a hearing taken place in a moment for two white house bed to the other one a bit more complex.ust want to gauge for you. place, would it shape anyway or form? >> clearly everyone take the lead and fall in line, so i'm not worried about it. >> i would not challenge the independence. or moreaturally hawkish dovish and i think that is a focus of mine. -- mind. >> with u.s. deficits as they are, they have to look at the real-time borrowing costs for the u.s. and if we keep the yield low, that keeps the u.s. economy stable. >> your thoughts on where policy is going? why there has to be a massively high bar. havethink we are going to a few months -- a few months of rate cuts. androwth continues to hover the coronavirus is contained relatively shortly, i don't think the fed will be up against the wall for a rate cut. we are monitoring the shape on the front end. it is something the fed is probably trying to consider. >> i don't think you'll see a rate cut this year and i think growth will be supported in the risks are a prolonged coronavirus. it is naturally that we will see liquidity

guys, hearing taking place at the moment for two white house fed picks.ne of them seems to be going ok, the other more complex and difficult. i want to gauge from you guys as market participants, if judy shouting got a place on the federal reserve, which are perception of fed independence shift in any way? >> i only pay attention to what the chairman says anymore. they clearly take the lead everyone falls in line. i'm not worried about it. >> i would not challenge the independence. i think the bigger question is those on the fed or any federal bank, are they naturally hawkish or more dovish? that is more of a focus of my. >> i think it comes down to the fed's motivation and what they are looking at. with u.s. deficits looming they have to look at the real-time borrowing cost for the u.s. and if we keep yields low, that makes the u.s. economy a little bit more stable than otherwise. >> let's talk about the federal reserve and get your thoughts aware policy is going. i massively high bar to get another rate hike anytime soon. have are at least going to a fe

firing back: president trump on the defense after removing two white house aides from their jobs, both key witnesses in his impeachment hearing. why the president says they were no longer fit to serve. ( gunfire ) >> yuccas: also breaking tonight: mass shooting. shots fired inside a shopping mall in thailand. more than a dozen people are dead, the alleged gunman-- a thai soldier. american casualty: the first u.s. citizen dies from the cruise ships overseas.les ffecr travelers in an effort to contain the epidemic. state of emergency: the destruction out west after days of flash flooding. and how kobe bryant made dreams come true... off the court. >> this is the "cbs weekend news." >> yuccas: good evening. i'm jamie yuccas. we begin on the campaign trail with just 72 hours until the nation's first primary in new hampshire. democratic presidential contenders are crisscrossing the granite state, all of them making their final pitch to voters. the latest polls show a tight race, led by senator bernie sanders, with pete buttigeig a close second. killion leads us f ninight in manchester.leko

firing back: president trump on the defense after removing two white house aides from their jobs, both key witnesses in his impeachment hearing. why the president says they were no longer fit to serve. ( gunfire ) >> yuccas: also breaking tonight: mass shooting. shots fired inside a shopping mall in thailand. more than a dozen people are dead, the alleged gunman-- a thai soldier. american casualty: the first u.s. citizen dies from the cruise ships overseas.

two. the white house knew breathing a sigh of relief with the outcome all but decide. kevin corke is standing by at the president's mar-a-lago resort. but we begin on capitol hill. >> lindsey graham said what many republicans around the country have been thinking privately. >> i went to the school of hard knocks. i believe this was a bunch of partisan [bleep] in the house that continued in the senate. it will ends up wednesday, the president will be acquitted and it will blow up in their face. reporter: of course the democrats don't see it that way. >> if the president is acquitted it's not much because it wasn't a real trial. 70% of the country want to see a real trial. mitch mcconnell has been a lap dog for president trump and that's too bad. reporter: only two republican senators defected, mitt romney and susan collins. quote, there was multi party disagreement how the house and senate should proceed that was not held up by the moderate. senator collins believed before senators cast their final votes, they should have the opportunity to stand up and briefly state th

colonel vindman and gordon sondland have been removed from the post, if t two were key witnesses, kevin corke in the white house with more, hi, kevin. >> eric, good to be with you, change is inevitable, certainly the case in washington, in the case of lieutenant colonel vindman assignment was ending soon anyway, ambassador sondland can writing his own ticket going forward even if it means another government position, it's still stressing especially in case of alexander vindman even upsetting when the president calls you out on twitter suggesting that you were both unsubordinate and

white house. and late word, his twin brother has also been ousted. nbc's hallie jackson is at the white house with more. >> reporter: two key impeachment witness escorted from the white house today. including gordon sondland whose bombshell testimony pointed the finger at the president in what he described as a quincy pondexter with ukraine. >> everyone was in the loop it was no secret. >> reporter: in a new statement, sondland tells nbc news the president intends to recall him from his post immediately, just hours after another impeachment witness, lieutenant control knell vindman es courted off the white house according to his lawyer who's accusing president trump of exacting revenge. >> i'm not happy with him. you think i'm supposed to be happy. >> reporter: three months after the top ukraine expert on the national security council was called by democrats to testify in their impeachment case about that phone call between president trump and the ukrainian leader. >> i was concerned by the call what i heard was inappropriate. >> reporter: the nsc is not commenting on a personnel matter vind lan's lawyer says telling the truth has cost him his job, his

white house knowledge. in other words, the president got caught. and two days later, on september 11, the president released the aide. to this day however, ukraine still has not received all of the money congress has appropriated in the white house meeting has yet to be scheduled. the identity of the whistleblower, moreover, is irrelevant. the house did not rely on the whistleblower's complaints, even as it turned out to be remarkably accurate. it does not matter who initially found sounded the alarm, when they saw smoke. what matters, is that the were summonsed and found the blaze. and we know that we did. the facts about the presidents misconduct are not seriously in dispute as several republican senators have acknowledgedic publicly. we have proved that the president abused his power in precisely the manner charged in article one. president trump withheld the white housere meeting, and essential congressionally appropriated military assistance from ukraine in order to pressure ukraine to interfere in the upcoming presidential election on his behalf. thi

white house knowledge. in other words, the president got caught. and two days later, on september 11th, the president released the aid. to this day, however, ukraine still has not received all of the money congress has appropriated and the white house meeting has yet to be scheduled. the identity of the whistle-blower, moreover, is irrelevant. the house did not rely on the whistle-blower's complaint even as it turned out to be remarkably accurate. it does not matter who initially sounded the alarm when they saw smoke. what matters is that the firefighters, congress, were summoned and found the blaze. and we know that we did. the facts about the president's misconduct are not seriously in dispute as several republican senators have acknowledged publicly. we have proved that the president abused his power, and precisely the manner charged in article 1. president trump withheld a white house meeting and essential congressionally appropriated military assistance from ukraine in order to pressure ukraine to interfere in the upcoming presidential election on his

vindman was originally asked to work at the white house for two years which would take him into july. noficial word whether his departure was voluntary, but sources were saying trump aides were considering excluding vindman out of their white house posts. >>> a quarantined cruise ship docked off the coast of japan reporting 41 additional cases on friday. that brings the total to 61 and it's only going to get worse the longer people are trapped on that ship. cnn was the first tv network to speak with one of the 11 americans on that ship diagnose would the virus. matt rivers live for us from yokohama, japan. matt, how are folks getting medical treatment who are quarantined on that ship? >> reporter: one by one the people diagnosed with coronavirus are being taken off by medical personnel to local hospitals here in japan. there's 3,700 or so people on that ship behind me, many of whom are staying in small cabins without windows and many are only allowed to leave their rooms for up to an hour a day and not allowed to leave the ship as testing continues. of that as you mentioned 61 cases h

white house. we're joined today by two people whose faith inspires us all, our amazing wonderful friend. >> we're going back to that in a moment before we cut in there. he was speaking about speaker pelosi. going to share that in a moment. i want to go back to you, one of your colleagues maureen dowd wrote that the president will be unrepenitent, unleash. what does that look like? >> exactly what you can think. this is the president's best political week, sets him up for potential win in november. but let's also remember that second terms for presidents are usually very fraught terms, and given the president's behavior, if he end up losing the senate and still doesn't have the house, you can see this happen again, another impeachment effort. >> i don't know, i read your book, it feels pretty unleashed. >> long time since president trump had a leash on him. what we have seen through three years of his presidency, every time he escapes accountability or escapes punishment for actions that others deem wrong as in the mueller investigation with obstructing justice, as we see now, he becomes more unsh

he only had one or two into the white house to have a big staff. if you get the trust and have a good idea you get input into policy and that is a wonderful benefit ofst the job when it wos out. >> did you have a second question asked >> we will come back to it. >> social media as a tool, use it or not use it? for >> you've got to use it and hopefully for good. i think for social media there's a lot of problems with it. we all know what they are but a few considerate like chemistry that it can be used for good or evil barack obama is very effective with social media. the president is a very effective with tweets. that's one of the problems we ophave with social media in thii believe in something crazy, i can make somebody out there that also is saying the same thing on a cable station somewhere and that is the problem we have with social media. it's much harder now to break through as a speechwriter to get the candidates to break through all of the social media and affirmation that's going on. if people are watching these democratic debates and it

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house. rob: he has had a packed two day trip, chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us live in delhi with the highlight so far. >> reporter: good morning. an hour and a half from now the president will be here in his hotel for a will press conference, still has a state dinner, currently on his way to the ambassador's residents to meet with 30 indian business leaders to soleimani idea of investing more in the united states and over the past few decades it has been greatly increased investment from india into the united states, a lot of people moved to take advantage of high-tech jobs, just finished up with prime minister modhi. they forged a closer relationship and they had before. talked about increased military to military cooperation, cooperation in the fight against terrorism. authority issue was what to do about trade. donald trump would like india to change its ways in terms of protectionist policies, tariff the levels on us goods but the prime minister and the president indicated they are beginning to go down the road to rewriting the us india trade relationship and they

white house. and getting rid of people who spoke out against him. the president dismissed two witnesses who testified during his impeachment inquiry. lieutenant colonel alex vindman the top ukraine expert at the national security council. and ambassador sondland. >> the president actually lieutenant colonel vindman escorted out of the white house. sa sara, we were saying, colonel vindman has been escorted out of the white house. there's been swift and strong condemnation against the president. >> that's right, democrats criticizing strongly this move of president trump which can only be seen as retribution against two of the most prominent witnesses to testify against him. alexander vindman was dismissed along with his twin brother. both escorted off the premises. his brother did not testify in any way during the impeachment inquiry. alexander vindman did, though. he was a participant on the phone call july 25th between the president and president zelensky that made up all of the impeachment drama vindman raised internal concerns about the president's apparent pressure on the

house lost essentially this impeachment battle. >> i think there were two colossal blunders on both sides. i think the whiteenter of their case, which i think backfired. the bigger blunder was with the house. they rushed the vote. they insisted on impeaching by christmas. what i said in the testimony was wait two months. you can get some of these witnesses. you can get additional court orders. it can only be stronger. the only thing we knew is if they rushed the vote by christmas, they would lose because this is an incomplete case and they could not have made it easier on the white house. i think history will not look kindly on that decision. i think people will be baffled why they decided to do this, because they waited a month without doing anything after they approved the articles. >> as you point out, in the impeachment case of president nixon, it took a few months to go all the way to the supreme court? >> that's right. >> i want to bring in weijia jiang at the white house. we started this hour noting what an incredible week this is going to be as the president is delivering his third state of the unio

two days. still, white house economic advisor larry kudlow doubled down on the u.s.ponse. >> we have contained this. we have contained this i won't say airtight but pretty close to airtight. >> markets and investors around the world disagree. overnight losses again in asia. european shares opened just recently. they are done down again. an wall street let's take a look what's happening there. futures however look like they're trying to bounce. we've seen this before. yesterday attempts to bounce vaporized. two very hard down days. it wouldn't be a surprise to see bargain hunters to try to figure out if there's an overreaction ahere but clearly markets hitting highs last week and really reevaluating whether they can trust the administration and its optimism about the coronavirus and whether the u.s. is ready. >> this is the issue of credibility, and it looks like the president is choosing happy talk over facts about the coronavirus. remember just yesterday when the president said this. >> we're fortunate so far, and we think it's going to remain that way. i think it's

earlier, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman was escorted out of the white house following his dismissal. twot trump's equitable, two —— equitable, to men who lost theirjobs. he said there were strings attached to a possible visit to the white house by the ukrainian president. was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call in the white house meeting, the a nswer the white house meeting, the answer is yes. i say to the ambassador, i want nothing, answer is yes. i say to the ambassador, iwant nothing, i wa nt ambassador, iwant nothing, i want nothing, i want nope —— no quid pro quo, tell president zelensky to do the right thing. so here's my answer, i want nothing. but ambassador soliman‘s testimony had raised doubts whether trump was telling the truth. now he's out ofa telling the truth. now he's out of a job. it follows the sacking of the tenant colonel alexander vindman, who was listening in on the president's july phone call with his ukrainian counterpart. he said he was concerned about what he heard and that the conversation had been impr

. >>> back now with jeffrey toobin as well as two people experienced working in the white house, formerobama white house director and senior political analyst david gergin. jeff, why is barr doing this today? >> well, i think he's right, it does make his job impossible if the president continues behaving the way he's going to behave. the problem is the statement from the press secretary says he has the right to express his opinion like he's the host of the apprentice. he's not the host of the apprentice. he's the president of the united states and the attorney general's boss. so if, as that statement suggests, he's going to continue doing this anyway, the problem has not been addressed at all nor has the attorney general said why, out of all the sentences handed down in the united states, he decides to intervene on the one involving the president's friend. >> david, just from an optic standpoint, do you think attorney general barr felt he had to speak out now in this way amid all the scrutiny and resignations and folks in the justice department trying to leave -- get off the case? >> he

clearly, another example of the strong economy this morning is there a belief here in the white house that the two are very closely linked? >> well, we think the stock market is just a reflection of consumer confidence. and the confidence of the -- of investors around america you know, the market actually was up over a thousand points over the last several days and i think that is all a reflection of the fact that everything president trump said in the state of the union address is being reflected all across the country. businesses large and small are feeling it we're seeing growth in this economy. and i think you have to -- you have to give the president's strong stand on trade a lot of credit for that as well. he drove a hard bargain. we renegotiated. our trading relationship with canada and mexico, the usmca is now signed into law. we think it is going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. we think very soon it is also going to be reflected in this economy. the phase one deal with china and negotiations go on to deal with some of the larger structural issues we think is also going to greatly

two. in the white house you have a big staff. if you get the trust and have a good idea you get input into policy. that is wonderful benefit of the job when it works out. >> did you have a second question? >> we will come back to it. olivia? >> i'm curious about writing speeches today, social media being a tool, use it, not use it, what do you think of it? >> you have got to use it. hopefully you can use it for good. i think of social media, there's a lot of problems with it and we all know what they are. but if you consider it like chemistry, it can be used for good or evil, you need to get in that mix and figure out how to do it. barack obama was very effective with social media. the president is very effective with tweets. he gets past the media. people who believe in him look at his tweets and not anybody else's. that is one of the problems we have with social media and all the cable. if i believe in something crazy i can find somebody out there that also is saying the same thing on some cable station somewhere and affirm mys

june 24, the white house announces more sanctions against iran and the next day the iranian leader calls the president mentally retarded. july 19, two tankers are seized by the iranians in the persian gulf. september 14, the white house blames two attacks on saudi oil installations. in northern iraq, more than 30 rockets rain down on k-1 air base killing a u.s. civilian contractor injuring four u.s. service members and two iraqi security forces personnel. the u.s. military blame hezbollah malitia, a subgroup of iraq's popular mobilization unit. and september 29, u.s. f-16 streak eagles pound targets killing 25 terrorists. after the air strikes, a military spokesperson said there was a campaign of at least 11 iran backed malitia attacks on u.s. interests leading up to the rocket attack. december 30, hundreds gather to protest the strikes about hezbollah. december 31, baghdad, hezbollah and pms sympathizers stormed the u.s. embassy in the green zone. apache helicopters show flares in a show of force. and then two tilt rotor aircraft touchdown with a rapid reaction force of u.s. marines. secretary of state mike pompeo identified one of

two. -- cspan 2. nothe white house did release a weekly address from the president. trump administration's budget proposal. she is a member of the budget and finance committees. hi, i'm senator debbie stabenow. i'm proud to represent the great state of michigan. this week, president trump released his budget. unfortunately, it is a disaster for michigan families and those across the country. michigan families want quality, affordable health care along with lower price prescription drugs. what did president trump do? cutsoposes a budget that $1.6 trillion from critical health care programs like medicaid and medicare. michigan, three out of five seniors in nursing homes get their care through medicaid.

white house knowledge. in other words, the president got caught, and two days later, on september 11, the president releasede scheduled. the identity of the whistle-blower, moreover, is irrelevant. the house did not rely on the whistle-blower's complaint even as it turned out to be remarkably accurate. it does not matter who initially sounded the alarm when they saw smoke. what matters is that the firefighters, congress, were summoned and found the blaze, and we know that we did. the facts about the president's misconduct are not seriously in dispute as several republican senators have acknowledged publicly. we have proved that the president abused his power in precisely the manner charged in article one. president trump withheld a white house meeting and essential congressionally appropriated military assistance from ukraine in order to pressure ukraine to interfere in the upcoming presidential election on his behalf. the sham investigations president trump wanted announced had no legitimate purpose and were not in the national interest despite the president's counsel's troubling reliance on conspiracy the

democratic response again, that final impeachment vote wrapping up this two-week trial, expected to happen today. the white house saying it is likely we will hear from the president when it's over frances? >> thank you, tracie >>> all right. now let's turn to the 2020 democratic primary and new information on the iowa caucuses we now have reporting from 71% of those precincts they show pete buttigieg maintaining a narrow lead. but the race is still too close to call. the huge delay of results has caused frustration for not only voters but the candidates as well the state democratic party blaming the holdup on what they're calling a coding issue with the new app they used nbc's cynthia mcfadden has this report >> reporter: long before iowa voters gathered at nearly 1,700 caucuses, precinct capital sxnz caucus organizers in the iowa city area knew of problems with their new app that was supposed to tabulate results like a fancy calculator this e-mail chain provided to nbc news shows their mounting concerns 9:09 a.m nobody having trouble with the app should feel dumb, one organizer wrote. at 9:13 a.m. a precinct ch

the cdc says the person is under a two week quarantine. the white houseg china's lack of transparency on the deadly virus after a surge in new cases. the cdc warning the virus could stick around beyond this year. china reporting 121 new deaths, 5000 cases in the last 24 hours. the massive wildfires finally contained in new south wales, australia. a week of heavy rain helps crew plastic thing was the dangerous fires, officials say they are focusing on cleaning up damaged recovery efforts. the fires have destroyed 13 million acres in new south wales, the biggest state in australia. donald trump junior reaches out to a teenager attack for being a conservative, he was slapped in the face at a new hampshire polling site because he was wearing a make america great again hat. carly shimkus with serious xm 115 is here with the online reaction. >> reporter: there has been a string of attacks against conservatives, donald trump junior, a leftist attacks three trump supporters including a 15-year-old child in new hampshire this week. last week a deranged leftist att

over the course of two days senators asked 180 questions of the house managers and white house counsel. the senate took its constitutional duty very seriously. at after carefully listening to the house usmanagers, president counsel, reviewing the documents and testimony and asking questions, it's clear to me the house should not impeach president trump and the senate should vote to acquit the president. the house process did not provide the president with important due process rights. on the other hand, the senate trial was conducted using past precedent of the clinton astria is the framework. at the start senate agreed that the house evidence could be admitted into the record. we provided an ample opportunity for house managers and white house counsel to make their arguments and ensure senators have substantial time to ask questions. in fact, senators asked 180 questions over two full days and received lengthy answers from both and detailed answers from both presidents counsel and the house managers. the american public has seen the transcript of the call between president trump and p

also back at the white house, john mcinti, according to the press secretary is personal aide to the president according to twocement officials. he was originally fired from the white house in march of 2018 and was under investigation for serious financial crimes. "politico" reporting that both additions to trump's team signal a pattern of reinstating and promoting those closest to the president after purging staffers as insufficiently loyal or part of the alleged deep state plot to get him. >>> attorney general bill barr is trying to reassert the justice department's independence in the wake of the roger stone controversy with this rare rebuke aimed at president trump. >> public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job. i'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody, and i said whether it's congress, newspaper, editorial boards or the president, i'm going to do what i think is right, and, you know, the -- i think the -- i

two years. >> right. the white house has asked congress for 1.5 -- $1.25 billion in emergency funding. we were doing some math here, and just in the last two requests, the president has asked nearly seven times that, he's diverted money from defense for building the wall. seven times the money for building the wall as for fighting this, what may become a pandemic. is that a sufficient amount of money to do what is necessary to keep americans safe from this? >> at the briefing, the specific dollars came up. and it is not enough. it is enough for the first tranche right now to deal with it. we asked the last briefing about ten days ago, did these folks, the centers for disease control, the nih have what they needed at the time. they said they did. now with this supplemental, this is a starting point, we realize we're going to have a number of additional, as you said, bites of the apple to go to do additional funding and i expect there will be more funding needed. the initial amount was to bring people back from overseas. we need more for testing, for treatment, for vaccine development. al

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bolton and the white house are at odds over two months over the publication of the book. the white housesays it include classified information, but bolton denies that when asked last night if mr. trump's call with the ukrainian leader was perfect as the president has claimed, bolton cryptically responded, you'll love chapter 14 when asked about his former boss, bolton replies, he tweets, but i can't talk about it? how fair is that >> now to a crime sending shock waves through hollywood after a popular celebrity therapist and ex-fiancee of comedian drew carry was found dead the price is right halted production after the devastating news nbc's erin mclauchlin reports. >> hello, this is dr. amy, sex and marriage therapist >> reporter: one of her ex boy friends is being charged with murder according to police saturday morning emergency crews responded to reports of a woman screaming. they found 38-year-old amy harwick unresponsive beneath the third story balcony. police reveal evidence of a struggle as well as forced entry. harwick died later at the hospital the suspect is 41-

two tapes. the white house releasing the annual economic report showing the u.s. economy continuing to outperform 2016 election expectations. this as self-proclaimed democratic socialist bernie sanders is quickly emerging as the front-runner for the democratic nomination, promising a radical transformation of the american economy. let's go to blake burman at the white house for all the details. a stark contrast there, blake. reporter: melissa, yes indeed over at the white house they produced today what they call the economic report of the president released every year annually by the president's economic advisors, part of what the administration was trying to do today was draw a contrast between the trump economy over the last three years and the obama economy that led into it. here is part of their argument today. they say the trump economy led to more manufacturing jobs, greater rates when it comes to labor force participation around homeownership. they also say the bottom half of earners has seen their wages rise more. however it also sidesteps the trillion dol

but according to william seale, author of two books on the white house, the building's interior is destroyed. >> they burned the second floor with rubble, and then they broke up all the furniture and poured lamp oil on it. and the attic fell in, and then it burned through the main floor and the whole thing, in about two hours, was just a shell. >> after the war, the original architect, james hoban, rebuilds it exactly as it had been -- in what will become known as the federal style. >> president madison decreed that it be rebuilt as a symbol of survival. >> by 1817, the renovation is almost complete and our fifth president, james monroe, moves in. a dozen years later, the seventh, andrew jackson, lets a drunken mob trash the place during his inaugural ball. maybe this poor piece of wood was part of the collateral damage. who knows? over the years, presidents come and presidents go, redecorating, repainting, and renovating to suit their individual tastes. then, in 1902, theodore roosevelt begins the first wholesale restoration of the mansion that he officially names "the white house." it's ti

june 20 fourth the white house announces more sanctions against iran and the iranian leader calls the president, quote, mentally retarded. july 19th two oil tankers are seized by the iranian this. september 14th the white house blames iran for drone attacks on two saudi oil installations. in northern iraq, more than 20 rockets rain down on k-1 airbase. killing a us civilian contractor, injuring four us service members and two iraqi security force personnel. the us military blames iran backed has been a militia, a subgroup of iraq's popular mobilization forces unit, has blood denies responsibility. the summer 20 ninth across iraq in syria, they pound has blood targets killing 25 terrorists and injuring 50 more. after the airstrikes a military spokesperson said there has been a campaign of 11 iran backed militia attacks on us interests leading up to the rocket attack large september 30th hundreds gathered to protest year strikes against has bola. december 3, '01, baghdad detained hezbollah and sympathizers in a heavily fortified green belt. apache helicopters deploy flares in a show of force. that evening two osprey aircraft touched dow

white house's knowledge. in other words, the president got caught. and twol of the money congress has appropriated and the white house meeting has yet to be scheduled. the identity of the whistle-blower moreover is irrelevant. the house did not rely on the whistle-blower's complaint even as it turned out to be remarkably accurate. it does not matter who initially sounded the alarm when they saw smoke. what matters is that the firefighters, congress, were summoned and found the blaze. and we know that we did. the facts about the president's misconduct are not seriously in dispute. as several republican senators have acknowledged publicly. we have proved that the president abused his power and precisely the manner charged in article i. president trump withheld a white house meeting and an essential congressionally appropriated military assistance from ukraine in order to pressure ukraine to interfere in the upcoming presidential election on his behalf. the sham investigation president trump wanted announced had no legitimate purpose and were not in the nation

two parties differently. republicans are a homogenous group. consider that they have lost the popular vote in four of the last five presidential elections and won the white house in two of those cases. democrats need to appeal to a broader coalition than republicans. it is just a fact in order to compete an in land state and win the electoral college. the american political system is not a parliamentary one in which one party gains control of all branches of government. power is shared between three branches with over lapping authorities. the founders despise the idea of authority. polarization has utterly paralyzed american government. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. let's get started. in november 2016, fresh from his surprising election as president of the united states, donald trump, told "the new york times" that he wants to be the president who brought peace to the middle east. he wanted his son-in-law, jared kushner to be centrally involved in the effort. a few months later, trump announced that jared kushner would take the lead doing what many thought is impossible. right by his side was senior advisor jared k

white house. they set it for two years. the most convenient excuse -- it was the culmination of that and through the course of it and through the efforts and the course of three years before he took the oath of office and before he became president, that will go down. -- that will go down as the greatest miscalculation in american political history. host: can president trump work with her in a second term? guest: the battle is over ideas. i your ideas are superior, think if there is a democratic speaker of the house, that person will have no choice but to work with the president because people will have demanded it to be so. i do think it is extremely likely that people will refer to nancy pelosi as the former speaker of the house. two pennsylvania on the democratic line. caller: i cannot believe that your guest has not spouted off about from getting 63 million votes. got 66 million votes and is not in the white house. the people, the 66 million who bootheel her, have the of fascism on their throats for the last three years

but according to william seale, author of two books on the white house, the building's interior is destroyedd floor with rubble, and then they broke up all the furniture and poured lamp oil on it. and the attic fell in, and then it burned through the main floor and the whole thing, in about two hours, was just a shell. >> after the war, the original architect, james hoban, rebuilds it exactly as it had been -- in what will become known as the federal style. >> president madison decreed that it be rebuilt as a symbol of survival. >> by 1817, the renovation is almost complete and our fifth president, james monroe, moves in. a dozen years later, the seventh, andrew jackson, lets a drunken mob trash the place during his inaugural ball. maybe this poor piece of wood was part of the collateral damage. who knows? over the years, presidents come and presidents go, redecorating, repainting, and renovating to suit their individual tastes. then, in 1902, theodore roosevelt begins the first wholesale restoration of the mansion that he officially names "the white house." it's time to pick up the thread o

two reports. weijia jiang is at the white house, but let's go first to jeff pegues at the federal courthouse in washington, jeff. >> reporter: norah, that sentencing was really extraordinary. during the two-and-a-half-hour hearing the judge repeatedly scolded roger stone for witness tampering and lying to congress. always ready for the cameras, roger stone smiled as he left court today, but inside, he was silent and emotionless as judge amy berman jackson handed down the 40-month sentence. jackson, who had been pressured by the president on twitter to go easy on stone, said the longtime presidential friend was "prosecuted not for standing up for the president but for covering up for the president." >> politics in america is a contact sport. >> reporter: stone told us last year he liked being known as a dirty trickster. for decades he was one of the most colorful political operatives in america and the first to convince trump he could win the presidency. >> i actually have communicated with assange. >> reporter: but the candidate fired stone in 2015, and his alleged involvement with wikileaks founder julia

two reporters from the white house saying, if anything, he thinks the coronavirus and response will helpresident donald trump's reelection campaign. he also says there are things he can do to unplug -- if they exist, i just don't want to go into details, kudlow saying there is a response that should be coordinated. he was responding to whether responding to whether some officials have been cycled. it's important for everybody to page in terms of page in terms of response. while that has happening, who has changed it forecast for coronavirus? we go to -- the risk for coronavirus now is very high, updated from high. still no pandemic, but definitely a few very high from high. guy: in the last couple seconds, we saw the dax down 5% briefly. off those levels, but down 5% on the day. nap -- jp now is morgan equity management strategist, stephen. what does this market need to stabilize? what do we need to see in the selling of equity market and what fun he was just talking about in the bow markets. >> two -- bull markets. >> the first thing would be stabilization in the spread of the virus, so

then it will be done for your term or two terms in the white house. that can have a very damaging impact. we saw it in labor law and environmental law. it devastates regulations on manufacturing, thousands of regulations put on, nobody really knew why but it devastated manufacturing for years. so you don't really need congress to do a lot of harm, sadly, and how about judges appointments, supreme court appointments, hello. >> steve, if. >> if i were asking questions i would ask the same question of mike bloomberg that was asked to biden in the last debate and that was the issue of how will you win a state like ohio or pennsylvania or colorado or new mexico or texas when you say you want to put every coalminer and oil gas worker out of a job. were talking millions of people who would lose their jobs in that state and frankly it's a mystery how they think they can win those key battleground states with that kind of left wing job agenda. >> bottom-line liz, policies do matter. president trump often says you may hate me personally but you have to apprecia

to a position at the defense department taking a key figure in the investigation out of the white house. the twoeople spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discussion personnel decisions. vindman said he intended to take an early leave and leave by the end of the month. so he's not just targeting political foes. he's actually going after some of these national security personnel who the pentagon at the highest levels said would be protected in that position. >> and that's what donald trump does. he's going to go after everybody. the only i guess fortunate thing you can say is that the people who testified have had enough of a profile that they will be somewhat protected but there a lot of other people who are going to have donald trump coming after them. it is not far reaching after what we heard in the impeachment trial and white house counsel and the legal team saying that donald trump can do whatever he wants if it's in the best interest of the country that donald trump creates a real enemies list. there's always been talk that he has one but i actually think

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in clinton's first public comments, he apologized in remarks that lasted less than two minutes. white houseicials are signaling, do not expect an apology from this president. he'll likely be joined by members of his legal team and republican lawmakers. he will cast his acquittal as a win. all of that is to say the president will likely try to use this moment to turn the page on what has been a difficult chapter for him and the country, as he heads into his next battle, re-election. undoubtedly, a tough race. savannah? >> all right. nbc news will bring you the president's statement live later today on its stations. >>> the dust is beginning to settle after the chaos in the iowa caucuses. new results released, but clarity, they did not provide. a tight race at the top. 0.2 point separating buttigieg and sanders, followed by warren and biden. morgan radford joins us from new hampshire, where the first primary is five days ago. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it is a tight race, and it is interesting, because in terms of iowa, we've seen those campaigns grow increasingly frustrated bec

we still have not received any sort of comments from the white house about these two reports but the office of special counsel confirms they have received this whistle-blower's complaint and the case has been assigned, bret. >> bret: we'll follow that story. thanks, kristin. countries around the world are cancelling events and enforcing strict rules about isolation in an attempt to keep the virus from spreading. benjamin hall looked at the global impact from london. >> the streets and squares of italy lie empty. japanese schools have all shut till the end of march and pilgrims are being turned away from saudi arabia. 47 countries have reported cases taking the total number to over 82,000 and the death toll to over 2,800. the world health organization urged countries to act now or risk death. >> if you act aggressively now, you can contain this virus. you can prevent people getting sick. you can save lives. >> but lives already being lost. in italy, which is ground zero in europe, 12 people have died and 447 are ill. the country insists its still open for tourists, but churches and mu

her confirmation hearing was going to be in just two days, but last night the white house abruptly pulled that nomination, and i am now being told by sources it is directly tied to the fact that she ran the u.s. attorney's office here. of course, when it was the office that was in charge of the prosecution of roger stone. it also played a role in several of those other major ongoing cases that came out of robert mueller's investigation, and that is the reason why president trump made the ultimate decision to pull her nomination, essentially surprising several treasury officials who believed she was on track to be confirmed for that job. now, of course, there are questions going forward about who was running that office now. it's currently being run by a close associate of the attorney general's tim shay, that is someone who's now going to be in charge of these cases going forward as roger stone is set to be snnsed next week by this judge the president is attacking on twitter and accusing her of bias. critics say they believe he's trying to intimidate her and get a more lenient sentence fo

wednesday and wasn't tested for coronavirus until saturday and think about communication from the white house. two days ago, you had the president and his economic adviser larry kudlow saying this thing is almost airtight contained and while last night his remarks were far more sobering and serious, from a market's perspective, it's the uncertainty. you know you're going to see an economic impact. you said it a moment ago, when all of the school children, 13 million in japan, are now being homeschooled for an entire month, that's going to have an economic impact. remember where the olympics is scheduled to be in a few months, japan. >> can you give me a bit of a historical perspective on all of this. when you think of other epidemics we have faced in the country or around the world, there's been a lot out there, have we seen similar swings in the markets as we've been seeing this past week or is this specific to what's happening with regards to the coronavirus along with the trump administration and lack of credibility that they face. >> we've seen drops like this before with sars, with ebola, but