push this forward and

to show that have the courts interpret the terror law and how it should be. >> ed: go after the money that was laundered. >> right. right now it's not being interpr*eted the way i believe it should have been. we definitely need some help from congress and the department of justice. if we can have anyone to help the more the better. and it will help thousands of gold star families and veterans. >> sandra: thank you for what you are doing and for your family's service. you have a piece on the hill. surviving family members and victims of terrorist attacks now need both congress and the justice department on how courts to interpret the terrorism act to insure the people who helped maple thousands of america face accountability for what they've done. we saw the emotional moment at the state of the union last night. there was a moment as i mom i

watched that so special and your son consoled you. gabe, that was a special moment. i hear you took a ride in the motorcade. how is that? >> it was breathtaking. i really don't know how to describe it. it's just awesome to get to do something that not everyone else gets to do. >> ed: kelli, the president talked about how your late husband said he wanted to be there for your son, all the special moments he is missing. when you look at this strong young man it must bring you a lot of pride to see how he is growing up. >> it does. chris would be proud of the man that gabe is becoming and i know that he is looking down at gage and knows he is a strong, kind hearted young man that is growing up to be the best man he can be. i'm so proud of him. >> sandra: why do you feel you

want to take on this new effort, this mission? >> i feel like if i can have a voice to do anything for the american soldiers that have been hurt or the families of other soldiers that have been killed, then someone needs to talk. someone needs to tell everybody we need help and other people's help with our lawsuit and everything. if i can be the one to talk then i definitely want to do it. >> sandra: good for you. >> ed: when we visit the white house in a few years we might see a young man with a badge protecting the president of the united states. how cool would that be? >> that would be awesome. >> the president said if it comes round give him a call. >> ed: you have some high-level connections now. >> sandra: what do the kids think at school when they saw you at the state of the union address? >> we haven't had a chance to talk to anybody or anything yet. >> ed: gage and kelli we honor

your husband's and father's legacy and you are keeping his memory alive about wanting to serve our country like he so bravely did. thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> sandra: for a look at some of the other significant moments from that state of the union address last night. >> president trump: i have good news for you. i am pleased to inform you that your long wait is over. i can proudly announce tonight that an opportunity scholarship has become available, is going to you, and you will soon be heading to the school of your choice. [cheering and applause] tonight we have a very special surprise. i am thrilled to inform you that your husband is back from deployment. he is here with us tonight, and we couldn't keep him waiting any longer. [cheering and applause] i am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our

country's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. >> ed: the power of that moment with rush limbaugh. the soldier who came home. wife and kids didn't know he was coming home. >> sandra: amazing moment. >> ed: you see limbaugh there and the family not knowing until that very moment. >> sandra: that was just an amazing moment last night. what an honor it was to talk to kelli and her son gage now. that moment got me last night. they are incredible people and really living out -- >> ed: gage was nervous beforehand. i can't believe i'll talk to this many people. you saw how brave and composed he was. >> sandra: he has a very bright future. >> ed: mike bloomberg digging deeper shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars as he orders his campaign to double -- that's right, double his tv

ad spending after iowa. >> sandra: president trump offering a strong economic message in the message last night. charles payne has brand-new reaction to that next. >> president trump: after decades of flat and falling incomes, wages are rising fast and wonderfully. this is a blue-collar boom. [applause] i have huge money saving news for veterans. mortgage rates just dropped to near 50-year lows. one call to newday usa can save you $2,000 every year.

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is relentlessly pro-worker, pro-family, pro-growth and most of all pro-american. [applause] we're advancing with unbridled optimism and lifting our citizens of every race, color, religion and creed very, very high. since my election we have created 7 million new jobs. >> sandra: that was president trump last night taking credit for economic accomplishments over the past several years. charles payne with the making money on the fox business network joining us now. so he took a victory lap on the economy last for sure. >> and if his speech was tonight he would have added today the adp said 291,000 jobs were created last night. we found that refinancings were up 183% from a year ago. today we found out that gallup poll came out and they asked americans are they better off than a year ago? it came out at a record high.

that's if the speech was tonight. since last night this is the news we've gotten. >> the governor of michigan gave the democratic response and not as excited as you. >> doesn't matter what the president says about the stock market. what matters is that millions of people struggle to get by. american workers are hurting. in my own state our neighbors in wisconsin and ohio, pennsylvania and all over the country. wages have stagnated while ceo pay has skyrocketed. >> ed: particularly that point about wages stagnating. that's not really true based on the data. >> that's an old speech. you took out the democrat speech book. you can say the opposition playbook, right? that's a speech that the party not in power gives all the time. there is a lot of truth to it. over the last 20 years blue collar wages have gone down considerably and this isn't even adjusting for inflation. they've just gone down. those things have turned around in the last two years.

i look real good at the nuances. they came out with earnings last night. everything was up. transactions, average costs, group one auto have automobile dealersships in 30 states. sales through the roof for new cars and used cars. if you look at the surveys, whether it's a gallup poll or consumer confidence stuff we got late last week or the actual data from corporate america who has businesses on the ground, it speaks to a nation that is certainly on the rise. >> sandra: mike bloomberg spending a lot of money on the 2020 race. $300 million since getting in the race in november. >> wow. after iowa, there are a lot of people thinking about jumping in this bad boy. i have a shot. >> ed: he is saying he will double his ad spending. >> the wheels are coming off. he had a sort of gentlemen's agreement with biden.

he saw biden was getting wobbly so entered anyway. biden one thing we know from iowa that's clear, two things. it was unmitigated disaster for the democratic party but more so for biden who at some point who was number one in the polls there, a couple months ago. bloomberg is smelling something here. i can buy my way into this bad boy because it's a rudderless ship. if you add sanders and warren well over 40% there. maybe sanders wins new hampshire. it will be hard to beat out the socialist part of the democratic wing. >> ed: as you say, if you consolidated that support there is a lot more on the left than in the so-called moderate. >> they're more energized as well. the argument over who can beat trump might be central when a democratic convention happens. right now it's looking like unmitigated disaster. that commercial bloomberg made spent $11 million on the super bowl. if you have $2 million it would

have been equivalent to $300. that's how rich he is. an extra $300 million ain't much. >> sandra: a gain on the dow this morning. is that all the jobs report? >> we had the jobs report and this thing called -- an economic report on the service side of the economy that came out better than expected. a big part ofist is the state of the union address. >> sandra: a few more big days for the dow you're looking at 30,000. is that coming? >> people keep tweeting me. if we have a big jobs number on friday the official government number, i think we can see 30,000 in the next week. >> sandra: oh, charles payne optimistic. >> ed: a legal battle heating up between ancestry.com and law enforcement as police want to get to the database. why the case could go all the way to the supreme court. that's next.

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>> sandra: we're watching other stories for you this morning including new surveillance video showing the stepmother of a missing 11-year-old colorado boy leaving the house with him on the day he disappeared. she is then seen returning home alone hours later without him. police say she told them her stepson left home last week to play with one of his friends and never came back. >> ed: macy's set to close 125 stores in the next three years and slash 2,000 corporate jobs in cincinnati, san francisco. the department store chain saying it is stuck in a sales slump and even with those cuts future growth looks weak. >> sandra: the westminster kennel club set to introduce a new breed ahead of the 144th

annual dog show next week. the new edition is a short-haired hunter that once traveled with africa's desert nomads. >> ed: ancestry.com refusing to open up its database. police are tracking suspects through the use of family dna. the company vowed to keep the genetic data of customers safe. david bruno, a criminal defense attorney. >> not the court, it's law enforcement generally speaking. they have a job to do, right? i'm a former homicide prosecutor myself. sometimes we develop dna profiles at crime scenes and no suspects. i think what law enforcement is trying to do is get into the ancestry database because they have the dna profiles from individuals trying to put family trees together. in this particular case, it is a case where there was a search

warrant for information. ancestry published this transparency report from 2019 that said that we did not provide the data. so they say no, even with the search warrant it is defying a court order if they want to go that way and why it would go up the chain all the way up to the supreme court one day. >> sandra: what's the biggest hurdle for police here? >> the biggest hurdle is the fourth amendment of the united states constitution provides against unreasonable searches and seizures. with that means is when there is an expectation of privacy like this database, police would have to get a search warrant. when you get a search warrant you need to have probable cause a crime has been committed and there is evidence in a particular place. that's where i think the biggest hurdle would be. for law enforcement to say we have probable cause that the dna profile that matches is in the database, other than that it is a fishing expedition and they would be able to get warrants. >> sandra: a major resource

considering this holds 16 million dna profiles. >> absolutely. major resource. there is a law enforcement database where law enforcement proper actively gets dna profiles for convicted felons, in that case that's why they get the profiles. not for family trees and ancestry. it's why there should be a stopgap by courts and judges to say if you don't have specific probable cause this dna profile is in the database there shouldn't be a warrant. >> ed: might it go to the supreme court? >> there is no track right now. this pennsylvania case did not lead to any appeals but i think ultimately it will. i think this issue front and center should be in the supreme court also cell phones. we hear about the terrorists in florida where apple is refusing to comply with law enforcement track. >> ed: same with san bernardino. >> you go on and on. ultimately we'll have to get an

answer to these dna databases and whether or not track phones. >> sandra: the search for the genetic profiles that partially match dna from crime scenes and they build the family tree from the relatives to find the suspect. could be a major resource. those companies want to protect the privacy. >> we should all have expectation of privacy when we deliver our dna to this company that it won't be used. >> ed: thanks. >> sandra: impeachment trial expected to end in acquittal today with a final vote at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. will senators from either side of the aisle break ranks? house minority whip steve scalise will be joining us live next. we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. i'm good at my condo well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

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newday usa can help you refinance your mortgage and save thousands a year. i urge you to call newday usa now. >> ed: fox news alert. if you fallout from the caucus chaos 24 hours later there is still no official winner in iowa at this hour. welcome back to "america's newsroom," i'm ed henry. >> sandra: great to be back in new york. i'm sandra smith. partial results were released after a long delay showing pete buttigieg holding a narrow lead over bernie sanders iowa's democratic party coming under fire for the voting disaster facing questions now about whether it should keep its lead-off spot in the presidential contest. mike tobin is live in des moines this morning with more. mike. >> hello. the chairman of the democratic national committee says what happened in iowa should never happen again. meantime all of the campaigns

have moved on to new hampshire as the numbers slowly roll in here to iowa. last night we jumped up to 71% of the precincts counted. the score of that count the state's delegate equivalent. buttigieg has a narrow lead over sanders. warren in third place. >> these are hard times for our country. the question is though what are we going to do? we can be discouraged. but you're here. and the way i see it is i look at where we are. we've done iowa, we have new hampshire in just a week. are we ready to do new hampshire? [cheering and applause] >> the problem with the caucus tally is blamed own a new phone app where it recorded results fine by malfunctioned transmitting the data. it is backed up on paper. the result will be slow but accurate. >> the reporting of the results and circumstances surrounding

the 2020 iowa democratic party caucuses were unacceptable. as chair of the party, i apologize deeply for this. >> troy price says every four years the nation has a conversation about iowa's first in the nation status. no doubt he says it will happen again. indeed it is. back to you. >> sandra: mike tobin on the ground in iowa. >> ed: more now with matt whitaker former attorney acting general who hails from iowa. >> proud iowan. >> ed: still proud this morning days later? >> what you saw is actually the tale of two parties. the democrats had all sorts of problems. the republicans. i was there and the president trump's reelection campaign was a well organized machine and republican party of iowa reported the results for the biggest turnout for a reelect ever. it was really a tale of two parties and it's a shame the democrat party of iowa couldn't

do something they've been doing since 1976 when jimmy carter won the caucuses. just get the votes to the headquarters and count them. >> ed: no argument there is chaos and more chaos for iowa democrats. there was chaos for republicans in 2012 when mitt romney was initially declared the winner in iowa and counting hang on, it was rick santorum. >> i think the vote was close. 7 or 14 votes difference. i see the same thing playing out here. we keep holding at 62% and somehow buttigieg has this advantage in the delegate equivalent but bernie is leading the popular vote. it will be interesting when the dust settles to see who actually wins iowa. >> ed: you are a proud iowan. proud supporter of the president. you talked about being on the ground. he had an incredible turnout for an incumbent. setting records in all the rest. but i wanted to have you on to

talk about the investigative aspect of this. one thing to figure out the results and we're waiting for that. you as a former acting attorney general of the united states, what kind of investigations may there be? there have been supporters of bernie sanders saying wait a second, we think there is some funny business going on here. it is leading to conspiracy theories. will there be an investigation to find out if there was something nefarious? >> iowa caucus is a party function. the secretary of state doesn't run the election. both parties are in charge of tabulating the results. the key is full transparency. each of the candidates -- i was down in centreville on monday night and i saw a very strong buttigieg turnout. so it's hard to tell depending where you are looking at this state who was the most popular candidate. in some of the college towns bernie sanders was more popular. but that being said, i think

fundamentally since they have the paper back-ups it is going to be -- there will be full transparency and we'll know the exact tally on all three. listen, the fundamental issue is the democrat party of iowa made this too complicated. it is not that hard. 1600 caucus sites. to collect those, have people call in the results and tabulate them. something that has happened since 1976. >> ed: we had dan henninger on earlier and told sandra maybe the winner of all this may not actually be the folks who were caucusing that day, it might be michael bloomberg. watch. >> it's pretty clear to me that mike bloomberg won iowa. look, his candidacy is based on the idea that joe biden might fade. joe biden just faded in iowa. mike bloomberg has the money, the gravitas, he is willing to fit with trump. i think his numbers will rise very smartly over the next month. >> ed: react to that and the idea we've spent so much time

saying how would joe biden do head-to-head with president trump? he may come in fourth here or worse in iowa and he is having trouble in new hampshire. talk about the state of the race. >> really, the demise of the iowa caucuses on the democrat side will be mike bloomberg. if you can show you can spend enough money, millions if not a billion to get the nomination the iowa caucuses in new hampshire, south carolina and nevada are irrelevant. it's all about the big states super tuesday and beyond. the state of the race is very interesting. i know this president is not afraid of any of these folks in a head-to-head match-up. joe biden has had challenges. he has been in iowa since the 90s running for president. to get fourth in iowa caucuses demonstrates that he is not the preference of the democrat party and where they stand today. warren and sanders and the liberal wing, it's their turn. their backers are enthusiastic and i expect one of those two will be the nominee.

>> ed: when you say the democrat is not afraid, why the tweeting about mike bloomberg and the money he is spending? is the campaign concerned that if bloomberg does emerge after super tuesday as either the frontrunner or leading contender, higher up in the polls than he is now, that he could be formidable with that war chest? >> i just heard yesterday or the day before mike bloomberg saying the president is formidable and has a large pile of cash. bloomberg when he is not the nominee he might as well put his millions if not billions of dollars in a fireplace and burned it. the american people do not want what he is selling. may be effective sometimes as the mayor of new york following rudy giuliani's policies, i think ultimately he is having to step away from all the things that made him successful. mike bloomberg, the president i was with him last thursday and i just think he is excited

about a general election where he can demonstrate what he has accomplished for the american people and lay out another four years of what he can accomplish. >> ed: he had that stage last night and laid out the accomplishments. last point on iowa's first in the nation status. you mentioned this. one of the deans among the reporters there on the ground in iowa had interesting tweets. had a good time. as i told john and amy from pbs this will probably be the last caucus we have to worry about. after the gop fiasco of 2012 iowa probably should not even try. here you have the dean of the media establishment in iowa admitting this may be done. what say you as a proud iowan? >> i will take the contrary to that. i think the iowa caucuses will be back in 2024. there is no better way to start this process. iowans are very engaged as you

know in kicking the tires on all the candidates and finding out who is presidential timber and i think there is -- once the parties go back to the drawing board and figure this out and the democrat party in iowa figures out how to count votes i really think at the end of the day the iowa caucuses will be back in 2024 and be successful. >> ed: all right. optimistic view of what might be ahead. meantime matt we're still waiting for the results from the iowa democratic party. we have most but not all of them. appreciate you coming in. >> sandra: president trump mean while delivering his first state of the union address last night republicans chanting four more years. the tension with democrats was on full display especially between the president and speaker of the house nancy pelosi. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. reaction still coming in this morning. mike, good morning. >> good morning. leading republicans say president trump delivered a phenomenal state of the union address. >> i could have been no more

proud of my president when he got up and fwaukd accomplishments and the american people and the blue collar worker that is watching this show and going to work. more worried about their jobs, kids, ballgames tonight than they are about the petty politics of nancy pelosi and adam schiff and the rest of them. >> on the other side democrats say the president delivering the state of the union did not receive rave reviews from top democrats. >> it was demagog, undignified. highly partisan and in too many places just untruthful. instead of a dignified president, we had some combination of a pep rally leader, reality show host and carnival barker. it's not what presidents are. >> today senators are giving 10-minute speeches laying out their views for each lawmaker on impeachment.

>> that individual, that president betraying the trust of the american people undermining the strength of our constitution, that president must be removed from office. >> republicans keep insisting this is all pure politics by democrats. >> impeachment is a profoundly serious matter that must be handled as such. it cannot become a hail mary pass of a party to remove a president. effectively nullifying and election and interfering in the next. >> speeches continue for five more hours and the critical up or down votes on impeachment in the 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching all of it. mike emanuel on the hill for us, thank you. >> ed: still no winner in the iowa caucuses as we await the final results to come in at some point today. pete buttigieg and bernie sanders leading the pack at this hour. what it means as the candidates hit new hampshire.

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>> ed: fox news alert. breaking news from doug jones the democratic senator from alabama. he had been seen as a swing vote here who might vote to acquit president trump but instead he is now saying he will vote to convict on both articles of impeachment.

put out a statement a few moments ago. we expect him to deliver a speech on the senate floor in about 10 minutes or so among other things he says with the eyes of history upon us he stays in a statement i'm acutely aware of the precedents this trial will set for future presidency. i'm particularly concerned we have now set a precedent that a fair trial in the senate does not include witnesses and documentary evidence even when those witnesses have firsthand information and the evidence would provide the senate and american people with a more complete picture of the truth. so interesting sandra because you have somebody the republican leaders will still be looking to see what joe manchin, another conservative democrat from west virginia will do here. whether he might even split the difference and vote to acquit on one article and vote to convict on the other. he gave a speech a few days ago joe manchin suggesting he would have preferred censuring the

president instead of trying to remove him from office. that may have tipped his hand. doug jones is a tough reelection back home in alabama while republicans will be disappointed he is not voting with them to give them a quote, unquote, bipartisan acquittal they'll be happy to use it against him in alabama politically. >> sandra: democrats were sure heading into this and confident he would go in this direction. but he did leave the door open a couple days ago saying i'm getting through and going through all my notes and through everything. he did single out the second article on obstruction for scrutiny saying he is troubled the house didn't fight harder to bring in witnesses and that the administration had blocked. he also criticized the white house defense team along the way for concentrating on hunter biden's job on the board of that ukraine energy company burisma. he did share his concerns along the way that ultimately led to this decision. >> ed: doug jones seems to have

tough words for the house democrats. impeachment managers but in general saying i'm also deeply troubled by the partisan nature of these proceedings from start to finish. so he is repeating something we've heard from republicans that adam schiff, jerry nadler and others were partisan from the start. doug jones a democrat says i implored my colleagues in both houses the stay out of the partisan corners. many did, so many did not. the country deserved better. we need to rise above the things that divide us and find the common good. doug jones now saying he will vote to convict. >> sandra: ahead of the vote this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. president trump and speaker nancy pelosi trading silent barbs at the state of the union address. the president appeared to ignore pelosi's outstretched hand at the podium. later the speaker ripped up the copy of the speech when it ended of the bret baier, thank

you for waking up and being with us. it was late last night. we were watching your coverage. out of the state of the union address you jumped in and said wait, nancy pelosi is ripping up the speech. >> i think it was a moment. it was happening realtime. she was making her feelings clear behind the president throughout the speech. but that moment was just front and center. got a lot of attention from the media as he was saying thank you and saying goodbye essentially getting off of the dais there. she is doing that for everyone to see. these are moments. these are images and i think any fair-looking viewer of this would say that the president got the better of the images in the state of the union. they are words critics say he is reading words but they were more than that. they were moments. and when the african-american

girl gets the scholarship, the opportunity scholarship, that's directly a policy point to how this administration wants to go after perhaps the african-american vote in some communities. when the family who lost their daughter to all baghdadi and others who lost family members to -- it takes on a new meaning for people watching. as you hold up the picture of the girl who was killed it takes on a different feeling. so he won the image moments. >> sandra: we just had kelli hake and her son on in the last hour. what a special family that is. there were a lot of moments like that last night. there was the book ended moments that are grabbing a lot of the headlines. the tearing up of the speech bret, of course, also the

handshake or lack there of, the snub if you will. not sure what happened if the president deliberately did not shake her hand. she clearly extended her hand and the president did not shake it. we asked kellyanne conway about that for some clarity this morning and she said this. >> i'm not sure it was purposeful or if he noticed her or her extended hand. who cares? she is one of the faces of impeachment. she wants to impeach the president on the articles. >> sandra: she is not even sure if it was deliberate or not. maybe we'll hear from the president or not. the president took a big opportunity to take a victory lap on the economy. taking credit for booming growth in this country and the drop in the unemployment rate among other things. he did take the opportunity to tout democrats as a socialist party in that speech. >> president trump: as we work

to improve americans' healthcare there are those who want to take away your healthcare, take away your doctor and abolish private insurance entirely. 132 lawmakers in this room have endorsed legislation to impose a socialist takeover of our healthcare system. to those watching at home tonight i want you to know we will never let socialism destroy american healthcare. [cheering and applause] >> sandra: that received applause and standing ovation in that room by the vice president. >> in that speech he is taking direct aim at the battle that's going on in the democratic party right now. the fact that in the wake of the disastrous iowa caucuses for the democrats, there is still this battle and uncertainty where the party is going. but for the most part it has tracked dramatically left especially when you think about the debate on obamacare where we were back then to where we are now on healthcare. healthcare is still a vulnerability for this white

house, for this president. there has to be some movement on that issue because that is the issue as you heard from the governor of michigan last night democrats will hit time and time again because that's what won them seats in 2018. >> sandra: i'm sure you heard the red state democrat doug jones announcing his decision on impeachment for the president. vote to convict. let's listen to doug jones after making that announcement. >> he was also a fierce patriot who loved this country. although fortunately he was never called on to do so, i firmly believe he would have placed his country even above his family because he knew and understood fully what america and the freedoms and liberties that come with her mean to everyone in the country and to people around the world. i know he would have put his country before any allegiance to any political party or even

to any president. he was on the younger side of that greatest generation who joined the navy at age 17 to serving our great military. that service and love of country shaped him into a man of principle that he was. instilling in me those same principles. think of him, his patriotism and principles and how he raised me i'm reminded of robert kennedy's words mentioned in this trial. few men are willing to brave the dils approval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. moral courage is a rare commodity in bravery in battle or great intelligence. the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. candidly to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle i fear

that moral courage, country before party, is a rare commodity these days. we can write about it and talk about it in speeches and in the media, but it is harder to put into action when political careers may be on the line. nowhere is the dilemma more difficult than in an impeachment of the president of the united states. very early on in this process, i implored my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in both houses of congress to stay out of their political and partisan corners. many did, but so many did not. even the media continually view this entire process through partisan political eyes and how it may or may not affect an election. that is unfortunate. the country deserves better and we must find a way to move beyond such partisan divides. the solemn oath that i have taken have been my guides during a difficult time for the

country, my state, and for me personally. i did not run for the senate hoping to participate in the impeachment trial of a duly-elected president. but i cannot and will not shrink from my duty to defend the constitution and to do impartial justice. in keeping with my oath as senator and my oath to do impartial justice i resolve that throughout this process i would keep an open mind to consider the evidence without regard to political affiliation and to hear all of the evidence before making a final decision on whether -- on either charge against the president. i believe that my votes later today will reflect that commitment. with the eyes of history upon us, i'm acutely aware of the precedents that this impeachment trial will set for future presidency and consciouss. unfortunately i don't believe those precedents are good ones.

i'm particularly concerned we have now set a precedent that the senate does not have to go forward with witnesss or review documents even when those witnesses have first-hand information and the documents would allow us to test not just the credibility of witnesses, but also test the words of counsel of both parties. it is my firm belief that the american people deserve more. in short, witnesses and documents would provide the senate and the american people with a clear picture of the truth and i believe the american people deserve nothing less. that's not to say, however, that there is not sufficient evidence in which to render a judgment. there is. as a trial lawyer i once explained this process to a jury as like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. when you open the box and spread all the pieces on the table, it is just an incoherent

jumble. one-by-one you hold those pieces up and you hold them next to each other and see what fits and what doesn't. even if as was often the case in my house growing up you are missing a few pieces, even important ones, you more often than not see the picture. as i've said many times i believe the american people deserve to see a completed puzzle, a picture with all of the pieces. pieces in the form of documents and witnesses with relevant first-hand information which would have provided valuable context, corroboration or contradiction to that which we have heard. but even with missing pieces, our common sense and life's experiences allow us to see the picture as it comes into full view. throughout the trial, one piece of evidence continued to stand out for me. it was the president's statement that under the constitution we have article 2

and i can do anything i want. that seems to capture this president's belief about the presidency. that he has unbridled power, unchecked by congress or the judiciary or anyone else. that view dangerous as it is, explains the president's actions toward ukraine and congress. some of what we've seen and heard is unfortunately a picture of a president who has abused the great power of his office for personal gain. a picture of a president who has placed his personal interest well above the interest of the nation and in so doing threatened our national security. the security of our european allies and the security of ukraine. the evidence clearly proves that the president used the weight of his office and the weight of the united states government to seek to coerce a foreign government to interfere in our election for his

personal, political benefit. his actions were more than simply inappropriate. they were an abuse of power. when i was a lawyer for the alabama judicial inquiry commission there was a saying that the chairman of the inquiry commission and one of alabama's great judges used to say, randall cole. he said about judges who strayed from the cannons of ethics. the judge left his post. sadly president trump left his post with the withholding military aid to ukraine and a white house visit for the new ukrainian president. in so doing, he took the great powers of the office of the president of the united states with him. impeachment is the only check on such presidential wrongdoing. the second article of impeachment obstruction of congress, gave me more pause. i struggled with the house east

strategy to fail to pursue witnesses. after careful consideration of the developments in the hearings and the legal precedents in the trial i believe the president deliberately and unconstitutionally obstructed congress with refusing to cooperate with the investigation in any way. i'm sensitive to protecting the immunity to the president and his advisors it's critical we also protect the authorities of the congress of the states. here it was clear from the outset that the president had no intention whatsoever of accommodating congress when he fought both witnesses and documents and smeared the reputations of the civil servants who did come forward and provide testimony. the president's actions demonstrate a belief that he is

above the law. that congress has no power whatsoever in questioning or examining his actions and that all who do so do so at their peril. that belief unprecedented in history of this country simply must not be permitted to stand. to do otherwise risks guaranteeing that no future whistleblower or witness will ever come forward and no future president republican or democrat will be subject to congressional oversight as mandated by the constitution even when the president has so clearly abused his office and violated the public trust. accordingly i will vote to convict the president on both articles of impeachment. in doing so i am mindful in a democracy there is nothing more sacred than the right to vote and respecting the will of the people. but i'm also mindful that when our founders wrote the constitution they envisioned a time or at least a possibility

that our democracy would be more damaged if we failed to impeach and remove a president. such is the moment in history that we face today. the gravity of this moment, the seriousness of the charges and the implication for future presidency and congress. i'm mindful that i'm standing at a decks that was once used by john f. kennedy who wrote profiles in courage and so many who will simply look at what i'm doing today and say it is a profile in courage. it is not. it is simply a matter of right and wrong. where doing right is now a courageous act, it is simply following the road. mr. president, this has been a divisive time for our country but it has nonetheless been an important constitutional process for us to follow. as this chapter of history draws to a close one thing is

clear to me. as i've said before, our country deserves better than this. they deserve better from the president, they deserve better from the congress. we must find a way to come together to set aside partisan differences and to focus on what we have in common as americans. while so much is going on in our favor these days we still face great challenges both domestically and internationally. it remains my firm belief that united we can conquer them and remain the greatest hope for the people around the world. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent my full statement be printed in the record. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. >> ed: you listened to senator doug jones waiting to hear. >> sandra: the red state democrat doug jones said he had a lot of thinking and reading to do. democrats were hopeful he would

move in that direction. he will vote to convict the president on both articles of impeachment formally making that announcement on the senate floor. >> ed: let's bring in steve scalise. republican of louisiana to weigh in on this and a lot of other issues. state of the union last night. thank you for coming in. >> great to be with you, thanks. >> ed: quick on doug jones as a democrat hopes in your party you would have a bipartisan acquittal. now it's down to since he wants to vote to convict joe manchin a few moments ago asked how to vote and he said three times 4:00 when the roll call vote is. he won't tell anyone beforehand. how important sit for the president to get at least one democratic senator to vote to acquit? >> in the house we had a bipartisan vote against impeachment. every republican voted no and we had democrats that joined with us. if you're voting based ton facts you would vote against impeachment. they never were able to identify a crime. they looked for one. the mueller investigation for

22 months. at the end of the day look, i think this will be a stain on the democrat party on speaker pelosi's speakership. they set out from day one to impeach this president. nothing to do with crimes. over 50 democrats voted to impeach donald trump because he criticized nfl players who kneeled during the pledge of allegiance. they put this country through this and wasted a year on their majority not fighting for men and women of this country. what president trump has been doing for families. they're focused on their own political power and it will be a stain on speaker pelosi's legacy. >> you say the democrats have put the country through this. a few moments ago democrat jerry nadler told reporters that either his committee the house judiciary panel or another committee will subpoena that man, john bolton. so a, i wonder your reaction to why democrats didn't do this months ago as you've been saying, why they're doing it now on the day that the

president will be acquitted and b, doesn't this suggest the democrats after the acquittal are going to keep on investigating? >> they've tipped their hat a long time ago they're the party of impeachment. they said they might still try to impeach him more. read multiple articles of impeachment filed long before the whistleblower and long before the ukraine call. 58 democrats voted to impeach him for criticizing nfl players who kneeled during the pledge. it's all they have. they have no eye -- agenda. they sat down when president trump is talking about this young girl getting an opportunity scholarship to go to the school of her choice instead of a failing government school. that's where they are as a party. that's not where the country is by the way. there are democrats across the country looking in disgrace as what nancy pelosi did ripping up the speech containing the names of tuskegee airmen and soldiers who gave their life for this country and so many other great people. what makes this country great is what the president was

celebrating and that's what they ripped up. they don't celebrate the success of america like president trump does and frankly that's why president trump has such a great case to make going into the election. they're the party of impeachment. it's all they've got. >> ed: were you surprised when rush limbaugh was honored. he is battling cancer in the fight of his life. i get the other democrats disagree with him politically. you didn't see the speaker standing when rush limbaugh was honored. >> it was another disgraceful moment. rush limbaugh inspired million else of people and still does to this day. i was inspired. i listened to him when i was a student at lsu learning about politics and government. he speaks truth to power on both sides, by the way. the fact that president trump celebrated him not just for what he has done on radio but in his battle against cancer. rush is a tough guy. i hope he beats cancer. everybody should have stood for

that. it makes them look little as a party when they don't do that. democrats across the country are going that's not where i am. whether they agree or disagree with the president. if you can't stand up and celebrate what's great about this country. people battling for their lives. men and women giving their life. the killing of a terrorist who murdered hundreds of servicemen and women they can't stand for killing that terrorist. says a lot about them. >> ed: steve scalise. we appreciate you coming in. thank you, sir. >> sandra: some brand-new numbers now on the coronavirus. more than 490 deaths and 24,000 cases confirmed worldwide. the state department is still evacuating americans from china. jonathan serrie is on that story. >> approximately 350 americans are evacuating the epicenter of this outbreak flying from wuhan, china, to military bases in california. this morning two state

department chartered flights landed at travis air force base. one of the planes refueled heading to the marine corps air station. the passengers will remain quarantined for 14 days as a precaution. public health officials say a child arriving with a group of returning u.s. travelers last week that was quarantined, the child is hospitalized after developing a fever. after the 11 confirmed cases in the u.s. 9 involve people that traveled to china and two are spouses of travelers. 99% of the world's coronavirus cases are in china. the limited spread outside of china gives the international community a window to invest now in controlling the virus. >> it's time to act, not to speculate and spread fear. >> in his state of the union

speech president trump mentioned it as one of his healthcare priorities. >> president trump: we're coordinating with the chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in china. my administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat. >> investigators trailsed it to a wuhan market that sold live animals for meat. in two studies researchers say genetic analysis of the coronavirus originated in bats before being spread to humans. just moments ago the cdc announced it will be screening additional u.s. passengers arriving on additional flights later this week. those flights arriving at four military bases around the u.s. they, too, will face that mandatory 14-day quarantine. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: a student protest to fossil fuels getting personal.

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so you can... retire better. >> ed: it is time to go beyond the headlines where we take a break from the news cycle and focus on a student protest at oxford over fossil fuels. where the demonstrators there got a very personal lesson about oil divestment when the university offered to turn the heat off on campus. joining us now is kat timpf. they protested and they got a response. >> they said but i'll be cold essentially was their argument. it points to a larger point which i think is really important. it is quite easy to stand out there with a sign and say i want things to change. it is a lot harder to actually make sacrifices in your own life or even to say what specifically you would change

or how you would change it. i've done man on the streets at protests, occupy wall street and may day. a common theme when i ask people how would you do this? what would you be willing to give up? they looked at me like i had said how do i get to the moon on my bike. they look at my like i'm nuts. it never occurred to them. >> sandra: they wanted the school to sell off investments in shell and bp. he said i can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. let me know if you support this proposal. they did not, kat. one protestor complained he was flippant. it is january and be dangerous they started to threaten. another suggested he was being provocative. he then issued this statement. you are right, i'm being provocative. i hope it is easy to request

things that carry no permanent -- personal cost to yourself. >> if you don't give into their demands of doing something that won't effect them people equate that with not caring about the environment. it is possible to care and say what is a good way to approach this and a bad way to approach it and think critically. much harder than holding a sign to think critically about the issues. the only way to solve problems in a real way is to actually have those kind of conversations with yourself about these issues. >> sandra: all right. well, perhaps a lesson for those students there. nice to see you, kat. back to you. >> ed: a team of rescue workers finding themselves in need of help. a wall of snow washing them away. that is next. these near record

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>> ed: fox news alert. look at this boeing 737 carrying 177 people. it skidded off the runway and crashed at an airport in istanbul, turkey. the a.p. is reporting 21 injuries but no fatalities. we'll monitor the story and bring you any information as we get it. >> sandra: at least 38 people killed after two avalanches in eastern turkey. rescue workers were searching for two people missing in the first avalanche when another one struck. benjamin hall is following this from london. >> good morning. a terrible story. dozens of people killed trying to rescue two people caught up in that previous avalanche. 38 people died. that number could rise

significantly. dozens more remain missing. this all happened in the eastern province of van near the iranian border where turkey and iran meet. 300 were sent to help dig out survivors. they were hit in this second avalanche that happened seven hours ago. that came down around midday local time. buried the teams in about four to five meters of snow. dozens of people are trying to get out there themselves to help using shovels, sticks, whatever they can to try to save those who are now buried but high winds are making it increasingly difficult. vehicles overturned and difficult to reach the area. the health ministry said they don't know the extent of this but they're doing everything they can to access that area. a terrible story. we'll keep you update as the death toll keeps rising. >> sandra: thank you. we are going to be right back. first a look at the big board. the dow up 317 points today.

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