senator baucus, do stay with me. we've got some more news coming up perhaps from the white house here as it relates to the signing of this trade deal. a lot of news being covered right now, folks. we are just a few minutes away from the start of that historic house vote to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. a huge new piece of evidence in the investigation, we were just talking about this a few moments ago. these new documents, notes, text messages tied to rudy giuliani, opening up big new questions ahead of the senate trial. we are going to dig into that. we expect to see the president of the united states, a live look here, the president going to appear for the first time in the next ten minutes or so, president trump getting ready to sign phase one of a trade deal with china. he may take some questions. there's a good chance he'll talk about all of this as well. you are watching msnbc. high protein. low sugar. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good! high protein. low sugar. mmmm, birthday cake

i had former senator max baucus on a moment ago and his argument was that the first article of abusee second article, which is obstruction of congress. what do you make of it? >> i think they're both strong. and i think this obstruction argument is very compelling when it comes to impeachment. this isn't a president who turned over some documents, made some witnesses available and then said enough is enough. he just completely stonewalled. he withheld all evidence. he essentially told congress i won't participate in your investigation into my conduct. and that's a very serious matter. you know, you had a brilliant conversation in the first part of your show about how congress has permitted the executive to expand its power. perhaps in unwarranted ways that have created a too powerful presidency. it's time for congress to say, no, we do have the ability to engage in legitimate oversight, particularly when there are allegations of criminal conduct. and on the technical front, katy, the president has never really asserted executive privilege. he's simply stood in congress' face and said

yet british but i believe that it is such a step back to all those who thought that quantity and baucus not on a military dictator who while the constitution would be brought to justice this has not happened and it is a setback for all pro-democracy forces and. the sport of caught on tape makes its olympic debut do some a it's a moment that athletes who practice this muff a lot have long been waiting for but the move has sparked some backlash as well. japan is the spiritual home of karate. and q. she meets who is going for gold this and because you go to one of course the high expectations around me create a lot of pressure but i think i'll do it with a clear conscience step by step. if you know. she needs to discover karate at the age of 9 and after 3 years already had a black belt today at 26 she's a 3 time world champion. it's about the kind of dent in competitive karate you compete in one of 2 categories. both have their charm and i hope that more and more people get the opportunity to experience both types of karate life. is a fake fight against an imaginary opponent the goal is th

question in this complicated picture is that room for compromise between these 2 sides and they have baucus or is it all or nothing it's going to be really difficult to find a compromise what i see is one of the biggest problems is that the un backed government doesn't really control that much territory so i don't see it as having much leverage where you have half to r. and his libyan national army controlling a lot of territory and being supported by other actors in the region and outside the region including russia the u.a.e. and egypt and it's also received some support from france that there's this belief that have tar is best suited to fight against terrorists and to create stability in the region but he's not part of the national government and i think the concern is that he's going to want to play a huge role in what eventually becomes a libyan united government and that isn't going to work well with the u.n. backed regime which doesn't want him to play a big part in any kind of process of whatever of libya's independent state is going to turn into in the future so presumably that. t

could cause also a significant painful for the market for the devil or delivering coffee oil in the baucus increases or no direct confrontation but lots of proxy skirmishes but if i can put it out exactly with the exception i think they will keep the frontline in lebanon with hezbollah cold enough because it is another level of the conflict they will keep it as much as possible far away from their reaction. just in iraq because for i think tell us about reactions to this in the region there obviously there are people like israel who are glad to say this who else has been speaking well i talk with many people for example in the area in iraq that is there is 2 parts in iraq some of them are quite happy because they think that mr saleh money was responsible for does of devastating of iraqi politics and he was the king of may cover off some politicians in iraq and he's mixing chem business with iraq. but the majority of the people that i talk with them they think that mr saleh money was the main figure and the the 1st person to be giving them. back up fighting is them into state in mosul. they

50's but at least it's not pouring it raing right but we do have rain in the extended forecast or baucus traumas i am runng to defeat donald trump. in 26 i warned that donald trump was a dangerous demagogue, and when t republican congress wouldn hold him accounble, went to work helping run winning campaigns in twenty-one house seats. it's time for the senate to act and move trump from office, d if they won't do their jobs, i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. this november you d i will. >>welcome back to the kron 4 morning news a time for 44 thas for waking up with us we'r checking on the recast is looking at the numbers the curren numbers at the in the 40's slow a lot cooler than where we wee at this time. 15 degree difference, i can en fill and a lot ofbright of how is this morning. you're definitely going to feel it id that at least it's going to be dry out there for the morning comte so that is some good news, but it's going to be cold so craig on those heaters in the car you're going to need a full blast for the right. but no rain in sight right now so that is the good new

challenge of how to get the citizens out of china's one city the epicenter of the coronavirus the baucus bill isn't evacuees see any will leaving hundreds of its students in limbo. inside the city of new han the epicenter of the coronavirus the streets are unusually quiet come run on a pakistani student has been confined to his dormitory that is briefly left to buy food like many others he's stuck in a city that's under lockdown pakistan has announced the health risks are too high to evacuate any of its citizens all the foreigners and all the chinese are well aware of all the precautionary layers and you can see like we always try to be at home and try to be as much alone as possible across the border in pakistan so they want to know about your health and current situation in your city it's been an anxious wait for cameron's family who want him home. but it concerned my family is very concerned my parents are very concerned and we are very. concerned about his conduct his movements his food his care at least 4 pakistani students studying in we han have been infected by the virus the city

not to game say for what max baucus is saying, for joe to campaign on tax hikes, we haven't seen any candidate pull that off to win the white house. that is all they got, really, at that, hikes? their spending ideas, almost like what obama proposed. that was spare change in the cushions what they're talking about now in terms of blowing out the debt. >> white house is talking about tax cut 2.0 for a while. i think resolution of trade fights, stimulus we've been looking for, sometimes the white house down appreciate the power of that 2017 tax cut the president enacted. we saw this week, encana, big canadian energy firm, shareholders moving from calgary to denver. you remember the obama years when the treasurys were trying to ways to lock u.s. companies not to flee in other jurisdictions? now people want to flee to the u.s. resolution of trade fights encourage that. neil: a lot depends if we don't ante up with the europeans. we had great success with chinese. that is our cudgel. >> the other story headline came out, van jones of cnn getting hammered on social media for dropping a truth

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