stephanie moving into day number 4 it's about to kick off today it's time for trump's attorney david sherman and his team to put their side forward what can we expect. yeah though the defense team of all time just started we have live pictures this is michael funded dean now making the case and 1st out of the gate he says of course all of the house impeachment managers the prosecutors or the democrats who function as prosecutors said in the last 2 days is a unjust and be unconstitutional of course democrats and a few republicans beg to differ on this but the problem is as you said democrats have to win over 17 republican senators to find donald trump guilty of inside the of the insurrection on general use thinks and this is very unlikely now what are we going to see today we're going to see today a case made by the defense team it's not expected anymore that they need another day meaning tomorrow meaning another 8 hours they were probably read up today within today and within the hour scheduled a little breaks after every 2 hours and a big break at 5 pm local here for everybody the republica

let's bring in jeff sherman from doubleline capital and david zervos from jefferies.right now -- we got as high as 1.61, yesterday on the ten-year. i think we are back at 1.38 right now. the size and speed of these moves does not feel normal jeff, what's happening >> i don't think anybody has been normal the last year on that front we saw yesterday a very weak seven-year treasury auction. it coincided with the selloff in treasuries as soon as you hit the 1.50 level it seemed like there was massive selloffs there this in the afternoon people were trying to digest what was going on what i heard from some of your guests today i agree with. last year was about pricing inflation. the break even spreads and the bonds pushing yields back up now the bond market and the treasury yield is bleeding into the yield growth story you have seen the reversal today. i mean the bond market has been oversold when i say the bond market i am talking with treasuries. relative strength in those indissees, they have had strong readings for weeks now i think you are overshooting in both direct

sherman joining us. senior political correspondent for the washington, d.c. examiner, davidniversity of texas, victoria defrancesco soto. it's a great morning to have victoria on because she's living through what's happening in texas. our lead story where millions are still without power this morning after winter storms and frigid temperatures swept through the state. the biden administration says fema is supplying generators to texas and is preparing to send diesel fuel to ensure the availability of backup power. the agency is also providing blankets, bottled water and meals for the state to distribute. that news comes as grocery store reports of shortages and the texas tribune reports that texans running low on food are finding empty grocery store shelves. food pantries are running out of supplies. and the freeze has wiped out substantial portions of the state's citrus and vegetable crops. willie? >> and there's another big problem in texas. because of the temperatures, cities across the state are under boil water notices. following official guidance, many texans have been

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david nolan, -- did the grant memories. i think it was a marvelous experience. so, we got so excited, we decided to do the sherman memoirs. to which is what we are working now. >> annotated version, you mean? >> annotated, yes. the result is, that we have, at harvard press published the first, the grant memoirs. it's going to be publishing the sherman memoirs. which tells you something, they don't normally do that. but, the situation was so clear, to us. at least, clear to me, that of the two, grant has the greater memoirs. and the reason is, if you look at what's some of the great writers of that period said about the memoirs, you get a feel how much they respected grant. in fact, it is sometimes said that grant has the most important nonfiction book, ever written. by an american. whereas, herman -- has the fiction book. i discovered this the hard way. we discovered this the hard way. when we started working on the sherman memoirs. sherman would mention, everybody that he ever met. anytime. whereas grant, who was very clean and very even tempered kind of response. but, the situation of sherman is, sherman with, say yes.

david nolan, another one of the co-edtors, did the grant memoirs. and it was a marvelous experience. we got so excited we decided to do the sherman midterm wars, too, which is what we're working now. >> the annotated version, you mean. >> annotated, yes. oh, yes, exactly. but the result is that we have -- and harvard press published the first, the grant memoirs, and it's going to be publishing the sherman memoirs which tells you something, i think. they don't normally do that. but the situation was so clear to us, at least clear to me that of the two, grant has the greater memoirs. and the reason is, if you look at what some of the great writers of that period said about the memoirs, you get a feel how much they respected grant. in fact, it's sometimes said that grant has the most important nonfiction book ever written by an american, whereas herman melville has the fiction book. and i discovered this the hard way, we discovered this the hard way when we started working on the sherman memoirs. sherman would mention everybody that he ever met any time whereas grant was very clean and very, very even tempered kind of a response. bu