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about why he ordered the killing of soleimani. our foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin is with me in theis studio. as been breaking in the last few hours. what we ow about this? nick: i just got off the phone with a u.s. military official who described in detail exactly the size of this attack. a little after 1:00 a.m. local with 15 rockets fired from inside iran, that is significant, we will talk about that in a second. some video believed to be the rockets fired. 15 rockets fired from inside iran toward bases iraq. 10, theti majority, tar one base, the al-assad base outside we believe this video is from that base. 10 of the 15 -- sorry, ballistic missiles fired at that base.

an additional missile fired at a separate u.s.-based in the north of the country, kurdish territory,here the u.s. has been fighting isis and training iraqi forces. frur of these missiles failed. 15 missiles fire iran into iraq at the u.s. pieces with -- bases with u.s. soldiers on them. judy: u.s. troops located at these bases. there are other u.s. bases around iraq? nick: yes, the u.s. does not like to talk about the number, but iran chose these targets, chose the main u.s. airbase in iraq where president trump visited, met troops. that is the base president trump has been talking about, how important and expensive it is. they did not hit other bases. judy: what do we know about

casualties? nick:it the my saying they do not have an estimate, but a did -- i did talk to a defense official the answer was, we have good early warning systems. let's put that strange comment into context. these missiles are flying from 180 miles away. they take five to seven minutes to get to these bases. 30 seconds or so for the u.s. to spot them, only 10 or 20 seconds more to know they aring. there are three to four minutes for the basesreo know they coming, not a lot of time. but the u.s. has bn fortifying these bases, working with soldiers to be able to hunker down quickly and those minutes really do allow soldiers to get

to a place they can withstand impact of the missile the u.s. military hinting those fortifications were sful. judy: iranians have been saying since the killing of soleimani there would be retaliation. the u.s. has had every reason to expect something. one had to assume they were getting ready. nick: not only were they getting seady, they put paws on the i campaign. the reason u.s. troops are there is toight isis and train iraq soldiers. they put a pause on that campaign so they could fortify. they moved to troops away from the bases they thought were more vulnerable. let me show you those bases. these ballistic missiles were shot from the western part of iran. you see baghdad in iraq. near baghdad, al-assad airbase.

and the north, the second base, that ishe base, the targets. judy: it reminds us how close they are, next to each other. working with iraqi militias and others. nick: soleimani was killed, the uss, because he leads a of pro-iran groups, the sheer proxies, all over the region. proxies,ran uses those allied groups, in order to attack the u.s.. what is significant about this strike tonight, iran's revolutionary guaru. fired at te , not through a proxy,y t announced they had done it and the u.s. is blaming revolutionary guard -- for doing e is. this is rst time iran has struck at u.s. bases and claimed

credit. it is also the first time they have fired a missile at the.s. or any country's military in more than 30 years. iran uses other groups, a netwk of proxies around the region. they declared they did it themselves. judy: militia groups, hezbollah and others in other countries. e all of this takes pl a time when people looking at the u.s. relationship with iran are asking bigger questions about what d consist of?tionship nick: and what is the u.s. strategy for escalation or de-escalation? i talked to two experts about the question of strategy, and the initial reports. one worked at the pentagon during the bush and obama administrations and now is at the school of advanced

international studies. and another, senior director for the security council staff. now at the hudson institute, a think tank in washington. i began by asking mara -- asking mara. >> this is probably the first event we will see in alew of others. the u.s. set a new bar by killing qasem soleimani, who we can all agree was a horrific human being, a national security interest. betting killing him, it is a new bar. now there iranians are retaliate -- starting to retal we will see more. nick: critics ofk the attre worried about a cycle of escalation happening after this attack. you have that worry now as we see pirhaps the of a few attacks from iran? >> it d not start with the

attack on qasem soleimani. irthians had been escalating in a very deliberate fashion since st april. deliberate, but incremental. that escalation ended with the killing of aamerican. now we have new escalation where they are attacking us. we have no choice, we are under attack, this is war. have no choice but to win the escalation ladder. nick: are you worried and do we have no choice? do we have to keep climbing the ladder? >> it is profoundly concerning. this has been going on for a the u.s. iranians have taken ndile. escalatoryteps. but hitting someone so senior in the security apparatus in entirely different ballgame. it is still unclear why the u.s. hit soleimani when and where

they hit him. i fea we will spin further out of control without clarity as to why. nick: do you believe the trump administration has clarity as to why they hit qasem soleimani and why this escalation is ok? >> absolutely. the iranians made a decision. qasem soleimani was implementing it, to throw the u.s. out of iraq. were attackingy our bases, that is why they killed an american and attack to the embassy. we saw what was happening. militias on the ground in iraq are armed, trained and equipped by iran. eryone knows that. trump said we will not play this game anymore when y hit us with militias. we know you are doing it, we will respond to you. this is not something trump brought on the u.s. the iranians have been fighting this war against usince last april.

nick what about this idea that it was iran's escalation? >> this is a story that lasts years, to put it lightly. it i car the u.s. and iranians are now in a tit-for-tat escalatory spiral. it is hard to imagine how this turns out well. frankly, soleimani isba py spinning with delight in his grave. if one of his goals was to push the u.s.ilitary out of iraq, he is getting his wish sooner than later. nick: you argued before that iran was controlling a lot of these militias. the u.s. military has gre t influence ov iraqi training ira military and fighting alongside the iraqi military. abutt this point, the prime minister of iraq is suggesting the u.s. leave. are you concerned the u.s. -- said theime ministers u.s. should leave?

th the prime minister is a lame duck. e is a constitutional crisis in iraq. until there is a new government, the statements he is making do not matter. we are under attack as we speak from the irgc, firing n ssiles from i an american base. the question is not what the prime minister of iraq is saying. tithe qu is, what are we going to do about this direct attack on american forces from the iranians? there is no choice. if we are to achieve any goals in the middle east, we have to demonstrate to the world and the iranians that they cannot treat nick: is this how you see it? does the u.s. need to respond back where we were, raising the

escalatory letter? >> the conversation has completely changed because of thisttack. the u.s. is divided from its european allies. iran is facing the largest protests in 40 years. the fight against islamic state is now on hold at best. it is hard to figure out how it will sustain deterrence. nick: the coalition in iraq didn ledge the fighting against isis was on hold. therth have been side effects of qasem soleimani's death. are you worried about how the u.s. responds? >>re theest threat the u.s. has faced in the middle east the last decade is the rise of iran around the region, the proliferation of militias across the arab world, the distribution of precision guided weaponry, and the effort of iran to use

those new positions to undermi the american security system in the region. if we are going to stay in this region and lead, we have to demonstrate we cannot be pushed ound by iran. if we're ever going to achieve iranithout nuclear weapons, which four presidents s haved is unacceptable, we have to win this decisively. icthere is no other choe. nick: mike brings up s iran has beeading missiles, this is a response however from iran itself, the revolutionary guard. explain the siificance and how impoant this moment is. >> we are in probably the most tense moment the u.s. has been in the middle east in decades. easily sense iraq invasion. what is ironic, the trump administration has continued to

be, like previous administrations, embroiled in middle east purgatory. foits strategy osing on china, geopolitical challenges, are going to melt away as the middle east continues to surge to the top of the priority list. nick: can you respond to that? >> t united states is much more powerful than iran. iran is like puffer fish. itl looks power because of these weapons and its boldness. it is suffering an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy at home. onits posi in iraq has been challenged by protesters on the ground who wirt iran out of . it is behaving this aggressive fashion to look stronger than it is. we can best this adversary with relative ease. nick: thanks very mucto you both. judy: we know the white house

waalconsidering the presiden address to the nation tonight, a televised aidress. they d against it. nick, we do not know what the administration thinks. nick:ia.s. off will be weighing a response, a military response. you heard mike argue that point. thisas a big escalation, ach larom iran taking credit. there will be some arguing this is nowhere near the level, nowhere near equal, to what the u.s. did, disturbing or killing qasem soleimani. regardless, most tense ment in 15 years. tonight's attack in which president trump was pressed towh explaihe ordered soleimani 's killing and why more than 50 people were killed dqasem soleimani's funeral procession.

let's show you our story from earlier day recapping those events. >> a-day and iran meant for a military commander would mean mourn many more. the stampede happeneding qasem soleimani. of shoes. ding before hundreds of thousands, the commander of the revolutionary guard promised vengeance. >>nece age wares, we will take revenge. but if they take another step in response, we will set fire to the places they love. they know where these places are. nick: that language was echoed by their top diplomat who also shut the door to future prisoner swaps. >> the u.s. is bound toeceire a definitivonse for its outrageous act at a time and place where it would feel the utmost pain. nick: the new york times

reported ayatoll hominy -- khamenei wants it to be directon and proporti, openly carried out by iranian forces. that is in contrast to attacks by proxy. i ran designated the pentagon and the u.s. army organizations. at the pentagon mark esper said the ball was in iran's cot. >> the u.s. is not seeking war with iran, but we are prepar. to finish o we are seeking a diplomatic solution, but this will require iran to de-escalate. nick: the u.s. military said it mistakenly sent a draft letter suggesting the u.s. was withdrawing troops. today iraq'saretaker prime minister said he treated it as policy but esper sai there was no change. >> we are not leaving iraq.

letter does not constitute policy change. nick: he reiterceed the intell that led the u.s. to target qasem soleimani suggested imminent attack in the u.ys after the siege on th embassy. >> lk no further than the days that led up to the strike on soleimani. pres. trump: we are, according to various laws,upposed to be very careful with their cultural heritage. you know what, if that is what thelaw is, i like to obey law. nick: lawmakers continue their clash over trump's iran policy. >> the president promised he would not drag the american people into another endless war the middle east. the president's actioy have seemincreased the risk we

could be dragged into exactly such a war. nick: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell -- >> when he takes rl action to counter lethal threat against americans. nick: officials are briefing congress, tryinrt to create bian support as they awaits iran' respone. obviously, we know the first attack. judy: the attack on american bases, but no casualties is the word we hear. thank you for your reporting. ♪ judy: russia's president vladimir putin travel to syria as the u.s. confrontation with iran boil -- roiled the middle east.

putin met with bashar al-assad in damascus. russia intervened in the syrian war in 2015. in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell announced republicans agreed on rules for president imtrump'achment trial. to delaye has the vote a decision on calling witnesses until after opening statements. the same process was used in president clinton's impeachment trial. >> wt was good enough for clinton in an impeachment trial should have been good for trump. we are saying we will get started in exactly the same way. 100 senators agreed to, 20 years ago. judy: democrat say it is different now because the trump white house blocked officials from testifying. senate minority leader chuck schumer said he is not iving >> not only hopeful, but there

is a decenthance we will get enough republicans to vote for witnesses and documents. if there are witnesses and documents, we will have the ability at the beginningofnd end he trial to get votes. judy: house speaker nancy pelosi refused to send articles of impeachment to the senate in a bid to press for witnes testimony. we will dig into this more later. the u.s. justice department called for michael flynn, president trump's former security advisor, to serve up to six months in prison. federal prosecutors said flynn stopped cooperating in the russian investigation and has attacked them instead. he faces senncing in three weeks for lying to the fbi. puerto rico under a state of emergency after an early morning eahquake. the tremor shook the u.s. secretory and 3 million people

with substantial damage along ere soucoast. john yang has our report. cars crushed under collapsed johncars crushed under col cpsed rages,rches reduced to : rubble, scenes of devastation after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted puerto ricans before dawn today. >> i was sleeping when the house began falling down, bit by bit. i grabbed my bag i had prepared and ran outside and jumped off the balcony. man, it was terrible. i don't wish that on anyone. john: a series of quakes alongth ree fault lines has shaken puerto rico since christmas. this mornin's was centered just off the southern coast near ponce, and did its heaviest damage in that region. one man in ponce died when a wall caved in on his house. large swathes of the island were left without power, and some 300,000 customers lost water service. the iconic beachside punta ventana rock formation collapsed into the sea. governor wanda vazquez declared

an emergency and said the earthquake damagis the worst since 1918. >> we are talking about a situation that puerto rico has never been exposed to during th2 lastears. so, we are talking about something for which we could not prepare. ng we are talbout a situation that happens without notice. john: and with aftershocks rippling across the island throughout the day, many puerto ricans are unnerved. >>hat i want to do now is leave. i want to leave, and not stay there anymore, because noiv longerin peace. if i want to go in a room, i have to think about it twice. he if i go toitchen, i am concerned. i don't want to go in there. john:ni officials are w of more tremors to come on an island still rovering from the devastating hurricane maria in 2017. for the "pbs newshour," i'm john yang. judy: trail -- in australia, firefighters take advantage of

rainytu tempes. so far fires have killed 25 people and destroyed 2000 homes in recent weeks. in new south wales some 130 fires are still burning and 50 are out of control. crews say there is only so much they can do. >> there were burns to the coastline. it isoo large to put out. anhing we are doing is not working. that is withiraft as well. we could slow it down, but very hard. judy: the latest estimates put damage from the firesio near $50 mi facebook announced a ban on sophisticated doctored videos known as deepfakes that use artificial intelligence to

generate false but realistic video clips. it is part of an effort to fight online misinformation. the trump mystery swanting to rescind a rule against racial segregation and housing. it mandates local plans to address the problem. ide department of housing and urban development he rule is overly burdensome. on wall street, worries about iran phed shocks stocks down. dow jones lost 119 points. the nasdaq fel three points and the s&p 500 slipped nine. we speak withere sanders just weeks before the iowa caucuses. the standoff between senator mcconnell and speaker pelosi over trump's impeachment trial and much more. >> this is the "pbs newshour"

from weta stuos in washington and from the west at the walter cronkite bureau of journalism in arizona. judy: democratic presidential candidates have been speaking about iran as they seek to contrast their foreign policy visions against that of e current commander in chief. in new york city, former vice presidenjoe biden said president trump's decision to strike out at qasem soleimani was dangerously incompetent. mr. ben: the question is, was the reward of removing a bad actor worth the risk of what comes next? we don't have evidence to suggest that trumpour anyone him thought serious about -- seriously about that calculus. judy: meanwhile, in an interview with abc today, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren expressed again her own doubt that the president made the ght move. misses warren: -- mrs. warren:

he is part of a group that our federal government has designated as a terrorist. the question, though, is, what's the right response? and the response that donald trump has picked is the most ofcendiary and has moved us right to the edgar. judy: joining burlington to us from burlington to discuss the soleimani attackore, democratic presidential candidate and independent esenator from vermont ber sanders. senator sanders, thank you very much for being with us aga. let me ask you first about iran. you ha criticized president trump for targeting, the killing of general soleimani you calledan issassination. but if the administration is able to produce hard evidence that he was going to attack americans, would you then say this was justified? mr. sanders: well, that is a hypothesis. we have not seen that evidence. frankly, i doubt tt evidence is there. judy, i -- what is going on right now feels to me exactly what i saw in 2002 and 2003.

and that was the lead-up and the justification for the war in iraq. i opposed that war vigorously, and it turned out to be one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the history of the united states. a war with iran would likely be even worse. so, i will do all that i can to make sure that, in this instce and in othernstances, we solve international conflict diplomatically, and that we try to put an end to endless wars. dy: senator, you have said that this was in violation of international law. so, does that mean you believe president trp has violated -- has coitted a war crime? mr. sanders: look, when you goas around anating leadership in governments, you are setting a precedent which says to anyy coun earth, hey, all we got to do is name these people terrorists, call them what you want, and we can assassinateth .

i think the world and this country is sick and tired of endless wars that have cost us trillions of dollars, ile our infrastructure is collapsing, our health care system is dysfunctional. we have to deal with climate change and invest heavily in transforming our energy system. judy, in my view, we do not need to spend trillions of dollars more in a war. judy: very quickly, on iraq, you have called previously for removing u.s. troops from iraq. as you know, the iraqi parliament has said u.s. troops should leave. would you, as president, have u.s. trooppulled out? mr. sanders: look, i want u.s. oroops out of iraq. i have wanted that long time but you bring them out in a measured, intelligent way, working with the iraqi government and with our international allies. what's happened here, after the loss of 4,500 american lives, hundreds of thousands of iraqi lives, trillionsf dollars, essentially, we are being booted

out of iq. so, do i want to end the war there in iraq and bring american troops home? absolutely. that is what i will do as president. but i don't -- it's a sad state of aairs to see, after all o this sacrifice, to see our troops booted out of the country. ju: senator, a couple o questions on domestic policy. there are polls now that show most voters would prepare to build on obamacare, rather than go to a single-payer system, which is what you advocate. mr. sanders: well, depending on the ll that you look out the vast majority of people in the democratic primarieslu ably support a medicare for all, single-payer system, because they undstand that, when we are spending twice as much per capita as the people of any other country, and yet 87 million americans are uninsured or underinsured, 500,000 people t bankrupt because of medically related bills, alle same time as the health care industry

and the drug companies made $100 llion in profit last year, people understand this system has got to change. and my own view is that, after 100 years of talk in this country about the need to c guarantee heale for all, now is the time to take on the greed and corruption of the drug companies and the insuranceco anies, expand medicare, and provide a medicare for all, single-per system for all. it will cost the average american substantially less than what he or she is paying today. that is the direction we have got to go in. mr. sanders: well, in connection with that, senator, you recently acknowledged that a lot of people would losjobs in a transition to medicare for all. you talked just recently about a program to provide jobs, to provide job training to people j who lose thes under the program. arleyou guaranteeing that pe who lose their jobs under this new system would have a job? mr. sanders: we have built in a

very generous transition period. one of theeasons we're spending twice as much per person as any other country on health care is, we have enormous administrative waste. we have all kis of people in the bureaucracy administering thousands of separate health insurance plans. we need more doctors, nurses, psyclogists, psychiatrists, counselors. we need people to deal with the crisis of opioid addiction. we don't need more people just arguing for -- representing the insurance companies, telling us that we're not covered, when we thought we were. so we have a very generous transition period. but, at the end of the day, medicare for all will create hamore jobs in health carewe will lose, because, when you open the doors to health care for all americans, we're going to need more practitioners, more people providing health care not just filling out formssind having a m bureaucracy. judy something else, senator.

in recent days, you have been saying you don't believe joe biden can win this election, because you said he would bring a lot of luggage. you said you don't think he would create the kin excitement and energy that's needed to defeat president trump. ide you saying absolutely he would lose to prt trump? mr. sanders: no. no, no, no, no. i'm not saying that at all. i think that any of -- i happen to believe, it will noshock you, i am sure, that i am the strongest candidate to beat trump. but i ink other democrats, including joe biden, can do it oi well. but here's my. to beat trump, you're going tove need a masoter turnout. and the only way you do that is through a campaign of energy, of excitement. you have got to bring working people. br you have got tg young people into the political process. the truth is, as i think most people know, joe bided for the war in iraq. joe voted disastrous trade agreements like nafta and pntr, which cost us millions of jobs.

joe voted bankruptcy bill which really has hurt working-class families. joe was on the floor of the senate talking about, in hisvi , the need to cut social security, medicare and medicaid. i don't think i think trump will have a field day with that. and i just don'think that the biden campaign can create thexc energy and theement we need to defeat the worst president in the modern history of this counjuy. : so, i know u believe you wod win thnomination, but, as you sd, if you didn't, a you prepared to support mr. biden? mr. sanders: absolutely. judy: what about -- i want to ask you about one of the other candidates, though, cause you have talked a lot about the billionaire class. would you be prepared to support mike bloomberg, if he were the nominee? mr. sanders: i will support -- look, as i have said many time, i think at, in trump, we have a pathological liar, the leader of a corrupt administration, a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a ponophobe.

i am -i will s any democrat who wins the nomination. hopefully, i will be supporting myself. judy: senator bernie sanders, joing us from burlington, vermont, thank you very much. mr. sanders: thank you. ♪ judy: we turn back a clash that features two familiar figures, mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi. for more, lisa des jardins. >> the impeachment process reagainstdent trump remains stuck in neutral with still no wordn wncy pelosi might transmit those articles of impeachment. to make sense of t impasse, i am joined by two capitol hill

veterans who worked as their aides. one was chief of staff from 2013 to 2017 as house minority leader. another was mcconnell passed chief of staff from 1991 to 1996 pete -- 1996. no one knows these leaders better. speaker pelosi is tryg to do something unprecedented, use timing to change the shape of the nate trial to get more witnesses. what is the strategy and how do you think she looks at anyisks ? what is she doing? >> what she is doing is important. we have to take a step back. it took five weeks for the imachment articles of president clinton to be transmitted to the senate. we are close. at the moment wha she is focusing on is the constitution.

critical issues before our country. the house did vote on articles of impeachment. hehowever,resident and white house demanded none of the witnesses the house wanted to come before the congress and testify. what pressure can she put on mcnnell? we have seen ambassador bolton said he was willing to tesfy and the president continues to say interesting things. renault do you think -- >> do you think leader mcconnell is feelin pressure? what is going on behind the scenes? i do not think he feeling pressure. one of the things about the senate, not just leader mcconnell, but an institutiona prerogative.

you look at the constitution and it does not say a lot, but some the house has the sole power to impeach. the operativ wordn both is sole. each has its own respective role. i think speaker pelosi made a miscalculation thinking she could forcee' the se's hand to do something he was not inclined do with respect to agree to somebody ee's process. i think it is starting to fall apart. >> i wanted sound of what play some sound of what speaker pelosi and leader mccoecell have saidtly about impeachment in the last few months. >> te want you to defent constitution, which has a republic in it, as benjamin franklin said, a republic, if you can keep it. we see tt as our responsibility, to keep the republic, instead of an attitude of, article 2ays i can do whatever i want. >> we exist becae the founders

wanted an institution that could stop momentary hysterias and partisan passions from damaging our republic. >> article 2, a reference to the president's constituti.al powe these are both students of history. however, they also have an urgent goal, keeping their majorities, a political goal. i want to ask both of you, how do both of these leaders look at the politics how important is , th in their thinking? >> right now, we are sitting here discussing witnesses by democrats. democrats are demanding that leader mcconnell provide an opportunity for these witnesses senate andore t say what they know. >> but could posi look like she's obstructing the process if she waits too long? and could she waits too long and could not -- if she waits too long and , could that hurt some of her vulnerable democrats?

>> there is nothing in the constitution, as my friend steven law said here, that says that the house has to transmite thticles in a certain amount of time. so, clearly, she is using this time to make the case we are protecting the constitution, we one protecting the institu and we are trying to ensure that the american people actually get a chance to hear from those witness. look, if i was leader mcconnell, i tuld think to myself, i w to make sure that the president's fully exonerated, end i have the opportunity to bring before thee these witnesses who the president says will enerate him. it is important to point out the rules that are now likely to be adopted in the senate to direct the trial are identical to the rules that were agreed upon on a unanimous and bipartis basis to control the trial in the ofsenate of the impeachmen william jefferson clinton. under those rules, there is no additional evidence, no exclusion of seeing witnesses and taking their

testimony. but it starts out on the front end with jt receiving the articles and having the case presented byoth sides. at that point, there is an opportunity, if it's deemed necessary by the sene, to call witnesses to have additional testimony.t the idea te senate is against any potential for witnesses testifying is simply a construct of the other side. the key issue here is simply, does the senate get to decides its ru. others thrusting that upon them? and do we have a procedure that works? you asked about the i think most people outsi of hothouse that is washington just are probably viewinimpeachment as a piece of overchewed gum. they have heard about it for a long time. a lot of democrats have been talking about it since the president was inaugurated. and i think they would like a process that works eiously to bring this to whatever conclusion needs to be brought . i think the speaker made a miscalculation, deciding to try

this theatrical exercise. i'm going to hold back the articles of impeachment until i get what i want out ofhe senate. now that i think that's starting to fall apart, i think that move is starting to look r and more political than i think she wanted it to be. >> so much to talk about, and we have just one minute left. both of your former sses are very good and few people realize crat they don't seem tk the whip, so much as they spend a lot of time knowing their members and working with their members. but, clearly, the votes right now, nadeam, are not to remove this president. i want to ask both of you, hiquickly, how much do you this could impact the election in november, what's happening with impeachment now, briefly? i don't think they're thinking about how it's going to impact the election. ey are thinking about how this will impact a fair trial in the senate. that's why the speaker did what she is continuing to do, making sure that the senate has a triat that is fair, resents all the evidence, and putting some pressure on speaker on leader mcconnell to move forward. >> steven?

>> it is partly my job to think abe political impact in the elections. i doubt impeachment is going to be the dominant issue in senate elections next fall. i do think there are going to be house members, democrats who ran in districts that trump won, who prised that they were going to trhowork with this president are largely w going to be ing mostly on impeachmen for some of them, i think that's going to be a very difficult thing to explain to their constituents. we will see. they're talking about other issues now, but i think we will be talking about this more. you, nadeam elshami, steven law. appreciate it. ♪ judy: political oil deepened in venezuela as supporters of nicolas maduro tried to open a new session in the natural -- national assembly without opposition members or their

leader ju the u.s.an guao. g recognizesuaido -- the u.s. recognizes guaido >> he tried to force his way again into the parliament he is supposed to be running. when he arrived, opposition members were outside and pporters of nicolas maduro had taken their seats. on the aornda, major items country in economic freefall, raisinginimum wage, addressing prisoners. one elected speakny in what ma believed to be a sham vote. >> this is a farce. they have t paid pe sit in our seats, they shouted. >> w are 120 members of parliament who have the right to be here shouted another.

mbers of parliament have been stuck outside while the new parliament startedaiithout them. do reached another entrance behind us, putting his supporters inside. natural guard troops tried to fight him back but he remained defiant. >> leaders of the national assembly are her this is the session. did you see a person running to hide because he cannot face anyone? the leadership is here. >> tro ts tried to blockhe door to the assembly, b the crowd pushed through, making its way into the hall and taking a victory lap. members were just beginning -- the lights went out. >> guaido and his supporters stormed the palace. you can see the empty seats

caught the lights -- empty seats. they cut the lights. >> undeterred they continued on, swearingen guaid as the new speaker of parliament. we want to live, be reborn, speak no more of death, but ina.ead of life in venezuel >> in washington mike pompeo congratulated guaido. >> maduro's campaign of intimidation and bribery could not derail venezuelanemocracy. >> after guaido left, maduro's backers regrouped and reentered parliament to have their own session and ta their own victory p. all of this leaving the p venezuelanple to wonder which one of these dueling

parliaments and leaders is in power and which will address the country's dire economic problems. ♪ judy: the lonawaited criminy trial of har weinstein began in new york city this week. >> more tn 80 women accused weinstein of sexual harassment, assault or misconduct going bace decades, but tew yorkerrial wh jury selection began today is byed on charges brought b two women. he faces one count of rape and one of sexual assault. he maintains that he maintains the encoun hours after the trial began a separate rape charge was brought against weinstein in california.

jodi kantor and a new york times reporter first broke the weinstein story more than two years ago and they co-authored the book "she said." welcome back to the "newshour." a lot of people will think when so many came up with allegations, why is this case based on just the stories of t of those women? >> so many of the allegations against harvey weinstein, an ocean of complaints, are not eligible for criminal prosecution. when you apply the statute of limitations it gets smaller. when you talk about acts that are not just sexual harassment, many allegations against weinstein are disturbing. tales of harassment, abusive havior. they are not necessarily criminal, so. it gets small if you talk about women willing

to come forward and participate the ocean gets even smaller. what we are leftsith this very narrow case that stands contrast to theuge number of allegations against him. that is pt ofew why the from los angeles of him being charged was so significant because it meansarvey weinstein is fighting these charges on two fronts. >> what about those cases in new york and los angeles, could they impact each other? >> they significantly increase harveyal weinstein's l jeopardy. even if he gets offhen new york ill face a trial in los angeles. there is an alleged weinstein victim involved in both cases. she is part of the charges in l.a. and is supposed to be a

supporting >> witness in new york. tommy about the jury selection. they need 12un judges,eds of new yorkers. how critical is that process? >> really critical,co really licated. first of all, remember conviction requires unanimity from a jury. the question on selection of jurors is essential both for the prosecution and the defense. they want people to believe the charge, the defenseants people who will be skeptical, who can create doubt and questions. ther'll be a preference people who have not read a lot of the news of this case. on the other hand, given the way it has domined the news for two years, it seems that will be almost impossible. >> you have been outside of the courthouse. weinstein has already ran afoul of the judge in this case. the judge gotngry with him. tell me what you can share about

his conduct in the courtroom and what has gone on outside? >> i stoke -- i stood with a rip of alleged weinstein victims. they wanted to not confront him verbally but look at him in eye. one said she had not seen weinstein since the alleged violation years beforehand. they swept into the courthouse without a glance. he was surrounded by his legal team, fumbling with a walker. the judge who is a very exacting judge, former prosecutor, a reputation for being fair but tough, admonish weinstein in the past. they had a cell phone problem in courtroom once ag today apparently weinstein did it again the judge was very tough on him. could have been aligned line in

a movie. said mr. weinstein, is this how fyou want to go to jail, using your cell phone in a courtroom? he was threatenito to remand him jail unless weinsteine played by les. > a dramatic beginning to a ial sure to take weeks to unfold. thk you for being with us. >> "newshour "hur that is the" tonight. you may go online to fthe latest on iran's attacks on american and coalitionts in iraq. president trump says he will have a statement tomorrow morning. thank you for joining us. from all of us at "pbs newshour ,"ee thank you aou soon. >> major funding has been provided by -- >> before we talkbout your investments, what is new? >>ec audrey is expng twins. we want to put money aside for them, so change in plans. >> let's see what we can adjust.

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