of money for those facts. they paid a lot of money for this and they didn't bother to tell you. ask yourself why. if they don't want to be fair to the president, at least out of respect for all of you, they should be fair to you. they should tell you these things. and when they don't tell you these things, it means something so think about that. impeachment shouldn't be a shell game. they should give you the facts. that's all we have for today. we ask you out of respect to think about, think about whether what you've heard would really suggest to anybody anything

other that would be completely irresponsible abuse of power to do what they're asking you to do. to stop an election, to interfere in an election, and remove the president of the united states from the ballot? let the people decide for themselves. that's what the founders wanted. that's what we should all want. with that, i thank you for your attention, and i look forward to seeing you on monday. >> pat cipollone -- >> the majority leader is recognized. >> mr. chief justice, i ask unanimous consent the trial adjourn until monday and this order also constitution the adjournment of the senate. >> without objection so ordered. the senate is adjourned. >> there you have it. pat cipollone, the president's top lawyer in the senate impeachment proceedings has

opened and closed the president's first arguments here in the senate trial, opening with a flat declaration, the president did absolutely nothing, closing with an admonition and a request to the senate, don't undo an american election. don't interfere in an american election. in between, basically a three-part argument from the president's lawyers today. they first bored in on that letter, on the evidence that the democrats presented including the rough transcript of the july 25 phone call between president trump and president zelensky of ukraine saying that the evidence inside that letter shows that the president had legitimate reasons to be pursuing corruption in ukraine and also that he raised other important national security concerns, especially burden sharing, with europe. also jay sekulow, the president's counsel, broadening out the argument laying a lot of emphasis on what the democrats left out in their 21-hour presentation. the trump lawyers returning

again and again to the length of the democrats' presentation, contrasting it with their relatively short first presentation today of two hours. and finally, the trump lawyers also going after the processes in the house saying the president was denied due process and the process was unfair. our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce has been there every step of the way and i know you spent some time in the chamber during those documents. >> i can tell you there's a real difference in there today compared to yesterday. it appears the chamber has sort of woken up. all the senators on both sides paying close attention. i didn't see a single empty chair, a lot of note taking on both sides. i was particularly struck by how closely the democrats seemed to be paying attention, many of them taking detailed, meticulous notes and that's not to suggest that they're being swayed. that ship, safe to say, has sailed but we know that they're already preparing for what comes next and that of course will be their chance to ask questions after the trump team wraps their

opening arguments two days from now. both sides will have up to 16 hours to ask questions. no surprise here, many of the president's top allies and defenders in the chamber looked pleased, lindsey graham, senator joanie ernest, nodding, smiling, even chuckling at some points as the president's legal team launched their defense here. george, it still remains that there are those key republican senators, leaisa murkowski, sus collins, mitt romney, they are paying close attention. the president's lawyers hold the key to the question of whether or not additional witnesses will be called. lastly, george, the seats for the public, today they are packed in a way they have not been during the week and it was an interesting reminder to me as i sat in there that of course that's what this is about. at the end of the day it comes down to what the american people

are thinking of what they hear here. >> still closely divided on the issue of impeachment and removal although our poll yesterday showed 66% of the public wants to see more witnesses. terry moran, pretty meticulous and well organized argument from the president's team, kind of saying here's what we're going to tell you over the next couple of days. it seems that the most effective part of the presentation was the boring in on what the democrats left out in their 21 hours of testimony. >> that's effective in a criminal context and it was effective here. we've seen both sides fight their corners pretty well. we're having a well argued impeachment which is good because it crystallizes the arguments and issues and evidence to have good advocates and i think the president can be happy with the job that his team did in part because of what you say, going into what was left out and pointing out in part because of the choice of the house of representatives under

nancy pelosi not to go after with any real aggression in court or elsewhere the testimony the people might have direct evidence of what the president said ordered, directed. instead as jay sekulow pointed out, a lot of this is the speculation of ambassador gordan sondland, and he played those bites that the house managers had evaded or avoided where sondland says, i never heard him say anything about a quid pro quo. i'm just -- it's my assumption. and that is an opening for a defense lawyer to say, well then there's no real evidence. of course circumstantial evidence in total can be very powerful and wins cases all the time. on the obstruction count, i thought patrick philbin for the white house did a very good job. the president has been described by the house managers as lawlessly, simply defying in a blanket way everything the house wants. philbin said, no, we actually

had some legal arguments. the constitution says the house shall have the sole power of impeachment, not the judiciary committee, not the intelligence committee, the house. in all previous impeachments of the president, the house has a whole has voted and it was the power of that vote that was the power of the subpoenas. the white house said go back to the constitution, get a full vote of the house. speaker pelosi didn't think she had the votes at the time and they proceeded. some of what you're seeing are the chickens come home to roost for the tactics and strategies decided upon by the house of representatives. >> jon karl, i want to bring you in because terry pointed out the trump team focused in hard on gordan sondland, saying that he's the only one who alleged a quid pro quo. no one, no single witness brought forward by the democrats said that president trump told them to withhold the aid or the meeting in return for these investigations. of course that's because the democrats would argue that the

white house was withholding those key players. >> a couple points. that's one of them. this quote specifically jumped out to me. the democrats' entire quid pro quo theory is based on nothing more than the initial speculation of one person, ambassador sondland. that speculation is wrong. two points. one is if that's the case, it's largely because the president has blocked the testimony of so many of his aides who would have direct knowledge of that, perhaps john bolton, mick mulvaney, perhaps secretary of state pompeo, but george, the other thing is that we actually have heard mick mulvaney directly acknowledge a quid pro quo. he did it right there in the white house briefing room in october. he was very explicit that among the reasons that the president directed him to have the aid

withhold and it was mulvaney who then directed the omb not to send the military aid to ukraine, he wanted them to investigate this conspiracy theory involving the hacking of the democratic party's emails during the campaign. when he was asked, that's a quid pro quo, his answer was, we do it all the time. so mulvaney himself has already in a very public forum acknowledged a quid pro quo. now, that didn't happen during the course of the hearings because mulvaney was never allowed -- never came up to testify, but he has said that publicly. >>. >> exawe saw that during the democratic presentation. dan abrams is here. in some sense what we saw today was a classic defense strategy at work. >> right. what they want to do is say you're not actually going to remove a president from office based on this phone call, are

you? and then go through what they would argue are pieces of the phone call that support their particular case. that's what you see in criminal cases all the time, which is defense attorneys try and isolate a piece of evidence and say you're going to convict based on that? prosecutors say, wait a second, there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle here that all need to come together. look at what all these diplomats were saying at the time, et cetera. i think you heard a range of arguments, ranging from arguments clearly targeted for the president himself, things like they're trying to perpetrate the most massive election interference here. they're trying to overturn the results of the last election. those are all for president trump. those aren't even legal arguments. then there are some real serious legal arguments. for example, when it comes to the transcript, yes, there is talk of burden sharing. it is a strong argument for the president to say he has always been concerned about burden sharing. he was concerned about burden sharing on that particular call. >> concerned even though many would argue that the facts he brought up are -- the facts are

counter to what he said that, in fact, the europeans have given far more than the americans. >> right but -- >> it's in his mind. >> right. they have a weaker argument when it comes to this idea of anti-corruption, right? there is no question that all of those diplomats were concerned about corruption in ukraine, but there is no evidence that we know of thus far that the president had specifically done anything to combat broader corruption in ukraine apart from what he -- >> although they point out that the administration had taken action against corruption in other countries so this is a generalized concern of his. >> it's not indicated with evidence in terms of what was happening in ukraine. the focus in ukraine was on biden and burisma. finally i'd say on this argument about the obstruction of congress, you heard this case being made that in effect the subpoenas were invalid so they didn't even have to respond because there was no vote. i think that's one of their weaker legal arguments because it is clear the rules of the congress have changed.

when you say it is congress' power to impeach, that means congressional rules are what apply. since clinton and since nixon, the rules have changed, and so these committees have now been empowered to subpoena in a way that they weren't before. so previously you needed a vote in order to get subpoena power. now you don't need to have that vote to get subpoena power. the committees have that power so the notion that somehow this is invalid because there wasn't a vote simply isn't supported. >> of course the managers made the point that these are the same rules that the republicans acted under when they were the majority as well. melissa murray, professor of constitutional law at nyu, assess their strategy and take on the notion that the burden of proof is on the house managers. the burden of proof and the standard of proof isn't the same in an criminal trial when you consider impeachment. >> today they made clear that the best defense is a good offense and they went straight to work trying to pick holes in

the naase aqu, w 1986 in the impeachment trial of judge henry claiborne, the chamber went through this entire disposition and judge claiborne's lawyers said that it had to be reasonable daughter do doubt because the constitution talks about trying, conviction, high crimes. that suggests a criminal trial. the managers said it was something more like the preponderance of the evidence because you're not forfeiting life, liberty or property. the chamber came to the conclusion that in fact the real standard is whatever the senators believe it to be so they are all equipped to vote their consciousness here. >> we have the first democrats responding. senator tim cane, democratic senator from virginia, has come out to the microphones. >> let me say this, the white

house counsel has just made the most powerful argument for the necessity of witnesses and documents that could be made. they did a better job of making that argument even than the house managers made. why? the white house counsel laid out six facts that they believe support the president's position in this case. to use one as an example, they said that the release on aid and the hold on aid and then the release was all based upon the president's concern about corruption and burden sharing. there was public reporting when the aid was released that the white house had to scramble to try to come up with a rationale for the hold. those documents are available. the documents would show whether their assertion of fact is true or not. so the white house counsel has just basically proved to us that

we can only grapple with the facts in this case if we get witnesses and documents. what did one of the white house counsel, mr. philbin, say? quote, cross-examination is the greatest engine to search for truth in our american legal system. but they want to deny our ability to examine witnesses. if cross-examination of witnesses is necessary to discover the truth, how dare the white house and how dare the senate majority even contemplate a trial without witnesses or documents? my strong impression from the first two hours is that the case for witnesses and documents has gotten even stronger, and i hope my colleagues, when we get to the end of this and the senate's questions will embrace the need for procedures that would be required in a trial even in the traffic division of the richmond general district court. >> senator tim kaine, democrat

of virginia, saying that in his view the case for witnesses has been improved here. pierre thomas, i want to bring you in as well. one of the things that the president's lawyers also focused on is the witness the democrats didn't bring. of course that's the whistle-blower. >> exactly, george. they want to hear more from him. for example, they raised the issue in terms of whether he might have bias, he or she might have bias. that is a key point for them. and george, the other thing, having watched a number of high level trials in the course of my career, it's always fascinating to see these very able attorneys make their case. one of the things today that struck me is the fact that rudy giuliani who was mentioned by the president on that call with president zelensky did not come up a single time at all. now, whether that will hold going forward in terms of the case that they make to defend the president, i don't know. he's a central player and none of those facts were addressed at all today, george. >> pierre thomas, good point

right there. cecilia vega, our senior white house correspondent, as far as i can tell the president was silent, even on twitter, all during this testimony but his team was out there reinforcing the points that we're hearing from the legal team. >> and the social media push was full court press today, george, and i'm actually surprised the campaign in particular has sent out more tweets in the last two hours than they have even when the house managers were delivering their side of this. the white house rapid response team has been on full court. they're all working saturday and the most recent defense they've given says the president has done nothing wrong. they're echoing the points we heard the trump legal team say. i was surprised to see tim kaine speaking and you also saw the surrogates. jordan was there, mark meadows off to the side. they're making the press as well. we did hear sekulow say yesterday that what we saw was the trailer, the coming attractions for what we're going to hear tomorrow. if today gives any indication, lindsey graham said he's tired

of hearing all this, he's heard enough, let's move on. that certainly was the message that the trump team was conv conveyi conveying, we've heard enough. >> and they're relatively confident they have the votes. we're going to return now to our regular programming. we will be back on monday for the trump team's arguments at 1:00 p.m. eastern time monday. 1:00 p.m. eastern time monday. have a good afternoon.

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baseball season is not too far away, and today the oakland a's are hosting the team's annual fan fest. ldo square.st got

sev players, 3:00 including matt chapman and matt olson will be there to sign autographs, a kids entertainment area and photo station. it is open to the public. the stanford blood center is teaming up with the san jose sharks to save a life, host ago blood drive today. it's already underway until 2:00 p.m. donors will be entered to win a pair of sharks tickets for the teams game against the new jersey devils. tole three donors will win tickets to sit and watch players warm up before the game, and all will get a chance to take a group photo on the ice. so we need some rain. >> we do. we're going to get a little bit. it is on the way. right now, it's lot of fog, and it's been mild. temperatures have been near 60 degrees in some spots through

the overnight hours. walnut creek, layered clouds, 56 with a quarter mile visibility in oakland. no delays at sfo, and our level one system arrives tonight. i'll time out the rain for you when we get back. >> thanks, lisa. also next, the 49ers hope to feast on the chiefs on super sunday. last night, prime rib was on the menu. the 9ers lineman c welcome back, here's a live

look from our roof camera, looking over the -- the warriors have a few days off before they start a five game road trip. golden state was hoping to get a win at chase center against the indiana pacers. here's sports director lar lr with t -- larry beil with highlights and news of trades. >> a win-win situation here reportedly, they're going to trade willie to dallas for a second round draft pick. they clear salary space and open up a roster spot, and he gets to go to a playoff team. will get more minutes after the deal becomes official. warriors and pacers, a three-point shoot out, deangelo russell, nine 3's, and the w warriors down by 6. look at the pass to draymond, the pacers thought he had dunked it and took it out of bounds for

the turnover but never actually got it in the basket. don't hear a lot about indiana, but tj warren, he can play. off the steel, slam, he had 33 points, 20 turnovers, just killed golden state. doug mcdermott, dougie fresh, six of seven from deep for 24 points. pacers win 129-118. the warriors have dropped 13 of 14. women's hoops, number six stanford in a battle with colorado. stanford down 2, 1.6 sec look a ashton, tied at 64 and on to overtime. two minutes left, stanford down wen, key anna williams for three, and bounce, and it's prectel again to puts it home. the cardinal would make their free throws and win in ot, 76-68. the 49ers will fly to miami for super bowl liv on sunday. kyle shanahan getting ready for the chiefs. this is going to be his first

start in the actual super bowl game. rich sherman won a title back in seattle. so how much is experience a factor on super sunday. >> it's overrated. before i won a super bowl we didn't have any experience. it's a football game. if you say at the super bowl you're going to play under different rules and unique xfl, you know, there's 80 yard field and you know, then cool, it would be something to have experience doing that. >> nhl all star game is sunday. the skills competition friday night, hurdle of the sharks in a justin bieber mask. would challenge bieber on social media. i think the mask kind of got in the way there, because hurdle lost the puck. nonetheless, good fun in st. louis. that's such a weird look there. a san francisco tradition for 33 years, house of prime rib own owner invites 49ers lineman in for a big dinner. the rookie is asked if he can

down the double henry, a 2 pound slab of meat. th poor guy had no chance. linemen get to invite two nonlinemen, quarterback jimmy a garoppolo and rahim moster. that was some meal for those guys. we might have had some too. that's a wrap on morning sports. have a great weekend, everybody, i'm larry beil. let's get a check of the weather with lisa argen. >> we have a weak warm front on the way, then a cold front, and we've got some fog out there, but the second half of the weekend will be brighter. i know we need a lot of rain. we had about nine days of rain for the month of january. 16 dry days. somebody was counting. yeah, and about a week left, less than a week, and this is about it, and we're going to get warmer and dryer as we go into the end of the month and into february. we have a level one system on the way late tonight and into tomorrow. light to moderate rain. we'll get a little breezy and cool behind this system but

we'll pick up only a couple hundredths to maybe a trace amount for parts of the south bay and the east bay and in the north bay, could see a quarter of an inch to half inch. look at all the fog, very murky out there and visibility has been around a quarter mile and less in parts of the bay. be careful out there, were looking at a system that will improve visibility as it gets closer. it's not going to get here for a while. the winds are light, and we're looking at this system to arrive later on today. you can just pick out a little bit of sky there in between all of the clouds there. the low clouds and the mid-and high level clouds. 51 in gilroy. 54 in the city. oakland has a lot of fog at 55 degrees, as well as half-moon bay. it was in the upper 50s yesterday at the coast, but 67 in livermore and right now, 55 in santa cruz. low 60s right now for the afternoon high temperature here. and only picking up a couple hundredths of precip through the overnight hours along the centralos i concord.

liver more at 50. 56 in napa. so lots of humidity out there, and we are much warmer, obviously this morning than we were yesterday. you can see fogged in from the east bay camera. areas of fog, very light storm arrives late tonight into tomorrow. some of the rain could be moderate up in the north bay, and then we're mainly dry for the week ahead, and as we start february, we're talking a lot of sun and near 70 for parts of the bay. i want to show you the ind with -- winds we have some radiation fog, and then looking at the westerly winds, here comes the front. northwesterly winds behind it, getting a little breezy, kind of scouring out the atmosphere for a better looking sunday afternoon. this is today, though, as we go through the morning with the clouds. here comes a little bit of precip out ahead of the system, mainly in the north bay, then we'll see the front which is a weak one that falls apart and kind of limps through the bay area overnight tonight, and then we get into the northwesterly

flow behind it. here are the amounts about a third of an inch in napa, a couple hundredths down in mountain view as well as redwood city, a tenth along the coast, mild numbers stick around and get warmer all week long. san jose near 70 by the end of the week. 65 in freemont. 62 in vallejo. better chance of showers in the north bay, everyone sees a chance throughout the afternoon. that's tomorrow morning's temperatures. still mild, level one system tonight and tomorrow, and we're partly cloudy, maybe a splash in the north bay. overall, it's going to be pretty unusual to end the month dry, mild, sunny, and then february as well looking first weekend very nice if you like it sunny and mild. >> which we do, but obviously we know we need the rain. it's funny because just last month it was so rainy, every day. >> december was promising and the snow pack and all of that, we have time to make it up, but january was not great. december was better. so we can hope. >> a little better. >> yeah.

the super bowl between the 9ers and chiefs promises to be a great game. we spoke to one fan who was lucky enough to go, but getting tickets is competitive. journalist dustin dorsey breaks down exactly how fans get their hands on it. >> a 49ers season tickers and a long as he can remember and he has the seats to prove it. >> these are my original candle stick seats i sat? >> they used to be his favorite seats but soon will be the chairs at miami's hard rock stadium where he'll watch the 49ers take on the kansas city chiefs. >> this will be my first super bowl that i have gone to out of the seven super bowls they have been in. i'm going with my younger brother and my really good friend drew. it's like a dream come true. >> reporter: worth it to him, but the actual cost. >> for the three tickets, it was $18,000. >> reporter: a pretty penny but about the going rates for the seats on the resell market. the 49ers held a lottery for

season ticket holders, but he didn't have his name called. >> i bought the tickets before the lottery because i thought my chances of getting the lottery were going to be nil anyway, so i bought my tickets anyway, so i was going to go no matter what. >> reporter: the chances are slim because only 75% of the tickets are distributed to the 32 teams. and it breaks down like this. 17.5% of the tickets go to each the nfc and afc champions. 5% go to the host team, and the rest is splint between the rest of the teams. the remaining 29.2% is controlled by the nfl, and participants now own three of those select tickets to see the big dame. >> i have been to a world series. i have seen the warriors win the nba championship but the 9ers are closest to my heart. this is going to be hopefully extra special if they win and i was there. >> reporter: in san jose, dustin dorsey, abc 7 news. >> okay, next, today marks the beginning of the lunar new year,

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i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. welcome back, it's a chinese new year's celebration today in san francisco. mayor london breed and other city officials will ring in the year of the rat with the community in chinatown's portsmouth at 11:00 a.m. this is video here from last year's festivities for the year of the pig. the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce hosts the annual event. and in the south bay it's

the first day of the vietnamese tent festival at the santa clara fairgrounds, one of the important celebrations in vietnamese culture, learning about vietnamese food, fashion and dance. there will be carnival rides. the opening ceremony begins at 2:00 p.m. >> and there are several superstitions for the lunar year. don't do new of these things today if you want good luck for the rest of the year. don't sweep your floor or do house cleaning. don't wash your hair because you could squeweep and wash away yo good look. don't eat or drink anything bitter. don't borrow anything and don't swear. you and i were saying it's not so hard to not clean for a day. i'll let myself not do that. >> a week though, i don't know about that. >> today is dry for most of you. there has been some mist and drizzle for others and the visibility is poor from oakland to 3/4 of a mile to san francisco, no delays at sfo, th though but there could be for sure with 4 miles around hayward and san carlos.

level one systems on the way tonight and tomorrow, that will allow for the atmosphere to kind of get rid of some of this relative humidity. rainfall amounts are going to be light, anywhere from just a couple hundredths to maybe a quarter to a third of an inch, and then we're back into some sunshine, second half of tomorrow. monday we're partly cloudy, mix of clouds and sun on tuesday, we're getting brighter and milder as we say good-bye to january. so it was kind of nice yesterday, but boy was it warm, and that's going to be the trend as we go through the next seven days. >> yeah, all right. sounds good. i hope people can enjoy their weekend. thanks lisa, and thank you for joining us on abc 7 mornings. along with lisa argen, ahead of nba saturday prime time. the jump gets you ready for the lakers and 76ers, tip off at 5:30, followed by toyota after the game with warrio warriors at 8:00 p.m. lots to watch today. have a great day, everyone. thanks for joining us.

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