i'm sure my friend russ feingold remembers a similar experience. there is change almost instantaneously in the senate chamber. an air of seriousness. this is an important constitutional responsibility that happens rarely in american history. i noticed it on the floor as we waited quietly. which is unusual. for the house clerk to arrive. when it comes to the actual conduct of the trial, i am hoping members on both sides will rise above what senator mcconnell called petty partisanship. and understand that we should put together a real trial. try to pursue the finding of the truth so the american people can be satisfied at the end as we are. >> i didn't see a full chamber there. how many senators were there? >> i can tell you, there were three republican senators and somewhere in the range of 20, 25 democratic senators. this is not a command appearance on our side. a lot of members felt, they told me as they were waiting, this is an historic moment that they didn't want to miss. >> do you believe, once the oath is taken, one of our reporters have said

instead of doing what the constitution and their oath requires. >> former senator russ feingold of wisconsin who smartly this winter of 2020 is out in california. senator, thanks for taking our questions. good to see you. thank you very much. coming up for us tonight, a closer look at the case the democrats are laying out during these marathon proceedings when our special coverage continues. s robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. >>> we're doing very well. i got to watch enough, i thought our team did a very good job. but honestly, we have all the material. they don't have the material. >> the president late last night, early this morning depending on where you are in the world, bragged that he thought things were going well because they had all the materials. well, indeed they do have the material. hidden from the american people. >> that question of material, the documents, the witnesse

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some ways, to sortf reh across the aisle and to do the kind of jockeying that ted kennedy and russ feingold did with john mccain, joe biden was part of that era. >> he was. b >> has the eassed joe bin? >> i don't think so. >> iope not. >> it's still in there. i mean, joe's a lovely -- not only a lovely personhe was always a good legislator, in terms how he worked across the aisle, how he -- you have to remember, joe was there before john was, and john learned a great deal from joe.>> f you could be helpful to joe biden, would you? in the race? >> i'm trying to -- i'm gonna try to sy out of it just because it -- it's -- i -- i'm not -- i'm not theci poli in the family. it's really meghan and her father that were. but -- so i'm gonna try to stay out of it, but i do -- i doike jobiden. he's a very good friend. he helped us through a very dark time. >> so, if you could be helpful, would you, at the right time? >> it depends. i mean, i struggle with -- it will turn out what kind of candidate he ends up being. you know, i still hope for t moderate, bipartisan joe. i think the questionll have to a

to be taking this risk but again that's not going be a strong argument for taiwan's voters ok russ feingold's ad great to get your thoughts thank you so much indeed for joining us by skype from taipei. still to come on al-jazeera after years of uncertain see the new year we'll see brits in the european union we'll take you through the cracks and challenges ahead . hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts we're going to start the year fairly nice across parts of europe we're going to be seeing publicly clear skies across much of central and southeastern europe we are going to be dealing with some morning fog but that is only going to be 2 in thursday as to go towards the rest of the week we're going to be seeing a storm coming out of the atlantic there is right there that's going to bring some very heavy rain across parts of scotland down towards northern ireland as well as our lead here on a thursday in london it's going to be a windy day for you as well we do expect to see a time to there of about 10 degrees going into friday that system continues to make its way a little

he needs to do this. >> senator russ feingold, former senator russ feingold, democrat from wisconsin,for coming on, sharing a little of that historic context and your views today. appreciate it. >> thanks, chuck. >>> straight ahead, the other huge story happening now. three days to iowa. we have the final nbc news national poll before the caucuses get under way. national polls, iowa polls are starting to converge. be right back. starting to converge be right back. umatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz xr, a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or active psoriatic arthritis for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. it can reduce pain, swelling, and significantly improve physical function. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; don't start xeljanz if you have an infection. taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra can increase risk of death. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. as have tears in th

that is russ feingold who was the democratic senator from wisconsin. would get to that, if that is impolite to the middle of next week. what we have is a very compressed schedule. wednesday and thursday is when the house will present its case and then the defense later on. tomorrow will be a a lot of wrangling about how they get there, including the high probability of a closed session tomorrow night. >> martha: thank you very much. here now exclusively, republican senator tim scott. always good to see you. i want to play something from your south carolina colleague, senator graham. he was asked about the possibility of an early acquittal. watch this. >> there are a lot of senators who i think will end up equating the president, but believe we need to hear the houses case. the president's case answer to the houses case and ask questions. that is when the witnesses request will be. the idea of dismissing the case early on will not happen. >> martha: no early dismissal. the early stages of this will play out and we will hear both sides. what you think ab

. >> the sole crossover vote on both measures, the democratic senator from wisconsin, russ feingold.thought if depositions could be taken, that would at least give us some opportunity to judge the credibility of the charges against the president which included obstruction of justice. >> the senators decided that did not require live testimony. instead, witness depositions would be videotaped and excerpts played on the senate floor. >> bob frankin, what's the significance of that? >> it's huge significance because this re-enters drama into the senate trial. >> for the record, would you state your name once again, your full name? >> yes, monica lewinsky. >> monica lewinsky had become one of the most famous people in the entire united states. but no one had seen her give an interview. and so there was intense curiosity. >> house prosecutors would play over a dozen exchanges from lewinsky's deposition. >> prior to being on the witness list, you both spoke about denying this relationship if asked. >> yes. it was discussed. >> did the president ever tell you, caution you, that you had to t

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earlier he was telling me stories, russ feingold.the other part of the senate career. what have you learned as you have studied this? >> well, it's obviously different in the sense that we take a separate oath. it doesn't feel as different as you might expect yet on the senate floor. we haven't gotten into the presentation of the cases yet. we will see how things go and the partisanship that has been shown by the majority leader is still pretty relentless. we have not had the separate all senators meeting in the old senate chamber the way they did in the clinton impeachment to try to bring people together and to get behind that first rules resolution that was agreed to unanimously. one very big difference is that mitch mcconnell is still holding the rules resolution as far as i know when we started on air, no nobody's seen it yet. the house managers are going to be asked to file their brief tomorrow and they don't know what the rules are of the proceeding they're going into so we're seeing these little obstacles, little inconvenience

where russ feingold is an asia political risk analyst he says this crash will impact the campaign talking points in the lead up to the election on january 11th. president as well as the parliament of taiwan will be elected on january alive this tragedy does occur within a few days of the election and of course one of the most prominent issues in this election is taiwan's national defense with regard to threats from china so this kind of accident involving suggestion your leadership will unfortunately become part of the political discussion in the final days before taiwan selection the incumbent presidents trying way and she's been a supporter of increased military spending so she will continue to give that message to the public to be hopefully it'll be a period of no campaigning whether it's the rest of today or tomorrow but once the candidates return to campaigning i think we'll see president's side emphasized that she has been a supporter of the military and she's been a supporter of increased military spending in the other side will probably look a way to criticize for example by sayin

senator russ feingold said quote and making a decision of this magnitude it is best not to air at all. they have must dare we should err on the side of respecting the will of the people. similarly senator barbara mikulski then said quote the u.s. senate must not make the decision to remove a president based on a hunch that the charges may be true. the strength of our constitution and the strength of our nation is sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the preponderance is wholly insufficient and that means 50.1% think it's a little more likely than not. even clear and convincing evidence is not. has to be beyond a reasonable doubt and senator rockefeller explained at the time of the clinton impeachment that meets quote it's proven to a moral certainty that the case is clear. that is the standard the senator should apply because the gravity of the issue before you would not permit applying a standard. thank you. >> counsel. >> mr. chief justice. >> the senator from new jersey. >> mr. chief justice i sent a question to the desk. >> the question is for the house manager. even if the communi

senator russ feingold said quote and making a decision of this magnitude it is best not to air at allave must dare we should err on the side of respecting the will of the people. similarly senator barbara mikulski then said quote the u.s. senate must not make the decision to remove a president based on a hunch that the charges may be true. the strength of our constitution and the strength of our nation is sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the preponderance is wholly insufficient and that means 50.1% think it's a little more likely than not. even clear and convincing evidence is not. has to be beyond a reasonable doubt and senator rockefeller explained at the time of the clinton impeachment that meets quote it's proven to a moral certainty that the case is clear. that is the standard the senator should apply because the gravity of the issue before you would not permit applying a standard. thank you. >> counsel. >> mr. chief justice. >> the senator from new jersey. >> mr. chief justice i sent a question to the desk. >> the question is for the house manager. even if the communication o

senator russ feingold then said that, quote, in making a decision of this magnitude it is best not tot all. if we must err, however, err on the side of respecting the will of the people. similarly, senator mull cull ski said the u.s. senate must not remove a president based on a hunch that the charges may be true. the strength of the constitution and the strength of our nation dictate that the senate be sure beyond a reasonable doubt. the preponderance standard is not sufficient. 51% you think it's more likely than not. that's not sufficient to remove the president. even clear and convincing evidence is not. it has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. as senator rockefeller explained, that means, quote, proven to a moral certainty, the case is clear. that is the standard that the senators should apply because the gravity of the issue before you would not permit applying any lesser standard. thank you. >> counsel. >> mr. chief justice? >> senator from new jersey. >> thank you, sir. i send a question to the desk. >> thank you. the question is for the house manager. even if a communication o

senator russ feingold of washington.ou, ari. >> this may be the most arcane part of this process. we just showed a short clip. i don't know if i would call that a trailer for people, because i don't know the reading those things looks like something you'd tune into the whole bit of it but yet it's so important. how did it work when you were there? what about that moment on witnesses? >> well, the question process that you just showed was a very useful process. you know, senators were just sitting there and listening to the arguments by the house managers and the president's lawyers for a couple of weeks. when you get to the questions, you start getting a sense of what the other senators are thinking. what they're asking. so you know i submitted a question about what the standard of proof should be. whether it should be beyond a reasonable doubt or a preponderance of evidence. then senator collins and i did the only bipartisan question which was about whether you had all -- can prove all of the elements of the crime such

. >> and i'm joined now by john breaux, robert torricelli and russ feingold.nviction in the clinton impeachment and for viewers trying to keep score we have everybody on. we had mark meadows on yesterday. this happens to be a case where our senate jurors are all from one party. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> you're all senators which means you all know how to speak. i'll make you a deal. i will do only two yes or no questions round-robin and then we'll do full answers. will you accept that deal? >> i accept. >> sure. >> fantastic. >> i'll try. >> see, the torch is leaving himself negotiating room. but in all seriousness, senators, first to get a couple things out of the way so to speak. starting with senator breaux, yes or no, under the constitution is abuse of power an impeachable offense. senator breaux? >> yes, if it's a high crime and misdemeanor. yes. >> senator dorgan? >> yes, i believe it is. >> senator feingold? >> absolutely, yes. >> senator torricelli? >> definitely, yes. >> and my last yes or no question for you, gentlemen, would be so

we saw particularly back when our colleagues, russ feingold, evan bye, and governor strickland were allning, and he was able to deploy early huge money, way early in their races. anonymous money and basically strafe them while they were still on the ground, before they could get their campaigns up in the air. and as you'll recall, they were all three leading in the polls when they got started. but after that early dark money strafing, all three races were lost, leaving mitch mcconnell as majority leader. >> senator whitehouse, since we have been speaking with you, we just got word from the first republican senator to definitively say so, senator susan collins of maine says that she will vote in favor of witnesses. her statement just released just a moment ago, quote, i will vote in support of the motion to allow witnesses and documents to be subpoenaed. that is the top line. she's put out a longer statement explaining her decision. but let me get your reaction to that. >> well, one of the things that mitch mcconnell has to do to manage his caucus and to give his members the best chance

impeachment, both senators democrats and republicans advocated in favor of that, and then senator russ feingoldhat in making a decision of this magnitude, it is best to not erat al at aua aat --err ate must err, it is on the side not at all. and so barbara mikulski said that it is on the strength that it is true, and that the senate must be sure beyond a reasonable doubt, and the preponderance standard is wholly insufficient which means 50.1%, and more likely than not, and that is not sufficient to remove the president. even clear and convincing evidence is not. it has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. as senator rockefeller explained at the time of the clinton impeachment, it means, quote, it is proven to a morale certainty that the case is clear. and that is the standard that should be applying, because the gravity of the situation would not permit you to apply anything less. thank you. >> counsel. >> mr. chief justice. >> senator from new jersey. >> thank you, sir. mr. chief justice, i send a question to the desk. manager. >> the question is for house manager. even if a communication or a doc