of the day. in his opening statement, house manager adam schiff used mick mulvaney's own words against the white house, recalling president trump's chief of staff's message on quid pro quo. >> get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> should the congress just get over it? should the american people just come to expect that our presidents will corruptly abuse their office to seek the help of a foreign power to cheat in our election? should we just get over it? >> this was all happening while president trump was at the world economic forum in switzerland. he remains optimistic telling reporters, quote, honestly we have all the material. they don't have the material. opinions are divided on whether he meant he was hording documenting or simply talking about the strength of his legal case. he broke his own twitter record today. >> when schiff's spoke longer than expected, the senators didn't get their break on time, a couple dozen republicans just got up and left their seats. >> eight hours of testimony that just wrapped up about 15 minutes ago. janelle wang joins us with the latest. >> democrats using a lot of video in their opening arguments, video from witness testimony during the white house investigation, during the house investigation, excuse me, to show president trump abused his power and should be removed from office. >> at 10:00 a.m. our timeing. >> will you please be seated. >> democrats began their opening arguments, laying out their entire case against president trump from start to finish. >> the constitution demands the removal of donald j. trump. >> house democrats str 24 hours over three days to convince moderate republicans to vote with them to remove president trump for two charges, obstruction of congress and political power. the president has repeatedly said his july 25th phone call with ukraine's leader was perfect. >> in a perfect call, the president would not solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election. >> democrats used video testimony to prove their case. >> rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> and quotes from the house investigation to back up their case. senators, silent jurors inside the chamber, but politicians outside the doors. >> they're on a crusade to destroy this man. >> the president casting doubt on whether he would let members of his administration testify while saying he would like to be there himself. >> i would love to sit right in the front rownd in their corrupt faces. >> while democrats promise to fight for new evidence. >> there will be continued pressure on many republican members to ask for witnesses and documents. >> with the real battle now underway, democrats looking beyond the senators hoping to make their case directly to the american public. >> after opening arguments from both sides which will probably be at the end of next week, there will be another vote on whether or not to allow witnesses. democrats want john bolton but president trump is suggesting he make invoke executive privilege because bolton's testimony could be a risk to national security. jessica. >> thank you, janelle. of course we're going to continue our coverage of the impeachment trial. in nine minutes we'll have our special guest, congressman row con na. we're going to discuss with those gentleman what they take away from the first day of the democrat's prosecution arguments. first, let's show you what's happening around the bay area. >> was it self-defense or needless killing. the fatal shooting of a man at the hands of an off duty richmond police officer. here's the video. it appears to show a van and a car going for the same parking spot. eric resenoppe his trunk of his car and pulls out a pistol. his attorney is calling on the d.a. to charge thomas, but an attorney for the officer believes investigators will conclude the killing was justified. more than 100 ebay employees are losing their jobs after the tech giant cut jobs. employees worked in ebay san jose headquarters as well as another office in san jose and san francisco. among the positions cut, software engineering and marketing. ebay employs roughly 14,000 people worldwide. the market is softening giving some relief for renters in the bay area. for the first time in years, rent did not go up by double digits, but it's still rising slowly. scott budman is in san jose with relatively encouraging news for renters. scott. >> we've got rental prices over the last year here in san jose have evened out because the number of construction projects have gone up, a number of residents have gotten fed up with high prices and have moved out. if you're looking to rent here in the bay area, you'll still find prices among the highest in the nation. >> basically the rents are not going down. >> no, they haven't gone down, but rental prices are slowing down. after years of going up an average of 10% annually, the newest figures from rent cafe show bay area rents as a whole up just over 1% from last year. san francisco and oakland rents gained more than 2%, but san jose, almost flat for 2019. 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 term solution which means it could be closed for a longer period of time. we want to get back to impeachment coverage happening in washington, d.c. the senate floor active. they just wrapped up day one just a few minutes ago. up next, bay area congressman ro khanna will join us. their analysis of what's working and what's not for the democrats and republicans. stay with us. i am running to defeat donald trump. in 2016 i warned that donald trump was a dangerous demagogue, and when the republican congress wouldn't hold him accountable, i went to work helping run winning campaigns in twenty-one house seats. it's time for the senate to act and remove trump from office, and if they won't do their jobs, this november you and i will. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. well, day two of the impeachment trial of president trump, today it was about the prosecution or house managers laying out their case. senators shared mostly information the house already illicited in public hearings last november. >> president trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to a strategic partner at war with russia to secure foreign help with his re-election, in other words to cheat. >> on september 11th, president trump lifted the hold on the security assistance to ukraine. there was no adishal review, no additional european contribution, nothing to justify the president's change in position except he got caught. >> the more they do this 2 1/2 hour events at a time, it undercuts their entire argument. but, do you know what? that's ultimately for the united states senate to decide. >> that's attorney jay sekulow for counsel for president trump. he spoke for several senators today for expressing what the long day just wrapped up. >> with us tonight is bay area congressman ro khanna elected to his first term in 2016. he serves on the house over sight committee. also with us our political analyst larry gerston. kind of a big picture here. welcome back to the nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >> it's been almost four years. before we get to the impeachment, it's been an eventful four years for you in washington, d.c. >> it is. i never thought i would go there and donald trump would bepresid. as bad as i thought he would be, he's turned out to be worse from the cruelty at the border to the ban on muslims immigrating into the united states to the indifference in puerto rico to the corruption of our politics. >> you're seeing these senators and congressmen, your colleagues, some of them your friends, just your take on what we've seen in the last 24 hours, specifically the last 8 hours. >> i've been proud of my colleagues. adam schiff i think has done a magnificent job in laying out the case, why this was wrong, why the president shouldn't be allowed to use american foreign policy for his own political benefit by pressuring ai foreign leader to dig up dirt on a political rival. and also basic sense of fairness. what trial do you have that doesn't allow witnesses and documents? and i've been particularly proud of zoe lofgren. he's our congresswoman. it's incredible honor for the speaker to trust her as one of the impeachment managers. she's detailed in laying out the facts. >> larry, you saw today they really used a lot of visuals today. >> yes. >> really using a lot of that material from before to build this case for the american public to see it. but is it going to be enough? we saw them see the rest of it to even sway the four senators they need to impeach the president? >> he's going to do his best and the rest of the democrats. one of the things is how he began his story at the beginning and the beginning wasn't just in july or april or whatever. it goes back to russia. it goes back to 2016. so, he tried to draw a picture not only of a one-time event of where the president went off kilter or committed a foul or whatever you want to call it, but his persona is such that it goes all the way back to russia, i'll take anything i can. and you might remember the one time a couple of months ago when he was discussing this with george stephanopoulos, stephanopoulos asked what would happen today if russia or some other country offered you assistance. i would take it, he said. i would take it. i think that tells you a lot about what the president's thinking is and what the democrats have to deal with. >> larry first to you and then we'll get to you congress mang. strategy for the republicans, is it working? and on the back end, is it working for the democrats? >> republican strategy is simpler than you think. two words. so what? so what? all this about nothing. and they can use mick mulvaney's own words, this happens all the time. grow up. get over it. and for people who don't really understand all the rules of the game, you know, what is fair, what is not, what is legal, what is not, what is ethical, what is not, that could well be enough to convince them that why were these guys ranting and raving about everything. so bwhat? >> that's what you're going up against congressman. >> i think most americans understand you don't go solicit a foreign country to help you. what do we want? anyone running for president to have another country dig up dirt on their founders. hamilton wrote they were concerned the british and french were going to interfere with the republic. this is what they saw as the cardinal offense. >> most americans don't know. they're not yale educated lawyers like yourself or congressmen, or educators like larry. a lot of people don't know the complexity. they're saying what's the big deal. how does it affect us or our price for schools. >> they have a sense for basic fairness. yes, americans care about their pocketbook but they also care about fairness. and i think that's why it started, adam schiff when he said people may disagree on the president's guilt or innocence but we all know what a fair trial looks like. we all know you have witnesses and document yoos. i think people get a sense this is a rigged process. one of the most off key remarks was when the chief justice called the senate the greatest deliberative body. i thinkub you can say many things, it's not the greatest party when you have vote after vote on party l. it's making a mockery of what the senate is supposed to be. the other thing i think connected with people is the sense that the democrats had reason to do this. adam schiff is not going to convince everyone that the president should be removed. i mean, i believe that. the democrats believe that. but i think he did manage to convince people there was a lot of wrong doing here and this was a legitimate case to bring. >> larry, let me ask you about the issue. schumer came out and said we're not going to do the exchange of bolton for biden when it comes to witnesses. and then there is the issue about the white house using executive privilege to stop bolton from testifying. and the potential that this could stall this process, then what happens? >> i think this is the question we worry about only if there are witnesses. and you know the old story. you need at least four votes, and that's what the democrats hold. you need four votes. given what we've seen so far, given the fact that what, one time yesterday out of 11 attempts we saw susan collins say count me out on this one, symbolic nice thing for her folks in maine. it doesn't look like you're seeing that. if you don't have the republicans coming, then we're depending on them in the democrats eyes do the right thing. john bolton doesn't need to be subpoenaed. if he wants to talk, john bolton can get before a microphone tonight, tomorrow. >> why doesn't he? >> that's a good question. >> it is. and please jump in with the congressman. it's all about tv ratings. with the exception of us four and others in america, we're not going to watch eight hours of coverage. so, i'm going to tune in maybe for 20 minutes, maybe for five minutes, maybe on twitter and facebook. so, what's the strategy here? is it to get sound bites because that's what president trump is saying? >> that's the republicans are saying. they're not making a legal argument. larry tribe, a harvard constitutional lawyer saying it is an embarrassment what the republicans are doing and it is an embarrassment. but they're looking for the sound bite on fox news to their base. >> is that the smart play? >> i don't think it's the smart play for american democracy and i don't think it's going to be a moment in history that's going to be looked at well. and it's a sad state of affairs that the great deliberative body now is relying on propaganda, but that's what they're doing and we're appealing to reasoned argument. we're laying out facts that appeals to reasonable people. i think they're overplaying their hand. that's the president's strategy for re-election, get the base out. >> if i can ask that, when you see the president actively tweeting today and also making comments in those news conferences about how he he would like to sit there and look at the democrats' corrupt faces, how does that resonate with the country and really with what is supposed to be a somber and solemn occasion that we're in the midst of? >> i think most people are tweeting out when it comes to the president. you know, enough already. they don't really -- they don't even focus on what -- his base does. stl absolutely his base does. but this is not a fight for the base. this is a fight for the great middle. and the question is really can enough people be persuaded. you're not going to get those 20 republicans to move over unless public opinion spikes way up, way up, and that's going to take a lot of work. all fairness, reason not withstanding, you're absolutely right, how many people are that reasonable on an issue that they don't understand? and that's a question i think we won't know the answer to for a while. >> i think what you're seeing is the arguments will resonate with independents who say they had a case, the president, what he did was wrong. the president shouldn't be allowed to get foreign interference, to get dirt on a political rival. but the president, again, has written off the middle. this is the important thing. i have never seen this in my lifetime. larry, i don't think you've seen it. usually presidents get in there and they want to be liked. they want to expand their base. they want to reach out. this president has never had that strategy. he doesn't care about the independents. he believes he will win re-election by increasing turn out with his base and that's all he's concerned about. >> that's the great mystery. how can he increase turn out if he relies only on that base? >> we've got a lot more to discuss in just a minute. welcome back to our special 7:00 coverage. we're talking about the impeachment of president trump. larry gerson is with us. you go back to washington, d.c. tomorrow. several months ago speaker pelosi was hesitant in even bringing this to impeachment. were you with her with that? >> i'm always with the speaker. she's got incredible tactics and judgment. and look at what she's managed to do. >> but what flipped for the democrats? >> there are two things that flipped. one, the overwhelming evidence. this is a speaker that didn't want to go in and impeach a president. she understood the stakes. she understood it's something you do only at the last resort. the problem was she was confronted with evidence that this president is basically browbeating a foreign leader to get dirt to manufacture an investigation against a political rival. it would be a der election of her duty not to go for it. if she would have gone when many people were pushing for it, we would have a divided caucus. i don't think people understand how impressive it is that she managed to get front line democrats to vote for this and had a unified caucus. that's a testament to her leadership. >> the speaker can count like nobody else and she's extraordinarily strategic. along those lines, i think, the speaker is not thinking about getting a victory here. the speaker is thinking about 2020. the speaker is thinking about those republican senators that can pick off, gardner, collins, others. the speaker is thinking about turning the public against the president, weakening his hand, and coming in with a strong democrat. i think that's most important. >> i think the speaker is also thinking about her place in american history. she's the first speaker of the house as a woman. this is her second speakership. and she understands of all the things she's accomplished, history will judge how she acted here. of all the politicians in the country, she's the only one who managed to stand up to the president, hold her own, and win. >> no one will ever forget the picture of her pointing the finger at him. oh boy. >> congressman, if you head back to washington, d.c., what about the an mouse that this has created now? even though there are democrats and republicans, there have been lots of very close friendships that we've seen. does this now erode that with the kind of, you know, pettiness that we're seeing in these proed siouxings? >> well, i had good relations with many republicans, people like mark meadows, matt gaetz, jim jordan, some of the president's closest allies, and i will continue to reach out. the challenge that we aren't focused on the things that would bring us together. we should have an infrastructure built. that's not that controversial. we should do something to lower the cost of prescription drugs. we should get out of these bad wars. the problem -- and i don't want to lay all the blame on the president. but the problem is the president has chosen not to lead on those issues where you could have common ground and has chosen to lead for his base. and it's very hard for a country to come together when you have such a polarizing president. >> final thoughts here, if there's no impeachment which it doesn't appear to be, will this all backfire for the democrats if president wins re-election in november. we talk about 2020. that's this year. that's now. >> i don't think this backfires for democrats. it would backfire for this country if this president after all of this is reelected and eight years of this president would mean. i think the country would be in a very, very different place. but for democrats, i think the tone we have set, people see that this was serious. there were real wrong doing here. and i do think that the independent voter is going to say, you know, we've had enough of these scandals. let's just get back to the country we knew where we actually worked on solving peoples' problems. >> the risk is for the president because only twice in the last 50 years has an inum can becumb seeking second election has been defeated. that would be an ugly stage. >> we're going to have to leave it for that note. tomorrow is day two of the democrats' prosecution case. testimony is expected to last three days. congressman eric swalwell will join us tomorrow night along with larry. thank you so much for your insight and we wish you well on your trip back to washington. >> we could talk to you for the next two hours. >> thank you for having me. it's so important. >> we're back at 11:00. >> thank you. i'm tom steyer and i approve this message. climate is the number 1 priority. i would declare a state of emergency on day 1. congress has never passed an important climate bill, ever. this is a problem that continues to get worse. i've spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies... stopping pipelines... stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. how are we going to pull this country together? we take on thegein hry, we save the world and do it together. it is a very 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