cnn chief national correspondent john king, jeffrey toobin, impeachment expert ross garber. john, i want to draw on your impeachment covering the clinton impeachment as well and the lead up to this trial here. one lesson of this is don't assume anything. until a few days ago, folks were saying it's a long shot to have witnesses. will there be any evidence that moves the debate in a senate trial. in the last few days we've seen both those questions move, particularly the evidence coming out today. you covered clinton. do we know the end result of this trial? >> we do not. we have every expectation that there are not two-thirds support to convict and remove the president. there is zero evidence on the table that enough republicans, it would take 20 if all the democrats stuck together, are prepared to abandon president trump. but on the other questions, will we have witnesses being the most significant one, we don't know the answer. we know there are enough r republicans on the record saying they are open to witnesses to give the democrats a chance. being open does not mean you

cnn's john king joins me now with perspective on this. helpful for the foreign minister from iran. if you're looking for a window of de-escalation, this is helpful. >> he is sending a clear public signal, chris, that iran believes this is a response. we're done if you're done. that is how you should translate the tweet from foreign minister zarif. the issue is, just earlier today, secretary of state pompeo said he's a liar and a propagandaist and he should never be believed. my question is, as we sort this out, you make a key point. there's so much we don't know tonight and we should be careful. one of the things we don't know is, were there casualties on that air base? the president is in a battle between his own words. he said if iran did anything to retaliate, he would up the ante more. those are the president's words against his own instincts. this is a man who campaigned on saying all of his predecessors were stupid for keeping american troops in the middle east, for having endless wars and he wanted to end them. he's now sending mor

let me give it back over to john king on this. john, a lot of the discussion, understandably so, is about the question of is the president going to lay out a strategy of what happens now. i do wonder what that means for the president if he does not lay out a strategy now, which is a huge -- which is a huge question. it is a huge marker to lay out. >> kate, we all know the president does things his way and a lot of things that the foreign policy establishment, the political establishment find outside the norm, find outside the way things should be conducted, the president says that's my way and i'm going to do it. what the white house is saying is if iran is ready to de-escalate that they win. they took a horrible terrorist off the battlefield and iran fired missiles into the ground. they consider this a win. the question is what does the president want to do next. you're right about the strategy. there's also the moment as we wait for the president to come through those doors. these are disconnected events in some ways but everyth

i'm john king.s and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. breaking down the president's impeachment trial building and critical votes this week. the president's team has the floor right now. in their opening statement saturday, the defense opened with a barrage against the democratic prosecutors. >> for all their talk about election interference, that

i'm john king. we begin the hour with the just breaking major news related to the trump impeachment inquiry. john bolton issuing a statement just moments ago saying he's now willing ask ready to testify in a senate impeachment trial if -- if -- the senate issues a subpoena demanding his testimony. let's get straight to the state department. our correspondent kylie atwood joins us live. kylie, what do we know about this development? >> reporter: this is a major development because it really is the thing we focus on in the next few days. john bolton, the former security adviser to president trump, who was pushing back against the president withholding the ukraine aid. he knows things about withholding that aid. he is now saying he's willing to testify if he is subpoenaed by the senate. now, of course, the house, in their investigation that they led at the end of last year, they did call for john bolton to come and talk to them, to provide them with testimony about what he knew. but he didn't show up. w

>> megan winton: beautiful, all right. >> john king: my god. beautiful, beautiful placement, greg. >> skomal: thank you, john. nice work. >> whitaker: you can see, you can see where it was? >> skomal: yeah, you can see it right at the base of the dorsal. see it? >> whitaker: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> skomal: now we're going to learn about that fish for the next nine, ten years. >> whitaker: they will track the fish because the tag constantly emits a "ping" that is picked up when the shark swims close to acoustic receivers attached to buoys. and how many of these do you have uovermassacses. >> whitaker: andt' >> skomal: that's just us, yeah. and so we can actually track the movements of our white sharks when they leave here. >> whitaker: the tags also help skomal, and his research colleague megan winton, figure out just how many sharks there are, and have established that cape cod is now one of the world's white shark "hot spots." they regularly haul buoys out of the water and download data from them to a tablet that displays each time a tagged

joining us for that john king, cnn global affairs analyst max boot and cnn's military analyst retired army general mark hertling. john, you see the president's tweet, the tone he is taking. senior administration officials saying now is the time for patience and restraint. what does that tell you about a possible u.s. response? >> one thing we have learned, anderson, in the last three years is the president's mood and his words and his tone on twitter can change pretty quickly. but what it tells you tonight is the administration is taking a breath. they're waiting for the battle damage assessment. at this moment they believe there were no american casualties, which is hugely significant here. and what a lot of administration officials, especially pentagon officials are saying privately is iran is capable of throwing a much tougher punch if it wanted to. so they're trying to sort all this out. was iran doing this for domestic political purposes? was iran being very careful here? can iran be trusted? here is the challenge, his own words on the record in the last 72 hours saying if iran d

i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. the trump impeachment trial begins in earnest and new memos filed by the president's lawyers preview the brawling political battle and the democratic trial managers laid out their brief that runs more than 100 pages. quote, president trump's conduct is the framer's worst nightmare and it will judge each senators' willingness to view the facts honestly and defend the constitution. the president's lawyers have until tomorrow to file their brief, but in a six page brief they took a scorched earth approach. trump denies each and every allegation in the articles of impeachment insisting the president's dealings with ukraine were perfectly legal, taken in furtherance of our national interest. setting the tone for the trial ahead, the president's lawyers assert quote the articles themselves and the rigged process that brought them here are a transparently political act by the democrats. 100 u.s. sena

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the trump legal team right now filing its detailed trial brief with the senate, arguing the president did nothing wrong and the democrats' case does not meet the constitutional test for impeachment and removal. >>> plus testing time now for mitch mcconnell. the senate majority leader wants a quick trial with no new witnesses or no new evidence. democrats plan to fight that plan, but they need a handful of republicans to break from the party to succeed. >>> and democrats are quoting black leaders on this martin luther king jr. holiday. the first votes just two weeks from today. also in an mlk event this morning, a former president who knows a lot about impeachment and controversy. >> i bring you greetings from my wife, who, according to the "washington post" last week, has now been the most exonerated person in history. that's a mixed bag. that means you've been falsely accused more than anybody. >> we begin this hour with the top lines at the white house impeachment defense. the presi

i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your is up sunday. in tehran, there's protests for the shooting down of the passenger jet and here a president having his actions questioned. master stroke or madness is how the economist frames the question. iran's terror chief qassem soleimani is dead. and tehran's missile spray in response to the deadly u.s. drone strike caused modest damage on two bases housing the military personnel and plus, iran is apologizing for the fog of war shootdown. these are images from anti-government protests saturday. the protesters are shouting death to the supreme leader. president trump tweeting support for those protesters in both english and farsi. team trump sees it as a decisive moment and a decisive victory. so the president bristles at sharp questions including from a modest numb of fellow republicans about why congress was kept in the dark about the soleimani strike and about whether the white house is telling t

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us.team right now filing its detailed trial brief with the senate, arguing the president did nothing wrong and the democrats' case does not meet the constitutional test for impeachment and removal. >>> plus testing time now for mitch mcconnell. the senate majority leader wants a quick trial with no new witnesses or no new evidence. democrats plan to fight that plan, but they need a handful of republicans to break from the party to succeed. >>> and democrats are quoting black leaders on thi

ordering service creating one of the world's largest food delivery companies are to correspondent john king live with more details so john how much was this was a what exactly does this mean for takeaway dot com. well this is a huge deal kristie it's worth $5900000000.00 pounds or $7700000000.00 and it means that as you just mentioned takeaway dot com will now become one of the largest what world's largest online food ordering and delivery companies outside of china and also now a major rival to which is of course here in the united states 80 percent of just the shareholders agreed to the take away all share offer of passing the 50 percent threshold required to make the offer unconditional and the merger of take away and just eat will be led by take away c.e.o. grown and will be headquartered in amsterdam with a listing also in london and $23.00 subsidiaries in mostly european countries but also in canada australia and latin america the merger of the 2 companies will end up handling orders from over $155000.00 restaurants and the 2 companies together processed almost $355000000.00 orders in

wake of a major plane crash in iran that has left more than 170 people dead artie's correspondent john king is the latest development coming from the investigation and later we are back on the ground in las vegas where 2020 consumer electronics show has entered its 3rd day. of more is there and will bring us up to speed on the latest developments in the auto sector we have so much to get through today and so little time. china has formally accepted the invitation to washington and confirmed by. will lead the delegation monday through wednesday. at the invitation of the. member of the political bureau of the communist party of china your committee do you support among your state council and chiefs are you trying to hide china u.s. . economic dialogue will lead to the delegation to washington from january 13th to get you know they will sign the phase one with the u.s. and china and us are in close communication over the arrangement of agreements signing. now details on phase one have still not been released and china has yet to confirm any changes or the size of purchases of american soybeans

. >> reporter: john king said the suspect, a former student got out of a ford focus and opened fire.razed in the head, her friend was shot in the leg. both were treated at a hospital and released. gunmen run away but was found lying in a parking lot who had a gunshot wound, a gun was found nearby. >> it appears to be self- inflicted and he was taken into custody and later transported by fire department paramedic to the medical center. >> reporter: he is now under police guard facing attempted murder charges. >> this is a tragedy, it could happen to anyone, anyone. it's very important, domestic violence is a terrible crime. >> it's pretty shocking, it's a small community. there's a lot of conversation going on around campus about what happened. >> emily says after the shooting, the campus sent out a message. >> that they were closing the front gate as a preventative measure so that helped me feel more secure. >> reporter: in a statement, the president said we are a college committed to preventing relationship violence and this incident underscores the need to continue the efforts. i u

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. >> so vintage john king for all of us on this 3rd day of january. point is as a result of those strikes in '98, the impeachment vote in the house delayed, put off inevitable momentarily. how might this play in washington? this being the impeachment process, if this escalates, michael? >> i think mitch mcconnell is running out the clock. i paid close attention today to what we had had to say, what chuck shoop hchumer had to say. no resolution as to timeline. i think the delay of the process benefits the white house. i don't sense there's a momentum in the country for impeachment. and as you well know, one month from today the iowa caucus. so if in fact there's an impeachment trial playing itself out against the backdrop of americans voting, i think that benefits the gop argument that this all ought to be settled at the ballot box. so the lack of any clarity, the lack of any resolution, i think is to the president's advantage. >> you said it would be a quiet top of the year. we have quite a busy -- quite a busy next month ahead of all of us. extraordi

i'm john king. the hour with the just breaking major news related to the trump impeachment inquiry. john bolton issuing a statement just moments ago saying he's now willing ask ready to testify in a senate impeachment trial if -- if -- the senate issues a subpoena demanding his testimony. let's get straight to the state department. our correspondent kylie atwood joins us live. kylie, what do we know about this development? >> reporter: this is a major development because it really ih

. >> "inside politics" with john king is up next. >>> a bold strike and a const t constantconstan constantlyplanation. >>> plus the impeachment trial is coming soon. >> it neither guarantees witnesses or forecloses the witnesses. >> that's what they're afraid of. >>> and it's important to elect somebody ready on day one. >> we win when we have the big ylds to match

john king? >> the key facts here as of this moment are not really in dispute. the president attacked the character, he attacked the secondhand knowledge of some of the witnesses presented on the house side. but the president's own call which he calls perfect, he talked to the president of ukraine about an investigation into joe biden and he said to keep to touch with rudy giuliani and the attorney general of the united states. all the evidence from around that and the weeks before and the weeks after, made clear, as you said. what's fascinating now is going through the procedure of getting the trial underway. the chief justice will say something this afternoon. that will be fascinating. he was at the top of the clinton impeachment trial. but then the president's team finally gets a chance. they declined to come to the house judiciary proceeding. >> they had a chance. >> they had a chance there. they decided to wait until they were in a republican-controlled chamber. they did not want to make a case when the democrats had a trial. listen to trump officials. list

i'm manu raju in for john king. reporters told to keep fighting as he officially ends his bid for president. >>> a violent attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad. >>> and bernie sanders is feeling flush after netting more than $35 million in three months from grassroots donors. >> we will hold firm, we will not change a damn thing. the reason it's working is the working class believes in bernie sanders over donald trump. we're not going to go into a general election suddenly claiming we'll need money from millionaires and billionaires. we don't need that money. >> we begin this hour with the state of the 2020 race. a crowded field of democratic candidates shrinking by one today. h julian castro, the former member of housing and development, ends his 2020 presidential bid. he struggled to stay solvent. he released a video showing highlights of his year-long run, and ending it with this. >> with only a month until the iowa caucuses and given the circumstances of this campaign season, i have determined that it simply is

i'm john king.for sharing your day with us. >>> the top trump administration official says a bit about the airstrike on the iranian commander. >>> plus nancy pelosi summons her top deputies to meet tonight. topping the to-do list? deciding when to deliver the articles of impeachment to the senate and get questions answered abo

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us.ree weeks from today and the attacks are getting sharper as the leading democrats prepare for a big debate right here on cnn tomorrow night. the once diverse field shrinks again. cory booker withdrew his campaign just in the last hour. >>> plus president trump says he never saw

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump added some big names to his impeachment defense team. ken starr is one addition, alan dershowitz another. no republican house members so far. that's a sign the president is listening, at least for now, for those urging him to put strong legal minds ahead of sharp partisan

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump added some big names to his impeachment defense team. ken starr is one addition, alan dershowitz another. no republican house members so far. that's a sign the president is listening, at least for now, for those urging him to put strong legal minds ahead of sharp partisan instincts. plus the president said he does not know lev parnas, despite pictures of them together. it is questionable whether they want to hear it and if rudy giuliani is to be believed. >>> a very interesting twist from the oval office tour guide. >> we'll take pictures behind the resolute desk. it's been there a long time. a lot of presidents, some good, some not so good. you got a good one now. even though they're trying to impeach the son of a bitch. can you believe that? >> and we begin with a major decision by the president that offers us a big window on the impeachment trial just around the corner. sources today detailing to cnn some major decisions t

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> it's debate night for 2020 democrats. joe biden, pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar look to sell the idea that a centrist has the best chance to beat president trump. >>> plus, not just yet. house speaker nancy pelosi tells democrats they have to wait one more day to tell who she will tap to manage the senate impeachment trial. and the senate should have those two articles of impeachment by wednesday night. mitch mcconnell is waiting ask he -- and he is counting. >> tomorrow will be four weeks -- four weeks -- since house democrats impeached the president with purely partisan support. >> back to the impeachment developments in a moment, but we begin with tonight's debate featuring the leading 2020 democrats. it comes amid a big new fight between the two leading progressives. senator elizabeth warren yesterday saying bernie sanders told her back in december 2018 that in hids vis view, a woman not beat president trump. senator sanders disputes that, says of course a woman can win. the question now is not just about this episo

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> the top trump administration official says a bit about the airstrike on the iranian commander. >>> plus nancy pelosi summons her top deputies to meet tonight. topping the to-do list? deciding when to deliver the articles of impeachment to the senate and get questions answered about the trial. and the question now is whether john bolton will be a trial witness. he said he will answer questions if subpoenaed. but one suggests it doesn't have to be so complicated. >> i've known john bolton for a long time. he's a friend of mine. no reason john bolton can't say something publicly right now. i've never known him not to say something right now. >> back to that story a bit later, but we begin this hour on high alert in the fallout after an american killing of an iranian high commander. american forces across the middle east were placed on high alert for possible drone attacks. the u.s. said they killed soleimani because he had an imminent threat on

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. iowa votes three weeks from today and the attacks are getting sharper as the leading democrats prepare for a big debate right here on cnn tomorrow night. the once diverse field shrinks again. cory booker withdrew his campaign just in the last hour. >>> plus president trump says he never saw intelligence getting upset over him speaking to ukraine about an investigation. >> this is what our founders established and he's disloyal to his oath of office. every knock from him is a boost and everything he says about somebody else is a projection. >> back to that in a moment, but we begin with another 2020 campaign exit in the democratic race that is suddenly getting very testy. the candidate bowing out is one who constantly warned against such a democratic family feud, new jersey senator cory booker. he told supporters in an email last hour he could not raise enough money to remain viable, especially since his poll numbers were too low to get debate invitations. in a pospeech a short time ag

democratic leader and you want to deprive the republican president a talking point, but it does, john kingand i am still impeached. >> the chief justice john roberts just walked out of the senate chamber which is not a good sign. >> and so, people with can see the full room, manu raja and after talking 10 or 12 minutes mcconnell and schumer, that the talks have broken up, and schumer is huddling with his side. >> and so, what i saw is that laura dove, and bob dove, the former parliamentarian, and laura runs the senate cloak room and she went over after the conversation to talk to erik yulin who is very skilled with parliamentary thing, and she came over to talk to him and down low to the white house and then eric took off, and he is the gentleman walking forward. >> he may have called the white house. >> he is the liaison between the senate and the president. >> and so he is walking back to mcconnell. >> there are people with very difficult goals throughout all of this and it is hard to figure out a way to make all of them unhappy to the same degree, because nobody is going to be happy wit

i'm manu raju in for john king.ting as he officially ends his bid for president. >>> a violent attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad. >>> and bernie sanders is feeling flush after netting more than $35 million in three months from grassroots donors.

. >> john king says that the 21- year-old suspect former st.y student isaiah glaive then got out of the ford focus an open fire. the woman his ex-girlfriend was equally raised in the head. her friend was shot in the leg. both were treated at the hospital and released. the gunman ran away but was found in a parking lot of the 24 hour fitness. with a gunshot wound to his head. a gun was found nearby. >> it does appear to be a self- inflicted gunshot wound. he was taken into custody and later transported by the fire department paramedics to the medical center. >> is facing attempt to murder charges. >> this is a tragedy. it could happen anywhere and to anyone. that is why it is very important for domestic violence to be reported. it's a terrible crime. >> it's very shocking. it's a small community so there's a lot of conversation going on around campus about what happened. >> emily conway says after the shooting the campus and out a message. >> they said they were closing a front gate as a preventative measure. that helps me feel more secure. >> i

i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> it's debate night for 2020 democrats.joe biden, pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar look to sell the idea that a centrist has the best chance to beat president trump. >>> plus, not just yet. house speaker nancy pelosi tells democrats they have to wait one more day to tell who she will tap to manage the senate impeachment trial. and the senate should have those two articl

i'm john king.n with dramatic breaking news at this hour in the impeachment of the president. speaker nancy pelosi just moments ago offering a timeline to finally deliver the articles of impeachment from the house to the senate. it will happen next week. there, of course, has been several weeks of delay. the speaker writing moments ago, quote, i have asked the judiciary committee chairman

i'm john king. we begin with dramatic breaking news at this hour in the impeachment of the president. speaker nancy pelosi just moments ago offering a timeline to finally deliver the articles of impeachment from the house to the senate. it will happen next week. there, of course, has been several weeks of delay. the speaker writing moments ago, quote, i have asked the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler to be prepared to bring to the floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the senate. i will be consulting with you at our tuesday house democratic caucus meeting on how we proceed further. so, manu, they'll talk about this tuesday, they'll be ready middle of next week. what else do we know? >> reporter: this means the president's impeachment trial is going to happen in a matter of days and the terms of that trial will be set by mitch mcconnell. the democrats have been demanding that mcconnell agree to have witnesses up front, documents up front. th

i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. the trump impeachment trial resumes monday and it could be over by week's end. trump's time can take up to two more days. and their argument is that trump did nothing wrong and that the democrats were in such a rush, they denied him a fair process and took short cuts that called their work and motives into question. >> the entire quid pro quo theory is based on nothing more than the initial speculation of one person. the ambassador sondland. >> they think you can read minds. i think you look at the words. >> the speaker had already said that articles of impeachment would be drafted an when there were no plans to hear from my fact witnesses. that's not due process. >> they're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in american history and we can't allow that to happen. >> the house democrats prosecuting the president say no that it's the white house that has no choice bu

. >> let's discuss this, john king, i don't think that we misunderstood him.learly saying that it is not a quid pro quo that can be impeachable if it is being done for your re-election, which you perceive to be in the national interest, as opposed to a million dollars into your bank account and that is a rather expansive view of presidential powers and what is allowed. >> incredibly expansive view of presidential power and what is all allowed. alan dershowitz says the president can do anything, they have thrown a bunch of different arguments out there trying to give the republicans looking for something to grab on to. you have alan dershowitz who if we roll back the tape a few years, most conservatives would call a liberal elitist, making an argument on the floor that conservatives made against liberal elitists that essentially the conservatives get up and say the liberal elitists think we're smarter than you, you don't get it, trust us, we're doing well for you, let us do what we're doing and it will work out okay for you. alan dershowitz is saying the presid

let's talk about this and john king, let me start with you.oing what we thought he essentially would do. condemning the action. mildly. calling it inappropriate. but saying he's not going to vote for new witnesses. and the interesting argument is you don't need new witnesses, the democrats proved the case. >> you could make the flip side argument of the interest of transparency, shouldn't we get the full story from john bolton, from the documents, even if you don't impeach. the senator is smirking at me. it used to be, all administrations in recent years, all administrations back to the beg beginning, but in recent years, much more stubborn to turning over documents. >> alexander criticizes this charge, the obstruction of congress, he thinks it is bogus. >> he thinks it is bogus because they didn't go to court. that's been a default of the republicans you can disagree with that argument. that is an argument that they should have gone to court, should have pressed and we will see in the months ahead the democrats whether they want to lose the d

i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. breaking down the president's impeachment trial building and critical votes this week. the president's team has the floor right now. in their opening statement saturday, the defense opened with a barrage against the democratic prosecutors. >> for all their talk about election interference, that they're here to perpetrate to the most massiv interference in an election in american history, and we can't allow that to happen. the american people decide elections. they have one coming up in nine months. >> house prosecutors use their three days to paint a damning picture of presidential obstruction. the president seeking re-election help from ukraine, then withholding, stone walling congress when it demanded documents and witnesses. >> if right doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how good the constitution is. it doesn't matter how brilliant the framers were. it doesn't matter how good or bad or advoc

. >>> welcome to "inside politics," i'm nia-malika henderson in for john king. thanks for sharing your sunday morning with us. a week that started with violent protests at the u.s. embassy in baghdad ended with the killing of the top general, a man the trump administration holds responsible for the deaths of hundreds of americans. president donald trump defended the action that shocked and surprised the world on friday by saying that qasem soleimani was planning imminent and sinister attacks. >> my administration executed a flawless strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world. soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel. but we caught him in the act and term nated him. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. >> and yet, tensions in the middle east and between the u.s. and iran keep growing with president hassan rouhani declaring that the u.s. had made a grave mistake and that retaliation is essential because quote if we remain silent against the u.

the house did incredibly important work under the leadership of representative terry soul and john king who is passing cancer. they passed hr 4 before this congress concluded. that is a bill that would restore the voting rights act after the devastating 2013 decision by the supreme court that cut out the heart of the act. we need the senate to move under mitch mcconnell and pass that law now so that we can have the full protections of the voting rights act in place. beyond ensuring diversity on the ballot we need to make sure that people get registered and they can stay on the rolls and so that is why part of what we do at the lawyers committee for civil rights under laws is fighting purge programs, we're fighting these polling site closures, fighting the efforts to criminally prosecute people for alleged vote fraud. all of these are efforts that are designed to silence us and to keep people of color at home in 2020 but if we fight back i think that we will see people turning out and ensuring that their voices are heard in this critical election season. >> is this election itself going

yeah he is professor of political science at the john king about university in rome he joins us on skype from today in italy good to have you with us so although this is a regional election do you agree with those who say really it could be a referendum on the coalition on the ruling coalition. yes i do agree. if for the current governor of him in your mind you were confirmed. it would be a positive boost for the current ruling coalition made us the democratic party and the type star movement on the other hand if the center right or the rights. rather prevailed it would definitely be difficult to post poll now a new general election head of the time of year term do you think with a ourselves any has got his calculations right this time that a he will be able to take a 1000000 or minor and 2nd of all that it will bring down the government. interesting question i'm unable to answer the 1st. i don't know what the outcome will be because there are various or components that need to be taken into account the 1st one is that the right have a coalition of 3 parties apparently united the declini

. >> john king, he told me many times as private citizen, donald trump, he wasn't going to cut medicare, medicaid, social security. he promised that to the american public. >> it's one of the things that made him so different, so hard to pin down in the 2016 campaign because he wasn't an idealogical conservative. they couldn't link him to all those quote, unquote bad things republicans said he would do if he became president. i'm guessing the campaign manager will have a conversation with the president, saying, i know you said that to cnbc. maybe you thought you had to be an economist at the moment. stop. donald trump sidelined paul ryan who thauought he was the republicans' big idea man. the president also said in that interview growth is going to be incredible. this president is very lucky. he has the gift of a very strong economy going into his election year. he inherited a very good economy -- >> made it better. >> that's a point the president can make in his campaign, but there is no one on his team who thinks growth is going to be incredible. they hope it continues at a modest 2%,

let me start with you, john, king. you've covered capitol hill as i have. it is interesting, i don't know what the truth is, but it is interesting that right before this fierce debate on the rules, a, mitch mcconnell changes the rules to make them friendlier, b, susan collins who is facing a tough re-election race at the end of this year in november is able to emerge as one of the heroes of this process, forcing the senate majority leader to make them more fair. now maybe that's exactly what happened, but the skeptic in me wonders if this is a little bit for show. >> well, sometimes you give to get, right? so mitch mcconnell gave. that's interesting because he's trying to prove he's in charge. he's trying to prove he's strong. he's trying to prove everybody should follow the leader. the leader here publicly made concessions at the very beginning of a very important trial in which his control over his people is the biggest factor. he gave, you're right, he's smart enough. he's disciplined enough. he should have known this this morning, why did he do it when

the question, john king, is will republicans say, you know what, john bolton is willing to testify.oing to findi out what's in this book by march anyway. john kelly, former chief of staff for the white house, marine general, republican, says he believes bolton and the people should hear. will they vote to hear witnesses? my guess as of now is i still don't see it. i think there is still more allegiance to trump and mcconnell than there is to the public's interest in finding out what happened. >> in the senate i would even flip the way you put it and say allegiance to mcconnell and trump. there's a lot of questions, can we trust the white house among even republican senators. but when their leader mitch mcconnell they do trust says i need you here, please be with me if you can here, that carries a lot of weight. one of his key deputies came out and said the momentum is building toward no witnesses. part of that could be trying to pull people along. sometimes you say things publicly trying to pull people there. but what the president is doing is crystal clear. he's attacking john bolt

. >> yeah, john king what do you think? >> we're in they very unpredictable situation. it is not important, but -- >> neither am i. >> the phone conversations with the leaders around the world is not essential to the impeachment question. is that enough to convince senators to extend the impeachment trial and have witnesses? that question is before us. as of today, i think your money is safer staying with mitch mcconnell than bottling this up. it will play out over the next 72 hours or so. the president's team could influence that debate. it raises a question, what if john bolton is not called as a witness. and this book comes out. has impeachment boxed the democrats in, in the sense that republicans have the majority in the senate, chuck schumer can say whatever he wants, can't get a hearing, can't get john bolton in the chair in the senate. if the house democrats come back to any of this, it is t-ball for republicans to say you had your shot with impeachment, now being g gratuitous. what do you mean you want to call on the attorney general bill barr. this is what nanc

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earned a coveted spot in the oprah winfrey book club and donna praised by the authors john grisham and stephen king as well as mexican american authors sandra cisneros and erika sanchez the novel which is it was written by an author who is neither mexican nor a migrant is now the center of a debate over who gets to tell stories of historically marginalized people critics online say the book is rife with stereotypes and cultural misrepresentations the controversy also highlights the issues that result from a lack of diversity in a white dominated u.s. publishing industry joining us to talk about this in long beach california miriam gerber she's a writer and artist who's widely shared book review of america and helped spark a more critical look at the novel isn't nurse missouri ignacio sanchez prado he is a professor of spanish latin american studies and film and media studies at the washington university in st louis and in edinburgh texas david cole was a mexican american author who teaches at the university of texas rio grande a valley good to have you everybody you've all read the vote which is a