ongoing fallout from the crash and they contain it investigation of it let's turn to our findings john heidi with the latest so john there are reports that iran may have shot the plane down what more do we know about that. kristie u.s. intelligence officials along with ukrainian government officials are saying today that they're confident highly confident that iran accidentally and those are the words they're using shot down the cranium international airlines boeing 737800 in the hours just after iran launch that missile attack on a u.s. air base in iraq well today ukraine secretary of national defense security and defense along with various media reports quoting u.s. intelligence officials said that fragments of an essay 15 surface to air missile which is a russian made system used by iran going back to even the cold war era is also it's also known as the. tor air defense system had been located near the plane now there have been some pictures posted to social media coming out of iran purportedly showing missile fragments though i should add that we've not been able to independently verify

every person she mentioned as an example of courage in the senate, claire mccaskill, heidi heitkamp, johnthere anymore. and the first two were voted out of office just about a year and a half ago. so, again, like to amy's point, the voters are sort of who decides where or how these -- a lot of the calculus is decided. >> so what's acquittal going to look like? it was really -- mike braun wants to have people believe or maybe he wants to believe that somehow the president is going to have learned something here. that feels like, okay, fool me once, fool me twice, fool me three, at what point do you start counting? >> there are no teachable moments in this process. no one is learning anything. the president is not learning anything. democrats are not learning anything. the notion that somehow we can arise from this and there can be some opportunity, so, no, i don't think -- there's no alternative here. what's going to happen is that the president is going to get acquitted. that's going to be it. so the notion that somehow we're going to have this process and everyone is going to come out of

interesting to see if they update at all their defense given this new breaking news from john bolton thank you for that heidi and we'll be checking in with you for the latest there from capitol hill. now all this is happening on a very busy day for president donald trump who's been meeting with the israeli prime minister at the white house ahead of the unveiling of his long awaited mideast peace plan the israeli prime minister has said that the mideast peace plan is an opportunity for the center for a century and it's now is in washington as we've said to discuss this peace plan has arrived a few hours ago the u.s. president will also meet these early opposition leader benny gantz not despite the plan already being rejected by the palestinians traum has insisted it's very good for them it's due to be unveiled on tuesday it's something they should want they probably won't want it initially but i think in the end they will i think in the end they're going to want it it's very good for them in fact it's overly good to them so we'll see what happens now without them we don't do the deal and that's ok they're not

and the international community to put more pressure on the run again general heidi for her to abide by this cease fire john 5 say we have now got a translation of trance from the chancellor merkel so let's listen in she's probably almost at the end of a summary now but let's listen in a way more facility is. when it comes to the customs and other matters for the verses to help boost their businesses in both countries also we dealt with the situation in syria the political developments in syria and we discussed the body that will really raw yet the syrian constitution frons also will play a role in this regard and these developments quiet important and we confirmed that during the 1st quarter of this year the process must be given momentum the. he u.n. special envoy for syria is to made. with this body in order to have a lasting cease fire in syria and to have solid agreement there and also in libya it's quite important for both parties in libya to reach a compromise and we hope have to. take positive steps to reach a cease fire we dealt with so many to political issues that are of mutual concern to both co

trial and a vote is expected later this week on whether to allow witnesses including john bolton to testify as bring in heidi. on capitol hill for us following these proceedings heidi talk a so what we've heard so far the questions from the senators and some of the responses. short so while the majority of these questions thus far have brought up john bolton in the potential for calling him as a witness it was really the 1st question that was submitted by a republican moderate senator susan collins and she said it was on behalf of herself and 2 other moderates that really was revealing in this case the question from senator collins was what would be what what be the in implication if president trump had mixed motives when he ordered the security aid to ukraine to be frozen that really centers on the allegations here of the democratic impeachment manager saying that he did so with the corrupt motive of trying to use that aid as leverage to get ukraine to announce investigations into. biden with the motive of helping president trump win his reelection given that biden may be an opponent so the question here is

tomorrow expect a vote on the floor whether or not to call john bolton and other witnesses we're going to listen to some of the questions now heidi stand by this speaking right now on the floor is the impeachment manager democratic impeachment manager zoe lofgren let's listen in. and the oversight. that we have as we now know what would be permanently altered back. in cuba is manager. mr chief justice from kentucky i have a question to present to the desk for the house manager shift and for the president's counsel. the presiding officer to ons to read the question as submitted. mr chief justice. the senator from wisconsin mr chief justice i sent a question to the desk thank you. the question from senator baldwin is addressed to the house managers given that the white house counsel could not answer senator romney's question that asked for the exact date the president 1st ordered to hold on security assistance to ukraine what witness or witnesses could answer senator romney's question. thank you chief justice thank you senator for the question. you're right they were not able to directly answer that question and we believe that the

john roberts of the u.s. supreme court who will preside over this impeachment trial of president trump heidi if i understood it correctly senate leader mitch mcconnell was saying that the trial itself is actually due to start on tuesday but i understand of course that there's a lot of process that goes on with that in terms of calling witnesses and so on that doesn't really leave a lot of time does it what happens between now and tuesday when the trial itself actually takes place. you will see what happens publicly which will be this swearing in moment and just for technical purposes the trial actually starts as soon as they are sworn in which will be around noon tomorrow but you're right we won't hear any legal arguments until tuesday when mitch mcconnell says that is when the 2 sides the counsel for the white house and also these impeachment prosecutors will be giving their opening statements we don't know how long those statements will take most likely this will be a mole tied to a process in the last impeachment trial of president bill clinton it took 6 days for those opening statements to conclude and aft

or in terms of the process though heidi even if the democrats don't get the votes they need to bring witnesses like john bolton before the senate impeachment hearings there is a possibility bolton could and his testimony could pop up again either in the house of representatives or in the media right. that's right he's really a wild card in the media almost a certainty that eventually the public will find out what bolton's revelations are we know he has this book that's in the work with more leaks appearing in the press every day and that's part of the argument that the democratic impeachment managers are making saying to these senators why not include that evidence now when it matters on this question of whether or not to convict or remove president trump from office and really hang over the heads of these senators say what will the public think if those republicans vote no on witnesses deciding not to call john bolton and eventually the information comes out anyway then how will the voters respond and of course holing in the u.s. shows that 75 percent of people have said they do want this trial to incl

john bolton. does his bombshell claim undercut trump's impeachment defense? former senator heidi heightcamp joins me. authorities race to stop the wuhan virus. can they contain it? > you ar was family in l.a. >> i grew up watching him play. it's like he is a lot of our lives. >> shock and grief as the world mourns kobbryant. why his influence extendsar beyond basketball. >> sooner or later, you butt up against the state and have

and by this president to prevent john bolton from testifying can really help it thank you very much indeed. let's get a sense of what's happening in the senate with heidi castro who's live on capitol hill and to the president's defense has introduced a novel argument for acquittal of a small. that's why lauren and you know we were wondering how the president's council may be updating their defense given the revelations that kimberly was just telling us about from john bolton will today we may have an answer alan dershowitz one of the president's celebrity attorneys argued just moments ago that in the case of the president asking for help with his reelection from ukraine that that would be not an impeachable offense in the thinking goes that the president yes he may have known that that would be in his personal interest but that a president has a right to believe that winning reelection would also be in the national interests so that the rationale there seeming to say to these senators who are weighing whether or not to convict and remove him from office in a sense saying that even if everything that john bolton says is true even if the evidence the dem

heidi mentions the president is going to exert executive privilege. and secondly it is an open question what he would actually say. it is not necessarily in john bolton's interest to become the john dean of the trump administration if he wants to have a future in politics but this is one of the benefits that i think democrats got out of the delay. the focus on the question of witnesses. and the fact thousand that mitch mcconnell does not get to totally drive the bus. the fact that there are four senators who are willing to say, okay, we're not going to allow to you make this into a witnessless sham. it is a significant development. because it was not clear before she delayed that that the republicans would simply dismiss this or that mitch mcconnell would, in fact, execute his plan to have no witnesses whatsoever. >> and matt, we heard the president speak to laura ingraham on fox news thinking that john bolton shouldn't testify for his own presidency but for the future of the presidency and if bolton is subpoenaed and wants to do it, is there anything the white house could do to stop him. >> it is good that the president is thinking of the int

heidi is with us and has a question. >> great article and i think you may be right that the republican strategy if it does come to witnesses may just be to try to discredit john pull him in a closed-door deposition and give different accounts of what he said. john bolton is known to have taken copious notes and documented a lot of what happened during his time there. we know he has a book coming out. so what if he shows up with receipts? what if he shows up with evidence that what he says is true? can they exert executive privilege over that and just require that only his oral testimony stands? >> so they could try to exert executive privilege over both. it would be very hard for them to do it for one and not the other. one of the other exceptions to executive privilege is if the information is already in the public domain, so once he testifies about the very communications, interactions verbally, it's done. and, therefore, there would be no way to really block the notes. so much so there would be just like a very quick decision by any court. that's also the part of our argument that they would never want to really go to court in the first place. this isn't a