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judy: good ening. i'm judy woodruff. >> the crimes alleged in the articles -- in nixon, yes, in clinton, yes. here, no. judy: president trump's lawyerss take tate floor as new details emerge over what john bolton knew about withholding aid to ukraine. tbthen, ak on the ground in china, where officials fear the coronavirus is spreading faster than expected. plus, amy walter and t keith are here to alyze the latest from the impeachment trial and the final week of campaigning before iowa's presidential
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ucuses. d, the liberation of auschwitz 75 years later. the harbor of the 20th century and the lessons for the 21st. >> every time ihink about it, i think of the children who aren't here and i remember than what -- when they were taken. judy: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. ♪ >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> before we talk about your investments, what is n? >> audrey is expecting. >> twins. >> we want to put money aside for them, so change in plans. >> let's see what we can adjust. >> change in plans. >> ok. >> are you painting agai you could sell these. >> lete muess, change in
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possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: this has been a day for president trump's side to present his arguments in his senate impeachment trial. his lawyers are fighting the charges against w himle supporters try to fend off damaging new disclosur. nano was report on a dramatic turn of events that began over the weekend and continue today. amna: president trump's defense began on saturday. >> thank you for your time and thank you for your attention. amna: with a brief two hour presentation in which h lawyers outlined their strategy, attacking house democrats and disputing a central premise of the impeachmen effort, that the president abused his power by withholding u.s. military aid to ukraine while pressinthe ukrainian president to announce an investigation into a pol rival.
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the president, they argue, g.d nothing >> the transcript shows thathe president did not condition either security assistance or a eting on anything. the paused secity assistance funds aren't even mentioned on the call. amna: before the president's lawyers could detail their defense -- >> new revelations from john bolton. amna: breaking news late sunday night appeared to undermine their arguments. the new york times reporting that leaked excerpts from the upcoming memoir of john bolton included bolton's recollection that president told him in august that he want to continue freezing 300 91 million dollars in security assistance to ukraine until officials helped with the investigations intong democrats inclu the bidens. wsthe neur has not independently reviewed the manuscript.
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mr trump was asked about the reports this morning. >> i haven't seen the manuscript, but i can tell you nothin bolton but i haven't seen the manuscript. amna: but the reported revelations from bolton further fuel democrats' calls for him to testify in the impeachment trial. bolton has previously said he would testify publicly if the senate subpoenas him and said y that offer still stand >> we have a witness with first-hand evidence of the president's actions. he is ready and willing to testify. how can senate replicans not vote to call that witness and request his documents? amna: at least four republican democrats to subpoena bolton and other witnesses. two indicated they might. susan collins said reports on
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bolton's book strengthened the case for witnesses. mitt romney oftah agreed. i think it is fair to say thatohn bolton has a relevant .testimony to provide to amna: even one of president trump's staunchest allies, senator lindsey graha left the do open, but urged patients. >> if there is a need to add to going to completely add to the record, and i will let you kw ursday. amna: all this before today's impeachment even began. y sekulow quickly resumed his defense. >> it is our position as the president's counsel that the president was at all times acting under his constitutional authority, under his legal authority, in our national oath of office.suant to his amna: trump steam pushedon bac
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the first article of impeachment, abuse of power. sin their words, there no quid pro quo. >> the house managers record reflects t with the president said the president made clear that there was no linkage. the security assistance flowed and the presidential meeting took placenoithout any ancement of investigations. amna: in the president, his teae argued, had en denied due process, part what they call a rushed partisan process to undo the election. on the second article of impeachment,ttorney patrick guphilbin that the present has not obstructed congress. >> thes rige president asserted are based on executive privilege. when they are constitutionally grounded principles that are essential for the separaon of powers and protecting the institution of the office of the presidency, to call that obstruction is to turn the constitution on its head.
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>> impeachment is hell, or at least presidential impeachment isel amna: t proceedings included a familiar face, ken starr, who led the 1999 probe into presiden clinton and pushed for his impeachment, today argued thathe process has devolved into a political tool. >> we are living in what i think can be described as the age of impeachment. how did we get here? with presidential impeachment invoked frequently, and iis inherently destabilizing. amna: and a familiar name from the democrats opening arguments, rudy giuliani, was also mentioned by attorney jean raskin. >> it is a central and essential premise of the house managers mrcase thagiuliani's motive
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in investigating ukrainian corruption and interference in the 2016 election was an enrely political one undertaken at the president's direction. but what evidence have the managers actually offeredo support that proposition? out, virtually none.t turns amna: the one namnot mentioned by president trump's impeachment attorneys was the one dominatine lines outside of this room for much of the day. hn bolton. for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz. judy:a and lis desjardins an yamiche alcindor are both with us from the capital. yamiche, ts news about the bolton manuscript released over the weekend, how much of an fe does that seem to be having on this trial, and how is it affecting the white house argument that there doesn't need to be witnesses?
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yamiche: john bolton's manuscript is really upending the senate tria even though no ones talking about it inside the chamber. it is all people were talking about in the halls of the capital today. what you saw with multiple white see tofficials, you can people pushing back on it, there's president trump who said he never had a conversation where he directly tied ukraine-- aid to investigations. they are pushing back, saying bolt never gave any indication he was concerned. and you have mick mulvaney also saying that none of this is true. the other thing to note, there is a source telling pbs newshour tonight that joh bolton might come out with this book earlier than eected. they are also pushing back on the idea that john bolton is doing this because he wants to sell his book. the other big thing, the white
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house set out to try to block witnesses and try to block more testimony from happening. there are a l of allies and republicans now saying they want to hear from john bolton. judy: i guess the president's legateam is about seven hours into their arguments now. they are still speaking at this hour. tell us what your sense of the heart of the argument is. yamiche: you've seen a number of lawyers for the president take this subject by subject. some of them talk about history, some of them talk about the process. here are the main arguments. tying president trump to thely military aid to actually saying he needed to have those investigations. they are also saying there was no quid pro quo. we should add that they left out the j fact thn bolton testified tt he might have
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someone who is directly tying the president to this age. now there is a new argument that the predent's lawyer just made, th president obama did somethings similar, tying aid and his missile defenses with russia to the 2012 election. what we are seeing a number of arguments that the white house is making but those are the main ones. judy: lisa, you've been trying to talk to senators. what are they telling you? lisa: w have been speaking to them. the senators have been in the trial for most ofhe days. wather something achieved by the president today. speakingca to repuboffices, there was a sense that this argument that this is trial that is going beyond precedent, that if senators follow the house impeachment managers neel that they w breaking with history, and doing so in aay
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thatight be questioned by the constitution, that is an argument thateed to be hitting fertile ground with some republicans. this is anudnce generally of institutionalists. they believe in congress and the senate. many of these folks have s a strose of history. arguing that history is something that is being broken is somethingin that was sta toesonate. on the other hand, in observing the senate, it is possible that the president team went too far in saying that speaker pelosi herself was breaking with the constitution, questioningwh her she is in line with the constitution. that is something that was raising some eyebrows as wer. watched the fl all the talk about biden, i saw a lot of attention paid during those presentations, t very few notes being taken. and i think that in all, we saw
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senators all paying very close attention today. very little movement in the chamber. that is something the president's team was hoping to judy: what about this discussion are there senators you are able to identify who might be prepared to vote for witnesses? lisa: we heard from mitt romney today that he would like to he from john bolton. and we know susan collins has said she thinks the case is being made even more strongly by theri excerptsed from the book. so that is two votes out of four thatre needed to call witnesses. let's look at a list of other possible rublicans. this is from talking to senators and republican staffers. senators alexander, ron, kennedy, murkowski, portman, roberts, the senators have a few some are moderate, some not.
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many of them are people whose states voted closely in ap- trinton divide, and also, they've been taking a lot of senator pat toomey of pennsylvania is someone to watch. one source telling me he is trying t have conversations about witnesses and trying to get some kind of deal where republicans and democrats each n livewitness they with.but want viewers to undersd there would have to be about about specific witnesses. do you call john bolton, hunter biden? right now it is not clear there
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are votes for specific witnesses. there may be votes for the idea of witnesses in general. judy: several steps to go and we are not at the end of the arguyont yet. thanboth. you can join our ongoing coverage of e senate trial for the remainder of this evening. check your local listings fore that, and onl our website or youtube. and tomorrow, tuesday, the trial resumes at 1:00 p.m. eastern. ♪ syephanie: good evening. i'm stephani we will return to judy woodruff after the latesteadlines. the senate impeachment trial has wrapped up for the evening. moments ago, white house attorney alanow derz did in fact mention john bolton, saying , nothing in the bolton revelations, even if w truld
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amount to an abuse of power or impeachae offense. the outbreak of a new virus in china accelerated with more than 100 dead and mores than 4500 ca confirmed according to china's national health commission. china has closed all tourism sites in tibet. the u.s. state department warned americans to reconsider any plans to travel to china. germany became the latest country where a case was reported. the health crisis in china spread fear to world financial markets and triggered a selloff in the u.s. on wall street, the dow jones lost more than 450cl points to e at 28,535. the trump administration will begin denng permanent residency to immigrants if they receive public benefits.
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that is after the u.s. supreme court voted to let the new green card policy take effect while lawsuits against it continue. more tn half a million people applied for green cards annually. president trump is tal up his long-delayed middle east peace plan. he discussed ith today w israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house and suggested he willin over palestinians. >> it is something they should want. n'they probably't want it initially, but i think in the end they will. it is very good to them. hewe have support of the prime minister. we have the support of the other parties. we think we will ultimately have iae support of the palest. stephanie: theparesident met tely with benny gantz, who challenging netanyahu i upcoming elections.
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an american military plane crashed in eastern afghanistan day. there was no word on the fate of the crew. largely controlled by the taliban. u.s. officials say there is no evidence the plane was shot down. footage showed charred remains of an electronic surveillance plane. in this country, the first of two women accusing harvey weinstein of rate a sexual assault testified in his trial. said the movie producer became offended when she refused his advances in 2000 six. she said hebl forperformed oral sex on her. weinstein denies the accusation investigators in california began recovering bodies today from the site of a helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant. the helicopter smashed into a hiside in heavy fog.
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eight others were also killed. tonight the associated press reports the final transmission from the helicopter pilot to air traffic controllers was that he was climbing to avoid a cloud layer. we will look at kobe bryant's legacy later in e program. and billie eilish is atop the music world after sweepingrdhe major awaat the grammys. the 18-year-old won album of the of the year, and best new artist. she is the youngest peon ever to win a major grammy. still to come, the death toll rises as chinese officials try to get a gsp on the coronavirus. s head to the white house ahead of the announcement of president trump's plan for middle east peace. 75 years after the liberation of
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auschwitz, keeping the memory of the holocaust alive. and much more. ♪ weta and in the west from therom walter cronkite hool of journalismat at arizona university. judy:s ported earlier, the coronavirus outbreak in china continues. the great concern now is that the vus may be spreading faster than previously thought. william: while at least 14 other naons are monitoring people areas in china, the affecteded city remains the city of wuhan. wuhan is bigger than anyan american citits 11 million residents are living in lockdown. nearly all modes of transportation in and out of th city are clof. chris buckley is a china-based
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correspondent for the new york times. he joins us now. can you give us a sense of what it is like in wuhan today? >> today on the streets of wuhan , thmood was extremely subdued. ever since last week the city avs been on lockdown with restrictions on . what you see wheyou walk out is a very empty citcape. people td to stay in their homes. they come out rarely to buy food , for occasional exercise, but mostf the time people are staying at home. the only other reason pele are going out is if they feel they should visit a hospital. william: i know it is difficult to visit the hospitals in wuhane can you gs a sense of what it is like over there?
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>> it is very difficult for us to get around, especially with these traffic restrictions. it is very difficult tvisit the hospitals. t what i have seen is crowd fever clinics which have been taking in dozens and hundreds of people, residents who are worried that there fever might be a symptom oruthis coronavis. perhaps partly because of better management of the hospitals as well and more available edresources, things have e up a bit. there's still a great need for medical attention in the city. william: what instructions are people getting from the government? are they being told how to behave, where to go, what to do? >> a general rule is to stay inside, to wear masks if they go outside and have contact with
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other people, to regularly wash their hands and disinfect. it is pretty easy to do most of those things, but staying calm is much more difficult when around the city, when people have been dying by the dozens at least. and people aren't sure how long thist. lockdown will l psychologically, that is very difficult. william: we've seen some reports of distrust on social media towards the government. what is your sensof that? are people believing the things >> among many residents, youem? find there is distrust anger with the government. ey feel that city leaders should have told residents about this expanding viral outbreak.
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it is interesting to talk to people who tell you that they had no idea this was so serious until there suddenly this announcement that the whole city will be shut down. i think there is this sort of practical recognition now that the city and its residents have to get through this. in order to do that, they ha to stop the spread of the level of cooperation about not going outdoors for example. william:nm the govt is trying to keep people from moving in and out of the city. has that affected people's ability to buy food or supplies? >> there is concern, but the stores that i' been able to visit, there is food available. there's fresh produce on the shelves. i went touy some oranges for myself and didn't have any trouble.
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there were other residents buying turnips, carrots, cucumbers, apples. h not so mat. food supply seems ok. i think the experience of residents might vary. if youou are elderly and ysed to go to the shopir downsta now you might have to walk a mile or two in some areas to buy your groceries. that is going to be difficult. they are ao going to be havingfi a lot of dlty moving around downtown. william: chris buckley, thank you so much. ♪ judy: at the same time president trump faces the impeachment trial in the senate, he is turning to a problem that has
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plagued the united states for decades. nick schifrin is here to help preview the plan for peace inth middle east. so what do we know at this point? nick: the writers say it is60 abou pages, the most detailed plan the u.s. as er suggested on middle east peace. palestinian ste, but it could be conditional and won't have the traditional rights estate has, control or defense, borders, airspace. israeli officials expect it to at least implicitly endorse the idea of israeli control over the occupied west bank. s number three, itpected to who were born in what is today israel from returning to their homes. a big question is the status of jerusalem. people who wrote this plan say
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the previous plans have failed, so they are trying to create something with a lot of details up front rather than shuttle diplomacy. judy: and what is the reaction in israel? nick: bipartisan support and almost giddiness from the israeli right. they know this is probably the best plan they are ever going to get. that is what you heard today from benjamin netanyahu and his political rival, benny gantz, both ofm wt the president is a -- today. >> the deal of a century is the opportuny of a century. we are not going to pass it by. ustoday iwanto say thank you for everything you have done for the state of isel. you have been the greatest friend that israel has had in the white house. >> the president's peace plan is toa significant and hc milestone.
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immediately after the election, i will work towards implementing it. nick: we will ge i to taeli election later, but you heard from both of themai today, ng president trump because this has been the most pro-israeli u.s. administration in decades. trpresidenp has recognize israel -- recognized jerusalem as israel' capital, recognized israeli sovereignty over the golan heights, which the international community has considered occupied. secretary of state mike pompeo shifted u.s. policy on tsettlements, saying t settlements in the west bank is not inconsistentte with ational law, and the u.s. has ended all aid to palestinians.
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u.s. policy overall has been in sync with israel on iran. judy:e which raises question with the palestinian reaction. nick: pretty much dead on arrival. the prime minister said this would liquidate the palestinian it is just dead on arrival.ay a jewish lobbying group in d.c. that considers its af pro-israel pro-peace said that this was a peace plan in name only. because there is no rious attempt to engage with palestinian aspiration palestinians are not part of this deal and nobody in the u.s. is prending they are. others are even more cynical.it they cal political ploy by a president who has been impeached and a prime minister who has been indicted. judy:resident trump undergoing his impeachment trial now. in israel, primer minis netanyahu facing reelection and
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he's been indicted. nick: march 2, israelis will go to the polls. netanyahu is not only fighting for pitical survival, he's fighting for his physical freedom. if he's not prime minister, he could go to jail. analysts say he wants to focus on security and not corruption. benny gantz can't be seen criticizing this plan for fear of alienating the voters. he did say he would want to talk to palestinians about thislan if elected. that brings us to impeachment. this is not the first time has been intertwined with middle east peace. in 1998, t house impeaches bill clinton and he is in jerusalem having a press conference. the first question he is asked is about impeachment. that reporter is interrupted by e israeli prime minister, who just happens to have been
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benjamin netanyahu. >> may i ask a favor? i think the president has come here on a very clear message, on a very clear voyage of peace, and i believe it is appropriate to ask questions on s.e peace proc nick: this is not the first timd the prt of the united states or the prime minister of israelsu has emphasizees of state. judy: thank you. judy: we turn now from talk of peace in the middle east to a look back athe legacy of the holocaust. survivors of the auschwitz death camp in polan marked the 75th anniversary of their liberation today. they gathered where jews from across europe re murdered in
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gas chambers. poland' 'ssident said the world must never forget. the anniversary comes at a time when anti-semitic attacks are increasing in the united state and in europ malcolm has our report from southern poland. >> when the soviet army greeted by about 200 starving, freezing girls and boys. somehow ey avoided theate of a quartemillion children originally transported here. on the far left, a feistyve ear-old polish jewish girl kept alive by a combination of good fortune and her mother's ingenuity and her own iron will. now approaching her 82nd birthday,he was compelled to return for this historic anniversary. >> we are here to uncover evil, to show evi and what it can do
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if unchecked. >> she spent her life campaigning to keep the memories of the holocaust alive. >> you knew you were going to die, but you didn't understand it really. every time i think about think of all the children who aren't here, and i remember when ey were taken. >> although she has returnedim here several tes before, thi monument to mankind's best reality still has the power to overwhelm. >> it scares me to death. even now. i remember that so well. i remember that people tried to reach it and they got killed. to was easier to die tha stay here. but you weren't allowed to because they wanted youono die heir terms. so there was a guard and dogs. when you came a
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you were shot., people were lng here because they never reached the electri wires. >> for untolthousands, this was their last view of the world. it lacked the capacity to deal with the nazis objective of erasing jews from the face of the rth. today, slaughterhouses and ovens are piles of rubble. before they fled the soviet advance, the ess tried to erase their fingerprints by immolating the scene of the crime. she was once sent to the gas chamber, buthe returned unscathed because it wasn't operating on that day. i just can't do this.
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you've got to say prayers. you can't do anything else but pray. hoping that there was a god. hoping there's humanity i think this is too much. this israel. >> the lessons that auschwitz offers the world today are exactly the me as they were when the camp was liberated 7 yes ago. auschwitz speaks to the dangers of religious and ethc hatred, of the rule of totalitarianism, and of turning a blind eye. s most pilgr this time capsule emerge thoroughly chastened. they areeeply concerned by a global resurgence of anti-semitism. ambassador rond lauder is
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president of the world jewish congress. >>e anti-semitism in th1920's and 1930's started very small. we see it building over the st six years and it is going to something about itss we do >> despite being exhausted by the odyssey from levittown, pennsylvania, david managed to sing a hungarian song, taught by airlfriend who helped him survive. he was dispatched in 1942. whenel thetion process began, the teenager pretended to be older than 18 to avoid being sent straight to rse gas chambe. like the souls memorialized here. she managed to convince the ess that he was fit enough for work details.
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at first he collected the bodies of prisoners who commi ed but then his captors heard about his voice and ordered him to entertain them. >> i only lived because of one word. music. and i sang a year-ish song -- yiddish song while in auschwitz. because the ss loved it. [singing] it wasn't my favorite song. >> 1930's jewish dance music serenaded her at her hotel in crack of. her story is not jus about death and murder. liberation meant rebirth. >> it is my birthday, january 27. i celebrate it. >> above all, she honors herth
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, who saved her life by hiding her next to a corpse as the nazis eliminated witnesses before fleeing the soviet advance. at last, the little girl wascr able t for the first time in years. >> first of all, you are going to make me cry now. becaus crying was a crime. if they heard you cry, they would shoot you. so i learn enough to cry. >> if there is any way to save this world, it is to eliminate hatred. it winds up killing.. i have learned that the hard way. if you could only live together as human beings, that is my mission in life.
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>> in the twilight of their lives, their legacy couldn't be any clearer, but how much of the modern world is listening? for the pbs newshour, auschwitz. judy: impeachment may b dominating the headlines, but the race to challenge president trump in this year's election is about to kick into a new year. john yang reports on the push to win support before the first voters have their say. campaign buses roll, like this one carrying vermontat senor bernie sanders. boosted by polls showing his message gaining steam. >> we are feeling good.
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what matters is the kind of grassroots activism that we have. we'g ve got people knock doors all over the state. >> but for thein r candidate, there's rising preure. told abc news that sanders is too liberal. >> i don't think he should be leading the ticket. my ideas are much more inc s with getting things done. >> elizabeth warren also zoomed in the impeachment trial.d break >> good not to be in washington. >> hers was a topsy-turvy weekend, lagging in some polls, but also scoring thendorsement from the des moines register. she made the case that she could win in november. >> women win. we took back the house and we took back state houses the nation.
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because of women candidates and the women who get out there and do the hard work to get it done. claim to electability on hisou each to non-democrats. his venue, a town hall hosted by fox news. >> i am meeting a lot of what i like to call future former republicans. if you are having trouble looking your kids in the eye and explaining this presidency, you have a choice. >> still, it was not the sole focus of the leading candidates. former vice president joe biden was in new hamhire where the primary is set for the following week. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. judy: that brings us to politics monday with amy walter andic puadio's politics with amy walter and tamra keith of npr. she joins us from her newsroom. she cohosts the npr politics
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podcast. we can feel it now, just a week away. we are going to start out it is still consuming so much of our attention. tamra keith, that is why you are still in washington. at this point, to ask kind of a political question, what does it look like with regard to pressure on republican senators to call witnesses? tamra: there is more pressure now than there was 24 hours ago, that is for sure. that article about john bolton's book certainly raises the stakes for senators. certainly you are not going to see 25 republican senators suddenly decide they want , witnessest there are a number of senators and my colleagues on theo hill e entertaining the idea of witnesses again.
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the talk of a witness exchange perhaps, where y would see john bolton and someone that the republicanst wstifying. all of that is acknowledging the reality, the idea of john bolton's book being out there, thate reportedly says that president trump told him heo wantedld up the money until he gothe investigations. that undercuts some of the arguments president trump and his legal team have been making. judy: we've been trying to figure out how much effect this is going to have on this impeachment. amy: it certainly would draw the process out, that many expected would be ending may be before the iowa caucuses or before the state of the union. the debate over witnesses could take us another w knows how much longer. there's a bigger question here. we are in th process, but we
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have to think about where this endsp. i think where a lot of voters have been is, they are getting lost in the process. there are a lot of names and bombshells that seem to come out all the time, but fundamentally, they want to know, will he be convicted or acquitted, and where we are at this point even among democra, their belief is basically that he will be dacquit at the end of the day. so yes, they need job. their this doesn't mean they don't care about impeachment. but what they are focusing on now is, which is the candidate that can win in because it is more likely than not that if we want to be donald trump, it will have to be at the ballot box. judy: and given that, what is the sense at this point? you are in washington for now, but you continue to do reportg
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on this. what does it look like in iowa? tamra: there is a lot of polling , and it indicates at least one thin which is that although some sheriff people say they have made up their minds and are firmly set, there are still a lot of people who say, i could still change my mind. one thing that has been sort of remarkable in watching the democratic primary over all these months now, basically a year out from where this all started, if yoheadset a year ago that the top two people with the most durable hold on the top of the polls would be bernie sanders and joe biden, a lot of people would have said no way. and you have bernie sanders and joe biden right there at the top , who do not represent sort of the young, diverse field that
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everyone wasalking about. judy:hi is one of the polls, amy. a few sdewed bernie s at the top or moving up. how do you explain it? represent what' e electorate looks like, which is younger and female and has a significant percentage of voters of color. what they do represent are the basic arguments that democrats have. either go for a more revolutionary structural change candidate or one who, i called them the restoration candidate, the challenge now, bernie sanders actually is coalescing that revolutiona structural change voter much better than biden isle cing around the restoration voter. whate are seeing now is in places likean iownew
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hampshire, bernie sanders coalescing younger voters and what is going to him is nowden getting split with pete r.buttigieg and amy klobuc that is the focus for iowa. thwhat percent o vote, not just will elizabeth warren take, but what is pete buttigieg and amy klobucharoing to cut into what was for a long time elaine that joe biden had to himself? judy: two of the people amy just mentioned, bernie sanders and amy klobuchar, are in washington hat impeachment trial, listening to the arguments. th are not out on e campaign trail. is that going to have a bearing? tamra: i think it is probably a bigger challenge for amy sanders.r than it is for bernie
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amy klobuchar was just starting to get some bloklobmentum or whatever you want to call it. now she's going to spend this week in washington. bernie sanders, if you look under the hood, of the voters who have made up their minrn, for sanders, more of them say a there is no chance th going to change their mind than therrs who support any candidat bernie sanders has had this titanium piece of the pie and it is strong. his supporters supporhim. that titanium piece of the pie phrase is something borrowed from people who were describing the way president trump went through the primary in 2016. dy: it is fascinating. we started out saying we can't believe it is right around the corner and it literally is. tamra keith, amy walter, thank you both.
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♪ judy: finally tonight, the legacy of nba great kobe bryant. jeffrey brown looks at how bryant is being remembered and whyis too short life resonated for so many. around the country, around the wld, the shock of kobe bryant's death continues. heoutsidetaples center in los angeles where he dazzled as a player. >> people are saying today is the day that part of l.a. died. i know i'm going to shed a lot tears. >> inside arenas in other cities, they paid tribute to a fierce competitor they all admired. the l.a. clippers coach battled bryant in championship series. >> that d that very few
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woods and michael jordan. >> people beyond the world of sports stopped in their acks to remember. >> we love you, kobe. >> bryant was theare athlete who transcended sports. on theom court, he time he jump from high school to the n, he was an extraordinarily gifted, tenacious, and focused talent. >> the thing that i do is look forward. you can't change things that were. you can't change the outcome. you can control what you can control. >> del harris was his first professional coach. >> all the players that have me after h have learned about his work ethic takes.hat it >>e kobbryant. >> he played 20 years for thean
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geles lakers, won five championships, was an 18 time all-star, won two gold medals representing the u.s. in the the list ofccomplishments goes on and on, including a night in 2006 remembered by another all-time great, kareem abdul-jabbar. >> i had the privilege of being there when he scored his 81 point game. g it is somethwill always remember. >> just saturday, today's biggest star, lebron james, past bryant as the third all-time leading scorer inba history. james remembered being 15 and e meeting his idols. >> i went to camp and he came to talk to all the kids that were there. i happened to be one of the kids. i was justisning, trying to soak up everything i could.
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i remember he said, if you want to try to be great, you have to put the work in. >> bryant's life in the public i was not about controversy. in 2003, he was accused of sexual assault by an employee at a colorado hotel. prosecutors dropped the case when the woman declined to testify. a civil lawsuit was settled out of court. in recent years, bryant was well into establishing his-b postketball career as a businessman, wter, and filmmaker. his film won an oscar. and overseeing the kobe and vanessa bryant family foundation. former president barack obama wrote, kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started anwhat would have been just as meaningful a second act. he also became a champion of women's sports, prompting a large part by the interest in
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talents of his daughter, gianna. he spoke aboutgher with late coach jimmy kimmel. >> the best thing tha happens is when fans come up to me and she will be standing next to me and they will be like, you have to have a boyhave someone to rry on the legacy. she's like, i got this. [applause] yes you do. >> gianna, known as gg,ied in sunday's crash at age 13. kobe bryt leaves behind three other daughters and his wife vanessa. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. judy: so very sad. that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. thank you. weill see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> on a journey with american cruise lines, travelers
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