president told him to tie ukrainian military aide to an investigation into his political rival joe biden trump has denied the claims i don't have any of it i have no idea what who leaked it and why but it sure is damning. and we are to find out from the person who made the comments and wrote the book under oath the eyes of america are upon the republicans in the senate they have been before and now what mr bolton evidently wrote in his book puts puts even more. increases the desire of the american people to have a fair trial with witnesses and documents but tom's lawyer ken starr did not address the bolton claims but insisted the trial seems like an election stunt by the democrats courts consider prudential factors and there is a huge potential factor that this trial is occurring and in election year when we the people in a matter of months will go to the polls if you want to fight as your caster who is on capitol hill ever heidi that the trump forgive me the a bolton revelations potentially a massive turning point in proceedings so if they're not talking about that right now during proceeding

know, especially because democratic voters are very concerned with who can beat president trump, if it's joe bidensus trump, who do you think wins? >> i think biden takes it. >> why? >> i think that he's -- he's someone who's got a long history. he's a known quantity. whatever negatives there are about him are already out there, and they've already been digested. i think that independent voters know he's got experience as vice president. he's a nice guy. character counts, and he's just a nice guy. i met him one time when i was 26, and for, you know, five minutes he made -- you know, made a connection there in a way that donald trump doesn't do with everyday people who don't follow politics. >> but he goes to these big ral ris a -- rallies and has so much enthusiasm you could argue joe biden doesn't match. you can't meet everybody, and donald trump can make people enthusiastic with a whole giant room. >> yeah. >> what is it that makes you think those voters who are -- who have switched to donald trump are going to say i'll go back to joe biden. >> trump's comfort zone is his base. he's good with hi

democrats are already questioning donald trump strategy against iran presidential candidate joe biden said trump is quote bringing us dangerously close to starting another war and house speaker nancy pelosi warned against needless provocations from the u.s. administration since news of the attack broke there has been a 4 percent spike in the global oil price and the u.s. a federal aviation agency has banned all american civilian flights over the persian gulf meanwhile u.s. defense secretary marcus and secretary of state my pompei you have arrived at the white house and the white house says consultations are ongoing although president trump is not now expected to deliver an address despite reports. well as the missile strikes happened a spokesman for iran's supreme leader tweeted this image of the reigning flag and that is in the power reference a chance tweet of the us flag just before the assassination of major general kasim city money on channel. to a risk he's a contributor to the mideast news website al monitor he thinks it's collation with the u.s. could end up strengthening iran

president told him to tie ukrainian military aide to an investigation into his political rival joe biden trump has the night these claims i don't have any of it i have no idea what who leaked it and why but it sure is damning and we ought to find out from the person who made the comments and wrote the book under oath the eyes of america are upon the republicans in the senate they have been before and now what mr bolton evidently wrote in his book puts puts even more. increases the desire of the american people to have a fair trial with witnesses and documents trumps a lawyer ken starr did not address the bolton claims but insists that the trial seemed like an election stunt by the democrats courts consider prudential factors and there is a huge credential factor that this trial is occurring and in election year. when we the people in a matter of months will go to the polls well meanwhile at the white house donald trump says he will announce is long delayed middle east peace proposal on tuesday trump met these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the oval office to discuss the deal follo

rival joe biden trump's defense team will begin laying out its case on saturday iraqi security forces stormed an anti-government protest and basra protests broke out over frustration with the lack of government reforms only 500 people have been killed in the violence since october during demonstrations for jobs and into corruption libya's interim president says she will write in the upcoming election to vote and may will serve as a rerun of october to spirit election that saw former leader abel brown less reelected but weeks of violent protests forced him to resign. and the u.n. is calling for international help to deal with the record swarm of locusts in east africa kenya is facing its largest innovation in 7 decades somalia and ethiopia have also been affected. next on al jazeera life apps one day i might be covering politics as usual and the next i might be reborn photos from serbia hungry to read what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through so that i can be the headlines in the most human way possible. we believe everyone has a story wo

of being the ringleader in efforts to push the crane into investigating its political rival joe biden trump's defense team will begin laying out its case on saturday iraqi security forces have stormed an anti-government protest and basra protest broke out over frustration with the lack of government reforms only 500 people have been killed in the violence since october during demonstrations for jobs and into corruption libya's interim presidential seal says she will run in the upcoming election the vote and may will serve as a rerun of october is disputed election that saw former leader able morale is reelected but weeks of violent protests forced him to resign. and the u.n. is calling for international help to deal with the record swarm of locusts in east africa kenya is facing its largest innovation in 7 decades somalia and ethiopia have also been affected keep it here up next on al jazeera life apps. one day i might be covering politics. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possib

after per nas said he worked with trump to get dirt on joe biden, trump claims he has no idea who this, is even though they have been in more photos together than mariah carey and christmas trees. so now the question is trump lying about not knowing parnas or is parnas lying about knowing trump? turns out parnas has the receipts. >> breaking overnight, the release of an explosive new audiotape that reportedly features president trump speaking to igor fruman and lev parnas at a dinner in 2018. >> on a tape, a voice identified as parnas can be heard telling trump that the ambassador to ukraine was bad mouthing him. >> yeah, she's basically walking around telling everybody, wait, he's going to get impeached. >> really? >> it's incredible. >> get rid of her. get her out tomorrow. i don't care. take her out, okay? do it. >> president trump has repeatedly said he doesn't know lev parnas but on the tape they talk in detail about ukraine. >> stephanie grisham said gathering doesn't mean the president knew of or even remembered lev parnas, the president sits at many, many dinners, at many, many

trump told him u.s. military aid to ukraine was being frozen until ukraine investigated joe biden. so will bolton be called as a witness? at times it was hard to tell who was on trial. president trump, or the bidens. the president's lawyers launching a full throated attack on joe biden and his son hunter. also tonight, remembering kobe bryant, the legend of the los angeles lakers. but first, president trump's impeachment trial. defense attorney alan dershowitz dismissing the report of the new bolton revelations of a quid pro quo. >> if a president, any president, were to have done what the "times" reported about the content of the bolton manuscript that would not constitute an impeachable offense. let me repeat nothing in the bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power, or an impeachable offense. >> so joining me now, cnn's shimon prokupecz, also elie honig and timothy natally. elie, let's talk about dershowitz, saying even if bolton's manuscript is accurate, it's not an impeachable offense. >> no, how could it be okay for a president to do -- agai

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trump told him u.s. military aid to ukraine was being frozen until ukraine investigated joe biden. so will bolton be called as a witness? at times it was hard to tell who was on trial. president trump or the bidens. the president's lawyers launching a full-throated attack on joe biden and his son hunter. also tonight remembering kobe bryant. the legend of the los angeles lakers. but first president trump's impeachment trial. alan dershowitz dismissing of report of a quid pro quo. >> if a president, any president were to have done what the "times" reported about the content of the bolton manuscript that would not constitutionty statute an impeachable offense. nothing in the bolton revelations even if true would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense. >> so joining me now a panel here. let's talk about alan dershow z dershowitz. is that a smart defense. >> it's the defense of the day. alan dershowitz's standard seems to be whatever suits my purposes today. how could it be? how could it be okay for a president -- the question was assuming the truth of john bol

here's a brief clip from biden's latest ad. >> donald trump has made it clear -- >> joe biden. joe biden on his mind. because trump knows that biden will beat him in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. the states we need to take back the presidency. >> is he going to succeed tonight in making it about him versus biden. or david, as you were trying to say, basically a way for warren and sanders to not have it be about warren versus sanders is to basically both go for biden. >> there's nothing joe biden likes more than to make it about donald trump. there's nothing subtle about that ad you just played, erin. a direct electability message. why he is the one that can most easily defeat donald trump. listen, this foreign policy debate that has been going on for the last ten days, bernie sanders wants to debate joe biden over that. and his record, joe biden will certainly defend it, i have no doubt, but he actually wants to debate donald trump over foreign policy, because he likes to make the case to voters that he is the steady and experienced hand. >> and karen, you also have her

because of the increased danger that now exists. >> reporter: now, in these remarks joe biden said that president trump not demonstrated a modicum of presidential gravitas. he said i'll attempt to do that. that's at the heart of what joe biden was trying to do, presenting himself to be best equipped to be commander in chief on the campaign trail. >>> we have mitch mcconnell telling the gop senators just moments ago he has the votes needed to move forward for his plans for the president's impeachment trial and that means not calling witnesses for now. phil mattingly, tell us what you're hearing there on the hill. >> right now, senate republicans are in a closed door lunch. their weekly policy lunch and one official who was inside said that senate leader mcconnell said he has all of the votes to move forward on the initial rules for a senate impeachment trial. what those rules would include would be presentations from both the house managers and the president's defense team and then senators would have an opportunity to ask questions and then they would address the question of whether or not anybody want

>> the big reason is that the person next to joe biden is going to go against barack obama foreign policy but when the person next to joe biden's donald trumpd the policy and when he goes against these guys, tell me how that worked out when he whispered -- when you wish. whispered about the vladimir and to tell me about the sections that i put it on russia and when you have so many going at you in so mike directly with a diverse opinion of foreign policy, i think we will see. the prediction, i don't think barack obama that she wants to make sure that bernie sanders ae does not believe that that he's going to be joe biden. president trump, excuse me, president trump walks and the other thing is, bernie sanders has not had a new idea since 1972. if this is the same guy, to his credit. if what are his accomplishments? we know he thinks, we have not done so mike know what he does. >> bret: a lot can happen in the short time. >> absolutely, there's some flexibility and to the voters are not locked in on any candidate that we have seen with kamala harris and pete buttigieg and warren has gone up and down in the system flexibility and they are not

donald trump withheld $40 million in military aid to announce an investigation into hunter and joe biden. >> trump's abuse of his office and obstruction of congress will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government. >> says that senders cannot speak but only listen. the defense argued that the president should not be removed because he's not been accused of a criminal act. sea they have 21st but their case forward. and it looks like it will take all 24 hours. based upon what we are responding to. >> i thought our team did a very good job. we have all the material , they do not have the material. >> the presence of the senate should decide on witnesses. >> i would rather interview bolton , and a lot of people. the problem with john is that it is a national security problem. >> if the body is serious about a fair trial. we urge you to allow the house to call eisenberg and bolton. >> they are likely to stretch their arguments. both sides had to submit motions this morning. the presidents defense not requesting a dismissal. in the newsroom, greg lee , ktvu fox 2 news. >>> univ

joe biden, too. these are the people that -- these are the people that were, you know, that trump wanted to get -- thise reason on. >> i understand biden -- the politics of it, but with all due respect, senator. >> that's not politics. i don't mean to cut you off. it's hard to argue that hunter biden is a victim. he took a job and he admits he only got because the of his father and it was poor judgment to take that job and other democratic candidates said they would never allow their vice president's kids to take those kinds of jobs. what makes him a victim, exactly? >> you're misunderstanding what i'm saying. that's all fine. so let me try again. >> okay. >> the reason that donald trump shut down zelensky was to get dirt on the biden family and they're victims because guess what? if there's a problem with the bidens, you go to the u.s. attorney general. >> you don't go to a foreign leader. >> sure. >> mr. zelensky, if you're listening, due to the investigations i need to hold my seat and by the way, china, if you're listening, please go ahead and help me here, go after the bidens. so of course the bid

they've been defaulting to their more wide argument that trump did nothing wrong in their eyes when he asked for an investigation into joe biden they've also taken on the issue of drums of trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani who democrats say was carrying out a personal political mission in ukraine that really was risking national security interests will trump attorneys say that giuliani was not on a political mission at all but rather was defending his client the press. from false accusations made by the democrats so what this all boils down to is we have a lot of new evidence that democrats say should be part of the trial record should be taken into consideration by the 100 senators who are deciding whether or not to remove trump from office and by the end of this week we expect those senators to have the opportunity to vote on whether or not they want to call john bolton as well as other witnesses wanted by democrats to have them come forward and share their testimonies now only 4 moderate republicans only 4 republicans are needed in order to side with democrats to make that happen and there are 4 moderates who have ind

claims in his unpib lived book that the president tied aid to ukraine to an investigation of joe biden president trumpd he never told bolton it was tied to an investigation of joe biden adding, if he said it, it was clearly to sell the book amazon has not seen a copy of it it cited multiple sources familiar with bolton's account nbc's tracie potts has the latest from d.c. >> president trump's defense continues today after a short two-hour session saturday where his legal team tried to tear down three days of argument alleging abouse of power and obstruction of congress. >> even if true, they did not alech impeachment offenses. >> the trump team told lawmakers this is all about politics. >> they're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in american history. >> regardless of what you say, the truth still matters, and the evidence against the president is overwhelming. >>hey may decide whether to hear witnesses like former national security prid unpublished book directly links a fraez on military aid to a push to ukraine to investigate joe bide snoon i think they're deathly afrai

biden -- >> he has joe biden on his mind. because trumpnows biden will beat him in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. the state's we need to take back the presidency. joe biden stood on the world stage, helped make obamacare the law of the land and could step in on day one. it is why trump can't stop talking about -- >> joe biden. >> i'm joe biden and i approve this message. >> corin and hallman are back at the table. and corin, that is all about electability and shows the poll numbers in the crucial argument. >> absolutely. that is his strongest argument. that is how people see him. as someone who was vice president with obama for eight years and obama's number two and someone who brings comfort and can bring them back to normal times. so that is a great argument for biden. it is a smart ad. we have to remember, time after time, when you look at polls, it said people want to know who can beat donald trump. how do we win against donald trump. and that ad shows exactly that. and what does it do? it shows donald trump just mentioning bide

the question from key republican senators, what they just asked about president trump and joe biden. with the all-out battle now over whether john bolton should testify. democrats arguing, why should americans have to wait for bolton's book to come out, arguing, subpoena him, get the answers now. meantime, president trump's personal attack against bolton tonight. >>> the kobe bryant crash investigation. the chopper flying without a key warning system. could it have made a difference? and the new image late today from kobe bryant's wife. >>> inside the tunnel tonight. the stunning images just in. the tunnel into the u.s. 70 feet below ground. electricity and elevators. >>> bracing for a possible collision tonight in the skies over pittsburgh? are two satellites set to collide at 17,000 miles per hour? >>> the warning tonight, another case, someone falling into icy waters. the urgent effort to get her out. >>> and billy joel and the break-in under investigation tonight. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. there are several breaking he

biden would decisively defeat donald trump. on june 16th of last year, june 16th, a fox news poll showed that donald trump would lose to joe biden by 10 points. the concern with joe biden's candidacy provides motive to donald trump's demand that the ukrainian government investigate the former vice president and his son, hunter. here is what donald trump says on that call. the other thing is a lot of talk about biden's son, that he stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. the trump administration officials who participated in the impeachment inquiry unanimously testified that there was no factual support for the allegations that vice president biden did anything wrong or misused his authority. when he pressed for the removal of ukraine's corrupt former prosecutor general. joe biden did nothing wrong. the witnesses testified that vice president biden was in fact carrying out official us policy to clean up the prosecutor general's

joe biden. president trump reacting earlier today.

parnas' notes suggest that he, too, pushed ukraine to investigate president trump's campaign rival joe biden. >> president trump knew exactly what was going on. he was aware of all my movements. >> reporter: the scheme,ba te, m giuliani viewed as an impediment. >> she got fired finally, but she was blocking it. >> reporter: in one text, trump donor robert hyde wrote, "they are moving her tomorrow. the guys over there, they asked me what i would like to do and what is in it for them?" hyde, who is now running for congress in connecticut, dismissed that exchange as simply "some texts my buddies and i wrote back to some dweeb-- parnas-- who we were playing with." giuliani told cbs news today that he has no idea about allegations of parnas tracking the ambassador's movements. >> we want to make sure we are not being used. >> reporter: democrats acknowledge parnas has some credibility issues. you think he may not be a reliable witness? >> somebody who has been indicted for multiple felonies? yes, there are questions of credibility there. >> o'donnell: nancy joins us from the capitol. the chief ju

authentic it would support democrats' argument it trumps associates trying to remove evanovich because she was seen as an obstacle to investigating joe biden. donald trump has become the 1st sitting u.s. president to join an anti abortion rally in washington d.c. a white house correspondent can believe how could now be chary down to breaking with tradition again together we boast protect cherish and defend that they did in the sanctity of every human life donald trump descended on washington's national mall to personally address an anti-abortion rally making him the 1st sitting u.s. president to do so again affirming his support for their cause unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the white house doing where. the march started in response to the landmark 973 supreme court ruling legalizing abortion a divisive issue in the united states trumps 2016 promise to appoint supreme court judges who might overturn that ruling help them win the white house with the help of these supporters for many the issue is personal the unborn do not have a voice and we are their voices we are their voices their be killed by them and in but the

could drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in iraq moderate frontrunner joe biden criticized president trump of his decision to pull out american troops will syria vice president biden would you leave troops in the middle east or would you pull them out i think it's a mistake to pull out the straw the small number of troops that are there now to deal with isis tromp offered his own counter-programming at a rally in milwaukee in battleground state wisconsin he defended his decision to kill soleimani. saw a man he was responsible for murdering and wounded thousands of americans it was actively planning new attacks but we stopped them cold. and frankly they already started the attack as you saw in baghdad on a very large embassy in baghdad that was already started in a moment to remember was a standoff between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren warren accused sandhurst to have said a woman could not be elected president of the united states i think the best way to talk about who can win is by looking at people's winning record so kind of woman beat donald trump look at the men on this stage co

if you were vote today trump or joe biden and >> trump. >> why?> he's done great things for this country. >> trump or biden. >> definitely not biden and not trump. >> i hate trump. trump sucks. sorry. >> i don't like trump. >> what about biden impresses you? >> nothing. i don't like either one of them to be honest. >> i'm abstaining this time around. >> you're not going to vote? >> i don't think so. >> donald trump. >> why? >> he's making america great again. our country is just doing wonderful. the commit is gray. the immigration crisis is under control. >> donald trump all the way. >> why? >> because he's what america needs here. he is what i felt for so many years and nobody said and he says it for me. >> raymond: what i referenced in the monologue. there seems to be, scott, this movement among people. they want a proxy voice. how will that affect this 2020 election? >> the same way it affected the 2016 election. donald trump spoke for a lot of people that thought nobody in washington cared, nobody cared about them, nobody listened to them, car

president told him to tie ukrainian military aide to an investigation into his political rival joe biden trump has denied these claims let's go straight to heidi on capitol hill for us so the trial about to resume there heidi how damaging are bolton's claims to the president's defense team. well foley remains to be seen whether those new allegations from bolton will make its way make their way into the trial at all to see exactly what sort of legal damage they may do to the president but certainly washington is still reeling over these revelations what the national former national security adviser john bolton is alleging in this leaked manuscript is that he had a conversation with president trump back in august in which trump said he would continue withholding security aid to ukraine until ukraine announced investigations into the bidens now that is the very claim that trump has been denying he says that getting the dirt on his political opponents was not linked to the security hold on ukraine he said that it was undergoing an authorized and legal review of that military aid to ukraine but thi

this now looks more than ever that this impeachment thing was a move to protect joe biden. trump on his family's corruption. they tried to knock him out at the knees, it went all the way up to the senate trial and then we get an acquittal. you have to look at yourself and think, this thing backfired because now everybody is talking about where is hunter, everybody understands joe, quid pro quo joe is his new nickname here it is god size is microscopic and bernie sanders is surging in iowa. so we did not go as planned. so my only thing is what are the democrats do next? they boycotted the inauguration, they try to impeach the president, he gets acquitted, what are they going to do in a second term? they handled the first lawsuit terribly, what happens with a landslide? i'm scared, juan. hold may. [laughter] >> juan: i know, i know. my darling, you are so -- because i can see that on the republican side right now, mitch mcconnell scorched earth strategy to protect the president, but it is clearly no longer the g.o.p. it is the party of trump and they are protecting trump and no hol

you've got trump, you've got vice president pence, they are sending 80 surrogates to attack joe biden. there's a reason for that. the reason is they don't want him to be the nominee. as democratic voters are thinking about who they can put up against donald trump, joe biden does the candidate who has withstood every single thing trump is thrown at them. every snare, every attempt to attack his family and has continued to emerge stronger. >> ed: we will talk about that. pardon me, the vice president last night said that his event, "character is on the ballot." what kind of character did the vice president show when barack obama had him overseeing ukrainian policy and yet one of the vice president's sons was making over $83,000 a month from ukrainian gas company? what kind of character was that? >> it was absolutely unassailable character, because he was pushing the foreign policy interest of the united states of america. you had republican senators at the time, like ron johnson, who had signed on to a letter supporting the removal of viktor shokin because vice president biden was activ

trump campaign machine with hundreds of millions of dollars ready to fire. and to define whoever this is. so even at this point in time, a lot of them show joe biden. we have a long way to go and a lot of ads that air. kennedy: owned a back to three weeks before the election in october of 2016 a sewer hill he was question work she was in double digits. >> i don't think joe biden can beat donald trump. he said to me things have moved too far to the left in this primary. he is on the record saying we should pay for the health care of illegal immigrants prayed wait till trump hits and with that every single day. you'll see voters flood over the trunk. he is also not good at campaigning, there's a reason he's never won. kennedy: an important point, when bernie went after him last night he said i knew that iraq was a bad idea and he and he suggested i did. and then obama put me in charge of ending the war. and then we want to say the war is not over. >> to be fair we did end the war but we had to go back in because the terrorist obama arm in syria stormed back. kennedy: good job joe, you lose credit. coming up the present has tweeted so much crazy stuf

. >> reporter: joe biden warning trump could be putting americans at risk. >> and the prospects of direct conflict with iran is greater than it has ever been. >> strong reaction on both sides. mary, most members of congress were not given a heads-up about the president's action against iran. tonight, lawmakers from both parties are demanding more information. >> reporter: both sides are eager to know what comes next. what is the broader strategy, and the plan for if and when iran retaliates? we expect the full senate will receive a classified briefing next week and speaker pelosi is demanding the same in the house. >> thank you. >>> and cities from coast to coast, including here in new york city are upping their vigilance as thousands of u.s. forces arrive in the middle east. ian pannell reports from beirut tonight. >> reporter: tonight, u.s. citizens in baghdad warned by american officials to leave the country. concerns growing of retaliation for last night's drone attack. there are nearly 80,000 american troops in the region, all of them high profile targets for potential revenge attack

presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading democratic candidate joe biden. mr. trump is not just soliciting ukraine's help with his presidential campaign. he is using u.s. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it, end quote. despite these efforts to get the president to lift the hold in the now public discussion about the president's abuse of power the scheme continued. two days later on september 7th morrison went back to white house lawyers to report additional details he had learnedm ambassadoronand about the president's scheme. again, at the direction of ambassador bolton. >> now, a few days later on september 7th you spoke again to ambassador sondland who told you that he had just gotten off the phone with president trump. isn't that right? >> that sounds correct, yes. >> what did ambassador sondland tell you that president trump said to him? >> if i recall this conversation correctly this was where ambassador sondland related that there was no quid pro quo, but president zelensky had to make the statement and that he had to want to d

joe biden. whatever they say, they are most scared of joe biden and trump and his allies are trying to beat him in iowa. >> and karine, last question, however uncomfortable it might be. does joe biden still need a better answer for the daily attacks we're hearing from the well of the senate? >> so i think tomorrow if i have this right he's going to give a speech just kind of -- he's going to kind of his own counterprogramming on what's been going on this week. i think he does need to do a better job. i know joe biden. he's a -- i worked with him when he was at the white house. he's fiery. he can speak his mind hp he's passionate. and i just haven't seen that. i've seen glimpses of it here and there. he needs to just hammer it in and be consistent and be consistent about how he's going to push back against the negative kind of narrative that's coming out. >> chris matthews has been arguing just this week that this is the time and he has the ability right now to give the speech of his life as the man whose name is invoked every 30, 15 seconds in the well of the senate today and again tomorrow. eve

joe biden wins. the reason why donald trump is obsessed with joe biden is because in the midwestern states, michigan,ennsylvania, donald trump only won by 77,744 votes. the candidate who is best with these swing voters who voted for barack obama and donald trump is joe biden. joe biden is the easiest sale to them. to mika's point, they like him. they think he's a guy they understand. they think he'll go back to days where we understood what the president of the united states is saying and he says what he means and means what he says and that's a helpful thing on joe biden. one more point, i want to go back to bernie sanders. the reason that donald trump is not talking about bernie sanders is because he wants bernie sanders in the general election. bernie sanders would be the weakest candidate against donald trump in a general election with these same swing voters and that's why you're not seeing him whale away because he's hoping that sanders moves and becomes the democratic nominee. >> so, jeffrey goldberg, before you leave, i want to ask you about the atlantic. what are you -- what are you guys wor

. >> reporter: biden is trying to break out of the pack and making a new ad to say that he is the best candidate to take on trump. >> he has joeiden on his mind, because trump knows that biden is going to beat him in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, and the states that we need to take back the presidency. >> reporter: biden is touting the experience on the world stage, but that long record is facing new scrutiny as foreign policy is suddenly front and center. sanders intends to aggressively challenge the former vice president on this front, his aides tell cnn as he has been doing since the iran crisis escalated. >> joe biden voted and helped to lead the effort for the war in iraq. the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country. >> where are we? >> reporter: amy klobuchar is looking for her own breakout moment and selling herself as a midwest moderate to win in trump country. and so the strains of electability, and foreign policy, but anderson, we have not seen a major foreign policy debate inside of the democratic party for more than a decade, and that is one thing, but the dynamic between

and basically laying out how it all trump pressured ukraine to investigate into donald trump's political rival joe biden on corruption charges with the goal of course to weaken him as a presidential candidate who's currently the front runner all for the democratic party and donald trump's political opponent and that is already one of the 2 charges made against donald trump all of us will power the other one is off struction off kong where is it we're going to hear former national security advisor john bolton you know as a witness testifying that probably will not happen could there be a witness or 2 the republicans would like to see and would allow. absolutely and some of the republicans even argue let's agree to that bit of the democrats to have witnesses included in the trial and just invite her own witnesses and those could be joe and hunter biden for instance on those corruption allegations and they would certainly like to justify them by having them testify that president trump's phone call. was the right thing to do there is no proof of course of that as of now the whistleblower could be another w

i think that they believe that joe biden doesn't understand the burisma attack, that donald trump is able to go out there and say, this guy's son was making $100,000, whatever it is a month. had no experience. well, joe biden had the portfolio. god, i've heard that 1,000 times on capitol hill this week and i don't think that message will go away, and i don't think in a lot of democrats don't think it's the prevailing narrative on capitol hill that the biden campaign has not tackled this issue head-on. instead, very defensive about it. what i'm really curious to see. if he gets out of monday night into tuesday, the president and his attack dogs are going to chomp at the bit at the burisma issue becoming the narrative they push forth on joe biden. >> hmm. jake sherman, thank you very much. >>> and coming up, a controversial middle east peace plan. a brexit deadline of tomorrow, and the global implications of the growing coronavirus outbreak. going around the world with richard haass, next on "morning joe." ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money wi

he was holding nearly 400 million in aid from ukraine until they agreed to help invest gat joe biden. but trump's lawyer alan dershowitz argued even if what bolton alleges is true, it's not impeachable. >> nothing in the bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power of an impeachable offense. that is clear from the history. >> reporter: and in another turn, the president's former chief of staff, john kelly, all rightly now says, "i believe john bolton" and suggests bolton should testify, saying, "if there are people that could contribute to this, either innocence or guilty, i think they should be heard." tonight, all eyes on a handful of key republicans who suggest they want to hear from bolton, like senator lisa murkowski. >> i think that bolton probably has something to offer us. so we'll figure out how we're going to learn more. >> reporter: on the senate floor fade, our team spotted other republicans trying to sway murkowski. john thune, the republican whip, huddling with the alaska senator, appearing to debate the issue of witnesses. the president's allies ar

joe biden more than most of us having worked in the obama white house. is he a joe biden who you think in the eight years is ready to fight donald trump? iowa that is pretty good ad. it's about electability and talks about how basically donald trump is obsessed with him, and that's what i was hoping to have seen, and it lays it out so perfectly in that 30 seconds. and i was surprised. i was surprised he kind of went off and just like jason said i'm living rent free in donald trump's brain. that is exactly what is happening, and he's talking about electability from before he jumped in, and that's been his main argument. and you don't see him pounding that, pounding that and i think that's the problem, the messaging. where is it? you have it. this impeachment should help him. >> even the corn pop joe biden. he wasn't feisty. i don't know. but we'll see. maybe he was tired. tired not good if you want to be president, though. please stay with me. and up next the candidates tackle major domestic issues like climate change and education. >> i don't want cost ever to be a barrier to someone seeking to attend college. and under my plan, it won

trump. history of joe biden anticorruption history in ukraine when he was vice president. the day's award of peak i'm rubber you're glue what aboutism. who represented trump for years in divorces and bankruptcies. he worked himself up to the argument that not only joe biden is the real corrupt one, not trump. instead of impeachment it's actually former president obama who should be being impeached right now. yes. impeach obama. let's work on that today. that was today. perhaps best summed up as whatever trump may have done we don't want to talk about that. what everybody else has done is worse anyway. joining us now is congressman a democrat of colorado. on the armed services committee. an impeachment manager making the case for convicting president and an army ranger who served multiple combat tours in iraq and afghanistan. >> good evening. >> you don't make a former rebutle. the trial isn't structured that way. how do you assess the arguments they made over saturday and today? how are you feeling about the trial? >> today other than two hours where they pedalled in russia

a trial, where he will focus on what biden did or did not do, did you do somethingng improper, was trump justified in asking zelensky to mount an investigation of joeiden? so i think this is going to be very interesting. and certainly, the republicans come in trump's defense, are going to go deeply into thee appearancece of impropriety with biden and his son. it remains to be seen whether one or both of the bidens will actually be called to testify and whether any witnesses for that matter will be called to testify. amy: and this whole issue that republicans are raising if the witness issue is going to be -- this impeachment trial could go on for months because it will go to court. justiceingly, the chief of the supreme court john roberts is right in the room. he is presiding over the trial. so where does he weigh in on this? and is this true? >> i don't see this being hung up in the court. i think it will be resolved in the senate. chief justice john roberts is in a very, very delicate position. i am sure he would rather be anywhere than where he is presiding over this senate trial -- which the constitution provides for. he really doesn't have muc

hasta que los funcionarios de ese paÍs iniciaron investigaciones sobre los rivales de trump, incluyendo a joe bidenmovimiento claro de nuestros colegas republicanos unirse a nosotros para tener testigos, pues entonces esto es un lavado. >> estÁ tremendo que yo creo que los senadores van a cambiar de opiniÓn. claudia: republicanos aliados de trumpdice que las revelaciones no cambia nada, pero los republicanos moderados no piensan igual. es cada vez mÁs probable que otro republicano se unana los que creemos que debemos escuchar a john bolton, dijo el senador ronnie. los testigos alargarÍa en el juicio polÍtico, algo que la casa blanca no quiere, para poner como cara testigos, los demÓcratas necesitan la ayuda de cuatro republicanos para asÍ lograr una mayorÍa de 51 votos. y aÚn no estÁ claro si tienen los votos que necesitan. en washington, claudia uceda, univisiÓn. jorge: unos 200 sobrevivientes de a o suite--austchz en polonia oraron y lloraron hoy al conmemorarse el 75 aniversario de su liberaciÓn del campo de exterminio nazi despuÉs de la segunda guerra mundial. muchos sobrevivientes perdieron a

because clearly, clearly they couldn't use the bribery charge because it fit joe biden much better than it fit donald trump. >> well, certainly joe biden fits the bribery charge, but they couldn't figure out how to explain what president trump did and whether there were elements of the bribery offense which there weren't under the federal offense. so remember, they had the law professor from stanford, she spent so long trying to explain how this was bribery that it basically took all of the air out of the room and you never heard them talk about bribery again. david: that's true. by the way, the washington post had a piece last summer about how joe biden was trying when he was vice president, joe biden was trying to get u.s. aid, that is taxpayer money, to go into the gas industry in the ukraine. now, that could be more than bribery. that's misuse of u.s. funds going into the pocket of his son, if in fact that happened. has anybody looked into that? >> well, we've been real busy doing other stuff. david: i'm sure. >> i believe there are some folks looking into that as well because that would be misappropri