since you mentioned ernst, i'm sure a lot of you read the excerpt, the profile of constantine ernst,the director of channel 1 in the new yorker, i think a couple weeks ago. >> uh-huh. >> i thought he was a really interesting choice because -- and this is a bit of a criticism because i didn't see what compromise he was making. he loved films. having an aesthetic isn't really an ideology and he seemed to me like in your portrait, he was kind of the karl rove of the early putin administration who loved tupac and obama as stylistic choices but came from that generation that was born in the early 60s that were so absolutely cynical, and they just saw the state as something to be milked, and like you pay lip service to whatever ideology you want, but you get yours. >> right >> what compromise was ernst making? >> i think his compromise as you say it is not necessarily political or moral, there i don't think he's in any sort of conflict with himself. it really is a stylistic or aesthetic compromise, especially after the annexation of crimea and the outbreak of war and all that's followed as

ernst learned the 911 caller was a man named jason cobage and he was calling about his co-worker. >>said his friend greg had been shot and they needed assistance immediately. >> ernst learned that when the first officer got to the scene, he found greg in his car bleeding from a gunshot wound. >> he was shot in the left side of his chest and the bullet went essentially in through the front and then out through the back. >> while greg was rushed to the hospital, a s.w.a.t. team combed the hillside where he had been shot. >> did they find the sooter? >> no. >> just vanished? >> vanished. >> but sargeant ernst heard the detail. >> when the 911 call in, the situation immediately range a bell. >> greg mulvahill called dispatch. he had received a phone call from an unknown person stating that that person was a private investigator and had some information. >> greg said the mysterious caller was a man with a deep voice who claimed to have documents that greg would want to see. greg got the impression it was evidence that could be used against him in his custody battle with diana. the man sai

what do you make of it when you hear senator ernst.hink perhaps that joe biden is on trial. and this is not an impeachment trial of joe biden, it is an impeachment trial of the president and that's a reaction from a juror. what do you make of it? >> well, she probably shouldn't have said it, but i think it was an honest assessment. how is all of this affecting joe biden's campaign? it is a legitimate question. she probably shouldn't have raised it. i said all along that the president of the united states essentially weaponized himself, he weaponized himself to damage joe biden's candidacy while simultaneously blowing up his own presidency. to a certain extent, i guess that's what joanie ernst is asking, how much damage has this done to joe biden. shouldn't have asked it, but people are asking that question, people like us who are in the punditry class. >> jackie, it was reminiscent to some of kevin mccarthy's comments on fox news in 2015 regarding the benghazi hearings targeting hillary clinton. i want to play that sound and get your s

joni ernst. the tag team with chuck grassry and joni ernst. senator deb fischer. where's lindsey graham? may be having a news conference. senator josh -- where's john hoveman, you've been so great. thank you, john. senator james lankford, a terrific person. kelly loughler. congratulations, kelly. jerry moran, another one, thank you, jerry and another one, james risch and mike rounds, where is mike? mike, thank you. tim scott. mr. opportunity's own and i think he's over there fighting saying, just read the transcripts. thom tillis, doing pretty well, what i'm understanding and roger wicker. rick scott has been so incredible. the rest of you i don't have to bother with. i'm sorry. you know the way it works in life. right? >> ah. just your totally normal, completely norm's run of the mill between a defendant and a jury in the middle of a trial. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday january 30th, and with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, nbc news national security analyst jeremy

you know, my second thought was i think maybe joni ernst has misread iowa democrats. don't know if this is going to hurt joe biden. i think it may help joe biden. being smeared or being the center of this international controversy where the president is being impeached over it and then using the floor of the senate to go after biden, i think that may rally caucusgoers around it. we won't know until monday, but i think they've miscalculated. and it was just -- it showed what they're really about. >> i can tell you one thing i want to buy tickets to that beer you're going to have with paul talking about the clinton impeachment. that is something i would like to see. >> we will certainly send you the tab. >> thank you, gentlemen. thank you very much. >>> coming up, new details about what happened in the minutes just before the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant. we have the latest in the investigation for you next. you always want to be able to deliver relief for your patients. get them out of pain, get them out of pain fast. we have a new product out there: sensod

. >>> and perhaps she said too much, why the biden campaign says republican senator joni ernst just helped make their case. >> is that how you blow out your birthday candles. >> just one at a time. >> maybe we have been doing it wrong all these years. you know who would hate that by 3-year-old child who wants to dig in. >> head first into the cake. >> good morning, tuesday, january 28th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with the fallout from john bolton's manuscript and his reported firsthand account of the president tieing ukraine to investigations of joe biden and his son. the president's legal team mostly ignored the bomb shell during their defense on the senate floor choosing not to take it on directly until about 8 1/2 hours into their nine-hour day. we're going to get to that part in just a moment. first, the fight over witnesses as two key republican senators say support appears to be growing for the former national security adviser to testify. senator susan collins released a statement that reads in part this, the reports about john bolton's book strengthe

of spending unseen since joni ernst has come to washington, d.c.in why joni ernst would blindly fall in line with donald trump in a state that, really, still seems to be a swing state in 2018. democrats picked up quite a few states. >> yeah. >> it's not like he's popular. >> nope. >> well, joe i think that joni ernst is among the many senators that are in a bind for sure. i think she looks at -- i'm not trying to credit this analysis, it's a tough call for her purely on the politics -- looks at donald trump in 2016 which he won the state not by a little. won it by nine, ten points in iowa and looks at that and says if there's going to be big trump turnout, most analysts think there's going to be in 2020. all assume a tight general election. a state he carried by nine or ten points, she's looking for trump coattails. werther you think -- i agree with you about the scaleability question, but joni ernst thinks it, and a big debate whether the state did be clawed back into the blue territory. true two congressional districts got flipped to democrats in

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ernst, an impeachment juror suggesting the trial could help bring down joe biden. essentially that was the president's goal in the first place. that's why he's being impeached. now other republicans nowhere near iowa are targeting biden's campaign there. cnn's arlette sinz is on the trail. >> reporter: joe biden continues his push back. here in the iowa he called out the state senator joni ernst for her recent comments about biden and the iowa caucuses and also florida senator rick scott who was airing an ad here about biden, an anti-biden ad in the state. take a listen to what biden had to tell iowa. >> it seemed pretty simple to me. they're trying to smear me to stop me, and know if i'm not a nominee, i'm going to beat donald trump. >> reporter: this comes as the iowa caucuses are just four days away and the race here remains highly fluent. a new poll university poll joe biden and bernie sanders are in the top tier of contenders. they're later followed by pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar, and nearly a majority of voters have firmly made up their

. >> i sent a question to the desk on behalf of myself and senators moran, daines, ernst, scott of florida and crapo. >> thank you. >> senator thune and other senators ask the counsel for the president on march 6, 2019 speaker nancy pelosi said, quote, people is so divisive to the country that unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i don't think we should go down that path because it divides the country, end quote. alexander hamilton also warned in federalist 65 against the, quote, persecution of an intemperate or designing majority in the house of representatives with respect to impeenin evaluating the case ag the president, should the senate take into account the partisan nature of the peecimpeachment proceedings in the house? >> thank you, mr. chief justice, members of the senate. absolutely take that into account. that's dispositive. that should end it. based on the statements we heard the last time from our friends on the democratic side, that's the reason why you shouldn't have an impeachment. speaker pelosi was right when she said that. unfortunately

ernst, mrs. feinstein, mrs. fisher, mr, mr. graham, mr. grassley, ms. harris, ms. townsend, carefully, mr. heinrich, mrs. corona, mr. bowen, mrs. kleinsmith, mr. inhofe, mr, mr. kane, mr. kennedy, mr. kingr langford, mr. lakey, delete, mrs. loeffler, mr. mansion, mr. markey, mr. mcconnell, mystic sally, mr. menendez, mr. merkley, mr. moran, ms. makowski, mr. murphy, mrs. murray, mr. paul, mr. perdue, mr. peters, mr. portman, mr. reid, mr. risch, mr. roberts, mr. romney, is frozen, mr. brown's, mr. rubio, mr. sanders, mr. south, mr. shots, mr. schumer, mr. scott of florida, mr. scott of south carolina, mrs. jean, mr. shelby, ms. cinema, ms. smith, ms. carbonell, mr. sullivan, mr. tester, mr. kuhn, mr. tillis, mr. toomey, mr. udall, mr. ben homans, warner, ms. moran, mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young,. >> any senator who is not in the senate chamber at the time the oath was administered to the other senators who make up that fact known to the chair so that the oath may be administered as soon as possible. speemac the sergeant at arms will make the proc

that's why joanie ernst wants to use this process against joe biden.kraine mattered defined broadly was not to fight corruption, not to protect american security, but to hurt president trump's rival in 2020 and whether it is misleading, the senate as pam bondi did or using this process to hurt biden and the iowa caucuses as joanie ernst mentioned today, it is all the same story. >> i want to go back to dana bash on capitol hill. dana? >> i'm here with senator jeff merkley. a couple of questions, let's start with something mitt romney told my colleague manu raju a short while ago, that he would be open to effectively a witness swap, if republicans want -- if democrats want a witness, say john bolton, then republicans should be able to get a witness too. can you see yourself and your democratic colleagues agreeing to that at all in a matter of who the democratic witness -- the republican witness would be rather? >> philosophically in a trial, both sides going to choose their own witnesses. i'm supportive of the general concept. but the republicans have i

on behalf of myself and a senator ernst i sent a question to the desk for mr. nadler and mr. philbin. >> the question from senator kennedy and senator ernst from both parties, the house managers will be first. if the president asked for investigation of possible corruption by a political rival, under circumstances that objectively are in the national interest, should the president be impeached if the majority of the house believes the president did it for the wrong reason? >> the president of course is entitled to conduct a foreign policy, and is entitled to look into corruption in the united states or elsewhere. they are entitled to use the department of state or other purposes. he is not entitled to target an american citizen specifically, nor did he do so innocently here. it was only after mr. biden became an announced candidate for president that he suddenly decided the ukraine ought to look into the bidens. it might be very -- he made it very clear that he wasn't interested in investigation. he was interested in an announcement of investigation just so the bidens could b

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 republican side. he's someone with strong opinions, a national profile. he has not made many friends. he is respected by conservatives in the senate for having his own point of view. but just because senator romney is speaking up about witnesses does not necessarily mean that leader

[cheering] ernst, theyey, joni would call and say, we have to help our farmers.aker of the iowa house of representatives, a man with genes, although you had an x governor here who had great genes. this is representative pat grassley. those two young men have the greatest genes anyone has ever had for politics. [cheering] his father is the ambassador to china. do think he is happy? i think he is happy. great governor. longest-running governor in history. we have the chairman of the republican party of iowa. we have the world's tallest campaign manager. what a job he did negotiating. you have nevery heard of. somebody who is a fantastic person. somebody named sarah sanders. have you ever heard of her? [cheering] come here, sarah. come on. [cheering] that is pretty good. player a great football from iowa, matt whitaker. >> thank you. how much do we love this president? how much do we love the state of i a? so much. this is an incredibly special place. i met my husband here in des moines. i love being back in iowa. we are sorry you had so many crazy liberal democrats

ernst isn't the first republican to make that mistake. in 2016. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers ever dropping. why? because she's untrustable, but no one would have known any of that happened had we not thought -- >> i agree. >> wow. >> now biden is seizing on the words of senator ernst. here he is this morning in iowa. >> by the way, did anyone see what your senator jonie ernst did yesterday? she spilled the beans! she just came out and flat said it. you know, the whole impeachment trial for trump is just a political hit job trying to smear me because he is scared to death to run against me and he has good reason to be concerned, let me tell you something. you iowa caucus goers get a chance for a twofer. you can ruin donald trump's night by caucusing for me and you can ruin jonie ernst's night as well. >> some agreed calling for biden to testify, but it's not the reason you might think. that's next. yo

that's why cory gardener and susan collins are such important persons and joni ernst too.he knows she has a tough race but she imagines she could win. and if her interests begin to diverge from those of the president that may alter things. but it's a dynamic situation. public pressure will matter a lot and also people need to be realistic what the goal is here. the senate is not going to remove donald trump. that was never going to happen. you're playing for time, you're playing to push the final resolution past the "state of the union" because no one wants to see the president taking a victory lap. and whatever will be fascinating to see is the world historic insanity he will deliver if he's still under impeachment at the time of the "state of the union". >> which is why mitch mcconnell wants to get this over before that. remember clinton did give his "state of the union" during the impeachment process, so it'll be very interesting to see if he can get all these other people to go along. and remember there may be more evidence emerging, too. we've already seen a lot of it

you can ruin donald trump's night, and you can ruin joni ernst's night as well. . >> that was formere president joe biden seizing on remarks by iowa senator joni ernst that suggested she was eager for the impeachment process to take a political toll on joe biden. joining us now, we have cnn political commentator, andrew gillum and crystal ball, coauthor of "the populists guide to 2020" it is doing so well, it is beating the bolton book on amazon at the moment. >> give me a call. >> that was an interesting argument there. joe biden has not shied away from the political attacks on him. do you think, krystal that he has done a good job on turning the table on those attacks, or do you think some are sticking. >> i do think the impeachment process overall has helped joe biden in this race because number one, it is elevating that he's the center of all of this, even though a lot of reporting says that trump is more afraid of bernie sanders. the certain perception is that he was fixated on biden, he was going after biden. so that's one piece. the other piece is there are real questions abou

chief justice i send a question to the desk on behalf of myself of crapo, ernst and moran. >> thank you. the question from senator portman is for the council for the president. i am surprised to hear the house managers repeatedly invoke constitutional law professor for lee who support their position including pay playing part of the video is it true that professor opposed this impeachment in the house and has also said abusive power is exceedingly difficult to prove without any accompanying criminal allegation it has never been the sole basis for presidential impeachment and is not proven in this case. >> thank you for that question and that is correct. the professor is critical that the house democrats are and to explain this wasbo a process that was not adequately pursued in an investigation and abuse of power is exceedingly difficult theory and it has never been used without violations of the law and the discussions we have had we have pointed it out multiple times. every presidential impeachment which initially lead to the impeachmentin with specific violations of the criminal law a

we get remarks from senators barrasso, ernst, braun and cruz. later we also hear from house manager adam schiff. >> there we go. [inaudible conversations] >> senator cruz, a pleasure to see you. >> good evening. >> a quick question. >> is there logical reason not to have bolton testify? >> this afternoon was devastating for the house managers. for the first time in the entire proceeding we have heard just the beginning of the serious evidence of corruption involving burisma, the ukrainian natural gas company that paid hunter biden, joe biden's son a million dollars a year while-- let me answer, i'll answer the question. >> could you answer the question, appreciate it. >> let me the question without interrupting me, please. >> you got it. >> burisma paid hunter biden, joe biden's son a million dollars a year while hunter biden threatened ukraine to withhold a billion dollars in aid unless and until they fired the prosecutor investigating his son. joe biden threatened-- joe biden, vice-president. united states and we just saw a video which would e

i think that joni ernst reinforced that he did it. he gave joe biden cover in the democratic primary but has also given him cover going into iowa. >> joe biden has an opportunity to use this to repeatedly come back. there's some concern, that hasn't been a bigger theme out there. why is he not raising money off this, why is this not the central part of his message. i am clearly the most electable person to go after donald trump. look what they're doing in washington. that's not the essence of the argument. >> this is why a lot of people are scratching heads. he is the reason we are here. he is not the frontrunner in iowa, not the frontrunner in new hampshire, there isn't a feeling of the party galvanizing around him in this way. >> in part as loni said, the vice president and his team are not leaning so heavily. he will say it here and there. not like he doesn't address it, but it is not firing off all cylinders. that's why you're not seeing potentially numbers move or people to consolidate support around him. >> chuck, you know this

y, cornyn, crepo, ernst and moran. >> thank yoy, cornyn, crepo, ernst and moran. >> thank yomy, cornynoran. >> thank yoey, cornyn, crepo, ernst and moran. >> thank you. >> the question from senator portman and the other senators is for the counsel of the president. i have been vur prizsurprised t hear the house managers repeatedly invoke constitutional law professor jonathan turley to support their position, including playing a part of a video of him. isn't it true that professor turley opposed this medical treatment in the hou-- impeachm house and said abuse of power is difficult to prove alone. abuse of power has never been the sole basis for a presidential impeachment and was not proven in this case. >> mr. chief justice, senators, thank you for that question, and that is exactly correct. professor tur will yley was ver critical of the entire process in the house and of the charges that the house -- house democrats were considering here, both the abuse of power charge and the obstruction charge, and he explained that this was a rushed process. they had not adequately pursued an inve

joni ernst said, no answer.as mute. >> it is -- the fear they live under of donald trump and of his twitter feed and his followers is so intense, and this idea that if they break from him in any way whatsoever or deviate in any way whatsoever it leaves them to behave like that and behave with a silence yesterday. you and i are both aware that these guy, motivated by fear the primaries, fear of re-election. thankfully filing deadlines are passed and hopefully they realize they won't get primaried by somebody if they wait a few more weeks, but at this point the republican senators are betting their entire political future and reputations on the fact that nothing worse will come out. until yesterday when the bolton thing hovered over them, thought they might get away with this. i don't think they're getting away with this at this point. >> yeah, but mika, something worse always comes out. and by the way, even if -- >> always -- >> even if they try to finish this impeachment hearing quickly, between now and the elec

says the chinese banks are all behind that i also spoke about innovation with a managing partner of ernst and young julie teichmann and i asked her how innovation can make companies greener. innovation is a great mechanism to really support making businesses more sustainable and greener by allowing technology to look at new business models allowing technology to make businesses more efficient in what they're developing and how they're working with people it's great for the planet what about people because so many people say digitize ation is going to be. oh no i think digitalisation will actually change how jobs work in the future we're using technology to change how people collaborate together how people can be more inclusive and frankly how work can be more motivating what about the people who just want a simple job quite happy with that are they going to get left behind i don't think so because i think ai will help us as well as digital tools to make the job itself more enriching just because you have a simple job doesn't mean that you have to do routine tasks every day not official in

not at all i was talking to a managing partner from the consultancy ernst and young who said don't expect much from mr trump speech he will touch on trade and taxes and his tax breaks she said to me have been great for companies they've also been great for shareholders we've seen an asset price boom which has been great for the rich but what about the rest of us and what about our planet this is where climatologists environmentalist's and climate activists say that the polluters need to be taxed that state subsidies for the fossil fuel industry need to be dropped and that we need to have a price on carbon taxing the polluters is what's going to change things but encouraging these companies over allowing them to keep behaving as they have been will only create and worsen the climate crisis ben thanks for an owl that was did obvious benefits all in the world economic forum in davos. where concerns are growing over the rapid spread of a new strain of corona virus in china has been blamed for 4 deaths and infected more than 200 people cases of also surfaced in thailand japan and south korea a

and senators holly, cruz, cramer, braun, perdue, rubio, rigs, sullivan, ernst, deigns and fisher.and response from counsel for the president. >> thank you. >> senator johnson and the other senators from both parties. recent reporting described two nsc staff hold overs from the obama administration attending an all-hands meeting of nsc staff held about two weeks into the trump administration and talking loudly enough to be overheard, saying we need do everything we can to take out the president. on july 26 twth, 2019, they hir one of the individuals. the report further describes relationships between lieutenant colonel vindman and an individual alleged as the whistleblower. why did your committee hire sean mitts co the day after the phone call and what role has he played throughout your committee's investigation? the house will begin. >> first of all, there have been a lot of attacks on my staff. as i said when this issue came up earlier. i'm appalled of the professional people that work for the intelligence dmity. now, this question refers to allegations in a newspaper article, wh

another republican in the senate back then is jonie ernst of iowa. we contacted them too. we asked for letters she wrote or things in the congressional record, anything about this issue, this very important issue she's suddenly very interested in back then. we checked her website. nothing. but of course just yesterday senator ernst came right out and admitted what the game is really about. >> iowa caucuses are this next monday evening, and i'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the iowa caucus voters, those democratic caucus goers. will they be supporting vice president biden at this point? >> big question. that of course, that's the ball game. if it was an actual good faith effort by republicans who certainly were not shrinking violets about what they saw as corruption or misdeeds, don't you think they would have said something about hunter biden and burisma? and yet they didn't. that's how you know the entire thing that has been reversed engineered solely for political purposes. these folks don't have time to go to the post office t

chiefstse justice, i sena the desk on behalf of myself and senator sasse, crapo, boone, young, ernst m braun. >> the question from senator toomey and other centers is for counsel for the president. given that the election of the present is one of the most significant political acts in which we as citizens engage in our democratic system, how much weight should the senate give to theig fact that removing the the president from office and disqualifying him from ever holding future federal office would undo that democratic decision and a kicked the preset off the ballot in this year's election? >> members of the senate, one of the concerns we praise throughouton this process over e last several months, going back to the time when the house was dealing with this in their various committees is we are in an election year. there's . there's some in this room that are days away from the eye wilcox is taking place. so we're discussing the possible impeachment and removal of the president of the united states not only d during election seas, in the heart of the election season. and i think tha

ernst looks like it's not going to happen.sked by a reporter for cnn last week, she responded the reporter in her words a liberal hack. murm mur c m lisa mer cow ski, three negative comments. and in the last five minutes, our colleagues talked to mitt romney, saying he's likely to vote for witnesses, he's leaning towards that, but romney telling that to our nbc colleagues on capitol hill. >> i have in my hand the exact quote from mitt romney. here it is. i just don't have any comments on the process or evidence until the trial is over. i think it's very likely i'll be in favor of witnesses, but i haven't made a decision finally yet, and i won't until both sides' opening arguments are done. claire, what is the political position mitt romney is in in the state of utah. >> well, it is where trump is -- steve might be able to back me up here, but it is the least popular state for trump that is red. it is bright red -- >> that's fair. >> -- but trump is not popular there. they didn't like paying off porn stars in utah. they are --

. >> senator joni ernst from iowa yesterday, the president's team team focused on the bidens yesterday, talking about hunter biden, saying things about joe biden. some things about joe biden were not true but senator joni ernst when it was all said and done said this yesterday. >> iowa caucuses are this next monday evening. and i'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the iowa caucus voters. those democratic caucusgoers. will they be supporting vice president biden at this point. >> one of the things that's suggested in the articles of impeachment is the president called on the investigations of -- leaned on ukraine to investigate the bidens to hurt joe biden electoralally. did the republican senator there say she wants to see how this hurts joe biden electorally? >> that's exactly what she said. i think it's unfort that it's reached that point. we're in the midst of the caucuses and choosing our own nominee for president. both parties are following what's happening in this impeachment trial. i don't think we should be measuring the impeachment arti

speaker nancy pelosi naming 7 democrats to serve as managers in the trial which is set to begin in ernst next week, what should we expect as democrats present the case against the president, kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial? >> well, what we are going to have is the -- an opening statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, you'll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president's defense. paul: is there a possibility that you'll hear from impeachment managers and if the majority leader mitch mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments? >> this is something more and more republicans are thinking about. you know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up

chuck grassley, joni ernst, they would call and say, we have to help our farmers. they are great.enant governor adam greg -- thank you, adam -- lieutenant governor adam greg -- thank you, adam. speaker of the iowa house of representatives, a man with really fantastic genes, although you've got to have the best genes in the world. although you had an ex-governor here who had great genes. we have his son in the audience too. this is representative pat grassley. [cheers and applause] genes --mp: those [applause] pres. trump: anyone has ever had -- those two young men have the greatest genes anyone has ever had for politics. [cheering] pres. trump: i send one of them, the father, to china. he is now the ambassador to china. do think he is happy? i think so. i think he is happy. great governor. longest-serving governor in history. 24 years. we have the chairman of the republican party of violent, iowa, jeffn -- of kaufman. [applause] pres. trump: and really quickly, we have the world's tallest ,ampaign manager, brett barska and tommy hicks. and we have the great negotiator. the great b

during a stakeout, joni ernst had this to say.isten to this. >> iowa caucuses are this next monday evening and i'm really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the iowa caucus voters. those democratic caucusgoers. will they support biden at this mountain? >> what is the biden campaign saying about it. >> reporter: he tweeted about that moments ago. he said iowa caucusgoers, take note, joni ernst just spilled the beanes. she and donald trump are scared to death albeit the nominee and encouraged people to go. this plays into the biden campaign's argument that it is good for them when president trump is out there criticizing, taking on joe biden because it shows that the president is fear knull of facing biden in the general election. biden told us here in iowa that every time president trump's defense campaign brings up his name, that gets him one more vote in iowa. >> arlette saenz, appreciate it. i want to bring in ana navarro and kirsten powers. good evening. dream team right here. cam upondi spent 30

joni ernst, iowa, swing state. nominee here, ernst won relatively easy but will be under some pressure back home. let's keep going. these are the two faces if you follow politics at all, these are the republican moderates, lisa murkowski, susan collins, the last huge senate vote, brett kavanaugh confirmation, murkowski voted against, collins voted for. they are both on the record for saying they don't want to rule out the possibility of witnesses. murkowski yesterday talking to local news, talking about that very fact. let's play that. >> i care about the roles and responsibilities that we have, that were outlined in the constitution, and in making sure that we are doing right by them. and so i don't want this proceeding to be a circus. i don't want it to be viewed as a mockery or a kangaroo court. >> so, look, you can make what you want out of that. chuck schumer probably likes to hear that, jim, because it sounds like she's open to, at least, talking about some votes that might be with democrats. i want to finish

i think it's about removing cory gartner and martha mcsally and joni ernst. best evidence president trump has is the transcript itself. we don't need to know how anybody else felt that was on the call. we don't need to know what they thought. we have the transcript. it was the second call between president trump and president zelensky. if president trump were really hell bent on conditioning aid on investigating the bidens, why did he not bring it up in the first call? not a word in the first call. the second call is because rick perry wanted him and bugged him to call zelensky again. need i to do us a favor. who is us? he answers the question, our country has been through a lot. who brought up rudy giuliani? it was president zelensky, noit president trump. who brought up what if it is an impeachable offense to the have attorney general of the united states calling about potential evidence and improprietor. god to agency going to be in a lot of trouble. >> sean: what's your perception of lev parnas 2.0. foreign minister of ukraine said don't trust this guy. w

and by the way, did anyone see what joni ernst said the other day? she spilled the beans, didn't she? they're smearing me to try to stop me. and they know if i'm the nominee i'm going to beat donald trump like a drum. >> five days away from the iowa caucuses. in less than 24 hours let's not forget president trump lands in des moines for a campaign rally to get out his own message before the caucuses on monday. still with us, david jolly, karine jean-pierre, joyce vance, clint watts. karine, i'm looking at you. because this has to do with democratic politics. do you care to make any predictions about the finishing order in iowa and will it matter a whit to the larger race? >> you know, it's really hard to tell who's going to win. it really is. >> i'm glad you said that because that's how i feel. >> it's a jump ball. you look at the des moines register poll that came out about two weeks ago. it was a jumble. and that is a gold standard historically accurate poll. and it had them all bunched up at four. bunched up. there's another poll coming out from d

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and senator joni ernst is either engaging in a coverup or unqualified to be a united states senator.e president's defense team did was try to present what seemed to be legal arguments, but they were insufficient and misleading. they called logical fallacies, statements rooted in truth but are a misdirection or incomplete. they laid out, the lead counsel, laid out six core statements at the beginning. each one of them were incomplete or misleading. they said the president didn't offer conditionality on the phone call. two hours later there was an email from mike duffy among budget administrators saying, freeze the aid. clearly there was conditionality even if the president did not say it on the phone call. they argued zelensky didn't know about the pressure. well, zelensky doesn't have to know about the pressure if the president was engaging in corruptive impeachable behavior. we know he was. they argued that trump was better than obama on ukraine policy. it doesn't matter. so senator joni earnst and her colleagues are relying on those arguments because they work with the fox argument

ernst see what senator said the other day. she spilled the beengs. and came out and said it.he whole impeachment trial is a political hit job to spare me. it's not -- it's how scared trump is to running. here's what she said. iowa caucuses are next monday. i'm interested to see how this discussion, meaning discussion about me on the floor of the senate with the republican defense attorneys to the president, how this discussion today, two days ago, informs and influences iowa caucus voters. will they be supporting vice president biden at this point? [laughter] [cheers and applause] vice president biden: i tell you what, that's like just flat acknowledging we have been doing everything to keep biden from being the nominee and in iraq it's not -- i mean iran, excuse what ukraine and look at us go into the war, folks, this is like something out of alice in wonderland. one s subtle and commentator said, it's like screaming the quiet part into the bullhorn and wonderful new senator from florida named rick scott. he started running ads in iowa against iowa. well, god love him, my mo

here's joni ernst.r reaction. >> iowa caucuses are this next monday evening, and i am really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the iowa caucus voters. the democratic caucus-goers. will they be supporting as president biden at this point? >> sandra: donna, to you. could the ongoing impeachment trial hurt joe biden? >> you know, joe biden responded last night. i want to paraphrase him, he says "she spilled the beans." i want to say she opened up the burrito. we all know that the trump campaign is afraid of joe biden. they are afraid, they are attacking him like he is trash, but he is using these attacks to tell democrats -- he's saying, "the trump folks are scared of me. look at them, they are scared of me." i think everything is forgives and politics. she opens up for reelection. she's going to have an incredible opponent in iowa. while she spilled the beans, and now the burrito exit exposed, there is still some guacamole on the side. [laughter] >> sandra: i will end by r