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captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan, and this week on "face the nation" senate republicans shut the door on the impeachment trial. while 2020 democrats sprint to the finish line ahead of caucuses, and containing the corona virus here at home, as the u.s. prepares to evacuate, and then quarantine more americans from the epicenter of the crisis. it's all over but the closing arguments, and a final vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment. democrats see it this way. >> do not allow a witness, a document, no witnesses, no documents, in an impeachment
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trial is a perfidy. >> with only two republicans joining them, the result is all but inevitable. we'll talk about committee chairman, adam schiff and ask him what's next in the ukraine quid pro quo investigation. will house democrats subpoena former national security adviser john bolton to appear before congress? plus, as a number of corona virus explodes in china, we'll talk about national security adviser robert o'brien about efforts to keep it from spreading in the u.s. then, on to politics. 2020 democrats stuck in washington for the impeachment trial race to iowa for the final hours of campaigning before the monday night caucuses. former mayor pete buttigieg is right behind front runners, bernie sanders and joe biden. we'll talk with him about his
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they call p himin monday. buttii u know why? nobody can pronounce buttigieg. president trump hit the stump in iowa. but with a lock on the iowa caucuses, he's working on the general election. >> we're going to win the great state of iowa. it's going to be a landslide. if we don't win, we're going to hell, i tell you. >> committee chair woman, ronna maccdaniel will be here. all that and more is just ahd on "face the nation". good morning, and welcome to "face the nation". the number of corona virus cases in the u.s. has risen to
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8. an university of massachusetts boston student who traveled recently to wuhan is the latest to be diagnosed. in china, the number of deaths stands at least 304 with more than 2,000 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. the state department has warned americans against traveling to china, and the u.s. is making arrangements for the 1,000 americans who are still in the epicenter of the crisis to fly home. once that get here, they will be quas quarantined for two wee. there are also new restrictions at 5:00 p.m. today. any american citizens returng be asked to self-quarantine, and be monitored for symptoms of the corona virus felt if you. if you are at american citizen traveling from china you won't be allowed to enter
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the u.s. we begin with national security adviser robert o'brien. good morning, thanks for having me. how are you about the information the chinese government is sharing? do we know where the virus came from? >> we don't how. we're working with the health world organization, and our folks to get to the bottom of it. so far the chinese have been more transparent than in past crises, and we're continue to offer assistance. we send over cdc and other health professionals. we haven't heard back yet from the chinese on the offers but we're continuing to cooperate with them. there were reports that local officials in wuhan didn't flag this, and may have covered up vi ewe've as forrans in now eeingte
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numbers. 2,000 new cases. up to 15,000 cases of infection in china. 300 deaths in china. right now there's no reason for americans to panic. this is a low risk, we think in the u.s., but president trump on the day he took office made protecting americans and keeping them save from terrorists or viruses like the corona virus is a trop priority. we're set to keep america safe. >> china has allowed some world health organization experts in, but you are saying specifically, you want american members of the cdc on the ground. what would their role be. and why is china saying no? >> we don't know, how we know the role of our folks. we have top health officials, and residents with the cdc, and we have the greatest
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medical system in the world. and look, this is a worldwide concern. we want to help the chinese colleagues if we can. and we'll see, we've made the offer, and see i they accept. but this is serious. it's serious for china, and the region and for the world felt that's why we're taking the steps we're taking to protect americans. >> brennan: and you need american boots on the ground to see if you trust the informations? >> i think we can be helpful on the ground. the chinese are providing information. at the same time, we're monitoring ourselves, and what we're doing is monitoring the situation in the united states to make sure americans are continuing to be safe from the virus. >> brennan: the chinese government has taken umbridge with some remarks by officials. we know the chinese and u.s. economies are interdependent in many ways. this is what the commerce secretary said this week. >> it does give businesses yet
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another thing to consider. you had sars. you had the afghan virus tl, and now you have this. it's another risk factor that people need to take into account. i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to north america. >> brennan: is that a fair description of the impact of this virus? >> i think it's a fair description. it's a public health crisis. this is not a trade issue. we just signed a great phase one trade deal. >> brennan: are you saying it will help the u.s. economy at the expense of china? >> i think what the secretary of commerce was saying is we have supply lines extebded far into places where we can't extebtd the political or health risks. american companies push supply chains out to as a. what secretary ross is saying is there's a danger, and ia risk
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>> if you want to write a book, you have to put that through the review process, and very carefully and determine whether there's classified material. they've been in touch with ambassador bolton's lawyer. they'll continue to be in touch. you've seen the letter, and continue to be in touch with ambassador bolton. what we need to do is make sure that state crets and important classified information that could jeopardize american lives aren't released. >> brennan: did anyone at the nsc leak it? >> i said on the record, i'm confident that the leaks of that book did not come from the nsc. >> brennan: is anyone on the nsc verify what bolton said. what about for nsc?
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did bolton memorialize the conversations? >> it's going to be investigated. the notes ambassador bolton has or didn't have. and what the president has said, at least with respect to the allegation that ambassador bolton made that he told him to call zelensky. the president said it didn't happen. i believe bill barr mike pompeii said it didn't happen. if someone has information we have to be sense tifr about the classified information. >> brennan: we turn to the chairman of the house intelligence committee. adam schiff. good morning, mr. chairman. >> good morning >> brennan: the "wall street journal" wrote, unlike past
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impeachment debates with nixon this covers no common ground between the two parties. what do you think this impeachment accomplished? >> what's remarkable is you have republican senators coming out and saying the house proved its case. the house proved the corrupt scheme that they charged in the articles of impeachment. the dollars to coerce the ally to help him cheat in the next election. that's remarkable when you have senators on both sides of thsthould the president be removed from office because he's found guilty of these offenses? it's important for the country to understand what this president did. we've proved it. and it's important the sent having found him guilty, remove him from office,
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because he's threatening to still cheat in the next election by soliciting foreign interference. >> brennan: you know the votes aren't there to remove the president from office. senators rubio and portman they found the actions inappropriate, but not enough to oust him. so the bottom line here seems to be the president will get away with what they're calling inappropriate. what are democrats going to do? what do you do next? >> well, first of all, to call solicitation coercion, blackmail of a foreign power, an ally at war by withholding military aid and cheating in the next election, merely inappropriate doesn't do justice to the gravity of this undermined national security as well as the ally and threatens integrity of our elections.
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now if the senators won't act even though they acknowledged what the president did -- i think it's enormwas impeached, country is moving away from democratic ideals. i think by standing up to this president as we have by making the case to the american people by exposing wrongdoing, we're helping to slow the momentum away from democratic values until that progress away from democracy can be arrested and we return to normalcy and support for the founders ideals. but i'm not letting the senators off the hook. we're still going to go into the senate this week and make the case that the president needs to be removed. it will be up to the senators to make that final judgment, and the saeshts will be held accountable for it. >> brennan: given where the numbers are now, you said in the past you would injury
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subpoenaing john bolton in the house. is it inevitable? will you subpoena him? >> i don't want to comment at this point on what our plans may or may not be with respect to john bolton, whether it's in pm before the house or it's in his book, or it's in one form or another, the truth will come out, and continue to come out. indeed, margaret, one of the astounding things that shows you how disingenuous the president's defense is. the lawyers at the justice department revealed to the department they're withholding documents from office of management and budget showing the personal motivation, we assume because the communications involving the president and vice president and top people around him about the freeze. they waited until midnight so that senators voting to whether to compel these documents wouldn't have the information. that shows you the lengths to which the president's lawyers cover this up. they're going t. lost the vote
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on witnesses by two votes. lisa murkowski said that the articles of impeachment were rushed and flawed. she was looking at the work you did. when she announced her vote against witnesses went on to say given the partisan nature of this impeachment from the begining and throughout, i've come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the senate. i don't believe the continuation of this process will change anything. how do you respond to this? >> well, look, i would only say with can respect to senator murkowski and other senators they're not mere spectators. when the senate laments they're not a fair trial in the senate, it's up to the senators to make it a fair trial. it's within their power. with four senators saying we're going to demand a fair
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trial no matter what the president says, there would have been a fair trial with witnesses and testimony. powerless to do something about this. there's nothing i see that we could have done differently. as the senators admitted, we proved our case. we proved our case. now the president's lawyers said time and again through sheer reputation to make something true that is in fact untrue that the impeachment process was different than nixon and clinton. the president had the same due process rights which he did not avail himself the process of as in the prior ones. that's not an excuse by any senator for not fulfilling obligation to hold a fair trial. they're not spectators. they have control of the proceedings, and for whatever reasons chose not to, and for those who say let the voters
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decide when the president is trying to cheat in the election, and they don't want to the voters to have the full information and want theentinueo john bolton that you initially of deputy cuperman that the house then pulled back from. this is one of the chief criticisms of the case that you made. that you didn't take it to the court. the house could have had a win forward. how do you respond? was is a misstep? >> no, it wasn't at all. and i think it's a disingenuous ourgmen argument. if we continue with litigation with don magan, and we subpoenaed him, and we're nowhere near final resolution, it would probably be one to two years before a decision on john bolton, that means the president would have been able to cheat in the next election
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with impunity because they delayed and played out the clock. as we showed during the trial it's worse than that. while the president's lawyers are in the senate court saying the house should have made more efforts to overcome our obstructionism, and making that remarkable argument in th they were making that argument in court other lawyers were saying judge, you can't hear t to testify because you're not empowered to enforce congressional subpoenas. they're arguing out of both 't get away with that. chairman schiff thank you for joining us. we'll be back in a minute with pete buttigieg. stay with us. mmm... good. so i've spent my life developing technology to help the visually impaired.
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pete buttigieg. he's kicking off his last day of campaigning from deboy. good morning to you. >> good to have you. it is a very fight race out there in the iowa. it looks like a three way fight between you, senator bernie sanders and joe biden. looking at the latest tracker poll at cbs, biden and sanders are at 25% this morning. you are just a few points behind you persuade moderates to vote for you instead of biden? it's making sure we have the right approach to defeat donald trump. we don't have to choose between revolution and establishment. there's another way that i think is the most effective for governing and for winning. remember, every single time my party has won the white house in the last half century it's candidates looking to the future who is not associated with white house, and didn't
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have an office there or not very long. it was opening a door to a new generation, and as i talk on the ground, they're focused on how their lives will change with a better president. there's an emphasis on making sure we have the campaign that will win against donald trump, and i will beat him. >> brennan: do you think to persuade people that not having experience is the best way to draw a drns between you and joe biden? what i'm saying is if you're looking for the person with the most years spent in washingt you have awh offer wita different perspective formed on the ground, governing as an executive, but also focused on bringing solutions from our communities to washington, and i think that's the approach that most of the people i encounter are looking for. we're not going to be able to go up against this president looking to the same playbook. this isn't just to win, but in
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order to govern. >> brennan: before you get to governing, you have to wib the horse race. how due finish and define success in iowa? >> i leave that to the pundits. it's important for us to do well in iowa. the process is proven that we can earn support, that we have the right kind of campaign organization, that we can turn folks out with enthusiasm. that starts tomorrow night, and we're aware of that. i'm not only delivering this message to many iowanins as i can get in front of, but i've built a ground organization and i'm proud of their methods. it's earning us support every day, and we're going to blgd th build the turnout. >> brennan: you say it's important to do well. advisers told reporters in iowa, that doesn't necessarily mean you need to win in order to show you're viable for
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super tuesday. is that your strategy? skip ahead to the super tuesday states? >> advisers, analysts and pundits can figure it out, what i know is you need a strong showing. campaign strategists will focus on that, i'm focusing on iowans and a message about making sure we not only replace this president, but replace the president is somebody who is ready to deal with the issues from climate to gun violence and changing in the economy. are g go well. we're counting on a good finish in iowa, and going straight to new hampshire and nevada and south carolina and other states. >> brennan: take a break and come back to the conversation with mayor pete. stay with us. ♪
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