one day he will be found. he'll be found. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline," i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. raig mel. thank you for watching right now on msnbc live, impeachment anti-climax, a trial without witnesses but there are still critical issues unresolved before a final vote wednesday. those details ahead. t minus two days and counting, the iowa caucuses, candidates in a final weekend flurry, the latest polls show a dead heat. then there's this. he can just buy his way on to the debate stage and i got to tell you what's so disgusting about this. >> crying foul, new debate requirements from democrat party leaders. it opens the door for one big spender to get on the stage. why that move is stirring anger. we've got new reaction this

morning. and breaking news, everyone. a number of new developments on the growing coronavirus crisis. rising fears and a rising death toll. those details next. good morning, everyone, from right here at msnbc world headquarters in new york, i'm alex whit, developing this hour, new fallout after a fire storm of senate debate that ended with a vote against new witness testimony in president trump's impeachment trial. >> the yeas are 49, the nays are 51. the motion is not agreed to. >> that vote split along party lines, except for republican senators mitt romney of utah and susan collins of maine who broke with their party to vote in favor of new witnesses. major newspapers this morning are declaring the vote a path to acquittal for the president, but democrats insist the president's legacy has already been tainted. >> the documents the president is hiding will come out.

the witnesses the president is concealing will tell their stories. and we will be asked why we didn't want to hear that information when we had the chance. >> we're going to have a vote, final vote, but there is no vindication for anyone. >> there will be a permanent asterisk next to the acquittal of president trump written in permanent i think. >> several debate why they stood firm against the president in spite of actions that led to the impeachment. >> even if everything the house alleged is accepted as true, number one, removing the president is not a last resort. we have an election, which is a far better and less damaging remedy. >> i agree he did something inappropriate but i don't believe he did anything akin to treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanor.

>> senator murkowski added given the partisan nature of the impeachment throughout, i have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the senate. kro i don't believe the continuation of the process will change anything. it is sad to admit that as an institution, the congress has mailed. president trump reacting on twitter with familiar language, calling it the most unfair witch hunt in the history of the u.s. congress. this vote sets up a split screen week ahead with closing arguments on monday, the same day as the iowa caucuses. on tuesday, by day, more impeachment deliberations and by night, the president delivers the state of the union address to both houses of congress to be followed wednesday by the final vote and expected acquittal of president trump. we have a team of reporters, analysts this hour on the fallout from the impeachment witness vote, and the week ahead. we're going to begin request nbc's geoff bennett there for us on capitol hill in the hallway, it seems, once again. good to see you, geoff, a good morning on this saturday, let's get the reaction from democrats,

what's it been like. >> great to you this saturday morning. democrats were quick to point out the historical anomaly that is the trump impeachment trial every senate impeachment trial to include those for presidents, senators, judges, cabinet members, each one dating back to the founding of the republic has included witnesses and evidence except for that of donald trump. adam schiff, the house intelligence chairman who has been doing double duty as the lead house impeachment manager made the case that the senate is in effect lowering the bar for president trump. you also heard adam schiff very succinctly sum up the point as it relates to witness, at least as it relates to john bolton, what john bolton knows about the pressure campaign, the american public will know in part because his book is set to be released within weeks. he has a speaking schedule,

going to be doing interviews, what you heard congressman schiff say is wouldn't you rather have that information before you now as you make a determination about the president's cull paability. adding to the full picture, here's what chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader told us reporters last night. >> to not allow a witness, a document, no witnesses, no documents, in an impeachment trial is a perfidy. it's a grand tragedy, one of the worst tragedies the senate has ever overcome. america will remember this day, unfortunately, where the senate did not live up to its responsibilities, where the senate turned away from truth and went along with a sham trial. >> reporter: a sham trial senator schumer says. what democrats are doing really, and they have been doing this

all along. they have been trying to prepare the political arena for what happens once this trial runs. touting himself as the exonerated, acquitted president. what you hear democrats doing, they're saying you're not fully exonerated, if you were acquitted it was only because republicans rigged it. they had a sham trial. expect to hear democrats making that point more and more in the coming weeks and months out. >> tell us what's next on the agenda. >> reporter: yeah, so lawmakers have the weekend off. lucky them, which means that those four senators who are running for president get to go back to iowa and campaign ahead of the iowa caucuses, then on monday, we'll see the house managers and the president's defense team offer up four hours evenly divided on the senate floor of closing arguments. once the closing arguments are over, the senators themselves each get ten minutes, if they choose to take it, to tell the american public where they stand. so that's the first time we get

to hear from folks like mitt romney, susan collins, lisa murkowski, each of them explaining in great detail why they take the position they take. it's also the first time we get to hear from democrats, like a joe manchin, doug jones. doug jones is the only democrat who represents the deep south. he told our team on his way out of here last night that he hasn't made up his mind how he'll vote on acquittal. we'll be paying close attention to that. on tuesday, we expect those deliberations to end at a certain point because then both chambers have to come here for the state of the union, all of it culminating wednesday at 4:00 p.m. eastern when they take the final vote on what senators call the final judgment, the vote of two articles of impeachment. >> very glad you do not have the day off. stay with me. i'm not done with you here. let's get hans nichols to join us, following the president in florida. with welcome to you, how much of a surprise to the president that his expected acquittal st nis n

going to come before the state of the union. he's got to wait another day. >> we don't quite know. we know he's planning to give the state of the union on tuesday. we know the president has been somewhat muted in his response to the developments that jeff was talking about in the senate. we've only really had him on twitter. he didn't stop yesterday, the cameras coming down to mar-a-lago, and on twitter, he's railing on the house side of this entire prospect. he hasn't weighed in on what's happened in the senate. there will be an opportunity for him. he has a sit down interview with sean hannity expected to air right before the super bowl on sunday so that could be the first time we really hear from the president. now, in terms of his senate allies, we have a sense of what the president is thinking. you heard lindsey graham use some profanity, hex said bs but said it on sean hannity's show, and ted cruz talking about the

president might have done something wrong but it doesn't matter. >> we did this whole digression and quid pro quo and additional witnesses for whether there was a quid pro quo whether wasn't a quid pro quo, as a matter of law, it didn't matter. it was a side diversion. that's one of the things we clarified during the questioning period that was critical to getting the four votes to not have additional witnesses. >> reporter: so here's an interesting question going forward, what number of republican senators accept that argument there was a side diversion, and how many are willing, excuse me, like lamar alexander to come out and say that it was inappropriate. you had murkowski coming awfully close. this is why the ten minute speeches if they take the entire ten minutes will be quite interesting in the coming days. alex. >> hans as well, i would like you to stay in with me as i bring in susan del percio, msnbc

analyst was there ever any doubt that witnesses were not going to be brought for. what was the line from republicans that they would consider witnesses after hearing both sides. how did it make their arguments all just for show? >> well, it's interesting, alex, there kind of has been a roller coaster this past week on witnesses and it all started with the explosive reporting from the "new york times" about john bolton's book, and what was going to come out in it. john bolton as we also know, also willing to talk about being subpoenaed and testifying in front of the senate. so it did make some senators nervous at certain times. the big change came with lamar alexander, when he said basically, i will not vote for witnesses. this is such a big problem, not just politically for the senators but the country as a whole. right now, our democracy, our sense of justice has just been kind of, the winds have been

taken out of our sails as a country to not hear from witnesses or see documents. it's clear that more information is going to come out. but these republicans were basically scared. they had their head in the sandment thsand. they just think they can plow through. like everything else, it's the next thing they have to deal with, and they'll be able to plow through this. it's only february 1st and by election day, it will be old news. >> okay. hey, geoff, can i ask you why this bulletin matter didn't change anything? >> reporter: well, in part because impeachment really is an exercise in raw politics and what you saw was a lot of the is that rights reverse engineer their decision making which is to say will there be 20 republican votes to join with the 45 democrats and the two independents who caucus with the democrats, no, in that case, why prolong the inevitable, if the president is going to be

acquitted, why prolong the proceedings by introducing witnesses. that's not a principled argument. it's a political argument. the other side of it is, if you look at all of the evidence democrats have amassed and i know you know this, you've paid close attention since it started in october. the evidence points in one direction. the white house has not produced a shred of evidence that points to president trump's noncull -- even if it shows the parts more favorable to president trump, it would put republicans in a mind. kwh when you have a john bolton as "the new york times" reported on friday, according to his new book, that pat cipollone, the white house counsel who is also serving double duty as president trump's lead impeachment attorney was in the room when president trump back in may, according to bolton, told bolton to set up a meeting for giuliani to shake down, to use the phrase that democrats used, to shake

down the president of ukraine to get this pressure campaign moving. imagine that, so that is one of the key reasons why a john bolton and mick mulvaney will never cross the threshold of the senate floor and participate in the impeachment proceedings. >> hans, is there an expectation, the president is going to take a victory lap on tuesday. is there a way to gauge that when he does the state of the union, even before his acquittal expected on wednesday. >> reporter: if he does, it will be complicated. remember the president has gone back and forth on whether he wants total exoneration or acquittal. you get different views on what total exoneration means, sometimes it's just an acquittal. it's difficult to make the argument before the vote is cast. the president wouldn't want to complicate the final vote. that's going to be one of the tense moments and crucial questions moving forward. how does the president talk about impeachment, or does he like he does at a lot of rally,

focus on other things. at a rally, the impeachment rally one or two sentences throw off the cuff. we tend to use that because that's the newsiest thing the president says. whether he gives a boring recitation of his accomplishments, these aren't meant to be newsy, they set the tone or take a look at the year or whether or not he focuses on impeachment, i think that's a question really that the white house is still trying to figure out. remember, mcconnell called trump last night or yesterday afternoon and they had a conversation laying out the schedule of events, that is that the president would give a state of the union before he's actually been acquitted. alex. >> as it reflects, it has been a hell of a year. guys thank you so much, susan del percio, i'll be back with you in a little bit. thank you. all the l.a. players wore

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a week away from the iowa caucuses, voters head to the caucus site monday night. joe biden and bernie sanders are tied for the top spot. most candidates are folkifocuss iowa, and some with new hampshire. the for the democratic candidates stuck in the senate impeachment trial, the weekend could be a chance to catch up. senator elizabeth warren rushing to iowa to meet voters at a brewery. she thanked her supporters for helping her get to this point. >> you pushed me. you asked me hard questions. and you pushed back. you've given me notes and lines to read. you stopped to say, have you thought about this, can you think about this, listen to what's happening to my family. and over this year, you've made me a better candidate and kwoyol

make me a better president. >> senator bernie sanders surrogates campaigning for him with a concert and several speakers while he travelled to iowa. he called in to remind his supporters to focus on getting everyone out to the polls. >> if there is a high voter turnout, we are going to win this election. so our job is to create the highest voter turnout in the history of the iowa caucus. >> senator amy klobuchar racking up several endorsements on saturday, most notably from the editorial board of an iowa newspaper. >> we're good. we just got another endorsement, the "iowa city paper" as well as the "seacoast," i keep sitting in the chamber wanting to be there but getting the lot of good news. >> joe biden told reporters he's confident about his chances there and in new hampshire.

>> i think that, you know, the two caucuses and two first primaries, i view them as a package, and how you come out of there, i think, is going to determine what your shots are, and so i feel good about @. >> also spending time with iowa voters, pete buttigieg discussed his campaign's decision to finally go after some of his opponents. >> what vice president biden and senator sanders are offering is a different approach and different vision than mine. i want to make sure in this respectful and meaningful difference of approach i'm laying out why our approach is better. >> andrew yang criticized long time politicians for becoming complacent in their role. >> they're lurching from press conference to press conference and cable news hit to cable news hit to fundraiser and just sort of advancing. they're now at the trough, you know, and stay at the trough, like nothing changes. >> and the democratic national

committee announced changes to its qualifying criteria for this month's debate, seemingly opening the door for mike bloomberg to participate by scraping the requirement for multiple grass roots donations. that move sparked outrage among some candidates. yang's press secretary says yielding to a billionaire. and tom stayer put out a statement to ensure a more diverse stage is just plain wrong. let's turn now to nbc, live for us in des moines, a very good early morning to you on this saturday. look, sanders supporters are saying the change in the debate rules, it is singling out the vermont senator because of his massive base of donors, whereas you have mike bloomberg who's refused it take any donations. how have bloomberg and sanders campaigns been reacting to this news. >> reporter: that's right, alex. perhaps not surprisingly, the candidate who has more than 5

million donations and more than 1.3 million individual donors is not thrilled with the idea that a guy who is not taking donations, doing this on his own personal wealth is going to be able to come on to the debate stage in nevada and be on the stage because of his polling numbers. senior adviser jeff weaver in a statement called it a rigged system. they have called the dnc a number of times in the past four to six years. the bloomberg campaign is thrilled. they could not be more than happy to be on the debate stage and share their ideas with the american people. >> what about the nbc news "wall street journal" poll, it came out out on friday, sanders supporters have a positive view of socialism, biden viewers have a positive view of capitalism. if mostly young people show up to caucus day, does that give sanders the advantage. >> reporter: i think it might,

alex. you see the younger generation is thought of as the most progressive generation in history. they have done march for our lives. they are the ones that have moved the climate protest further, and as we see in the new nbc news, "wall street journal" poll, folks under the age of 35 are really going towards senator sanders. the people over50 are going towards joe biden and there's not a ton of crossover when it comes to the numbers. people are scared of the s word, people scared of the idea of socialism. certainly the younger folks are going towards senator bernie sanders. >> okay. our campaign, thank you so much for joining us this early morning from des moines, iowa. joining me now is jonathan allen, national political reporter with nbcnews.com, i want to play for you, jonathan, what bernie sanders supporter michael moore's reaction was to the dnc rule changes. let's take a look at that. >> they are removing the rule to be on the debate stage where it says you have to have so many people donating to you.

they removed that rule. because mike bloomberg, the billionaire, the republican mayor of new york city. he doesn't have to show he has any support amongst the american people. he can just buy his way on to the debate stage, and i got to tell you what's so disgusting about this, i watched the debate in iowa here two weeks ago, the all white debate. and the fact that the democratic, the dnc will not allow cory booker on that stage, will not allow julian castro on that stage, but they're going to allow mike bloomberg on the stage because he's got a billion dollars. >> there's some passion right there from michael moore, but is he right, jonathan. is the dnc moving the goal post here? i mean, put in perspective how big a deal this change is. >> reporter: a couple of things,

alex, and good morning to you from chilly des moines. a couple of things, anytime you change the rules, there are going to be beneficiaries, there are going to be people who are harmed. the benefit to mike bloomberg, the only beneficiary if he can get to 10% polling in four national polls, he hasn't done that, and proves to be good on a debate stage against other candidates, the benefit looks like it will go to him. the people harmed obviously those who have fallen out of the campaign that they got into. the sanders campaign is able to take a pretty good effect for themselves as well, though. you hear michael moore making the argument and as gary was saying a minute ago, they have been making this argument for a long time that this is a system, not only within the democratic party but in the country that is rigged by, as bernie sanders says, millionaires and billionaires, no greater evidence for their argument than

watching the rules change in the middle of the game to benefit pretty much one candidate. so they're happy to be able to make that argument. but even more so, what you heard from michael moore there, alex, was bernie sanders campaign making common cause with the supporters of other democratic campaigns. the people who support julian castro, who support cory booker when he was in the race. that is not something bernie sanders is able to do a whole lot. usually it's bernie sanders against the rest of the democratic field. so they're going to be able to turn this into a little bit of magic for them, at least in the short-term. >> yeah, you know, i'm looking at the new opinion piece in the "wall street journal," jonathan, and it's by former chicago mayor, rahm e nmanuel saying democrats may be blowing their chance, and forgetting their opponent is donald trump. he's highlighting the battle between the progressive and mod r rat wings.

do you think -- moderate wings. do you think the dnc rules are going to further the ideological fight ahead of the election. >> reporter: i do think they are going to fuel an ideological fight. the democratic electorate, it doesn't care. compared to rahm emanuel, compared to the dnc members, compared to the leadership, the past presidents, et cetera, those are the folks that want to fight over the rules. those are the folks that want talk about ideological lanes. the voters in the democratic party, some of them care about the ideology, most of them simply want to figure out who's the candidate who can beat donald trump. most of them simply want to move the country from trumpism toward something that has a more democratic cast. some of them have a more ambitious vision of it. some of them have a less ambitious vision of it or at least think that a less ambitious vision to have is more likely to beat them. this is a fight that's largely going on among the rahm emanuel's of the world.

>> jonathan allen you don't have an overcoat on. i'm going to have you go back inside and get out of that chilly des moines weather. >> thanks, alex. joy reid, you can get her take. the must read op-eds and editorials of the day, after the senators put the president on the path to acquittal. ut the pr the path to acquittal. i'm your 70lb st. bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. when youyou spend lessfair, and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one.

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now to some breaking news, the trump administration is declaring a public health emergency here in the u.s. as the coronavirus spreads throughout the world. american citizens traveling from the epicenter of that outbreak in china are now subject to mandatory quarantines. nbc's miguel almaguer has the story. >> reporter: as the death toll climbs in the number of coronavirus cases explodes, the u.s. government taking a rare step declaring a public health emergency in the united states. >> beginning at 5:00 p.m. sunday february the 2nd, the united states government will implement temporary measures to detect and contain the coronavirus. >> reporter: those measures include closing the u.s. border to nearly all foreign nationals who have traveled through china in the last two weeks. they have also imposed a 14-day mandatory quarantine for any

u.s. citizen who has been to the epicenter in the previous 14 days. this includes the 195 u.s. citizens who evacuated wuhan now at march air reserve base. the cdc warning, even individuals who have been exposed and tested negative could still develop symptoms and become contagious later. with the state department issuing a level 4 do not travel advisory for all of china, american airlines united and delta are suspending operations there, as nearly a thousand americans in wuhan want out. the u.s. government scrambling to plan more emergency flights. the uk and france also flying emergency charters, as australia plans to quarantine its evacuees on an island 1,600 miles from shore. back home in chicago, doctors continue to monitor a woman who traveled home from wuhan and infected her husband. the family telling nbc news the

man's 1-year-old grandson is now also being tested for the virus after developing a fever. with more than 10,000 confirmed infections worldwide and more than 200 dead, an emergency at home. >> we're going to have dr. natalie azar coming up for you with more info on this. also in the news, the trump administration expanding its controversial travel ban. six countries failed to meet a series of security and vetting criteria. the new countries are nigeria, myanmar, e sudan and tanzania. targeting visa holders looking to move to the united states. and newly released video shows the parkland school shooter attacking a security guard in jail. check this out, this video is from november of 2018 where nikolas cruz was seen antagonizing, then fighting with that guard, even allegedly trying to take his taser. cruz was charged with attempted aggravated battery of an officer

and several other offenses. cruz is awaiting trial after opening fire at marjorie stoneman douglas high school killing 17 people. and heavy hearts in los angeles at the first lakers game since the tragic death of kobe bryant. the emotional pregame ceremony began when the lakers team entered the arena wearing bryant's jerseys. several players bowed their heads as grammy award winning usher sang "amazing grace" and the ceremony held a moment of silence for bryant, his 13-year-old daughter gianna, and the 7 others killed in the helicopter crash. there was this amazing scene after the game. thousands gathered outside the staples center in solidarity together. now to this morning's must read from opinion pages across the country. "the washington post" editorial board writing a scathing piece on what they called a cringing abdication of senate republicans. they write in part, republican senators who voted friday to

suppress known but unexamined evidence of president trump's wrong doing at a senate trial must have calculated that the wrath of a vindictive president is more dangerous than the vote of the american people who favored summoning witnesses. the editorial board writes the vote also brings the nation face-to-face with the reality that the senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal and stupid power politics. faced with credible evidence that a president was abusing his powers, it would not muster the institutional self-respect to even investigate. but the "wall street journal" kimberly is crying wolf on impeachment. she writes, foul, foul, foul, the democratic affront to basic enormous and standards -- norms and standards is why most americans continue to reject impeachment and republican

senators remained on solid ground moving toward a quick acquittal. they have asserted it is their duty procedurally defective impeachment, they are on the side of the majority of americans who oppose removing this president from office. susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. let's talk a little bit about what you and i were discussing in the makeup room. you're a republican. i'm curious, share your feelings toward the republican party this morning, susan. >> it's just so depressing. i'm frustrated. it's disgusting. i think they need to be put in their place, frankly, as legislators who have endorsed and enabled this president to tear apart our country. he has done nothing to unite our country. he's going to be giving the state of the union on tuesday. that's the state of the union. that means the country. he's supposed to be a unifier, all he does is seek to divide and what have we gotten from it.

nothing. just maybe some tax cuts if you're a republican, and judges, you could look at that, but at what cost. and that's what's so frustrating and sad to see. >> how long do you think this particular impeachment remains in the memory of voters. there's certainly evidence to suggest, when you look back at the nixon impeachment that votes are remembered in perpetuity. i mean, do you think this one will be remembered in the same fashion? >> it will be, and whether you think about it as someone's grandchild googling them to see how they grandparents voted on impeachment or their obituaries and how they're remembered. yes, that will live on, but as far as the voters go in november, i think the thing that will stick out is all the information that comes out after impeachment because the president, it's clear abused his power as president. he used it to gain political advantage over an opponent using government resources, and that's the nicest way to put it.

so i do think that it will stay with the president, but the idea of being impeached, you know, you showed those editorials which are important to read, but they exist in news silos, so if you're reading "the new york times" editorial page, you already think the president is guilty, and if you're reading the "wall street journal" op-ed pan page you're thinking the president is probably innocent, and you're both looking for validation of your beliefs. >> i know you heard the senate chaplain when he developed that warning ahead of the witness vote. for our viewers, everyone, take a look at what he said. >> remind our senators that they alone are accountable to you for their conduct. lord help them to remember that they can't ignore you and get away with it. for we always reap what we sow.

>> powerful. how do you interpret what he said there? >> i think it's pretty clear. he's basically saying, whatever you do today, you are going to have to live with it. and that's what's also something that we should focus on. this was not the vote, whether or not to convict the president. this was a vote for fairness, about witnesses, testimony, documents, and that's what is so particularly troubling to so many people. we pretty much knew from the get-go, the president would not be evicted from office. but what we were hoping for was to see at least a fair trial, and that's what i think is the biggest problem right now facing the republicans is that they didn't allow this one vote to go through even though they knew the consequences at the end of the day would be the president would stay in office. >> susan del percio, it's always good to talk to you. i'll see you tomorrow. breaking news on the coronavirus which has been

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mandatory 14-day quarantine upon their routine. more than 200 people being held a military base in california, and the u.s. will bar foreign nationals from entering the country if they have visited any part of china in the last two weeks. joining me now, nbc news medical contributor, dr. natalie azar. look what people are suffering from. they've got a fever, cough, chills, things like that, all which can appear to be a cold, flu symptoms, the like, first of all, how do you tell the difference? >> symptit's hard to tell the difference between the coronavirus and the respiratory infection. the key thing is having traveled to hubei province or anywhere else in china where the outbreak might be or being in close contact with someone who traveled there. we are getting every single day e-mails from my institution saying which questions are you asking. we're certainly screening patients for those symptoms of

fever, shortness of breath and cough, but particularly it's exposure to, you know, those areas where the virus is. >> you were telling me, your daughter has the sniffles but you're not thinking coronavirus because you know. >> correct. she had a sore throat this morning and is starting to feel achy and chills, i'm more likely to be concerned about influenza as most americans should be during this season. >> right. so with regard to those who have gone to china, who are the most vulnerable. i know we talk about typically elderly, the young, is it the same thing, are they the most at risk of contracting this. >> alex so far as of press briefings from a couple of days ago, the vast majority of people who have died, the fatalities have been in older individuals and also males. that doesn't mean that, you know, a young adult, a young female certainly is definitely susceptible to more severe illness but the more severe illnesses are being seen in older individuals, which is what we would expect. >> okay. originally people thought that

this was an animal-to-human transfer. but no longer, it is human-to-human. >> and dr. fouches of on the "today" show, saying this is an evolving story. notes from a few days ago, may not apply today. what we learned in the last 48 hours is we have documented human-to-human transmission for the first time in the u.s. which is important and also the question of whether or not the disease can be transmitted if you're asymptom atic. what does that mean. you're exposed and 2 to 14 days is the incubation period. it wasn't clear whether the virus could be transmitted during the asymptomatic feared, and we know it can. you don't know if you're next to someone, presymptoms, but an important thing to remember is that asymptomatic transmission is never really what drives epidemics, it's usually and it

makes sense, when you're symptomatic, it's when the virus is in the body, you're more likely to transmit it at that point. >> but these concerns, is that why we're seeing so many masks and do masks work. >> the short answer is for the general population, it is not recommended to wear a mask. there is very -- the masks don't -- the ones you're going to get in the drugstore and stuff are not really -- >> even on an airplane, would you want to wear one on an airplane. >> in a closed environment, you can make the decision for yourself. the recommendation from the cdc is the individuals who should wear a mask is people who are infected, make the people taking care of an infected person could wear a mask. the things we tell people during the season, hold true now, hand washing, avoiding touching your face with your fingers to your mouth, nose and eyes, that's how you're going to introduce the germ into yourself. still, those are the basic recommendations that the cdc is making at this point. there's no vaccine. there's no treatment, so it's

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>> there you've got brexit bells ringing as the united kingdom celebrates its first day fully separated from the european union. around the country, brits are waking up to a new reality this morning, not as europeans but as islanders off the coast of europe i guess you could say. joining me now, molly hunter. molly, welcome to you. so this was symbolic because it's not completely finished, right? there is a bunch of other things that need to happen. like what? >> alex that's right. i wish i could say after three and a half years after intense debate, that suddenly last night

at 11:00, poof, we were going to know what the future of britain and the eu would be but we don't. nothing effectively has changed from last night to today and the whole slogan we have been hearing from brexit supporters about get brexit done is a misnomer. the work actually starts now. so all of that leading up to it was just to get to today. and now, we're in a transitional period. so basically, for the next 11 -- 10-11 months, however long it takes. basically, until the end of 2020. the uk will remain in the single market in the customs union. and, alex, this is where it's going to get fierce and going to be completely unknown. they are going to debate everything from trade to services, standards, movement of people. so if you are a european waking up in london or the uk today or if you are a brit waking up in europe, you actually don't know what the next year's going to look like. >> which means we're going to be counting on you, molly, for keeping us informed on everything brexit related for the next year. thank you for that. appreciate it. in just a moment, new reaction this morning to the impeachment witness vote and the call mitch

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first up here on msnbc, path to acquittal. an impeachment showdown that started with a bang, finishing with a trial and no witnesses. but it's not over yet. what still needs to happen before a final vote on wednesday. rule change. the dnc move that will change the next debate and why at least one of the candidates is crying

foul. and global epidemic as the death toll from the coronavirus climbs into the hundreds now in china, the cdc is taking action. what you need to know about the efforts to keep that virus contained. a very good morning to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. it is 7:00 a.m. here in the east. 4:00 a.m. out west. i'm alex witt. thanks for joining us. we begin on capitol hill. nearly empty this morning after this turbulent week of debate in the senate. republicans blocking democrats' efforts to call witnesses by a 51-49 vote last night. all but assuring the president's acquittal. nbc's peter alexander has more. >> senate republicans rejecting the democrats' demand for new witnesses. the vote, 51-49. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> propelling the president toward acquittal. >> no witnesses, no documents. in an impeachment trial is a grand tragedy. one of the worst tragedies that the