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democrats laid out their case to throw president trump out of office. adam schiff. public trust by using his power for personal gain by seeigng illicit foassistance in his reelection and covering it up. nick: democrats accused trump oh abusing power by pressuring ukraine to announce investigations into the 2016 election and democratic presidential candidate joe biden i withholding $400 tallion in miliry aid the ukraine needs in its conflict with russia. house manager jerry nadler. >> this threatens the security of ukraine and its military struggle with russia and compromised our national security. nick:em drats accuse trump of refusing tooc hand overents and blocking senior officials from testifying. >> inbstructing the investigation into his own wrongdoing, the president chose he believes -- shows heie bs

he is above the law and scornful of constraint. nick: today was for the president's prosutors so the ell to the president 4000 miles away, in the davos world economic forum, he singled out adam schiff. >> these are corrupt people, some of them, and some of them are just playing the political game. what if you look at the poll highest they have ever been. if you look at the funding numbers, if you look at what the money raised by the republican party, just set a record. nobody has ever done this before. it is because of the impeachment hoax. nick: democrats later than narrative highlighting three key ys. july 20 four, special counsel robert mueller publicly testified and read his primary conclusion. >> this did not establish members of the trump campaign conspired with the russian government in election interference activities. nick: july 25, tru called the

ukrainian president. adam schiff quoted president trump asking ukraine to launch investigations. >> president trump said, i would like you to do us a favor because our country has been through a lot. nick: the next day, president trump called u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondld asking whether ukraine would undertake the investigations. >> tlse three days in july t so much of the story. this course of conduct alone should astound all who value the sanctity of our elections. nick: adam schiff urged senators to interview witnesses andllow documents that were kept from house investigators. >> you will see the mensa will the american people -- you will see them and so will be american people if you allow it. if, in the name of a fair trial, yowill demand it. ck: trump sgested he could support witnesses but have

reservations, especially aboutse senior nationarity officials like john bolton. >> i would ratheew inter bolton. i would rath interview a lot people. the problem with johnny's, it is a national security problem. he knows what i think about the leaders, what happens if he reveals what i think about certain leader and it is not positive and i have to deal on behalf of the country? it will be very hard. nick: the impeachment trial jurors are the senate's one hundred members. it would take 67 of them to convict and reme the president from office. they can't speak inside the trial so they visited microphones outside. south carolina republican lindsey graham. >> when it comes to replacing this president, nine mons plus from the election, you have a uphill battle with me. because i really do believe that

the best person, group of people to pick a president are the te, not a bunch of partisan politicians. nick: senatorsecided restrict the camera angles but this artist sketched scenes of the chamr and lawmakers turned juro. a senator, catching a few win. john roberts am a one of the few participants allowed a computer screen, and a spittoon whose lack of uses more bipartisan than the trial. yesterday, beginning in the early afternoon, until 2:00 a.m. -- th>> i send an amendment t desk. nick: chuck schumer tried to amend the trial rules set by majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> i send an amendmente to desk to subpoena john bolton. nick: t each 1 -- amendment is tabled. nick: rejected on a partyin vote. only one rublican, susan

collins, sided with democrats once and voted to lengthen the time both sidesad to file motions. that amendment also failed. >> ifs theree thing we learned from the series of votes on the senate floor, it is that leader mcconnell and senate republicans don't want a fair trial that considers all the evidence. nick: the day ban again with the chaplain reading a prayer that appealed to civility. >> help them remember that patriots reside on both sides of the aisle, that words have consequences, and that how something is said can be as importants at is said. continue their case for two more days, after which president ump's lawyers can take up to three days for their case. i'm nick schifrin. judy: now to our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor

and congressional correspondent lisa de chardin -- lisa desjardins. lisa, you had a chance to look at the senators, watching from television screens, we. can't see th a long night last night, big day today. how much are they paying attention? lisa: for the first two hours today, they did seem t be paying careful attention with the exception of a handful of senators w. most of the serious and you could feel a sense of gravity in the room about the articles of impeachment. there wasn't -- that wasn't there for yesterdayat as the first two hours. you can tell many senators are going on a few hours of sleep, probably not for the only time duringhis trial. after a few hours you could tell the attention levels were dissipating and you could also tell senators themselves were leaving the chambers in larger nuers. at different times come our

teams took account and roughly between 1/5 and one fourth of theat s was absent for much of todayff, ent people at different times. many times they go into the anti-chamber nearby for a quick personal break. some senators are taking longer, notably bernie sanders has been on and off the floor, rand paul as well. they are not the only ones. jason crow, one of the house managers, was trying to get the attentionthe senate and at one point stopped his presentation and sed, to sen leader mcconnell, mr. leader, let's take a 15 minute break. i see membe are moving around in the chamber. that they weren't paying asct close attention. mcconnell responded he wanted to ke a break at a later time. it is something notable. judy: we noticed late this afternoon. we heard a little bit about the s president'mments about the impeachment trial. what more are you picking up from the white house and people

around the predent? yamich despite being thousands of miles away and traveling from switzerland to washington, d.c. tonight, the president was paying close attention to the historic impchment trial and nate trial and whether -- on whether he should be removed from office. the day sote -- st with a surprise press conference were the president lashed out on demoat, calling representative schiff a con job and saying he wants a longer trial with witnesses like john bolton. it is important to note the president has been saying all of this is national security issues and the president is still the target of an unfair trial. all of that was a code by the president's own legal team. here is what jay sekolow had to say about today. >> he seems like he has a lot p information ceed with your case. the moreth they d, to end a half hour events at a time, it

unrcuts their argument. >> we will challenge aggressily the case that they are putting forward based on what we are hearing and we also have an affirmative case that we will make. yamiche: en as they will be continuing to listen to democrats make their case, you have the president's lawyers sayi they will be aggressive when it is their turn. judy: lisa, we are into the trial but we n't know if nators are going to vote to call witnesses. what are you hearing? lisa: senate democratic leader chuck schumer said he would take off the table a deal for a democratic witness like john bolton in change for hunter biden as a potential republican witness. senator shuman -- schumer said they will talk about fact witnesses. they don't believe hunt biden that kind of fact witness and if republicans want to call hunt biden, they need to get 51 votes on their own to do it. this doesn't mean a deal is completely off the table, but

that specific deal is off the table for now. judy: i'm going back and forth because there is so much to ask. we kw the democrats are criticizing the president not turning over any documents, not cooperating. the president brought this up himself. what are you hearing again from folks in the whiteouse about how they plan to push back? yamiche: the president was bragging about the very thing democrats say got him impeached, that he doesn't want to turn over any sort of documents to democrats. he said we have all the materials, they don't have anything. he says he is happy with his defense team because of that. democrats are saying i thats the president bragging about obstructing congress. the president set a record when it came to tweeting. the white house says they will be proactive in being on social media. the president retweeted the republican national committee,

democrats impeachment casee against president trump? adam schiff is relitigating russia and mueller. the president's legal team, .echoing that stateme they say this is the ghost of the mueller investigation mphunting president tmaking the case that democrats are trying to find something, anything to take the president down. the president is echoing that and doubling down and lashing out at democrats online and in the senate trial. judy: lisa, final question before i come back to yamiche. hanging over this is the question of whether any senators mind is open enough to an mear that could change his or her mind. how do you sense that? lisa: we a trying to read the faces of the senators. both sides have mentioned the mueller report. when you look at se, that is something that doesn't make them more alert. they seem to be tuning out talk of the mueller report on either side. the were moments today,

especially soundbites of the president himself, when he spoke and they played the soundbite of the president asking russia to looknto clinton's and -- missing emails, which the president paths team said was a joke, you could tell every senator was paying attention to that, including republicans. the present askingussia for help was something gripping the senate in that moment. judy: we are in the phase of the trial where the presidenta's legal as to sit there and listen to 24 hours ofum ats from the house managers. the democrats, howhey -- how are they using this time? yamiche: the republicans are listening to how the democrats are making their case. they are paying attention to the fact that the democrats are ntanning to use the pres's own words against him. i remember being on the white house wn when the president said not only should ukraine look into the bidens, so should china. white house legal team i

making the counterargument the presiden was joking and democrats are trying to twist s s words to mean thi didn't mean. theres reporting china tried to turn over documents about the bidens after the president said those w so it will be the president's legal team trying to make the case that the president at times is being lighthearted and he wasn't trying the constitution in some of the statements. judy: yamiche alcindor from the white house, lisa desjardins at the capitol, we thank you bh. the impeachment trial is supposed to maintain a certain sense of d the role of the upper chamber. that has been largely true but at times, especially yesterday as it got underway, theth tone f e trial has grown heated and harsh. late last night, the chief juice, john roberts, took note and made a point of review getting lawmakers. congressman jerry nadler earlier suggested republican senators were ready to vote for a cover-up for the president.

the white house counsel in turn told nadler hehould be embarrassed, and called the democrats' efforts a farce. that is what prompted this response by the chief justice. >> i begin is appropriate at thisoint for me to admonish both the house managers and the president's counsel in equal addressing the world's greatest deliberative body. one reason it has earned that title is because its members avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse. judy: to examine the role of the chief justice inhe trial while he is still carrying out his main job presiding over the supreme court, we turn to marcia coyle of the national journal who was in the court for arthments today. is a man with two big jobs righthaow. yo covered the court, you have written a book about the

roberts ouurt. what didake of his night?ng out as he did late last >> the chief justice has really two major obstacles or challenges. he has to asdi pre officer, maintained a quorum in a hyper-partisan environment, and also keep himself above the fray for the sake of his own reputation and the reputation of the supreme court. i think what he did early this morning was sw he is qte willing to step in and in order to maintain that decorumui he did it inessential roberts style, he was firm and evenhanded and he used a bit of history. this nugget from 1905 about the impeachment of a federal judge and an objection to the use of the wd petty foggeryo ften the rebuke with a little bit of humor. judy: that sent us rushing to look it up on google.

it is something that matters to him. >> very much so. it is also how he runs the court. he doeav't have a hand. you don't hear banging of the gavel. but with a short word, a little bit of humor, he and rein in what is hot bench. judy: it was reported he showed up on me this morning for this important come all the cases are important but a notewo case that the justices heard this morning having to do with public moneys going to religious schools. tell us a little bit about this. >> this is very much likeesany of the chat seem to be coming to the court recently where you have religious organizations or in this case, religious schools, that areend challenging state-funded progra that exclude them. the montana supreme court invalidated a state t cdit program that ultimately resulted in scholarships to private

schools, including religious schools. the montana supreme court said we havd what is cal no aid clause, and -an amendment that says no public funds for any kind of religious purpose. it struck down the entire program. the parents challenged that. they claim montana supreme court got it wrong, that this actually , what the court did violated their free exercise rights under the federal constitution. it seemed as though several justices, ginsberg, sotomayor, kaganel, what is the harm jacob a program is gone. the parents are in th same whereas justices gorsuch and alito seemed to feelre, as the s argued, you can't use the remedy of striking down a program if the reason for that remedy was religious this from a nation. judy: i you told us earli looks as if the chief justice's

questions were looking for a more narrow decision. >> he looks for play in the he only asked two or three questions during the entire argument. the court appeared closely divided on this one. judy: two very important roles at te s time. thank you, marcia coyle. >> my pleasure. judy: 'm joined by bob barr, a former republican congressman from geoia who was a house impeachment manager in the trial of president clinton he joins me from atlanta. thank you very much for being with us. as someone who was part of the last impeachment trial, wsaw in washington 21 years ago, how do you compareio the present the house managers -- the oupresentation the managers are making against president trump with what you and your team are doing in -- we're doing in 1990 nine?

>> thanks for having m the purposes for the managers now and what we wereac with in 1999 e different. back tn, our job wasor limited and precise and clear because president clinton had been charged in two articles of impeachment with violations of ecific criminal laws, obstruction of justice and perjury. now, the job of the impeachmentr managers is fader and perhaps a lot more problematic because they are ting to defend articles of impeachment that do not allege any crime. so it is a more vague standard, and more difficult to explain both to the senators and to the american public. judy that is part of what is what do you make or presentation so far? theyt. had hours to pres

they were talking about the rules yesterday. erin that cotion, they talked about the merits of the case against the president. we heard that certainly for a number of hours today from adam schiff, the lead manager, and from t other managers. >> d while't agree with their arguments, i have to h saa managee been very adept at using the time allotted them for the purpose yesterday, for example, to defend or advocate for a certain rule or rules. they have been very adept at expanding that opening and lyarguing not he merits of the articles of impeachment themlves, but introducing extraneo evidee that is not or should not be part of the record. that is, post-impeac evidence, even thoh the senate le for the impeachment trial

appears to me to not allow that evidence, the managers have been very successful in getting all sorts of additional evidence in. for example, relating to this fellow lev parnas. judy: an associate of rudy giuliani. that is information that has come out since then se investigatd since the vote on impeachment took place in the house. are you saying it is the way they are presenting the case effectivehink i is it effective enough to change minds? >>re thains to be seen, but i think the house managers e two things.and clever at one, going over the senators themselves and arguing their eacase and rdly using terms that are designed to sort o inflame voters, corrupt motives, corruption and so forth, evil president. but they are also i think very

careful that they recognize that in the short term, tir audience i two or three, maybe fo senators and their constuents and the states they represent, to convince them or pressure them to open up this case to allow additional, or allow witnesses and additional idence. i think that is very much in the forefront of what the managers are trying to do her to sway those few republican senators to open this trial up far beyond the articles themselves. judy: i want to ask you about the whe house defense, the president's defense because so much of what we have heard from the president, from the people around him, has been, this is a hoax, there is nothing to see here, it isn not eorth wasting our time. is that going to be sufficient forhe president's lega team to come back and basically dismiss the whole thing without goingt down, po by point,what

the managers have alleged? >> i do agree with the white housposition that the articles are fatally flawed on their face, because they allege no crime whatsoever, much less a high crime or high misdemeanor one thing i think the prident's lawyers need to keep in mind, and maybe they will, is thate they need to do man simply present lawyerly arguments to other lawyers, and to keep in mind that what really will sway people here in the broadest sense is very effective demonstrative evidence. for example, when a huse manager e again, i think i have been successful at using demotrative evidence to buttress their case. barr, former house manager in the clinton impeacent trial, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. judy: joining me in the studio,

our analysts who have been here r coverage of the senate trial all day, martin was the democraticenate secretariat for 13 years including during president clinton's impeachment trial. elizabehashe republican senate secretary during that clinton trial. victoria was the special counsel to the senate judiciary committee in the early 's, and john worked for congressman tom coburn ofklahoma during the clinton impeachment. hello again to all of you. i want to pick up on something we just heard, marty, we heard from a former congressman, bob barr, and while he may disagree with the argument that the managers are making, he thinks they are being effective in the way they are framing the case. how do you see that? >> i agree. i think so far what we have seen , they have done a good n b of weavingeir opinion, and

ther recitation of e federalist papers, quoting the founding fathers, they weave that in with the evidence they had from witnesses they already got to testify, and the recitation of the charges. i think he is on point. judy:ou elizabeth, how do see the approach that the democrats are taking? >> they seem to be very methodical. it is a difficult role. they seeml to be methodid i agree with former congressman barr. they seem to be successful at introdung new information and that could spark somebodies interest, especially these senators that mahee haven't d it or want to hear more. that begs the question, could they possibly vote for evidence or witnesses down theoad? i think they keep weaving in sortf rehashing of mueller, i think that might le some of

the members. they tended to do that later in the day. that didn't seem to be the smartest move. judy: we heard lisa mentioning, as much as you can tell from somebodies face her demeanor, that didn't seem to be in denver in a lot of interest. >> if they knew they weren' at being look they might do a ttle eye roll or something like that. judy: as somebody who knows the constitution, victoria, it is a challenging job tese managers have. they have been given 24 hours over the course of three days, aandwe said, the senators are a captive audience. they have to sit the and listen. some of them are taking notes. do you get the satse of a case s being, an effective case being built? >> i was very impressed with the seriousness and methodical nature of the argument we heard the chiefad justice

nishing folks late in the evening, but today, we saw some of the demeanor, it was much like in a trial where a trial lawyer would present a case. mr.if s presented the case and individual managers thereafter. as far as the law, we will see more legal arguments about the come to- the constitution coming up quick. mr. barr suggesimd we need a many of my colleagues say you don't, a crime againou an election suffice. more of that will be coming up. judy: it is something that a president is able to do and you should be judged on that basis rather than what is in the criminal code? right. that is a low bar. you don't want your president to violate criminal law. there are crimes against the public trust and against democracy that should be the subject of impeament. judy: i want to come back to john, the question, we were

talking about this, in terms o how the american people who are paying attention, the democrats sed to peuade the senat but in terms of people watching, and publices opinion, are arguments that you think are' capturing peo's attention, imagination? >> i think some of them that are happening ofthe senate floor are. remember, we are starting from a point further -- where they are 20 votes short, they need 67 votes. 40 seven votes would support impeachment right now if you follow the logic of the previous votes. that says the public has to be very animated,nd they have to have a major seachange to see the outcome change. lisey graham didn't effective job articulating what the principal is on the republican si, the consent of the governed is the foundational constitutional principle at stake. the bar for impeachment of a

high crime and misdemeanor has to be so high i thahas to nullify the consent of the governed, who elected donald trump president and to want him to be on the ballot coming up in a few months. so i think it is a very steep mountain. i don't think the public has been stirred sufficiently by what we have scenes of far. i thk the presentations have been effective and i thinkco the titutional arguments are important, that they will flesh out, but i don't see a game changer yet. judy: public opinion polls show people.ion of the american marty, as you listen to this, is there something in the democratic argument you are familiar with that you believe they should be stressing more or less? how do you, when you have this much time and you have a captive audience, what more, to build the case they need to build? >> i think it would be interesting to see if somebody touches on t timing of when

the whistleblowereport, the whistleblower information was ed to the white house a how that lined up with when they finally did release the aid. was it being released because it was time to release it, or becae you knew this information was going to come out? i haven't heard any of the democratic house managersie that up, but it is early and this is only the first day. judy: s you heae reference today of that from adam schiff but you are right, i think they will go into more detail about the exact timeline. in terms of what else thet? nagers need to do? >> introduce new players, like mr. parnas. judy: the giuliani associate. >> correct. the average tv watcher will go, i wonder how he plays into it and that kind of thing.

that might be something we have seen -- we will see in the next judy: shey aposed to go up to eight hours tonight and in fact, victoria, they don't have to go the full 24 hours. they are given up to 24 hours spre out over three days. they may decide it works against them to be going on and on. >> i agree. wee had a trial befe trial in all of the objections and the motionsor to gother evidence. we are havg a preview of the trial and now we are having a repetition of the trial so they will get tired of hearing the same things over and over and they may decide it is not worth it to do that. there is a point at which senators are starting, as your correspondence t had, starti bailout and they are getting tired and there is always a podrt in an impeachment, johnson they got tired too. they willet tired and want things

to come to a close. going your -- over your case over and over can noy people. judy: finally, john, we are covering this trial in minute detail, but wels are hearing from the senators on the outside, hearing from the president, who is slamming everything about thee trial beca thinks it is the wrong thing to do. are we, how do we, i basically want to ask how does the media make sure we get it right? >> i think humility on all sides. asking the other side what t thy realnk, what is at stake. what lindsey graham said, what is at stake is, do the american people have the right to elect the president? in order to overcome that bar, heous.ove something very it has to be a high crime or misdemeanor, something serious, not just a bad motive.

the reality is, republicans would notay this call is perfect. if you did a private poll, they iwouldn't say perfect but they wouldn't, there is not the pport to do that -- to impeach. judy: the democrats are saying asking a foreign leader to provide assistance in getting a president reelected is a etty egregious, that is the case. that is enough of the.ase. all rig it is only day number two and we have more to go. we will be together again this evening for several hours of live coverage and analysis. you can join our ongoing coverage of the trial for the remainder of the evening. check your local listings and online on our website or youtube. again tomorrow, thursday when the trial resumes at 1:00 eastern. ♪ vanessa: good evening, i'm

vanessa ruiz from newshour wt. i'm filling in for stephanie sy. we will return t program after the latest headlines. the impeachment trial is still -- just wrapping up in the senate chambers this evening. house managers spent the first of three daylaying out their se as to why they lieve president trump should be removed from office. in the da's other news, president trump issued new threats of tariffs on imported european cars before departing the world economic forum in switzerland. u.s. officials met with worldan leaders d ceos at the conference in davos. afterwards, the president warned europe to agree to liberalize trade. >> they have trade barriers where you can't trade. they have tariffs all over the place. they make it impossible, they are frankly more difficult to do business with than china. vanessa: in china, the death

toll rose to at least 17 people from a new respiratory v that is rapidly spreading. chinese officials said thursday mornin 571 cases of the flulike coronavirus have been confirmed. that is more than double the total from a day earlier. -- from two days ago. we will have an in-depth report after the summary. high winds and sweltering australia, and the fire danger is surging again. temperatures thursday in sydney are forecast to reach 105 degrees, with hazardous air quality leve. people in the eastern suburbs briefly forced to evacuatee wednesday after a fire flared near the airport. meanwhile, a huge dust storm engulfed several outback towns in new south wales state, inting the skies orange and adding to smoke fouling the skies. the president of iran insisted today, his country is still committed to the 2015 nuclear deal. hajust last weekan rouhani declared iran would no longer

abide by the limits on enriching today in tehran, h said the nuclear deal, known as the joint comprehensive plan of action, is not dead, and he disavowed interest in a nuclear arsenal. >> we are not seeking nuclear weapons. even if the jcpocollapses, we won't seek nuclear weapons. if the safeguard agreement is destroyed, we won't seek nuclear weapons. vanessa: he also said the u.s. made a mistake pulling out of the nuclear agreement. back in this country, democratic gabbard has led mation tulsi suit against hillary clinton, the terty's 2016 nominee, tocl suggested the hawaii congresswoman was, quote, "the favorite of the russians." n a spokesman for clinid gabbard's claims are ridiculous. a landmark legal movement for the me too movement plut today with opening statements in harvey weinstein' and sexual assault trial.

prosecutors in new york calleder the formroducer a rapist. the defense says evidence shows any sexual encounters wereco ensual. the tria month.last more than a terry jones of monty python fame has died after battling a rareme form of ia. jones played everything from a nude organist, a spanishin isitor, and a ravenous restaurant patron. he wrote and directed "monty python and the holy grail" and "life of brian." in that one, he played the mother of brian, who is mistaken for jesus. >> he is not the messiah, he is a naughty boy. now go away. i'm his mher. vanessa: terry jones was 77 years old. l ill to come on the newshour, as the death tom the coronavirus jumps in china. the infection reaches the shores of the u.s. how the crown prince of saudi arabia aegedly hacked the cell

phone of amazon's ceo. ♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west, from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: as we reported, chinese officials are racing to contain a quickly spreading virus that has killed at least 17 people and infected hundreds more and spread to several other countries. latest. update on the >> in this city of 11 million outbreak,ials announced the the imminent closure of all public transit and it residents not to leave the city. this comes just as celebrations of the lunar new year are to begis where normally, hundred of millions of people travel

from cities to the countryside. the outbreak of a new pneumonia -like virus has sickened hundreds in china spread to at least five other countries, along with one declared case in the u. >> i think it is anything but under control for now. >> a public health researcher on the council on foreign relations delay -- directs -- re>> ts evidence suggesting the virus is increasing its virulence and spreading rapidly in china and throughout other countries. we are actually in the initial stages of a major outbreak. >> airportthare now using mal imaging to check passengers for possibl fever, one of the symptoms. u.s. health officials said five u.s. cirports aducting similar screenings and plans are

inbound to route all flights from the affected regions in china through these hubs. francisco from china and is happy with the screenings. >> i think they did ak ood job. i th is necessary because this ieaabout ourh, the community's health. >> in addition to travel ffstrictions, a partial quarantine is int in parts of the province. >> it is a big city in central china. consider that china's chicago in terms of the location, and also in terms of the importance in china. >> this shuttered live animalf market is onee places where officials believe the animals to humans.he jump from >> if airus moves from animal to human but can't spread any further, than the risk of a larger outbreak is very low. >> tom is the director of the johns hopkins center for health security. >> we have seen that inany

different diseases, where there is a jump, but people don't the concern is when a virus has the capability of spreading directly fro person-to-person. obviously that requis different typeof interventions control it. >> c chinese officialsfirmed this week, the virus is now spreading from person-to-person. >> if the virus is gaining that capacity for efficient human to man transmission, itea that all of those interactions maximize the chances of the virus infecting human beings. >> what makes this more complicated is that the symptoms of a coronavirus infection are similar to the flu. people witonthe infec have high fever, a cough, and trouble breathing. so far, the people who have died tend to be elderly who also had

health complications. the chinese government has faced sharp criticismlo for its reaction to previous outbreaks, including the sars epidemic 17 years ago were 800 people died and 8000 were sickened by a dierent conavirus. the current outbreak is believed have begun last month but health officials di't reveal it publicly for three weeks. twhile tom doesn' agree with all of china's moves, he is glad they are being more transparent now. >> yesterday, the president of china strongly urged all those working on this outbreak to share information within china and to share it internationally, with the world health organization. you didn't see that kind of political position back in 2002. >> public hlth officials say we still don't know how many cases are out there and how serious they are to know if this is a mild coronavirus tha' wont take too many lives, or something more virulent tt

could take a deeper toll. >> it is so new that we don't know whether we are closer to the former or the latter and we will needore information to decide that. ♪ judy: tod, two u.n. investigators charged the powerful crown princei of sa arabia was possibly personally involved in the hacking of one of the world's richest men. the owner of the wasngton post. nick schifrin is back with that story. nick: here's the story investigators allege. prince met washington post owner and amazon founder jzos and they started messaging on whatsapp. salman sent bezos a videohat

allowed the phone to be hacked. hours later, the phone started uploading all of bez'prate data and messages. five months later, saudi agents murdered washington post columnisjamalhashoggi. when the washington post investigated, salman sent bezos messages aboutis affair that hadn't yet gone public. one of the investigators is the u.n.di extraal killings specialist. she joins me now. welcome back. why do you believe mohammad bin salman would likely personally be involved? >> that is what the evidence is pointing to. the forensic investigation conducted by our firm and backed up by four independentri cyber

se experts that we contacted reached a similar conclusion. the likelihood that the hacking originated from the whatsapp account owned by mohammad bin salman is very high commandt is the only hypothesis that could explain the hacking. ouconclusion was reinforcedhe throughobust process we undertook in order to check the conclusi by the initial forensic expert anto that led us elease this information, to inform the public but also to send a warning and show that a wake-up call is being mwee, that re working confronting technology that we are not controlling. nick: i want to get tohat technology a little later but i do need to read you what the saudi government has said. the saudi officials told us, the

kingm rejected your conclusions and tit "sa arabia does not conduct illicit activities." here is what the saudi foreign minister had to say earlier. >> the idea that the crown prince would hack jeff bezos is silly. my understanding of the human report, it is a statement based on a report by a private company that hasn't been vetted by an independent agency and that has in its own conclusions, no hard evidence to substantiate the claims it is making. nick: do you have hardvidence? >> absolutely. first of all, the fti concert and see firm is composed on some of the best experts. it is vetted because investigations into mr. bezos's phone is part of an fbi investigation, and the work by the team was vetted by the fbi.

i described to you the process we followed to check the informationd , e conclusion of the fti, because the fti review of the phone was part of an investigationit was conducted under the most stringent conditions, including with regard to the chain of evidence. i have no doubt that fti and our independt expert have looked at, considered all of the options before concluding tha the hacking originated from the whatsapp account owned by the crown prince. nick:ta let' about the context for this. you write this is part of a broaderhe crackdown lau by the kingdom against its critics. we interviewed people in this country who describe some of that crackdown. the kingdom itself says jamal khashoggi's murder was by rogue

actors andhey are punishing those people and this won't happen again. do you acknowledgment sts? i don't. as i highlighted in the report i produced in june, the killing of jamal khashoggi was a violation of international law. it is not a domestic matter. second of all, a range of inteational legal standards were violated,ha none of which been taken care of through the saudi investigation. thirdly and most importantly, the saudi mpvestigation tely failed to tackle the issue of the mastermind behind the killing of jamalsh kgi. they only focused on, even though they had originally charged some of the people that were higher in the chain of command, they ended up not finding them guilty of anything. all in all,he investigation

and the prosecution by the saudi authorities failed to meet internationaltandards and certainly didn'deliverustice . the killing of a journalist uncovers usually a web of corrupti, a web of lies, and that can go all the way to the it is not unique to the case of jamal khashoggi. it is a pattern we find in many other killings. this web of corruption, of lies, has not been untangled forhe saudi investigation and this is why i am calling for, the algation that we have released today are one more element demonstrating the centrality of the state of saudi arabia, the centrality of t crown prince of saudi arabia in the campaign, and it is this campaign against dissidents tt ultimately resulted in the killing of jamal khashoggi. ni: i do want to get back to

the technology you mentioned at the top. in your stement, you call for a moratorium on the global sale and transfer of private surveillance technology, but it crossed that rubicon. is there anything we can do to rein in this kind of technology echoes -- technology? >> we don't have a choice. we have to rein itn. we have tried and sometimes succeeded in reining in the weapons that were found to be unlawful and illegal. this technology is extremely difficult to trace, almost impossible to control. we have an examplef e richest man on earth with rces, yet it to him several months to realize his phone was hacked and it took three months ofork by top-notch experts to uncover the source of theki h.

this technology is a danger to all. tiit is a danger to al security andemratic processes in the united states. it targeted jeff bezos and the first amendment and therefore the american constitut targeted central economic actor in the american system. therefore, we have no choice. we need to control the technology. we must impose a moratorium. nick: thank you very much. >> thank you very much. ♪ judy: and that is the newshr r night. our special coverage of the impeachment trial of president trump continues through the night on pbs and on our website join us again tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern as ourve live ge continues, then right back here on the newshour or a

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