doug collins is prepping for his run against senator loeffler. the other member of that team we haven't seen much on camera is debbie lesko from arizona. finally, the story is out. senator collins announcing this morning he is going to run. >> some indications yesterday, but that out today. it looks like president trump and the trump family is going to be a key part of that race. you heard senator loeffler specifically bring up the president, but also in ivanka trump, noting her meeting with the president's daughter. host: appreciate that, ohn. we'll hear from al in detroit, thanks for waiting. go ahead. caller: do people understand that trump is on trial for trying to undermine our voting system?

why are they adding doug collins to house members joining the trump team.hy are they adding doug collins? obviously senators can't speak. what's the whole point? does anybody understand? >> it may be just for giving a chance to talk on tv an feel good about himself and a nice shiny title. >> that's exactly right. president trump had to be talked out of having some of his staunchest defenders in the house who made a name for themselves during the house impeachment process. he wanted those guys be on his team. he was talked out of that because they didn't want to create a circus. he wants to see them on tv and defending him. he cares about people defending him on tv. >> senators can't speak but these congressmen added to the team are not part of the legal team? but they're joining the tv team. >> they have the credentials of being part of the team even though they're nonspeaking parts. then they can fan out on television and be the cheerleaders. >> the president gets what he wants. thank you all. i appreciate it. one of the president's lawyers is arguing he c

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congressman doug collins. we'll see you soon here.hear the sound bite of ambassador sondland. we'll play that in the next segment when we peek with another member president's defense team, congressman john ratcliffe also involved in the hearings that is next ahead on "sunday morning futures." stay with us. maria: welcome back. president's trump lawyers taking center stage at his impeachment trial yesterday, beginning the opening statements arguing that the case for removing the president is politically motivated. joining me right now is texas republican congressman john ratcliffe. he is a former federal prosecutor, who sits on house judiciary and intelligence committees. he is a also a member of the president's defense team. always a pleasure to see you. >> thank you, maria. maria: one of the most important obvious pieces of evidence in this entire trial is the transcript of the phone call president trump and mr. zelensky. did the house managers read the transcript? >> well you hit the nail on the head, maria. i think i heard senator

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doug collins and jim jordan. among others. oversight committee and cochair of sanders campaign for president. good evening, sir. good to have you. how you doing? >> good to be back on. >> according to to a source there are currently no plans for the house members to speak on the senate floor. so, what i want to know is what exactly are they going to be doing? >> i don't know. i don't know why anyone would have doug collins to represent the president. he has had to apologize for suggesting that every democrat loves terrorism. i was on the house floor speaker nancy pelosi accepted the apology. i don't understand what the white house is thinking by having someone like him involved. he's going to do post impeachment spin. but it's going to be a backfire. >> let's talk about mitch mcconnell's plan for the impeachment trial. each side expected to get only 24 hours of time divided over two days for the opening argument. house was they were accused of rushing their process. what about mcconnell in the senate? >> it's outrageous. why y

joining me right now is georgia congressman doug collins. the house judiciary committee. thanks for being here. >> good morning, maria. maria: what do you expect next two weeks as nancy pelosi still has yet to send the articles over to the senate. >> we're expecting she has to decide what she wants to do. she had a bad christmas carol, if you want to use analogy of past several weeks. ghost of christmas past, tried to i will peach the president. president sitting hire, with a bad case, bad articles of impeachment no basis in reality to impeach the president. she is looking at future with no legislative agenda there is nothing in the house for her to do. they wasted so much time and taxpayer dollars, to impeach the president we're sitting here waiting to send articles over to influence a decision which she has failed to send over. that is how sad the speaker's legacy is thus far. maria: we know you have been calling as the ranking member of judiciary, you've been calling for a horowitz to come and testified in front of your committee, given h

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joining me now, house judiciary ranking member doug collins.gressmen, the senate has likely not follow the ins and outs of the case all that closely. what are they about to learn? >> i think they are about to learn that they will get the weakest impeachment articles that have ever been done. they will see a sham process in the house, which rules were overrun, the agenda only to get the president they dislike. they will find out it started in november of 2016. when they will find out that there was nothing here to impeach a president for, and i think when you understand that and when they see this is all about election in 2020, the only election problem is the democrats trying to throw an election because they have candidates that can't win. >> laura: well, now it is lev parnas. this convicted felon, fraudster, he's pulling in michael cohen, wants to get a reduced sentence, clearly. some chicken scratch notes, that's going to change. it reminds me of when they kept saying it was bribery, than extortion, than quid pro quo, and none of that happen

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doug collins, how are you. >> i'm good. it's good to see you. >> you been busy. >> just a little bit. you're the top of the. [inaudible] i've got a lot of questions for you. let's talk about witnesses. then we'll get into some of the other issues. republicans on the judiciary committee, how many witnesses were you able to call. >> none, zero. >> we shut down. >> yes, it was even worse than that. not even witnesses. i remember a time, we only had two hearings. think about how bad this was. we had two hearings and one was a complete waste of time. the other was fast. the, it was an amazing run for what should be, if you're going to do it, this is how you do it. >> i remember calling the chairman on the constitutional lawyers think and we just get one more. i couldn't even get one more lawyer on our side to come. it was shut down, shut down and we were just trying to get one more non- entity witness. that's how bad they shut this down. it was an amazing run. >> it is amazing because when you consider past impeachment processes

the white house reaction, also members of the president's defense team, robert ray, congressman doug collins both give us the highlights and the low lights of the democrats last ditch efforts and raymond arroyo will bi bring us the biggest mea failure of the day. but first, the shiny object of impeachment, that is the focus of tonight's angle. in the wake of the john bolton manuscript leak, the media have been salivating over the prospect of major g.o.p. defections in the senate. >> mitt romney, susan collins, lamar alexander, and lisa murkowski. >> they seem to want witnesses while lamar alexander and lisa murkowski have expressed an openness to the idea. >> john bolton and lamar alexander go way back, i got to think those mean something. >> laura: things really hit a fever pitch after this headline dropped yesterday, reporting that mitch mcconnell didn't have the votes to block witnesses from the impeachment trial. >> mitch mcconnell doesn't have the votes to block witnesses which he is desperate to do. >> blockbuster news that mitch mcconnell is crying at least for now, uncle. >> made it

congressman doug collins thank you so much for joining us. ainsley: thank you. >> always good to be with you all. steve: good luck with your new job. pete: important morning but that did not feel like the right word. ainsley: very somber. steve: there is other news and jillian joins us. jillian: that's right and good morning to you. overnight a memorial grows for two officers murdered in a shootout in hawaii. tiffany enriquez and can a licky kalama. he had a history with police. police believe he died after setting his home on fire. at least four people now confirmed dead from the new carona virus in china. the disease can spread from human to human stoking fears as many travel for the new year. passengers will be screened new york, san francisco and l.a. the vaccine is being developed but it would take more than a year until it is available. 2020 hopefuls joe biden and bernie sanders are making amends. biden says he accepts sanders' apology about an op-ed written by a campaign surrogate claiming biden had a, quote, big corruption problem. bi

plus it has an alarm." [ farting [ laughter ] and then there's georgia congressman doug collins now,emember him as the auctioneer on adderall whose job it was to shout a bunch of incoherent nonsense during the impeachment process so no one could actually understand what he was saying. >> this idea of throwing law, in fact, we've disproven the fact we've talked about the law and didn't put it in the constitution i can yell on both of them i can talk about both of them. i still have not got a transcript we still don't know what got in the white house. still has not got their stuff. i was told i couldn't. even though there have been staff conversations well before. i was told i was asking too late that's almost like saying, "why don't you ask -- you know, frame your question differently. he said this is what he wanted looked into. he said can you -- he said, "help us as a country, because we're trying to heal." >> seth: my god, man, take a xanax. [ laughter ] you sound like you did a speedball in the bathroom at studio 54. [ laughter ] last night collins took a break from rambling incoh

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this step-back moment by the congressman and just look farther ahead for us what this means for doug collins. >> reporter: you know, brianna, this is a rare moment in washington where someone says something that they regret and then they apologize. in a series of tweets, collins wrote, quote, let me be clear. i do not believe democrats are in love with terrorists and i apologize for what i said earlier this week. the comment i made on wednesday evening was in response to a question about the war powers resolution being introduced in the house and house democrats' attempt to limit the president's authority. as someone who served in iraq in 2008, i witnessed firsthand the brutal death of countless soldiers who were torn to shreds by this vicious terrorist. soleimani was nothing less than an evil mastermind who killed and wounded thousands of americans. these images will live with me for the rest of my life. but that does not excuse my response on wednesday evening. i talked with a collins aide who told me this was really a moment where collins thought about what he said, he saw how it affected

doug collins of georgia, mike johnson of louisiana, jim jordan of ohio, mark meadows of north carolina, john radcliffe of texas, lee zeldin of new york. none of them are expected to speak on the senate floor. instead sources say they will serve as outside advisers and tv surrogates. a number of advisers have been meeting regularly with trump's lawyers to help them prepare. >> a majority of americans believe the senate should remove the president from office. 51% say the president needs to go even before the trial gets under way. 45% do not believe he should be removed. and when asked if there should be testimony of new witnesses at the president's trial well 69% said yes and 26% said no. >> as his senate impeachment trial heats up president trump heads to the 50th world economic forum in davos, switzerland. he's expected to deliver opening remarks a little over an hour from now. cnn's jeremy diamond live in davos. we know the president is on the ground there. what can we expect today? >> reporter: that's right. the president has indeed landed here at davos, a small town nestled in the

. >>> republican congressman doug collins making this outrageous claim about democrats. >> they are inove with terrorists. we see that. they mourn soleimani more than they mourn our gold star families who are the ones who suffered under soleimani. >> huh, but you know it wasn't democrats who mocked gold star family. it was the president. khizr khan was on the receiving end of that and he joins me next. you've had quite the career. yeah, i've had some pretty prestigious jobs over the years. news producer. executive transport manager. and a beverage distribution supervisor. now i'm a director at a security software firm. wow, you've been at it a long time. the thing is, i like working. what if my retirement plan is i don't want to retire? then let's not create a retirement plan. let's create a plan for what's next. i like that. get a plan that's right for you. td ameritrade. get a plan that's right for you. we all use our phones very differently. we need a great network all the time. (vo) everyone in your family is different. these two are always gaming and this one is always on facetime

georgia republican doug collins remarkably said this. >> nancy pelosi does it again. gold star families. that's a problem. >> ingold star father, whom you remember was criticized by president trump. it's an honor to have you back on. thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> i'm delighted to be speaking with you. >> just to be clear no congressional democrat has said they're mourning soleimani. what's your response? >> well, first i must state this. we are grateful to our men and women serving in uniform and their families and our veterans and their families. we are grateful for their service. this statement from congressman collins and ambassador hailey, this is from trump's playbook of hate and division. this is so despicable and totally unamerican. and we're disturbed. we are disheartened to hear this. this is the time for nation to come together so that we can deal with this difficult moment instead of this division and republicans blaming democrat leadership and challenging their patriotism. this is typical chairman trump's playbook. >> and just for transparenc

doug collins joining us in a moment. wisenberg, we appreciate your time. >> happy to be here. >> sandra: as you mentioned, in the moment we will speak with republican congressman doug collins. a member of the president's defense team. democratic senator tom carper will be joining us next. he is our headliner this morning. in the 11:00 eastern time hour, we will hear from senator lindsey graham himself. there is a lot to react to. a lot of new information coming in on this impeachment trial. we will have them all here to respond. >> ed: we will be on top of that as well is this. health officials now sounding the alarm as two more americans contract the coronavirus that has killed more than 80 people in china. what we are learning about this deadly illness, as the financial markets take a big hit this morning. >> sandra: plus, democratic presidential hopefuls making their pitch to voters over the weekend as we headed to the final week before the iowa caucuses. the lay of the land in a live report from the heartland, coming

basically she's got a threat on the republican side, and that threat to kelly loeffler is doug collins. we've all seen doug collins from georgia being the most vocal leader in the house opposed to impeachment. she's got to worry about him outflanking her on the pro-trump right. a lot of these sort of swing state republicans up this year, mcsally, ernst maybe in iowa, gardner in colorado, tillis in north carolina, they're not getting to the general election unless they first get through republican primaries. i think it's complicated their political thinking on this significantly. >> bob costa, you could make an argument that these party caucuses spend nowhere near this much quality time together during the legislative year this. is highly unusual. they're lunching together as a caucus every day. they are intentionally seated there without any devices on the senate floor for hours on end. this could make for some real discomfort with the former standard bearer of the republican party, mitt romney. >> it's clear that many of senator romney's colleagues don't exactly love him on the republ

doug collins, a top republican on the judiciary committee, he is apologizing just now for comments that. let me play first what doug collins said earlier this week, and this has to do with democrats in reaction to the iran crisis. listen. >> they're in love with terrorists. we see that. they mourned soleimani more than they mourned our gulf star people that died under soleimani. that's a problem. >> what's he saying, manu? >> he puts out in the first part, let me be clear. i do not believe democrats are in love with terrorists. i apologize what i said earlier, then he goes on to explain his position on the matter. this, of course, came in the fight whether or not to limit the president's authority in dealing with further military escalation in iran, a measure that passed the house yesterday. but collins had come under withering criticism from democrats and republicans alike, and republicans are having a hard time defending him, but he makes it very clear here he believes he shouldn't have said that. >> an apology. you have to give him credit for that. >>> new jobs numbers out there this

. >> i want to play something republican doug collins said attacking democrats about their questioningevents of the last week. let's take a look. >> nancy pelosi does it again and her democrats fall right in line. one, they're in love with terrorists. we see that. they mourn soleimani more than they mourn our gold star families who are the ones who suffered under soleimani. that's a problem. >> obviously, you know, just factually what he said is not true. and also as somebody who was a pastor and i believe still is a pastor, it's kind of amazing that he would say that. but when you hear a fellow member of congress, high-ranking official on the judiciary committee nonetheless, accusing your fellow democrats of that, i'm just wondering what do you make of that? >> i mean, it's offensive. i don't know what else to say about it. i served three tours in iraq as a shi'a militia analyst. i have been in the embassy when we've taken incoming fire from iranian rockets. i have watched qassem soleimani in particular, who has just been the architect of this horrible, horrible approach to the united

and i would ask doug collins for a few remarks. >> well, hello, everybody. tell you what's been amazing to me the past week and a coming into today is where seeing a rerun of what we saw on the house. a very when the house managers came over they present a case in which they didn't do their jobs. that's been proven. what we've seen every one of his selective leaks. remember windows debt in the basement adam schiff would go out when nobody else could talk he could put up the leaks he would want only spot and his wife but on saturday we saw the president steen begin to fight back. when you only talk about things you want to talk about what you leave out certain facts you start losing the american people and the reality is just as mark meadows just that i want you to focus on one thing, to not get distracted by the shiny objects i think we need witnesses or new manuscript anything else. don't lose sight of the fact that the facts have changed. the facts are that the president and mr. linsky said there was no pressure. there was no conditionality they got the ai

i want to play the sound from doug collins, congressman from georgia from a few days ago that i thinkas outrage sod many people. listen to this. >> nancy pelosi does it again and her democrats fall right in line. one, they're in love with terrorists. we see that. they mourn soleimani more than they mourn our gold star families. that's a problem. >> tammy duckworth, a democrat who supports this war powers resolution says i left literal parts of my body in iraq where i was fighting terrorists and then goes charlie, you can oppose th measure. you can think the president has large powers as commander in chief, but you don't need to go where doug collins went. >> yeah. john, i would agree with that. i think everybody's got to take a step back from this inflammatory rhetoric. i felt that this resolution was as much a debate about the president's volatile style than it was about the delicate balance between the legislative and executive branch in terms of the ability to make war. congress, if they really want to amend this war powers act, they should change the law. i think they need to have

this is what the ranking member of the house judiciary committee, doug collins, said. >> i did not think could become more hypocritical than she was during impeachment but guess what, surprise, surprise, nancy pelosi does it again and her democrats fall right in line. one, they're in love with terrorists, we see that. they mourn soleimani more than they mourn or gold star families, who are the ones that suffered under soleimani. >> preet bharara wrote this was a shocking new low for the georgia congressman saying you are not a talk show host, you are a pastor and a sitting member of congress and therefore the evidence shows you should know better. you got your cheap shot across and perhaps that's all that matters to you. joining us now, senior legal analyst for the southern district of new york, preet bharara. you were really upset about what he said. >> yeah. you know, there's been a lot of rhetoric, poisonous rhetoric, a lot of barbs. politics is a tough game. i work for a scrappy, tough politician in the senate for four years so i get it. but something about that, about the equating o

republican members doug collins, mike johnson, debbie lesko, arc meadows, -- mark meadows would serves part of the team. the white house did not specify what exactly the members would be doing. politicosource told they are expected to play a more behind the scenes role with a focus on messaging and strategy. i would consider them a cause i reserve unit -- qusi unit. the political story goes on from there. if you would like to read more. ake is in south carolina, republican. startedthis impeachment on day one of his presidency. they are trying to impeach him for something that happened in 2017 and 2018. how are they going to impeach him for this before he ever did it? if trump is listening or his people are, there are four people running in the senate for president. to have mitch mcconnell a call to vote every day to keep them in washington so they cannot go out and campaign. it limits them from running for president. we all know it is a joke. they wanted to impeach him from day one. it makes no sense. before he ever did anything. he was not even president and they wanted to impeach hi

we will get republican reaction from congressman doug collins and just moments. peter doocy is in des moines covering last night's big debate, but we begin with mike emanuel and capitol hill this morning. hey, mike, good morning. >> today marks a significant step in the soul impeachment process. house speaker nancy pelosi expected to announce her impeachment managers in an hour. those of the members of her democratic team who will prosecute the case against president trump in the united states senate. it's a very high profile assignment and pelosi has had four weeks to pick her lineup. later today, a brief debate and vote on the house floor to send president trump say house democrats failed to make their case. >> democrats in congress are wasting america's time with demented hoaxes and crazy witch hunts that have been going on, by the way, from the day i came down the escalator with our future first lady. but that's why this november we are going back and we are going to win the house. republicans are going to enact the house. [cheers and applause] >> with the sc

intelligence in presenting the case in the senate, but he can also have the house folks, like doug collins and others on television to press the case on fox news and to his base and in public, because i don't know how much people are going to watch of the hearings. and that's sort of what he's been doing all along. he's had some lawyers that nobody has ever heard of that are supersmart and dealing with the niceties of the legal principles behind closed doors, but he has people like giuliani and others on television pressing the case. >> doug collins apologized. >> he did. we were wrong. we said he wouldn't apologized for saying democrats were in love with democrats. test terrorists. and he did. >> it's easier to do it just online rather than going on hannity or one of those folks. appreciate it, preet. jeffrey toobin as well. >>> first it was one embassy, then it was four that were facing some kind of imminent threat of iranian attack from the president. but tonight, cnn reporting on steps that would have been taken if the steps were real. those steps were not taken. and there's new line f

key members of the president's defense team, congressman john ratcliffe, doug collins, mark meadows makening. we'll hear from the president himself as he spoke to leading business heads and heads of state in

doug collins, greg palkot is live in ukraine, but we begin washington with griff jenkins. good morning. >> good morning, bill. the president certainly wouldn't pull any punches, taking shots at toledo. familiar targets, congress and the media. >> you should come in and tell us so we can call up the fake news that's back there and we can leak it." [cheers and applause] these are split-second decisions. you have to make a decision. they do only to make a decision. they want me to call up. >> the symbolic resolution aimed at curbing the president's u.s. military force in iran. the vote, 224-194. not breaking down party lines. eight democrats voting against it, while three republicans voted for it. the most surprising was congressman matt gaetz of florida, he is a staunch defender of the president, making a case that it didn't meant to the president but did require congressional approval if you get into another conflict in the middle east. because the resolution is nonbinding it cannot become law. speaker pelosi explain why it was necessary. >> we are taking this path because

doug collins is prepping for his run against senator loeffler. her member of that team we haven't seen much on camera is debbie lesko from arizona. finally, the story is out. senator collins announcing this morning he is going to run. >> some indications yesterday, but that out today. it looks like president trump and the trump family is going to be a key part of that race. you heard senator loeffler specifically bring up the president, but also in ivanka trump, noting her meeting with the president's daughter. host: appreciate that, john. we will hear from carl now. do people understand that trump is on trial for trying to undermine our voting system? bringing outside, foreign countries into our system? right there -- that, right there. do you understand that, republicans? the republicans need help and they try to use russia, they did use russia in 2016. and now, they are going to use russia, china, north korea, you name it. anybody to come in and interfere with our elections. wake up, republicans. you people are asleep. host: also in michigan, w

congressman doug collins and mike johnson both members of the president's defense team say the impeachment proceedings are nothing more than a charade because democrats like adam schiff can't come to grips with the fact the president proved them wrong. >> he is willing to say anything, do anything, tell anything to get this president. it is not a 1-off or 2 off, it is what this man does. he does not want to come to grips with the truth that the president is the president is doing a good job and doing anything he can to take him out but the lining and theater going on on the senate floor takes the cake. >> they are cherry kicking facts, misrepresenting the facts to follow their narrative. they manufacture this fraudulent process and that is why we have said this is a sham from the beginning. shannon: while the drama played out on capitol hill donald trump kicked off day 2 of the world economic forum. he is keeping a strict america first agenda and warning the european union he aims to strike new trade agreements. benjamin hall joins us with what we can expect today. >> donald trump, halfway

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steve: time for doug collins.s they call four witnesses and yesterday the president's team made it very clear because one to have questions was didn't the house, wasn't it their obligation to call witnesses then, couldn't they have called john bolton. brian: 17. steve: they went ahead and with drew the subpoena for john bolton and use the argument it's an obstruction of congress and that became one of the articles because otherwise had they gone to the courts they would have said executive privilege. , sorry. ainsley: that's what's so interesting about this, the house had an opportunity to vote for impeachment. it goes to the senate, the trial that we are seeing, the senators are the jury. exactly. they should have done in the house if they wanted it and adam schiff, republicans are complaining because he's threwing new information that wasn't in articles of impeachment, he's saying bribery, extortion, that was never in articles of impeachment, republicans are saying this would be a mistrial. brian alan dershowitz

he named doug collins, mike johnson, jim jordan, mark meadows, john ratcliffe, and lee zeldin to join great to have you here. your reaction to the congressional' member of the >> one of the staunch supporters in the house. all great advocates for defending the constitution. if you remember the impeachment fiasco we saw in the house. who was speaking the truth? it was those folks on that list pointing out the weakness of the case and how unprecedented the attacks on this president has been. lou will be all standing up at the forefront for the president making ream differences. all of those -- making real differences. and this legal team led by cipollone, you couldn't ask for better. >> the challenge this impeachment is both sides 24 hours, the prosecution of the house democrats will have a hard time even filling the first 12 hours with a real case. lou: the radical dimms have been filling the airways with nonsense and bile for so long, i think we'll continue with more of that. we are going to be back to this tragic farce called an impeachment process. we'll be right back with former at