it's day two of the senate impeachment trial, democratic prosecutors. >> began opening arguments yesterday by laying out the case for president trump's removal from office. meanwhile, president trump seemed to boast to reporters yesterday claiming that his team has all the material impeachment prosecutors were quick to react to that statement. senate democrats appeared to be dismissing the idea of a witness swap. minority leader chuck schumer says a bolton, biden trade is not on the table. good morning, everyone, it is thursday, january 23rd. i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside yasmin vossoughian. so formal arguments in the senate impeachment trial are

officially underway, and democratic prosecutors are laying out the case for president trump's removal from office. in a series of speeches on the senate floor yesterday, lead impeachment prosecutor adam schiff along with six other house impeachment prosecutors argued that president trump pressured ukraine in order to help him win reelection. schiff warned senator ifs trump isn't held accountable, the damage to u.s. elections and national security could be long lasting. >> president trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic partner at war with russia to secure foreign help with his reelection. in other words, to cheat. his scheme was undertaken for a simple but corrupt reason to help him win reelection in 2020. but the effect of his scheme was to undermine our free and fair elections and to put our national security at risk. the president was the key player in the scheme. everyone was in the loop.

he directed the actions of his team. he personally asked a foreign government to investigate his opponent. these facts are not in dispute. ultimately the question for you whether the president's undisputed actions require the removal of the 45th president of the united states from office. i suggest to you today the only conclusion consistent with the facts and law, not just the law but the constitution is clear, as described by constitutional law experts testimony before the house if this conduct is not impeachable, then nothing is. >> president trump's abuse of powers of his office undermine the integrity of our free and fair elections and compromised america's national security. if we don't stand up to this peril today, we will right the history of our decline with our

own hand. if president trump is not held to account, we send the message to future presidents, future congresses and generations of americans that the personal interests of the president can fairly take precedent over those of the nation. we have for generations been the shining city upon a hill that president reagan described. america is not just a country but also an idea. but what worth is that idea if when tried we do not affirm the values that underpin it. what will those nascent democracies around the world conclude that democracy is not only difficult but maybe that it's too difficult, maybe that it's impossible. and who will come to fill the void that we leave when the light from that shining city upon a hill is extinguished. >> and democratic prosecutors will resume their arguments at 1:00 this afternoon.

trump's legal team likely won't begin its defense until saturday. president trump who has been impeached in part for obstruction, appeared to admit in davos yesterday that he is withholding from congress evidence related to impeachment. watch this. >> we're doing very well. i got to watch enough. i thought our team did a very good job, but honestly, we have all the material. they don't have the material. >> so congressman adam schiff, the lead prosecutor in the senate trial later latched on to those very comments. >> the president late last night or early this morning, depending on where you are in the world bragged that he thought things were going well because they had all the materials. indeed they do have the material hidden from the american people. that is nothing to brag about. >> and congresswoman val demings, one of the impeachment prosecutors pointed to trump's remarks tweeting this, the second article of impeachment was for obstruction of congress, covering up witnesses and documents from the american people.

this morning, the president not only confessed to it, he bragged about it. jay sekulow, the president's personal attorney dodged the question when asked by nbc's peter alexander about the president's comments. >> reporter: the president today in davos said that basically we have all the materials, as one way of defending the fact that this is a challenging case for the democrats. we have all the materials. democrat says he is boasting that he successfully obstructed congress. how do you respond to that allegation? >> i think what jerry nadler said last night, what he called an executive privilege and other nonsense, these are privileges recognized by the supreme court of the united states that come out of the united states constitution. this isn't nonsense. this is really what the constitution is about. they're putting on their case. the good news is we have 22 hours more to go of their side. let them put their case on, and we'll continue. >> so despite swearing an oath of impartiality, several senate republicans yesterday gave strong indications of how they were leaning. north carolina senator thom

tillis aired out his frustration on twitter writing in part quote, the sham impeachment is a waste of america's time and the people of north carolina are getting tired of it. here's what other senators had to say. >> what the house managers were proposing yesterday is basically to destroy the institution of the presidency as we know it. if i were the president, i wouldn't cooperate with these guys at all, schiff, nadler and pelosi impeached this president in 48 days. i wouldn't give them the time of day. they're on a crusade to destroy this man. and they don't care what they destroy in the process of trying to destroy donald trump. i do care. >> we have just come out of listening to what, six hours of testimony so far today. i didn't hear anything new at all. we were here all day, yesterday for about 13 hours, no new material presented.

it still seems to me as this was an effort by the democrats in a very partisan way to bring a case against president trump because they weren't happy with the results of the 2016 election. >> i think the fact that they are using visual aids and thinking that you can just take the same information and if you throw it out there enough, it will change maybe anyone's point of view, i don't think that's going to work. >> joining us here onset, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and managing editor at "the washington magazine," jay caruso. so many moments, so many take aways on the senate floor, especially moments off camera near the elevator banks where our own geoff bennett was reporting, there was a handshake between lindsey graham and adam schiff, you did well, you spoke well yesterday which was interesting to hear to say the least, some of the off camera color. give us major take aways from yesterday, jay.

>> i think the house managers laid out a good case, based upon what we know. i think what was really bizarre if you go back even to the day before is the president's attorneys just seemed to go into the whole thing not really prepared. it was kind of like they went in and decided they were going to start yelling and screaming, whatever it was. it was kind of odd. the biggest thing for me is the house managers seemed very prepared, with all the information they had, all the documents they had and everything, they presented a very good case. i had -- i thought it was a mistake when nancy pelosi said that adam schiff was going to kind of be the lead on this. but i agree with senator graham, i think he did very well. one area i think where he -- i think he stumbled, which i took issue with, was the idea where he said if we can't leave this up to the american people, meaning that if we allow this to go to the election, we don't

know if it will be fairly won. president trump has been chastised for questioning election results and i don't think it's in the best interest to sit there and say, well, if he doesn't get impeached and removed, we're not going to know if he wins fair and square, i think that's a little bit out of bounds but outside of that, i think they did well. >> danny, what did you make of adam schiff's opening arguments and the case he began to spell out yesterday? is he in any way, shape or form, you think, moving the needle beyond just the politics of it but with the facts. >> first, one thing you could tell about adam schiff is he has such a command of the facts because he has been involved in the investigation from the outset. make no mistake about it, that's how he's able to speak and look away from his notes, as if he's telling a story. it's really quite a challenge because they have to thread the needi needle of cramming all of this information into the record and at the same time, not losing an audience that has largely heard

the same or similar arguments for the past few days, weeks and even months, and they did that by weaving in snippets of video and power point presentations and weaving that into the story almost seamlessly, technology allowed this to be a lot more seamless than in the monica lewinsky snippets of trial testimony being played then. the interesting thing is that as much as the democrats have called for witnesses, in many ways, they have included witnesses, witnesses that have testified in actual hearings and then even snippets of interviews given by the president. so they've really done an effective job of incorporating evidence into their presentation in a way that you can't really even do as seamlessly in a court, in a criminal or civil court. they have been able to do it as part of their narrative, and i think it's been very effective so far. >> jay, let's talk about the reaction that we're hearing, if any, on capitol hill with regard to the president's comments yesterday from davos,

switzerland, basically talking about withholding evidence, we have all the evidence. and peter alexander asking jay sekulow about that, wanting to get reaction, the president's attorney dodging the question. what are you hearing? >> well, what i'm hearing and what i see one of the biggest problems that donald trump has is that he has this issue where his mouth opens before his brain takes over. and he says things that he probably shouldn't say. once again, this is from a political standpoint is pretty bad. and who knows what he may have wanted to say. he may have wanted to say we hold all the cards, they don't hold the cards, something to that effect, but he says the materials, and that leads to people talking about documentation, information that they refuse to hand over and now they have it. what that does is, you know, adam schiff when he said it, it was hard for him to kind of like keep from smiling because politically it worked out so well for them to sit there and

say, look, here's the president on television admitting that he's withholding evidence that could lead to his removal. so what effect it will have, will it sway any of the republicans, i don't know. i think they maybe get asked about it, and from a political stand point, they may have to face tough questions about it, which then could lead to something else. i don't know right away. it depends on if they follow up with president trump, and continue to ask the question, what did the mean y mean by tha why won't they hold anything over. >> do you think this is a slip of the tongue or more sinister by the president, could this in some way, derail his defense. it didn't look like jay sekulow had a sus succinct. >> reporters would run and ask jay sekulow about it, confront him with it, and obviously in some cases, he hadn't even heard about it yet. his answer was just, you could

see it in his face, he's like well, whatever. whatever the president says. and attorneys always have a client that says or does whatever they want to do, and in fact, often that's why they got themselves into legal trouble in the first place, saying and doing whatever it is they want to do. >> but normally their client is sitting next to them, so they can say stop talking, not across the world. >> that's what made it fascinating for jay sekulow to be confronted with this. there's not a word or tweet that is going to help him in the senate trial. perhaps he may feel emboldened. that could change depending on the strength of the case. those admissions about the material shows where we are at this point in trumpism that we've gotten -- he's gotten us to the point where we just say, well, when he said material, he probably meant substance or substantiative evidence or whatever because he doesn't have that great a command of the

english language. instead of us saying he just admitted he has materials. >> revealing that in his mindset, he would weaponize that saying we have the information, we have the cards, we have the material. he's weaponizing the whole point of the second article of obstruction of congress. >> and then there are people like me, i'm sure -- >> shows how brazen he is throughout the entire process, being completely confident that he has the votes in his favor. >> braise skzen and we have a l nati -- a low estimation of his words. >> danny caruso, we'll talk to you in a little bit. still ahead, less than two weeks away from the iowa caucus, senator bernie sanders is trying to refocus his campaign message. we're dilling into polling about where the democratic candidates stand. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. k

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for days over policy issues with joe biden, senator bernie sanders' campaign is aim to go put those feuds to rest as the candidates near the iowa caucuses. senior campaign adviser jeff weaver attributed the recent clash to the vermont senator's boost in the polls. the person in front has the biggest target on their back, and i think you're starting to see that now. yesterday on "morning joe," biden complained about sanders referencing his past political stances saying it's like me pointing out bernie voetd again -- voted against brady bill five times. sanders responded it was quote fair to look back at his record and proceeded to list off a number of policy issues they differ on. weaver commented on the recent feud saying this, it's not really negative and personal, this is a different view between sanders and bidens policy positions and their record, and that's what voters need to know in the course of the caucus. >> and bernie sanders is tied with former vice president joe

biden, among democrats nationally according to a new cnn ssrs poll. sanders now sits at 27%, up 7 points since last month. he is 3 points ahead of biden who has 24%. down two points, both sit within the poll's overall 5 point margin of error. senator elizabeth warren is in third with 14%, former mayor pete buttigieg sits at 11%. and michael bloomberg sits in the fifth place, 5%. let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins with a quick check on your weather. >> you excited about the big rain event in the northeast. >> so pumped. >> why would we be excited. >> maybe you have some good indoors plans, spring cleaning. >> there's no such thing as indoor plans, it's called going crazy. >> with two kids, three. >> i knew the answer to the question when i asked it. >> plans are coming to your house, you have more space. >> i won't be there.

as far as the forecast, we have winter weather advisories in the midwest, freezing rain in the st. louis area. that's the area of concern, interstate 70 and we have expanded to omaha. there's only a little bit of moisture available and so it's going to be on and off again snow, light rain, freezing rain through the midwest. same thing in chicago right now, and could be slippery there. milwaukee, madison, the green and yellow, a heavy rain event for louisiana, bringing the umbrella, and that's moving into mississippi and alabama. as far as the snowfall goes, this storm is going to linger. it's going to snow on and off today and not end until maybe saturday morning, and we could end up in this area of purple through illinois, from peoria to chicago, all the way to milwaukee and green bay, 4 to 6 inches total. notice the ohio valley doesn't get much snow and notice the northeast doesn't get much snow either. here's how it plays out toward the weekend. friday, rain through the carolinas, west virginia and virginia, even the appalachians may get rain. even the higher terrain.

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welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin, we begin this half hour with the opening arguments from democrats in the trump impeachment trial. lead prosecutor adam schiff laid out the case while trying to disassemble the president's legal arguments. >> if the president was fighting corruption, if he wanted europeans to pay more, why would he hide it from us? why would he hide it if the ukrainians, why would he hide it from the rest of the world? why wouldn't he be proud to tell

the congress of the united states, i'm holding up this aid, and i'm holding it up because i'm worried about corruption. why wouldn't he? because of course it wasn't true and we're to believe they felt no pressure? folks they're at war. they're at war and they're being told you're not getting 400 million in aid you need unless you do what the president wants and what the president wants are these two investigations. if you don't believe that's pressure, that's $400 million worth of pressure. you've heard the other counsel say before, well, but they say they don't feel pressure. like they're going to admit they were being shaken down by the president of the united states. you think they feel pressure now, you should see what kind of pressure they feel if they admitted that. the president's counsel would love you to believe this is just about ukraine, you don't need to care about ukraine. who cares about ukraine.

how many people can find yukraie on a map, why should we care about ukraine? well, we should care about ukraine, they're an ally of ours. if it matters to us, we should care about the fact that in 1994 when we asked them to give up their nuclear weapons that they had inherited from the soviet union and they didn't want to give them up, and we were worried about proliferation, we said, hey if you give them up, which you don't want to do because you're worried the russians might invade, if you give them up, we will help ensure your territorial integrity. we made that commitment. i hope we care about that. i hope we care about that because they did give them up, and you know what, just what they feared took place. the russians moved across their boarder and they remain occupying part of ukraine. that's the word of america we

gave. and we're breaking that word why? for help with a political campaign. >> house democrats meanwhile continued to dial up the pressure for trump administration officials to testify at the senate impeachment trial. >> you will hear from witnesses who have not yet testified, like john bolton and mick mulvaney, mr. blare and mr. duffey and if you can believe the president's words last month, you will hear from secretary pompeo. you will hear their testimony at the same time as the american people, that is if you allow it. if we have a fair trial. >> and republican senator lindsey graham underlined his opposition to waive executive privilege for trump administration witnesses. >> if i'm asked to waive executive privilege i will say no. the only option is to stop the trial and go to court or have

the senate decide the privilege. >> meanwhile, senator ted cruz argued that the case laid out by democrats has enticed republicans' interest in calling hunter biden to testify. >> if the house managers case is based on the allegations of corruption concerning hunter biden and joe biden being a sham, then it is directly relevant and i got to say the need for the senate to hear the testimony of hunter biden and the need for the senate to grant the white house lawyers the ability to take that testimony has become all the more relevant. >> now, a vote on whether to have witnesses testify is expected sometime next week. >> democrats swiftly dismissed the idea of trading witnesses at the senate impeachment trial after "the washington post" reported that some within the party considered offering the testimonies of joe or hunter biden in exchange for former national security adviser john bolton or the president himself. >> sir, would you be open to say a witness trade for hunter

biden. >> no, i think that's off the table. first of all, the republicans have the right to bring in any witness they want, they haven't wanted to and that trade is not only table. >> this isn't like some fantasy football trade, as i said yesterday, this isn't we'll offer you this if we'll give you that. we'll offer you a witness that is irrelevant and immaterial, who has irrelevant testimony but will allow us to smear a presidential candidate if you want to get a legitimate witness. that's not a trade. trials aren't trades for witnesses. >> while campaigning in iowa, former vice president joe biden also opposed testifying at the trial. >> the reason why i would not make the deal, the bottom line is this is a constitutional issue. and we're not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater. they are trying to turn it into political theater but i want no

part of being any part of that. >> joining us here onset, msnbc legal analyst, danny se vcevall and jay caruso, jay, let me go straight to you. what do you make of joe biden's strong opposition to testify at the trial even if some democrats believe it may actually help the case against donald trump? >> i think he's making a bit of a mistake. i don't think he's going to get called to testify anyway, but saying that i'm not going to go, i'm not going to do this, i'm not going to be part of this i think politically is not feasible or tenable at this point. i think he probably should have just sat there and said, hey, look if they want to call me and waste time asking me irrelevant questions about my son, let them go ahead, i have nothing to hide. i've got nothing to do with it. i think it's irrelevant. if they want to do it, go ahead. i think that would have been a better approach. i don't think it's going to happen anyway but so sit there and say i'm not going to be a part of this, politically it's

bad. not that he's hiding anything, but him saying i'm going to refuse to go, then republicans are going to turn around and say then why should john bolton testify. >> do you think it was wise for democrats to kind of dismiss this idea of swapping witnesses? >> i am in the minority. in fact, i'm in the super minority when it comes to this, but i would have considered taking that witness swap deal. in fairness, i say that not by putting myself in the shoes of democrats but instead i say that as a general fan of spectacles because it would be fascinating to see this testimony. >> defense attorney speaking over here. >> that is defense attorney talk, but i say that because if the hunter biden avenue is so debund debungt, i'm surprised more democrats aren't saying, let's let hunter biden is going to say. >> do you think they're worried

about what hunter biden would say? >> i don't know that drtemocrat they have debunked that hunter biden post, but i do get democrats' point of view in this is not a true, pure deal. it's not as if this is clean as long as they agree hunter biden shows up and then john bolton or whoever else they want actually shows up. there are other parties to the deal, the witnesses themselves, there's the white house and they could interfere. it may not be a true offer in the sense that it's an agreement that each side could deliver on. >> so in a way, they could actually agree to a witness swap and then the president claims executive privilege, and john bolton doesn't necessarily show up for his testimony and they have agreed for hunter biden to show up. >> human beings with their own volition, i don't want to necessarily appear. >> john bolton said he would appear if asked to do so. >> he has said that, but what if he shows up and then is directed

to or honors a request to exert executive privilege to individualized questions, that is an open possibility based on existing case law. >> what do we expect to happen in today's trial agenda? >> it's going to be more of the same as what we saw yesterday. the big question is whether the democrats are going to use all of their allotted time to state their case. the president's lawyers wouldn't start, i think, until saturday. just looking ahead a little bit, i think the bigger thing is going to be next week or when all of the case is done being made by the house managers and trump's lawyers are going to be the questions that the senators get to submit in writing. they won't be able to stand and speak. they'll submit them to justice roberts who will then give them to the house managers and defense attorneys. that's what's going to be interesting to see what kind of questions come out of the senate at that point. >> senator claire mccaskill made the assertion, there could be a possibility from the republican defense side that they could ask mitch mcconnell to have their

testimony start on monday so as to get the most eyes on it as possible. do you think this would be smart from the defense to start their testimony on monday? >> the defense has to think, well, both sides have to think very carefully about timing. not only timing as in the first day of the week monday but also timing in the sense that these hearings are going on through prime time but then into the wee hours of the night, so each side has to accuse very carefully who's speaking, when they're speaking, what content they're speaking about, and they have to cram all of their facts into the record at the same time not losing the audience, so there's a lot of strategy that goes into that. i think you may be right, the defense may be thinking, monday we start fresh, we get a new set of maybe fresh eyes who have rested over the weekend after these grueling, you know, viewings into the wee hours of the night, maybe this is a good strategy to get going on monday with the defense argument. the defense is running the same challenge that defense attorneys have at trial is that we have to

sit there and wait while the prosecution gets the first bite at the ample and lam bastes the defense, and the defense has to come up and do damage control. >> or you can make the argument that saturday more people are at home, not at work, more people are going to be watching, not tied up with things to do. >> a rainy day for bill karins. >> that's a question for mr. nielsen, i'm not sure how that works. >> danny cevallos, a pleasure, thank you, jay caruso, thank you as well. why veterans groups are upset with the president about the portrayal of troops on the iranian base in iraq. a deadly virus sweeping through the country as the cdc raises its travel alert following the first diagnosed case in the u.s. we're going to tell you about that story and much more. your first look at "morning joe." back in a moment. your first loo joe. back in a moment (burke) at farmers insurance,

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repeatedly to americans that after iran retaliated for the soleimani strike, no americans were injured. we now know at least eleven u.s. servicemen were air lifted from iraq. can you explain the discrepancy? >> no, i heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things, but i would say, and i can report, it is not very serious. >> you don't consider potential traumatic brain injury serious. >> they told me about it numerous days later. you would have to ask the department of defense. no, i don't consider them very serious injuries relative to other injuries that i have seen. i've seen what iran has done with their roadside bombs to our troops. i have seen people with no legs and with no arms. i've seen people that were horribly, horribly injured in that area, that war. in fact, many cases bombs put there by soleimani who is no longer with us. i consider them to be really bad injuries. no, i do not consider that to be bad injuries, no.

>> so that was president trump yesterday in his own words down playing head injuries suffered by american troops after an iranian ballistic missile air strike on military bases in iraq earlier this month. the "wall street journal" reports the comment haves prompted angry criticism from some veterans advocates who argue that such injuries can in fact have lasting consequences. also u.s. health officials are closely monitoring at least 16 people who had close contact with a washington state man diagnosed with the first u.s. case of the coronavirus. the cdc has begun screening passengers for the virus at several major airports across the country, including atlanta, chicago, los angeles, san francisco, and here in new york. this comes as the deadly pneumonia-like disease has killed at least 17 people in china, and infected nearly 600 others, causing chinese authorities this morning to close off the major port city of wuhan, which is populated with more than 11 million people. and "the new york times" reports this morning that chinese officials have closed off two other nearby cities as well, raising the collective total of

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welcome back, will em marks is joining us live. what more do you have on this? >> you mentioned a few minutes ago how the center of wuhan has been shut down for public transportation. a virus that causes pneumonia, we have seen many many deaths but on the financial side there are implications as well. we have seen the major markets in china, shanghai and shenzhen down significantly. shanghai down 2.75% and shenzhen, down 3% in hong kong,

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will have to face. >> yeah, so the ag called roughly alleging that the trump inaugur inaugur inaugural committee spent a million dollars essentially on a ballroom at the trump land hotel in d.c., that it didn't need and barely used and knew was overpriced. $175,000 d knew was overpriced $175,000 the trump business was in breach of d.c. law and nonprofit spending. the ag also saying the president and his daughter ivanka were probably aware of all of this based on documents that he's managed to get through subpoena. >> wow. it seems as if the president spent his private life in port. he's also spending his presidential life in court. up next, a look at axios's one big thing. on "morning joe," more from day one of opening arguments in the

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all right. joining us here on set with a look at axios, mr. jim vandehei. appreciate you taking time to come here. walk us through "one big thing" today. >> in addition to impeachment? >> that thing. >> get to is a soon. mark zuckerberg, the rhetoric from joe biden, buttigieg, sanders, warren, almost the entire leadership turned against zuckerberg and facebook. a huge problem. figuring out how can we work better with trump, better with republicans. a company built by liberals and now looking for trump to have their bet.

remember, zuckerberg met with trump, didn't really advertise it, and hey, may be running for president. i don't know where he got that from. >> and michael bloomberg. why would he put his campaign headquarters in times square. what did you learn? >> miky was over there. struck by one thing. how much the bloomberg people are looking at trump for things to copy. in terms of how much money, focus of social media, facebook, we just mentioned. also this idea of win or lose, how his brand will be stronger right? if he wins, he wins the nomination. even if he doesn't win, take the money and throw it behind the democratic nominee, even if i don't win. win or lose he's the victor. also take an trip from trump in a different way.

they believe if you were ubiquitous on tv, people see you over and over and over again will ultimately vote for you. trump did it being on "morning joe," forcing himself into our lives, and you can't watch a football show without tons of mike, tons of ads. they're going to do this. >> and let me get your thoughts quickly about the supreme court and what the trump administration has been up to on that front. >> not too wonky. a lot of instances during the presidency, pushing the court than typically wants to, going around the court, saying, act on this. saw it with daca, athe census, the transgender ban in the military. saying don't do that and slow down is the effort to repeal

obamacare. >> why is that? >> politics. realize a price to be paid, if you start to gut the most popular parts of the aca or obamacare or preexisting conditions, and on that they want to hold off. if he wins re-election, a big thing. >> and quickly, the impeachment trial, the opening and to yesterday, seeing democrats there? >> few surprises. in ways, a show we've already seen and know the case the democrats will make. not a lot of new evidence. we know republicans are dug in. if anything more dug in. looks difficult to get witnesses you want without a court fight. heard that from lindsey graham. so far not many big surprises. and some ways sat. right? you're s you're seeing -- this should about moment everybody is captivated by, paying attention,

learning how the constitution works, how the presidency works. thinking, we know what's going to happen. >> and jim and have chvandehei, much. you'll see axios soon. that does it for us. i'm i'm yasmin vossoughian along with ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. they appear to be succumbing from the pressure of the administration. >> doing very well. thought our teal did a good job. we have all the material. they don't have the material. >> you have -- you have made the democrats' point. shown why 57, 58% of americans believe you have obstructed the investigation into your own impeachment, because you just admitted. we got it all, and we're