senator lott and senator daschle wanted the senate to look good. they wanted it to look more substantial than the house had in its actions, and they worked together and there was a lot more bipartisanship than i think anyone thought was ossible. that unique bipartisan conference in the old senate chamber produced agreement and they voted 100-0 on the senate rules. as senator kennedy and senator phil graham of texas came to the conclusion that they didn't have enough agreement to get to home plate, but they did have enough agreement to get to second base. so they would write the rules to get to second base and once they got there, we would write the rules to go home. host: this is probably a related question. in 2020, unlike 1974 and 1999, this is a presidential election year. what does that do to the process? mr. ritchie: in each of the previous cases, they were in their second terms. nixon and clinton were constitutionally unable to run for a third term. so it was not going to affect their elections. it might affect the vice president's and what w

senator lott: mr. chief justice, we thank you for your comments and i send the resolution to the desk. chief justice rehnquist: the clerk will read the resolution. >> senate resolution 37, to express gratitude for service of the chief justice of the united states as presiding officer during the impeachment trial. senator lott: mr. chief justice, i ask that it be considered having been read in its entirety? chief justice rehnquist: the clerk will without objection read it in its entirety. senator lott: and i would ask -- introduced earlier today by senator lott and senator daschle that the resolution be adopted. chief justice rehnquist: without objection, the resolution is adopted. senator lott: i ask that any you now to consent that any statement senators wish to make at this point be printed in the record. mr. chief justice. chief justice rehnquist: without objection, it is so ordered. senator lott: on behalf of myself and the entire senator we united states senate, we want to offer our thanks and the

." >> reporter: melissa lott is a senior research scholar at columbia university's center onb energy policy. >> so, if you look back at 1992 and you look at onshore wind, we had somewhgae around 1.5 tts of wind. and if you look at it today, st forward, we're talking at having over 100 gigawatts of wind power id the country. 's producing 7% of the electricity in this country at th20 time. since 11, we've seen thef amountnd on the system double. that's incredible growth. >> reporter: at the same time, the p.t.c. has also push down the wholesale cost of wind energy by about de% in the last de. >> onshore wind looks like it's competitive inmb significant of states in the u.s. so, if the idea behind the p.t.c. was to say, "okay, we're going to help a technology that's not quite there," well, in the case of wind, maybe it is there now. >> reporter: and that's exactly what lawmakers have determined. after nearly 30 years, congress is phasing out t p.t.c. wind projects need to be operional by the end of 2020 to receive the full credit, with the incentive completely disappearing by 2024. that

i just asked former senator trent lott what he thought of mitch mcconnell's performance and he said he thinks he's doing a good job. you clearly do not share that sentiment. >> byron: well, as you know, he said publicly he is not impartial, whatever that means, i guess. here's the circumstance, first of all, accommodations to trump flat and tom daschle, they were close, they worked together, they understood even though one was a republican and one was a democrat they wanted the senate to do the right things good for them. this new impeachment trial is vastly different than the impeachment trial 20 years ago. i will tell you how, 20 years ago, the impeachment trial was provided, all the documents of kenneth starr who spent 3.5 years, he got all the witnesses in front of a grand jury under oath, all the documents, he had everything that was compiled, including a 9-0 supreme court decision that forced the president to be under oath before a grand jury. that all existed, he laid that before the senate. that has not happened with respect to the house of representatives and president trump.

here's majority leader trent lott from the clinton impeachment trial. >> senator and i would make sure time stays pretty close even as go through the day. of course the chief justice i'm sure will make sure the deliberations and answers are fair. i do have the first question prepared to sing to the chief justice but i thought perhaps he had some business you want to address before i did that. >> yes. i would like to advise counsel on both sides that the chair will operate on a rebuttable presumption that each question can be fully and fairly answered in five minutes or less. [laughing] >> mr. chief justice, i do send the first question to the desk. >> the impeachment trial of president trump live today at 1 p.m. eastern on c-span2, on-demand at c-span.org/impeachment, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> victory is not winning for our party. victory is winning for our country. [applause] president trump delivers his state of the address from the house chamber live tuesday, february 4 at 8 p.m. eastern by the democratic response with michigan governor gretchen whitmer and texas re

worked closely with senator lott to keep proceedings fair.ut democratic leadership was in contact with the democratic president about what was happening and keeping them informed. you cannot remove the politics from the process. even though it is also a judicial process and they take an oath to be impartial. host: once the trial gets underway, do the party leaders have any specific role? mr. ritchie: majority leader continue to make motions and suggest a recess or when they will come back. he will be rising occasionally. other senators are not to speak. they send written questions to be answered. the majority leader has an occasional reference. lott at oneator point tried to adjourn for the day and chief justice rehnquist was getting impatient and said he wanted to continue longer and senator lott realized as i majority leader, he was now second to the presiding officer. motionne detail on that to dismiss. it would be a simple majority vote? mr. ritchie: there is no filibustering inside the impeachment. so in a vote would be a simple majority

together. >> they work together and i know because i talk to trent lott.t was my dear friend and remains so. that he was upset at how partisan the house republicans seem in voting for articles of impeachment against president clinton. and he wanted the senate to do it in a different way even though he had a pretty good idea of how it was going to end. >> do you see that happening in this senate? >> not right now. but i really hope that senator mcconnell, senator schumer will rise to the occasion. and realize that there's something important they're doing. now, articles of impeachment have been voted. whether they think that was outrageous or not enough, the senators have an obligation and responsibility really to do what is called for in the constitution. >> would you want to hear from witnesses if you were a senator today? >> one way or the other, i probably would. i mean, i could tell you that we resolved that problem in a compromise. >> taped witnesses. >> that's right. we had three witnesses. they were videotaped depositions. that is, the house manager

tackling climate change and a future for troubled german holiday carrier commodore polish carrier lott says it's willing to put millions on the table for the former subsidiary of bankrupt travel operator thomas. congress called welcome to the program the new coronavirus is advancing france has now declared 2 infections meanwhile china were the virus originated has quarantined cities stopped public transport in many places and shut down major tourist attractions from disneyland to the forbidden city this as the nation prepares for the lunar new year festivities a crucial time for business. many chinese citizens are rushing to the supermarkets to buy food and daily items and book shelves stocking staples such as meat vegetables and instant noodles are emptying as people prepare to stay at home and avoid public places for as long as possible companies producing face masks are working 247 to help fight the spread of the virus many here at the factory in the city of jennings are working overtime time i want to support to hunt the epicenter i want to help all the people there. is just one of

one of them must trent lott. -- one of them was trent lott. you think the members who voted for or against should recuse himself like those senators did in the late 1980's? brian: sen. byrd: it is a matter for them to decide. it goes back a long way also. of the to the case impeachment of judge pickering. there were members who voted to .mpeach, who came to the senate there were other cases. . believe they all voted in any event there was a case, , inaps in the case of chase which i seem to member there who came overths from the house for a one of them insisted on voting in the senate, and he did. this is not a new question. those members are entitled and they are now senators. the constitution doesn't say they can't vote or that they have to recuse themselves. we have places where house members who voted for or against came over to the senate and voted. brian: individuals choice. pointk to your earlier about high crimes and misdemeanors. what would you define as a high crime and misdemeanor? have you thought this out? the sen. byrd: it is one

and my final point would be that i never thought i'd say that i miss tom daschle and trent lott. they had comedy and civility and were able to kind of work through the clinton impeachment. i don't know what we're going to encounter here, but mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer do not seem to be on the same page in any way, shape, and form, and that's because the king daddy battle is for these witnesses, and it's going to be happening quick and fast, and at all costs, the democrats need to get to hear from parnas and giuliani and the rest and maybe the whistle-blower will come and talk in private quarters. maybe hunter biden will show up. we're going to have to see. i doubt that the democrats are going to put witnesses like that forward. >> they won't put them forward, but it might not be up to them ultimately if there's a ruling on witnesses. professor brinkley, we were discussing earlier in the broadcast 21 years ago in one day, the very first objection made by democratic senator tom harkin, he objected to the idea that the republican house impeachment managers during the clinton

. >> the big difference is, david, in 1999, lott and daschle met tonight before and spoke on the phone that the house passed. >> and they worked it all out. so you don't have that here. it is much more of the food fight on the floor of the senate not similar to 1999. >> and he is not there, trent lott. >> right. and so stay here, because coming up next, we have the potential sinister plot involving rudy giuliani and ukraine and may add to the push for witnesses and documents in the upcoming impeachment trial. stay with us. is ending soon! get a 4-course meal starting at $15.99. treat yourself to the perfect gift today, because the aussie 4-course won't last long! outback steakhouse. when crabe stronger...strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. ♪ ♪ oh, oh, (announcer)®! ♪ once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like james lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 an

here is majority leader trent lott from the clinton impeachment trial. >> we would like to make sure the time stays close to even as we go through the day. the chief justice, i am sure, will make sure the deliberations and answers are fair. i have the first question prepared to send to the chief justice but i thought perhaps he had some further business he might want to address before i did that. >> i would like to advise counsel on both sides that the chair will operate on a rebuttable presumption that each question can be fully and fairly answered in five minutes or less. [laughter] >> mister chief justice, i sent the first question to the desk. >> the impeachment trial of donald trump live today at 1:00 pm eastern on c-span2, on demand, c-span.org/impeachment. or listen on the free c-span radio apps. >> our c-span campaign 2020 bus is traveling across iowa. ahead of the caucuses next week, asking voters what issues should presidential candidates address? >> an issue i would like to hear them discuss is how are you going to come back from where we are? the current president has lef

less thth she raised iprevious quarter, when her campaign was really searching when she really had a lotte of excint and everyone was really excited about elizabeth warren. it is not uncommon for campaigns to ebb and flow a little bit over time, but you would probably -- i think more and uld be hoping that that number -- she has raised between $17mi million and $2ion -- she would hope for it to pick up in e future, because it is not just money but a show of enthusiasm. laura: maggie severns, thanks so much for being with us. maggie: thank for having me. laura: industrial action in france has entered its 29th they can makingt the longest rail workers strike in more than 50 years oldhe protest against president emmanuel macron'rms pension rehave hit train service is the hardest. more talks are due to be held between unions a o the governmen tuesday. the fugitive businessman carlos naosn says that he alone arranged for hisuthorized of water from japan. in a statement, mr. ghosn played down his decoration that family members arranged for him to escape house arrest to travel to lebanon via turk

plays the role of ever in almost a theatrical kind it's not perfect kind of way filming heheelf as a lottpeople would mark at. all of. duration at now we- using smartphones sharing it on social media to be a- it it's you have to come of thought era and drama in somers both with the c codes. online style of sharing that we know today the story on instagram as one at major example now it has it has generated a certatain amount of controversy at at some historians in at in israel and elsewhere see it as a kind of a cheapening or dumbing down all the history. those who defend- the method se this is how a lot of young people are. consuming information at they're going to the cinema për last there's been of time on their devices and it's a way of connecting them with i don't. that allowed the whole cool through watching award winning documentary series years and years ago called the world war i. think doesn't exist anymore right okay exactly the only way to get through to kids than. access they should do it should not surely that's it and i suppose a it's easy for people who are used to other f

it would be hard to make that happen in practice there will be a l lot of protesest a lott f breaking o of the laws on and of course a lot of suffering as people will turn as they always have to dodoing it themselelveso going to people who can't do it and- and i. do that because we don't have much time left if it briefly if you can of course you mentioned earlier that there are many challenges suddenly another course the concerern is ththat at a large number of can exactly sheltering in an at various states in in the south and the midwest of a- the united states. yes this is true- there been over two hundred clinics that have closed. and that means that people are having to- cross the country spend thousasands of dollars tryinin o get to places. some of ththem we knowow are already doing it themselves or goining to ilegal practitioners. . some of them womemen or their- the people who helped them have been arrested and prosecuted- and landed in jail for close manslaughter. so we are already seeining the results of this on such a terrible situation and it's very much a regional in the s

i've had a number of trent lott, john cornyn and now john thune. they've all done a good job. we have a chapter that talks about being a party campaign chairman. this isn't a position that maybe get as much publicity publicity but yout were chairman of the republican senatorial committee for a few cycles and take interest in the work of those who succeeded you ever sense. can you talk about what it's like to be the party campaign chair and what the job entails and what sometimes with the desire olsson someone could seek the position? >> several have had a job and youev end up developing some gratitude from those who win because it is a very time-consuming job. i dated a couple of years. during part of my tenure also had a child so sometimes there are further ambitions and it's very time-consuming. they don't allow anybody to have it when they up themselves, so it's an important part of trying to win and i would like to remind people if you don't, only the winners make policy, theos losers don't. so you are in no position to influence things. there was a committee in the senate

>>and their friends says her favorite 49 ers former player safety ronnie lott. >>today the san francisco giants announced 2 new coaches to its staff, including one higher that is breaking some barriers in professional sports. lisa makin of former softball players state university and chief information officer for the baseball team at the university of san francisco. there's now the giants new assistant coach. according to the giants and mlb major league baseball nakhon is the first woman, just sir full time on a major league baseball coaching staff congratulations to her. >>all right this take a look outside it was a busy weather day today we're looking now at the golden gate bridge looks like the roadways still slit, but nonetheless you can look at the radar and see that the rain is kind of scattered about right every is here we saw kind of everything today a little bit of rain hail snow typical winter storm made its way into the bay area and it really did live up to all expectations in fact exceeding some with all the hail that we got a blank getting parts of

democrats for their part have been arguing look at the president when he had that phone call with lott amir's alinsky the leader of ukraine he abused his presidential powers and that is the heart of this case what they're saying is well this may not amount to the expressly stated in the u.s. constitution high crimes and misdemeanors it certainly embodies the spirit that it was deliberately left vague an open ended so that it could encompass an abuse of presidential power but once again the white house as of this hour maintaining that the president committed no wrongdoing so the child then begins in the senate tomorrow tuesday how is it going to look like what are we expecting. yeah we've got a pretty good sense now of how it might look the rules we don't have ironed out just yet that will be voted on tuesday but it's looking like it's going to be argued every day except sunday it'll be about 6 hours we know those 7 house managers those are the democrats in the house of representatives that lack like the prosecutors in the senate trial that they are arguing now rate amongst themselves w

trent lott from the clinton impeachment trial. >> stays pretty close to even as we go through the day. the chief justice, i am sure, will make sure deliberations and answers are fair. the first question prepared to send to the chief justice but i thought perhaps he had business he would like to address before i did that. >> i would like to advise counsel on both sides that the chair will operate on rebuttable presumption that each question can be fully and fairly answered in 5 minutes or less. mister chief justice, the first question to the desk. >> the impeachment trial of donald trump live today at 1:00 pm eastern on c-span2, on demand on c-span.org/impeachment or listen on the free c-span radio apps. >> lawmakers reacted to the case presented by the president's defense team at the first break and monday's trial, senate democratic leader chuck schumer and connecticut senator richard blumenthal spoke to reporters. >> i think mister braun for his courtesy. first, once again, the president's lawyers keep making the case for witnesses and documents. what was the number one fact kenneth

back in 1999 the senators lott and daschle, the leaders, negotiated, worked out a deal, sort of how the senate kind of works when it's functioning well. that's likely to happen here. regardless of the saber rattling you see between senator schumer, full disclosure, my former boss, and senator mcconnell. they'll still try to work something out. just the fate of those five or six senate republicans is too much of a balance for that not to be the case. >> to that point on the map, democrats need it four republican senators to successfully call witness request documents. two republicans senators, lisa murkowski and susan collins both shared public discomfort with senator mcconnell forcing, pre-jumping a witness-free trial. perform former prosecutor joyce white vance argued if bolton and our witnesses with information relative to trump's conduct in ukraine don't testify the senate trial will be nothing more than a fancy cover-up. what do you say? >> reporter: i think that's accurate given the nature -- look at the emails from today. sort of the highest levels of government, bolton and mulvan

are finally elected to the number twthenumber two positions november 13, then a month later trent lott went to the party instead something about thurmond and had to resign as the leader, position that you always wanted. you would seem to be the logical person to move up into senator bill frist took the position. and then at the end of january you had triple j bypass surgery, so what was your range of emotions about all of those things? >> guest: my feeling is they would never have an opportunity to be the leader as i was ten years older than bill frist. i had doubts during that period and i had just been bypassed by somebody ten years younger than i am. i wondered if i would ever have an opportunity to have the job that i had been hoping to have for quite a while so it was a challenging period but like other challenges i don't want to make my story seem a all that unique. just don't quit and keep plugging away and the chances are you will get where you are headed. i always tell students i spend a lot of time with the only way and we all have speedbump said setbacks. or we defeated by t

lott: but i hope that's not taken the wrong way. and not for an occasion like this one. so instead, as you return to your work on the court and the great marble temple of the law right across the lawn from this capitol, we salute you, sir, with renewed appreciation, and esteem for a good friend and good neighbor. and now, mr. chief justice, if the democratic leader will join you, we have a small token of our appreciation. we have a tradition in the senate that after you have presided over the senate for 100 hours, we present you with a golden gavel award. and i'm not sure it quite reached 100 hours. but it's close enough. [laughter] [applause] >> some of the highlights of the senate trial of president bill clinton in january, early february of 1999. and alexis simendinger, as you look back, what stands out? alexis: by the time the vote was taken at the end of a month-long trial, it seemed to have lost the suspense about where it was going to go, because the hurdle in the constitution is pretty high. 2/3 of those present would need to vote in favor of articles of impeachm

i went back and read the resolution that was passed and agreed to unanimously by daschle and trent lott in 1998. >> i agree with you, laura, and i also agree this is probably a political decision by the fence sitters on the republican side,8 but it is not the end of the world, because we have tools. in real court, a motion forr summary evidence, judgment after evidence, but there are ways toh dismiss a defective prosecution, and hopefully we will be able to do that after these people are placated with the initial vote. when we open up witness lists, hopefully it will be reciprocal. >> laura: okay.is sol, i don't trust republicans to negotiate a good deal on this. i love mitch mcconnell, i think he's really smart. you just never know. and these guys aren't trial lawyers.ch you guys are in court all the time. >> defendants get to call witnesses in trials. the whole idea that only the house managers would get to call witnesses is just a joke. a joke. >> we all agree on that. >> laura: jeffrey toobin says basically everyone is afraid. if they don't want to call witnesses, they are afraid. i

were finally elected the number two position in the senate was november 13, 2010 a month later trent lott went to a birthday party and said something about thurmond and the suddenly he had to resign as the leader of the position you always wanted. you would seem to be the logical person to move up but senator bill frist took the position. and then at the end of january coming t,you had triple bypass , so whatt was your range of emotions during the two and a half months? my feeling was i probably never was going to have an opportunity to be the leader of my party in the senate because i was ten years older thanpp bill frist. fortunately the health problem i had worked out fine, but i have doubts during that period and i've just been bypassed by somebody ten years younger than i am and had a significant health problem, so you know, i wondered if i would ever have an opportunity to have the job that i had been hoping to have for quitee a while. so it was a challenging period but like other challenges, i don't want to make my story seem all that unique. if you just don't quit and just keep lo

it was around this time 21 years ago that the then senate leaders trent lott of mississippi and dom daschle forged an agreement that all 100 senators agreed to and they set up the parameters. mitch mcconnell says send the articles to the senate. he dare the house speaker to do so. listen. >> their turn is over. they've cone enough damage. it's the senate's turn now to render sober judgment as the framers envisioned. we can't hold a trial without the articles. the senate's own rules don't provide for that. >> there's some thought that maybe mitch mcconnell could introduce some sort of separate resolution to disagree with what the house had done. that would have no parliamentary bearing on the house's actions. that said on monday, josh holly from missouri said the following. if the prosecution doesn't proceed with the case, it's dismissed. this will expose the democratic circus for a fake impeachment. that's why monday josh holly will introduce a resolution to introduce the impeachment. it's hard to dismiss something that you don't have. back to you. >> thanks, chad. live on capitol hill. let

probably not in a closed session as trent lott did during the clinton impeachment but he'll convene the senate and they'll take a vote on overall procedure. basic framework for proceeding. clearly that framework will not include a requiring or calling witnesses. and then a second topic will come up. that's the topic of witnesses, and there will be a separate vote on that. that's going to be the critical one, of course. whether or not they need new witnesses is open to question. there's a lot of evidence the house already had. but keep in mind during the clinton impeachment, house republicans have pushed for and voted for clinton's impeachment and said they didn't need more evidence. they were going to impeach them and the senate's job was to do a trial, hear evidence. now they're switching positions. and part of the problem with their switching positions is it looks to be part of a cover-up of the president based on all these new revelations. >> there's a lot of position switching between how the last impeachment went and this one. >> that never happens in politics. rachael bade and mic

it was tom daschle and trent lott were able to agree on rules. 100 senators voted for them.st of no everybody agreed on the ground rules. history is not repeating itself that way nowadays. >> how has a u.s. senator taking an oath signed to the fact they're impartial, having said they're not impartial? >> that's a very hard thing. that's another example of that is the fact that here we are in a situation. i'm always looking for ways in which the past is going to tell us what to predict. that's happened before. but the other thing is that you've never had a situation where the president who is in the dock had a party that controlled the senate at the time of the trial and we're now seeing the fruits of that. >> and we've never had a president in the dock in first term up for reelection in the year of an impeachment. >> that's right. this is in the middle of the campaign. the president in the dock is running for reelection. iowa is coming up. you'll have a state of the union which may occur during this. that happened before with bill clinton. but i think the interesting thing i

trent lott.ncerned because he had a lot of pressure from the house republicans saying we want kathleen willey, we want ms. broderick, we want -- juanita broderick. >> save lisa meyers or free lisa meyers -- >> what they wanted to do was to broaden the case against clinton to involve other women about whom there was suspicion of sexual harassment. the senators, both republicans and democratic senators, did not want that to happen in the senate. so there was a mutual desire 079 part of both parties in the senate. >> but they had a full record there from starr. and here you have a completely incomplete record because they didn't get the same access -- >> but the argument i'm making is that the constitution lets it -- leaves it up to the senate to do what it wishes to do and do it how it wants to do it. it seems strange for me -- to me that everyone's hanging so much on this one precedent, which was such an entirely different case with different circumstances. and there's another big difference, and

look at how dashiell and lott voted together, sending shockwaves through the clinton white house.oday the republicans do not need a single democratic vote to get what they want. there is no effort to even try to look like they are appeasing or winning over democrats. they figure they will not get any of those votes, anyway. reason is out the window. right now it is completely a numbers exercise. if there is no incentive for the republican leadership to get bipartisanship, they will be out try. -- they will not try. rick: it is not even a numbers exercise. you are right about a change in the culture that existed when the clinton impeachment started. it is a political exercise. this is a foregone conclusion the day the process began in the house. why didn't nancy pelosi in the house prosecutors call witnesses they are now demanding the senate call? because they had their own agenda. they had a rush to judgment and they wanted to get to the finish line as quickly as they could to make this a part of the beginning of this year narrative politically, and there was never a single republ

but remember, in the clinton impeachment, trent lott, who was the minority leader with tom daschle came up with a set of rules the senators could agree on, all 100 of them. we are very far away from that kind of collaborative process right now in the united states senate. >> are you concerned that when you hear that from mcconnell or other republicans that they might intend to cherry-pick features of the clinton model, for instance, the idea that you had a debate, you heard from both sides before there was a vote on next steps? that they might be satisfied hearing those arguments and saying, hey, you know, we're fine, we've heard all we need to hear? >> well, i am concerned about that, and that is why the democrats will be asking at the beginning moments of the trial on tuesday for a response to the question of why we should have witnesses. i mean, you can't have a fair trial without witnesses. there have been, what, 19 impeachments in the united states senate, and every single one of them has had witnesses. and it only makes sense that you would take that step. and i would think that m

she sat side senate majority leader trent lott during president clinton'rrtrial. she's tly a principle at congressional global strategies. thmargaret taylor worked o senate foreign relations committee from 2013 to 2018 deputy chief counsel, then democratic chief counsel and deputy staff director. margaret was also an attorney at the department of state for ten years. she is currently a governance studies fellow at the brookings institution and a seor editor at lawfare. and john hart worked forto congressmacoburn, republican of oklahoma, during the clinton impeachment trial. he is currently a g.o.p. consultant for mars hill strategies, working on congressional campaigns and for corporate and non-profit clients. >> you've been here with me during our live coverage today. we appreciate your sticking around. i know you'll be here on into the evening. what i want to get a sense from u and startin with you mart ?aone what do you think was accomplished tod we saw the majority leader mitch mcconnell pull back a little one the rule wanted to employ. will itterially changes

with the blinill clint one is, you know, once they were all sworn in, senate majority leader trent lott then in control said, okay, we've got votes to start. we don't have the vote yet to say, you know, how many witnesses we might hear from, but we're going to take it one day at a time and, first of all, mitch mcconnell will probably wield a stronger hand here, but it will still be one day at a time. >> yeah, we'll all be watching to see how this next trial really compares to what we saw in '99. still so many questions unanswered, but we will be glued. thank you. >>> also today, secretary mike pompeo says iran likely shot down that ukrainian passenger jet that crashed in tehran this week killing everyone on board. iran denies it even inviting u.s. investigators to take a look at the wreckage or asking what happens now. >>> and taking a look at the big board, stocks hitting a major milestone, the dow today passing the 29,000 mark for the first time ever. now it's just below right now. it comes on the heels of a pretty mixed jobs report. we'll talk economy. >>> and former secretary of sta

back in 1999, trent lott wanted that from his members to try to have a trial that people could watch feel was respectful of both sides. and was worthy of the title of, you know, the most deliberative body. >> yeah. >> i think he was trying to make a joke a little bit about pettifogging. i think everybody is so tired, including him, no one really caught the joke at that point. >> i think you're exactly right. the chief justice has a really good sense of wit and we'll probably see that throughout this trial. but at that moment, he was all seriousness, all business in saying, please, everyone, stay in line here. >> thanks, joan. >> thank you. >>> opening arguments are ahead today. but after that very contentious first day in the senate impeachment trial, will democrats or republicans adjust their playbook? hey, saved you a seat. this round's on me. hey, can you spot me? come on in. find your place today, with silversneakers. included in most medicare advantage plans. enroll today by calling the number on your screen or visit getsilversneakers.com my hands are everything to me. but i was

100-1 is a little misleading, because, at the time, it looked very much in doubt that senator trent lott, the republican, could get even a simple majority to agree. it was not as bipartisan as originally thought. it was only that far phil graham to agree on the little stuff and go forward on the little stuff, which was opening statements, briefings, the things they could agree on in the short term. that narrow issue is what passed 100 to nothing. when mitch mcconnell says this is the same as the deal that passed 100 to nothing 20 years ago, it was hotly contested back then. and it was only that compromise. the limited compromise, phase one as he calls it moved forward and passed. and passed very quickly because senators were worried if we don't agree with this now and start talking about it, it will divulge into debate and not go anywhere. so history actually repeats itself today. >> there is a lot of questions about the mechanics of how a procedure like this would begin. i think some people were maybe surprised yesterday seeing mitch mcconnell say he could actually start this thing, som

the defense buoyed by 3 starting rookie defensive backs led by ronnie lott. arrived in detroit for the big game last greeted them as they got off the bus dressed as a hotel bellhop the stun caught the team off guard montana didn't even recognize his coach at first one of walsh's genius tricks meant to relax his young team as for the game. the turning point was a goal line stand in which unheralded linebacker dan bonds stood up to charles alexander at the one yard line told to stop it is one of the most famous tackles in super bowl history. montana named mvp and walsh got the ride of his life as the niners won their first super bowl taken down the cincinnati bengals 2621. >>and all week long kron 4 will be covering the forty-niners in a special edition of the red and gold zone it will air at 04:00pm today and every day through friday as we bring you live reports from miami. you can also get the very latest niners and the stories we're doing on our website at kron 4 dot com. we'll take a 6 coming up teams to break into a home that was being repaired after the t

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she is a 26 year senate vetera who sat beside trent lott during president clinton's trial.incipal at congressional global strategies. margaret worked on the senates foreign relati committee01 2013 as deputy chief counsel, then as democraticl chief cound deputy staff director. margaret was an attorney at the department of state for 10 years. shes government studies fellow at the brookings institution and a senior editor atr. law f and john worked for congressman tom coburnreblican of oklahoma, during the clinton trial. he is a gop consultant for morris hill strategies. he worksco oressional campaigns and works for corporate and nonprofit clients. hello to l of you. you have been with me during our live coverage today. we appreciate you sticking around. what i want to get a sense from you, i will start with you, marty, what do you think was accomplished today? we saw the majority leader mitch mcconnell pull back a littlee n les that he had wanted to employ. what did we learn from that? will that materially change what unfolds? >> time will tell. what senator mccnell is, is pr

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and then our two leaders who were working much more closely, trent lott, tom daschle, than mcconnell and schumer today said let's go into the old senate chamber and 100 of us, no staff, no media, no record. let's just talk about what our historic responsibility is. and we came out of there with an agreement on the rules. so honestly, to me, the best thing that could happen is not that they begin fighting but that senator mcconnell and senator schumer agree. let's go and talk this over as people elected. >> what are the chances on that? >> i'm not betting it on. i'm offering a hope and a prayer but also setting a precedent which really worked in 1999. >> there is no sign -- >> no sign. >> you, as far as i understand it, you haven't made up your mind on what you think should happen. you want to listen to this process play out. is this the mcconnell rules as he has proposed? is this the kind of open trial you would like to see and one where mitch mcconnell made clear he doesn't want to see any witnesses? is this the trial you'd like to see in order to make your determination? >> not at

for so many others, there is no comparison here, and the reason is that in those days we had trent lott and tom daschle, the two antagonists in terms of party, joined at the hip and working together. the reason you are seeing this unfolding like this so late at night -- and, believe me, people are exhausted even if they're not 80, if they're 68 or 70, they're tired -- is because the two leaders are not working together. mitch mcconnell made changes to the resolution, and according to what i can read between the lines from chuck schumer, the democratic leader, that was done without even discussing anything with him. and so what you're seeing is, you know, both sides staring each other down, and it's really, really sad, and it shouldn't be happening. >> are you hearing from any of your former colleagues in the chamber, number one? and, number two, what is your level of confidence that republicans on critical votes, when we get there, on witnesses like a john bolton will potentially cross over? >> well, you're seeing the so-called moderate republicans walking that party line right now. and

trent lott and tom daschle in the senate worked together. i'll tell you, they were joined at the hip. they even gave us mementos after that awful trial. this is so very, very different, but because there was a time frame set aside by the speaker, people looked at mitch mcconnell and things are moving forward because the moderate senators realize they can't be part of a coverup. they won't get re-elected. >> senator boxer, thank you. jake, always good to have you. senator baucus, do stay with me. we've got some more news coming up perhaps from the white house here as it relates to the signing of this trade deal. a lot of news being covered right now, folks. we are just a few minutes away from the start of that historic house vote to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. a huge new piece of evidence in the investigation, we were just talking about this a few moments ago. these new documents, notes, text messages tied to rudy giuliani, opening up big new questions ahead of the senate trial. we are going to dig into that. we expect to

tom daschle the democratic leader and trent lott understood there was no way that they were going to remove him. so they made this deal -- here's bernie sanders. >> this sets a terrible present for future presidents and the future of this country. i hope that senator mcconnell allows us to have a full and fair trial. when you have a trial, you hear from witnesses. that's what we do in the united states. i hope mcconnell will allow the witnesses to testify and give us their version of what happened. while we go forward with this impeachment trial, i hope the american people understand that we have not forgotten that in this country outside of washington d.c. today, there are millions of people that are struggling economically, millions of people that cannot afford their prescription drugs or their healthcare. what the congress of the united states has got to do is chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. deal with this trial but we cannot forget the very serious problems facing the american people. >> are you concerned how this will affect your campaign? >> yeah, i am. i would rathe

we had a point in which rick santorum and trent lott came to talk to the managers and henry height askede argument among friends, but it was pretty intense. henry hyde asked the senators to leave. we had a vote, it was 13-0 to not do the precedent that is now set and which is, i think, now appropriate given the history and the context. so, yeah, precedent is there now and i think that -- remember, back then the precedent was set by both sides, by daschle and by watt, by all the senators. it was what they decided was a fair trial. >> because they were able to come to an agreement. let me play something that alan derrish wits told me at the top of the show. do you believe donald trump abused the power of his office? yes or no. >> it's irrelevant. abuse of power is not, is not a criteria for impeachment anymore than dishonesty would be a criteria for impeachment. >> you said you sort of praised the members of president trump's legal team. do you believe it's appropriate for one of those attorneys to be able to say whether or not they do believe president trump abused power. would you be com

looking back on the clinton trial you saw somebody like a senator specter, i spoke to trent lott whoas senate majority leader earlier this week, and he recalled that senators hit on the line, not good but not guilty. i think you'll hear that from republican senators in this trial. >> i know you wrote about this in your latest piece, charlie, are democrats putting too much stake in john bolton's testimony? >> he's a wild card, we think he didn't like what happened in ukraine and referred to it as a drug deal according to witnesses who did testify in the house, that he wanted nothing to do with. on the other hand, had e is a committed republican, he could certainly throw a curveball here by exonerating the president. you've heard some democrats saying that, why don't we just hear from him, as a pitch to their republican colleagues. i don't think that anyone is very confident or remotely confident that at the end of the day, with our without testimony, trump won't be acquitted anyway. his party votes will be with him. so another pitch democrats are trying to make to republicans is, woul

the defense buoyed by 3 starting rookie efensive backs led by ronnie lott. when the team arrived in detroit for the big game last greeted them as they got off the bus dressed as a hotel bellhop the stun caught the team off guard, montana didn't even recognize his coa at first one of walsh's genius tricks meant to relax his young team as for the game. the turning point was a goal line stand in which unheralded linebacker dan bonds stood up to charles alexander at the one yard line told to stop it is one of the most famous tackles in super bowl history. montana named mvp and walsh got the ride of his life as the niners won their first super bowl taken down the cincinnati bengals 2621. >>well all week long kron four's going to be covering the forty-niners in a special edition of the red and gold zone which airs at 04:00pm tonight and every night through friday as we bring you the best live reports from miami can also get the latest night, our news on our website at kron 4 dot com and speaking of live reports from ami coming up the next hour rit. from miami. all

in the clinton context, trent lott and i guess it was tom daschle did a kind of end run. they just agreed to a set of procedures. they got their caucuses to agree to it and so they kind of -- it is not that they didn't use the rules. it is that they actually created a set of additional understandings that actually guided the trial and that is what mitch mcconnell is trying to do here. he just can't get con census about it. >> betsy, you have covered a lot of members of congress here. schiff and nadler, been around washington a long time. jeffries, demings, grocrow, gar. seeing the procession, you heard russ feingold say the managers did a good job. >> it is a really interesting blend of people. >> we want to keep having these conversations here. they oar carrying the articles there. >> a member of the house intelligence and house judiciary committees, two of the committees deeply involved this process. she's someone who has always focused on law and order being paramount to her as part of the way she defines her view of public service. and many of the comments that she ma

partisan result in a non-partisan way, and i think the key to it was the relationship between senator lottator dashl. >> we met in the old senate chamber. i never forget it. we were able to reach agreement as others have said on a unanimous basis on what the rules would be with the trial. of course, there is a huge difference because we did have witnesses. the witnesses, including monica lewinsky, testified on tape. that was played before members. >> just to add a footnote, i think my colleagues will recall we did it in the old senate chambers. what was interesting to me phil graham, who represents a very conservative point of view, outlined the proposal. ted kennedy, on the other side of the political spectrum, said, and i quote, i think we're at third base. and there after that as has been discussed by my colleagues we reached a unanimous decision. this is in no way the same situation. totally different in my view. full display of witnesses in the house and then we had the videotaping, which many of us spent a lot of time listening to that. so we had the benefit of witness input before a

history and the body of the united states senate as a microcosm of american politics, that daschle and lotte worked out as noted many times today a package passed 100-0 with consent, through extended negotiations between the two parties. even at that point, at the time felt like a sort of low point of the kind of institutional structure on capitol hill and the impeachment of president clinton as a high point, partisan polarization. that was not the high point of polarization as is evidenced now in the procedural fights we've seen this time around 20 years later. >> maia wiley, let me ask you about the point claire just made about needing to stop the house impeachment managers from continuing to make this case. do you feel that they are drawing blood, that they are making a case here that is hurting? >> oh, i'm proud. i am proud for my profession when i see the house managers. and i'll put it in legal terms. they brought the receipts. they threw them on the table. and they asked them to be paid when they ask for these documents and these witnesses. what i mean by that is they are, as everyone