risk for caldwell, senior editor at the weekly standard contends that reforms from the 1960s have led to the problems we face today in the age of entitlement. and, donna jackson's the angel and the assassin reports on microglia brain cells that can act as our brains healers and destroyers. look for these titers in bookstores this coming week. and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. on cspan2. >> and now i'm book tv we want to introduce you to a author whose name is mike purdy. mr. purdy when you do for living? >> i'm a presidential historian, i do writing on my website presidential history.com. i do writing for interviews for a lot of media on the intersection of president trump history and politics. >> are you classically trained to string? >> i am not, it is something this been a passion my whole life. and so it has been fun to do that writing now, and to be able to actually publish a book. >> and we want to talk to about that book it is "101 presidential insults". was that concept come from? >> it comes from many, many years of relationships between these 4

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authorities say he crashed into caldwell banker office and pronounced dead at the scenetism chp is releasing stats for new year's. at least three people were killed in crashes across california. and chp officers made 400 arrests. there are no figures for bay area highways. >>> the oakland police department will continue the week and enforcement of illegal side shows. it will not tolerate illegal behavior. the department says the officers will write citations, making arrests. drivers and expect staters are subject to tickets. >>> an update on a student that became paralyzed. he will return to school for the first time. more on thrashing able story. >> the 18-year-old is looking forward to being with his friends in high school and he's grateful things turned out well for him and his family. >> 2020 is off to a great start. he can walk with the help of crutches. two years ago he was paralyzed after an accident during a wrestling match. he needed a ventilator to breath. >> everything came together. until two weeks ago he's been c where he received treatment at craig hospital. the video was taken

. >> joining us now from capitol hill, nbc's leann caldwell, before we get to the impeachment time line, what's your sense of these new documents, do they make any clearer the allegations that marie yovanovitch was spied on. >> i think what it underscores and proves is there's still going to be a fight on capitol hill what to do with these new documents. they will be transferred to the senate to be included in evidence and articles of impeachment and that's why democrats keep saying that this trial that's coming in the senate needs to be expansive. it has to include new witnesses. it has to include all of these new documents and keep investigating. republicans, though, they are not there. they say the house of represent ti representtives should -- representatives should not have rushed this entire price. if they didn't, we wouldn't be in this quandary, and they would have had a much better case to bring over to the senate. this issue of bringing new evidence and talking to new witnesses is really at the center of the impasse between republicans and democrats on how this thing moves forw

joining us now from capitol hill, nbc's leanne caldwell. leanne, before we talk impeachment, what do you think of the new documents? in particular, the question of whether yovanovitch was spied on. >> it appears that they were watching yovanovitch. and there is also the news that devin nunes, the ranking member on the house intelligence committee, who was defending the president throughout this entire impeachment process. sitting through these hearings. denouncing the democrats', quote, witch hunt against the president. that he had an aide that was in close contact with lev parnas. and so what these new documents really show is that -- how deep the tentacles were in this -- in this, you know, irregular channel of people who were trying to, you know, get rid of yovanovitch. who were working very closely with rudy giuliani, who was working very closely with the president. >> leigh anne, what about these newly released photos showing parnas with ivanka and jared? >> the president is saying he doesn't know parnas and with these new photos, it s

and went into the caldwell banker building. >> reporter: officials say the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene the. . the other driver of not seriously hurt. the man who die side describe as white and about 60 years old. >>> property crimes are on the decline in san jose. home burglaries fell nearly 40% between 2014 and 2018. chief garcia says the return of the department's burglary prevention unit has had an impact. he says targeting the individuals who commit home break-ins prevent many other robberies and burglaries. >>> in oakland, instances of violent crime rose for the second straight gleer 2019. the city saw a 7% increase in violent crimes which include homicide, robbery and aggravated assault. oakland had a total of 78 homicides last year. that is up from 75 the previous year. crime was up in 2019. including a 30% spike in the number of burglaries. >>> a frightening encounter in san francisco a father who was on his way to pick up his sun from preschool says he was chased by a homeless man with a hypodermic needle. >> i'm coming up out of the stairs, and he's shooting up d

in the meantime, want to bring in fox news contributor richard fowler and general caldwell. welcome to you both. >> good to see you shannon. >> shannon: i want to read something from congresswoman maxine waters. if midnight mitch and trump think all of us are going to be asleep during the trial, they have another thought coming because i and others will stay up all night long to hear the democratic team lay out the charges against this criminal enterprise in the white house. gianno, we are now in the middle of the night, i'm not sure how many americans are watching, but we are here, and we will fill them in regardless of what happens tonight or tomorrow morning, but congresswoman waters is saying, listen, they're trying to bury this thing in the middle of the night. it doesn't matter, it won't work. >> a criminal enterprise she is pointing to come i would point to her side of the aisle. we don't how many people are watching, but this impeachment trial and process has the democrats will use any vehicle, missile, bullet, slingshot, whatever humanly possible to win an election

when two officers are shot and killed in honolulu, we reach out to mayor caldwell. when we have shootings in dayton and chattanooga, parkland, we reach out. americans know that there are 50 states in the union. but some say there are 52. most americans know that there are 50 in the union. there are 19,000 communities that comprise the united states, just as important. this is where democracy is alive and well. at a moment of division, disunity, too many words of hate , of us clinging to our tribal allegiances over our national ones, come here and feel what it means on infrastructure and immigration, jobs. what it means to come together and not put america first but americans first here. i am proud to be a part of this group. i look forward especially to continuing to push washington forward, to copy what cities are doing on infrastructure, with a $2 trillion, some say $3 trillion, deficit. we want everybody running for president whether incumbent or challenger to adopt that and pass that and put us on attract to rebuild a great country -- on a track to rebuild a gre

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to beijing activists stage a huge protest in home caldwell new year's day after a night mauled by clashes with riot police. iraqi forces regained control of the u.s. embassy in baghdad after 2 days of violent clashes with protesters who tried to storm into it. and ukrainian former riot police released from jail in a recent prisoner swap with contradicting the official version of the 24 team i've done shooting scene kiffin more than 50 lives he speaks with one of the offices. because honestly what if you have evidence shows that the pill.

a third of the six was caldwell butler, a republican from virginia whosese papers are houe of washington and lee university lexington virginia and the state where i grew up and where i later went to law school. together, , the six republicans made history. they did so with no sense of triumph, and today's parlance no fist bumps but only in the words of my congressman, with deep reluctance and only because the evidence was clear and unmistakable of unlawful activities by the president in a criminal cover-up that was in the concluding language of the first article of impeachment, contrary to his trust as president. as to the third article in the nixon impeachment, that article charging obstruction of congress did not enjoy bipartisan support but was voted on by the house judiciary committee along party lines by vote of 21 to 17. republicans objected then to the third article in the face of the president's good faith prior claim to executive privilege by withholding certain evidence until such time as the matter was definitively resolved by the supreme court. my point in mentioning these th

. >> joining me now, leann caldwell live on capitol hill. boy, leigh anne i feel like i have seen you a whole lot this week. >> yep. >> based on the preview the president's lawyers gave us yesterday, what do you think we can expect from their opening arguments when they come back tomorrow? >>allyson, tomorrow when they come back we can expect this made for tv kinds of programming. we have two star attorneys who are expected to defend the president, alan dershowitz and possibly ken starr as well. of course they are well-known from the clinton impeachment trial. and alan dershowitz was on fox news earlier today talking about how the congress has overreached that they have not met this high bar of impeachment. so we can expect dershowitz to lay out that argument tomorrow. we can also expect for them to really focus in on joed by skpep hunter biden especially and what his role was in ukraine. his attorneys for the past few days -- the president's attorneys for the past few days anyway have been really honing in on this saying this is material to

leanne caldwell. my colleague on capitol hill, thank you very much. we'll check in with you throughout the day. katie fang joins me, she's an attorney and msnbc legal contributor talking about the work at hand, writing these briefs. what do we know what they're going to look like, what these lawyers who happen to be members of congress hammer out here. >> other than the senate rules of impeachment, we don't have any templates by which people can go on. looking at the clinton impeachment process is really illustrative, that is going to be what ends up -- you're going to have these deadlines we just heard about at the beginning of the segment as to when these breefsd are going to be filed. they will have citations to the law. they will make arguments. there will be an explanation by the house managers as to why these particular articles of impeachment are viable, and simultaneously you'll get a response from trump's defense team that will say, listen, they are not grounded in legal reality and that's the reason why you can't sustain any of these article

the car spun out and hit a light pole and went into the caldwell banker building. >>> the driver of thear in the chase was killed and the other driver was not hurt. >>> san francisco's outer richmond district, the cyclist's i don't has not been released. the driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators. >>> voters will decide on whether to pay for a $105 million bond. the trustees aren'tly decided to seek funding from voters on the march 3rd ballot. measure t would create me schools and would say for the pond based on their property and the money used would be used for improvements. >> real estate analysts are predicting the housing market will keep levels off. a zillow search expects home values to grow slower than they do initially, about the same number predict the same rate for 0 top, 2020 is predicted to be austin, texas. >>> a developer that was planning an 18-story building in berkeley canceled the plans calling it to prohibitive to continue. beal street proposed and a new movie theater. it was first proposed and faced officers over a number of concern. >> the

fox news political analyst gianna caldwell, thanks for being here. we are keeping an ion davos. diverse any problem within the democrats? >> they created this problem, there should be some level of diversity, we should be looking for the best candidate most equipped to handle issues that plague america but when it comes to the democratic party and the black vote a lot of the things they are offering our issues they created, policies through and through especially when it comes to the african-american community, it led to rules in the black community, mass incarceration, the crime bill the joe biden and bernie sanders voted for, dodd-frank, banking regulations among jpmorgan chase and bank of america, african-americans arrived for loans which african-americans retained a lot of wealth so think about a lot of these issues that come up day today that they are trying to fix are things they created themselves. rob: let's pull up candidates that participate in this forum, the brown and black for him in the list of people you see here especially the front runners, there is no diversity

and went into the caldwell banker building. >> officials say the suspect was pronounced dead at the sceneher driver was not seriously hurt. investigators say the man who died is described as white and about 60 years old. his name still has not been released. >>> a bay area attorney is filing a federal lawsuit against the city of oakland and the oakland police department. the lawyer has released cellphone video in his claim that police officers held him at gunpoint and forced him to crawl on the ground during a traffic stop in stomach, 2017. he said he was driving on international boulevard when oakland police officers pulled over his mercedes benz after he crossed into san leandro. he says this will lead to changes in the way oakland police conduct traffic stops. >> these officers need to be trained in how to deal with these type of situations. it's scary to think that officers are aloud to have a badge and a gun to conduct these type of stops. and there was a complete lack of coordination amongst the officers, giving conflicting recalleds. all of which could have wound me up dead. >> his

. >> joining us now, congressional correspondent leigh ann caldw l caldwell, republican strategist susanel percio and and what o we know about this reporting that came out of the nyu report and what that might mean for future pieces of information that might come out as we look the house and senate play the waiting game? >> well, the democrats think that the new emails and documentation is more evidence against this president and they want this to be used in a forthcoming senate trial. but then that gets to the heart of what is actually happening in the senate right now and that is nothing as far as impeachment is concerned. we saw yesterday the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as you played and chuck schumer his counter part are really dug in on their positions and they have not come to an agreement on how this trial is going to play out. and at the heart of this is the democrats want new witnesses. they want some more documents to be put into this senate trial. and until this agreement happens, then we're just in this stalemate and this impasse. schumer and mcconnell have not met

joining me live to debate, fox news political analyst, author of taken for granted grant jay a caldwelljoe biden with a tremendous lead in the black democrat vote, 48%, the next closest is bernie sanders. why is this happening, in your opinion? >> well, if you ask any african american of any age, you say what are you excited about with joe biden, they usually say barack obama. truthfully, joe biden hasn't contributed anything positive to the black community which would garner this kind of support outside of being barack obama's vice president. you know what, this is where it's particularly disgusting for me, because i don't believe joe biden's worthy of any black support considering him being the architect of the '94 crime bill which was disastrous for black families, talking about it created the mass incarceration generation, created problematic family structure for so many african americans and i think this is why it becomes problematic for african americans that will vote or support someone simply because of their association to someone else. rob: richard, your response? >> look, i t

way the democrats play the game and he adds at the end it's fun to watch, with that we bring jenn caldwellknow, absent all the crazy nancy stuff and all that, the idea that these guys would be off the campaign trail and it would help biden, so we have no way of know if that's the reason she did it, but if it is the case, if that's the strategic goal, do you think it's effective one that will help joe biden? >> well, honestly for anyone who is willing to be intellectually honest we can all see that the fix is in, certainly as the party move forward in this primary process, i'm sure that nancy pelosi had to consider the fact that it would hurt those individual senators and considering the fact that now that bernie is in a dead heat per the aggregate of polls, showing dead heat with joe biden, this is something that's certainly would take the edge off and help joe biden, so for those who are watching this very closely and considering the fact that there's not a lot of folks excited about joe biden, there's people that are saying they are going to vote for him but not necessarily excited, they

a third of the six was representati representative caldwell butler. together these six republicans made history. they did so with no sense of triumph and no fist bumps but only in the words of my congressmen with deep reluctance and only because the evidence was clear and unmistakable of unlawful activities by the president in a criminal cover up that was in the concluding language of the first article of impeachment, contrary to his trust as president. as to the third article in the nixon meeimpeachment it was vot along party lines by a vote of 21-17. republicans object odd the third article in the face of the president's good faith prior claim to executive privilege by withholding certain evidence until such time the matter was resolved by the supreme court. my point in mentioning these three votes is simply this. count votes and do the math. i understand that you all have been deprived of your phones and thus a calculator app so i will do it for you. 27-11 vote was not only bipartisan, as i have indicated but overwhelmingly so. over 70%. that is to

risk for caldwell, senior editor at the weekly standard contends that reforms from the 1960s have led to the problems we face today in the age of entitlement. and, donna jackson's the angel and the assassin reports on microglia brain cells that can act as our brains healers and destroyers. look for these titers in bookstores this coming week. and watch for many

gianno caldwell wrote a whole book on this subject. "taken for granted."ns for black americans. neil: thank you my friend. >> thank you so much. you met on an app. delete it. why? he's the one. gesundheit. [sneezes] i see something else... a star... with three points. you're in a... mercedes. yeah, we wish. wish granted. with four models starting under 37 thousand, there could be a mercedes-benz in your near future. lease the gla 250 suv for just $319 a month with credit toward your first month's payment. neil: renting thought to be more affordable at least near term than owning especially because you don't have to put down as much money versus when you try to buy a property. but deposits are pretty strong and pretty steep themselves but there are ways around that. a lot of lawmakers are looking to give renters more options how they pay the deposits, maybe lessen them at same time. cincinnati passed a law let es renters escape cash all together. we have the national realtors ceo says this will only make rents increase. how so, charles? >> thanks for having

consensus emerged on the committee and a number of republicans, tom railsback, who just passed away, caldwell butler, who loved richard nixon. he was a huge fan of richard nixon. but they couldn't turn away from the evidence that there president had committed abuse of power, cheated in the election, and that they had to vote to impeach him. when it came to the clinton impeachment, that was, again, started out among very partisan lines, and it ended along partisan lines. and i believe the reason why, as i said a short while earlier, was that we never had a high crime in misdemeanor. that was the problem. with nixon, we had clear abuse of presidential authority to up and a constitutional scheme, to cheat in an election and members of both parties voted to impeach. with clinton, we had private misconduct. yes, i think probably a crime because he lied about that under oath. but it wasn't misuse of presidential authority. as i said, any husband caught in an affair could've lied about it and it didn't involve the use of presidential authority. so we never got beyond our partisan divisions on that,

don't think he is looking for caldwell too.hing to realise is notjust waters coast, or close to the coast. it isa waters coast, or close to the coast. it is a vast stretch of oceans out to the north atlantic. it is almost impossible to patrol. but maybe some of the key parts are some of those parts you see on a monday morning, you can watch pretty much bolton and officials coming across the channel, mooring or sailing up and downjust off the english coast. i don't think it is really about armed patrol boats, but about can you get a new fishing deal as is called a independent coastal state. it is not impossible, norway doesn't which is a big fishing country. the challenge will be the eu is saying at the moment, there are two things at play here. one is access to your fishing waters, and the other thing is your access to our the uk sells most of its fish in the eu. the british argument is with every other country, you don't link the two, waters and market access are separate issues. but the eu said pretty clearly that they will l

joining me now, leann caldwell. kimberly atkins. former adviser to bush and steele. up these memos. the democrats have sent over new evidence including some interesting memos from lev parness that includes some tantalizing quotes. will this be something senators see in the presentation. >> one of these notes say get zelensky to announce the biden case will be investigates, that is what is at the core of all of this anyway. not the actual investigation, but the announcement that there's an investigation. that's why democrats say that is an attempt to damage the president's -- >> it says announce on the thing. >> this is something that democrats have been honing in on for three months now, and that is going to be a big deal. in the bigger picture, this helps nancy pelosi prove a point that holding on to these articles of impeachment was a good thing. more evidence has come out. she was able to sends more evidence after they completed their own investigation is going to play into their argument that that's why you have to have witnesses, have more documents and open up

our own leigh ann caldwell reporting that it is very unclear whether mitch mcconnell is going to keep to his word to hue to the clinton model of holding this impeachment trial. the clinton model did not condense the testimony or the opening arguments into 12-hour increments forcing the managers as well as the president's team to make their case at a time when democrats say will be essentially the dead of the night, not many people watching. the senators who are forced to sit in their seats for 12 hours would be tired, and even the chief justice himself would be tired. so we don't have confirmation 100% yet that this is what the leader is going to do. this is our early reporting until we see the actual resolution, but be sure that, if it happens, there are going to be cries of foul from many democrats and challenges to it. >> geoff, while i have you here, it is, of course, mlk day. do we know whether president trump has any public plans to honor the day? >> no public plans on the white house schedule, craig. the only thing the president has planned is to leave. he leaves at 6:15 easter

in fact, when general caldwell had a press conference to talk about iran's emboldenment on the battlefield, he was saying, where is the proof? you lied about going into the war. you must be lying now. no one has asked the question, why was iran killing american soldiers in iraq? the u.s. wasn't carrying out cross-military border against american targets. why was iran involved. we have forgotten that there was a bomb introduced on the iraqi battlefield, the efp which turned a copper cylinder, sliced through metal and armor and american soldiers, cut off their heads and the gunner's body in half from one soldier and the windows with pieces of american soldiers and their blood. the iranians designed that weapon. they engineered it. they produced it and proliferated it on the iraqi battlefield. why? >> harris: k.t., the question of why and diplomatically, we are going to need to answer that. why? >> remember who soleimani was. he was the man that set up all of the militias. they never wanted to have to take the blame or credit for having gone to war in iraq, in syria, in lebanon and yemen. the

leigh ann caldwell standing by. walk us through what is happening, when these arguments resume and how long this might take. >> reporter: sure. it resumes tomorrow at 1:00, same as it did all last week. we got a short preview yesterday of what the white house defense team is going to say. perhaps a more mild version as well. we expect them to come out much more strongly, perhaps, tomorrow and with their tv-made attorneys, including ken starr for shock value, alan dershowitz, both of those attorneys, of course, played a big role during the clinton impeachment. dershowitz previewed what he was going to say talking about how congress is overreaching here. we can expect a lot of that tomorrow. the big question though is how long they are going to take. they have used two of their 24 allotted hours. we heard a lot of complaints from republicans over the past few days that the democrats, the house managers were really repetitive. so it seems like breavity might be a key point. they might finish up tomorrow and they might

here's a quick live look outside at the golden gate bridge few caldwell not more than a few clouds it'scloudy out there this morning a little windy as well as you can see the flag flapping in the wind rebeca strong we'll have more on e forecast for today, she's omising as a mild afternoon with temperares in the 60's we'r going to get the full. the tale from her in justa tom steyer: no child should have worry about finding good food in school. so, when my wife kat and i learned california public school children couldn't get fresh produce in the cafeteria, we took action. we partnered with local farmers, school kitchens, a non-profit. that program now serves over 3 million healthy meals every year. the difference between wds and actions matters. that's a lesson washington d could use, rightow. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. the difference between wds and actions matters. >>we're bk in a 55 a teenager who s paralyzed dung a wrestling match 2 years ago came back to the vergym where it happened 18 year-old ryan joseph talk t the crowd that came to see him at college park highscho

and garrett, you and our other colleague leigh ann caldwell had some reporting about one of the reasonspotentially why the house speaker delayed about sending the articles over to senate. it's a motion to dismiss so tell us about this. >> in the clinton impeachment rules there was written into the rule set the opportunity for someone to call for a motion to dismiss after both the impeachment managers and the white house had made their case. in fact it was the very first motion that would be considered allowed and it was a motion that was allowed before the opportunity to call for witnesses. i'm told that even some republicans were wary of the idea that there might be a vote on dismissing the articles of impeachment before the opportunity came to at least have an up or down vote on witnesses. and that that might be one of the things that gets changed from the clinton rules into the trump rules when those get adopted perhaps later on this week. remember, that once the trial starts everything depends on getting 51 votes and republicans would have that same problem. getting 51 votes to dism

shaquille brewster is in concord, new hampshire and leigh ann caldwell is up on capitol hill.haq, interestingly, pete buttigieg has some events and he and joe biden can capitalize on the absence of the contenders. are they worried they won't have the chance to get the one-on-one exposure to the people running for president? >> that's right. and buttigieg is expected to announce a high profile endorsement. a member of the congressional delegation representative andy custer. it comes at what could be a good time for mayor pete. as you were mentioning many of his top rivals will be sidelined from the campaign trail having to go back to washington, d.c. and sit silently on the senate floor. in a state and a primary where many of the voter, two out of every three voters in a poll released just yesterday said they're open to changing their mind. i got to speak to the voters a couple of months ago. listen to what they had to tell me. >> i think that it's definitely a challenge. i know that a lot of the candidates have a lot of organizers who are on the ground doing good work and they

>> credit lee ann caldwell who is working hard this morning, over the weekend, along with others. what we're hearing is that the resolution that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is working on which has been seen by some republicans, not all of them, certainly none of the democrats, is going to set up to basically have democrats present their arguments, house managers over a two day period, 12 hours each day, which would run each of the days well into the evening, basically into the midnight hour, probably into the wee hours of the morning, and the president's team present after that. you're likely talking wednesday, thursday for the democrats, friday and saturday for the president's team. this will anger democrats and maybe anger the president who wanted to have attention to this. that is a tension point with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who wants to get rid of it as fast as possible. >> geoff, we know about close coordination between mitch mcconnell and the president himself, their strategy for doing this. why would mitch mcconnell see it to his benefit to have th

hans nichols joins us from the white house and leeann caldwell on capitol hill. hans, what message is the white house and president trying to send with ken starr and alan dershowitz on the defense team? >> reporter: to me it is an indication to go for even though they want a short trial they go for a longer trial. if you will have all these attorneys have a public role in this defense, it's bigger, ali. it is larger than just a process argument we have heard so you have starr and ray. they will be talking about the threshold matters. you will have as you mentioned dershowitz talking about the constitutionality of it so when you look at the scope of these attorneys, and they're going to be a challenge getting them all to row in the same direction. pat cipollone is the lead but big legal names and all likely to have discrete opinions of what direction the case should so go and might be a challenge there to me it's an indication the trial could be longer than what some of the president's aides insist it would be. i'm listening to the helicopter, the aung san suu kmo

fox news put a clan atlas john caldwell and robert fratello.ion that democrats say witnesses are important, it would be an republicans best interest to have them. republicans countered that if you're up for that, we are up for getting some things that you might not like here. where do you think this is going? >> i think republicans are barking up the wrong tree. in the south we have a seeing that evil squab a no squint all. this is as not being germane to the issues at hand. whether or not the president violated the federal by requesting the assistance or foreign national assistance to u.s. election. whether or not he violated congress has power to be a coequal branch of government and have the ability to investigate was subpoenaed witnesses. joe biden and hunter biden have nothing to do with that. >> aren't john hunter biden the reason why the president made the call he did? you could say that he did so to go after joe biden. >> he did not have thethe empowe president has the right to veto legislation or veto appropriations, not to chang whe c

but we have leann caldwell joining us from capitol hill. let's start with the pictures clearly undercutting the president's claim he doesn't know lev parnas. there's a trove of photos. give us a sense of why this is significant. >> reporter: so, alex, if parnas -- parnas has become a key figure in this entire ukraine scandal. he works closely with rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. if parnas and giuliani were working independently, then perhaps it wouldn't be as big of a deal but more and more evidence is pointing to the fact that president trump is directing giuliani, or at least listening to his advice. so when the president says over and over again he doesn't know lev parnas, it's a lot harder to believe, especially now that we're seeing more and more pictures between -- or with parnas and the president. and not only between those two as well, there's a lot of pictures that have been released with parnas and people who are very close to the president, including rudy giuliani, including the president's children. and so, tha

with me this morning, lee ann caldwell, cabinet secretary chris lu, and republican strategist, analyst susan del percio. lee ann, let's start there. what did we learn from the latest trove of additional evidence that was turned over, how do we think it reinforces the democrats' case? >> garrett, democrats have constantly said they're going to continue to investigate this president because new information is going to come out, and it keeps coming out. what we learned in the latest trove of documents, mind you, there could be more released this weekend as well, not all of it, we learned that perhaps ousted ambassador marie yovanovitch watched, there was a new character brought in who was watching, aware of her whereabouts in the ukraine. we also learned that devon nunes who is sitting as vice chair of the intelligence committee, defending the president in all these hearings throughout this impeachment investigation by the house, calling it a witch hunt, that one of his top aides was close contact with lev parnas. we also have seen new pictures now of lev parnas with the president's child

he told our leeann caldwell he wants to know what john bolton knows and not the same thing as romneyalling for mcconnell to subpoena bolton to compel his testimony. in the other column, the vulnerable senate republicans, you have people like potentially gardner, till luis, collins. collins backs up mcconnell's vision of a senate trial which is you have the house managers, lay out the case, the white house presents the rebuttal. at that point you take a vote, do senators want to hear more? if not you then move to an up or down vote on the articles of peemtd and hearing mitch mcconnell say to follow the same template laid out in the clinton trial democrats make the point, well, what he is really saying is by the time you get to that point he'll know for sure he has the 53 majority intact and he'll likely blow through that to get the fast and forgettable senate trial he is envisioning all along, katy. >> you talk about tom till luis. he was tweeting out recently support of eric trump's birthday. where is this idea that he's potentially gettable on a vote for a rules change or a vote to

but our leigh ann caldwell reported there are two sources telling her there will be 24 hours of debate for each side as we knew during the clinton impeachment trial. but then it's going to be over two days instead of three. so what that means is if democrats want to use all of their argue time they have to do it in two 12-hour days. this of course doesn't come in to session until 1:00 in the afternoon. that's written down in the senate rules. so that potentially puts senators sitting on the floor until 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning listening to the arguments if the democrats want to use all of that time. so this is already generating some criticism from democrats behind the scenes who are suggesting it means that republicans want to hold this in the dead of night when no one will be watching these arguments. this is of course the most high profile opportunity democrats have had to date to make their case in a straightforward way. straight to the american people and during the course of this impeachment trial. but you know the reality is, hallie, mitch mcconnell hards all of the cards

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for more on this we bring in lee ann caldwell who covers this can closely. good morning. the white house said if was gratified by the ground rules laid out by mitch mcconnell, because the white house and the majority leader as they've said publicly were working hand in glove to create what this trial would look like. so take us through, if you can, what's unique and different and unusual about the rules mitch mcconnell has set out? >> sure. well, mcconnell says these rules follow the clinton model in 1999, but i would say it's a loose interpretation of the clinton model. the reason it's the same is because, of course, each side has 24 hours to present their case and senators have 16 hours to ask questions through the chief justice, and it's also similar, because later in the process is when they address the issue of witnesses and documents, if they're going to move to that phase of the trial in that process. but there's a lot of differences here. the differences are purely designed to help this president and what those are is while each side gets 24 hours, those 24 hours

iraq war veteran dan caldwell previously stationed at the al-assad air base in iraq, this is the same just targeted by iran and he joins me right now. sir, good to have you. >> thanks for having me on, neil. >> you know, senator rand paul was essentially saying to me, call their bluff. they want us out and we leave. that depends if that's representatives for all iraqis. they're told the vote in parliament, half of the key players, doesn't necessarily reflect the will of the people. what do you think of what rand paul is saying? we worn out our welcome, let's go. >> i completely agree with rand paul and so do the majority of people. poll after poll done by polling organizations has shown consistently 60 to 70% of the american people, including my fellow veterans think it's time to get out of these endless wars in the middle east. in regards to iraq specifically we shouldn't wait for the iraqi government which we created by the way, to kick us out, we should leave now. now that we've defeated isis, territorial caliphate we don't have a reason to be there and frankly shouldn't have been

leeann caldwell coproducers for nbc tweeting out just after the break with college and murkowski chatted quietly for about five minutes. each had a hand covering their mouth likely to assure that reporters or perhaps other senators could not pick up what they had to say. roger in new mexico republican. we are waiting for the senate to come back in after this short recess. we don't control the cameras, roger. so when they come in we will go there quickly. go ahead, all right. first of all thank you for letting me speak my opinion. i do not support the impeachment of the president who has done more than any president we've ever had in history of the united states. if they have a problem with his policy, or him himself, that sounds like a personal issue. what he has done more on foreign policy, all the deals he has made, everything this man has done he's done and made things better. the citizens and people for the united states. >> host: roger in new mexico. the "washington post" caught up with adam schiff, the intel chair in the house. they just interviewed him and, on the bolton fallout,

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a third of the six was representative caldwell butler, a republican firm virginia whose papers are housed at washington and lee university in lexington virginia and the state where i grew up, and where i later went to law school. together, these six republicans made history. they did so with no sense of triumph, and today's no fist bumps, but only in the words of my congressman's with deep reluctance and only because the evidence was clear and unmistakable of unlawful activity by the president in a criminal cover-up that was in the concluding language of the first articles of impeachment, contrary to his trust as president. after the third article in the nixon impeachment, that article obstructing congress did not have bipartisan support but was voted on by the judiciary committee along party lines by a vote of 21 to 17. republicans objected then to the third article in the face of the president's good faith prior claim to executive privilege by withholding certain evidence until such time as the matter was definitively resolved by the supreme court. my point in mentioning these three vot

said -- and i must say this -- and you all know it -- he said it would be difficult to get what he caldwell constituted court from wholly elected members. he said passions would agitate divide community and it between those who were friendly and those who had inimical interests to the' accused namely the president. and then he said -- and this is his words -- the greatest danger was that the decision would be based on the comparative strength of the parties rather than the innocence or guilt of the president. you have a salem -- solemn oath. you have taken a solemn oath to be fair and impartial. i know you all. i know you as friends and i know you as honorable men, and i am perfectly satisfied to put that in your hands under your oath. this is the only caustic thing i will say in these remarks this afternoon. but the question is, how did we come to be here? we're here because of a ve-year relentless, unending nvestigation of the president. 50d billion, hundreds of f.b.i. agents fanning across the nation examining in detail the microscopic lies of people. maybe the most intense investigation

. >> seeing what happens, leanne caldwell who covers congress for us here at nbc. thank you. >>> we turn to the chand dat-- days away from the iowa caucuses. for the first time senator bernie sanders leads the pack of democratic hopefuls in the latest iowa polls, a fact illustrated colorfully on the front page of the des moines register. bernie sanders is their first choice for president. senator elizabeth warren is close behind with 17%. pete buttigieg is third with 16 pre % and joe biden rounding out the top four with 16%. today several of the candidates are on the road visiting early voting states. joining me from des moines, iowa, is nbc news campaign mara barrett. let me start with this poll, the gold standard poll run by january selt sher. how significant is this? >> sure, david, how are you? like you said this is a very, very accurate poll. in the past years it's been eerily accurate, but when you look at the past couple of polls we've seen from seltzer and company, there's been a lot of differences from the november and september polls that we've been looki