right now at 7:00, day two of the impeachment trial against president trump, how the democrats made their case without any witnesses. also, our guest tonight east bay congressman eric swalwell along with our political analyst larry gerston, how this impeachment trial is impacting the presidential race. dozens of cars hits with projectiles while on 101 south of gilroy. tonight a break in that case. good evening, and thanks for being with us for this special 7:00 edition of nbc area impea president trump. s doing all week, we've chosen some key moments from today's hours of the testimony. >> house impeachment manager jerry nadler used an unusual strategy to attack republican claims that president trump did

not commit any crime. he used the words of the president's defenders that they said during the clinton impeachment trial. >> it certainly doesn't have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don't need a technical crime. >> what's a high crime? how about itf an important persn hurts somebody of low means. it's not very scholarly, but i think it's the truth. i think that's what they meant by high crimes. doesn't have to be a crime. >> house manager adam schiff em employed the use of a powerpoint to draw a comparison between donald trump's infamous ukraine phone call and calls made by previous commanders in chief. he used images of recent presidents from both parties wielding the oval office phone at historic moments in u.s. history. president trump isn't using just twitter to get his message

out during this trial, "politico" says legal staffers have set up a communication center in an office near the west wing where they react to trial developments in realtime. the talking points go to capitol hill offices and gop leaders to keep republicans on message. >> as you can imagine, it was another long day on the senate floor. democrats arguing for close to eight hours. >> what are the key takeaways here? let's bring in janelle wang. >> democrats will have a third and final eight hours tomorrow to prove their case. today they focused on one of the two charges against the president, abuse of power. president trump not responding to questions as he takes off for florida tonight. meanti meantime, house democrats trying to punctuate their case. on their second day focusing on the abuse of power charge saying the president pressured ukraine to publicly announce investigations into the bidens. >> the articles and the evidence established that president trump placed his own personal political interest first. his conduct is not america first.

it is donald trump first. >> reporter: democrats suggesting their arguments are swaying senate republicans. >> it may have planted the first seed in their minds that, yes, perhaps the president did something veryblans are praisin style of the presentation including kind words from lindsey graham to adam schiff outside chambers, they're still slamming the substance. >> let's hear from what the other side says. did they selectively take testimony of witnesses to tell a story, which i thought was well told. will it stand up. >> and as republicans complained they're not learning anything new from opening arguments, democrats slamming them for voting against early motions to bring in new documents and witnesses. >> if they want new stuff, there's plenty of it. >> reporter: president trump on left, it will never be enough indicating that even if moderate republicans do vote to allow new witnesses, he might use executive privilege to shut them down. tomorrow the democrats final day it appears they will focus on

the second charge, obstruction of congress and then tie up their whole case, and then on saturday, the president's legal team will be up next, and today, they say they might not need all of their allotted 24 hours to present their case. >> thereit will be interesting e what their strategy is moving forward. it is 7:00 here on the west coast, 10:00 east coast time, and they are still going at it. we're going to continue our coverage of the impeachment trial in less than ten minutes we have congressman eric swalwell joining us and larry gerston. first let's show you what's hain man is in jail accused of terrorizing drivers along freeways near the south bay. nearly 70 cars have been hit from projectiles along 101 near the monterey turnoff. the chp says the suspect would drive and then use a slingshot to fire marbles at the driver side windshield of on coming cars. the question is why. nbc bay area's robert handa joins us near prunedale with more on the investigation and

what do we know about it. >> reporter: a lot will focus on who this suspect is. we know he has homes and family spread out throughout the area, and we're told he is a local handyman, but certainly more clues will be needed to figure out exactly what happened out here and why. >> really bizarre, really bizarre. >> reporter: and scary, especially when you see what can happen to a car window hit with a projectile at freeway speed and close range. the attacks on vehicles with projectiles here on 101 as well as nearby highway 156 just kept mounting. 69 during tpa months with five reported injuries, so the chp and sheriff's department formed a task force to keep at least one officer in the area at all times, and it paid off. today officers announced the arrest of 52-year-old charles kenneth laugherty who had numerous residents in monterey county and at least one in san louis as by bow county where he was taken into custody. >> so it was the the vehicle that they identified in the area and that linked them to a driver

and then on that linked them to mr. charles laugherty. >> reporter: officers say laugherty was able to drive and rapidly fire at oncoming vehicles because of the weapon he used. >> we believe mr. laugherty used a slingshot as well as glass marbles to commit these crimes. >> reporter: draiivers were relieved and baffled. >> terribly dangerous, really disturbing. i don't know why anybody would be motivated to do something as strange as that. >> i would hate to be driving and have something slung at me in that fashion. >> reporter: laugherty is being held on $250,000 bail. one interesting note about the investigation, there is a $15,000 reward for information on this case, but at this point investigators say they do not anticipate giving out any of that money. live along highway 101, robert handa nbc bay area news. thank you. tonight there's a fear that that deadly worldwide outbreak could be spreading to the east bay. we're talking about the coronavirus, which originated in

china. in the last 90 minutes, we have learned that ten people in alameda county are being watched for possible exposure. that means they have symptoms similar to the coronavirus. they either travel to wuhan china in the last two weeks or came into contact with someone who has the virus. right now it's unclear who these people are or where in the county in alameda county they are. so far the coronavirus has killed at least 25 people and sickened hundreds more. most of the cases are in china, but there are others in thailand, south korea, skra pja australia and the united states. if confirmed, the alameda county cases would be the first we know in the bay area. a south bay school district is the latest to sue juul. campbell union high school district filed a lawsuit against the san francisco based company. the suit claims juul is responsible for fueling ab e-cigarette epidemic by marketing products to teenagers.

it also claims the rise in vaping in schools is disrupting the learning environment. other bay school district filed similar lawsuits last month. they include livermore valley, san francisco unified and three school districts in san mateo county. layoffs, 23 and me is letting go of more than 100 employees. the ceo says the sunniville based genetic testing company is cutting workers on the operations team which focuses on the company's growth. 23 and me is also expected to cut back on recruiting for clinical trials. a huge spill in wine country, almost 100,000 gallons of wine all gone. a lot of it now in the russian river after an accident at the vineyard in healdsburg. sent a lot of kafcabernet sauvin spilling into the russian river.

the office of emergency management is monitoring the spill. the acidity of the wine is harmful to the fish and wildlife. let's get back to our live coverage of the impeachment trial. it is still going on. it is now 10 after 10:00 on the east coast. this is a live look on the senate floor. this is california congressman adam schiff who's leading the charge for the democrats. we're going to break down what's happening today and into the evening in this case against president trump. in a special interview, we're going to have congressman eric swalwell next. we'll get to hear what he has to say about what he saw today.

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day two for the democrats in the impeachment trial, and today's theme again the president's alleged abuse of power, ukraine, and whether the democrats should be allowed to call witnesses. democrats can't call any live witnesses for the second day the house managers used video clip slides and graphs to illustrate

the case they're building against president trump. >> quote, thank god nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in u.s. elections. now they're accusing ukraine. >> well, you got to give donald trump credit for this, he has made a religious man out of vladimir putin. >> but it wasn't just the frequency of mr. giuliani's contact that's significant. here's what matters. president trump directed u.s. officials to work with his personal agent who was pursuing investigations not at all related to foreign policy. >> why did they bury the record? why did they hide the record? why did they put the record on a system meant for hhly classified information? >> a lot was said today, joining us now is congressman eric

swalwell, a familiar face in the east bay who also has a national foot print. he was elected to the house of representatives in 2012. his district serves his hometown of dublin, san ramon and pleasanton. he's also on the house intel and judiciary committee and was also running for president and made quite a splash in the second democratic debate last june. >> i was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the california democratic convention and said it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of americans. that candidate was then senator joe biden. joe biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of americans 32 years ago. he's still right today. >> he turned some heads certainly, but swalwell did drop out of the presidential race last july. he's also a former prosecutor in the alameda county district attorney's office. also joining us is our political analyst larry gerston. gentlemen, first of all good evening. you are in dublin hosting a town hall. what's the reaction to this

whole impeachment process from your tconstituents in the east bay? what about from the republicans you serve as well? >> good evening to all of you. it's frustration. most of the people who come to our town halls have been to jury duty before and at jury trials you have witnesses, and you have evidence, and the trials aren't rigged and predetermined and in a bipartisan way, every poll that i've seen shows that 65 to 70% of americans believe that this trial should include relevant witnesses who saw the president's conduct. >> all right, let's bring in our own analyst larry gerston. early on today jerry nadler played a clip of lindsey graham during the clinton impeachment trial really saying -- describing what he thought crimes and misdemeanors would mean. how significant and how much play do you think that played with the republican senators in the room? >> i don't think it meant much at all, jessica. the fact of the matter is both sides have changed sides because

in the past, of course, it was democrat bill clinton who was impeached. this time, of course, it's a republican, so we have the players, if you will changing sides on almost all the issues, witnesses, how much time is allowed, the whole tedole. i want to add one thing to what the congressman said, not only are 70% or so of people wanting to hear witnesses, 64% of republicans want to hear witnesses. does that change anything? not so far but we'll have to see among republicans sfwr when you talk about the frustration from democrats and republicans, what do you tell them? what's the end game here for all of us watching this play out, not only in washington, d.c. but where you are tonight in dublin at the town halls? >> i tell them that they're not helpless, and that they should call their representatives, call their senators, especially if you're outside of the country. if you're outside of california and if you know someone in these

states tell a relative in a state like arizona or colorado where we have the best chance of getting someone to allow witnesses. tell them to call their senators. we're not helpless. the senators will react if their constituents are saying allow these witnesses to come forward. >> but realistically will they react? this is politics here, and they're worried about their own re-election campaign. >> but if larry just pointed out, the majority people in their districts including in their party are saying you should have witnesses, i think they could pay a real price. going back to clinton, i think that was viewed largely as a partisan impeachment process but every witness was ultimately interviewed. here when you have the president putting his own interests above the country and there's witnesses who say i saw something, i'm going to come in if you subpoena me and you bury that evidence, i think that's going to concern both republicans and democrats come november zpr it november. >> it's an uphill battle for reasons that we might not necessarily understand initially, and that has to do

with the way states and senators are organized. all you need is 7%, 7% of the nation's population represented by u.s. senators would be enough to stop any kind of conviction. 7% because we've got senators in places like nebraska, north dakota, south dakota, these states that are so unpopulated, all you need is those states from those kinds of senators and believe me, that leaves 93% of the nation out to lunch. >> congressman swalwell, we're now starting to hear that some of the senators are saying they're not going to vote to bring in any witnesses because they fear, they say that the president is going to invoke executive privilege and if he does that we'd be in a long drawn out trial anyway, and so they'd be put on the hot seat and there are some people that are saying isn't that in itself an obstruction of justice?cores? >> theas categorically said that he will not allow witnesses or aduldocus

to come forward, despite these issues already being litigated during the nixon impeachment process. that's what obstruction is, not that there's new areas of the law that he's saying we need to look at. it's the fact that the courts have already said executive privilege does not apply where he is, you know, threatening to invoke it. so i think at the end of the day, people like john bolton, if he is not ultimately called by the senate, before that vote happens, if he was a patriot, he would say if i was called to testify, this is what i would say, and that would show us what he knows and why it's so important that they pursue people like him and his testimony. >> larry, to you first, this entire process, is it going to be damaging to the democrats and then congressman i want to get your answer on that. >> you know, it's really hard to tell because we're in the minule of it right now. the fact of the matter is the democrats are making a compelling case. so far the case has been well done, well executed letting people know where they're

starting, the middle, how they're ending, every single day. it's been beautifully tone. the problem is the republicans did that last time with bill clinton. they laid out a beautiful case, and everybody thought, oh, my goodness. this man is going to be convicted. then the democrats came screaming back and put out an equally good case. we have to see whether republicans can muster anything more than, well, so what? because that seems to be right now the basis of their defense. >> congressman swalwell you said if there is an acquittal that no one -- even if there is an acquittal, there really won't be the truth out there and that even the president isn't getting a fair shake because of the way that the trial is being handled? >> that's right. remember, the president is impeached forever. this is just a matter of whether he's removed from office now or in november. i firmly believe that all the trends in america, not only because of what he did with ukraine but because of what he has not done with health care or stopping gun violence or addressing climate change, he is

going to lose in november. we are just happening to see who he is and what he's done right now. but i think the american people have shown the midterms by voting for the democrats to stand up to the president and caring about what he did in ukraine, 51% wants him removed, that this november you'll see a new government. >> yeah, and this gets, by the way, to the long game. we know the short game. we're seeing it played right now over the next few days, perhaps two more weeks. the long game for the democrats is can we show people more about the president that they may not have known to this point? that's the thing about the platform right now that this impeachment process gives to the democrats to show the public more than they might know about the president and the democrats are thinking, you know, if we can't convict the president, perhaps we can at least weaken him enough now so that the democratic candidate may win in november. >> and speaking of this long game, it's about ten months until the election. we're going to take a short break. we're going to come back with congressman swalwell and larry

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we are back on the special 7:00 edition of nbc bay area news. we are focusing on the impeachment trial. we are joined by congressman eric swalwell from dublin joining us tonight. also larry gerston our political analyst. let's pick it up. we're talking about this long game here, ten months from now in november is the election, and of course now is the impeachment trial, but congressman swalwell, how could this impact the election? you were running for president not too long ago. what do the democrats need to do? can they capitalize on this is this that next debate is february 7th, right around the corner. >> i think any candidate that can show that they will lead the country with integrity and not take us into a mess like this or to lead in such a corrupt way will benefit if they can show the voters that. i really believe this election is going to be about addition versus subtraction, and that's on the issue of health care.

if the democratic nominee can say on health care we will expand access while donald trump continues it try and take it away, i think that is game, set, match for the president because his entire record on health care has been to dismant l it and have people pay more. that's what people voted for at the midterms. i think that's going to be top of mind in november. >> larry, what about potential damage to joe biden? so much of today was spent talking about biden, about biden's son, and as we continue through this, is there a potential there that he could lose his front runner position because of the this negative association, whether it's tru h unknown among many other unknowns in this whole to do. biden is getting a lot of recognition for the fact that he went out to try to get rid of a corrupt prosecutor. remember, that's the reason he's been mentioned initially, of course he was portrayed the other way of getting rid of a prosecutor who might have been helpful to the country.

that's what the president tried to say. if the public understands the biden's true role, the public realizes biden was acting on behalf of the president and on behalf of the european union and on behalf of other nations to get rid of that previous prosecutor, that will help biden. he's a person that has an awful lot of understanding of the world. if on the other hand biden's name gets mishmashed and kind of thrown into the pot of all the corruption and other issues attached to the president in this discussion, yes, it could hurt him. we're not going to know that answer for a while. >> congressman, you said it in your own debate several months ago when you were running for president that it's time for america to pass the torch, at least the democratic party. that might not happen. can vice president biden pivot and make it a successful run for him? >> yes, i believe he can, and if he is the nominee, i will do all i can to work with him and also encourage him to embrace new leadership and have leaders at the tip of the sphere helping

him. but here's what i -- here's the amazing thing about this claim about vice president biden being corrupt. he is not unknown to the american people. he was elected in 19 -- in the early 1970s to the senate. he's been this public office for a very long time. that's the case he's making for why he should be elected, but no one has ever accused him of being corrupt. so the fact that the first time he's been accused of being corrupt is by donald trump i think tells us something, that he is anything but corrupt and donald trump is just projecting. >> congressman swalwell, we're going to give you the last word here. what do you want to see the house managers do tomorrow to move this case ver strong case so far, and i think when they use the past testimony of witnesses through the multimedia displays, that is very, very powerful, but tomorrow i think they need to really pound home that if you

have any question about the evidence in this case, there are thousands of documents you have not yet seen and dozens of witnesses that the president refuses to allow to come forward, so if you have any question, don't vote to acquit the president, vote to allow more witnesses to come in. >> very valuable insight from the democratic point of view. congressman swalwell, thank you for your time tonight. enjoy your town hall meeting in dublin and larry gerston, thank you for your time as well i work hard and i want my money to work hard too. so i use my freedom unlimited card. even when i'm spending, i'm earning 1.5% cash back on everything i buy. earning on my favorite soup... got it. earning on that eclair. don't touch it. don't touch it yet. let me get the big one. nope. this one? nope. this one? no. let me get them all. i'm gonna get them all. it's just the basics. can you double bag this right here?

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