line in it which is a letter from rudy giuliani to president-elect says i'm private counsel to donald j. trump. i represent him as a citizen, not as president of the united states. this is quite common under american law. duties and privileges of a president and private citizen are not the same. so he is making a very clear point that he's not representing the interests of the united states writ large for american national security but representing the interests of donald j. trump. >> that was always the point. he made it clear he doesn't represent -- wherever we went he said i don't represent the government. i represent the president of the united states. >> anything rudy giuliani wanted

donald j trump has directed the unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the house of representatives pursuant to its full power of impeachment. president trump has abused the power of the presidency in a manner of december merced eight of the constitution. and that, the house of representatives has engaged in impeachment inquiry focused on president trump's corrupt, solicitation of the governments of ukraine to interfere in the 2020 united states presidential election. as part of this impeachment inquiry the committees undertaking the investigation serves subpoenaed documents and testimony, deemed vital to the inquiry from various executive branch agencies and offices and current and former officials. in response, without lawful cause or excuse, president trump directed executive branch agencies, offices and officials not to comply with the subpoenas. president trump intervals the powers of the presidency against the law office of the subpoenas of house of representatives and assume to himself functions and judgments necessary to exercise the sole powe

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in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed -- donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency, in that: using the powers of his high office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 united states presidential election. he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage. president trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official united states government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. in so doing, president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and u

it donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency and that using the powers of his high office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 united states presidential election. he did so through a scheme that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection. harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage. president trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take the steps by conditioning official united states government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. the president trump engaged in this game or course of conduct for crop purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. in so doing, president trump use of the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromise of the national of the united states and undermined the integrity of the

and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 united states presidential election. he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage. president trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official united states government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. in so doing, president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and unde

in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed -- donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency, in that: using the powers of his high office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 united states presidential election. he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage. president trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official united states government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. in so doing, president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and u

arguments, na the details of their investigation that began months ago. >> clearly president donald j. trump felt the ukrainians owed him. >> on the senate floor, lead manager adam schiff began building the house this case of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> president donald j. trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to a strategic partner at war with russia to secure foreign help with his reelection. in other words, to cheat. the presidents extensive effort to cover up evidence of his misconduct is unprecedented in american history. >> reporter: during a dinner break, a number of senate republicans said they haven't heard nothing new. we are going to see an awful lot of repetition making the same points over and over again. >> reporter: late wednesday, the president returned to washington from the world economic forum in the post- switzerland, where he repeated he had done nothing wrong. >> there is nothing here. i had a very innocent conversation with a very fine gentleman. from the ukraine, and it was based on that people don't even want to talk about

> i ask unanimous consent recognition of the requirements raised by the impeachment trial for donald j. trump sergeant in arm shall install the appropriate equipment for the senate chamber with the united states presiding over the cheap with the chief justice and with that equipment in accordance with theur allocations i now send it to the desk and ask they be printed in the record. >> is their objection? without objection so ordered. >> ask unanimous consent that the senate adjourned till tuesday january 21st 2020 att 1:00 p.m. >> objection? without objection so ordered. >> the court of impeachment is adjourned through tuesday januat at 1:00 p.m. minutes.

essentially if we are sitting here, as senator blumenthal said, trying to decide whether or not donald j. trump has engaged in impeachable offenses, we need to know everything we can, and the more time has passed, despite his obstruction -- that's the key, right? >> yeah. >> despise hit obstruction, we have only seen reinforcement of what we relied upon as evidence. so we had enough evidence. we should see more because maybe there is. but if there was something exonerating, wouldn't we have heard it by now? >> so the better question is not just whether the senators feel the pressure. the question is whether the public will put pressure on the senators, and there's a whole other story out there that is not being told. i think it has. >> can i ask you what you make of the new evidence? >> which new evidence? >> all of the texts from lev parnas and -- it's hard for me to figure out what he's doing precisely. he has a tremendous amount of legal exposure, who is currently under indictment. he can't -- i don't know. the democrats in congress can't cut him a deal. that's nothing for him there. do you

and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed donald j. trump has directed the unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the house of representatives pursuant to its sole power of impeachment president trump has abused the power of the presidency in a manner offensive to and subversive of the constitution in that the house of representatives has engaged in an impeachment inquiry focused on president trumps corrupt solicitation of the government of ukraine to interfere in the 2020 united states presidential election as part of this impeachment inquiry the committee's undertaking the investigation serves subpoenas seeking documents and testimony deemed vital to the end corey from various executive branch agencies and offices and current and former officials in response without lawful cause or excuse present trump directed executive branch agencies offices and officials not to comply with those subpoenas present trump thus interpose the powers of the presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the house of represen

. >> donald j. trump, president of the united states is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. >> do you solemnly swear you can do impartial justice so help you god? >> they're afraid of the truth. they don't want to see documents. they don't want to hear from witnesses. >> the senate's time is at >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is a "new day." it's friday, january 17th. it's 6:00 here in new york and it's on. the impeachment trial is underway. the ceremonial scripted part is over. now they're off book with huge questions about how the case will proceed and whether new evidence coming to light just now will be included. we have some new clues for you this morning and developments we'll tell you about in a few moments. >>> then this developing story. the pentagon has confirmed that 11 u.s. troops were actually hurt in last week's iranian missile strikes in iraq. you'll remember the president initially said that no troops were hurt. so let's get right to b

donald trump begins. >> present and ready to present the articles of impeachment against donald j. trump. president of the united states. brent: the chief prosecutor, adam schiff formally begins the trial as further evidence implicates the president. also coming up tonight, germany's diplomatic efforts in libya yield a pototential brbreakthrou w with a rebebel commander admittiting to a cease-fire if one is signed. he'll also atattend a conference ending years of civil conflict. also coming up, pakistan'n's pre ministster opens up about his concerns over rising tension between saudi arabia and iran saying his escalation of the conflict would be disastrous for his country. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. to our viewers, welcome. we begin tonight with historic proceedings on capitol hill as the u.s. senate formally opens the trial against president donald trump. in the last hour, chief justice john roberts from the u.s. supreme court, who will be presiding over the trial, is sworn in with all 100 senators as jurors. this is only the third impeachment trial of a u.s. president in history. it is hap

is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachmen exhibitee house of representatives, and donald j. trump, president of the united states. >> majority leader is recognized. >> colleagues, no motions were filed this morning, so we will proceed to the house managers presentation. we will go for approximately two hours and take a short recess when there is an appropriate break time between presenters. >> pursuant to the positions of senate resolution 483, the managers for the house of representatives have 24 hours to make the presentation of their case. the senate will now hear you. >> mr. chief justice, senators, counsel for the president and my fellow house managers, i want to begin by thanking you, chief justice, for a very long day, for the way you have presided over these proceedings. i want to thank the senators also. we went well into the morning, as you know. until i believe around 2:00 in the morning. and you paid attention to every word an argument that you heard from both sides in this impeachment trial, and i know we are both deeply grateful for that. it was an exhausting day for

this is cnn's special coverage of the impeachment trial of president donald j. trump. e first day extended well past midnight. tempers flared. the house impeachment managers and trump's legal team went head to head for hours with tensions finally boiling over as they sparred over the president's blocking of witnesses in the house investigation. that prompted the chief justice to issue an unusual warning. >> there's a reason why we're here at five to midnight, and that's because they don't want the american people to see what's going on here. >> president trump does not want you to hear from ambassador bolton. and the reason has nothing to do with executive privilege or this other nonsense. so far i'm sad to say i see a lot of senators voting for a cover-up. >> the chairman of the judiciary committee of this body on the floor of this senate said executive privilege and other nonsense. i'll tell you what's treacherous. come to the floor of the senate and say executive privilege and other nonsense. >> i think it is appropriate at this point for me to admonish both the hous

. >>> president donald j. trump's impeachment trial stretching into another late night. house managers ending their day with a fiery push for the presidents removal. cbs reporter natalie brand with of the highlights from capitol hill. >> reporter: house managers have one day left to wrap up their case. the impeachment manager california congressman adam ship became emotional while delivering his clothes. our producer watching the senate chamber noticed that congressman schiff often thvisi speaking as he tries to make this case to the public as well as to the senators serving as jurors. make the truth doesn't matter, we are lost the delete house manager adam schiff ended two days of our opening i went in the impeachment trial with a plea to senators weighing the presidents fate. >> you know that what he did was not right. >> reporter: earlier will house managers spend hours making their case for abuse of power, trying to establish a personal motive in the presidents dealings with ukraine. managers even cited pulling from last year showing joe biden ahead of president dona

today, house impeachment managers and president donald j. trump'sttorneys began taking questions for members of the senate. the session was largely focused on president donald j. trump's motivations for withholding aid to ukraine. the defense argued that the president should not be removed from office if he had any valid reason for holding back that money. impeachment manager adam schiff disagrees. >> it would be absurd to have the senate trying to consider, well, was at 48% legitimate interest, and 52% personal interest? or was it the other way? >> if any present part of the presidents motivation is a corrupt motive, that is enough to convict. >> the question and answer period continues through tomorrow. then it is four hours of debate leading up to a vote on whether they senate should hear from other witnesses. >>> the world health organization will hold a meeting tomorrow to consider declaring a public health emergency as the coronavirus continues to spread. veronica de la cruz is following the very latest developments. veronica? >> reporter: is

we have paris stand he's a republican strategist and member of the advisory board of donald j. trump for president well welcome to you all paris let me start with you as a lifelong republican you tweeted that this entire impeachment is a joke this isn't about national security it's all politics. that's absolutely right now i think the american people can see that this this entire process is not about the constitution it's about not about justice it's not about national security it's about the democrats in congress trying to subvert the will of the american people by them obstructing the will of the people through the election process and trying to get donald trump out of office through this impeachment process if it was so severe that if the case was so strong against him they would have had more articles of impeachment stronger articles of impeachment and speaker pelosi would have put them to the senate quicker but they did and she held it for political reasons and now in the end pietschmann trial we have adam shift have the nerve to talk about transparency and and fairness when and

today president donald j. trump spoke by telephone with president vladimir zelenski of ukraine to congratulate him on hisim recent election. president trump and president zelensky discussed ways to strengthen the relationship between the united states and ukraine, including energy and economic cooperation. both leaders also expressed that they look forwardrd to the opportunity to meet. that is the official white house call readout dated july 25, 2019. the official readout provided to the american people omitted key elements of the president's conversation. let's review. the official readout did not mention the phony investigations requested by president trump. the official readout did not mention the oval office meeting sought by president zelensky. the official readout did not mention president trump's elevation of a debunked conspiracy theory promoted by vladimir putin about 2016 election interference. the official readout did not mention president trump's demand that ukraine investigate his domestic political riv

>>> the senate wrapped up the proceedings by on formally summons to donald j. trump. he has until saturday evening to respond in writing. >> the senate is adjourned until tuesday, january 21st at 1:00 p.m. >>> and with that, the first day of the impeachment trial, president trump was in the books. the trial continues next week. the end of today's events was marked with this all-caps tweet -- i just got impeached for making a perfect phone call. if you believe lev parnas, heck if you believe the testimony of over a dozen winces under oath, president trump did much more than make a perfect phone call. >> president trump knew exactly what was going on. he was aware of all my movements. i wouldn't do anything without the consent of rudy giuliani or the president. >> in his interview with rachel maddow laus night, parnas explained how he could meet with the highest people in ukraine with the help of the president and rudy giuliani. >> why would president zelensky's inner circle or minute terr -- or president poroshenko meet with me? who am i? they were told to meet with me.

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donald john trump, president of the united states. >> the managers on the part of the house will now proceed. >> donald j. trump, president of the united states, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors with the permission of the senate i will now read the articles of impeachment. >> president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. >> the presiding officer will now administer the oath to john g. roberts, chief justice of the united states. >> i am now prepared to take the oath. >> will you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand? do you solemnly swear in all things pertaining to the trial of impeachment of donald john trump president of the united states now pending you will do impartial justice according to the constitution of the laws so help you god? >> i do. >> god bless you. >> will all senators now stand or remain standing and raise their right hand? do you solemnly swear in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of do

which donald trump has denounced as a calm job by the democrats will start on tuesday president trump is accused of freezing an aide to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. using the powers of his high office president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government ukraine in the 2020 united states presidential election he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his re-election harm the election prospects of a political opponent and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage i do you castro is live from capitol hill in washington d.c. so how do you proceedings are underway what happens now. well we just heard that chief justice of the u.s. supreme court john roberts he has arrived in the u.s. capitol building and what we expect to see in just moments time will be 4 senators 2 democrats and 2 republicans escorting chief justice roberts into the senate chambers upon arrival he will take the oath to become presiding officer in the impeachment trial of pre

donald john trump, president of the united states. >> the managers on the part of the house will now proceed. >> donald j. trump, president of the united states, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors with the permission of the senate, i will now read the articles of impeachment. president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. >> the presiding officer will now administer the oath to john g. roberts, chief justice of the united states. >> i am now prepared to take the oath. >> will you place your left hand on the bible. and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear in all things pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws so help you god. >> i do. >> god bless you. >> will all senators now stand or remain standing and raise their right hand. do you solemnly swear that in all things per tanning to the trial of the impeac

thanks so much for joining us for this cnn special report, "the impeachment of donald j. trump."he u.s. senate will try the president for high crimes and misdemeanors, a power enshrined in the constitution which only two previous u.s. presidents have faced. the house voted three weeks ago to impeach the president. this week is expected to take votes to send two articles of impeachment to the senate, one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of justice. that's at the stage for only the third presidential impeachment trial in u.s. history, expected, those votes to begin sometime this week. >> and while senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has not agreed to speaker pelosi's demands or senator schumer's demands, pelosi demands the delay has been worthwhile. >> we feel that it has been a very positive result in terms of additional emails and un-redacted information that has come forward that bolton has said that he would testify if subpoenaed by the senate. other information that has come forward. and more importantly, raising the profile of the fact that we need to have wit

in this hallowed chamber undertaking a solemn action for only the 3rd time in history because donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states has acted precisely as hamilton and his contemporaries feared president from solicited foreign interference in our democratic elections abusing the power of his office to seek help from abroad to improve his reelection prospects at home and when he was caught he used the powers of that office to obstruct the investigation into his own misconduct to implement this corrupt scheme president trump pressured the president of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into 2 discredited allegations that would benefit president trump's 2020 presidential campaign when ukrainian president did not immediately assent president trump withheld 2 official acts to induce the ukrainian leader to comply. a head of state meeting in the oval office and military funding both were of great consequence to ukraine and to our national interest and security but one looms largest president trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic par

silent on pain of imprisonment, while the house of the senator is presenting impeachment against donald j. trump, the president of the united states. >> not long after that, the president weighed in. >> it's a hoax, everybody knows that, it's a complete hoax. the whole thing with ukraine. so you have a perfect phone call. everything was perfect. and they impeach. it's totally partisan. we had 195-nothing republican votes. i guess we got a democrat actually came over to the republican side. we had 195 to nothing. this is a hoax. it's a shame. >> he was also asked about lev parnas as he so many times before about so many other associates, here's what he said. >> oh, i don't know him. i don't know parnas other than i guess i had pictures taken which i do with thousands of people including people today i didn't meet, just met him. i don't know him at all. i don't know what he's about. i don't know where he comes from, i know nothing about him. >> knows nothing about him. keep in mind, lev parnas is not claiming the president gave him his marching orders or asked details what was gone allegedly on hi

and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency, in that: using the powers of his high office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 united states presidential election. he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his re-election, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 united states presidential election to his advantage. president trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official united states government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. in so doing, president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and

well it's finally begun pietschmann donald j. trump the president and his supporters say the process is nothing more than a political witch on the democrats in the liberal corporate media is a security threat and must be removed but in the end it would seem democracy being impeached. digital payments is becoming mainstream nearly 22 years since pay pal started to disrupt the way money gets transferred after 22 years digital payments has finally outpaced traditional cash and checks the federal reserve reported that the number of checks payments in 2800 fell below the number of automated clearing house debit transfers for the 1st time ever online shopping now has made mobile payments like ben moammar popular but with the rise of additional pain meds privacy and security online could expose a customer's personal information such as online shopping activities purchases and even card information for the most part the u.s. privacy laws do not limit the personal information institutions can collect about a customer what they can do with that

this is the effective beginning of the trial of president donald j. trump and it is expected to be wildly contentious. the first order of business will be a debate over the rules proposed by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. rules that seem designed to speed the acquittal of president trump, that could come as soon as next week. rules that keep all the evidence collected by the house of representatives completely out of the trial, at least for now. rules that are decidedly not the clinton model despite the promise from mitch mcconnell to stick to the process used with bill clinton's impeachment 21 years ago. >> minority leader chuck schumer sounds furious. >> the evidence is less available, the evidence is given in the wee hours of the morning and may never be produced at all. it is a cover up. it is a national disgrace. >> so schumer will offer amendments today demanding witnesses and documents and we will speak to him live in just minutes. >>> take a look at this new cnn national poll, it shows a majority of americans including a plurality of republ

speaker nancy pelosi will name the impeachment managers who will present the case against president donald j. trump at the senate trial. shortly after noon we expect the first house votes to officially approve the managers and send the articles to the senate. and then, as the sun sets, the articles of impeachment will be physically walked over to the upper chamber. setting the stage for the trial of president donald trump. let's get to garrett haake on capitol hill. is there a sense of anticipation now that the process is moving forward? >> yes. i think the senators yesterday started to get the sense this is real, a formal process and perhaps the single most important thing they will do in their time in the senate. you laid out a little bit of the calendar and i think for viewers today you will see an increasing sense of formality and almost ritual throughout the course of the day. the announce. ment the announcement of the impeachment manager will be the same as any press conference. it'll look like the kind of thing you see on a typical weekday morning here. but then throughout the course of the

that is from "a very stable genius: donald j. trump'sf america" written by philip rucker and carol leonnig who are both pulitzer prize winning writers from "the washington post." this books comes out tomorrow. and i have to say, the number of scoops and previously unreported behind-the-scenes details here is really remarkable. just as an example, they go from that story i just excerpted there to what happened later on that same week when on the same day the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen pled guilty, and the campaign chairman paul manafort paul manafort was convicted of employment felonies. on that same day, president trump nevertheless spent the day calling japan trying to get the japanese prime minister to unemployment him for the nobel prize, the same day cohen pled guilty and manafort was convicted. now, of course philip rucker and carol leonnig's book is being published tomorrow. they couldn't have known it's the first day of president trump's impeachment trial. i will say one of the only defenses the white house and rep

and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government ukraine in the 2020 united states presidential election and that was adam schiff speaking earlier in the u.s. senate let's take this story now to washington our bureau chief alexander phenomena she is keeping an eye on these historic proceedings more is going to need to you alexander and so we've just had a 100 u.s. senators they've taken an oath of impartiality today they're promising to act not as politicians but as jurors in this trial and to deliver a verdict that could determine the fate of the u.s. president i mean it almost sounds like an impossible task is it. yes you're right brant i cannot imagine how the senator has could do impartial justice and that collins toxic partisan atmosphere in washington some of them democrats as well as republicans already said told there are going to vote even before the trial starts mitch mcconn

this is cnn's special coverage of the impeachment trial of president donald j. trump. today, the president's defense team wraps up their presentation. they spent some time defending the actions of president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. >> but the crux of the argument seemed to focus on impeachment itself, and the criteria set out in the u.s. constitution. treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeaners. the trump team argued the president's actions in this case simply does not meet that standard and took on for the very first time on the senate floor claims made in a draft manuscript of former national security adviser john bolton's book as reported by the new york times and the washington post. >> nothing in the bolton revelations even if true would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense. that is clear from the history, that is clear from the language of the constitution. you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct, simply by using words like quid pro quo and personal benefit. if these impeachm

first, a russia entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate donald j. trump and disparaged presidential candidate hillary clinton. second a russian intelligence service conducted computer and then really stolen documents. on december 92019, even president trump's own fbi director christopher wray stated unequivocally that there is no evidence to support the theory that ukraine interfered about 2016. >> did the government of ukraine directly interfere in the 2016 election? >> we have no indication that indicates the ukraine interfered with the 2016 presidential election. >> when you see politicians pushing this election are you concerned about that in terms of the impact on the american public? >> there are all kinds of people saying all kinds of things out there and i think it's important for the american people to be thoughtful consumers of information, to think about the sources of it and to think about the support and predication for what they hear. and i think part of us being well protected against malign foreign influence is to build together an america

we're only two days away from the senate impeachment trial of donald j. trump. afternoon, but arguments are already being held in matters of public opinion. prosecutors in the trial delivered their brief, arguing why president trump should be removed from office, calling the president's conduct, quote, the framers' worst nightmare, end quote. the senate has until tomorrow to file their

he was doing this for personal interests of his client, donald j. trump. the next morning on may 10th, on his trip to ukraine, giuliani tweeted earlier about biden then had a flurry of calls with parnas was helping him plan his trip to ukraine. same day, giuliani spoke with ambassador volker on the phone for more than 30 minutes. ambassador volker had learned that giuliani intended to travel to ukraine, and it called to warn giuliani that prosecutor general lutsenko is not credible. don't listen to what he's sayi saying. later that day, giuliani had a 17 minute call with a massed white house number before speaking again with parnas for 12 minutes. that same day on may 10, he asked president trump about his upcoming trip. he replied "i have not spoken to him at any great length, but i will. i will speak to him before he leaves. but that evening, on fox news, giuliani announced, i'm not going to ukraine, because i think i'm walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president. separately, and a text message to politico, giuliani allege that the o

this is cnn's special report, "the impeachment of president donald j. trump."he president is arriving back in washington. he's facing two trials, one in the senate for impeachment and the other is as commander in chief as soldiers deploy to the mideast amid new and increasing threats from iran. >> president trump has spent two weeks at his resort sheltered from day to day washington and surrounded by friends and advisers. it is apparent from his tweeter