biden: hi, it's jill biden. i've seen people today coming to help our campaign from texas, arizona, l.a., new york, delaware. thanks for coming out, everybody, we're going to win this. [applause] >> do you have time for one more? dr. biden: of course. >> thank you. dr. biden: you're welcome. >> you said texas, i'm from texas. i talked to joe -- i'm from davenport originally. historically, he was the tractor capital of the world. that was 25 years ago. since then, the economy's softened all up and down the river, in iowa and illinois. wasaccording to joe, there an economic development program that could be put together proposed as a pilot program for communities along the river, the mississippi river and the ohio river. and there was a very focused, recommended program. the reason i talked about this, was we work together as a team. and at that point -- in september, there was a lot of russia stuff but also trump was talking about the economy so much and the midwest. dr. biden: now people, i think, are seeing rea

jill biden. [applause] dr. biden: thank you. [applause] dr. biden: thank you, sierra. sierra, you did such a good job, i think you ought to come up and give the speech. [laughs] dr. biden: thanks to our entire new hampshire team for putting this event together. this is kind of dÉjÀ vu for me. i was here -- i can't remember when -- but i was here a couple months ago in this very hall. joe and i are very proud of our team and the work that they are doing here. this evening and all of today, i've been all over new hampshire today, and it has been hard to focus because of what is going on in the middle east, don't you think? ]crowd agreeing dr. biden: isn't it worrying all of you? "that was the plan"? is that what you said? >> yes. dr. biden: what is the plan? that is what you are asking. so you saw trump on tv this afternoon. did you watch this morning? yeah. [laughs] dr. biden: no, everyone is saying no. ok. well, our president was on the tv, trying to explain or give a rationale for what is going on. i wanted to just say, if we could all take a moment and think about

he said the bidens. plural. not one biden, the bidens. it's clear that the president wanted -- what he wanted from ukraine, an investigation to smear his political rival. but even if the president wanted an investigation of hunter biden, there is no basis for that either. now, how do you know? well, ukraine's former prosecutor general admitted that the allegation against vice president biden's son was plainly false. you can see it on the slide, his own words. plainly false. then ukrainian prosecutor general recanted his earlier allegations and confirmed, not involved in any wrongdoing

president biden's son. there is no question that any rational person would like to understand what happened i will go through some additional evidence that is easily available from the house managers that they never considered based on what attorney general bondi told you you can judge for yourself whether that was suspect. with hunter biden's involvement with ukrainian national gas company and is in charge of the portfolio during the administration. and then to identified in a few minutes to the house managers. the other issue and the baseless conspiracy theory that ukraine not rush , terfered in the 2016 election. and that president trump wants to erase from history has previous political misconduct. and the theory any theory was discredited and that it colluded when 2016 and it was that theory that was discredited and found the massive investigation of mr. mueller and that the democrats demanded since president trump tookde office and the same one that they knew they were absolutely sure had which after

he said the bidens, plural. not one biden, the bidens. it's clear that the president wanted, what he wanted from ukraine, an investigation to smear his political rival. but even if the president wanted an investigation of hunter biden, there is no basis for that either. now how do you know? well, ukraine's former prosecutor general admitted that the allegation against vice-president biden's son was plainly false. you can see it on the slide. his own words. plainly false. then ukrainian prosecutor general lutsenko confirmed, quote, biden was definitely not involved in any wrongdoing involving burisma. so even the ukrainians believe that biden's son did nothing wrong. the long and short of it is, that there was no basis for the investigation that the president was pursuing and pushing, none. he was doing it only for his own political benefit. but let's look at one more important reason why it's clear that president trump simply wanted a political benefit from ukraine's announcement of this investigation and didn't care about the underlying

biden: got to get trump out of office. fighting. we're mrs. biden: joe biden is your guy. thank you. thank you for coming. thank you. can we get a picture? can send it to joe. thank you for coming all this way. >> thank you so much. > thank you. mrs. biden: hi, it's jill biden, i've seen people today coming to help our campaign from texas, arizona, l.a., new york, delaware, thanks for coming out, everybody, we're going to win. this [applause] >> do you have time for one more? mrs. biden: of course. >> you said texas, i'm from texas. i talked to joe, i'm from davenport originally. istorically -- [inaudible] since then the economy softened up and down the river. economic development program could be put together as a pilot program for communities along the river, the mississippi river and the ohio river. the reason i talked about this, work together as a team and at hat point -- there was a lot of russia stuff but trump was talking about the economy so much and the midwest. mrs. biden: now people i think are seeing really who trump is and the promises didn't -- he didn't kee

biden: god love you. mr. biden: ok, here we go. where was i last night? [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: he is a good man. [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: thank you. [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: how are you doing, man? [indistinct conversations] >> go shopping and see what is now available at the c-span online store including our all 2020 t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats. c-span store.org and browse all of our products. ♪ >> the house will be in order. for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white and the supreme court and public policy events from washington, d.c. and the rest of the country. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your cable or local provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> coming up this morning on washington journal, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker discusses his new book on the history of impeachment. after that, hudson institute's blaise misztal on escalatin

i don't want to call hunter biden. i don't want to call joe biden. i want somebody to look at that when this was done. i've got a from the public record to believe their assertion there is no there there falls short. i know enough about the ukraine to believe we didn't betray the country. i know enough about the president's worldview, he still pissed we give 10% of the military budget. >> wisely about the presidential race, this is about the united states senate. if you take a listen to chuck schumer's statements, putting the trial on members of the united states senate, this is about susan collins. this is about tom tillis. this is about martha mc sally. this is cory gardner. chuck schumer has said as much. this is only partly about removing donald trump and taking his name off of the ballot. it is also about chuck schumer trying to make himself majority leader of the united states senate and there is no way to deny it because he himself has confirmed it. >> there should be more witnesses and documents because no evidence has come out, there was a r

biden: you really have. i have a great honor in the 2018 election cycle to go out and campaign in 24 states for over almost -- i keep forgetting the number, 65 to 69, candidates. we won back the house of representatives. we won 41 seats with leaders like abby finkenauer. we elected a group of really, really, really good members of the united states congress. folks, it matters. it matters. because it's given everybody some hope, and it has also stemmed the tide of some of the really dangerous things were that were happening. but you know, it is getting abby reelected that is really important. we owe you, as i said, we owe you around the country for electing abby. you know, having abby and the first two is female congresswomen in the state, pretty cool thing. [applause] mr. biden: you know, we are at a time in this country's history where everybody understands, trump supporters, independents, people who are democratic supporters, that we are really at one of those inflection points in american history. an awfu

biden: let's get a picture. i believe it. >> andrew. mr. biden: joe biden. bobby is a good kid. god love you. you have done good with this guy. >> thank you. mr. biden: what is your name? >> derek. mr. biden: derek, to see you. where are you from? >> oklahoma. >> i am from connecticut. mr. biden: remember me when one of you -- [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: do you want your husband in this one? come on man, get in here. >> and then my sister too. mr. biden: come on, sis. i tell all of the guys, you marry into a family with -- one of them always loves you. you always have a buddy with you. you know what i'm talking about. [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: god love you. [indistinct conversations] >> thank you. [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: god love you. thank you. how are you? what is your name? [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: do know this guy? [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: thanks for being here. your husband and i have something in common. we both married way up. [indistinct conversations] mr. biden: that is what my mom says too. everybody knows m

obvious choices are adam schiff, joe biden and hunter biden for starters. "politico" is reporting -- cyber reporters for political reporting that mitt romney spoke to reporters today ahead of the proceedings and said quote it's increasingly likely that other republicans would join those of us who think we should have from john bolton. i have spoken with others who have opined upon this. it's important to be able to hear from john bolton for us to be able to make an impartial judgment. susan collins put out a statement saying this "new york times" story that broke yesterday strengthens the case for calling witnesses like john bolton. joseph in texas, republican. >> caller: how are you doing today? i'm just calling to get everybody to take a step back and figure out where this all began when trump first announced his candidacy to run for presidency. immediately after that it was the impeachment process began. because there's been no secret for anybody to say we are going to impeach that mf from day one. had to be that's where -- it made the comment, trump did

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biden: thank you. hi, it's jill biden. i've seen people today coming to help our campaign from texas, arizona, l.a., new york, delaware. thanks for coming out, everybody. were going to win this. [applause] >> do you have time for one more? mrs. biden: of course. [laughter] >> you said texas, i'm from texas, too. i talked to joe when he was here, and, i'm from devonport it waslly, historically the tractor capital of the world , and that was 25 years ago. since then, the economy has softened all and -- up and down the river. economic development program could be put together as a pilot program for communities along the river, the mississippi river and the ohio river. all those states. the reason i talked about this, 2016, i worked together as a team, and at that point -- in september, there was a lot of russia stuff but trump was talking about the economy so much and the midwest. mrs. biden: now people i think are seeing really who trump is and that the promises, he didn't keep his promises. that's why i'm hearing a lot of p

he said the bidens plural, not one biden. the bidens. it's clear that the president wanted -- what he wanted from ukraine, an investigation to smear his political rival, but even if the president wanted an investigation of hunter biden, there is no basis for that either. now, how do you know? well, ukraine's former prosecutor general admitted that the allegation against vice president biden's son was plainly false. you can see it on the slide, his own words, plainly false. then ukrainian prosecutor general recanted his earlier allegations and confirmed, quote, biden was definitely not involved in any wrongdoing involving burisma. so even the ukrainians believed that biden's son did nothing wrong. the long and short of it is that there was no basis for the investigation that the president was pursuing and pushing, none. he was doing it only for his own political benefit. but let's look at one more important reason why it's clear that president trump simply wanted a political benefit from ukraine's announcement of this investigation and di

biden: thank you. hello. >> hillary. dr. biden: oh, ok. [inaudible] dr. biden: thank you. thank you. >> you're welcome. [inaudible] >> republican caucusing in for joe. >> that means a lot. dr. biden: young. thank you. thank you, thank you. [laughter] [cheers and applause] dr. biden: thank you. >> you're welcome. dr. biden: you made my day. [laughter] >> hi, jill. this is my husband, bill. dr. biden: hi, bill. how are you? oh, great. [inaudible] well, thank you. dr. biden: well, now you get to be with joe and joe's going to win. [inaudible] >> somewhere in the southeast part of town. dr. biden: hello. how are you? oh, my gosh. [inaudible] dr. biden: oh, here. there you go. >> thank you so much. dr. biden: thank you. that means so much. thank you. >> hello. dr. biden: oh, my gosh! [laughter] >> thank you. [inaudible] >> thank you. dr. biden: thank you. thank you for coming. hello. hi. nice to meet you. [inaudible] >> we came from new york. dr. biden: wow. new york. people. texas, new york. >> thank you. dr. biden: oh, sure. y'all have to sign it too. >> of course. of course.

i'd like to hear shifty schiff, and i'm like to hear hunter biden and joe biden. >> and the problem is that the president is attempting to block damaging witnesses like john bolton, former house security adviser and others want to hear the testimony. others are saying that nancy pelosi is right to delay the articles of impeachment over to the senate. >> some of the republicans are now beginning to say, maybe we need witnesses and documents. had nancy sent the stuff right over, and mcconnell moved to dismiss, who knows what would have happened. ♪ we are family >> reporter: other witnesses want to get in on the act, inclug lev pi including lev parnas who is an indicted associate of rudy giuliani, and he sent out these photos of trump family members with the #let leshgsevspelevspe >> and then rudy giuliani is saying that he wants to do what he does best. >> i would love to try the case. i don't know if anybody has courage to give me the case. >> and the president is never going to have him in the senate trial, and starting with the problem that he is a potential witness. and a new poten

it was joe biden. wasn't hunter biden on the call? joe biden. shouldn't matter if it was hunter biden or joe biden. we are talking about american citizens. it shouldn't matter to any of us which american citizens. >> laura: they are just american citizens. i guess it just like page was. >> you can expect we will have a section of our presentation that will address the question of the bidens because house impeachment managers have ejected that into the proceedings at their own peril and have opened the door to it but i will say this, one of the problems with having a standardless impeachment is really two things, one is that you can pour pretty much anything that you want into vague articles of impeachment, and the second is that you wander all over the place on factual issues that really don't go to the question about whether or not the articles as charged warrant removing the president from office. this is an impeachment trial. and the senate needs only to decide there or not they need witnesses or further evidence to render judgment about whet

biden: thank you. >> i was 16 when trump was not know howi do so many women can -- dr. biden: life will get better with joe biden, i promise you. thank you for working for us. thank you. hello, how are you. >> i am so glad that you are campaigning. i wanted to say that the situation last night really made me vote for joe for sure. i think his history makes them stand out from the other candidates. that is one of my major concerns. dr. biden: ready day one. thank you. [laughter] nurse, and iired will go state to state if needed. i will do that. dr. biden: thank you. counting on you. >> thank you. -- hello, how are you. >> you deserve to be first lady. i was working for the barack obama reelection campaign, and i worked for joe biden. --is the best candidate that he has the best candidate. dr. biden: thank you for coming. >> thank you so much. dr. biden: hello. >> i was -- my family wanted me to be a lawyer or go into banking. i know that is a little different from postal work. -- but the way that you ta

did vice president biden ever ask hunter biden to step down from the board of burisma? >> thank you for the question. we're not aware of any evidence that then vice president biden sought any ethics opinion. we are aware that both amos hawkstein and deputy assistant secretary of state kent testify, excuse me, deputy assistant kent testify before the house that they each raised the issue with vice president biden of the potential appearance of a conflict of interest with his son hunter being on the board of burisma. the deputy assistant secretary kent said that although he raise that had issue, the response was the vice president's office, the vice president was busy dealing then with tilness of his other son and there was no action taken. so from what we know, there wasn't any effort to seek an ethics opinion. we're not aware of an ethics opinion being issued. the issue was flagged for the vice president's office, we're not aware that vice president biden asked his son to step down or any other action was taken. and that i believe vice president biden has said that he n

biden. even chris heinz his own business partner had grave concerns. he thought that working with marie's month - - burisma is unacceptable. he was worried about the corruption in the geopolitical risk and how bad it would look. so he wisely distances himself from hunter biden and devon archer to burisma. he didn't simply call his stepfather, secretary of state and say i have a problem. he didn't tell his friends i'm not getting on the board i want nothing to do with this. he went so far to send an e-mail to senior state department officials about this issue. and he wrote, apparently devon and hunter have joined the board of burisma in a press release went out today. i can't speak to why they decided to but there is no investment by our firm in their company. what is hunter biden do? he stayed on board. what he chris heinz do? subsequently he stopped doing business his college roommate chris heinz spokesperson said, the lack of judgment in this matter was a major catalyst for mr. himes into

i think joe biden -- >> senator sanders has been tying to make it an issue by focusing on biden's iraq war record. >> and he's going to do it tonight. i'll make a guess, go out on a limb and say, he's going to do it again. and i think others will, too. i wouldn't be surprised if warren did that. and biden is going to have to defend that vote. but he's going to try to portray himself as the man with experience, the man who can bring stability, and that is also another thing voters here are looking for. they want somebody who can beat donald trump. and people on this stage will compete for that, as well. so it's commander in chief and it's somebody who can take on this president and win. >> i actually think -- i'm sorry. i actually think that is the core of biden argument. the most important thing is to beat trump. i'm the guy who can beat trump. and therefore, i think these scrums with bernie sanders are something that he's actually looking for, because part of his case is going to be, if you don't pick me, it could be him. and he's not going to be able to beat donald trump, because he'

but joe biden. september, 2019, they asked giuliani you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden and the response he insisted of course i did. mr. giuliani insisted ukraine look into an american citizen on behalf of his client, president trump. finally, during the impeachment proceedings, mr. giuliani would dig up dirt to benefit the president. in december, he again traveled to meet with ukrainian officials just described is a secret assignment, an act of which the president reportedly called immediately upon landing what did you get to which mr. giuliani responded more than you can imagine. it's worth noting in ms. raskin's presentation -- repeated requests for investigations into biden, not into corruption. >> mr. chief justice. >> the senator from florida. >> i send a question to the desk on behalf of myself, senator sachs, mcsally and holden. >> thank you. the question from senator rubio and the other senators is for counsel from president. how would the framers view removing a president without a

i like joe biden. i don't want to do this. >> somebody could say when hunter biden went to the state department the new york times reported he was on the board of burisma that undermines his credibility. maybe it's just a conflict of interest or bad judgment or may be no more to this but i know from the office of the president and the time the prosecutor was fired it was about six weeks. you need to look it may be innocent explanations but you cannot say it's been investigated when it has not. >> did that sheet. >> i know you cannot say this is kosher and the answer is i get that. and i understand that that's why i don't want to do this. but there comes a point this happened in 2014 and then 2016 and the foreign policy from what president trump did and then what hunter biden did she had not looked. i think should be equally upset but i can understand being upset but how can you not be upset that the man in charge of anticorruption efforts on behalf of the united states, the vice president son is making

i like joe biden. i don't want to do this. >> outside of the -- >> somebody that can say, somebody can say, december 10th, when hunter biden went to the state department after the new york times reported he was on the board of the reason into undercut joe biden's ability to be an anticorruption guy what do they talk about it the state department? it may be just a conflict of interest, it may just be bad judgment, there may be no more to this but i know from the time the office of the president of the reason was rated at the time the prosecutor was fired and he may be corrupt was about 6 weeks and you need to look at what happened in at 6-week period. there may be innocent explanations but i know this. you are not going to convince me your most people on my side that it has been investigated when it is not. >> the impact of that -- do you think that cheated any -- >> kent called the biden folks and said this is not kosher and the answer was that joe is struggling. i get that but at a point you've got to

daughter ashley biden. there is an absolute case where he is using government resources, government influence, government information for the benefit of a family member's business. and, if you can imagine if the charms had done that, i would be outraged but they haven't done that in the bidens have. you can look at his brother frank. >> how many bidens are there. >> i tell you we found five members that receive the sweetheart deals. that is all of the siblings and his living children, of course bo passed away from cancer a few years ago. so it's all five family members, no one has been left out. >> what about this other brother. >> so frank biden starts doing deals in coaster -- costa rica. joe biden comes down and talks with the president about providing aid and cooperation. within months frank biden has a deal with the costa rican power company. he has meetings with the president of costa rica and government ministers. he's setting up an interview company. you can add him to the list. >> he knows nothing

it had to be about biden. it had to say biden. lev parnas alleging that former energy secretary rick perry, who we know from impeachment testimony was tasked by the white house with one of three fishes along with kurt volcanoer and gordon sondland taking the lead. this was the three amigos. according to parnas, rick perry was direct bid r.j. r.j. to deliver the message to the ukrainian government that they needed to announce investigations into joe biden. mr. parnas says that mr. perry phoned mr. giuliani, contacted mr. giuliani and said that he had been in touch with the ukrainian president, that he had conveyed the message, and that in fact the ukrainian government had agreed to make that announcement. now, secretary of energy rick perry denied playing any role in this scheme, but he did crash out of trump cabinet as soon as the scandal started to come to the surface. it was october 16th when "the wall street journal" reported secretary perry did call giuliani to talk about ukraine. he did so at the direction of president trump.

joe biden threatened-- joe biden, vice-president. united states and we just saw a video which would encourage every news outlet to actually show the video of joe biden bragging how he told the president of ukraine he was going to cut off a billion dollars, he was going to block a billion dollars in foreign aid to ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor and in joe biden's own words, sonofabitch, they fired the guy. >> you said you'd answer the question, so-- >> hold on, hold on. >> i'm sorry, let him answer the question. >> i did ask the question-- >> i guess that the press moves to obsess over the latest bombshell. listen, i don't know what john bolton's book says or doesn't say. i've seen the new york times coverage, but at the end of the day, it doesn't impact the legal issue before this senate. the legal issue before this senate is whether a president has the authority to investigate corruption. so the house managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating burisma skrupgs... we have just seen two hours of ev

it's a very simple answer, he said the biden's. plural. not one biden, but the biden's. it is clear the president wanted what he wanted from ukraine and investigation to smear his political rival area even if the president wanted an investigation of hunter biden there is no basis for that either. now, how do you know? well, ukraine's former prosecutor general admitted that the allegation against vice president biden's son was plainly false. you can see it on the own words, plainly false. then ukrainian prosecutor general urate lutsenko recanted his earlier allegations and confirmed quote, biden was definitely not involved. in any wrongdoing involving burisma. so, even though ukrainians believed that biden's son did nothing wrong. the long and short of it is that there was no basis for the investigation that the president was pursuing and pushing, none. he was doing it only for his own political benefit. but let's look at one more important reason why it is clear that president trump simply wanted a political benefit from ukraine's announcement of this investigation and d

it was joe biden. wasn't hunter biden on the call? joe biden. shouldn't matter if it was hunter biden or joe biden. we are talking about american citizens. it shouldn't matter to any of us which american citizens. >> laura: they are just american citizens. i guess it just like carter page was. >> you can expect we will have a section of our presentation that will address the question of the bidens because house impeachment managers have ejected that into the proceedings at their own peril and have opened the door to it but i will say this, one of the problems with having a standardless impeachment is really two things, one is that you can pour pretty much anything that you want into vague articles of impeachment, and the second is that you wander all over the place on factual issues that really don't go to the question about whether or not the articles as charged warrant removing the president from office. this is an impeachment trial. and the senate needs only to decide there or not they need witnesses or further evidence to render judgment abo

biden used to set. president trump summarizedpren n broad strokes in the july 25th call to president zelensky. there is a lot of talk about biden's son and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging about not know prosecutions of you to look into that it sounds horrible todsor me. now listen carefully at the investigation president trump was asking for and what it was sbased on. in short, president trump asked for the investigation into biden based on a made up theory that no one agreed with. no one. we will go into this in more detail but at the highest levels the allegation is that in 2015 they asked viktor shokin to withhold those guarantees of not removed according to this theory vice president biden did this in order to help his son with a company called t12. vice president biden son sat on the board of burisma. as the theory goes vice president biden tried to remove the ukraine prosecutores to make sure th

biden: hi. >> hi. [inaudible] >> we are wondering how the expansion of obamacare would impact [indiscernible] [inaudible] vice pres. biden: how are you? [inaudible] vice pres. biden: thank you so much. [inaudible] >> you said you would beat him like a drum. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: thank you. >> we were voting for you before you said you were going to run. remember four years ago, run, joe, ron? -- run, joe, run? [inaudible] >> there you go. [inaudible] >> thank you. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: i know, i know. come on. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: how are you? [inaudible] >> thank you. thank you so much. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: what is your name? [inaudible] vice pres. biden: can i give you a hug? god love you. [inaudible] i know, i biden: know. thank you. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: thank you so much. thank you, thank you. [inaudible] vice pres. biden: do you want another picture? [inaudible] vice pres. biden: it will be hard to put it back together again, but i will try. [inaudible] >

talking about biden and burisma. he wasn't talking about democratic presidential candidate and his top rival. he was talking about corruption in a country where we're going to give hundreds of millions to. so by focusing on specific issues and dealing with them and trying to answer them, it's much more compelling than just a general argument against the president did wrong on this or he did wrong on that. the only other point i'd make is, when i hear that rudy guliani is going to go public with his evidence, i'm thinking hasn't he been doing that the last six months? >> a little bit. here and there. we could go another seven hours today, chris. thank you. martha and bret, stand by. want to bring in virginia democratic senator mark warner. thanks for your time during the recess. we'll get everybody back inside in a moment. how will you vote on these two articles, senator? >> i've not made any decision. i think i owe -- when i took that oath, i owe both sides a chance to make their case. i thought yesterday, particular

are there are a lot of people on my side who want to call joe biden and hunter biden. i want to end this thing sooner, rather than later. i don't want to turn it into a circus. i think schumer said yesterday we are not willing to trade a joe biden for anybody. i think i know why. i want the american people to pick the next president, not me. and so what i think is the best thing to have happen is to have oversight of ukrainian potential misconduct and move on to the election. i am not going to move my vote to extend the trial. speak of the republicans have said that they heard nothing new in the opening arguments -- allowing for new evidence and witnesses. >> they say that i have enough to make their case. so, hearing from john bolton, the national security advisor of the present, they chose not to seek him. i would argue that if i were president and you wanted to call my national security advisor, i would probably invoke privilege. but the one thing i can tell you is that we don't want to start a process where you can do impeachment in the house in 48 days, shot legal

it had to be about biden. they had to say biden. lev parnas alleging that former energy secretary rick perry, who we know from impeachment testimony was tasked by the white house along with kurt volker and gordon sondland taking the lead, this wasn't three amigos, according to lev parnas, secretary of energy rick perry was directed by rudy guiliani to deliver the message to the ukrainian government that they needed to announce investigations into joe biden. he says, mr. parnas says that mr. perry phoned mr. guiliani, contacted mr. guiliani and said he had been in touch with the ukrainian president. >> that he had conditiveyed the message and, in fact, the ukrainian government had agreed to make that announcement. secretary of energy rick perry denied playing any role in this scheme. but he did crash out of the cabinet just as the scandal surfaced. it was october 16th when the "wall street journal" reported that, in fact, secretary perry did call rudy guiliani to talk about ukraine. he did so at the direction of president trump. the

and hunter biden situation the headline reads joe biden, his son and the case against a ukrainian oligarch for the quote was incredibly of the vice president's anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son hunter biden with one of ukraine's largest natural gas companies, burisma holdings, with people who are concerned about appearance of conflict, we wanted to correct that headline. shine is attending the task of isolating 3 cities with a combined population of 18 million people in order to stop the threat of the deadly virus. there is a confirmed case of the us and fears about more. ice as neil has more on the coronavirus. >> reporter: this is breaking in the last couple hours, 25-year-old woman was hospitalized in new jersey, doctors are still evaluating her. they haven't quite diagnosed are just yet. medics are monitoring 16 people with close contact with patient 0 as he's being called in washington state. those people have not developed the illness that are being watched. another suspected victim is in a california hospital, that patient arrived at lax f

i don't know if this is going to hurt joe biden. i think it may help joe biden. being smeared or being the center of this international controversy where the president is being impeached over it and then using the floor of the senate to go after biden, i think that may rally caucusgoers around it. we won't know until monday, but i think they've miscalculated. and it was just -- it showed what they're really about. >> i can tell you one thing i want to buy tickets to that beer you're going to have with paul talking about the clinton impeachment. that is something i would like to see. >> we will certainly send you the tab. >> thank you, gentlemen. thank you very much. >>> coming up, new details about what happened in the minutes just before the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant. we have the latest in the investigation for you next. you always want to be able to deliver relief for your patients. get them out of pain, get them out of pain fast. we have a new product out there: sensodyne rapid relief. if you use it on monday, by thursday, you'll be enjoying tha

president trump or the bidens. the president's lawyers launching a full-throated attack on joe biden and his son hunter. also tonight remembering kobe bryant. the legend of the los angeles lakers. but first president trump's impeachment trial. alan dershowitz dismissing of report of a quid pro quo. >> if a president, any president were to have done what the "times" reported about the content of the bolton manuscript that would not constitutionty statute an impeachable offense. nothing in the bolton revelations even if true would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense. >> so joining me now a panel here. let's talk about alan dershow z dershowitz. is that a smart defense. >> it's the defense of the day. alan dershowitz's standard seems to be whatever suits my purposes today. how could it be? how could it be okay for a president -- the question was assuming the truth of john bolton's manuscript how could it be okay for a president to say, i want to you investigate my political rival in exchan

it's a very simple answer" he said it, the bidens, plural. not one biden, the bidens. the president was clear with what he wanted from the ukraine, an investigation to smear his political rival. but even if the president wanted an investigation of hunter biden, there was no basis for that either. now, how do you know? ukraine's former prosecutor general admitted that the allegations against vice president biden's son was plainly false. you can see it on the slide, his own words. plainly false. then, ukrainian prosecutor recanted his earlier allegations and confirmed "biden was definitely not involved in any wrongdoing involving burisma." so even the ukrainians that biden's son did nothing wrong. the long and short of it is that there was no basis for the investigation that the president was pursuing. and pushing. none. he was doing it only for his own political benefit. but let's look at one more important reason why it's clear that president trump simply wanted a political benefit from ukraine's announcement of this investigation and didn't care about the underlying c

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hunter biden is not only relevant. he is now critical. >> democrats contend that republicans are ignoring the evidence presented by the democratic managers. here's the democrat from hawaii. >> i think they are wrestling with their conscience. my republican colleagues should be a hell of a lot more upset by what the president did not only to ukraine but to our own country by not being good for our word. >> we expect the defense to start on saturday. that might be a shorter session and then the question and answer period begins. 16 hours around the middle of next week. there is a question about the questions. a lot of republicans would like to summon adam schiff as a fact witness here. there is some chatter that what the republican senators might do is make him do a de facto witness during the question and answer session here. directing questions through john roberts towards adam schiff. the question is whether or not he will allow those questions to stand or they might have to vote on whether the questions are appropria

oh, you want to talk about the bidens? let's talk about the bidens. you never investigating any of that. you don't care about any of that. even though it may be irrelevant to the legal analysis, you are a political expert. how does that play as persuasion? >> yeah. i don't think the democrats did this today to protect joe biden or to sort of make a political argument on his behalf. i think why they were talking about him so much is first of all they know the republicans are going to try and deflect the president's behavior by putting bad behavior on the bidens. but secondly because it is emblematic about his political interest, because it formed the basis of all of his activities. and, so, i think they were using that as an example of how he used his personal political interest to abuse power, to essentially butt tres, you know, the article of impeachment. >> they have another day, obviously, the democrats. two things they haven't touched yet, professor. on the biden thing, i would preempt and say, they want to bring in the bidens, which is tau tauntm

interest for joe biden. the article stated, "the move raises questions about a potential conflict of interest for joe biden." even chris hines, hunter biden's own business partner had grave concerns. he thought that working with burisma was unacceptable. this is chris hines. he was worried about the corruption, the geopolitical risk, and how bad it will look. so he wisely distances himself from hunter biden's and devon archer's appointments to burisma. he didn't simply call his stepfather, secretary of state and say, i have a problem with this. he didn't tell his friends, hey guys, i'm not getting on the board. i want nothing to do with this. he went so far as to send an email to a senior state department officials about this issue. this is chris hines. he wrote "apparently, devon and hunter have joined the board of burisma and a press release went out today. i can't speak to why they decided to, but there is no investment by our firm in their company. what did hunter biden to do he stayed on the board. what

biden: thank you. amber. >> when you're on stage with donald trump, say i will do what you did and do it with dignity. the democrat ideas are good. yes to give men: a couple of the good things. >>on employment is down. vice pres. biden: employment is good. >>there is no good on the other side? name one thing that is good. [indiscernible] i am going to be a delegate for you. vice pres. biden: thank you. thank you guys for being here. >>[indiscernible] i woke up unable to move. i was in a wheelchair with a catheter. >>i have been waiting for a long time. thank you. i've got insurance through my work. [indiscernible] can i get a selfie? thank you. >> i am almost pain-free. i have been rehabbing self. -- myself. [indiscernible] vice pres. biden: thank you. [indiscernible] give us your name and number -- the bad part is i know the mall. -- them all. [indiscernible] [crowd talking] >> [indiscernible] [crowd talking] >> thank you so much. [crowd talking] >> how are you today? we are all friends. i came and sa

it was it strictly about burisma, which included hunter biden and joe biden. >> it's all about the bidens. it was never about corruption. strictly about joe biden, hunter biden. in terms of the involvement of the president here, mr. parnas went out of his way to note, to assert that not only was president trump aware of what he and mr. giuliani were doing on his behalf in ukraine trying to gin up this investigation to hurt joe biden, mr. parnas says that the fact that he was working for president trump is a point that was made explicitly over and over again in a very formal way in his dealings, in his meetings in ukraine. >> your attorney told the federal court in new york that you were both rudy giuliani's clients and you were working for mr. giuliani in his capacity as personal attorney to the president. >> correct. >> which, by the transitive property, makes it seem like you were working for the president as part of this legal defense. >> yes, absolutely. >> did anybody in the u.s. government or rudy giuliani actually convey to officials in ukraine you that were there as representative

do your first question, sean, we call them the biden five. there are five biden family members. you've got hunter, you've got his daughter, ashley, through her husband and the business that he literally sat up basically in the oval office with joe biden's help.ou you've got james, you've got frank, and then you got his sister, valerie. all of them benefited from the political power of joe biden. they cashed in. >> sean: rush limbaugh, explaining why the democrats look so miserable on tv. i think he's nailed it. that's next. ? ? ♪ -meg! there you are. did you take a picture of the cake to put on our website? i mean i would have but i'm a commercial vehicle so i don't have hands... or a camera...or a website. should we franchise? is the market ready for that? can we franchise? how do you do that? meg! oh meg! we should do that thing where you put the business cards in the fishbowl and somebody wins something. -meg: hi. i'm here for... i'm here for the evans' wedding. -we've got the cake in the back, so, yeah. -meg: thank you. -progressive knows small business makes big demands.

they should investigate the bidens. how did the company that's newly formed and all these companies, by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation intohe bidens. because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. >> the day after that july 25th phone call, president trump sought confirmation that president zelensky understood his request to announce the politically motivated investigations and he would follow through. after meeting with ukrainian officials, president zelensky and his top aide, the president's hand picked ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, called from an outdoor restaurant in kiev to report back. this was the second conversation between two about u in as many days. david holmes, an american diplomat, dining with sondland overheard the call including the president's voice through the cell phone. i described part of that call sondland, so he will do the investigation? sondland replied, he is going to do it. adding that president zelensky will do a

president trump is so obsessed with joe biden and hunter biden that he's willing to risk our elections and our national security to go after them, and now the president and his lawyers are willing to risk the purpose of an impeachment trial to go after them. sort of says the same thing. one of the great moments yesterday that was amazing after the revelations about bolton had come out, there is mr. sekulow pointed to the four think so prove and the third one is there are no eyewitnesses to what resident trump did that have testified. give me a break. he has the nerve, the gall, the belief that he can deceive by putting that as one of the things up on his chart when it's been revealed that hunter biden does have eyewitness testimony and is willing to testify. wow. bolton. what did i say? let me say that again. he has the nerve and the gall to get up there and say that there are no eyewitness testimony when we know that john bolton has eyewitness testimony and is going to testify here sorry about that. so the request to call hunter biden are an intentional misdirection, a distraction. th

's. >> we heard a lot about vice president biden and joe biden hunter biden what did you think? >>caller: i am aware of burisma that it has been looked into. honestly everybody can't follow everything. i do know if you want to look at hunter biden i do think he did something sketchy. now doubt about it. but hunter is not on trial right now i don't feel that his actions have anything to do with the impeachment of the president of the united states. two wrongs don't make a right. >> here is senator cruise. >> throughout the entire proceeding we have heard just the beginning of the serious evidence of corruption involving burisma that paid hunter biden is said $1 million a year but i will answer the question please let me answer without interrupting me. burisma paid hunter bide biden, $1 million per year while hunter biden threatened london as joe biden threatened to withhold aid unless and until they fire the prosecutor investigating his son. joe biden vice president of the united states. we encourage every news outlet to show the video how he bragged he told the president of ukra

now, burisma is where hunter biden, joe biden's son, once served on the board of directors, and it's the company that president trump asked ukranian president zelensky to investigate as a favor in their july phone call. let's talk about this now with james clapper, former director of intelligence. what stands out to you about this cyberattack? >> first, this is kind of standard soviet and now russian activity. it shouldn't be surprising that they would do this, single out burisma and its affiliates as a target. if they see potential for doing as they did in 2016, disrupting our political discourse, it's not clear what they actually got that they might be able to exploit, but it's certainly typical of what the russians would do, and i think we should expect more of this as we approach 2020. and by the way, other countries who are going to go to school or have already gone to school on what the russians have done are going to do the same thing with different agendas. >> any idea what they might have been looking for? >> i assume something that, in their mind, they could exploit that wo