comprehensibcapr capriibcapr comprehensible answer. >> i wish david would tell me why. and how could he ever harm such a nice person. i mean, nici was -- was such a good person. >> the hardest question, always the "why?" the coldest fact, the young woman gone too soon. that's all for now. i'm krieg craig melvin. thank you for watching. breaking right now. storms across the country. ice, snow, wind, rain and the northeast. crisis in iran. protests in the street there. but this time it's not necessarily against america. what are they protesting? >> impeachment time line. a look at how long the president's trial might actually last. it could start sooner than you think. i could have been a temptation. like i'm not going to make it. >> survivor's story. a man pondering the worst option

after stranded days on end and how one act led to his rescue next. we made it to day two! good morning, everybody, on this sunday, january 12th. >> i'm kendis gibson. >> welcome to the show. >> two welcomes in one week? >> it's downhill from there. let's begin with the latest on the iran crisis. first up. new fallout from dramatic protests playing out across the country. shouts of commander in chief resign, renee 'rang out in the streets of tehran last night. students accusing the iranian government of covering up what it described as unintentional shootdown of a passenger plane. all 176 people on board were killed. many of them were students returning to school in canada. vigils were held at campuses in

three canadian cities after iran's leader speak to prime minister justin trudeau and trudeau spoke to the victims' families. >> they are hurt, angry, and grieving. they want answers. they want justice. but iran has admitted to is very serious. shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific. iran must take full responsibility. canada will not rest until we get the accountability, justice, and closure that the families deserve. >> nbc cal perry is joining us from doha, qatar. what is the latest on the investigation on those protests and unusual scenes there in tehran. >> reporter: yeah. remarkable video coming out across social media. we do see video this morning

suggesting that protests are under way again today. this following a night of protests in tehran and in other cities in the iranian capital. at least two university protests spreading there across the capital, chants that -- should leave the country and general soleimani was a murderer and murals of general soleimani torn up. remarkable when we saw these type protests where hundreds of iranians were killed by government forces. these protests are usually violently put down, so protesters truly taking their lives into their hands by taking to the streets, frustrated, as you've said, by the downing of that ukrainian plane. important to note at least 82 iranians were on board that plane which many believe has led to these protests. but, again, this is truly remarkable when you consider that the regime usually doesn't put up with these kinds of protests. we have seen video this morning of a massive amount of security

on the streets of tehran preparing perhaps for another day of protests across the capital. >> cal, there is another diplomatic incident coming out of all this with the protests. tell us about that. >> reporter: yes. the uk ambassador to iran was at the vigil, what was originally a vigil as he said, we have got tweets from him we can put up at a vigil for those who died in that plane crash. he says he was own there about five minutes when he then moved on, at which point, he was detained by iranian security forces and said he was held about 30 minutes. that is illegal under international law. but i think it's a very dangerous sign of what could happen in iran in the next few days. usually when the government starts pointing the finger at foreign agitator, an indication they plan on forcefully putting down protests but they are blaming foreigners, certainly an ominous sign to people who have taken to the streets. >> cal perry for us in doha

qatar. >> it's believed about 1,100 people died during a fuel protest that took place in iran there months ago so we will have to see how things develop the next few days in tehran. back here at home. the white house is slamming democrats for their response to the u.s. air strike that killed iran's top general. nbc kelly o'donnell is he is white house. the white house is pushing back after the house passed a war powers resolution. what is the administration sk saying? use good morning. the white house is pushing back at a time it's under great pressure with questions and criticism about the president's handling of the strike that killed general soleimani of iran and set off this latest intense sort of escalating problem with iran. so the white house is saying that democrats are more focused on trying to curb the president's power instead of looking at the result which the white house and president say has made america safer.

that can be gutdisputed or argu but taking out soleimani was also designated by the united states as a terrorist, that that was a necessary outcome. they have argued that there has been ample evidence -- that has also been disputed -- that the iranians were looking at targeting u.s. embassies, namely in baghdad, but the president said it extended to four others and some military bases as well. counselor to the president, kellyanne conway that democrats are undercutting themse inting here is kellyanne conway. >> i'm very disappointed that the resolution that was passed this week was trying to curb the president's powers as commander in chief. i also think that 2020 crowd as you were relating didn't know what to do with this because their stock, nobody cares what they say. they don't pay taepgs to the town halls any more and feel the

burn again and if you're in foreign policy, we know what your foreign policy is, they are becoming apologetic to the bad guys. butt buttigieg, what did he want them to do? invite soleimani to the cave? >> reporter: she is conservative in her criticism with democrats and her case there. it is part of the tension that the white house is using to try to put the spotlight on democrats and some of their comments related to general soleimani and the war powers act and that sort of political back and forth. at the same time, that gets some of the attention off of the president's handle being of the original strike. we saw president trump use twitter to speak directly to the iranian people and to talk about the protests that are playing out on the streets there. talking about his support for them, calling them courageous and he did that both in english

and in another language that is spoken in iran. that is another way the president is trying to put pressure on the iranian regime by focusing on the actions of iranian civilians who were saying they want change in some form or another. >> any response from the white house to some of the republicans who voted for the war powers act? >> reporter: there has been some concern raised about that, especially because president trump wants to have as much unity among republicans as possible with views that align with his own. and they are concerned about any attempt to undercut the president's ability to act in military ways. they have argued the reason this whole notion of an eminent threat has been so much a part of the conversation is that is one of the legal justifications that a president can use to take military action without consulting congress as sort of the ultimate person who has to be responsible for defending the u.s. if there is a threat of an

immediate attack. basically, that the time is so limited, he must act. so that is why there has been so much conversation about that. they have also said they want to have ongoing dialogue with republicans who have pushed back. they think they can try to smooth some of that out but think that this will not be something there will be so many republicans that it will undercut the president but it has been an issue especially with the president commenting on, for example, mike lee, republican senator of utah, who has been very critical of the administration. they are saying he gets along well with the president and they think they can smooth it out. >> a lot of the president's friends in congress are against him with this. gates and lee. thank you, kelly. with us on the phone is our guest. bobby ghosh.

>> i think they realize they couldn't sustain that lie very much longer. quite a lot of attention had will be been paid. there were satellite imagery, too many people had been to the crash site and had noticed that there was an effort at a cover-up, so the lie could not be sustained any longer. they decided after trying very hard to deny it, to come out in front and accept it. >> bobby, in the meantime, i do want to get your assessment in the meantime of the response there in iran. you see those crowds after soul ma -- soleimani's funeral and hundreds of thousands of people and then people shouting out death to the leader. very unusual sounds. >> it's a big country and people with different views. and it's possible for people to

hold both parties at the same time, being united in mourning, sole soleimani's death as well as against the regime. the important distinction is the crowds that came out last week for soleimani, they came out with the full support of the government. the government supported these demonstrations but the ones we saw last night, everybody that was chanting in those streets, everybody who came out was risking their lives and risking a bullet and risking their lives and the lives of their families. that has got to count for something more than simply turning up for a funeral of a state-approved funeral of soleimani. the people last night were incredibly brave and especially since they knew that only -- only a few weeks ago, people who had come out into the streets were mowed down in the hundreds for chanting similar slogans. this is a very important moment. this is not -- we are nowhere near the end of sort of

predicting the downfall of the regime, but it tells us the anti-regime sentiment or the ankle remember against the regime is now very close to the surface in iran and any provocation this comes out into the open and the regime can't just indefinitely go on killing its own people. >> bobby, president trump tweeted in english and another language words of encouragement to protesters and most to iranian students. what is the significance of this? he said the world is watching. last week we saw tens of thousands mourning soleimani and today we are seeing iranians seem to be supporting trump's tweets. >> i don't think trump's tweets help at all. i don't think he has any credibility. even with the iranians protesting against the iranian government. the first thing to do is drop the travel ban on the iranians. if you want to show that you're

on the side of the iranian people the first thing to do is allow them to escape the tyranny of their government. i don't think trump has a great deal of credibility here. his tweeting in any language is not going to move the dial. iranians are protesting on their own without american support. >> bobby, think about this for a second. you recall back in 2014, russia never admitted its role in the shootdown of flight mh 17 over eastern ukraine in 2014. should iran get a little bit of credit for admitting three days later it shot down this plane? >> a big difference between shooting down a foreign flagged airline and shooting down, you know, a foreign flagged airline that is not carrying hundreds of passengers from your own country and shooting down a plane that where the vast majority of the passengers were iranians. there is an important distinction there. you know?

should the iranians get credit for telling the truth after the lie fail? okay, sure. but could they have continued to deny it? yes, they could have, but i think it had already become very clear, not only to the rest of the world but a lot of iranians. don't forget. most iranians despite their government's best effort to get information have access to the internet and international information channels and, therefore, it was clear to, i think to any iranian who had access to the internet that their government was responsible for this, so they could not sustain the lie. >> that is indicative as well after military leaders also went ahead and backtracked about what they said about the plane's actual flight path and originally saying it made a turn and backtracking on that. bobby ghosh, it remains to be seen how much truth will come out of this whole situation. we appreciate you coming on and enlightening us on this situation. thank you. >> thank you.

tonight our experts break down the latest tensions and the impact of the u.s. conflict in the middle east. watch our special "iran crisis" only here on msnbc tonight. more breaking news. 11 people have died in severe storms sweeping the country. tornadoes tore through parts of louisiana ripping off roofs and leveling buildings in this parish and the bodies of an elderly couple were found in demolished trailer and blown 200 feet from its location. here is a look at the damage after the storm pushed through mississippi. hundreds of thousands without power through texas and georgia. in chicago freezing rain and powerful winds and storm surge from make michigan flooded parks and inundated lakeside communities and 1,200 flights were cancelled at chicago's two airports. in kansas city, police respond to do 54 crashes and helped 135 stranded drivers yesterday.

record temperatures both high and low. parts of boston this weekend hitting the mid-60s. >> we will take it. >> in kals you need a reminder, it's general 12th. >> we will take it! >> it's so bizarre right now. i'm not happy when it changes. >> they broke some records in central park and d.c. had temperatures in the 70s yesterday. >> people out in their shorts yesterday! >> very unusual. let's talk, though, on a serious note here to the massive damage. dozens of after-shocks pound puerto rico. why are so many of these quakes striking in one place right now? we will have a live report from the island. plus, a newspaper approach for house speaker nancy pelosi? the strategy that could actually give her the upper hand in sending impeachment articles into the senate. into the senate. we made usaa insurance for members like martin.

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welcome back to msnbc world headquarters in new york. here is a look at times square in new york. >> yes! >> well, it's raining! >> sleet? >> we are supposed to hit record temperatures today. 65 degrees. >> islands of legends now. in london, the royal family is set to meet tomorrow about harry and meghan's abrupt announcement they are stepping back from royal duties. the queen reportedly wants to find a solution before harry's next public appearance, a rugby event at buckingham pals ace an

reports meghan is already in canada and might call into the meeting. overnight, thousands sitting in. listen. >> you are not only fighting for hong kong, you are fighting for all people oppressed by the ccp. >> the cbc mentioned there is the communist party of china. it was broadly considered a rebuke. 12 saudi military students after a deadly shooting at pensacola station. gunman killed three people in december. the students are accused of having extremist links and several even were in possession of child pornography. new this morning. new details of more damage in

puerto rico following a 5.9 magnitude earthquake. after-shocks continue on the island this morning. >> patricia mazy is on the phone. look at the shaking from yesterday's earthquake. she wrote an article entitled too much dread fills puerto ricans as new earthquake stuns island. patricia mazzei, thank you for joining us. how are they dealing with this considering we haved 16 straight days of earthquakes or tremors? >> yes. it's the biggest question on people's mind when is the ground going to stop? i think what is difficult to understand, unless you're in the quake zone, is that the ground doesn't really seem to stop shaking. it is vibrating under your feet most of the day and throughout the night. even if they are not big after-shocks, the little ones

that you can feel are just as unsettling, just as deseconcert p.m. even if people are outside and feel safer there, they don't get a chance to rest. they think, you know, we had a big one, why are we still feeling these after-shocks for days on end? >> i'm stunned by this. have you ever heard of anything like this, patricia? >> no. certainly not in puerto rico. the biggest earthquake people here recall learning about is children and happened in 1918. not people readily alive or anyone who remember that and pass on any memories of it. at the time, some of these stories -- obviously, this is a lot of rumor because we don't have a lot of reports from 1918 -- are that the

after-shocks lasted for a very long time after that quake and there are many faults around puerto rico. they are have just not this typically active and the after-shock sequence, you know, people don't ever remember being this long, at least not in recent memory. >> that is a telling part there. generations of puerto ricoians had no idea they had these actual faults right there. the last 16 days, powerful reminder of that. i want to get a sense of how dire the situation is on the ground. of course, several years after hurricane maria, the island is still recovering. is power on? how dire is it? >> the power has come back on slowly. the utility says as of this morning, that 97% of the island has power but in the quake zone, in that sort of focused area of southwest puerto rico, people, in some cases, still don't have running water or power.

those are sort of the hardest places to get to because of some, you know, issues of tumbled power lines and such, but, mostly, the problem is as of last night, 6,500 people were sleeping outside in government-run outdoor shelters or the patios of their houses and parks and sports fields because they don't feel safe going back in and if they are going to wait to have all of these buildings expected, it's going to take a long time before they can sort of certify that all of these structures are safe. >> patricia mazzei is joining us from puerto rico. you can see the capital city there san juan at the north. look at that. that is the cluster of where all of those earthquakes have been hitting. the last one that 5.9 about 24 hours ago, just hit off land in

the sea there. but, still, powerful impact on that area. >> more than two weeks of these after-shocks people are dealing with now. why experts say nancy pelosi still holds the cards on whether to call witnesses at the senate trial and how she can play them in her favor. ♪

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welcome back. very wet start to the day there in cape may, new jersey. tip of the new jersey shore there. >> quite misty. >> yeah. it should be in the 50s later on today in cape may. very unusual for january. so new this morning, plenty of prominent voices and sharp voices weighing in on the range of topics from iran to impeachment. among them, the democratic representatives elaine lauria and max rose explaining in "the new york times" why they voted against the war powers resolution. in fact, they say it addressed a deescalated conflict with symbolic vote that did more to distract than to fix the real challenges that we face. "the washington post" columnist writes, quote.

>> george conway and -- is giving their take in "the washington post" how pelosi should play her impeachment cards. in part, they write the following. separating the two articles our preferred approach, they write, would make perfect sense. >> you can't say enough as you listen to those words and watch those words there that is the cowriting of kellyanne conway's husband, george conway there. glenn, good sunday morning to you. thank you for joining us.

what do you make of the approach that conway and kaetchal has laid out there? >> i thinkin' interesting approach. the one thing i will say is we are always looking to criminal trials for guidance about how a senate impeachment trial should or might go. it's not a perfect comparison because we all know that impeachment is a political process, not strictly speaking, a legal process. but one of the things i would say is that in the practice of criminal law, when you have charges that are indicted together, two, three, four charges in one indictment, generally, they all have to be sent over for trial at the same time. there are some exceptions when there is no overlap in the facts or the evidence, when they are separate charges. so i understand the reasoning of neal and george's column. i think a lot to be discussed there, mainly because of the way

the president has blocked the witnesses that are necessary to prove sort of completely the ukrainian interference that forms the basis of his abuse of power in the first article of impeachment. so i think there's a lot to discuss here. i would be surprised if we see speaker pelosi only send one article over and hold the other back. but you know what? i've been surprised by a lot of what we have seen. >> no doubt, glenn. i think a lot of us have. i want to jump back into karen's piece. she had striking points here. she also has another quote and another question that she points out there saying is there any point in having an impeachment provision in the constitution if the president is allowed the option to withhold witnesses, documents, and other evidence that could show whether there is any validity to the allegations of misconduct against him. do you agree with that notion?

>> yeah. i thought karen's piece in" the post" was outstanding and recommend it to everyone. what i will say in the day-to-day discussions and arguments over, you know, nancy pelosi's withholding the articles of impeachment and mick mcconnell trying to rig the trial and not having i have -- any witnesses. i think we should ask the fundamental question which is what does the power of impeachment mean? if the president can block the witnesses that congress needs to prove he committed impeachable offenses. it's a simple and basic question. about 200 years ago our sixth president john quincy adams actually answered that precise

question in a really compelling way when he said, and i quote. he said it would make a mockery of the constitution's impeachment power for congress to have the power of impeachment, but not the power to obtain the evidence and prove it needs for impeachment. i think we should focus on that. it would make a mockery of the constitution if these witnesses are blocked from testifying. i mean, that is an important principle that i think we should all keep in mind when we are debating what a trial should look like in the senate. >> glenn, let's talk time lines. once speaker pelosi hands over the articles how quickly could the trial start and could we see arguments play out by next saturday? >> we could. i think it's up to mitch mcconnell and the vote of 51 senators with respect to some of the rules they adopt and how quickly they move forward. but i just want to impress again. i think the american people

deserve witnesses because if all we have are politicians making speeches, that is not trying a case. that is not trying anything except perhaps the public's patience. >> thank you for the john quincy adams' quote of the day. appreciate it, glenn. turning to the race for the white house. 22 days until the first days are cast in the iowa caucuses on february 3rd. several democratic candidates are stung themping their way th the state and others are focusing on new hampshire and south carolina. >> judge jude and mike bloomberg. >> they have a stake in the government of the country and they can say the person at the top isn't beholden to anyone and he cares enough to spend his

money to get rid of donald trump. >> in new hampshire, andrew yang got a 7-year-old girl -- >> from a 7-year-old? >> yes. >> my question is two-part question. the first is do you have any more reasons why a -- tax would fail? >> bernie and elizabeth champion of wealth tax and i agree with and understand in spirit, but i'm a facts and figures guy and when they rolled out a wealth tax in germany, france, sweden, denmark and half a dozen other countries, it didn't work. >> elizabeth warren campaigned in iowa where 17% of voters support her. at a town hall, she fielded questions about the importance of electability. >> here is the thing. fear doesn't win. courage and vision win.

how do we win? we win by getting out there and fighting for what we believe in. also in iowa, bernie sanders reacting for the first time to his new lead in the state among democrat irvoters. >> what is important to me is the kind of grassroots support that we have. polls are great and some days good and some days not good. but i think we will win in iowa because we have an extraordinary grassroots movement. >> pete buttigieg campaigned in nevada and react to go where he is has fallen to third place. >> we are not too caught up in the change from one poll to the next poll. what with do know we are in a strong position and no campaign that i would trade with and it continues to be the case that iowa is very important because it's our opportunity to demonstrate our strength. >> speaking of pete buttigieg. priscilla thompson is in las vegas and following the buttigieg campaign. the 7-year-old is coming four

job! so this weekend, another poll is out showing buttigieg struggling still to connect with black voters. any reaction from his team to that? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, that poll is so interesting because over the past couple of months, buttigieg has maintained that he does have the ability to build that black support but it's a matter of name recognition. black voters just don't know who he is yet. he doesn't have the name recognition of a former vice president joe biden or even a bernie sanders. but in the latest poll out of south carolina, it shows him at around 2% among african-american voters in general. when you drill down and say, okay, how he is doing among those african-american voters who do know who he is? he is only at about 3% so he has a lot of work to do there. he was asked about this yesterday and he basically said that in addition to name recognition it's also about electability. here is what he had to say. >> i think the biggest thing

that we saw there is an interest in who can win and making sure that there is a demonstration of being able to compete and to defeat this president. we need to demonstrate that and one of the first chances we will get to do it will be in iowa. >> reporter: so he is returning to iowa today and campaigning there all week, taking the debate stage on tuesday and really looking to shore up that support so that he can win big there catapult him to new hampshire and nevada and eventually south carolina. >> let's talk about the debate in january. the stage is set. this is not the first time we have had to say that there is a lack of adversity among the final candidates here. what is the feeling among democrats? >> reporter: yeah. all of the democratic candidates have been asked about this for the most part and have emphasized how diverse the field was whenever folks first started getting in, but that diversity has dwindled in recent weeks and months. you know, andrew yang was the only candidate of color on that

stage in december and he will not be there in january. he has come out recently very critical of the dnc saying that they should have commissioned more of those early state polls to allow more candidates and particularly candidates of color to qualify for that debate stage. he even went as far as to suggest that the dnc may be trying to dictate who the nominee is. cory booker, another candidate of color, has spoken out about this. last month, he, along with eight of the other candidates, sent a letter to the dnc saying they should loosen some of the those threshold to allow more to conversation and the dnc has stood behind the thresholds they put in place and i think the next question is going to be what are those candidates who aren't on that stage going to be doing on tuesday night to get that attention that they are missing out on by not being on that national stage? >> it might be idealistic. a major problem fountain only problem in your campaign is lack of money and you can't continue forward. >> priscilla thompson in las

vegas, thank you. can you will up -- not that graphic. the polling. >> there it is. >> if this had been the oscar nominations, it would be trending oscar so white. >> absolutely. >> that is such a striking scene for having the most diversed primary process and nominees to now coming down to this. interesting. all right. other things we are following right now. flames scorching australia, now destroying an area larger than the state of indiana. why this bad situation is about to get worse. stranded in subzero temperatures for almost three weeks. how crews were finally able to rescue a man. from managing inventory... to detecting and preventing threats... to scaling up your production.

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welcome back. breaking news out of the australia. a firefighter has died while fighting the historic and devastating wildfires bringing the death toll in this area to at least 28. i want to show you this map that kind of shows you what crews are up against. the flames are burning to the north, south and east. one particular hard-hit area is kangaroo island off the southern coast roughly 800 miles from sydney and most of us are family with sydney. a third of that island completely burned rightly now. nbc is there for us live. show us the situation where you are.

i know it is until the middle of the right now, but a dire situation out there right now. >> reporter: the fires continue to burn. as you mentioned, at least a third of the island has burned. they are thinking closer to half when the fires are under control. and they continue to burn out of control in many parts. some state forests have not responded there any more because they feel like there is just no way to try to knock back the flames. their concern now is preserving property of homeowners and farmers here on the island. we have been trying to capture the scale of the destruction over the course of the time that we have been here and it's difficult. it's absolutely vast. if you want to draw a comparison, the island is about the size of delaware and you consider that a third to a half of it has been burned. it's been quite devastating here. the economy relying on farming and tourism and both of those industries have been decimated. >> over the weekend you were at

a wildlife center on the island. give us a sense. we have been hearing all of these numbers about an estimated 1 billion animals affected. what are you hearing about that? >> reporter: well, there's no way to understate the impact on australia's wildlife on this island in particular. there are many species here that are unique to this island, not only the country, but to this space specifically. there is real concern, as they take stock of the losses of exactly how long it's going to take for many of these spe these so recover and which species of animals and plants may never recover that may have been pushed close to extinction. we were riding along for a number of koala rescues today. they found some healthy and injured and some didn't make it. the same could be said of other animal populations including

kangaroos and other species but they really are trying to get a sense of how hard-hit the wildlife has been. there have been some estimates saying that across australia, that up to a billion animals may have been lost, so it's going to take some time. they admit that fire is part of the natural cycle here so they expect that the trees will bounce back, that the koalas may have food again. but in the meantime, they are looking at three to six months for recovery of the koala food, the eucalyptus leaves as an example. in the meantime, they are going to have to hand-feed them. >> it's part of the natural habitat, the fires but dozens have been arrested in the meantime for arson out there in australia. thank you for joining us live. it's about 10:00 in the evening in australia. thank you. it's just haunting to see those images out there. let's turn to a truly incredible survival story in

alaska. do you think you could survive freezi freezing wilderness in thoracic 20 days? that ask what this man did. he asked for a welfare check an message in the snow and was spotted. here's more on his harrowing rescue. >> right there. i'm just about 50 miles southwest of denali. >> he awoke to find the roof of his cabin in flames. he grabbed a handful of supplies. most of his possessions and his dog phil didn't make it. >> at pa point i sat down on the ground for a while just it was cold. i didn't have any socks in my boots. i was just wearing pajamas at that point and t-shirt. >> for more than 20 days he survived in a make shift shelter using debris from his cabin and

what little food he had salvaged. pineappl pineapples, i'm allergic but i ate them anyway. >> rationing 20 days he set up and waited. waiting to hear the propellers. >> honestly i was grateful that all of my bullets blew up because there could have been a temptation. i'm not going to make it. i put myself out. that's a very real thought that crept up almost daily, especially real cold nights. >> reporter: even after the fight of his life steele isn't done with alaska. he plans to return and rebuild. >> two cabins, just in case one burns down. >> that was reporter from our nbc affiliate. what a tremendous story. >> i'm glad he was able to survive it.

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far what has happened? >> 240 perspective jurors were brought in. we don't even have an empanimpa jury yet. the judge is running a pretty tight courtroom for the harvey weinstein trial and wants to begin opening statements by january 26th. the theory was it was a consensual relationship. harvey weinstein also faces four felony charges out of l.a. no matter what happens in new york, he's also going to be facing criminal charges in l.a. once he's done in new york. >> katie, let's talk more about that. on monday he was charged with range one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents on two consecutive days in 2013. what do these new l.a. charges mean for weinstein? will they have an affect on the new york case? >> it depends on the successful or unsuccessful case in new

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