mulvaney will confirm the corrupt shakedown scheme. because mr. mulvaney was in the loop. everyone was in the loop. as ambassador sondland testimony on july 19, e-mailing several top administration officials that president zelensky was prepared to receive potus call and assure president trump he intends to run a full transparent investigation and would turn over every stone. mr. mulvaney replied, i asked and sd to set it up for tomorrow. the above e-mail seems clear that ambassador sondland testified it was clear that he was confirming to mr. mulvaney that he told president zelensky he had to tell president trump on the july 25th call he would announce the nvinvestigation and explained the reference to one of the two phony political investigations that president trump wanted. mr. mulvaney replied that he will set up the meeting. consistent with the agreement that followed that he took a position on the investigation. but if there is any uncertainty if there is any lingeringge question of what this mean means, luscious question mick mulvaney under oath. and alsoro have hear

mulvaney? >> correct. >> remarkably the president is still denying the facts even as they argue that if it's true it is still not impeachable. but if the president did nothing wrong, if he held up the aid because of so-called corruption or burden sharing reasons, he should want the chief of staff to come testify under oath before the distinguished body and say just that. why does he not want mulvaney to appear before the united states senate? well we know the answer. because mr. mulvaney will confirm the corrupt shakedown scheme. because mr. mulvaney was in the loop. everyone was in the loop. as ambassador sondland summarized in his testimony in july 19, he e-mailed several top administration officials including mr. mulvaney that president zelensky was prepared to receive notices call and would assure president trump that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will turn over every stone. mr. mulvaney replied, i asked in the oc to set it up for tomorrow. the above e-mail seems c

mulvaney will confirm the corrupt shakedown scheme. because mr. mulvaney was in the loop.eryone was in the loop. as ambassador sans lynn mann --dash sondland e-mail the several top officials including mr. mulvaney that president zelensky was prepared to receive the potus call and would assure president trump he intends to a fully transparent investigation and will turn over every stone. mr. mulvaney replied, i asked ed sc to set it up for tomorrow. the e-mail seems clear. ambassador sondland testified it was clear that he was confirming to mr. sondland he told president zelensky he had to tell president trump on that july 25th call that he would announce the investigation which he explainedla was a reference to the phony political investigations that president trump wanted. and mr. mulvaney replied that they would set up the meeting. consistent with the agreement that sondland said he reached with mr. mulvaney to condition a meeting on the investigation. but if there is any uncertaint uncertainty, if there is any lingering question about what this means, let's just questio

carolina, along with mick mulvaney. so they're all be there to talk about this reporting, and the question is whether mark meadows would take the job and when. >> and even if you don't like your chief of staff, even if you have some dysfunction in the white house which he's had to varying degrees since day one, a lot of voters have turned away from the tweets of the president and the chaos. but the president says false. you were at the white house for a long time when it was false, he was out of favor with reince priebus, he was out of favor with the department of homeland security, the secretary of state james mattis, the defense secretary. the president said in each of those, not true. they're all gone. >> they're all gone and a lot of times they were dismissed by tweet and the president likes to be the one that breaks his own news. he doesn't like when he gets scooped by us in the media and other reporters that sort of previews what he's going to do before he does it. i wouldn't be surprised that the president actual

that's how mulvaney got the job. so what we're told is the president doesn't want mulvaney to leave that job until he's got a solid replacement lined up. right now the primary candidate for that does seem to be mark meadows, the congressman from north carolina who recently announced he's not going to run again for that seat. but the question is whether or not he takes the job and when he would take that job. >> i have to say, john, when you are trying to figure out the impact of this, you can't say, oh, my gosh, the guardrails will come off. you can't have the guardrails off twice. you're moving them back a mile to two miles here. >> you can move from 99% to 100. and if that's the danger of what trump might be looking for because he bristles against people who say, mr. president, i think that's a bad idea. mick mulvaney is being told not to buy any green bananas. there are going to be a lot of people who end up beneath the bus of the post impeachment. but all presidents need people who they respect who can say, i wan

nobody in washington cares, least of all mick mulvaney.e'd rather replace our american working class with ungrateful foreigners who would work for less. that way wages pay low. this is the opposite of what donald trump ran on. it's what he railed against in speech after speech. so why is mick mulvaney passionately disagrees with donald trump running donald trump's white house? it's almost like mulvaney is trying to undermine his boss' agenda. that shouldn't surprise you. mulvaney despises donald trump, said so on camera. >> [indistinct] >> tucker: that was in 2016. mulvaney isn't talking like that anymore. at least not on camera. but if you want to know what people think, don't listen to what they say, watch what they do. well, the government of china claims it is bringing the deadly coronavirus under control. it's not clear that's true. the disease is now threatening to become a worldwide pandemic where there are deaths in country it was like italy and iran. so far we have not had them here. a cruise ship where more than 100 passengers fe

acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney says the u.s.ds more immigrants to continue growing. according to an audio recording of mulvaney's remarks at a private gathering in england on wednesday night, obtained by the "washington post," mulvaney said, quote, we are desperate. desperate for more people. we are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we've had in our nation over the last four years. we need more immigrants. adding that the trump administration wants those immigrants to come in legal fashion. the "post" points out that mulvaney's remarks appears to contrast the public position of several top figures in trump's white house, especially that of senior policy adviser steven miller, who had been working to slash legal and illegal immigration through a slew of policies that aim to close off the u.s. border to foreigners as well as the president himself. during a visit to the border last year, amid a record surge of central american families and children crossing into the united states, the president said the country

he was told not to act on his rage towards mick mulvaney.t want to add more chaos to an already chaotic situation. instead, it's over now. so we've learned from sources mick mulvaney says he's also unhappy in this role. he knows it's been diminished. but the big question remains, who would actually fill that role. people tell us that mark meadows from north arolina is his first number one choice. the two of them have grown increasingly close. if you want to talk about an indication here, yesterday in that lengthy press conference, that acquittal speech, president trump singled out mark meadows but said he was an extraordinary guy, he was a special person. someone he didn't single out who was also in that room, of course, was mick mulvaney. so whether or not meadows takes this job is really up in the air right now. if he chooses not to do that, we hear that mick mulvaney might stay in office. president trump does not want a repeat of what happened back in 2018. john? >> all right. keep us posted on this. where do democrats go from here after

chief justice i sent an amendment to the desk to subpoena mulvaney duffy blair and bolton and the white house omb state department documents and i ask that it be read. >> theast clerk will report to mr. schumer proposes an amendment that the appropriate place following the resolving clause section notwithstanding any other provision. >> the amendment be considered as read. >> objection so ordered. >> the majority leader is recognized. >> i ask for the gaze and a. >> sufficient second. the clerk will call the role. spent the senate took five votes offered by minority leader schumer which have several witnesses including john bolton and mick mulvaney but then some credit the table by republicans after the vote the senate adjourned for the weekend the chamber returns monday 11:00 a.m. to continue the impeachment trial of president trump closing arguments are on monday with house managers in the president's defense team getting four hours total. after that the senate returns to legislative business they had 15 minutes each to debate the articles of impeachment how they plan to vote and the

that was truth telling on mick mulvaney's part.actually hurt any immediate republicans, this administration, that they're blowing through budgets and the deficit? >> trump called himself the king of debt, that's what the country has become. you think about exploding deficits, the main reason for that are lower tax receipts when you think about it. you don't see the sort of private participation by companies right now using those tax benefits now. so to me, listen, i think it is a real problem, on cnbc you had leon cooperman, talking about the biggest problem for the country are the deficits and he is giving the trump administration an a plus. i don't know how you get there. >> beyond caring what leon cooperman thinks of the stock market, why on earth would the american people give a hoot what that guy has to say. >> i say from somebody not in bed with this presidential administration, you can't have it both ways. can't say the deficit is the biggest problem the economy faces and give the administration a plus for a massive tax cut,

you seized on mulvaney saying that -- what i understood mulvaney to say, and maybe you thought this wasg the media was focused on a hoax, which was not a hoax, impeachment, while they were dealing with the coronavirus. but i want to know overall what you think about this administration's response to the coronavirus as it is now filtering what could be communications, messaging from scientists and from health officials through the vice president's office? >> you just played a clip of mick mulvaney saying the coronavirus is not a death sentence. for about 2% of the people that get it, it is a death sentence, and it is unfortunate that the administration is downplaying the coronavirus. we know that there's not enough testing kits. we know the initial wave of testing kits did not work. i asked a cdc director yesterday about openly restrictive testing, and they said maybe the reason cases have been unreported is because we test very few people. south korea has tested over 35,000 people, we've tested only a few hundred. the administration needs to stop downplaying the potential risks of the c

and then it was largely ignored because of the impeachment, and mick mulvaney said it was coverage of impeachment. and then flights like italy are starting to have much larger amounts of, this and we have had hardly any because of what the president did. he is ramping it up, and put mike pence a former governor who is where the governors are on the front line of dealing with this type of thing and a governor in charge of this who is also a governor and he has appointed himself a czar to handle it from the federal perspective, and today, meetings across capitol hill and fifth briefing, and there had been four before this, and the democrats are saying that they are completely unprepared and we wonder why we think that democrats are cheerleading for this problem, because immediately, he is shown attacks and he did exactly what president obama did and ready to attack him. >> go ahead, karen. >> that is ridiculous. no one is cheering for anyone to be further harmed, get sick or die from this virus. we all would like to see competent leadership. that is what i saw were the clips of yesterda

mulvaney, bolton, head of the omb, all of the documents. that's what they're voting on.anticipate this will be turned down by 51 votes as they are doing a roll call vote. you heard the chief justice and supreme court at the very beginning was forced by the moo i nort leader to make a stand if it were a tie vote to say it's inappropriate, he would not break that tie. >> it was very clear that senator schumer raise that issue because the chief justice was reading his answer. it was negotiated i'm sure with the majority leader. >> he clearly had it prepared. >> he had prepared for it. this is -- they're going through some procedural motions now to implement the deal they've made. and the deal they've made, senator schumer had leverage because there was division within the republican caucus to extend this thing out through the weekend, allow people to make public statements on monday, take a vote on wednesday. you know, the president doesn't get what he wants, that, you know, standing up for the state of the union saying, i've been acquitted. and that's because i honestly th

acting white house chiefff of staff from omb nick mulvaney line - -ss mick mulvaney international securityresident and the national security and robert blair. common sense says that if president trump has evidence hof his innocence and be insisting that we hear from them they would have rushed into the chamber. unfortunately the exact opposite happened lending strong support for the house of representatives. that the abuse of power is not a crime and therefore not and impeachable offense. and as the president himself is set on many occasions you can do it whatever you want under article two of the constitution. they also i argued if the president thinks his reelection is in the public interest and then to benefit the reelectio reelection, that too is in the public interest and not an abuse of power. common sense would tell us that. it with those arguments even in conservative circles and they have been made up and protect and cover up his wrongdoing. these are nothing short and i am alarmed at what they suggest president trump could do next week, next month in november or any president in

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attending were rudy giuliani, mick mulvaney and pat cipollone, who last tuesday on the first y of the trial saying calling bolton as a witness would be, quote, not right. today cipollone and the president got their wish, no witnesses. next week an acquittal is likely. however even in the eyes of republican senators their votes do not appear to be an exoneration of the president's actions. lamar lamar alexander and rob portman called the president's conduct inappropriate. saying just because actions mean a standard of impeachment does not mean it's in the best interest of a country to remove a president from office. later in his statement, quote, can anyone doubt that at least half of the country would view his removal as illegitimate. it is difficult to conceive of any scheme putin could undertake that would undermine confidence in our democracy more than removal would. as journalist tim alberta today put it, to summarize there are multiple jurors who believe the defendant is guilty as charged but disapprove of the sentence that awaits him, so they're voting to acquit the defendant wh

mulvaney said he made a brief error and corrected it.exceptionally clear at that press conference. he was asked over and over explicitly, look, mick, what you said is a quid pro quo. he said that's what we always do in foreign policy. this was not a brief error that mulvaney made. >> it lived forever. daniel, thank you very much. go to google, put in jonathan carl and put in mulvaney and put in quid pro quo and you will see the moment, you'll see his eyes. he was looking at this reporter and this is exactly what he wanted to say. we'll take break. we'll hear from a senator to get his reaction to the president's closing argument next. unpredictable crohn's symptoms following you? for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease, stelara® works differently. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if

acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is calling the republican party hypocritical when itmes to the growing deficit. in a speech wednesday night in a trip tore britain and ireland to discuss brexit, mulvaney said my party is very interested in deficits when there's a democrat in the white house. the worst thing in the whole world was deficits when barack obama was the president and then donald trump became president and we're less interested as a party. "the washington post" obtained audio of the speech. mulvaney went on to say he found it extraordinarily disturbing that the deficit reached $1 trillion, and neither party or voters cared about it. before serving as acting chief of staff to the president, mulvaney ran the office of management and budget. >>> the fed has weighed in on the rising concern around the world over the deadly coronavirus calling it quote a new risk to the global growth outlook. cnbc's juliana tatelbaum joins us from london. what more have you heard from the fed. >> reporter: in the latest policy meeting which took place last month we learned last ni

he choose mulvaney, bingo, he has been impeached.forever on his legacy if he chooses another cheerleader like mulvaney i think he's headed for more trouble, not less. >> chris whipple, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >>> one of the key witnesses in the impeachment hearings former ambassador bill taylor sat down for an exclusive interview with jake tapper you can watch all of that next hour on "the lead." >>> getting back to the breaking news on kobe bryant, the ntsb has issued its first report on the crash that killed the basketball superstar and father. it includes images showing the helicopter flying into the fog, remember right around that area in calabasas it was bad weather, low clouds before the crash. what those images and the report can tell us next. i recently spoke to a group of students about being a scientist at 3m. i wanted them to know that innovation is not just about that one 'a-ha' moment. science is a process. it takes time, dedication. it's a journey. we're constantly asking ourselves, 'how can we do things be

but now acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney says the u.s. is desperate for more immigrants. the details of that story next. i don't add up the years. and i don't count the wrinkles. but what i do count on is boost high protein. and now, introducing new boost women... with key nutrients to help support thyroid, bone, hair and skin health. all with great taste. new, boost women. designed just for you. ( ♪ ) only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol®. the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps. >>> acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney says the u.s. economy quote needs more immigrants to continue growing, according to an audio recording of mulvaney's remarks of a private gathering in england. obtained by "the washington post," mulvaney said quote we are desperate for more pe

, and whether mulvaney would be on his way out, and there was talk after the impeachment inquiry was over perhaps mulvaney would be on his way out the door, and the president said that was not the case, and an official said, quote, all is well with mull taeu mulvaney, and reports of his demise has been exaggerated. and the north carolina republican, mark meadows, told by a couple administration officials saying meadows may be coming into the white house staff just not in that role. >> lieutenant colonel vindman, he was fired and also his twin brother, a lawyer working at the senate security council was also removed. >> reporter: that's right. both of the brothers were abruptly fired today and the white house, for now, is silent on this matter. all the white house will say at this point is that they don't comment on personnel issues, but it obviously raises the question, wolf, whether or not the president himself ordered the firing of these two brothers in retaliation against lieutenant colonel vindman for testifying during the impeachment inquiry. this is not the first administration

a note also mulvaney buffed the official white house line saying the u.s.ote desperate for legal immigrants. mulvaney also admitted to republican hypocrisy of deficits under president trump. >>> sewn yo sotomayor she was responding to the court's recent order allowing the controversial public charge rule to take effect. that rule makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain legal status if they've used public benefits like food stamps or housing vouchers. sotomayor also took issue with the government for repeatedly asking the court -- she says the court's recent behavior has benefitted one litigant over all others, a clear reference to president trump. the government has argued in the past that emergency requests have become necessary because lower courts are issuing overly broad injunctions covering states that weren't originally involved in the cases. the supreme court is in the midst of a historic term as it considers issues like abortion, lgbtq rights, the second amendment, immigration and of course president trump's effort to shield his own financi

mulvaney might think and what the white house should be propagating. for sars in total there were like 8,000 detected cases in humans. for mers there about 800 cases detected in humans. so between the two of them there were about 10,000 plus cases, there were fewer than 2,000 deaths. 10,000, 11,000 cases and fewer than 2,000 deaths. with what we're going through right now we've already got over 80,000 infections and wave already got more deaths than mers and sars combined. and this thing is in 60 countries and climbing by multiple countries per day. and there's no vaccine, and there's no vaccine on the horizon. and there's no treatment and no treatment on the horizon. and everybody is infecting on average roughly two other people with 80,000 known infections already. and honestly when it comes to the fatality rate of coronavirus, there may not be a drug that treats it and cures it at this point, but because it causes in severe cases severe respiratory and pulmonary problem and it kills like 2% of the people we can assume some of the fatality rate from

he says the president provided instructions alongside rudy giuliani, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and white house counsel pat s cippilone. >> the facts will come out. they will continue to come out. >> reporter: president trump's lawyers arguing witnesses are irrelevant. >> the problem with the case, the problem with their position is, even with all of those witnesses, it doesn't prove an impeachable offense. the articles fail. >> reporter: ultimately democrats were only able to convince two of the four key republican senators needed. florida senator marco rubio releasing a mind bending statement defending his vote writing, quote, just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interests of the country to remove a president from office. now trump's gop allies eager to clear his name suggesting the end of the impeachment trial will impact democrats at the ballot box. >> you know what i believe about all of this, it was a bunch of partisan bull [ bleep ] in the house. it's going to end wednesday. the president is going to get acquitted, it's going

an argument his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney made today. listen to exactly how he's phrasing this. >> now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. you know that, right? coronavirus. they are politicizing it. we did one of the great jobs you see. how's president trump doing, oh, not good, not good. they don't have any clue. they can't even count their votes in iowa. >> reporter: now, don, what's notable about this is what you've been hearing from the president the last several weeks is saying his administration are down playing the risk of this. saying it's not going to spread. he said if it spreads. it's not a question of if but when in the united states. he took a different tone in the last 48 hours or so. he pointed to things his administration has done. creating a task force and restricting travel from china. he was saying things he was surprised by the out break. two weeks ago he wouldn't have predicted this. though, of course, don, we've been reporting on this since it started happening in wuhan in december. >> kaitlan collins i

what do you think mulvaney is doing here? >> i think it is fantastic that he said these things.se immigration is critical. i was governor, one of the things we wanted to say is if you're an immigrant, you live in america, you don't feel like people like you, move to ohio. we need you here. and mulvaney is hitting on a stubborn fact, more immigration, more workers, more people can come in here and i don't think they ought to be people who went to -- with some high brow university. my grandparents came over here, they didn't have the skills, their grandson turned out to be governor and all these other things. and with -- it just -- immigration is a life blood of growth and energy and ingenuity and i'm glad to see mull vanny s mulvaney saying that. >> it is great to see you, governor. despite what you like to bring up which are painful, painful histories of how the hoosiers are doing versus owhio state. we'll talk about it more often. >> and sometime we'll talk about the debt. we need to talk about that. >> that is a four letter word i don't understand at this point. thank you, sir

john, so why is mulvaney on shaky ground?reporter: well, the president moves through staff at quite a rapid pace. he tends to discard people if he thinks that they have slowed him down or constrained him or created problems for him. obviously mick mulvaney went into the white house briefing room and was honest about the quid pro quo on ukraine. so that's one reason. but events like the acquittal, turning point events, are a trigger for things like this. we have every expectation the president will move ahead. don't know if it will be 15 minutes from now or a week from now or a month from now, but it is likely he will. leading contenders, mark short, the chief of staff to vice president pence, eric euland, political professional, head of legislative affairs. the front-runner for the job, jim, is on the plane with the president today, going down to north carolina for that opportunity zone event, mark meadows not running for re-election, so we'll stand by for news coming out of that trip potentially. >> okay, so, another victim

that's something we saw mick mulvaney echo earlier today saying the media wasn't paying attention toirus during the impeachment inquiry and the trial of the president and now they are because they think it's going to bring the presidency down. of course it is a global virus that is having an outbreak that is spreading and cdc officials are warning it is going to spread in the united states and it is inevitable. but this is what the president is relying on in recent days as he is coming under increasing scrutiny for how the administration is going to respond to this and whether or not they are prepared. you heard the vice president speaking with rush limbaugh. it was interesting pence was saying he believes the president picked his experience as the governor of indiana overseeing the hiv outbreak which some critics say he made worse by delaying the needle exchange program. it's unclear if the president was aware of the criticism pence faced because that's something like house speaker nancy pelosi raised. however, we've spoke to people close to the vice president and they think he is t

without hearing from mick mulvaney, whose fingerprints are all over this scheme, without the e-mails, texts, and other documents we know exist, writings that memorialize communications about the actions at issue here. a trial is a search for the truth. the full truth, the whole truth. that search for the truth requires hearing from relevant witnesses and seeing relevant documents so that the factfinders understand the entire story. by not pursuing this evidence, the senate, the factfinders, have told the american people that the truth does not matter. they deserve better from us. our constitution demands it. our democracy demands it. and i believe that the vast majority of my republican colleagues do understand what donald trump did here and know that it is very, very wrong. they know the house managers proved their case. some are even saying that out loud. i believe that the vast majority of my republican colleagues recognize that abuse of power is an impeachable offense and that the president is not above the law, but, unfortunately, i also believe that they are simply too afraid of

mulvaney in no way confirm the link between the pause to security assistance and investigations. a garbled or misinterpreted statement or a mistaken statement that is promptly clarified on the same day as the original statement is not the kind of reliable evidence that would lead to the removal of the president of the united states from office. and in any event, mr. mulvaney also stated during the press conference itself that the money held up at absolutely nothing to do with biden. now, why does this all matter? i think senator romney really got to the heart of this issue on thursday evening when he asked both parties whether there was any evidence that president trump directed anyone to tell the ukrainians that security assistance was being held up on the condition of an investigation to the bidens. that was the question. there is no such evidence. fifth, the security assistance was released when the president's concerns with burden sharing and corruption were addressed. by a number of people, including some in this chamber today, without ukraine ever announcing or undertaking

mulvaney in no way confirmed a link between the pause in security assistance and investigations. a garbled statement that was clarified on the day of the misstatement is not the kind of evidence that would lead to the removal of the president of the united states from office. in any event, mr. mulvaney also stated, during the press conference itself, that the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with biden. now, why does this all matter? i think senator romney really got to the heart of this issue on thursday evening when he asked both parties whether there was any evidence that president trump directed anyone to tell the ukranians that security assistance was being held up on the condition of an investigation into the bidens. that was the question. there is no such evidence. fifth, the security assistance was released when the president's concerns with burden sharing and corruption were addressed by a number of people, including some in this chamber today. without ukraine ever announcing or undertaking any investigations. you have heard repeatedly that no one in the admini

mulvaney saying we should not be at freakout levels. is he right? >> i think the chief of staff is saying this is a political conspiracy or political attack on the administration, there are 3,000 people dead around the planet. more than 80,000 cases. probably that's an undercount it's coming here. the white house shouldn't be launching mr. it cal attacks. they should be getting the country ready. i think that's the question. what are they really doing to increase preparations, to get those test kits out to get testing labs ready. to get the hospitals ready. >> the sources i have talked to around the administration say, listen, the messaging is get controlled through the vice president's office. that's not unusual that one office would try to funnel information. but there's a concern about the health officials feeling a they were muzzled. dr. fauci told garamendi he's feeling muzzled and that seems -- does that hold water to you, maybe the vice president wants to put that messaging forward? >> no. i mean -- >> why not? >> i think we need to hear from

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. >> i send an amendment to the desk to subpoena mulvaney, bolton, duffey, blair and the white house, omb, dod, and state department documents. >> reporter: all of them failing, setting the stage for a vote to acquit next week. but in a disappointment for many republicans, and for the white house, that vote won't happen until wednesday afternoon. with monday and tuesday reserved for closing arguments and the chance for senators to make speeches on the floor. that means while the president is widely expected to be acquitted he won't be able to declare victory in his state of the union address tuesday night. athena jones, cnn, washington. >> let's go to phil mattingly. the new schedule with the final vote on wednesday, can you walk us through what to expect? >> here's how it will work. the senate is adjourned right now. they will not be in session over the course of the weekend, no saturday session. they will come back into session on monday and they will start at 11:00 a.m. with the impeachment trial, and they will have two hours of closing arguments for each side, the house managers i

but without seeing key documents and hearing from key fact witnesses such as john bolton and mick mulvaney, top advisors with firsthand knowledge of the president's conduct and motives, their arguments were not persuasive. so, after weighing the evidence available to us and considering the president's pattern of similar misconduct, i will vote yes on the articles of impeachment. the house presented a compelling factual case. congress appropriated nearly $400 million in foreign aid to ukraine, an ally engaged in a war with a major power, russia. it was signed into law by president trump, who knew what he was signing and what it entailed. president trump also knew that ukraine desperately needed the aid and america's partnership in its efforts against a huge power, russia. he used that vulnerability to his advantage. he privately demanded that in exchange for united states aid and a white house meeting for ukraine's newly elected president, ukraine's leaders had to publicly announce an investigation that would damage his political rival, vice president joe biden. the president relayed those

attending were rudy giuliani, mick mulvaney and pat cipollone, who last tuesday on the first day of theaying calling bolton as a witness would be, quote, not right. today cipollone and the president got their wish, no witnesses. next week an acquittal is likely. however even in the eyes of republican senators their votes do not appear to be an exoneration of the president's actions. lamar alexander and rob portman called the president's conduct inappropriate. senator marco rubio tried to straddle the line this way -- saying just because actions mean a standard of impeachment does not mean it's in the best interest of a country to remove a president from office. later in his statement, quote, can anyone doubt that at least half of the country would view his removal as illegitimate? it is difficult to conceive of any scheme putin could undertake that would undermine confidence in our democracy more than removal would. as journalist tim alberta today put it, to summarize there are multiple jurors who believe the defendant is guilty as charged but disapprove of the sentence that awaits him,

we are so honored to have mick mulvaney. as you all know he is the chief of staff for one of the greatest presidents we have ever had in this country donald j. trump so thank you mick for everything you do. he's a south carolina in. >> i served three and buy one for. it's been an amazing. >> don't you think this guy is an incredible asset to the white house? let's get into it. when i give a lot of talks around the country about the economy people asked me what is the single most important thing that donald trump has done to create this lackluster economy and i struggle with that myself. i want your thoughts about what has made trump so successful and just in case you are wondering this is stephen's ordinary breakfast conversation. >> i haven't had any coffee yet. it's unbelievable. it's so near and dear to my heart. i think that the regulatory, i know it's not and people are going yea dereg but it's one of those things we talk about with structural changes. i can lower your corporate tax rates and lower your individual rate

mick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff, says the media is stoking a virus panic to bringll, an expert in political science from california state university. donald trump is concerned by this because he is putting this over the transparent government where he gets information out of the american people which is why many are arguing after this trip to india, he had the point person on the coronavirus in the united states be his vice president mike pence, as opposed to members from various health organisations and the science council, moreover too doc is with the allergy and infectious disease centre have repeatedly told the white house that we need to be more active in our preparedness. but largely, this seems to be the fa ct largely, this seems to be the fact that donald trump seems to be nervous about the fact that the markets are not doing well. he has touted a healthy and robust economy. he is not wanting this to impact him electorally in anyway so he trying to downplay this and make it be, you know, package it as fodderfor make it be, you know, package it as fodder for

mick mulvaney has not commented.nn, washington. >> brian todd, thank you for the reporting. >>> the trump administration is expanding its travel ban now to six additional countries. all immigrants from myanmar, kerg stan and nigeria will be banned and green card lotteries will be restricted from sudan and tanzania. >> most of the new countries are in africa. the move comes after president trump's original ban on several countries most are largely muslim. nigerians are taking the new ban especially hard given what they thought, which is that they were close and had close ties with the united states. >> they are curious about why this happened. here is this from legos. >> reporter: nigeria long considered itself a strong ally of the united states which is why news that had been added to the travel ban came as shock in africa's most populous country and largest economy. officials here immediately pointed to nigeria's partnership with the u.s. in its fight against terrorism as a reason against adding the country to the t

so mick mulvaney following a line we heard earlier from rush limbaugh, don jr.other way to bring down the president. obviously that's not the case. >> obviously it is not. and shame on mick mulvaney. as we all know, you are doing a wonderful job covering this. coronavirus is a serious threat. and donald trump needs to do his job as president of the united states to make sure people of this country are safe. and it doesn't seem like he has a grasp on that. he is too concerned, just like with impeachment and the way he basically committed a crime and believes he is above the law. there's too much on the line for this. there's people's lives on the line. republicans cannot do this. they cannot make this about politics. they cannot make this about donald trump, loyalty to donald trump. it has to be bipartisan effort to make sure we move forward in a way that people are safe as this is becoming a greater epidemic. >> what a disgraceful thing for mick mulvaney to say. and i'll repeat now at the end of the show what i said at the beginning of the show which is when thi

that is how mick mulvaney got this job.ch surprised not only mick mulvaney but others in the west wing. there's also another staff shakeup we could be watching as soon as today. that's at the national security council. you'll remember that the top ukraine expert testified in president trump's impeachment inquiry with those house democrats on capitol hill back in the fall. and lieutenant colonel alex vindman is someone who was on the call that the president had in july. now we are expecting there is a chance he could be leaving the national security council much earlier than he's slated to. he's not slated to leave until the summer. he took the job in july 2018. he's supposed to have a two-year stint. but we have sources telling us he believes he could be leaving in the coming weeks. and of course that would be coming on the heels of the president fuming about the fact that vindman still works on the council and his jobs and duties have been significantly curtailed ever since he did go and testify. >> kaitlan, thank you for

mike mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff, says the media is stoking a virus panic to bringfrom bakersfield is doctor jeanine kraybill from the department of political science at california state university. the markets are tanking around the world and this is clearly a global crisis. i should the world and this is clearly a global crisis. ishould donald trump be concerned by this? donald trump is concerned by this because he is prioritising social and economic policy over a transparent government where he is giving information out to the american company. that's why they argued after his trip to india, he had the point person in the united states be his pipe vice presidents mike pence as opposed to various health organisations and the science council and moreover, two doctors in infectious disease centre have repeatedly told the work white house that we need to be more active in oui’ we need to be more active in our preparedness but largely, this seems to be the fact that, donald trump seems to be nervous about the fact the market has not been doing well and he is touting a

lawn, talking about quite a few thins, including his relationship with acting chief of staff mick mulvaneyid new reports of a potential shake-up in the west wing post impeachment. john harwood is there and joins me now. what is the president saying? >> reporter: well, kate, as you know, we reported that the president may soon make a change in his chief of staff, replacing mick mulvaney with potentially mark meadows, the congressman from north carolina, eric euland, mark short, a couple of other aides in the administration. but the president denied today that mick mulvaney was on the outs with him. >> i have a great relationship with mick. i have a great relationship with mark. and it is false. >> reporter: note that's not a denial that he's going to have a new chief of staff, but he denied he was on the outs. he spoke about lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who testified about the quid pro quo in the impeachment hearings. there are reports that vindman is going to be shifted from the nsc to the defense department. here's what the president had to say. [ inaudible ] >> well, i'm not happ

annie there are reports mulvaney may be out of a job soon. what are you hearing?e's always reports that acting chief of staff mulvaney might be out of a job. such is the case when you give your chief of staff the acting title. there were kind of rumors going around after that impeachment he would be gone. i'm hearing that is less likely now in part because the president doesn't really want another close aid who has been in the room for a lot of moments kind of flapping in the wind like john bolton is. he'd rather just keep him inside, and today at this same gaggle where he was asked about vindman, he said the reports of mulvaney's departure are not true. he's staying. another piece is he's been talking about mark med go does joining the administration. my colleagues reported that is under discussion. a lot of the people in the white house want meadows inside the tent as a senior adviser, but it wasn't be as chief of staff. >> yes, but yamiche, there's a lot royaling about alexander vindman. the president we know from his history likes to say to people this is what

and at this point, having larry kudlow said when markets are crashing, having mulvaney worried aboutt's going to happen to their kids. it's all political or the president saying a hoax. it's damaging from a public health view but also damaging from any sense of credibility that the u.s. government may need in the future when it is appropriate. >> you've been in office at the white house when there have been crises that people worry about. and you've got to think about the messaging and listen, when president trump was in office after the recession, i remember being critical at times of the administration that was overly optimistic about things that they should less optimistic about but what do you think it needs to be? the stock market that donald trump carries on all the time? the bottom line, just put up a chart of the dow, 1929 or something, in the depression, stock market tends to go up over time and tends to recover from the recession and from 9/11 within a month. what's the real worry here? is it the lifestyle change we're going to have and saying, i'm not going to the ballpark