or call during business hours. give america a fair trial. she's worth it. right now at 7:00, the democrats wrapping up their case on the floor of the senate. just an hour ago. we have what's next in the trial. >> plus, a special interview tonight with california republican corrine rankin. she'll share her thoughts on the dems' argument and what to expect when the president's defense team kicks off tomorrow. concerns about the coronavirus, the new way to ease fears ahead of the lunar festivities this weekend. thank you for joining us for this special edition of nbc bay area news. we're focusing president trump. i'm garvin thomas in forage

mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. one of the top moments in day four of the impeachment trial. adam schiff has tied the president he is actions to russia. he recalled senator mckand and the bipartisan effort he led to provide aid for ukraine and obstruct russia. in 2014, he stated, quote, we are all ukrainians. >> krog woman zoe lofgren offered evidence of obstruction of congress. >> no other president facing impeachment has taken the extreme step to prohibit executive witnesses, witnesses from testifying before congress. even president nixon. >> and finally, in a statement from president trump's attorney, jay sekulow, when the defense presentation begins tomorrow, the team will only use three of its eight hours allotted.

today was the last day for the democrats. janelle wang has the key take awa aways. >> republicans still seem united. no sign of any senator flipping sides. democrats are hoping voters are paying attention. >> house impeachment managers closing their opening arguments tonight with an impassioned plea to hold president trump accountable. >> it doesn't matter whether you like him. matter whether you danger to the country because he matters is whether he is a will do it again. >> in their third and final day with the stage to themselves, house managers focused on the final charge that the president obstructed congress during the house impeachment investigation. >> he got caught. and then he worked hard to cover it up. >> democrats laying out a timeline alling president trump pressured ukraine to investigate

his political rival while withholding military aid. then his administration tried to bury -- that he is still hiding the truth by blocking witnesses from testifying and documents from being released. >> president trump's obstruction of the impeachment inquiry was categorical, indiscriminate and historically unprecedented. >> president trump shifting focus today at the march for life while still lashing out on twitter saying democrats are repeating the same old stuff on the impeachment hoax. his legal team set to begin its case tomorrow. the former reality tv star president calling the saturday time slot the death valley of ratings. his supporters still eager to tune in. >> i trust donald trump to do what's best for the country. we'll have a chance to talk about what he's done for you and your family. >> today, democrats closing their case while appealing to american voters, hoping they remove the president from office this november. >> as you mentioned earlier, the

president's legal team plans to do an abbreviated session tomorrow morning and then leave the bulk of their case for monday and tuesday. senators can't ask questions. but they need to submit them in writing to be red aloud by chief justice roberts. >> thank you, janelle. we're going to continue our coverage of the impeachment trial. corrine rankin joins us. she founded the organization that recruits african americans to the republican party. we'll get her take on the trial and what the president's -- our own analyst, larry gerston will be here, too. first, let's show you what's happening around the bay area. >> health officials in the bay area and across the country are on alert tonight. a second case of the coronavirus confirmed in the u.s. a chicago woman rushed from the epicenter -- returned from the epicenter in china. nbc bay area's sharon katsuda

joins us with more. they say there's no reason for people to worry. sharon? >> reporter: that's right, garvin. local health officials are still waiting to hear back from the cdc on the several suspected cases that came out of the alameda county area and sent to the cdc. from now on the local health officials will only report confirmed cases by the cdc. they don't want to alarm people over tests that might come back negative. >> here's the farmers market in chinatown. people touch and sample the goods getting ready for the lunar new year celebrations. unlike the ghosts in wuhan, china, where celebrations have been canceled and everyone is wearing masks. travelers who have been recently to wuhan, china, are screened. the bay area response team addressing the coronavirus says although information was released yesterday saying there were persons under investigation

in alameda county whose tests for the virus had been sent to the cdc, people should not worry. health experts say the people under investigation are quarantined in t homes. >> we not only investigate the case and confirm it once it's positive. we take measures necessary to isolate the case. we do contact investigation or contact casing to see who we think might have been exposed to that situation. >> we are actively, however, monitoring this rapidly evolving situation and preparing to protect and ensure the helalth f all san franciscans. >> until there's more information these travelers are cautious from new york. >> it is a bit of a -- that could be a bit of concern. i'm not going to think about that while i'm here. i'm going to try to get home. >> reporter: we've been hearing firecrackers going off all night. people are ready to celebrate the lunar new year.

if you go out, take extra precautions. wash your hands thoroughly and often. reporting live in oakland, i'm sharon katsuda. nbc bay area news. good advice. downtown san francisco will be packed with tens of thousands of anti-abortion advocate for the annual walk for life. it is expected to be the second largest anti-abortion demonstration in the u.s. after the one today in washington dbs. organizers predict up to 50,000 people will march down market street. anti-war rallies happening in the same area tomorrow. organizers hope the dual demonstrations will stay separate. we don't know what kind of reaction they'll have to our walkers. the fact is, our crowd is so large, sometimes it overwhelms them and they get emboldened. >> tomorrow's 16th annual walk for life begins at 1:30 at the civic center and ends at the embarcadero. dem stray force for the war ral

i will gather at market at noon. last week, former google employees led a vote to kick the company out of the annual pride parade. at issue is -- some say they had homophobic speech. the president of sf pride says the vote didn't represent the larger pride community and isn't legally binding. as of now, google isn't banned from the parade. the board will meet next month to decide what's next. the president's defense team begins arguing its case tomorrow. up next, california republican corrine rankin with us and our political analyst, larry gerston to preview what's next. i am running to defeat donald trump.

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the impeachment trial elicited rhetoric. as the nation debated the president's action. >> to my republican friends, you may be upset about what happened in the ukraine with the bidens. but this is not the venue to

litigate that. >> senators, we are the keepers, the protectors, the defenders of what the framers intended. and we must hold any unprincipaled and undisciplined executive accountable. >> my criticism is directed to both sides. old expression. very few souls are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon. >> you don't realize how important character is in the highest office in the land until you don't have t. >> the trial continues tomorrow with the president's legal defense making its case to the senate. it's at 7:00 a.m. pacific time. with us tonight is republican corrine rankin. she's an advisory board member of the black voices for the trump coalition, also the founder of the legacy republican alliance which looks to recruit african americans to the republican party. she's also a delegate for

california at the rnc in 2016. joining us as he has every evening is our political analyst, larry gerston. corrine, i want to start with you. schumer who said the republican senators are going to have a hard road ahead disproving what the democrats put forward today. i'm sure you don't gree. >> no i adamantly disagree. from the very beginnings, speaker nancy pelosi promised us that she would not move forward with impeachment unless she had overwhelming evidence and bipartisan support. we know they moved forward without bipartisan support. now that the impeachment process has moved toward the senate, the house managers and the senate democrats are asking for more witnesses and more evidence. so what does that tell us? that tells us that the democrats

basically failed to gain bipartisan support and that they never had overwhelming evidence. because if they did, they wouldn't be asking for it now. >> in the traditional trial you have evidence and able to bring in subpoena people and able to bring in witnesses. it seems that for most americans, they're having a hard time understanding why this isn't the case in probably what is one of the most important cases in the united states. >> when the impeachment process was going through the house, the president was allowed to bring witnesses at that point either. >> larry wants to jump in. >> i don't want to step on you at all. you're absolutely right when the intelligence commit eep and the other two committees witnesses witnesses, the president's people weren't there. when it moved to judiciary committee, the president was invited along with members of his staff to be part of whatever deliberations come out. i don't think that would have stopped anything from happening in terms of the democrats. but there is a change.

if i could just tag on to something you said earlier. there's a catch-22 in a sense. you're absolutely right, democrats didn't have the goods, in place of documents, in place of people, witnesses would are right there with the president. on the other side of it, the president said i'm not giving you anything, i'm knot giving you the documents, i'm not giving you my people. they went -- they played cards so to speak with perhaps not the best ones in the deck. the only once they had. whether that's enough is another story. >> that's the question. now that you've watched all of the prosecution case, did they do it enough? did they change maybe even just four minds on the republican side to get what they want? >> well, that would only get them witnesses. that would only get them witnesses if they got the four votes. assuming there were some witnesses, the vote would be anyway. you're talking about 20 votes. 20 republicans who have to move

over. >> they're not going to get it. >> the process has been nothing but align the republican party closer together. it's disenfranchised people who are registered democrats. it's moving independents to the republican party. i think the democrats lost credibility because from day one, even before the president was sworn into office, they were talking about impeachment then. at this point, if he were to jaywalk across the street, they would be ready to impeach him for that. they've lost credibility since january 2017 until today. they finally want to do it. we have an election coming up this november. if the american people are unhappy with this president, they can use their voice at the ballot to decide not to re-elect him as president. but instead of allowing our process, our political process and our democratic process to go through and let the american people decide, the democrats

decided they want to impeach the president and undermine the results of the previous election. it's because of the slate of democrat candidates is a weak slate of kads. >> i want you to dovetail. it's how he closed today. adam schiff says the right thing has to be done. >> that's right. as far as he's concerned, democrats are concerned. the question is, what's the right thing? >> right. >> i think we got to go back just a little bit and talk about who has lost what kind of credibility. it may be the democrats in the house lost credibility. but as far as independents moving the republicans and what not, actually all you have to do is look back to and the tremendous surge of democrats winning all those seats in the house, taking other the majority. i'm not sure -- >> that's typical. >> i'm not so sure that given what's going on, that's going to necessarily drop off. we don't know. we just don't know.

there's no real indicator, enough evidence. >> i think the impeachment process is waking people up and they're starting to realize, our economy is booming, people are happy in their jobs, happy with their 401(k)s. black and hispanic unemployment the lowest in history. the way it's playing out, they're trying to take my job away from me. diminish my 401k. they feel safe in their jobs and retirement funds. i just do not think that the american people are buying into this impeachment process. in fact, they have what's being called impeachment fatigue. so i just -- i don't see it. i see that the democrats are, they're hurting themselves. they're hurting themselves and their party. their elected officials and they're hurting their presidential candidates who have to take time off the iowa trail, the campaign trail to come back

to the senate and sit through an impeachment trial. that could be time that they should be actively campaigning if they want to be the next president of the united states. >> i could hear elizabeth warren when she was asked a couple of days ago, whether this was annish being taken off the campaign trail. even though she was taken off the campaign trail, that was more important to do what's right for america, for the constitution, for us as a nation than what was needed to be done for us as individuals. whether it was our money, our 401(k) or personal campaigns. >> i think every senator, democrat and republican, both believe that being in days was the most important use of their time no matter what. that goes for people on the campaign trail, that goes for people who might want to go home to their states. this is a serious thing, impeachment. no question about that. what's interesting is, as much as you'd like to say that maybe the democrats have lost some speed, i don't know. maybe they have.

but all the public opinion polls when it comes to the impeachment issue show about a 52-42 percentage breakdown. 52% saying he should be convicted. 45% say no. no, he's not going to be convicted. absolutely not. whether they've lost steam -- >> let me remind everyone back in 2016 when all of the poll said that hillary clinton was going to win. every time someone brings up the poelts and what they say, you have to take it with a grain of salt. >> with that in mind, i'm bringing up a poll. take it back from the impeachment. let's talk about the witnesses. we know that when the defense is done, that's the next question. do we call witnesses. new poll comes out 66% of americans want to hear from witnesses in this trial. you had said the defense didn't make their case. but they want to learn more about what's going on. >> well, i think that's fair. if that's the way we're going to

go and call witnesses, it's fair. i mean, again, this impeachment process, again, is urt hurting democrats slate of candidates. when people hear impeachment, impeachment. it all harkens back to joe biden and what him and his son hunter biden with burisma. they think that they're hurting the president, but, again, they're hurting themselves and their slate of candidate. >> i'm going to have you hold on that thought. we're taking a quick braer. we're talking to corrine rank inand larry gerston. we're going to come back and continue this very interesting conversation in a moment.

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this is a determination by president trump that he wants to be all powerful. he does not have to respect the congress. he does not have to respect the representatives of the people. only his will goes.

he is a dictator. >> that was jerry nadler today on the floor of the senate calling president trump, as you heard, a dictator. we're here with corrin rankin from the republican party and rrn. when you hear him say that, are you baffled, are you offended or riled up for the next version as the republicans take the trial tomorrow? >> frankly, i think it's laughable. this is america. we don't have dictators. donald trump was elected president by the american people through votes. the people put him in office. this is not a dictatorship. i think that the democrats are going too far. they're going too far when they use the outlandish terms. i don't know if he use it to fundraise or what benefits they get from that. what people see is that they're going too far. >> overstepped his bounds. >> absolutely. >> same question for you, larry. when you hear representative nadler it say that, do you feel

he went too far? >> he probably could have used different words. through the last few days, the president brought up that the president's behavior is that of a monarch. dictator has a harsher sound to it. it's clear that they believe the president abused the power. that's why they have those two articles. it's up to not only the republicans to decide whether to convict him, unlikely. but also how the public comes away from this whole experience. they may have fatigue. what else will they have? will they have more wisdom and different ideas? we don't know. >> corrine, what do you want to see happen? the republicans have 4 hours to plead their case -- 24 hours to plead their case. what do you want them to do next? what would you like to see? >> i would like to see them argue this based on the facts. keep everything factual. this whole process has been based on hearsay and you

overheard someone at the water cooler that they overheard another person. if we're comparing this to a trial in our court system and judicial system. there has never been a criminal case or civil case brought against someone based on hearsay. as a matter of fact, if you bring a -- if a an attorney brings up hearsay in a court of law, the judge will immediately throw it out. it's not admissible. i think that the team of republican lawyers should just keep everything factual. >> larry, what can we expect to see the next couple of days? we flip the script. tomorrow we have saturday and they take a break on sunday and back for monday and tuesday. >> i don't think it's going to go that long. wouldn't surprise me if it ends by monday. republicans don't have a lot to say. not necessarily a bad thing. you haven't made your case they're saying. so what? so what theory. at least whatever is there is a step away. circumstantial. now, democrats have a comeback. they're comeback is, they didn't let us get what we wanted.

maybe the president didn't do that. maybe the president is dead wrong for that. whatever. the fact of the matter is, they didn't get that evidence. as far as the republicans are concerned, that holds everybody off. >> i asked the democrat that was here kwlyesterday this question. how do we go back to working together when this is all over? >> i think it's going to be really -- i think it's going to be up to californians. if you think about this, californians and new yorkers, it's our representatives that are spearheading this effort. we can really make some moves at the ballot box to not see this type of thing continue. this is a partisan impeachment. just the same as we had with bill clinton. when the republicans did that, it hurt them dearly. so i think history is going to repeat itself. we're going to see at the end of this, the democrat party in and of itself, it's going to be hurt

because of this. >> larry and corrine thank you very much. the most enlightening civil discussion i've heard. >> thank you for having me. week one of the trial is not over yet. the president's defense team kicks off the case tomorrow. as we said at 7:00 a.m. you can watch it here in a special report. on monday, after viewpoints and guests, we're back with a 7:00 p.m. special on the impeachment trial with the republicans turn. we'll hear more from conservative voices an what they think the main take aways are. tom steyer: no child should have to worry

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