back with us again, maya wiley, jason johnson, joyce vance, chuck rosenberg. jason, as long as i've known you, you have never paused to celebrate the creation of the wheel or its creator. >> you know what? and i'm so happy that more people are paying attention to thomas edison. >> i'm hearing a lot about edison. >> the man is a perpetual lawyer. he is a fabulist. if i were to ever sit down and talk to donald trump i would say what do you think of tony stark in iron man? and he would literally tell me that tony stark was a brilliant genius we needed to protect. it wouldn't matter what you say he'd find some excuse to say he's knowledgeable and -- but what it speaks to is why on earth would anyone who cares about the future of this country, business or sovereignty or anything else like that, defend someone who is so immune to the truth in any and all circumstances? >> maya wiley, i took some notes there. he does good at rockets he said of elon musk. >> he's never seen anything land without wings. i want to back up a minute because i actually find that very both s

back with us again, maya wiley, jason johnson, joyce vance, chuck rosenberg. as i've known you, you have never paused to celebrate the creation of the wheel or its creator. >> you know what? and i'm so happy that more people are paying attention to thomas edison. >> i'm hearing a lot about edison. >> the man is a perpetual lawyer. he is a fabulist. if i were to ever sit down and talk to donald trump i would say what do you think of tony stark in iron man? and he would literally tell me that tony stark was a brilliant genius we needed to protect. it wouldn't matter what you say he'd find some excuse to say he's knowledgeable and -- but what it speaks to is why on earth would anyone who cares about the future of this country, business or sovereignty or anything else like that, defend someone who is so immune to the truth in any and all circumstances? >> maya wiley, i took some notes there. he does good at rockets he said of elon musk. >> he's never seen anything land without wings. i want to back up a minute because i actually find that very both sad and disturb

and jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and msnbc political contributor. karine jean-pierre, i always go ladies first anyway, but in this case black women are actually the core of the democratic party. >> they are the core. >> it is weird for me watching a democratic debate where black women were not there other than the one moderator. obviously abby phillip was there. but it was strange to watch a party that is just utterly dependent on black and brown voters hold that debate tonight. your thoughts. >> and we started off with the most diverse, the most talented of candidates in the primary, and it was not represented at all on the stage. it's problematic. this is something that the democratic party has to deal with. i don't think there's blame to go in one place. i think there's blame to go around as to why we don't have julian castro on the stage, why we don't have kamala harris, why we don't have cory booker. that is incredibly problematic especially before we could even have the first contest. we haven't even had the first

jason johnson, don't go anywhere. we're going to take a break in our coverage. when we come back, chris matthews continues his live interviews with tonight's candidates in des moines, iowa. >>> is it possible that black voters have gotten to know you and have simply decided to choose another candidate? >> the black voters who know me best are supporting me. the biggest mistake we could make is to take black votes for granted, and i never will. the reason i have the support i do is not because any voter thinks that i'm perfect. it's because of the work that we have done facing some of the toughest issues that communities can. >> that was pete buttigieg, and let's go to steve kornacki. steve, that's exactly the point my favorite jason, jason johnson, was making before the break. you have numbers that can help us get at this topic. >> yeah. pete buttigieg and the black vote. i was talking a few minutes ago about the potential for iowa, for new hampshire, for somebody to sort of change the race by winning there. certainly that's what buttigieg hopes. but let's say h

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>> so friendly. >> jason johnson, please stay with us. up next, we were all waiting for it, but it took about 90 minutes to get there. impeachment. smiling. >> nancy pelosi has to move. he has, in fact, committed impeachable offenses. whether the senate makes that judgment or not, it's for them to decide. so it doesn't really matter whether or not he's gone after me. i've got to be in a position that i think about the american people. i can't hold a grudge. i have to be able to not only fight but also heal. and as president of the united states that's what i will attempt to do. to do. >>> wi >>> what that impeachment trial is going to show once again to the american people and something we should all be talking about is the corruption of this administration. that's what lies at heart of it. it is about donald trump putting donald trump first. >> this is a decency check on our government. this is a patriotism check. not only is this trial that -- >> thank you. >> -- but also this election. >> the impeachment of donald trump, the first ever

with us tonight, alexi mccammond, politics reporter over at axios, and jason johnson, politics editor over at the root. good evening and welcome to you both. alexi, it is all on you. how much does this come up tomorrow night? will it be a thing? how big a deal if at all? >> as the one woman on the panel, i will gladly take this to be all on me, and happy new year to you, brian. >> happy new year to you. thank you. >> you know, i kind of have a contrarian take. i think this will certainly come up at the debate tomorrow. the cnn moderators will surely bring this up, but it's a question of how they bring it up. they're not going to turn it into a situation of he said/she said because that will not make anyone smarter, and that will only perpetuate the discussion we've been having already, which is bernie denies it vehemently. elizabeth warren says that he said it, and they disagreed. it's about whether or not senator sanders believes that women are capable of beating someone like donald trump and the evidence he would have to the contrary if he thinks that they cannot. obviously he has t

jason johnson, the following is now on you.from the race of cory booker. >> right. >> who was just a democratic senator from new jersey standing in front of an electorate, asking them to love him. not enough love broke out. he's out of the race. question to you is tell me how the democratic party in 2020 is going to end up tomorrow night with an all-white debate stage and the richest billionaire isn't even on the stage. the backup billionaire will be on the stage tomorrow night. >> yeah. i mean literally the democratic stage tomorrow, brian, is going to be less diverse than some of the stages for the republicans in 2012 and 2016. look, some of this has to fall on the shoulders of dnc chair tom perez. this sort of continuing rising tide that he made it more and more difficult for people to compete. some of this has to do with anxiety on the part of the democratic voters that they wanted somebody safe. some of this has to fall on cory booker himself. he ran a campaign on love, and the electorate really is anxious right now. no on

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jason johnson, a professor of politics and media at morgan state university. and eugene robinson, editor for "the washington post." both jason and eugene are msnbc political analysts. and congresswoman, first of all, i want to go to what the reaction was in the house of representatives in the last couple of days when you started to hear senators like richard blumenthal and a few others saying speaker pelosi should send us the articles of impeachment now. they have reversed themselves, the ones who started to say those things because it seems speaker pelosi is in complete control of what this strategy is. what was your reaction in the house when you heard those senators start to make their own suggestions about it? >> well, let me just say that i think that it's very important that we create a process whereby the truth be known. and the administration obstructed justice on so many levels in terms of witnesses who were to come before us, before our committees ofvel logs and meetings that were held relative to ukraine and the withholding of aid to ukraine. we were

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we're joined by jason johnson, politics editor of the root, howard fineman, contributor. on. follow each other seriatum here. the question is who wins? in this four weeks who is going to pop? they're one of the caucuses voice now? >> it's all about organization in iowa. you look at who has organization, it's bernie sanders. >> he got the votes last time. >> exactly. he goes in with an advantage. but if you're talking about somebody who could pop at the last minute, it's probably mayor pete. if there is a feeling at the end -- >> are you hedging your bets? >> i'm not hedging my bets. i think it's going to be one of those two. i don't think joe biden is going to win in iowa. i don't think elizabeth warren is going to win in iowa. i think it's going to come down to bernie sanders or mayor pete. if it comes down to twitter, it's something mayor pete can talk about. he's a millennial. his whole life we've been at war. >> i know what bernie is. >> he's the young technocratic answer. i don't know if there is. i'm thinking gymnasiums in the schools and caucus sites i've covered si

politics editor of the root and msnbc political contributor jason johnson, and you know him especiallyrom our last hour of coverage, chief legal correspondent and host of "the beat" each night on the network, ari melber. good evening, welcome to you all. how are you feeling as someone who would have been a juror today had you remained in the senate? >> i have mixed emotions. i'm glad i'm here and that i can hopefully provide some insight into the senate chamber, into the various members, maybe hypothetically think about who could be a profile in courage in the coming days. is there a republican? there are several i could nominate that could be a profile in courage over the next several weeks. lamar alexander central among them, an institutionalist, widely respected in the chamber, particularly by his own party, and he is not running again so he doesn't have to worry about a primary or about the political fallout. he has to worry about what the history books are going to say. and there's others that i think could step up and say come on. we're not going to hear the evidence of a man now

the panel in new york, jason johnson, senior correspondent andrea mitchell, joyce vance, rich lauer, and ken conrad, and neil cat yell. guys, i want to play what i thought was the most intriguing question that was asked, republican senators to the white house team. i want to play that and kickoff the conversation. >> before vice president biden formally entered the 2020 race in april 2019, did president trump ever mention joe or hunter biden in connection with corruption in ukraine to former ukranian president poroshenko or other ukranian officials, president trump's cabinet members or aides? >> there's nothing in the record on that, it wasn't pursued in the record. i can't point to something in the record that shows president trump at an earlier time mentioning specifically something related to joe or hunter biden. >> there was a lot, andrea mitchell, a lot of questions asked yesterday. a lot of it felt like that was one of the few you're like oh, that should leave a mark. did it? >> philbin's answer was so imprecise, so fudged that it set off alarm bells as we were sitting there, w

jason johnson, participate of what we've also seen here in the early stage, which was originally pitchedtime where the senators would listen and then make a big decision about adding evidence to witnesses is a lot of republican senators in this great deliberative body as the chief justice reminded us, really not even pretending to take it seriously saying they're bored. i don't noknow about you but wh you think of the way they hold themselves, and i worked as a senate staffer, there's plenty of attitude about how great it is to work there let alone those who have won senate seats, and it's this great place and i'm reminded of lizzo who said why men great until they've got to be great. >> a couple things about this. i'm amazed -- do you really want the quote from 100 years from now to be i'm bored? that's what some of these people are saying. i'm bored. susan collins can complain about the rules. i think jerry nadler was rude to me. you have senators walking in and out of the room when they're not supposed to leave. they're supposed to be arrested by that if we remember what the original

the other question, though, to me is a bigger question, jason johnson, which is that you have a someonebernie sanders' staff releasing a snippet taken completely out of context, a speech that joe biden made a couple of years ago, where he sort of sarcastically talked about paul ryan's approach to social security and cut, a tax cut on the backs of people who need social security and rely on social security. totally out of context, but the headline was that joe biden relies and sides with paul ryan. so it will be interesting to see if bernie sanders and his campaign turn and run from that as well, apologize for that as well, because that came directly from the campaign, and misrepresented joe biden's position over the years on social security. >> right. willie, how many times are we going to see this? how many times will we see surrogates and spokespersons and advocates for bernie sanders say something that is out of pocket or wrong or a lie, and then bernie sanders waits until he gets in trouble and tepidly apologizes for it. this is absolutely trumpian. this is a step away from kellyann

and a man who's stood by my side, jason johnson. and white house reporter for the "washington post," ashley parker and former u.s. attorney and fbi official, chuck rosenberg. i'm going to start with you. because never in my life have i needed so much expert advice about witnesses and what make as witness credible. but someone explain this to me yesterday and i want to know if after seeing parnas you agree with this assessment. parnas has been indicted by the southern district of new york. they have his whatsapps and they've charged him already. he's made himself available to congressional investigators. he has no motive to lie or it could be an additional federal crime he's charged with, right? >> that's right. if he lies to congress, it's an additional federal crime. if he lies to rachel maddow, it's not. there's a weird thing going on. because mr. parnas is a defendant in a pending criminal federal case, he has every incentive to get out of trouble and reduce his exposure. but the place to do that is not on nmsnbc, the place to th

and jason johnson, politics editor for the root and contributor, part of our special coverage of this historic day. >> day to both of you. senator, your view of what is important about this. what matters tonight? >> well, it brought back a lot of feelings of i think to me what strikes me now is, we have a president who has tried to make light of our constitution. light of our balance of powers. light of, in many ways, the norms in our nation. when you see the history come the life. when you see this moment in the united states senate, and i can tell you, having served there 24 years, the floor the of senate a busy place and people are talking and they're cutting deals for how they'll help each other with legislation and they're chatting. this is serious stuff. and it strikes me that tradition which when i was a lot younger, i scoffed at it. it is such an important part of a democracy if we're going to keep it. >> you put it that way. one of the traditions is to keep an open mind. while there are clearly battle hardened parts of this, one of the things that's striking is the senators t

with us at the table alexi mccammond and politics editor at the root, jason johnson.et me start with you. because you've been tweeting about this about an appropriate role for congress. there is some legal analysis that over the last 10, 15 years congress has sort of gladly sort of thrown the hot potato over to the executive branch and said these are all so unpopular, so lacking in public support. is that legit or is that also a legitimate claim that congress should have a say in this? >> this is a great undecided question, nicole. i think it's one where you stand depends on where you sit. the questions are was it justifiable, was it strategic in nature, and was it constitutional? it clearly was justifiable in the big picture, given soleimani's reign of terror, if you will, against u.s. national interests. it was, we will find out if it was strategic, i suppose in some global trumpian way. but the question of stude constitutionality, and frankly the party's flip-flop on this depending on who's in power. the national framework we look to is the war powers resolution of

senator from missouri, claire mccaskill, eugene robinson, maya wiley, a former civil prosecutor, jason johnson. our thanks to everyone joining us on what is by all accounts such a historic day. garrett haake, set it up for us. what is america going to see as the very beginning ceremonies of this trial take place? >> today you'll see a very formal process playing out. the house impeachment managers coming back across the capitol. they will present these articles of impeachment. adam schiff will get the opportunity to read them on the floor. remember, last night the managers came across for this transmittal. there were very few senators on the floor, maybe a dozen or so democrats, almost no republicans on the floor. now starts have just finished up a vote on this trade deal. they will remain on the floor. this will be the start of a process where senators are a captive audience for this. again, unlike in the house, where members could pay as much or as little attention on what was going on the impeachment issue as they felt necessary. senators will have to be in the room, in their seats, paying

i want to play for you a little bit what politics editor jason johnson had to say about whether this might be the start of a new chapter for buttigieg. here he is. >> it doesn't matter what chapter it is, i'm at the end of the book. this raises his popularity with black voters to 1%. the pro bs that mayor pete has had with african-american voters are because of his own policies and his own behavior and his age and what the sort of policy issue that he has in south bend, indiana. >> what are you going to tell people, congressman, who do have concerns about buttigieg's past policies. >> first of all, i think the biggest challenge every candidate has is getting yourself known to voters. if you look how pete went from early 2019 to the end of 2019 from a candidate that probably had zero percentage in every community to being a major contender, it's because of his ability to deliver a message to the voters. as pete becomes more familiar in the african-american community, just as he has had and done in other communities, i believe that in listening to his message about empowering people, i

jason johnson, politics editorial over at the root. during the russia investigation working under special counsel mueller. also happens to be former general counsel of the fbi working under then fbi director mueller during the obama presidency. these days a distinguished senior fellow at the nyu school of law. and with us from d.c. shannon pettypiece, senior white house reporter for us at nbc news digital. good evening and welcome to you all. mr. chairman, the mantle falls to you to start us off. your assessment of the party you once chaired. >> can we get an hour? >> that's all the time we have. sorry. >> start the drinks. well, you know, i think there were a number of times as evidenced by the clips that you showed where they were a little bit back on their heels and couldn't answer some very straight up important questions. and that speaks to the underlying problem with their case. when the matter -- when you spend more time trying to go out and bang the drum and bring in evidence and individuals who are irrelevant to the process an

jeffrey goldberg, jason johnson, jim messina, ed luce, thank you all. >> jason, can i ask you very quicklyecause we've got three hours. we can blow through another 20 breaks. we're less than a month out and you're one of the smartest guys i know on this stuff. how right now would you place iowa? who are you looking at, the one or two candidates that you really do believe, despite all of the talk, all of the chatter, all the horse race speculation, what do you think are the two candidates that are in the best position in win iowa? >> i think bernie sanders and mayor pete are in the best position. bernie sanders has the best on the ground caucusing organization of anybody. he had it in 2016, he has it in 2020, he has a tremendous amount of enthusiasm. mayor pete has always been one or two for the last several months in iowa. i think they are in the best position. but i don't think iowa is necessarily going to be as predictive. the sources that i talk to even within the biden campaign say they wouldn't care if they miss iowa or the first two states because we think we're going to win nevada a

and msnbc political contributor jason johnson. adrienne, let's start with you. so, bernie started lagging in early fall in the polls. he almost was an afterthought. poor bernie, poor bernie, this is bernie 2016, did no one tell him that we've moved on? then bernie had a really bad debate performance, dropped further in the polls. and then just to make things harder for him, he had a heart attack. >> yeah. >> and so, like, it was over. like his campaign was done. everybody was getting ready to write the farewells to bernie and that guy ends up being more like john connor the terminator. you turn around, he's still coming at you. and this fundraising haul is the highest of any candidate in any quarter this cycle. any democrat. talk about -- talk about what this number means for the sanders campaign and what it means for the rest of the field moving forward. >> well, what it means is that bernie sanders has absolute staying power in this primary. he will be able to stay in this race as long as he wants to, because his campaign is fueled by those small, grassroots d

. >> jason johnson, what do you think the threat is that gets pulled from everything that has happened over the last two weeks to the campaign trail for democrats. >> here is the biggest thing and i want all of the twitter world to know this. i think this hurts bernie sanders. as painful as that is for me to say, if there is one candidate that encapsulates the rage of the american people. the people that want to throw other the kitchen table and say this is enough, it is bernie sanders. if they're like we can't trust our senators, our state officials, we have to toss this out, bernie is the one that benefits. he is the only one that believes which he be elected. coming into auchs i think he benefits the most from this. we'll see in iowa on monday. >> look at that picture, rob portman, mike lee, ted cruise. he is a guy, no one needs to remind you walks around washington and might as well have the republican party on his shoulders and now back in ohio it is not uncommon to see a headline or a mention of poodle portman. >> he was bush's omb director. i think he is so important in this sto

. >> where are we, jason johnson?thing adam schiff said obama wept to medvedev and said i want dirt on romney. >> i'm different in this regard. i don't think any of the questions asked in good faith. i don't think anyone really struggling to try to figure it out. they know how they feel and will vote and asking the questions to allow the side to bolster the argument one way or another. republicans asking questions like are the democrats just corrupt? corrupt and weak? the democrats are asking questions like, senator harris' last question, essentially if the senate doesn't convict him does donald trump become a dictator or an emperor? we want to know. what's most important here is this sort of core argument, this suggestion that multiple motivations somehow exculpate you from bad behavior. that is the person -- i saw someone say this on twitter. i'm did getaway driver in a bank robber but i was rushing to the mall. i don't care about multiple motivations. you did something wrong. >> we talked about that when the argume

i want to bring in here, we have jason johnson along with chuck rosenberg sitting at the table here in new york. maya, one thing that's been striking about the last day or two is the amount of time between when this evidence first made its first impression and now has meant that certain things get lost to memory a bit. >> yes. >> and it has been useful. i found this during a long section yesterday that was just going through the bill taylor texts. just to remind people of just how incriminating all of the evidentiary evidence we have around the people a party to and witness to the scheme. >> i think that's absolutely right. one of the things that was damaging to the mueller probe process was you got bits and pieces -- >> correct. >> -- of the story and by the time you got a really full picture of the story folks -- it was very hard to hold people's attention and people couldn't read 400 pages of a document and the democrats had not quite that level of problem but some of that problem. right? because they're fighting over f eviden evidence. they're fighting to get witnesses. they're fig

joining me is jason johnson, msnbc political contributor and politics editor at root.com and tiffany cross, managing editor of the beat d.c. the endorsements will come out tonight. i'm not sure it matters that much. i think we all agree it probably doesn't. is there something now that can break this logjam. "washington post" ipsos poll shows bernie sanders leading among younger black voters. overall biden has a consistent lead. there is a logjam among people i talk to. is there anyone that can break it? >> i don't think so. here is the thing about this field. nobody is generally exciting, right? everybody is kind of like, all right. you're the person who we'll take. again, i think that's base so many people still have an obama hangover. they want somebody to give you that feeling on sunday morning you get from a baptist preacher. that's not going to happen. i have to say i think this field will hedge lively on the second person on the ticket, the vp pick. it would be a bold move for any candidates to come out and say, i'm going to pick person x as my running mate. you remember ted cr

better life. >>> we're back with our panel, jason johnson, andrew weisman, donna edwards and elise johing this coverage. they're trying to win the country. this is all on television. they're not just trying to win the jurors there, the republicans. they're trying to get people who are open minded about the 2020 presidential election. and they think they can make enough marks, just like nancy pelosi said, he will be tarred for life. he will always be img peapeache. do you sense those arguments that can move voters on the law and the constitution here? >> so i do think that one of the things that the democrats are going to be looking at is what's the effect on the senate races and what's the effect on the election. because they know they're not going to win this absent something unusual happening. i do think absent something unusual happening. i think how the moderate republicans react to this impeachment is going to really important. if you can get some republicans saying, you know what, i'm not going to sign off on this was all fine. i'm not signing off that this was a good phone call

let's bring in jason johnson. he is a ted cruz's former senate campaign strategist. think of what i just had to say? i was frankly appalled at what speaker pelosi did with impeachment. >> you mean you didn't fall for that really, really bad case of acting about her being solemn, stuart? stuart: no. did you? >> no, i did not and it was sad. look, let's look back to when the house concluded their impeachment proceedings. remember what they said. one of the things that was said over and over again was that donald trump, the president of the united states, is a quote, clear and present danger to the national security of the united states of america. and in the interim, what did he do? he took the decisive action to exterminate known terrorists from iran who had the blood of hundreds, well, blood of thousands of americans on his hands. fast forward, and now we have this act. they always say that hollywood, excuse me, washington, d.c., ask like hollywood for ugly people? well the theater was pretty pathetic. but i want to give nancy pelosi credit, stuart, on one thing. som

professor and morgan state university politics editor at "the root" add msnbc political contributor jason johnsonth us. republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" peter baker and in des moines, iowa, msnbc national affairs analyst co-host of showtime's "the circus" and editor-in-chief of "the recount" john heilemann is with us. >> and lamar alexander was reading your book yesterday and influenced him to say, yes, the president committed crimes. yes, the president did terrible things but i'm not going to do anything about it. i've got to read that book. it must be very persuasive. >> wow. >> if you read that book, the parallel you will see actually is with the clinton case. that's the interesting thing. up until now, what we saw 21 years ago was democrats were able to say that clinton did wrong. we just don't think it's impeachable or worth removing him from office because the president himself admitted he had done wrong. he didn't admit he commit at crime but admitted the affair and that he lied to the american peop

lawrence o'donnell joins the panel as does jason johnson. your thoughts, lawrence? has learned that line in high school. everyone knows it. there is a truth to it that everyone knows is real. what you have seen in the way they've used the evidence is to try to apply it to this case, which they've done i think very well. they keep making the point about king. i think if you look at the transcript of this the word king is going to appear way more often than it ever has in previous impeachment trials. one thing that i think the audience should be reminded about here, especially after i was watching jason crowe today talking again eloquently about ukraine, about the importance of ukrai ukraine, and adam schiff doing the same thing. if this had been canada, the same crime is there. if this was donald trump saying to canada, i want you to investigate joe biden, and if you do then i will go easy on that milk price issue that we're fighting about, okay, or i'll let you -- i'll let you send washing machines into the country without a tariff. it doesn't have to be that it was

. >> by the way, claire mccaskill is with us, jason johnson is with us, david jolly is with us.this by saying, we all want witnesses and documents as americans. i want that as an american who cares deeply about what this trial means to the future of our country and the strength of our democracy. politically, if i have to totally separate what i feel in my heart should happen to my political head, if these republicans shut this trial down and say no more, you can't hear what really happened and when it happened, think of all the questions that were asked that they could not answer, that there are answers for those questions. if they do that, it is a great gift to the democrats in november of this year. >> do you think lamar will have an addendum to his statement last night? >> because i imagine that staffers for the -- all the senators who plan to vote no on witnesses are pouring through paragraphs like this. it portrays the most senior white house advisers, john bolton, mick mulvaney, pat cipollone, the president's defense counsel in his impeachment, as early witnesses. can you

jason johnson, claire mccaskill, andrew weissmann, and noah feldman, constitutional studying professor today. let's start with garrett haake who's following the group of the hour, the house impeachment managers who are slated to speak in the next half-hour. garrett? >> reporter: the managers have been working all morning out of speaker pelosi's suite of offices. as you said in the introduction here, this is a unique opportunity for the house managers. if you think all the way through the impeachment process, this is the first time that the prosecution, as it were, can lay out their case in long form without significant interruptions. this is not five minutes per side, it's not an hour per side. this is as many hours as these managers want, up to 24 hours over the next three days, to make their case. expect them to use different methods here to try to make these points clear and concise and interesting to their captive audience. i expect we're going to hear from all seven managers throughout the course of the day. i expect you're going to see the media presentation like we saw last nigh

jason johnson, politics editor, and chuck rosenberg, former u.s.just joining us now, you can't go any farther without watching adam schiff last night. let's see that. >> let's say they start interfering in our election again to help donald trump. can you have the least bit of confidence that donald trump will stand up to them and protect our national interest over his own personal interest? you know you can't. colonel vindman said here right matters. if right doesn't matter, we're lost. if the truth doesn't matter, we're lost. the framers couldn't protect us from ourselves if right and truth don't matter. this is why if you find him guilty you must find that he should be removed. because right matters. because right matters. and truth matters. otherwise we are lost. >> speeches in politics that leave a mark. i'm going to say that was one of them. chris matthews, i think that one of the challenges the democrats have had is that for people who have been paying close attention, some of this material is familiar. for people who haven't, some of this ma

with michael jordan and also magic johnson, if people probably accomplish that as he's on the ort list, he's basketball players to ever live. that solution thinyou jason. >>well bay area spts fans are also reacting to the death ofobe bryant. the nba legend was a sports he to many in a lot of them came pay their respects at the chase center in san francis tonight kron four's dan thn is live there tonight joins us wih more. >>of what fans had to say out there today. dan. >>what a are people have been comi here throughout the day today to pay all my eyes to the life of kobe bryant chase center right now lit up in the lakers color scheme of purple and go over my should, you cod se a picture tribute for kobe bryant and fans tell us they were stunned to learn about his death. th aa sports fans paying homage to the life of kobe bryant. th nba legend being membered with a tribute at chase center home of the warriors houses completely in shock like i cannot believe that gill casanova says he drove up from milpitas to pay his respects to the superstar. >>he and his girlfriend made sure to we bryant's number 8 and number 24 lakers jerseys a self-described sacram

rian johnson's knives 0ut is a possible contender, too, using an all—star cast to breathe new life into an old agatha christie style whodunit. i suspect foul play. where's jasonas always with awards, the only thing that you can be certain of is that the results will probably make you want to scream as much as cheer. i'll leave you with a taste of something that's become a modern christmas tradition — a new star wars movie, still packing out cinemas 42 years after a new hope first landed, reminding us that, when it comes to the movies, some things remain the same. we spotted the fugitives. 0h, they fly now! they fly now? they fly now! hello. a bit of a mismatch to start the new year. happy new year to you. liverpool, not bad at all earlier today. come down the coast little bit, did not stop the depots. you think it up in the same mass, because there are no by difference close by. the cloud is thicker across the south—west, miserable there. drizzle on the police. there are some gaps in the cloud as described. eastern side of the pennines quite nice, the north of england has not done too bad so far. the cloud is coming in of of the irish sea. not too much in the

rian johnson's knives 0ut is a possible contender, too, using an all—star cast to breathe sharp new life into an old agatha christie style whodunit. i suspect foul play. where's jason with 0scar voters? as always with awards, the one that you can be certain of is that the results will probably make you want to scream as much as cheer. i'll leave you with a taste of something that's become a modern christmas tradition — a new star wars movie, still packing out cinemas a full 42 years after a new hope first landed, reminding us that, when it comes to the movies, some things remain the same. we spotted the fugitives. 0h, they fly now! they fly now? they fly now! hello. we've ended 2019 on a fairly quiet note. the best of the sunshine through new year's eve was across northern and eastern england, parts of scotland we saw some spectacular sunsets to end the year and the decade. and this quieter theme continues through new year's eve underneath this area of high pressure. but notice that the isobars are closer together across northern ireland and scotland, so, a windier day here. and also, a cloudier day across the uk to start 2020. that cloud could be thick enough for

jason and liam gallagher backing its campaign. the daily express leads on borisjohnson‘s plea for a public fundraising campaign to allow big ben to chime as britain leaves the eu. and the times says boris johnsons reputation as the party of law and order by setting up a cross—whitehall taskforce on criminal gangs. the big story is flybe tonight. 100 billion pound rescue. not without controversy. there are two sets of people not happy with this idea the government will reduce —— review air passenger duty. it is a tax on all flights which is important green tax so environmental groups are unhappy and say it is exactly a step in the wrong direction, we should be looking to increase tax on flying as a form of transport because of the impact it has on the environment and then you also have william walsh, a chief executive of the company who owns british airways being cloke —— quoted. not as a prize he is unhappy saying it is a blatant misuse of public funds. flybe operates —— operates one in four domestic flights in the uk but some of those roots are serving parts of the country like cornwall, for example, where there are not great rail links to get to somewhere like manchester so if you are a busi