i didn't know kenneth starr. i didn't think bill clinton should have been impeached and i was pretty vocal about that. what i did know is he was very smart, very tough, very talented but in a certain way i was sticking up for bill clinton and i still feel that way. what he did was nothing good. a lot of lying going things, with me there is no lying, no nothing, they have nothing. they don't even have a crime. they say this is really one who has ever been impeached and didn't commit a crime. i didn't commit a crime. then you get into high crimes and misdemeanors but i didn't commit a crime. i have great respect for ken but i didn't think bill clinton should have been impeached. >> at your trial any day -- >> wouldn't that be great? and stair in their corrupt faces. i would love to do it. don't keep talking because you may convince me to do it. >> would cipollone want you there? >> they might have a problem. i think they have done a really good job and the other side has so light. i watched the lies from adam schif

were the biggest names kenneth starr from the clinton impeachment trial and alan dershowitz. he will have recognizable names. the defense they will put out will focus on saying that what the president did is not impeachable. alan dershowitz had a statement on twitter where he said what he is being charged with by the house of representatives, abuse of congress, does not meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors ruled out by the constitution as grounds for impeachment. david: when will we hear the arguments? they are in resets until -- they are in recess until tuesday at 1:00. what happens until then? firstwe will see the response from the white house to the senate summons by 6:00. by 5:00 tomorrow, the house will have to file its trial brief. the white house defense team then has until monday at noon to file its trial brief, and by monday at noon the house to respond to the white house summons. then by tuesday at noon, the house to respond to the white house trial brief. we could get a huge amount of documents between now and the start of the trial at 1:00 on tuesday

legal analyst here and so he's used to being in the media spotlight and you also of course have kenneth starr who is somewhat being brought out of retirement in the late ninety's as you mentioned he was the special counsel prosecuting then president bill clinton during his impeachment trial in the late ninety's so you've got 2 of the best legal minds in the united states when it comes to the impeachment and constitutional law and these are 2 people that are now going to be defending donald trump so i think what you're getting here is a sense that donald trump is taking this very very seriously and he wants people who have been doing this before know constitutional law but also to people they very much are used to being in the media spotlight this isn't just a senate trial is it we know the president is up for re-election and this is going to be an important part of the campaign. it most definitely is this is going to be a very critical moment in the campaign because this is the 1st time we've ever had an impeachment in the senate it's only the 2nd time in history an impeachment is gone of the

there is a word, i'm a first-generation jewish kid called chutzpah and for kenneth starr to say this has been hasty given his track record is pretty far-fetched. >> do you agree the house, managers tell us there is overwhelming evidence, chairman nadler said the jury would convict in 3 minutes, they are now being accused of making it so hasty they are asking you to do a job many felt was their job to do, compile these witnesses and documents, they said was urgent and result for 30 days before it got to you in the senate so it is urgent or not? >> it is urgent and the reality is the big challenge has been on the key issues we have not been able to get witnesses and to cross-examine them which the president's lawyers said was so essential. before the impeachment began i went to oregon and had some community meetings and 20 counties donald trump won and hillary clinton won and in both places, citizens said you have got to have a fair trial. that means witnesses, each side should have the same number and we have been having trouble getting republicans to step up and respects what i think

our top stories: kenneth starr, who investigated bill clinton before his impeachment, joins the team defending the current president as donald trump makes light of the proceedings against him. but you've got a good one now, even though they're trying to impeach the son of a bleep. can you believe that? anti—american chanting as iran's supreme leader defends the military over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian airlines plane. record amounts of cocaine are being produced in colombia and coming to a city near you. a special report on what's driving the drug boom. and making history — the scottish brothers who've become the fastest trio to row 3,000 miles across the atlantic. hello and welcome to world news today. president trump has announced his legal team for next week's impeachment trial. it will include the former independent counsel, ken starr, who led the invesigation which led to bill clinton's impeachment 20 years ago. alan dershowitz will also be on the team. he's previously defended several high—profile clients, including oj simpson and jefferey epstein. the defence

but kenneth starr is a very competent attorney.nd so i see no problem whatsoever in adding him to the president's defense team. he certainly knows his way around -- go ahead. >> sorry. i didn't mean to cut you off. i want to ask you more about the legal team that he's assembled because again as we were just discussing, he wants a legal team, we've been told, a tv legal team. as courtroom dramas goes, a courtroom is quite different in terms of the setting that they'll be facing. it's not a courtroom. it's the senate, right? >> yes, it is. >> so, give us a sense of what that should be like. >> all the senators who are seldom in attendance when the senate is in session are required to be there. and for the most part, they will be there. this is the senate in a very different setting from its usual somewhat casual approach to legislation. again, this is a very solemn situation. senators are listeners. they are both jury and court. and they are there to listen to the arguments both by the house managers and then by the president's couns

kenneth starr let the geechlt investigation into bill clinton in 1998. lso ousted as president of baylor university in 2016 after being accused of ignoring sexual assault issues on campus. one of starr's best known clients was billionaire pedophile jeffrey epstein, the president's already made for tv attorney allan dershowitz was also on epstein's defense team and was on o.j. simpson's 1995 murder trial. during an interview this morning he gave a preview of the defense. >> even if everything as alleged by the house managers is proven or taken as true, they would not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. >> let's turn to our panel, carol lamb, michelle goldberg. carol, let's talk about the legal team. i talked about it at the top of the show. tv focused if that is indeed what some are saying is true, how does that help the president got done what he wants to get done? >> i don't think that the selection of ken starr and allen dershowitz to join the defense team should be much of a surprise to anybody. it is very consistent with what the president th

he was kenneth starr.enneth starr was the independent counsel who prosecuted the case against bill clinton, the man largely responsible along with bill clinton for the impeachment of bill clinton, now in front of the american people lamenting impeachment. some people saw this as irony, some people saw it as flat out gas lighting, other people saw it as bizarre. we're joined by joe lockhart, he is familiar with this, he was bill clinton's press secretary during the impeachment. also with us call rosensteig. joe, i want to start with you, hopefully your blood pressure is back to normal. >> it was bizarre and it was difficult to watch because it was almost as if he was using this session to, you know, cleanse his soul or say, you know, some version of it wasn't my fault, but the reality is that ken starr was appointed looking into a land deal, he spent the next three or four years looking for something to bring a charge against the president, he found the relationship with monica lewinsky, but he did it in a

our top stories: kenneth starr, who investigated bill clinton before his impeachment, joins the teamresident as donald trump makes light of the proceedings against him. but you've got a good one now, even though they're trying to impeach the son of a bleep. can you believe that? anti—american chanting as iran's supreme leader defends the military over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian airlines plane. record amounts of cocaine are being produced in colombia and coming to a city near you. a special report on what's driving the drug boom. and making history — the scottish brothers who've become the fastest trio to row 3,000 miles across the atlantic.

kenneth starr, monica lewinsky, bill clinton and donald trump. we heard from a lot of folks. the 90s all over again. we have new documents from parnas showing text messages that appear to be more evidence that ambassador yovanovitch was surveilled. >> just to remind people of what was going on, there was a plot to remove her and to get her out of the ukraine. with tonight's latest revelations looks like it was more involved than we thought at first. this new person robert hyde out of connecticut introduces a whole new element we have not heard yet. now the parnas text that they were talking about conducting surveillance of the ukrainian ambassador and now mr. hyde is talking to someone in a belgium number, where is she. in the embassy. all sorts of back and forth. nobody in the federal government is discounting this. i talked to people today and they are all taking it seriously. fbi agents have been to his only, the southern district of new york is investigating a plot. what was going on to get the ukrainian ambassador out of the country? that is all under investigation. this

reporter: kenneth starr? president trump: he's a terrific man. i did make that statement because i didn't think that bill clinton should have been impeached. i thought it was terrible. i didn't know ken starr but i didn't think that bill clinton should be impeached. should have been impeached. i was pretty vocal about that. i didn't know ken, but what did i know is he was very smart and tough and talented. but in a certain way i was sticking up for clinton, for bill clinton. i still feel that way. what he did was nothing good. there was a lot of lying going on. there were a lot of things, a lot of bad things. with me there's no lying, there's no nothing. they have nothing. they don't even have a crime. they say the only one who has ever been impeached and i didn't commit a crime. then you get into high crimes and misdemeanors. but i didn't commit a crime. so, no, i have great respect for ken but i didn't think, frankly, that bill clinton should have been impeached. reporter: will you show up at your trial any day? president trump: i would love to

including retired harvard university law professor alan dershowitz and former independent counsel kenneth starr, whose probe led to the impeachment of bill clinton. during oral arguments, starr referenced the clinton impeachment trial. >> the nation's most recent experience, the clinton impeachment, even though severely and roundly criticized, charge crimes. these are crimes proven in a crucible of the house of representatives debate beyond any reasonable observers doubt, so, too, the nixon impeachment. the articles charged crimes. crimes alleged in the articles and the common law of presidential impeachment in nixon? yes. in clinton? yes. here? no. amy: president trump's personal lawyer jay sekulow accused democrats of lowering the bar for impeachment. >> we live in a constitutional republic where you have deep policy concerns and deep differences. that should not be the basis of an impeachment. if the bar of impeachment has then fored that l level, the sake of the republic, the danger that puts is not just this body, but our entire constitutional framework in, is unimaginable. every time ther

>> reporter: among them, kenneth starr, a prosecutor whose work led to president clinton's impeachment and who trump has publicly railed against. >> ken starr is a lunatic. i really think ken starr is a disaster. >> reporter: and robert wray. and constitutional lawyer alan dershowitz who gained fame during o.j. simpson's trial. and the including the possibility that damaging witnesses could be called to testify. >> i should be their number one witness. >> reporter: among them, lev parnas, rudy giuliani's ukraine fixer who is under indictment for campaign finance violations. >> i'm the one that got all of the dirt, supposedly? why aren't they calling me to testify? why do they need biden? call me. ask me what biden did wrong. >> reporter: parnas telling cnn that he witnessed the top aide ambassador marie yovanovitch should be fired. >> to my knowledge, the president fired her at least four times, five times, even once in my presence. >> reporter: but trump is sticking to his claim that he doesn't know parnas. >> i don't know parnas, i guess they have pictures taken which i do with thous

let's bring in our power panel harold ford and kenneth starr, welcome to you, gentlemen.ed on but we had significant elements on a number of fronts. i hardly know where to start but let's start with this. and associate of rudy giuliani, new evidence has now been released some public and some not about this project is talking about this, why it matters, public release of some or all of these materials could give democrats new ammunition at the white house must turnover new information to allow new testimony from witnesses. what does it do to the white house's defense plan. >> it doesn't do very much. it underscores how rushed, sloppy and partisan the house impeachment process was. previous impeachment as jonathan turley explained during his testimony take a long time to gather the evidence and put everything together and address the executive privilege issues and let the courts decide if witnesses to testify they wanted to rush) after having not done their job properly now all of a sudden the senate should do the job we didn't do. it undermines their case. >> there is a bi

>> it was breathtaking for me to sit and listen to professor kenneth starr lecture us on not abusing impeachment. i can remember what happened, and most americans my age can remember what happened when ken starr was, in fact, his own special prosecutor moving forward in this. so it really was a golden moment in the senate. a number of us were squirming in our chairs. >> senator durbin, thanks for being with us this morning. >> thanks, john. >>> we're learning new details about the final moments before the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant, his daughter and seven others. the lakers have postponed tonight's game against the rival clippers as the team and the city try to come to grips with this tragedy. cnn's brooke baldwin is live in los angeles outside the staples center. what's the scene there this morning, brooke? >> alisyn, good morning. we were here this time yesterday. let me tell you, just walking around, the memorial area has grown. first from this plaza and now the staples center behind me. they've opened up this entire road because they anticipate so many people showing

>> he added new members including kenneth starr that led to president clinton's impeachment pam bondind o.j. simpson former attorney elder shorts. giuliani's former associate indicted businessman who says he was the men entrusted to pressure ukraine to investigate the bidens and he claims the president knew all about it. i'm the one that got all the dirt. >> reporter: senators are expected to debate whether new witnesses should be heard. >> we are asking for 4 witnesses who have unique information about the president holding back a to a foreign country. the republicans' say is not the senate's job to retry the case. >> we respond to the case build by the house. a few republican senators signaled they might be open to witnesses after hearing opening arguments first. while it only takes a simple majority to set the rules it would take a super majority with 67 senators to remove the president from office. natalie brand, capitol hill. >>> the house judiciary released additional documents relating to the south florida businessman lev parnas. there appears to be more about marie yovanovitch

as announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial it includes kenneth starr prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago and the celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz who has represented jeffrey epstein o.j. simpson roman polanski and mike tyson the trial will be led by white house counsel cipel loney and trump's lawyer jay sekulow the legal process was set in motion in the senate on thursday. the 1st aerial images of the tell the kaino in the philippines show the extent of the devastation there tens of thousands of people have been displaced and have been advised not to return home because of fears the volcano could erupt again risking it all is the program coming up next looking at the libyans risking snakes floods and landslides to deliver brazil not harvest. you knew him for. the fire in the humid undergrowth the bolivian jungle a family collects the shells from giant brazilian. i'll go along the way i'm going to my mother get the. ball into. the place is infested with insects and snape. jan code the eldest of the feelings had a terrible experience a

they all say, including kenneth starr, no one explicitly asked me to lie. there is an enormous difference between the two. and the very fact that my colleagues on the other side almost always at that word explicitly indicates their recognition of the power of her denial. it's also interesting that monica lewinsky is a woman of absolute perfect memory in ken starr's version, except she just had a terrible story of losing hours of her life. the gentleman from utah said she must've thought it was 2:00 but it was really 4:00 because the call came at 3:30. there is nothing remotely to suggest that. betty currie goes through the same transmogrification's. we are told that she was willing to give testimony to the grand jury that the majority finds damaging. but she also said, betty currie said, monica lewinsky initiated the gift transfer. so we have your acknowledgment that betty currie was prepared to tell the truth even if it was somewhat damaging to bill clinton. you're citing one of her statements is damaging to bill clinton. when did she become a liar and sch

why the tangled past of kenneth starr and alan dershowitz could create new problems for trump's defense. >>> and the words that our top national security officials have kept secret for years. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on this friday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. at the end another week, day 1,093 of the trump administration, which means we are now 293 days away from the 2020 presidential election. tonight we are just over 72 hours away from the opening arguments in the senate impeachment trial, and another new trove of evidence has been released by house democrats courtesy of lev parnas, the indicted rudy giuliani associate who spoke to rachel maddow for a two-part interview here this week. before we bring in our first guests to talk about this day, once again tonight we have asked our own national political reporter, josh lederman, to dive into this new lev parnas evidence and tell us what the headlines are from tonight. and, josh, i heard you a little bit earlier on this network. it seems like it's yet another m

kenneth starr was saying he had lied under oath in the civil litigation. the fourth with the abuse of power. basically there was an allegation that president and his team had lied to congress and abused his power as president. the house judiciary committee passed all four along party lines. but by the time that it move forward to the house, the full house floor, only two of those survived and there were -- they were basically a perjury and obstruction. steve: what do you remember? what was your take away of that time period more than 20 years ago? alexis: i was covering the white house. my perspective was very much in talking to the president and his team. there were a couple of things i remember vividly. one is, when the story about monica lewinsky broke -- you may remember this was an investigative story that "newsweek" was trying to break, but there had been a pause to make sure the reporting was really complete -- it actually emerged on drudge, which was a brand-new website that opened the door to what we are seeing now about how many outlets are to pu

the white house counsel pat cipollone and jay sekulow, independent counsel kenneth starr, pam bondi,ane raskin and constitutional scholar alan dershowitz. he voted for hillary clinton in 2016, but he opposed and rebuked the radical dimms for their ideological attack against this president through impeachment. the president's legal team we are told will argue the articles of impeachment are dangerous, unconstitutional and hud be rejected on their face. the president using the celebration with lsu, the national champons to unload on the radical dimms. and the looming trial. >> we'll take pictures behind the resolute desk. it's been there a long time, many presidents. some good, some not so good. you have got a good one now, even though they are trying to impeach the son of a bitch. can you believe that. liz: joining us, john solomon, now the editor-in-chief of his new media outlet, just the news. that's going to be quite something. we can't wait. i do want to talk about that tonight. but first let's turn to the president's legal team, your assessment of it. it has some all-stars. >> he

kenneth starr, who investigated bill clinton before his impeachment joins the team defending the current president, as donald trump the proceedingagainst him. we have a good one now, even though they are trying to impeach the son of a -- can you believe it? >> anti-american chanting as the supreme leader discusses the shooting down of an airlines plane. and an entire city become carbon neutral in 10 yrs? we vis the scottish city of glasgow in its efforts to go green eve and making history. the sc become the fastest trio to row 3000 miles across the atlantic. hello and welcome to world news today. president trump has announced his legaam for next week's impeachment trial. it will include the former independent counsel ken starr, who led the investigation which led to bill clinton's impeachment 20 years ago. alan dershowitz will also be on m.e t he previously defended several high-profile clients including o.j. simps and jeffrey epstein. hie defense will be led by house counsel patrick maloney and donald trump's private attorney jay sekulow. coouespondent has more on the significance of ke

we started by hearing kenneth starr lecture us about how divisive impeachment is. really? i was in the house when he led the effort on president clinton and we heard that rudy giuliani was a great american hero and we finally heard a summation from jeffrey epstein's attorney, law someone laying out a congressional theory that is not agreed to by virtually any constitutional law professor thing it didn't matter what the president did, didn't matter whether john bolton talked to him, didn't matter what, there was no way to impeach a president for abuse of power. what we didn't here is a rebuttal of the facts of what happened and the truth is if four people, four republican senators stand with us, we will now. we will know from those directly in the room, direct we on the emails, directly in conversation with the president exactly what happened. and so that is the test. the question is do they want to hear the truth or do they want to hide the truth? >> thank you, leader schumer. to me the bottom line is the president's allies have run out of real estate for putting up there

so they heard the kenneth starr in 1999, and they heard the kenneth starr in 2020, and there are alsot were members of the house who supported the third article of impeachment against clinton. senators who voted guilty are there. >> republicans. they weren't scared of clinton. they're petrified of trump. >> the height of democracy, and they're still sitting there. >> well, and we're still sitting here. >> true. >> we'll be back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ and here we have another burst pipe in denmark. if you look close... jamie, are there any interesting photos from your trip? ouch, okay. huh, boring, boring, you don't need to see that. oh, here we go. can you believe my client steig had never heard of a home and auto bundle or that renters could bundle? wait, you're a lawyer? only licensed in stockholm. what is happening? jamie: anyway, game show, kumite, cinderella story. you know karate? no, alan, i practice muay thai, completely different skillset. oooooooohh ooooooooohh ♪ unock the cinnaverse with cinnamon toast crunch. i've tried the $200 creams, the $400 creams olay regenerist

they include the former independent counsel, kenneth starr, who helped to clear the way for the impeachment of president clinton in the 1990s. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has defended the country's armed forces after it admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, says iran must pay compensation for the incident. a court in france has sentenced 19 islamist militants, in absentia, to between twenty—five years and life in prison, in a highly unusual trial. thejihadists have been nicknamed "ghosts", as they're nearly all presumed dead. the french fashion designer jean paul gaultier has said his next show in paris will be his last. he presented his first individual collection more than a0 years ago. at ten o'clock, rita chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the days news. now we meet the people looking for solutions to climate change, and follow the work of those striving to tackle this global threat. i'mjustin rowlatt, in the northern ethiopian city of mek‘ele. just take a look at it. because it is absolutely stunning

i don't know exactly how that is supposed to work because the logical conclusion from that is kenneth starrsaying bill clinton's mistake was in showing up under subpoena. that bill clinton's mistake within not saying i will fight this to pieces, that bill clinton's mistake within not taking the position that under article 2 he could do whatever he wants. is that really make any sense? you can be impeached for obstructing your own branch of government but you cannot be impeached for obstructing a coequal branch of government. that would make no sense to the framers. i have to think, over the centuries, as they watched us they would be astonished that anyone would take that argument seriously or could so misapprehension how this balance of power is supposed to work so i look forward to that argument and maybe when they make that argument they can explain to us why their position on abuse of power isn't even supported by their own attorney general. i hope they will answer why even there own attorney general doesn't agree with him not to mention the constitutional law expert of the house who te

as kenneth starr pointed out they have the weight of authority. they were accepted by the generation of founders and the generations that followed. if they are not accepted by academics today, that shows a weakness among the academics, not among the founders. these who disagree with curtis's textual analysis are obliged, i believe, to respond with recent counter interpretation, not name-calling. of justice curtis's arguments are rejected i think proponents of impeachment must offer alternative principles, alternative standards for impeachment and removal. we heard 1970 congressman gerald ford who i greatly admire said the following. in the context of an impeachment of justice, impeachable offenses, whatever a majority of the house of representatives considered it to be at a given moment in history, etc.. you all know the quote. congresswoman maxine waters put it more succinctly. in the context of a presidential impeachment, here is what she said. impeachment is whatever congress says it is. there is no law. this lawless view would place congress a

kenneth starr, who investigated bill clinton before his impeachment, joins the team defending the currentresident as donald trump makes light of the proceedings against him. they have a good one now. even though they are trying to impeach the son of a (bleep), can you believe it? anti—american chanting as iran's supreme leader defends the military over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian airlines plane. thanks forjoining us. president trump's impeachment trial will properly get under way on tuesday — but the white house has unveiled an all star roster for its legal team. the defence will include the prosecutor from bill clinton's impeachment, kenn starr, as well as celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz, whose previous high profile clients include oj simpson and jeffrey epstein. aleem maqbool looks at the key hirings ahead of next week's trial. it is what we have come to expect from donald trump. newly revealed members of his legal team are made—for—television heavyweights. in ken starr, he also has a man considered a hero to the right. as independent counsel in the 1990s it was his i

when it entered the scene and succeed my colleague and cocounsel here, judge kenneth starr as it up and it counts in october 1999, it was left for me to decide whether prosecution of president clinton on impeachment nonetheless was warranted, consistent with the department of justice is principal to federal prosecution. that matter was exhaustively considered in the midst of a federal grand jury investigation that i commissioned in order to decide first weather crimes in fact, had been committed. i found that they had picked at a later said so publicly in the final report, expressly authorized and mandated by congress concluding the lewinsky investigation. significantly though i also determine that prosecution of theic president while in or once he left office would not be in the national interest, given alternative available means short of prosecution in order to hold the president accountable for his conduct. those means included a written acknowledgment by the president to back years after his senate trial that his testimony under oath before the grand jury had, in fact, been false a

our top stories: kenneth starr, who investigated bill clinton before his impeachment, joins the team defending the current president as donald trump makes light of the proceedings against him: they have a good one now. even though they are trying to impeach the (bleep), can you believe it? anti—american chanting as iran's supreme leader defends the military over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian airlines plane. record amounts of cocaine are being produced in colombia — much of it ends up in europe. so what happens when a user talks directly to a producer? so you never take cocaine yourself? and making history — the scottish brothers who've become the fastest trio to row 3000 miles across the atlantic. president trump's impeachment trial will properly get under way on tuesday, and today the white house unveiled an all star roster for its legal team. the defence will include the prosecutor from bill clinton's impeachment, kenn starr, as well as celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz, who's previous high profile clients include oj simpson and jeffrey epstein. 0ur north america cor

so i would like to yield my time right now -, if you would please the chief justice, kenneth starr kenneth mr. starr? >> thank you, mr. chief justice. house managers, and staff. members of the senate. majority leader, and the minority leader. at the beginning of these proceedings on january 16th, the chief justice administered the oath of office to the members of this body, and then again on tuesday. in doing so, the chief justice was honoring the words of our constitution. article one, section three. we all know the first sentence of that article by heart. "this senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments." but then the constitutional text on to say this. "when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation." that oath or affirmation in turn requires each member of the senate to do impartial justice. this constitutional e- administered oath or affirmation has been given in every proceeding in this body since 1798. indeed, to signify the importance of the occasion, the senate's more recent traditions called for you, as you did, to sign the book. and that book i

kenneth starr the lawyer who led the impeachment investigation into bill clinton joins the legal team representing donald trump at his upcoming trial and a small emergency with 4 european cities ranking amongst the most polluted in the world the test is the mom a government's take action. libyan warlord who has flown to greece for talks with the prime minister and the foreign minister of greece has criticized its exclusion from a un backed peace conference coming up on sunday the internationally recognized government which have to is trying to overthrow recently signed a maritime and military cooperation deal with turkey angering greece the greek prime minister tuchis has threatened to veto any libya agreement at the european union level because of that maritime deal between turkey and the government in tripoli meanwhile have to who heads the self declared libyan national army is scheduled to hold 2 days of talks in athens before flying to berlin for sunday's peace summit russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will also both be at that conference. level 90 the mo

covered the last presidential impeachment it's a little bit like deja vu at least in the case of kenneth starr let's sort of look at his background he's 73 years old he's a one time u.s. circuit judge and the reason he's familiar to many americans is because he led the investigation into former u.s. president bill clinton that led to clinton's impeachment more recently he has been part of convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein's legal team and for those who are not familiar jeffrey have said he is of course the american financier who has been was convicted of sex offenses now for the other individual alan dershowitz dershowitz rather he is also a familiar name to many americans he's 81 years old professor of law at harvard law school his previous clients included convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein and convicted robber o.j. simpson he's part of the defense team representing accused sex offender harvey weinstein who of course the american film producer and broiled in sex abuse allegations now when it comes to deja vu and ken starr an interesting choice he did lead as i mentioned there the ca

president donald trump has announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial it includes kenneth starr prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago on the celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz who has represented jeffrey epstein o.j. simpson roman polanski and mike tyson the trial will be led by white house counsel pat scipione and trump's lawyer jay sekulow the legal process was set in motion in the senate on thursday. on the 1st aerial images of the tell the kaino in the philippines show the extent of the devastation there tens of thousands of people have been displaced and have been advised not to return home because of fears the volcano could erupt again we're risking it all is a program coming up next looking at the libyans risking snakes floods and landslides to deliver that brazil not harvest.

were the biggest names kenneth starr from the clinton impeachment trial and alan dershowitz.recognizable names. the defense they will put out will focus on saying that what the president did is not impeachable. alan dershowitz had a statement on twitter where he said what he is being charged with by the house of representatives, abuse of congress, does not meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors rul

kenneth starr, who investigated bill clinton before his impeachment, joins the team defending the currentst him. they have a good one now. even though they are trying to impeach the son of a (bleep), can you believe it? anti—american chanting as iran's supreme leader defends the military over the accidental shooting down of the ukrainian airlines plane.

. >> what is your response to kenneth starr reporting this behavior? >> the bottom line is very simple. if the president does something that is an abuse of power, and if the president and stone walls congress into investigating it, then impeachment is the only remedy left to congress other than elections. in this case, since it involves trying to john does our elections, trying to distort our elections, it isn't the remedy. >> some constitutional scholars are arguing that justice roberts can demand a subpoena of wilson and mulvaney of the house managers requested. >> we had such an amendment put in by senator van hollen, which simply says it requires him to rule, not changing the goals of the senate which the house could overrule. our public and friends are afraid of any independent analysis, whether it is from witnesses, documents, and they don't even want to chief justice to opine. thank you, everybody. >> [inaudible] >> what do you think so far of kenneth starr -- >> absolutely surreal. america's talking about john bolton, and i think she mentioned

house's counsel joined by the president's outside counsel, former clinton independent counsel kenneth starrrvard law professor alan dershowitz, former whitewater prosecutor robert gray, former florida attorney general pam bondi and jane rapkin who handled the mueller investigation. those big names coming under media scrutiny. >> these people are good on tv, they bring a tremendous amount of baggage with them that i am not sure applies. >> the chief counsel for the president will be leading the team. if i were he i would not be pleased with the team the president has assembled. >> the senate file a summons for donald trump to appear at the trial and hasn't all tomorrow night at 6:00 pm. tomorrow, house impeachment managers trial briefs, the legal components at play. >> the senate a warning donald trump's most significant bipartisan legislative victory, media analyst and host of fox media buzz with this week's coverage. >> a split screen morning donald trump announced a trade deal with china, then bumped himself as house democrats voted to send the senate the impeachment articles. as the tria

. >> kenneth starr, independent counsel, investigate allegations that you stubborned perjury, encouragingrmer white house intern to lie under oath. mr. president is that true? >> that is not true. that is not true hugh h. howie: he thought hillary clinton ton would canceled but he didn't. i had his own set of rules. >> finally, i'm not in the entertainment business. howie: i love that line. jim was gracious to me, and other journalists. he touched so many lives. jim lehrer was 85. that is this edition of "mediabuzz." i'm howard kurtz. subscribe at apple itunes, google play or fox news podcast.com. we'll look for your feedback. my interview with stephanie grisham, impeachment, iowa, we'll listen to it all. back next sunday with the latest buzz. ♪ arthel: president trump's legal team preparing to resume opening statements tomorrow. when the senate impeachment begins its second week. welcomewelcome to "america's nes headquarters." i'm arthel neville. eric: i'm eric shawn. the president's lawyers spent two hours beginning their defense attacking lead house manager adam schiff, accusing the de

now he's added the lawyer who represented jeffry epstein and oj simpson and kenneth starr..m. tuesday. the first vote will be by the senate majority leader by rules to govern the trial. >>> presidential kaicandidates making visits to the bay area. today is michael bloomberg's turn. before being censent to the breaking news in an interview with him today. >> reporter: he began his day with a series of photo ops. walking from 19th street station to snow park alongside the mayor. >> can i take him wherever i want? >> reporter: she respects bloomberg, but won't endorse anyone until the primaries are over. >> i am running to defeat donald trump. >> reporter: later bloomberg spoke to a roomful of supporters at the square. he says his administration got more health care coverage for people, battled climate change and created jobs in new york. he said he can reach across party lines. i asked him how you do that with such a polarized >> you are civil to each other and finding things in common and ways you can get some and the other person can get some and you go back and forth and i

the white house counsel pat cipollone and jay sekulow, independent counsel kenneth starr, pam bondi,ane raskin and constitutional scholar alan dershowitz. he voted for hillary clinton in 2016, but he opposed and rebuked the radical dimms for their ideological attack against this president through impeachment. the president's legal team we are told will argue the articles of impeachment are dangerous, unconstitutional and hud be rejected on their face. the president using the celebration with lsu, the national champons to unload on the radical dimms. and the looming trial. >> we'll take pictures behind the resolute desk. it's been there a long time, many presidents. some good, some not so good. you have got a good one now, even though they are trying to impeach the son of a bitch. can you believe that. liz: joining us, john solomon, now the editor-in-chief of his new media outlet, just the news. that's going to be quite something. we can't wait. i do want to talk about that tonight. but first let's turn to the president's legal team, your assessment of it. it has some all-stars. >> he

alan dershowitz, longtime lawyer who has, of course, been in the media for a long time and also kenneth starr. it's interesting that when mr. dershowitz was on the with anderson earlier, he asked what would starr bring that he wouldn't bring, he said he didn't know, that they weren't talking to each other. these are their superstar lawyers. they're not talking to each other. they don't have to? >> clearly you want to make sure their arguments are consistent with one another and that they're painting a picture for the senate as well as the public that's coherent. if they're not working together, it would be hard to do that. it's interesting. as we know, the legislature has already heard testimony about whether or not this is a valid basis for impeachment under the constitution. so why he's retreading that ground, it's not clear to me. it suggests that the facts in and of themselves are not something that he's going to be disputing. >> we appreciate your insight. amy pope, thanks for joining us from london this morning. >> thank you. >>> as we continue to hear more about the trump defense team

the future's going to look a lot different so we're going to hear next from my co-counsel judge kenneth starr judge starr is a former judge for the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia he serves the 39th solicitor general of the united states arguing cases before the supreme court of the united states on behalf of the united states i had the privilege of arguing a case alongside judge starr we're talking about earlier many years ago. he also served as the independent counsel during the clinton presidency and authored the starr report he testified for almost 12 hours before the judiciary committee with regard to that report judge starr is very familiar with this process he is going to address a series of deficiencies or legal issues with regard to article one and 2 constitutional implications historical implications and legal implications of where this case. now stands so i would like to yield my time right now to if the police chief justice can start. starr. thank you mr chief justice. house managers and staff members of the senate. the majority leader the minority leader. at th

kenneth starr was subjected across examination by the president's council.do you know who didn't show up in the judiciary committee? chairman schiff. he did not show up. he did not give chairman nadler the respect of appearing before his committee and answering questions. he did send his staff. but why didn't he show up? another good question you should think about. they have come here today and they basically said let's cancel an election over a meeting with ukraine. as my colleagues have shown, they fail to give you key facts about the meeting and lots of other evidence that they produced themselves but let's talk about the meeting. it is all about an invitation to a meeting. if you look at the first transcript, at the first transcript, the president said to president zelinsky, when you are settled in and ready, i would like to invite you to the white house. we have a lot of things to talk about. but we are with you all the way. and president zelinsky said, thank you for the invitation. we accept the invitation and look forward to the visit. thank you agai

kenneth starr was subjected across examination by the president's council.do you know who didn't show up in the judiciary committee? chairman schiff. he did not show up. he did not give chairman nadler the respect of appearing before his committee and answering questions. he did send his staff. but why didn't he show up? another good question you should think about. they have come here today and they basically said let's cancel an election over a meeting with ukraine. as my colleagues have shown, they fail to give you key facts about the meeting and lots of other evidence that they produced themselves but let's talk about the meeting. it is all about an invitation to a meeting. if you look at the first transcript, at the first transcript, the president said to president zelinsky, when you are settled in and ready, i would like to invite you to the white house. we have a lot of things to talk about. but we are with you all the way. and president zelinsky said, thank you for the invitation. we accept the invitation and look forward to the visit. thank you agai