what is the fear in the white house tonight? >> reporter: the point of the president's tweet is that would nullify what john bolton has written in his book though it's unlikely to satisfy democrats who want to hear from the national security adviser as "the new york times" is reporting that the he is saying the president directly tied the security assistance to ukraine to the investigations. now it has erupted in this war between the white house and bolton's attorney. they said they had sent john bolton a already saying they were looking at the draft of his book he turned over. you see mitch mcconnell going in now. they said they felt a lot of classified information in the book and a lot of top secret material so that it was going to obviously not be able to be published as it was. his attorney is releasing a letter that he sent to an attorney at the national security counsel saying look, it looks like my client could be called to testify. we do not have any reason to believe there is classified information in the chapter on ukr

it started when the house impeachment managers walked from the house side of the cap tall to the senate side of the capitol and read aloud the articles of impeachment. the chief justice took his own oath and sworn in. then the senators took their oath and bound to do impartial justice. >> all persons are commanded to keep silent. while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the united states. >> the managers on the part of the house will now proceed. >> donald j. trump, president of the united states is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors with the permission of the senate,ly now read the articles of impeachment. >> president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states. and undermined the integrity of the united states the democratic process. >> the presiding officer will administer the oath to john roberts, chief justice of the united states. >> place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand. do you

he voted against the articles both in the house judiciary committee and on the house floor , and a major part of his senate campaign that year -- listen to this -- has literally promising new yorkers in advance , in advance that he would vote to acquit president clinton. people asked if it was appropriate to him to prejudge like that. he dismissed the question, saying, quote, this is not a criminal trial. but something the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics. that was the democratic leader in the 1998 senate campaign. that was a newly sworn in senator schumer in 1999. a few weeks later, during the trial itself, democratic senator tom harkin successfully objected to the use of the word jurors to describe senators because the analogy to a narrow legal proceeding was so inappropriate, according to senator harkin. so look, mr. president, i respect our friends across the aisle, but it appears that one symptom of trump derangement syndrome is also a bad case of amnesia. a bad case of amnesia. and no member of this body needs condescending lec

multiple witnesses who were called in the house by the house democrats testified that the united states policy towards ukraine got stronger under the trump administration, and part, largely because of that legal aid. ambassador yovanovitch, ambassador volker, others testified that u.s. policy and providing that aid was greater support for ukraine then was provided in the obama administration, particularly the provision of javelin antitank missiles which they are explained are legal and kill russian tanks and change the calculus for aggression for the russians in that region of the eastern portion of ukraine where that conflict is still ongoing. in terms of the temporary pause on aid here, the testimony in the record -- put aside with the house managers have said about their speculation, and they know what it is like to be denied aid. the testimony in the record is that the temporary pause was not significant. ambassador volker testified that the brief pause on releasing aid was "nonsignificant." undersecretary of state for political affairs david hale explained that "this was future ass

we will hear from the house managers, we will hear from the white house, members of the senate will be able to ask questions of both of those groups about writing questions to the chief justice who will get those at present those questions and we will make a decision at that point as to whether we need witnesses or not. that is how they did it when president clinton was impeached in 1999 and that is how we will do it, following the clinton model. shannon: adam schiff said today that there are differences with the clinton model when it comes to witnesses and other things. here's what he said. >> the white house has been sitting on hundreds and hundreds of documents they refused to release, senators should demand them. all those documents were turned over before the trial. >> what is the duty of the senate and the duty of the house as far as fact-finding and putting it together before it comes to you. do you continue investigating based on what the house is given you? >> look at the constitution. the house is to put together a case and present that in the articles of impeachment to the s

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at the same time at the end of tonight's proceedings the house impeachment manager brought up what house investigators claim is an improperly classified piece of testimony for a staffer from vice president pence. she repeated what adam schiff said before is that as she put it she read the classified testimony and basically made the case on the floor there is no good reason for the testimony to be classified. she pointedly said that covering up wrongdoing is not a proper reason to classify something. chief justice john roberts in a surprise to tonight's proceedings allowed the piece of classified testimony he described as a single page will be made available to senators. that is not being made available to the public because it is classified. there is criticism of the fact that it is classified and all 100 senators will have access to it and will have to go to a classified setting in the capitol in order to look at it. i want to bring in president and council for the naacp defense fund. glad to have you here. i want to ask you about the privilege claims here. one thing that is interesting

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the house of representatives cannot bring in the evidence. there's noreason . it's obvious to say what do they fear? why won't they bring in the witnesses? because they are afraid of what the witnesses will say but there's no trial in this country in which you wouldn't admit the relevant witnesses and in which it's even a question. [inaudible] that will be a decision the house should make, not thatthe senators should prescribe to go late into the evening .look, there is a wealth of evidence to present here and we should have the opportunity to present the case as the house chooses to present its case, not to go late into the evening when editor mcconnell evidently hoped the public may not be watching. so we will make decisions about how long our case should go within the rules prescribed but i think the question is what is the senators interest? what is senator mcconnell's interest in structuring the trial this way? is this about hiding the evidence from the american people? is this about trying to get it over with because that should not be the motivation here

that is a shot of the house. josh jacobs was quoted as saying today i will always remember sleeping in a car when i was a kid. it was rough but hey, it is my life. you can see his dad getting emotional right there. good for josh jacobs. go good holiday move. it is time to check this out. you can call this hitting below the belt. this is the play-by-play as we go overseas to a match of cricket. check this out. >> we have a game on our hands. >> out to! not once but look. that is his first at-bat of the game. that is his second at-bat of the game. >> he did it twice? >> yeah. >> he is going to retire. >> i am happy to say he stayed in the game for team england. he is a tough guy. there is lots to say but we are not going to. we are just going to say the pictures were enough. as rod stewart once said every picture tells a story. >> i love that joe jacobs story. >> yeah, did you like the josh jacobs story? >> yeah. >> you would think in of joe judge? how much did he end up making? >> he is going to the giants. >> the

trump the house speaker is formally bringing the house portion of the proceedings to a close. by doing two things. naming these house impeachment managers and then ultimately transmitting both articles of impeachment over to the senate. as you mentioned, the house impeachment managers that's the group of house lawmakers who will present and then prosecute the case against president trump on the senate floor. as i know you know back in the '90s during the '99 impeachment trial house republicans who were in control at the time they picked 13 members of the house judiciary committee. all of them at the time happened to be white men to prosecute the case against then president clinton. this time around, house speaker pelosi will settle on a group that's smaller and more diverse. we have seen staffers for adam schiff who of course chaired the house intelligence committee, jerry nadler, they are here. we're also learning that congressman hakeem jeffries who chairs the democratic caucus has been chosen as a house manager. he tells us that he was not vying for a position but that he c

that is the house managers. the legal issues here are the constitutional ones and i have been, i think, pretty clear over the last week, starting when we had the motions arguments about my concern about the constitutional obligations that were operating under. i have been good goal of manager nadler's executive privilege and other nonsense. i want you to look at it this way. take out executive privilege for first amendment, free speech and other nonsense. the free exercise of religion and other nonsense. the rights to due process and other nonsense. the rights equal protection under the laws and other nonsense. you can't start doing that. you would not do that. no administration has done that. in fact, since the first administration george washingt washington. they wanted information he thought it was privileged, he said it was executive privilege. let's not start calling constitutional rights other nonsense. and lumping them together. this is from a house of representatives who believes client attorney privileg

and what is your solution for the house of lords? we offer one option, which goes for you have complete abolition. and you really look at, very much like the german second chamber, where you have representatives of the regions who speak collectively. or you have a house of lords which has an element of being elected. we ended up with a figure of 292 to be elected for 15—year terms, and 100 appointed. so you have a natural churning. the one thing we definitely decided was that the house of lords should not be for life. right, right. haven‘t we been here before? you were an mp back in 2003. you will remember mps spent a whole day discussing and voting on seven different options for the future of the house of lords, and they rejected them all. the problem is that people may agree there needs to be change, they can‘t agree on the type of change that there should be. oh, i remember it well. and there‘s nothing worse in the house of commons than when mps are not whipped on how to vote, and you have a whole string of votes and... ma

>> the house democrats didn't just e-mail these articles. no, no, they dramatically walked them over in a formal procession. here's the actual video from this afternoon. look at this. you just know there's someone at the back going we're really doing this? we're walking this the entire way? >> yesterday the house intelligence committee released materials that they got from parnas that were described as a trove of ridiculously incriminating impeachment evidence. when it comes to trump crime the scale goes incriminating, very incriminating, ridiculously incriminating and rudy on merlot. >> the trial hasn't even started yet and they're going to have this much fun? we are in for it. buckle up. thanks to our international viewers for joining us. for our u.s. viewers "early start" continues right now. >>> this is about 2020 to help him get the next four years? >> that was the way everybody viewed it. >> breaking overnight, an associate of rudy giuliani implicates president trump and top aides in the ukraine scandal. will it force mitch mcconnell's

witnesses should bwed fort think the house team because they think the house has had its opportunity tode gather evie, however, the white house also said they think the president shou be able to call winesses because they do not think he has had the chance to do that in a fair manner ye. >> woodruff: so they're still saying, we need the call witnesses. >> they' say the white house would like the call its witnesses. >> woodruff: as yu reported as we hrd, new evidence coming out from this associate of the president's lawyer, rudy giiani mark named lev parnas. what do we know about that? right, well,as we reported in the story, these are a lot of his own notes, hisioonvers with different people. democrats look at this evidence and say, these ar more dots connecting the president directly to what was going on in ukand that the president himself was part of giuliani's effort for their reasons that they tinkere corrupt. republicans say, no, wait a minute, this is just someone who works with giuliani. we don't foe if this person is truthful. we also don't kn g uliani really did talk to the

argued for the house to get grand jury material and testimony from former white house counsel don mcgahn. it's a case that could have implications for the ongoing impeachment investigation of the president, and general counsel doug letter said it is possible the house will bring more articles of impeachment against donald trump. but today's arguments took a very trump era turn when the trump appointed judge naoma row asked the house general counsel if the court said yes the house should get the material, would the justice department be compelled to comply? it's a question that absolutely shocked the house lawyer and led to an open question of whether the trump administration will only act at gunpoint. listen to this. >> that's stunning. that's just stunning. if this court rules that the house is entitled to this material, the attorney general is going to say no? >> i'm asking a hypothetical. >> i guess what we would do is use the main remedy that the house has had from the beginning. we'll send a sergeant in arms over to the justice department. i cannot imagine that anybody at the justic

we are not bound by the house record. in every previous impeachment, the senate made it clear it would not be bound by the house record. we have our own independent responsibility to try the case. to try a case, you must have witnesses, you must have testimony and documents. those documents were not made available in the house. that was a strategy by the president in the house proceedings, but now it's up to the trial in the senate, and we should get access to that information before reaching a judgment. >> the house manager, adam schiff, made that case as did his team over and over again during the last week, but trying to change the minds or influence the minds of senators, that's the key. do you believe that they effectively were able to do that, especially on that point of no witnesses that needed to testify? >> well, i think this is an important point but that's why the president's counsel -- when the president's counsel talked about the fact, according to the counsel, did not have the effectability of cross-examinin

and due process was shredded in the house. the magna carta shredded in the house. that was really destructive to the democrats' argument. they came in here destroying their own precedent and saying to a commander-in-chief, to a president who was relying on their own office of special counsel in the justice department's opinion, he's not going rogue. he's abiding by the opinion of the office of the special counsel, very talented lawyers, he's being impeached for taking the advice of counsel in the executive branch. that never happened before. they need to walk that back and realize this is just gross. >> greg: i would add one thing that this just because looking at the stock market today, which i think is about down 450, 460? >> dagen: at lost almost all if not all of its gains this year. >> greg: what it's reflecting is an anxiety over an issue we are not talking about. right? as we do impeachment every day -- >> juan: it's about the coronavirus. >> greg: i was getting there. the question is what would you rather have your government do because it can clearly only

that is what the house in this case is arguing. but trying to pressure a foreign government, that amounts to corrupting the system even if there's not a specific statute on the books. there's no crime how can you impeach? will definething we again. whatever the result is that will impact us in the future. we've had now three big impeachment battles in the last 45 years. is impeachment becoming a regular tool? we will see in the future and does it have any teeth as senator schumer argues if it does not succeed at that point doesn't mean you're never going to see an actually successful impeachment because we are always going to be locked into our partisan tribes? never going to have the two party agrees -- two parties agree. host: looking at the clinton impeachment you had then congressman lindsey graham demanding that monica lewinsky testify in the senate trial. now is a u.s. senator he says there should be no witnesses in a senate trial. where you sit depends on where you stand. guest: senator schumer was the only member of the hou

i know the clinton white house felt this. my get is that the trump white house does as well, although president trump has his own decision as to how he wants to play it. i'm sure that many of the people in the white house think the best defense for donald trump is to just do his job, just keep focused on big issues, to keep representing the country and not to get mired down in the trial. i just have to say, watching when the chief justice came in, watching him taking the oath and then giving theest to the hundred senators, people have very different views about what it is we're watching today. people that don't like this president especially democrats think that this is finally donald trump getting his justice, getting his day in court where he's going to have to face the responsibility for the things that he's done. republicans, supporters say this is just an utter miscarriage of justice, totally political and part of an effort by democrats even before the president took the oath of office to try to bring him down. you could

tonight the white house announced a group of republicans from the house who will get trump's defense message out, not on the senate floor but largely in the media. this afternoon, trump's attorneys and the democrat house managers had walk-throughs of the senate as part of their preparation. trump's lawyers also released a legal brief refuting the articles of impeachment, calling on the senate to immediately acquit him. over the weekend, house managers submitted their brief outlining the case against trump and what they say is overwhelming that he used his official power to pressure ukraine to interfere in our upcoming 2020 election. it's worth noting what has unfolded since the house voted to impeach one month ago. we've seen new evidence of course from rudy giuliani associate lev parnas, who last week here told rachel maddow that trump knew what he was doing in ukraine. among that evidence, texts suggesting a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine was under surveillance. a government watchdog agency found trump broke the law by blocking aid to ukraine. emails revealed discussions between

of moms for housing. that's where we started and that's with a plan to keep it moving. at that location for us to occupy that residence. >> it provoked discussions and apparently brought change. >> we will not stop organizing and fighting until all on housed folks those who have no shelter will have shelter. >> the mayor is also working on getting other big-time real estate investors to abide by the same agreement. >> you said the mothers would move and once the house is renovated. do we know how long that might take? >> we don't know how long exactly will take. but we can tell you that wedgwood that owns the house have promised to use local labor to do the renovations. so there is another benefit there. >> rob roth in oakland. thank you. >> checking out the cloudy day here. there are a few sprinkles that did show up. not measurable but a few drops to here and there. the whole was closed is windup -- west coast is wound up with this. the system has all the moisture appear. it's a really impressive stop bu

, levies, gatherings at the white house and other boarding houses, so that in the high season, in those winter months, january, february, march, congressmen would attend multiple social gatherings a to the terms of the alcohol consumption, the daily consumption that took twice at work and at home. host: that included everything from a dear wine to hard cider to whiskey-- and madeira wine. dr. balcerski: one things about the wide variety of options for consuming alcohol, one wonders if there was mixing of alcohol consumption. what i find is the type of alcohol one consumed was probably less of various than we might think. there were only a few basic kinds of alcohol consumed at this time. you mentored three of them. hard cider was popular in a north because apple's work common in the north. john adams's started his day with the tankard of hard cider. that was on the decline. probably because washington did not, as proximate to the production of cider. theit was more recently consume. whiskey, by contrast, was that traveled most easily. and particularly as you think about the nation's gro

with liz cheney and now, she will remain in the house. she's a fighter and a powerful voice for conservatives and is the type of person we need to help us lead the charge to win back the majority. i speak on behalf of our members when i say thank you for your commitment to the republican party and the vision that will truly help propel americans across the country for a better future. ist you need to read into it there is a real chance we will win the majority. the idea that our chair had the opportunity to go to the senate and stayed here, i think her. let me shift to what we saw yesterday. thempaign stunt for democrats. they took americans harder to die in -- funds and poured them into baseless investigation meant to disgrace this president. after three years with zero facts to back up their accusations, democrats rammed impeach down the throats of the american people. if this was real, if this was really as serious as they claim this would be, yesterday was no cause for celebration, but in that case, democrats did what you would expect

the first have to do with the idea that, somehow, the white house and white house lawyers were involved in some sort of cover up related to the transcript of the july 25th call because it was stored on a highly classified system. so, let me start with that. the house managers made the accusation that there was something nefarious going on, but let's see with the witnesses actually had to say. lieutenant colonel alexander vin men, remember, lieutenant colonel vindman is the person who is listening in on the call and who raise a concern, the only person who raised a concern with nsc lawyer that he thought there was something improper, something wrong with the call, even though he later conceded under cross-examination, it was really a policy concern, but he thought there was something wrong. he had to say that he did not think, he said "i do not think there was malicious intent or anything of that nature to cover anything up," he's the one who went and talked to the lawyers, he is the one whose complaint spurred the idea that, wait, there might be something that is really sensitive here,

and from housing vouchers, housing benefit generally. the earned income tax credit is actually procedurally a simple fix. just double the eligibility thresholds if you get married. the problem is that this costs summer between 100-$250 billion per year. which is, yeah, those are large numbers, right? >> you're not going to find that out of those cushions. >> nope, you're not. so to do this is not just the simple fix one thing. you cannot afford the current level of generosity for supers if extended to the same way for married parents so you need to do a wider fix. a simpler thing would be to simply, instead of having the earned income tax credit be sort of a backdoor family support program, just replace it with a simple and wage and it also route more money to either the child tax credit or some other child specific focused benefit. it's not clear why we would say because you have children the government will be even more determined to support your work outside the home. we of course what to support people with children but i don't think

jon karl live at the white house. jon, our thanks to you. mary bruce, our entire team in washington. our coverage of the impeachment trial for tonight. >>> but we do move onto the other breaking news in that deadly cry us tonight, spreading from china around the globe now, and this evening, it's here in the u.s. the cdc now reporting one man is now hospitalized in everett, washington, that's near seattle, and now two more major u.s. airports are set to screen passengers arriving from china. abc's kayna whitworth is in washington state tonight with what authorities revealed late today. >> reporter: tonight, the first confirmed u.s. case of that mysterious virus tracked here to washington state. a 30-year-old man diagnosed five days after returning home to seattle from wuhan, china. >> our number one priority is to complete the identification of all the patient's contacts, reach out to the contacts and monitor their health. >> reporter: health officials report the patient did not visit that wuhan fish and meat market, ground zero for the outbr

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the white house definitely wants a qui trial. but also the president wants to quickly be able to go out there and feel vindicated and say, you know what, this was a hoax, this was a witch hu gnt ao to his constituents and use it as a tool -- robert does he actual lip want hunter biden on the stand does he want that spectacle or would he rather wants this to be dismissed? >> he definitely enjoy aspect can. a lot of his advisors at the white house do k w that the that there's a risk. >> vivian brought up how many want to get back on the twain -- campaign trail. they will be stuck in their chares just weeks before the iowa caucuse there was sparks at the cnn debate. and two of the leading contenders, senator bernie sanders and ee warren. at issue a 2018 privateish -- private issue. warren has said that sanders save that he bel a woman cannot run. warren did not shake his hand. here's that back and >> i think you called me a >> what?n national >> i think you call med a lawyer on national tv? >> let's not do it right now. discussion,

witnesses that the senate -- that the house members may want to call, and witnesses that the white house may want to call. but after two weeks, we're going to say, have we heard enough to make an informed judgment or do we need more information? and that's when the decision will be made about witnesses, which is what they did in the bill clinton trial in 1999. >> fair enough. just in the last hour, the government accounting office, the gao, concluded the trump administration in its view broke the law when it withheld u.s. security aid to ukraine. i'm going to read from that judgment, just very briefly. faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that congress has enacted into law. you serve in the senate, the senate and the house passed this legislation, giving this aid to ukraine, as a sitting senator, do you agree with that finding, that listen, it is the senate's power to pass this funding. >> i want to read the full report. i've been interested in the funding to ukraine for years because i was in ukraine with a group o

miss grisham is officially the white house press secretary. that job was once a vaunted post in any administration, the conduit through which the white house tells the american people what it's doing, and often questioned about what it's doing by reporters. for example, if a president were to escalate the dangers overseas by killing a high-ranking iranian general, you might think the press secretary would head to the podium to keep the country and the world abreast of what's going on, but that doesn't happen anymore. it hasn't for 301 days. we've mentioned miss grisham on the ridiculist before, back in socket, we highlighted her defense over on fox ampersand friends of acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney after the white house had to walk back or reinvent mulvaney's statements, basically admitting that president trump had squeezed the president of ukraine for dirt in return for u.s. aid. grisham's appearance came less than 24 hours after acting chief of staff, mick "great muppet caper" mulvaney drew huge reviews, ranging from not he

the fact is, we had not done enough to build housing so that we have what we need to get people housed. we just haven't. so here in the city we are lucky because people care about making sure people are housed. the 600 million-dollar affordable housing bond passed by voters will be a great opportunity to invest in building more affordable housing , but we can't build it fast enough. so having access to the abigail, having access to the post street -- post street site and the bristol where there is another step up housing, those are so important to getting people housed now. so i just want to thank everyone who is here today and all of your work that sometimes escapes under the radar and people are not completely familiar with everything that goes into making an opportunity like this possible. it is appreciated, it's going to make a difference for 89 people at post street and 62 people right here at the abigail. it's going to make a difference for so many people and i'm so grateful we have this opportunity to do just that today. how the person who has helped in our efforts to move the n

and we are going to keep the white house. [cheers and applause] the american people are disgusted by the washington democrat -- you see it, you see it -- which is worse? the impeachment hoax or the witch hunts from russia? but we are going to be signing up millions and millions of registered independents, democrat voters. and today i had the best call i ever had since being -- the best polls i have ever had since being elected. the best we have ever had. we had our best polls. americans of all political beliefs are sick and tired of the radical rage-filled left socialist -- i never saw anything what's going on in this country. what's going none this country. the democrat party is the socialist party and maybe worse. voters are making a mass exodus from that party and we are welcoming them to the republican party with wide open arms. [cheers and applause] and the republican party is doing great. we are privileged to be joined tonight by a courageous leader who left the democrat party because he's had enough of their extremism,

the house judiciary never went to court to get documents, never. all of a sudden they vote for impeachment, bipartisan vote. then the smoking gun tape comes out and the republicans' position now is, oh, you didn't do your homework. we have something to consider. so that was vital evidence. it changed -- the country was for impeachment at that point, but it made impeachment totally inevitable and here the republicans are saying, no. vital evidence, there could be a smoking gun. john bolton could be the smoking gun. mick mulvaney could be -- >> the president broke the law, i watched him do it, he should be impeached. that's the downside cataclysmic risk. i'm not saying that's what he's going to say. he might try to exonerate the president. >> even in trying to exonerate him, he could persuade four of those senators to make the move. that's the longer term play here. look, we have this thing on lockdown. >> if we stick together and ram it through -- >> we have the critical vote done. we don't need anything softening the vote. >> what they have to worr

managers, for the house managers and for the white house lawyers will be able to answer questions. jeffrey toobin is in new york. you've been watching, what, about an hour and 15 minutes or so of their final statements before the 100 members of the senate. >> you know, jay sekulow has been donald trump's lawyer longer than anyone else in this process. he goes back to the very beginning of the mueller investigation, all the other lawyers from that period are gone, and i thought what you saw from him was channelling donald trump, was his feeling, the president's feeling that the deep state has been out to get him from day one, that comey was out to get him, and mueller was out to get him, and all these bureaucrats are out to get him, and it was kind of a greatest hits of the president's complaints about how he's been treated. i don't know how much of it is relevant, probably not much to the actual accusation here, but, you know, jay sekulow has been hearing personally from donald trump these complaints for two careers now, and i thought his comments were a very good window into how t

he is at the white house. so we hear the public posture of the president that this is all a hoax, that the phone call was perfect, he's not concerned. but what is he reading right now and what is he really thinking as he sees the chief justice of the united states supreme court being sworn in to oversee a historic impeachment trial? i note that the president was praising senator lamar alexander on twitter yesterday. >> yeah. >> one of the republicans who has been viewed as perhaps one who might swing over to at least vote to include witnesses in this trial if not to convict the president. >> look, the white house, the president, they're making last minute adjustments. for all the talk and the prelude we've had to impeachment, it doesn't seem like they've settled on their strategy. that's really on two fronts. number one, it's not really clear what the full suite of the defense team is going to look like, right? the plan had always been as soon as the house announces managers, the white house would put forward

he's also the ranking member of the house oversight committee and member of the house judiciary committee. congressman, great to see you. you are in the throes of the shifty schiff team. what do you make of what they've done over these last few days? >> the 24 hours doesn't change the facts. the facts have always been on the president side. for months now, they say don't change. the transcript shows no quid pro quo. he repeatedly said there was s o pressure, no pushing of the investigationwa. the ukrainians didn't know at the time of the call and they took no action. there is no announcement of the investigation before. no matter how long adam schiff and democrat talk, it won't change. it's interesting all the adjectives used to describe chairmanships presentation, all the things they said. it reminded me of president reagan, it's not the review that counts. it's what happened at the box office. i think since november, the voters will speak loudly and clearly. trump will win in a big way. >> and take the house? >> if he wins big, we can definitely take the house. he's doing a good job put

policy. >> i think that people are ready for boulder solutions around housing. and people recognize what is happening to the city and they want to change it.>> reporter: and attorney turned advocate, writing proposition f, guaranteeing legal counsel for anyone facing eviction. he wants to see san francisco build 10,000 affordable units in the next 10 years, make muni free by 2025 and create city- owned social housing on public land. and he wants to see it done without worrying about how to incentivize developers. >> so much of the discussion is about what makes it feasible or not feasible for the developer, we have to change that, otherwise the situation will continue to get worse.>> reporter: he doesn't subscribe to the theory that building more market rate housing will stabilize rents, something we regularly hear from big-city mayors. >> when you add supply and build luxury housing for the wealthy housing to move into, it is less likely that they will displace the people that have been here all along. >> when i was growing up, it was republicans advancing that

real estate professor says more housing built means cheaper housing. another factor, more people leaving the bay area. >> when you have people leaving san jose, often times going to other areas to try to find housing that is more within their affordability. >> so prices are slowing, but experts say don't expect big drops any time soon. >> you're right in the middle of silicon valley, so yeah, it's pretty important that people want to live here. they want to live near where they work. >> reporter: and that is a big issue. job growth here still hot in the tech industry. and if the construction industry can't keep up, it looks like rental prices will stay high for a while. in san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, scott. >>> erosion closed a stretch of a busy highway in san francisco. the road on the shoulder are eroding and engineers are trying to figure out what the next accept is to shore up that area. it's unknown how long the stretch will be closed. public work officials are deciding if they should do a quick fix or enact a long ter

according to the house rules. they cut them right off at the knees. >> have you learned anything in the last two days or today with the questioning of the senators? >> nothing new really. all right. thank you for calling him. canton ohio. >> please go ahead. >> my question is how is it fair when they've already signed saying they would not be partial to the hearing when you have these candidates, senator candidates running for president that are automatically going to vote to impeach him. that is not impartial. why are they allowed, shouldn't they have to be excluded from the hearings? because bernie sanders, his question was about calling trump a liar and he was kind of making a political statement. he said trump is nothing but a liar. their questions will not be bipartisan and they're not going to be by partial when they do their final vote. >> thank you jeannie. kathy, nevada city california. you are on c-span2. >> can you hear me? >> yes we can. >> i had a lot of questions but some have been answered. thank yo

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but house intel is being cautious, too, you know. just speaking to sources on the committee, they are not totally positive that these documents are going to yield the kind of bombshells that the public is expecting, and they're also wary of being duped by, you know, people in the president's orbit, rudy giuliani's orbit who may have, who do have their own motivations. so they are -- >> right. >> -- going into this very cautiously. they're going to sift through this material. but at the same time, the reason why lev parnas's attorney joe biondi has been advocating for him so forcefully is not because he's trying to help his client get a lesser potential sentence out of the southern district by cooperating with the congressional inquiry. but also he tells me he wants to try to up the stakes for a senate trial. he wants to make it even harder for the senate to say no to calling witnesses who might have more information about what happened in the ukraine scandal. so i think we all have to wait and see what comes out here. it could be wee

the white house withheld the e-mail from the house of course. we first learned of it from duffey's deputy mark sandy who testified he was copied on it. subsequently as a result of the lawsuit and the freedom of information act the public and therefore congress received a copy of that e-mail that the white house still refuses to comply with the subpoenas for this and other documents. on june 20, mccluster responded to the inquiry by providing sandy information on the security assistance program. sandy shared information with duffey but did not know whether duffey shared the information with the white house. laura cooper also recalled an inquiry about ukraine security assistance quote a few days after dod's june 8 press release that she noticed it was quote relatively unusual to receive questions from the president. in response the od'd provided material explaining the 250 million package was for additional training equipment advisory efforts to build the capacity of ukraine's armed forces. d.o. deemphasize quote almost all the dozens of vendors a

security is guarding the house around the clock. despite being evicted yesterday morning the moms and their supporters to a party last night with lots of food and music. they said they were celebrating the movement they are creating and continuing to raise awareness about the bay area housing prices for two of the moms and two other supporters were released from the santa rita jail yesterday afternoon after being arrested during the eviction earlier in the day. the moms have been living at 2928 magnolia street since november with their children. despite not owning it and not having a lease. wedgewood properties, a real estate investment company from southern california, owns the company and it offered to pay for moving expenses and for the moms to stay in a catholic charity center for two months. the moms have refuse. meanwhile the moms the urge wedgewood properties to sell back this home to the oakland community land trust for what they paid for it but wedgewood has refused. in west oakland, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> time for a look

the house managers continue their opening arguments. >> their focus today on the charge of abuse of power. greg lee is in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: house managers started by giving a history lesson this morning, telling senators what the founders had in mind. this is day two of three. some republicans saying they are tired of the repetition. >> the president's conduct is wrong. it is illegal. it is dangerous. it captures the worst fears of our founders and the framers of the constitution. >> reporter: house managers continued opening arguments in the senate impeachment trail of president trump. the manager said they will argue why the president should be removed based on the charge of abuse of power. >> president trump has placed his own personal clinical interests first. he has placed them above national security, above free and fair elections, and above our system of checks and balances. his conduct is not america first, it is donald trump first. >> reporter: they argue president trump leveraged $400 million in milita

>>after being forcibly vick did and arrested moms for housing activists return to this house on magnolia street in west oakland to fi that the road has been closed and then opened ridge has been right in front of the house we're looking at is construction here. but you looking at. >>the structure rigwt here the bay destructive and desoyed our property. >>personal property that was once inside this house now sitting the sidewalk. that is what mom for housing activist khaled ek found wednesday morning she and misty cross were jailed and released the day before after being evicted from this property, however, these mobs say there were promises made regarding being able to collecttheir persnal me of what is that we would have time to come get us to a british has lied to us what lie to us and saying i was officials at the alameda county sheriff's office told me the ner of the house wedgwood properties are the oneresponsible for any arrangements to return personal belongings left inside after the eviction typically one of the action occurs. >>the people take their belongings with them the squa

. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi says she is preparing to send articles of impeachment over to the senate this week as president trump appears to suggest that senators dismiss the trial all together. >>> and the gloves come off between two top democratic presidential candidates, elizabeth warren is accusing bernie sanders of sending his volunteers out to trash her. ♪ >>> good morning, everyone, it is monday, january 13th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we want to begin with the latest developments concerning iran as the trump administration's justification for the attack that killed iranian general qassem soleimani continues to evolve by the day, defense secretary mark esper says that he saw no specific evidence that iran targeted four u.s. embassies just days after the president had this to say on fox news. >> i can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies and i think that probably baghdad already started, but i think it would have been four embassies, it could have been military bases, it could have been a lot of other things, too, but it was eminent.

the senate trial began with house intelligence chair adam schiff joining the rest of the house impeachment managers to read the two articles detailing president trump's alleged abuse of power and obstruction of justice. a short time ago, chief justice john roberts was sworn in for the trial along with senators. you can watch live over on c-span2. >> the impeachment of president trump. watch unfiltered coverage of the senate trial on c-span2, live as it happens, and same-day reairs. follow the process on demand at c-span.org/impeachment and listen on the go using the free -span radio app. >> as the trial proceeds in the senate, earlier house minority leader kevin mccarthy spoke to reporters and was asked about impeachment. mr. mccarthy: where is chad? want to congratulate him. tell him we congratulate him on the promotion. he gets promoted and stops coming, what's up with that? where's the love? i don't see it. today we had a conference and republicans in the house and across the country received very good news from our conference chair this morning, liz cheney, anounsing she'll remain on o

the house managers -- definitely not. the house manager gave a powerful presentation, factual basis why the house voted to impeach this president. it is good to be reminded of the human dimension of what the president did because we know the president doesn't give a rip about the human dimension and the consequences of what he does because he only cares about himself but when jason crow said as a veteran having fought in afghanistan and iraq what it felt like to search for scrap metal to fortify their vehicles because they didn't have those kinds of protections, or to watch ambassador taylor on video saying when he went to eastern ukraine and talked to the commander who was fighting the russians, the commander thinking him for their american aid and ambassador taylor knowing well that that aid has been held up, who of us would not feel like you know what? he said he felt badly. i'm sure he felt worse than badly because our country did not keep our word. the human dimension of what the president did is something we should

a few moments later, the house clerk, accompanied by impeachment managers walked from the house chamber through statutory hall, down the ohio clock corridor, and on to the senate floor. >> house has passed hres 798, a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of donald john trump, the president of the united states. >> the message will be received. >> and history was made. and perhaps more in the making, because even as that was unfolding, the official washington was grappling with and fighting over some remarkable new potential evidence in the case. new documents from lev parnas, the indicted associate of president trump's alleged bag man in all of this, rudy giuliani. yes, that is where we are tonight. an impeached president with an alleged bag man formerly known as america's mayor, also formally known as a mob-busting u.s. attorney. these documents are so explosive because they appear to tie so directly into the alleged extortion scheme at the center of the impeachment and connect the president more tightly to it. one is a letter from giuliani to ukrain