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Just moments ago, the president slammed the trial. Its a hoax. It goes nowhere because nothing happened. The only thing weve done is a great job. We have the strongest country in the world by far. Sandra complete coverage for you this morning. In a moment we will hear from congressman john ratcliffe, which is added to the president s defense team. John roberts is standing by live in davos, will be vegan with chad pergram on capitol hill. Good morning, chad. Good morning, sandra. Its up to the senators, house impeachment managers, and the president s Legal Defense team. Last night he added several House Republican members to his defense team. They will not actually speak on the senate floor during the trial but they will give advice and they will talk to the press. Here is republican doug collins, hes the Top Republican on the judiciary. It cannot be a coverup, when you are blooming the senate for your own bad work. Lets just put this honestly. The House Democrat majority wanted to impeach a president because they dont like him. The democratic impeachment managers are fuming about the compressed schedule for the trial, where sessions could run until 1 00 or 2 00 in the morning. They described this this morning as a white house driven and rig process, with a truncated schedule to delete into the night and further conceal the president s misconduct. Thats not that south American People expect or deserve. And thats why Chuck Schumer will introduce proposals of us his own this afternoon. We hope that four brave republicans will resist mcconnells coverup. Will resist mcconnell just going along with President Trump. Who everyone knows doesnt want the truth to be heard, and that they will reverse this. The fate of honor in the republic is on their shoulders. Heres the schedule. They will start at 1 00. The first thing we have to do is swear in the republican from oklahoma who was not there last week. They have to swear him in as a juror. Then w we will get mcconnells proposal, there will be debate by the managers, and the president s lawyers on that, for two hours. Then the proposal by Chuck Schumer. And the high probability of a closed session where senators consider all of this offstage. That means they probably vote on the framework of the trial late sometime tonight. Sandra . Speech chad pergram covering it all on capitol hill for us. Chad, thanks. Ed while all that is happening, President Trumps and davos selling the american strength on the economy. John roberts is there and he joins us in our . Bill, good afternoon. Ed, sorry. Old habits die hard. Good afternoon to you. The president had that speech of the World Economic forum today. To do the work of the nation while back and capitol hill, democrats are trying to cut him off at the knees, that hes trying to sell World Leaders and Global Business leaders on investing in america. Theres a bit of a Campaign Speech in there, as well. The president touting the results of economic policies he ran on in 2016 and implement it in his first term as president. Economic policies that have resulted in Economic Growth and historically low unemployment numbers, that he talked about when he was asked about impeachment during his bilateral meeting with the e. U. Commission president. Listen here. That whole thing is a hoax. It goes nowhere because nothing happened. The only thing weve done is a great job. We have the strongest country in the world by far and it was going in the wrong direction. We have the greatest economy weve ever had in the history of our country. Im in europe today because we are bringing a lot of other companies into our country with thousands of jobs, millions of jobs, in many cases. That whole thing is a total hoax. Im sure it will work out fine. The president talked about his recent trade victories, the Senate Passage of the usmca, which he should sign in the next week or so. Phase one of the trade deal between the United States of china, and a new trade deal with japan. The president also weighed into the 2020 election campaign, urging World Leaders and Global Economic leaders to reject socialism and socialist economic policies and instead embrace the free market. Listen here. This is not a time for pessimism. This is a time for optimism. Fear and doubt is not a good thought process, because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action. To embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocryphaapocalypse. For all the criticism the president gets on the environment policy and global warming, one of the biggest applause lines during his speech, ed, was when he said the United States would fully embrace the 1 Million Trees program. That something that came out of davos last year. That if the world were to plant 1. 2 trillion trees it would offset the Carbon Dioxide building of the atmosphere. A big applause for the president on that one. Ed john roberts with a lot of trees behind them there instantly davos. John, thank you. Sandra meanwhile, House Republicans planning to join the president s defense team. Among them texas congressman john ratcliffe. He knew and just now as our guest this morning. Good morning to you and thank you for being here. What exactly will you do in this new role . Well, it was announced last night, smitty, but really for the last few weeks ive been working with the white House Counsel helping them prepare the legal briefs that are being submitted in the trial and preparing the oral arguments that will be presented later this week. I was one of a few members that was involved in both phases of the impeachment inquiry before the House Intelligence Committee and the house Judiciary Committee. Theres a lot of information there, so im going to continue to be as much of a resource for the president s lawyers as i can be over this trial. Sandra to be clear, though, you wont have any role in speaking on the senate floor . That hasnt been finally determined yet. I think thats currently the plan. Sandra currently the plan not to . Currently the plan not to. But you never know whats going to happen during a trial. Part of the reason we are there is to hold accountable some of the house managers, in particular the lead house manager, adam schiff, and make sure the evidence is presented the way it occurred in the house. If that doesnt happen, there may be a change in the trial structure. Sandra of course, congressman, thats why theres a debate of witnesses. Democrats are making the case there was information presented after the vote happened in the house on the articles of impeachment. Whats going happen with that debate ultimately, and what is your defense to not have witnesses called . I dont think there will be any witnesses called. There isnt a witness that can be called that can fix this process. There isnt a witness on either side you can call that can inject fairness and due process into a process that had none. I think one of the things your listeners are going to hear this week is a comparison of what happened, the disparity in the way president clinton and president nixon were treated during their impeachment inquiries as opposed to President Trump the nixon and clinton lawyers were allowed to participate every single day from the beginning to the end. They were allowed to review evidence, suggest evidence, to call witnesses, and crossexamine witnesses. By comparison, President Trump during his 78day impeachment inquiry, his lawyers were forbidden from participating for the first 71 of a 78day process. Not allowed to call witnesses, crossexamine witnesses, be there for the presentation or review of evidence. That is a lack of due process and fairness that i think all senators, republican and democrat, are going to be surprised to learn. I think as a result of that they are not going to want to hear any witnesses, because the senate isnt going to be able to fix what happened in the house. Sandra i want to throw up on the screen the tweet last night after it was announced he would be a new member of the president s defense team. He said, i took the oath to defend the constitution. This impeachment is an assault on due process. Its an assault on the separation of powers. Its unconstitutional. Im grateful for the opportunity to make that clear to every american during the senate trial. For your part, you will be controlling the messaging, you will be controlling the defense of this team. How do you let your strategy . We only know what we know. What are going to be the surprises as we watch this all begin this afternoon . I think the Senate Defense team, as they prepare and present this, are going to point out the fact that, again, the irony of the House Democrats wanting to impeach a president for obstructing House Democrats in a 78day process where they forbidden from participating for the first 71 days, people are going to find it ironic that the House Democrats are wanting to impeach for obstruction of congress, a term of the founders referred to as the separation of powers. They cant make constitutional arguments because they dont have any. This impeachment fails. It feels factually, it feels legally, it feels constitutionally. This is going to be like killing a fly with a sledgehammer. The House Democrats had a weak case even on a slanted Playing Field where they made the rules, change the rules, and broke the wills their advantage. On a level Playing Field its going to get ugly. I expect a short trial, no witnesses, and early acquittal for President Trump. Sandra the minority leader Chuck Schumer took to a microphone last night to slam those rules laid out by Mitch Mcconnell. Heres the senator. Senator mcconnells resolution is a national disgrace. He is saying that he doesnt want to hear any of the existing evidence, and he doesnt want any new evidence. A trial where there is no evidence, no existing record, and no new evidence, no witnesses, no documents, that isnt a trial at all. It is a coverup. Sandra as a former prosecutor and now new member of the president s defense team, how do you counter that, congressman . Actually, i agree with Chuck Schumer that there cant be a fair trial and that there was a coverup, but not for the reasons that he thinks. The cover of happened, who everyone knows was not truthful about his contact with the whistleblower, what they dont know is that the whistleblower was not truthful under oath about his contacts with congressman schiff. And there is a transcript that reflects that. Its the inspector generals transcript. Its the only 1 out of 18 transcripts that has not been released by congressman schiff. So there is a coverup there, and that is what prevents a fair trial. If the person charged dominic in charge of the solicitation was judge, jury, prosecutor. These are adam schiffs facts. You cant leave a magic wand and inject fairness into a process that a conflicted witness controlled from beginning to end i think every senator, republican and democrat is going to come to the realization. Early on theres going to be a motion to acquit President Trump, and i think thats going to be supported on a bipartisan basis. Sandra got it. Thank you for joining us to kick off our program this morning. We appreciate your time, congressman paid think you. Good to see you. Thank you. Ed even more reaction live from capitol hill when senator john cornyn, one of the jurors, joined us our coverage of the trial begins 12 30 p. M. Eastern time, anchored by her own bret baier and Martha Maccallum. Dont miss it. Sandra to the team assembled in washington to cover it all. There could be some surprises. We will see how it plays out but its expected to go into the evening hours. Ed one of the Big Questions, will it wrap up by the end of next week or will it drag on . Sandra more of that coming up. An attack in baghdad near the u. S. Embassy there. Details on who may have been beyond that. Plus, this. Ed trouble south of the border, a clash between police and a group of migrants. What led to the violence . And why is Bernie Sanders telling joe biden he is sorry . Details on the latest dust up dustup between two toptier democratic candidates. That is next. Joe is a very decent human being. 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But it is absolutely not my view that joe is corrupt in any way. And im sorry that that oped appeared. Speech that was Bernie Sanders apologizing to joe biden after one of his supporters wrote an oped slimming biden, calling him a weak candidate with a serious corruption problem. Tom bevan joins us, cofounder and editor of real clear politics. Good morning to you, thanks for being here. It appears biden is excepting that apology. He tweeted this out. Thanks for acknowledging this, bernie. These kind of attacks have no place in this primary. Lets keep our focus on making donald trump a oneterm president. For thoughts on that exchange . Bring doesnt want to make this personal, especially a few days away from the vote in iowa. Iowa voters dont like that kind of mudslinging. But the problem is the person who wrote this article, thats what a lot of bernie supporters think. We have seen articles in recent days, if the party nominates joe biden, a lot of bernie supporters will be very upset and may even stay home. I think it illustrates the rift between the Democratic Party that they are trying to sort out right now. Sandra meanwhile, Hillary Clinton in this new Hollywood Reporter piece responding to this fiery new documentary, trump regrets and harsh words for bernie. She was asked to confirm her earlier words on Bernie Sanders. She said this. Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him. He got nothing done. He was a career politician, its all just baloney and i feel so bad people got sucked into it. Those were her words, and she would not commit to whether she would throw her support behind Bernie Sanders if he becomes the nominee. In the same way we talked about the split between bernie and biden, its exactly the replay of 2016, the split between clinton and Bernie Sanders. So this is not over, and if Bernie Sanders does manage to win iowa or come in close in iowa and win New Hampshire, we will see this establishment fight back. They want nothing to do with him as a nominee. Hillary clinton will be part of that effort. Sandra you know, its interesting when you look at the field right now. Talk about Amy Klobuchar when it comes to iowa. Everybody talks about Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, joe biden. He wrote about a wrote about Amy Klobuchar. Your headline was, klobuchars debate showing could boost her iowa chances. Then overnight the Washington Examiner posted this headline. Klomentum klobuchar dark horse two weeks out from a whale carcasses. Its about expectations. Closer to the top come expectations are very high. Amy klobuchar has been slowly creeping up, she 7 on our real clear average. She meets expectations and gets a total of 15 , she can be a winner without having to when iowa caucuses. Claim amendment added to the early states. Klobuchar still has an opportunity, especially when voters in iowa, anywhere betweed 6th in 10 voters and i will, say theyre not locked into a candidate. Sandra we see that poll up there, klobuchar pulling a. 3 heading into that. I want to end on this note, thanks for covering this for us this morning. A lot to get to. Aoc in her latest words on democrats. Shes declaring democrats a center conservative party, saying we dont have a left party in this country. Here she is, in her own words. We dont have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a left party. [applause] the Democratic Party is a center or centerconservative party. We cant even get a floor vote on medicare for all. Not even a floor vote that could vote it down. We cant even get a vote on it. This is not a left party. Sandra final thoughts on that, she was speaking in an mlk event yesterday. Thats true, if you look around the globe in comparison to other parties in other countries. But america is a twoparty system. Certainly the Democratic Party has moved dramatically to the left. The days of jfk and Scoop Jackson where there really was a conservative Democratic Party, those are long gone. Aoc, again, shes part of bernies revolution. She wants to move the party left. Sandra s tom bevan, real clear politics, thank you. Ed meanwhile a health scare moving markets this morning. A potentially deadly virus rapidly spreading. The major u. S. Airports ramp up screening of travelers from china. Symptoms to look for and what you need to do to protect your family, coming up. Is that net carbs or total . Eh, not enough fiber chocolate would be good snacking should be sweet and simple. The delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. Glucerna. Everyday progress while helping you manage your blood sugar. Man whats my my truck. Is my livelihood. So when my windshield cracked. 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The scene is familiar, but what mexico is doing along its southern border is radically different. This new caravan of some 2,000 Central Americans throwing bottles and rocks were met by police in riot gear and teargas, with Standing Orders from the president to stop those without papers or permission. Translator if they dont let us cross through here, we will go through the river, held by god. Not eating, mothers and children starving. We ask the mexican president to touch his heart to let us cross. They allowed migrants to transit north, President Trump change that. Mexico did not act. The Mexico National guard is detaining and reporting those traveling illegally. Those that did make it, the u. S. Deported to mexico, creating a shelter traces in cities like tijuana. The result is a dramatic decline in illegal traffic in states like texas and arizona. 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Politico saying this morning he somebody uses power liberally, and that leaves his opponents red with anger. Chuck schumer and nancy pelosi saying that this resolution is a coverup. Its ridiculous for so many reasons. On the process level, the clinton impeachment in the late 90s, both the house of petri managers and the president s defense team used less than half of the time that this impeachment trial is allotted. 24 hours for each side to make the case. I think thats ample time. Secondly, this is the process where the house should have, before embarking on one of the most grave can dominate constitutional provisions we have come and get your ducks in a row. The reason we are talking about witnesses and that kind of thing on the front end is the house told us they couldnt wait for it, that everything had to move so quickly and get to the senate so fast because the country was in grave danger. Were now obviously rearing a different tune. Ed senator schumer disagrees with you, obviously pray lets hear from him and let you react. He calls it a disgrace. Watch. This resolution is totally departing from the clinton resolution in significant ways, despite what leader mcconnell promised. In the ways it departs, the evidence is less available, the evidence is given in the wee hours of the morning, and may never be produced at all. It is a cover up. Ed speaking specifically about the fact that the findings from the house, unlike the clinton rules, will not be automatically introduced into the senate. There has to be a separate vote on that. Why go through that hurdle . When up with evidence in there and put it on the record . They can obviously make reference to all evidence they found during the impeachment process in the house. The question is when you actually enter it into the Senate Record. There is a time for that. The point of this entire resolution with schumer is trying to blow up a staff and orderly process, do not have the senate become an absolute circus. You give both sides a chance to make the best case they can for that next phase, that second phase when the senate will have to make a bunch of decisions. To decide what questions they feel need to be resolved, what evidence should be admitted. All of those things, the senate will have a chance to grapple with. But in an orderly process so we dont just have a big top circus right from the top. Ed wright, big debate coming, as you suggest, on witnesses. Republican tim scott less that was on with my colleague Martha Maccallum suggesting its not really about getting the truth, its about politics. Watch. The whole conversation about witnesses has nothing to do with impeaching the president. It has everything to do with removing at least four senators from office who are republicans. The subplot to having witnesses before the senate has nothing to do with eliminating the case were bringing more information to the surface. Ed he is talking, as you know, about garden in colorado, thom tillis, collins, mcsally , and its about putting them on 100 right, hes got it exactly right. If it was enough for them to have this, these witnesses be part of the process to make their entire case, they would have done some of the house. But they chose not to. This entire discussion is about taking what they think are going to be difficult votes. I happen to think they will be very difficult votes. I think we will hear the president s team, for the first time, have read opportunity to defend themselves. Remember, we have not had anything but a House Democratic version of events. For the first time over the next couple of days we will be able to hear with the president s team has to say about all that. My guess is, by the middle of next week, itll be pretty clear that House Democrats made a grave error here and presuming impeachment. Ed one of the more moderate public and senators, Lamar Alexander , put out a Statement Last night that i he has an open mind but y not want more witnesses. He wants to hear the presentations. Congressman ratcliffe told sandra a little earlier hes predicting there will be no witnesses. What say you . Im just sort of confused about the hammering on the democratic side. Senatorsenator alexander has it. You shouldnt go into an impeachment process and whine about the areas you can control. As House Democrats you cant go into a Republicanled Senate and dictate the terms of events. Nancy pelosi found that out over the last couple weeks. They should be prepared to present a case, if they think they have one, for impeachment of the president of the United States. I think whats become very clear over the last few weeks as they dont have one, so they have to argue process, they have to try and because political and they have to put pressure on people like senator collins and others to try and feel political pressure. The underlying substance is not exist. Ed you know the senate well. Bottom line, are we going to see this trial ended by the end of next week . It certainly could. It also could go look, the second phase of this is not irrelevant. The questions are going to be real. They are going to have a period of time where people can ask substantive questions. By the way, thats not a onesided affair. Republicans are going to be asking questions, too. Some of which adam sugar is not going to want to hear. This could go on a little while, he could end shortly. Whatever it is, i have absolutely no doubt about the outcome based on the arguments democrats are now making. Maybe some questions about adam schiff and there was a blur, or about hunter biden. Well see how it plays out. I appreciate your insight today. Sandra a lot of folks following the story put cut the l. A. Dodgers end up as a retroactive series champs . Council members working for a resolution to over the title. They are urging the council to ask me to the baseball to award both the 2,017th and 2018 world series titles to the dodgers. The doctors lost the world series to the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox. The astros for illegally stealing signs during the 2,017th season, baseball officials saying the sea was orchestrated by that i have an actors bench coach alex korell , who served as manager of the Boston Red Sox during the 2018 station. Ed i want to make a proposal, lets give the yankees 2017 world series and let the doctors have the 2018. It will be very fair, new york and california. This coming world series, then we are decided. Sandra what do you think will happen . Ed nothing, Major League Baseball is not going to change. Speed will be watching it. Ed anyway, the third impeachment trial in American History getting underway. It could begin with a Battle Royale over senator mcconnells proposed rules. More reaction straight ahead. Sandra plus, the navy honoring the pearl harbor hero, with the first ever Aircraft Carrier named for an africanamerican. The bravery he showed during that attack that led the u. S. Into world war ii. Dori miller stood for everything that is good about our nation. His story deserves to be remembered and repeated wherever our people continue to stand to watch today. Whoa, this is awful, try it. Oh no, that looks gross what is that . You gotta try it, its terrible. I dont wanna tray it if its terrible. Its like mango chutney and burnt hair. No thank you, i have a very sensitive palate. Just try it hey guys, i think we should hurry up. If you taste something bad, you want someone else to try it. Its what you do. I cant get it out of my mouth if you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Dog, dog, dog. Ed what a story, the u. S. Navy honoring a world war ii hero, must the tenant secondclass doris miller, the first africanamerican to receive the navy cross for valor for manning a machine gun and returning fire against japans attack on pearl harbor. His act of bravery and heroism was during a time when africanamericans were not allowed to touch weapons. Yesterday during a ceremony at pearl harbor, u. S. Navy unveiled a brandnew Aircraft Carrier in his honor, the uss miller. His family was on hand. When uncle doris decided he would step up to the machine gun and shoot, it was his why not me . Moment. If we go through this life, we are all going to be confronted with why not me . Moments. Each one, you will be affecting someone if you take an action upon that moment. Miller died two years after his heroics after his ship was torpedoed and sank in 1943. The firs first time in aircraft character has been named after an africanamerican. Why not me . What a motto. Sandra we remember a hero now as we await the president s impeachment trial the senate, limits on News Coverage or sparking concerns among the media. A New York Times article reading this in part. The senate controls the camera during the impeachment trial, limiting one of your and will be confined to roped off areas. During his name was howie kurtz, Fox News Media analyst and a host of media buzz. Good morning to you. How will the senate ultimately make the decision on when those cameras are rolling and when theyre not . As far as he spent his concern and its great public surface for all of us. The government will control the cameras during the impeachment trial. The reason is you can go to watch out a reaction shot rather than having one fixed image or whoever happens to be speaking at that moment. At the same time, we can see cspans argument that the government also controls the cameras during the clinton impeachment. Speed very interesting this is about security, limiting the message. Would ultimately do you think you will see . Its really hard to argue that this is about security. Because the capital is a very high security building. Metal detectors, and these rules seemed aimed at tamping down News Coverage. To some journalists from waiting in the hallways to catch a senator as he or she walks by doesnt really have anything to do with security. Trust me, ive been up there many times, and when lawmakers dont want to talk they just keep on walking or they say no comment. They dont need a bunch of new rules to encourage them to do that. Sandra the reporter is blasting news new restrictions. When youre talking to a senator and he wants to keep talking but the cops so you cant talk in the middle of the hallway so you have to set by the rope in order to continue the conversation, this is how ludicrous these restrictions are. Do you think they will face growing pressure, mounting pressure from the press to change these rules . I think there is mounting pressure from the press. Which always wants more access, lets face it. I dont think there was will be changed because Senate Majority leaders to set the rules. Just to show you how ridiculous some of this is, the Capitol Police have been giving senators cards, in case they happen to be approached by a journalist, that say please get out of my way. Or, you are preventing me from doing my job. What are they, 12 . Ive never met a politician at any level that had trouble telling reporter to buzz off. But the idea of hurting them into roped off areas is kind of symbolic and maybe suggest some on capitol hill dont really want to do with a lot of pesky reporters. Speech reading directly from the New York Times this morning, cspan wrote the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell about this backy requesting access. It writes, as of saturday, the network had heard nothing back. Has anything changed there, how we . There is no update on that. I dont think it will change with the trial starting today. I dont think its a huge deal, but any News Organization records wants to be able to control the cameras. Cspan is straight down the middle, its not looking to tilt the coverage one way or another. Sandra what do you think, howie . You think the American People are going to tune in en masse to watch the trial . Thats an important question, i think. Because everybody sort of feels they know the outcome here, and because we are going to have a lot of procedural wrangling about rules and evidence, and because there may well be no witnesses if the republicans have their way. This may not be the most titillating Television Watching people argue about constitutional principles. The reason that matters, it doesnt necessarily affect senators both ultimately, but the reason that matters is because when the democrats controlled the ball in the house they had trouble. The ratings went down, really sort of grabbing the attention of many American People. If people are tuning out, it matters in the court of Public Opinion even if it doesnt matter in the court of the senate, and the senate will be at court. Sandra you never know, when some thought it was boring, you look at the moment dont like numbers and millions tuned in to watch. We will see. A lot of people are very interested. I just question how compelling it is. Thats the point, its not a television show. Sandra we appreciate your time this morning, thank you. Ed fox news alert come a lot of people care about this breaking from the Supreme Court. The justices will not expedite the review of the Affordable Care act known as obamacare. What this means is the fate of the law will be decided after the 2020 election House Democrats and a coalition of 20 blue states had urged the high court to settle this case in this term last year in the Appeals Court ruled the laws mandate requiring that americans have Health Insurance was unconstitutional. So we will stay on it. Sandra it maybe spreading of the world. Hundreds of cases of pneumonialike viruses are confirmed, sparking medical screenings for travelers at major american airports this morning. Ed plus, prince harry reuniting with his wife and baby in canada. Whats in the couples future as they prepare to leave her life behind . Its red lobsters new threecourse shrimp feast for 14. 99. 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In the middle of this, this happens in the city of wuhan with 19 million people. It came from seafood, suddenly start spreading human to human. It looks like its way more cases than 291. Because the pattern of spread would suggest that if it got all the way to japan and it got to thailand and he got to taiwan and he got to south korea, theres probably more cases. Heres why because the Chinese Government is confirming cases once they already have symptoms. But, ed, the virus will spread for five days before you even sick. When you get sick you get upper respiratory systems, a cough, a high fever, and he could develop pneumonia. Ed it looks like the flu. Runny nose it can be deadly because people dont have an immunity. Youre right, at airports they screen for fever and they can just as easily be finding the flu as finding this. Ed and missed the fact that its this deadly virus. The markets were moving this morning in a negative territory earlier this morning on fears that this was spreading. That was one of the factors, we were told. Heres whats going on in america right now. Weve got a graphic about it. New yorks jfk airport, San Francisco international airport, lax, as well. All doing special screenings. What should people know in terms of protecting their family . First thing, he already said. Fear is much more powerful than any other virus. We will see a ton of fear here as we saw with sars in 2003. Very similar virus. The next thing, when you are traveling and there is coughing and sneezing and fever going on, you want to keep from being close to people that have these symptoms and even possibly Wearing Masks on planes. Ed we have it right there about the transmission. Exactly right. Close personal contact, touching is another way you can get this virus. The centers for Disease Control here in the United States will isolate people ahead of confirmed cases. My concern in china is that they are waiting until the cases are confirmed before they isolate people. Here in the United States we are very concerned about california getting cases already. Major medical centers, including ucla and california, already have action plans in place for cases that are going to come in. I think youre going to see more fear and you are going to see more of this spread. Its very hard to contain it at this point. Bottom line we have less than 30 seconds, do you feel like we can get in this . You mentioned sars. Their fears about it but ultimately those fears were tamped down. Thats what will happen here. What ends up happening is, as it spreads come people get more immunity to it on the spread slows. We dont know how contagious this actually is. My prediction is that will eventually diminish. We will see a couple thousand cases and then probably, like sars, it will die out. Ed and awareness will get people all over her so hopefully we have to isolate people who come in contact with people with this virus. Ed marc siegel, appreciate it. Sandra . Sandra a fox news alert now, thousand putrid managers, we just learned a moment ago, are said to hold a News Conference on capitol hill. That is expected moments for now. We are at with the backdrop of the president and davos getting ready to sit down with the president of the Swiss Confederation there in davos. We will bring you these life events as it happens, bring our coming out. Might we made usaa insurance for members like martin. An air force veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. 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Meanwhile, it is a historic down capitol hill as President Trumps in vitro trial set to begin in earnest hours from now. Marking the third impeachment trial of a u. S. President in our nations history. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im sandra smith. Ed im ed henry. We are going right ahead, here we go. Most of the day expected to center on Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnells newlyrevealed rules of the road for all these proceedings. There is likely to be some fireworks as lawmakers on both sides to beat those rules ahead of opening arguments, which are set to begin tomorrow. Both sides already sounding off. What they dont want to talk about is how bad their articles are, however weak their articles are, though they didnt do the job. They want to blame the senate to say, its a cover up if you dont let us get our way. That side of a temper tantrum. Ed we will hear from republican senator john cornyn in the moment, but lets go to mike emanuel, chief Congressional Correspondent, were refined and leveled capitol hill. Good morning, mike. Ed, sandra, good morning to you. And about three hours they will get going on debate over the format of the trial. Cena Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has it so both sides will make their cases this week, and of wood and witnesses would hold until later in the trail. As resolution calls for up to 24 hours for houston kratz to lay out their case. Up to 24 hours for white House Attorneys to make their case, 16 hours for senators written questions. The resolution will be debated this afternoon by house managers and the white house team. A private session as possible if senators wish to debate the issues. House impeachment managers put out a statement saying, a white housedriven and rigged process with a truncated schedule designed to go late into the night and further conceal the president s misconduct is not with the American People expect or deserve. Heres more from one of the impeachment managers about the packed schedule. The idea that we will be arguing this in the middle of the night when most americans will be asleep shows, i think, maybe a hope that they can just get this by the American People, close it down before anyone knows its going on. I dont think thats going to work, but it looks like thats what theyre trying to do. The white house has like they were public in house numbers a service part of the president s team. It sounds like they will consult and do some outside interviews. Some familiar players from the house impeachment battle. We want to just bring the truth to the American People and when they see the truth they will know that this president not only didnt do anything wrong but certainly is doing everything right, as we see with his speech over in davos, switzerland right now. This trial will be most unusual if senators want to debate issues about the trial will be in closed session, kicking the cameras out. Ed democrats particularly upset. Democrats are upset that mcconnells rules would not allow them to immediately put the evidence into the record from the house proceedings. What is the explanation for mcconnells office about why that changed . Well, mcconnells office maintains that a lot of the stuff that was done in the house was a totally partisan process. Totally unfair to President Trump. So the bottom line is he is saying they will have the votes later on admitting certain evidence and information, but lets get to the arguments. Let senators hear from them themselves, and from the president s team, a new wrinkle to this whole thing. Weve heard plenty from the democrats in the house, we didnt get to you for the president s lawyers. As a whole new aspect of this later this week. Sandra what else can you tell us about what we are about to hear from the house impeachment managers just a few moments were now . They are planning to speak to the press. One would expect they will complain about this process, because they dont like what senator mcconnell has set up. Saying basically its unfair to them that they dont want to be arguing the merits of the case at 2 00 in the morning after bathroom breaks and dinner breaks. It could be very well that late at night. One could expect that we may get an argument to reduce some of those hours. Ed, sandra . Sandra mike emanuel, thanks. Lets begin our headliner, senator john cornyn joining us. He serves on the Judiciary Committee and he will be present for todays proceedings in the set of trial. Good morning to you, senator. Great to have you here this morning. First up we are about to hear, we are told, from the house impeachment managers. They are going to take to the microphone and talk to reporters. So what is the message coming from your party this morning as we are about to see this trial begin this afternoon . We are anxious to hear without impeachment managers have to offer. I dont think the facts are particularly disputed. One of the Big Questions is the undisputed facts rise to the level of high crime and misdemeanor under the constitution. Particularly this close to the next general election, asking 535 members of congress to reverse the decision made in 2016 to elect President Trump through this process. I think there are some real questions about the legitimacy of this whole exercise. Ed senator, in terms of democrats pushing for new witnesses, pushing for more evidence, how does that square with House Democrats telling us for some weeks now that this is an open and shut case and that they believe the president broke the law . Well, it strikes me, ed, that they are a little nervous that the partisan impeachment inquiry that is conducted by adam schi adam schiff, where the president and his lawyers were excluded from that process, that they are worried they will be able to meet that threshold that is necessary to convict the president in the senate. Thats why they are clamoring for more witnesses. But in order to accommodate the concerns, we have adopted or will adopt the same resolution that we did during the clinton impeachment, which says the question of additional witnesses beyond which the impeachment managers want to offer initially will be deferred and decided by the vote of 51 senators later, probably later this week, maybe early next week. Sandra you said you were curious, senator, to hear what impeachment managers have to say that if this afternoons trial. We will hear from them personally just a moment, but they did put out a statement this morning. I will read to you from it. If those efforts are successful this is responding to the resolution this will be the first impeachment trial in American History in which the senate did not allow the house to present its case with witnesses and documents. The mcconnell resolution goes so far as to suggest it may not even allow the evidence gathered by the house to be admitted. That is not a fair trial. In fact, it is no trial at all. They are making the case that there was evidence presented in this case after the vote in the house on those articles of impeachment. That is the reasoning for saying there needs to be more evidence and witnesses called. How do you respond to that . Well, it sounds to me that they are in a state of panic and they realize that what they did through the partisan impeachment inquiry that was rushed in order to meet the christmas deadline by nancy pelosi is not up to the standard necessary to convict and remove a president of the United States. I dont blame them for being concerned about it, because this partisan effort in the house excluded the president and his lawyers, and they are going to now have to deal with a fair process that the American People will be able to see for themselves, from gavel to gavel, whereby they will have to meet their burdens of proof to prove that this is a high crime and misdemeanor. What literally is a disputable policy difference. I think this is, obviously, in momentum occasion. A serious, somber occasion. But i dont blame them for being there was that there rushed effort toward impeachment wont meet that standard. Ed s editor, you said this a few times now this morning, that the president s lawyers were excluded from the house process. In fact, as you know, the house Judiciary Committee invited the president s legal team to mount a defense. They chose not to do so. Well, that was after the adam schiff hearings in the scif, in the bunker, that was not available to the American People or to the president s lawyers. They werent able to call witnesses, and testimony was delivered in that 1cited hearing conducted by adam schiff. It was leaked systematically to the press in order to construct a narrative. That is not a fair process where everybody gets to participate. It is not transparent, and i think now they are worried that they have to deal with that hand which they have dealt themselves. Sandra senator, fox news is reporting there is an aptitude among senators to reduce the time periods for the impeachment managers, the house managers, and the president s counsel. And this is according to one source, to the single digits, in order to speed this along. Are you part of that . Would you like to see that happen . Well, i would like to see us do our job, which is listen to the case presented, but it would not surprise me based on what we know of the facts and the lack of any real, meaningful dispute as to actually what occurred. What is disputed is the characterization or the conclusions people want to draw from those facts. But i do think this case could be fairly efficiently presented to the senate, and we could then make our decisions, apply those facts to this Legal Standard in the constitution and do that in a couple of weeks. Again, im not foreclosing the possibility that additional witnesses will be called if they request 51 senators. That right is still reserved. So really dont know how this thing will play out. Ed senator, sander mentioned a moment ago that we will hear in a few moments live from the house impeachment managers. One of the and is hakeem jeffries. He was on fox news sunday, as you probably know, and he said several times, we do not dislike a president. Do you buy that . Do you believe house impeachment managers when they say they dont dislike the president . How much his personal animus a part of this . I think personal animus is most of it. Its clear that from the time the president was inaugurated, january the 20th, 2017, that the impeachment effort was underway. And it was appointment of a special counsel, to create the mueller investigation, which ended up with no charges on collusion or obstruction. This is the next in a series of efforts to reverse the election in 2016. I think its almost complete personal animus. If we succumb to the temptation to convict and remove a president under the circumstances and with the sort of record, this will become routine. On the next time republicans have control of the house of representatives and there is a democratic president , there will be an impeachment effort. I think that would be a travesty for our country and certainly undermine the authority of the voters to choose their president s rather than members of congress. Sandra i want to play a sound of Chuck Schumer blasting Mitch Mcconnells plan last night. It is now certain that leader mcconnell is going along with President Trumps cover up, hook, line, and sinker. Mcconnell repeatedly promised the senators, the public, the press, that his rules for the trial will be the same as the rules in the clinton impeachment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sandra how do you respond to the minority leader there, senator . Senator schumer is complaining about something which is largely of his own making. He refused to negotiate with senator mcconnell on the rules and resolutions, so that means that republicans, 53 republicans, are going to have to vote for the resolution to set the ground rules up. Senator schumer really wants to hijack the trial. As you know, senators are effectively jurors. Theres a little bit of a difference between civil and criminal cases in a court of impeachment, but our job is to listen to the case presented by the parties, by the impeachment managers, and by the president s lawyers. Not to hijack the trial and orchestrated ourselves pay thats what senator schumer wants to do, and i think it would be wrong. Ed we will talk a lot about impeachment in the days ahead. Wed be remiss to not ask about the other breaking news this morning from the Supreme Court, that they are now not going to take up this case over obamacare. The future of obamacare and the constitutionality, until after the 2020 election. Talk about the significance and how republicans are approaching the 2020 election on health care. Based on what i understand the fifth decided dominic circuit decided to do with that case, the case is not right. Which is typically what judges look at to see what the facts are, whether the record is complete, and they send it back to the trial judge to reevaluate based on its ruling in the fifth circuit. So i think the Supreme Court made the right decision. Theyve got other important cases to decide, and this one is ready for prime time. Ed all right. Senator john cornyn. Sandra if i could come at just one more question for you, sir. We are awaiting those house impeachment managers. They are set to speak, we are told it will be brief. All this is happening with the backdrop of the present traveling to switzerland. Hes an davos for the World Economic forum. He was asked during a bilateral meeting this morning about the impeachment trial that is about to take place back here at home. He called all a hoax, as he has so many times in the past. Put all of this in perspective, as we have the president traveling overseas and all this happening here at home in the senate. Traditionally, differences over policy have ended at the shore of the United States, and we have always supported the leader of our country in a unified effort as the United States dealing with other countries and other leaders. Apparently all of those norms have been upended now. And it is, katie, bar the door. Its unfortunate. We need to show our unities as americans in supporting our duly elected president in the policies he chooses on behalf of the American People to conduct. Obviously all of this thats happening here back door undermines his ability to do that. Sandra more questions as we wait for the child to begin, where do you stand on witnesses being called . Yes or no, that you are in favor of that . Well, i am in favor. 17 witnesses were called in the house, over 100 hours of testimony. All of that evidence will be available to the impeachment managers should they decide to offer that. Like i said, we will defer the issue of other witnesses until after both sides have made their presentation and the senators get a chance ask questions. Sandra got it. Finally, on the initial point i brought up about fox news reporting, that senators are looking to truncate the amount of time that the impeachment managers get in the white House Counsel gets, is that happening . Is an effort to do that . Im sure they would be more discussions about that. I would think the senators running for the nomination for president would like to be for february the 3rd. You might find bipartisan agreement that we ought to get this done and get it done right, but get it done as efficiently as possible. Ed all right, senator john cornyn, republican from the great state of texas. We appreciate you coming in. Thank you very much. Sandra thank you, we appreciate your time. We are awaiting the house impeachment managers. We were given the twominute warning a few moments ago. They are going to speak on capitol hill, we are told it will be brief. Nonetheless, its evident on the day where all this would begin at 1 00 eastern time on the set of four. We will see debate happen. Ed theyve already been putting other statements out of this News Conference suggesting they believe its a sham, that they are charging coverup in terms of the mcconnell resolution and the rules hes putting out there. Sandra we will take one quick break. We are also awaiting the president in davos, bilateral meeting happening there. Well have the impeachment managers for you in a moment. Stay tuned. A quick break, well be right back. I have huge money saving news for veterans. Mortgage rates just dropped to near 50year lows. One call to newday usa can save you 2,000 every year. And once you refinance, the savings are automatic. Thanks to your va streamline refi benefit, at newday theres no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. Activate your va streamline benefit now. Sandra President Trump was wrapping his bilateral meeting with the president of the Swiss Confederation. He took a question. Heres a moment. President trump thank you very much from everybody. We had a very good conversation, it worked out very well. The u. S. Is very happy with the result, and we appreciate very much what president macron did. Thank you. Space of about his meeting with the president of france, he said it went well. Short but sweet. Didnt go into much detail. Sandra that was about the taxing of the companies, the tariffs on the french one. The president reacting a short time ago. Ed we will stay on that, the president s and davos. Now that the Senate Impeachment trial is about to start in earnest, four Democratic Senators running for president will be tied to their desks in washington. In their roles as jurors on the senate floor. Meanwhile, those not involved with the trailer making their push in early voting states. Speed peter doocy live in des moines, iowa, with more on the campaign trail. The morning, peter. Good morning, sandra and ed. Because of that trial, biden, buttigieg, steyer, and yang are the only ones Holding Events today with two weeks until the caucuses. The rest of the toptier are back at work, and its giving joe biden a little more space to defend his record against charges leveled by Bernie Sanders and his allies that come back in his senate days, biden voted to cut Social Security. No, i didnt propose what we are talking about is a time even when we went together and decided the concept of balancing the budget. It was in the concept that we save Social Security during the reagan demonstration it was about to go other. Anyone from ted kennedy on voted on that, to save Social Security. Its been straightforward from the beginning. We have to increase the taxes on people making under 400,000. They pay the same percentage of their income as we pay if you are making 50,000 or 20,000 or 128,000. Biden also made waves this week by suggesting he might pick a republican running mate if he gets the democratic nomination. That is something Elizabeth Warren seems wary of. Why not you can have a good logic as republican as her running mate as Vice President come and beat republican ones for all . You know, i think this should be less about Political Parties and more about who you are fighting for. I want to be clear that my running mate is fighting for the same people and fighting for. And Bernie Sanders is trying to figure out new ways to be here while he also has to be in washington, d. C. , for the trial. He likes coasting rallies that dont start pretty late into the evening, including one this friday at 8 00 p. M. With special guest star alexandria ocasiocortez, ed and sandra. Ed we will join him in des moines to so we can have from now. Sandra we will indeed. On the left side of your screen now, a full shot on your screen of capitol hill. We are waiting on those house impeachment managers, ed. We got word half an hour ago that they were going to step up to microphone and we are also told its going to be brief. We also dont know if all the house impeachment managers will be present, but at least adam schiff will be there, is what we are hearing. Ed what we do know is theyve been teeing off on the resolution proposed by the center a republican leader Mitch Mcconnell, which is going to be the business at hand when all of this opens up at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time. Those reporters standing just steps off the house floor. We understand the managers are walking down the hall and getting close. The senate floor, of course, on the other side. Thats where they will be walking at 1 00 p. M. Eastern to get the trial going. You see the managers walking up now, sandra. Sandra they are making the case this is not a fair trial. In fact, its no trouble at all. Adam schiff taken to the microphone. Listen together. Good morning. Last night we received for the first time the text of the mcconnell resolution that will govern the trial. We can see why this resolution was kept from us and from the American People. This is nothing like the process that was used in the clinton trial. To begin with and this is, i think, most indicative in the clinton trial both leadership work out a bipartisan proposal for how the child would be conducted. That obviously has not happened here. Senator mccaul did not consult at all. Senator schumer, on the context of this text, i am assuming senator schumer got to see it probably around the same time we did in the house. The reason this was kept hidden is that it does not prescribe a process for a fair trial. The American People desperately want to believe that the senate will give both the president and the house of representatives a fair trial. This resembles nothing like the clinton proceeding. For the first point in the clinton case, if we are truly following the clinton precedents, all of the documents were provided for the trial. Where the 90,000 of them. Does this resolution provide for the president to provide the documents before the trial . No, it does not. It leaves the question of whether the house will ever see these documents, whether the American People ever see these documents, to the end and only the end, with no guarantee this material will ever be shown to the house or to the American People. That is a pe profound departure from the clinton trial. Without the documents, you cant make important judgments about even which witnesses should be called or what questions should be asked of the witnesses when you do. So that is a profound departure from the clinton precedent. On the subject of witnesses, it is also a deep departure from clinton, where all of the witnesses testified before the senate trial. The issue in the clinton trial was not whether they would testify. They have testified already. They been interviewed already. Some of them, dozens of times. The question of the clip in trial, will they be recall . Will he be required to testify again . The question was answered in the affirmative. Here, though, if youre following the clinton precedent, all of these witnesses to testify and should be deposed before the trial begins. Not after the trial is over. This is not at all the model used in the clinton case, as well. This resolution even go so far, and another departure from the glisten dome i could to precedent, to say they wont even admit the evidence that was received in the house. That they are going to postpone the decision over whether it will be part of the record. Finally, they are compressing the time of the trial. Whereas the clinton trial managers had six hours a day to present over a course of days, they are no presenting that we double the amount of time each day so that the proceedings can conceivably go well into the night when, apparently, senator mcconnell hopes the American People will not be watching. This is not a process for a fair trial. This is the process where a rigged trial. This is the process if you dont want the American People to see the evidence. This is the process you use if you want to, handinhand, working in concert with the president , allow the president to continue to obstruct the congress and to deny the truth to the American People. Thankfully, however, we know the truth. The evidence is already overwhelming, and that evidence is that the president abuse the power of his office, without hundreds of millions of dollars of need for military aid from an ally at war, in order to coerce that ally into interfering in our election. And then when he was caught, obstruct of the congress to cover it up. That truth is inescapable, no matter how mcconnell wishes to structure this trial. We will be appealing to the manager we will be appealing as managers to the senate today to live up to the oath they have just taken, to do impartial justice, and to hold a fair trial. And we are happy to respond to questions. Let me add something. I just want to add that this fixation on the clinton precedent is weird. The clinton trial was conducted fairly, but distorted what happened there shouldnt make a difference. The question is, should you have a fair trial now . Any intelligent person knows that in any trial, whether its robbing a bank or subverting the constitution of the United States, the accusers in this case, the house of representatives bring in all the witnesses and all the evidence. The defenders can bring it all the evidence they want. Thats how you have a trial period to be debating, whether you should have the evidence admitted, to be debating whether you should allow witnesses, is to be debating whether you should have a coverup, by definition. There is no other way to look at it. It doesnt matter how it was done sometime ago. It was done very fairly, as it happens, sometime ago. But it doesnt matter. It cannot be used as an excuse. The only reason to oppose bringing a witness is to cover up because you are afraid of what the witness will say. The question before the senate is, do the republican senators want to be complicit in the coverup of the president . Any senator who votes to deny a witness, who votes to deny evidence, is voting to cover up the president s cards and subversion of the constitution. There is no other way about it. There is no conceivable reason to deny witnesses. To say you cant bring in the evidence. The house of representatives cannot bring the evidence. There is no reason. What are they fear . Why will they bring in the witnesses . Because they are afraid of what the witnesses will say. But there is no trial in this country in which he wouldnt admit the relevant witnesses. In which its even a question. Lets go to questions. Reporter [indistinct] that will be a decision that the house should make, not that the senators should prescribe to go late into the evening. Look, there is a wealth of evidence to present here. 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 senator mcconnell evidently hopes the public may not be watching. So we will make decisions about how long our case should go, within the rules that are prescribed. I think the question is, what is the senators interest . What is his interest in structuring the trial this way . Is this about hiding the evidence from the American People with latenight sessions . Is this about just trying to get it over with . Because that should not be the motivation here. Senator mcconnell has taken the same oath as every other senator in that chamber, and that is to do impartial justice. Not to try and skew the process in such a way where the house is not permitted to put its evidence before the American People. Reporter are you worried that all this focus on rules and process and what senator mcconnell is doing dilutes, in any way, the message you are trying to put out about what you think President Trump did . No, because this is part and parcel of an effort to cover up the president s misconduct. That was the whole object that is charged in article two of the impeachment articles. And if the senate and the Senate Leadership will not allow the house to present its case, will not allow the calling of witnesses where the presentation of documents, if senator mcconnell makes this the first impeachment trial in history without witnesses or documents, it will not prove the president innocent. It will merely prove the senate guilty of working with the president to obstruct the truth from coming out. And so i do think that, by structuring the trial this way, it furthers our case that whats going on here really is a coverup of evidence to the reagan people. Reporter what would you like to see i will ask my colleagues on that, as well. There are a number of key witnesses that we know even at the outset of the trial should be called. There are people like john bolton and people like Mick Mulvaney, people like Michael Duffy and mr. Blair, and others. But if we are proceeding in a logical fashion, if we are truly interested in a fair trial, the first step ought to be the production of the documents. Those documents will reveal precisely who the most important witnesses are. And they may be those four, and there being be others as well. Let me give an illustration of whats being hidden from the American People. We have Text Messages where highlevel people in the diplomatic corps are asking each other, are we really withholding military aid document and as we talked about last night, i think its crazy to withhold military aid to personnel to get help with the political campaign. They do with the American People to see those documents. We have seen them because cooperating witnesses to provide them. The documents like those are being withheld from the public. That is the kind of cover up that the president is engaged in and the senate should not make itself a party to that. Just to conclude in terms of witnesses, we should review the documents, the house should have the right to call witnesses. The president should have the right to call witnesses. Material witnesses, that witnesses just for the purpose of smearing his opponent. But material witnesses. Thats what makes a fair trial. Let me ask my colleagues who havent had a chance to speak they would like to add. Last question. Reporter how much is it hamstring you to not know which documents will be admitted while youre making your arrangements . Its as if you are on duty duty jury duty on the judge were to come to the court room and say, ive been talking to the defendant, and weve decm not going to let the prosecutor and cody witnesses. Im not going to let them call for any documents. Im only going to let them read from the called record in the grand jury. And even then we dont necessarily decide, you consider that as evidence. That makes it impossible to have a fair trial. Not just difficult, but impossible to have a fair trial. I think for senators who take their oath seriously and i hope and pray that they do this is not the fair trial that the American People want. Its not the fair trial the American People deserve. Thank you. Ed you heard from the house impeachment managers. Democrats led by adam schiffs charging that the trial is rigged before its even started. Lets bring in our ateam, former assistant attorney general for the new York State Attorney Generals Office and a former Senior Investigative council, rigid trailer. Radio talk shows and fox news contributor. A and chiricos own, cohost of fb nam on the fox business network. Welcome all. How could these vendors make the case that this doesnt follow the clinton model when Lamar Alexander, one of the key moderate republicans and democrats are hoping to win over, said last night of the resolution for mcconnell establishes fundamentally the same rules that the Senate Approved 1000 in 1999 from the clinton trial . Thats Lamar Alexander. You cant look at the legislation in a vacuum. You have to look at the entirety of the impeachment inquiry and where we are today. You find a white house that is obstructed, with the second article of this and peter does about obstruction of congress. Over and over again sandra but that response was directly to the resolution, what we just heard. Right. The argument adam schiff is trying to make here, the larger argument if youve seen from the white house is obstruction. If you want to hear from hunter but ed Lamar Alexander, a key moderate this is not a flamethrower who supports the president and everything that she said its fundamentally the same as pilkingtons trial. Speak with his unique differences. Number one, in the clinton trial, ken starr, who is on the president s legal team now, he interviewed everybody. All the evidence was brought to the senate. There is an allowed for witnesses. The senate will vote on what evidence is entered into the record and what isnt, that was not in 1999 during the impeachment trial. These are all stark differences between the clinton impeachment and the trip impeachment. Lets not forget that Mitch Mcconnell also said on this air that he plans to follow the white house stepbystep. It which is not what happened in the 1999 impeachment. I think its a substance. I hate to disagree with richard, there is no obstruction here, and heres why. The main charge is based on the fact that President Trump wants to fight the subpoenas from the house. Literally, president s from George Washington to george bush to donald trump fight subpoenas. That is not obstruction. The other thing that i think is interesting that i have an hundred other people talk about is the main evidence that the democrats are using against trump is the transcript, the record of the phone call between zelensky. Trump himself voluntarily released that. Thats not obstruction, its cooperating. Really quickly, the United States regularly investigates foreign countries. I used to work in the governme government, its called a mutual Legal Assistance treaty. Theres nothing wrong with trump asking him about it. Its like saying this. Say if i had a big drug ring from ukraines United States, Chris Staszak parts of it he said, wait a minute, we have to go get it. Hes related to Elizabeth Warren, we cant go after him. Thats what they are saying. [laughter] ed is there any hope of this trail playing out in a way that either side thinks is fair . Is that loss already . Before really officially kicks off, adam schiff is saying sandra both sides. At least in the next couple of weeks it will play out on Television Screens across this country. I think thats a dangerous road for both. The democrats arent going to want to see hunter biden or joe biden, for god sake, be called to testify. Their public and so want to see john bolton and Mick Mulvaney. At the end of the day, if its already baked in that its going to be acquitted by the senate, the Republicancontrolled Senate im talking basic terms for the basic and eric in watching this as we are getting ready for iowa and New Hampshire in an Election Year dash i think so. Its an expensive thing that we are about to undertake in the senate, nobodys going to be watching at 2 00 in the morning as they are bloviating on the senate floor. Sorry, i shouldnt use those words, my apologies to those in washington. The average american should say to themselves that this is just a bunch of partisan fighting. Thats what they were so the swamp is alive and well, looks like, to me. Fits the right point, that there is so much partisan rank or in this with this lax, especially on the republican side, as prince pulled arguments and a series of sandra hold on, the trial has not begun in the senate here, richard [laughter] the ateam will stay with us. Lets have a break, well be right back. [shouting] [clapping and shouting] [cymbals clanging] [knocking] room for seven. And much, much more. The firstever glb. Lease the glb 250 suv for just 419 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Its red lobsters new threecourfor 14. 99. East choose soup or salad. One of seven delicious entrees like new hawaiianstyle garlic shrimp. And, get a sweet dessert. Three courses. One amazing price. So come in today. Part of the reason we are there is to hold accountable some of the house managers, in particular the lead house manager, adam schiff, and make sure the evidence is presented the way it occurred in the house. If that doesnt happen, there may be a change in the trial structure. Ed back to the ateam. Chris, how do you react to that . I think the republican seat opening unstructured. Democrats think they can win and i think the sub story for the next one to four hours will be the structure of the trial. Thats it. If you want to have trial structure, thats with the regular legal team is there. Thats what Pat Cipollone is therefore on the floor. Sandra this isnt a legal team. When you announce these names, these are folks he wants to come out on television and defend the republican position and thats it. They provide no material value to the argument of the United States. Sandra he made the case theyre out there with a message and strategy from the white house. Adam schiff is again leading that charge. Adam schiff has a reputation thats been tainted in the last year. This is the guy who told us theres absolutely russian collusion being in the president ial campaign and the russians, and that turned out in the Mueller Report to be a big bag of nothing. So im not sure hes the best leader. Hes what theyve got. Between him and jerry nadler they will make their case. Again it will be playing out on your Television Screens. Maybe the motor needs to make their choice. They pushed opposite tv thi thing. Adam schiff likes tv cameras. Now weve got Chuck Schumer in the next hour, hes coming out. They are on tv come as well. Everybody likes television. Always members like television, which as we have a press office of the United States capitol. With that being said, what democrats are operating from the idea that there is a sense in the american populace that we want to hear from witnesses. A recent poll max at 48 , a plurality of republicans, wanting for witnesses. 86 of democrats and 69 of dependents will do for witnesses. Thats what you will hear from now until the end of this trial. Sandra do democrats agree that both sides should be able to call them . Before we go, the New York Post headline, im sure you saw this. Innocent, first the verdict, then the hearing. [laughter] ed democrats and guilty before the trial starts. This place bac back to the partisan nature of what we are seeing play out. And this is going to be a decision, the distress of Mitch Mcconnells shoulders. Does he use the skills which . Does that come out . The defense team, for the president sanely moved to dismiss, and he says go home. Sandra amid all the impeachment talk, President Trump is in davos right now pushing his America First agenda to World Leaders. Moneyman Charles Payne thinks he made his best economic speech of his presidency. He will be here to wait in next. With va Mortgage Rates near record lows, i want to tell as many veterans as possible about newdays va streamline refi. Its the closest thing to automatic savings that weve ever offered. At newday, veterans can refinance their mortgage with no income verification, no appraisal and no out of pocket expenses. And weve extended our Call Center Hours so that every veteran can take advantage of these near record low rates. Every business looking for a place where they are free to invest, build, thrive, innovate, and succeed. There is no better place on earth than the United States. Ed President Trump speaking and speech and early. Charles payne, a host of making money, says its the best econ. Absolutely. Lets go back to coke years ago when he went to davos and challenge the globalists. He is saying, this confab of you elite globalists, im here to break this up and do things you dont like. Im going to use tariffs as a weapon. Im going to lower taxes. Im going to unleash in the animal spirits of my country, lower regulations. And then he went back with a checklist of whats happened since he done that who has prospered . Who has prospered the most . Whose wages are going up the most to make a bottom of the economic wrong. It was such an amazing victory lap. He talked but a shared prosperity for all americans across racial lines, across educational lines. He talked about the Unemployment Rate for those who dropped out of high school. He came and challenge them two years ago, he came back this year and said, listen, we had some doubters. My favorite line was, the time for skepticism is over. My way works. Lets focus on optimism. The worlds not going to end in ten years. She pointed to a cathedral in florence that took 140 years to build, and when they started working on this cathedral, the technology to complete it wasnt even known. But they had the foresight and the belief that it was going to happen, and they made it happen. He referenced the european a compliment. Sandra s exact words, no is not the type or pessimism. We must reject the perennial prophets of doom. He went on to lambaste prophets of doom, the treaty with canada and mexico, and he entered and exited to applause, charles. But he did not talk impeachment. Its the World Economic forum. Sandra he didnt take questions. Hes already had a couple meetings with other people, and every now and again a reportable lob that at him. Again, the economic form. Youve got the global elite. Its interesting that you have 119 private jets, 500 billion worth of work out there, the richest in the world. Ed private jets, talking about climate change. Charles . Thats lowhanging fruit right there. Speech the worlds wealthiest, thats for sure. Any moment now Top Senate Democrats that do hold a News Conference on impeachment. We will have that for you live when it begins. Plus, former White House Press secretary Ari Fleischer will join us with his take on the big news of the day. Ed here we go, another fox news alert. We wait to hear from Top Senate Democrats in mere moments as the impeachment trial gets underway just two hours from now. Welcome back to americas newsroom. Im ed henry. You could have warned me. Sandra moving right along. Good morning, im sandra smith. He is blasting Mitch Mcconnells proposed ground rules for the senate trial. While all of this drama plays out back here at home, President Trump attending the World Economic forum in dumbos, switzerland moments ago we heard from the leader of the house impeachment leaders, adam schiff, and the lead manager. Ive got breaking news, we are going to go straight to Chuck Schumer now. He is stepping up to the microphone, lets listen in. Good morning, everyone. One thing before i get started on the issue at hand the Supreme Court Just Announced that it would delay ruling on the administrations lawsuit against our health care law. It is a sharp reminder to the American People that while all this important business is going on, the president and the Republican Party is trying to take away americanss health care. Woe is us if they succeed this year or next year. Now, lets get to the issue at hand. As you all know, President Trump is accused of coercing a foreign leader into interfering in our elections to benefit himself, and then doing everything in his power to cover it up. If proved, the president s actions are crimes against democracy itself. It cannot be overstated how serious this charge is. If americans start believing that foreigners can affect and elect president s or senators or governors, if foreigners can interfere in elections and determine the outcome instead of the American People determining the outcome, our democracy is vastly eroded. People will start losing faith in elections and the very wellspring and foundation of this grand and great nation that the Founding Fathers established more than 200 years ago. So, the charges, these charges we are being asked to try. For anyone who says, this is not serious, this is done all the time, no way. This president , it is abuse of power is unfortunately unique and willing to abuse his power with fewer conscious qualms and far more readily and easily than any president we have seen, and by a long shot. And the only power that the American People have when the president abuses power, other than elections, is this impeachment process. We take it very seriously. Very seriously. So, one senator and office sworn in this afternoon, the ceremonial functions at the beginning of the president ial impeachment trial will be complete. The senate must then determine the rules of the trial. The republican leader will offer an organizing resolution that outlines his plan for the rules of the trial, which was only released last night. And amazingly, waited till the very end, and now we see why. It is completely partisan. It was kept secret until the eve of the trial, and now that its finally being made public, its obvious to see why leader mcconnell was keeping it so close to his vest. Because the mcconnell rules seem to be designed by President Trump, for President Trump. Simply executed by leader mcconnell and senate republicans. It appears that leader mcconnell decided to go along with the president s desire to cover up his wrongdoing, hook, line, and sinker. It almost seems that the resolution was written in the white house, not in the senate. The mcconnell resolution is a blueprint for an impeachment trial on fastforward. It asks the senate to spend dumb experts through the trial as fast as possible, and makes getting evidence as hard as possible. The bottom line, leader mcconnell wants t of the process rushed with as little evidence as possible in the dark of nigh. He pushes the arguments into the wee hours of the night so American People wont see them. In the short, again, the mcconnell resolution will result in a rush trial with little evidence in the dead of night. If the president is so confident in his case, why wont he presented in broad daylight . If leader mcconnell and the republican senators who have said hes done nothing wrong, its perfect, why not while the sun is shining . And set it at 2 00 a. M. . It was pretty obvious. Its pretty obvious why not. On something as important as impeachment, mcconnells resolution is nothing short of a national disgrace, and it will go down in history as one of the very dark days of the senate. Not living up to its responsibility. In obeisance to the president , not to the truth. Leader mcconnell promised his trial rules, we heard this for weeks. Lets enact the same rules as the clinton trial rules. He said, we are going to get started in exactly the same way. It turns out the mcconnell rules are not even close to the clinton rules, and there are many places where that happens. Like the clinton rules, the mcconnell resolution does not admit the record of the house impeachment proceedings into evidence. So mcconnell seems to want a trial with no existing evidence and no new evidence. No evidence. We can understand why. Its because hes afraid of evidence. So is President Trump. So are the president s men. A trial with no evidence is not a trial at all. Its a cover up. Second, unlike the clinton rules, the mcconnell resolution limits presentation by the parties to 24 hours per side over only two days. Leader mcconnell wants to force the managers to make important parts of their case and the dead of night. I read the brief. Its about 45 pages. I commend each of you, its a powerful document. Very hard to rebut. In fact, the president s brief doesnt even attempt to rebut it. Next, the mcconnell resolution prohibits motions to subpoena witnesses or documents until after the senators question period. Even then, requires the senate to overcome an additional hurdle by voting to determine whether motions to subpoena witnesses and documents are in order. So weve had some senators say, well, im going to vote for mcconnells resolution, but later i might vote for witnesses and documents. Mcconnells very resolution puts many obstacles in the path of getting witnesses and documents even later. So republican senators dont fool us. Dont say you want to make it easier to vote for witnesses and documents at the end of the trial if you vote for this resolution. It makes it a lot harder. And finally, unlike the clinton rules, the mcconnell resolution allows a motion to dismiss at any time during the trial. Now, we thought that the clinton rules shouldnt apply. That they were unfair to us. Mcconnell kept hugging the legend was this his defense, but we now see that he didnt mean it. What he wanted to do was simply cover up her President Trump. So, starting this afternoon, immediately after leader mcconnell introduces his resolution, i will be offering amendments to fix its many flaws. The First Amendment i will offer will ask that the Senate Subpoena white house documents related to the charges against the president. Those documents include the records of meetings and calls between President Trump and the president of ukraine, as well as those records created or received by mr. Mulvaney, mr. Bolton, mr. Blair, and other white house personnel, about the decision to hold and release the military assistance to ukraine. It is very possible, even likely, that some of these Communications May have been with President Trump, between him and these people. That is why they are so important. No one can argue that these documents are not directly related to the charges against the president and should be reviewed by the senate. The witnesses ive requested ive gotten a lot of attention, and rightfully so. The documents are of equal importance. People should understand that the documents can shed as much light on why the aide was cut off, who did it, and how it evolved as the witnesses. And we feel very strongly that we need documents. Thats why its our first call. I will then offer a series of amendments on the documents weve requested, the witnesses we requested, and amendments to fix the most egregious departures that mcconnell made and has proposed resolution from the clinton rules. Let me be clear we have no intention to be the dilatory. There is no guarantee leader mcconnell will allow these votes to be taking place later in the trial. Now, before any resolution passes, we must do it. We feel this is an obligation we have to the constitution to outline what a fair trial would be. To not go along with the coverup, with the sham trial, and we will do it. We will do it. Right off the bat, republican senators will face a choice about getting the facts or joining leader mcconnell and President Trump in trying to cover them up. This is a historic moment. The eyes of america are watchi watching. Republican senators must rise to the occasion. Senator durbin . Youre not on here. Oh, yes. Think you, senator schumer. From the very first day of the impeachment trial we learned that senator mcconnell, for senator mcconnell, political loyalty to this president was more important than respect for the constitution, the integrity of the senate, and standards of common decency and decorum which have been prevalent in this body from its start. With this organizing resolution, outlining the course of the trial, senator mcconnell and those who enable him demonstrate the republicans believe the American People are not entitled to judge for themselves whether President Trump abuse the power of his office and obstructed this congress and the discharge of its constitutional duties. Senator mcconnell and those who enable him believe that if they hurry the proceedings, restrict the evidence, limit the witnesses, and force the whole enterprise into the midnight hour, they can conceal misconduct by the president. They believe the American People will not take notice. They are wrong. The American People are not asleep at the wheel of this democracy. They are wide awake to any senator or president who disrespects their constitutional duties or claims to be above the law. Donald john trump, the impeached president , insists he is innocent. A victim of a witch hunt. A cruel hoax. Yet, this president is unable and unwilling to produce any evidence or any witness in his own defense. Instead, america is subjected to an endless blizzard of mindless tweets from the white house, and the ravings of the president s trusted legal counsel, the former mayor of new york city. For senator mcconnell and those who enable them, this selfserving foolishness passes for a credible defense. Under the principles of american justice, of course, the accused in this case, the president cannot be compelled to testify. But the mcconnell resolution goes to the extremes of attempting to limit the house managers from introducing into evidence the documents and sworn testimony that were produced even in the house impeachment proceedings. This mcconnell resolution directly contravenes the rules followed in the clinton impeachment trial. As of this morning, a majority of americans are calling for this president to be impeached and removed from office. Even senator mcconnells loyalty to this president and his corruption of this senate trial cannot escape this stark reality. If senator mcconnell has his way, critical moments in this trial may not see the light of day. But they will not escape the light of history. Well, thank you very much. Last week my colleagues and i signed our names in the official Senate Record affirming our promise to do impartial justice. It was a sobering experience, especially since senator mcconnell has explicitly said he would do the complete opposite. He said no to impartial justice in spite of the careful and thorough investigation the house conducted, in spite of President Trumps unprecedented stonewalling, which denied Congress Access to key material witnesses and documents directly related to the president s actions during the house investigation, in spite of the president s continued refusal to provide any credible defense against the allegations against him, including in the trial brief we saw this weekend. And the majority leaders position has not changed despite new evidence made public in recent days, which lays out a complex web of falsehoods and corruption surrounding the president s actions in ukraine. And now, as the trial begins, as new evidence comes out, and after each of us has reaffirmed our most solemn responsibilities to our states and our country, it is clear people across the country are watching this carefully. And they are deeply concerned our president may have demanded a Foreign Government interfere in our next election to help him in his campaign. They want to know all the relevant testimony and evidence is being considered, and the senate is acting fairly rather than staging a coverup. So i would hope republican senators remember that they have a choice. I hope they choose to recognize we cannot do our job as senators to do impartial Justice Without key documents and witness testimony that is so far been hidden from the public. I hope they choose to work with democrats to make sure fairness and honesty is in this process, because that is what the people we represent deserve. And i want to make one more point the president s actions are on trial, but the United States senate is on trial, too. Ive heard many republicans say they want to trial modeled after the clinton impeachment trial. I will remind all of us that at the end of that trial no one doubted the senate had acted fairly and honorably. That is the article test before us, beginning today. To be clear, we will fail that test with dead ofnight, rushedup resolutions like the one leader mcconnell has put forward. We all need to remember the oath we took an act in ways that prove the senate and all of our Democratic Institutions are worthy of the publics trust, now and for generations to come. We all need to vote today for evidence and fairness, not a sham designed to protect and impeached president from the facts. Thank you. Think you, senator murray thank you. Mitch mcconnells resolution is appalling, and so is the defense being put forward by the white house. They dont dispute that there was a phone call with a new young leader in desperate need of support from the United States in his military efforts against russia. They dont dispute that there was a threat to withhold funding on that phone call, if, in fact, the new young leader did not do with the president wanted. They dont dispute the fact that they withheld the funds after the phone call, even though the watchdog for the congress, the general accounting office, has clearly said it is illegal, which they are not disputing either. It seems to me they are using the Mick Mulvaney defense. Yes, the president of the call. Yes, he withheld the money. The president can do whatever he wants. Get over it. No president is above the law, and thats what this trial is about. Questions on this subject . Yes . Reporter [indistinct] look, senators talk to senators all the time, and there are lots of conversations going on. Im not going to get into any individual conversations. Yes . Putter what is your plan, assuming any documents or witness testimony moves forward, if the white house asserts executive authority . Look, if the white house tries to exert executive privilege on an order that passes in a bipartisan way and is signed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court on a subpoena, i think the courts would look very favorably on that. Reporteri will not tell the t who should be his counsel but i respect very much the conflict of interest that was outlined in the letter that the house managers put together. Yes . Reporter [indistinct] wait and see. Reporter during the trial, if you will not be able to make arguments, do you expect house managers to make arguments and you expect them to first, some of the motions or the amendments i will be making to the mcconnell resolution are pretty obvious. Three weeks ago i outlined to leader mcconnell the need for three sets of documents and four witnesses. So the Senate Managers obviously know all about them, and they are a very capable group. They have said publicly theyve been totally supportive of those things that we asked for. So i expect they will make very strong arguments. Theres a lot to say. Reporter [indistinct] its one hour per side, thats the rules. Itll be up to them if they use it all. I would hope they make strong arguments and not try to cut back. Its too important. Reporter senator romney has already said he will support any kind of changes to the resolution that would include trying to get witnesses baked in at the beginning of a trial. I have a great deal of respect for senator romney. I would urge him i hope he has carefully read the mcconnell resolution, because he has always said he thinks there should be witnesses at the end of the trial, and this makes it harder to even get those. You went already wants, im sorry. Try to share the wealth. Reporter it strikes me that House Republicans were very upset with the process, complained about it being rush rushed. We are doing our constitutional job and we are proud of the job that we are doing. It is sort of ironic, leader mcconnell, at the same moments he says the trials rush, seeks to rush the senate trial for more severely than the house trial was. Reporter on the subject of transparency, did you sign off on the rules for the press . What is your comment gnome. My comment, i want to see have the press have as much access as possible. I was not asked about them and didnt sign off on them. Yes . Reporter you to give advice to members of your carcass and how to do with the impeachment trial when in the minority . We had plenty of discussions and we go over the process, whats happening. We have a great caucus lunch every tuesday. Large numbers of members participate, and i would like to believe and i think i do that we sort of come to an amalgam. A lot of suggestions they make, we incorporate into what our caucus view and position should be. So we do it all the time. Reporter senator, some of the [indistinct] motions to dismiss before anything is presented. Yes, yes. Reporter is it your position that a vote to ignore or change those rules with 67 votes no, that is governed by the rules of impeachment, which are separate from the senate rules. Nope, you went. Anyone else who hasnt gone . Yes, a nice quiet lady over there. [laughter] reporter do you plan to separate out you will see. Wait and see. We will have votes on the issues i mentioned, witnesses, documents, egregious rollbacks from even the clinton rules that we thought were unfair, but we are not going to try and be dilatory in at 100 amendments just to delay things. Reporter how many . Oh, your persistent [laughter] yes . Reporter [ indistinct] no, we are doing this because we think we have a constitutional duty to do it. We think that this is what the Founding Fathers looked at when they say, how do we do with the president who has abused his power, who has dramatically overreached . Who has gone off track . And they came to the conclusion, you couldnt wait four years. Thats why this is so serious, so solemn, so grave. Thats how we feel. The American Public seems to agree with us. But that is our motivation. That is why even though. Weve asked for, we dont know what theyll say. This idea that these witnesses are democratic plants . They are the president s appointees the documents are written by the president s people. Maybe they will be exculpatory or maybe they will be further incriminating. But we will rest easy if we know we have required the truth to come out. Unfortunately in the minority thats not solely up to us. We need four republicans who are willing to stand up for whats right, who are willing to stand up for what america wants and needs, and not simply bow down to the president s. Most americans with this guy is all about. Do most americans really believe he wants a fair trial . I dont think so. Thank you, everybody. Sandra youve been listening to Democratic Leadership in the senate, with minority leader Chuck Schumer there. A message to senate republicans. Dont fool us, he said. Saying hes going to offer amendments to the mcconnell resolution to fix what he is calling many flaws. His first proposal to subpoena documents, which he says are directly routed to the case. Lets go to Congressional Correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill, whos been listening to all of this with us. Chad . Chuck schumer indicates that he is going to try and have these votes on these amendments. Let me walk you through the structure here. At 1 00 they start the trial, and thats where Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell will propose his base framework for how he thinks the trial is supposed to go down. That is where the managers and President Trumps legal team will then debate this for two hours. Then you go to Chuck Schumer, and we are told he might have the universe and this is reporting that bret baier and i did earlier this morning maybe as large as two or three dozen amendments here. Thats a pretty big chunk of proposals. We then expect a debate then. And after that the senate will go into closed session will they will figure this out. Chuck schumer indicates in one of the first proposals hes going to propound here will deal with getting documents and communications with the white house which he sees a central to the case. He wouldnt say exactly how many documents, but that will be the big debate tonight. They will vote on the final proposal late tonight, guys. Sandra but he did then circle back and said he clearly laid out to mcconnell the three sets of documents and four witnesses that he was requesting. Thats right, and thats been out there for a long time. He says, look, we want to hear from Mick Mulvaney theres been a lot of criticism about Mitch Mcconnell Holding Close to his vest the proposal. Chuck schumer has done that a little bit the same token. Sandra all right, he said dont fool us and told the senators in the senate they must rise to the occasion. Chad pergram, thank you for staying with us on that breaking news. Appreciate it. Ed for more on this lets begin our panel, matt schlapp, former cubic inches directory senator Harry Reid Jon summers. Thanks for sticking by. Great to be here. Ed where are we, matt, when you have a democratic leader already sang before the trial has gotten off this is a sham . I agree with him, total sham. Most people on my side see the whole process is a sham. I think the problem for senator schumer is that he will be able to hold all his democrats together. She could even give the democrats to vote for impeachment. I believe Charles Schumer in the end of the senate will not be able to have even the democrats stick together. This flies in the face of history. In the nixon and clinton impeachments, as you move forward from the first vote on, it was always very bipartisan in process. Adam schiff and nancy pelosi destroyed that spirit from the very first second with the sham proceedings they had in the house. Ed john, jon commode bout that . Referring to doug jones, joe manchin. Some misgivings about how this may play out. I think democrats are united with the fact that we need to have witnesses, we need to have evidence. If there was one message that came through loudly and clearly that preps from its we heard, its at the American People are not stupid. They see whats going on. They want a fair trial with witnesses and evidence. It is a basic its how trials go. As we learned this morning with the new cnn poll, nearly seven in ten American People want that. So we should give it to them. Not Start Holding this trial in the darkness of night, having these proposals to have it just sort of rushed through. Lets have it play out so everyone can see it live and in real time. Not while theyre sleeping. Ed the darkness of night, it hasnt even really started. It starting at 1 00 p. M. , which last i checked the sun will be out and people can watch it right here on fox. Thats true. Unless i checked, 12 hours from 1 00 p. M. Texas to 1 00 a. M. I will be fast asleep by then this is all kind of a scam. Ill agree with that. What i took away from shedrick dominic senator schumer s press conferences they didnt want the market people to wait for years to make a judgment one president they saw had committed a crime. Lets face it, the selection is 11 months away. This is unprecedented. Nixon and clinton were impeached or almost impeached because of their crimes after being reelected. Clinton agrees that he committed 11 felonies. The issue here is there is no crime, there is no underlying crime. And the American People will adjudicate this in 11 months. I think so lets see the evidence, matt. Lets see the evidence no, we havent. With get jumbled in other lets hear from him. I have no problem with that. Nothing to hide. You got the transcript. A memo for transcript. Ed all right comment on it. I dont want to correct you, but its time of the way. Even sooner than we think. I appreciate you coming in. Sandra all right, and is all this unfolds in washington, president terms of the World Economic forum in davos right now. He is said to be on camera for another bilateral meeting expected moments from now, where he will respond potentially to the charges we have heard this morning. We are listening for that to begin. We are just about 90 minutes away, meanwhile, from the start of the trial. We are going to have special coverage of it all. That begins in about one hour. That will be bret baier and Martha Maccallum. Station for all of that, will be right back. Ok everyone our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition. For strength and energy whoohoo greattasting ensure. With nine grams of protein and twentyseven vitamins and minerals. Ensure, for strength and energy. Walk through this storm i would id do it all because i love you, kennedy lets get to davos, where the president s sitting down with the Prime Minister of pakistan. Lets listen together. President trump thank you very much. Its great to be with a very good friend of mine, the Prime Minister of pakistan. We will be talking about trade and many other things. But trade is going to be of very paramount importance. We are doing more trade, as it turns, and we are working together on the some borders. We are talking about kashmir and the relation to whats going on with pakistan and india, that we can help. We certainly will be helping. We have been watching it and following it very closely. But its an honor to be with my friend, and think you very much. My pleasure. Mr. President , good to see you again. President trump thank you. The issues we want to talk about. The main issue, it concerns the u. S. And pakistan. Fortunately we are on the same page. An orderly transition with the taliban and the government. Also, of course, india is a big issue for us. To pakistan, its a big issue. Of course we always hope that the u. S. Will play its part in resolving it. Because no other country can. President trump right. Thank you. Thank you very much. We are going to have a good talk. Thank you very much from everybody. Reporter mr. President , when you go to india will you also visit pakistan . President trump we are visiting right now so we dont really have to. But i wanted to say hello for both a relationship standpoint, we had a great relationship. And for the standpoint of our two countries. We are getting along very well. I would say weve never been closer with pakistan then we are right now. And thats a big statement, although i wouldnt say at all times we were close as a country. But we are very close right now, because of the relationship that we have. So its very important. Reporter are you planning to impose tariffs on imports from europe . President trump we expect to make a deal from europe. Well certainly give that very strong consideration. We expect to make a deal with europe. The european union, we met with, as you know. We had a very good talk. If you are to make a deal, we will have to do something. Weve been treated very badly as a country for many, many years on trade. Of course, nato also if you look at what happens with nato, we are spending a vast predominance of the money. We are spending money like this has gone on for years. We are protecting europe, and thats fine, but they cant do it to us on trade. They know they have to do something, and if they are fair we arent going to have a problem. Okay . Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Sandra we will see if he takes another question here. The president in davos, switzerland meeting with the Prime Minister of pakistan. Lets begin Ari Fleischer, former White House Press secretary, joining us now. Ari, good morning. Thank you for being here. Youre very familiar, the present overseas as the impeachment trial is underway at home. Your thoughts this morning, ari . What a perfect almost split screen. I think washington is consumed with this partisan leverage game of one party hates the other, the other party hates the other back, and thats what you see in the schumer News Conference. While the present is conducting the nations policies and business. I think thats the exact image the president wants to portray and should portray throughout the next couple weeks as impeachment drags on. Sandra its almost interesting how he has taken very few questions on impeachment, were very few questions at all, while hes been in davos. This morning he gave a powerful academic speech. Charles payne said it was the best hes delivered in his presidency. And he has had several bilateral meetings this morning, but he is somewhat quiet on impeachment back here at home. Earlier he called it a hoax, taking one question on it. Ari, so far this morning we heard from the house impeachment managers and referred from Democratic Leaders in the senate. But not a huge response from the white house so far this morning. [laughs] yeah, im not sure itll stay that way. Knowing President Trumps previous pattern, it wouldnt surprise me if he just goes after it on twitter or says something at some point later. I would advise them not to. He doesnt listen. But i just think policy and running the country is his best foot forward, and leave this washington noise and nonsense to others. Thats what impeachment has become. Its become the typical partisan games that everybodys use to and tired of. Let the president rise above. Sandra is all this is happening, you just heard Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the senate, saying that he is going to come up with something to respond to Mitch Mcconnell and his resolution. Talking about more documents being subpoenaed, witnesses being called. What do you think we will see unfold as this resumes this afternoon, ari . I think we will continue to see the typical gamesmanship and maneuvering that washington is known for. I have a hard time seeing a principle anywhere in sight. They switch roles. The house or republicans complained bitterly about the process, now Senate Democrats in the minority are complaining bitterly about the process. The only thing that really matters is getting beyond this because its a complete waste of time. And there is a remedy in our constitutional system when people feel this deeply about something. Its called an election. Absent of crime and ive seen no crime committed by the president you saw these problems where one said the other did wrong, and the president s defender says he did right. In the course of the election with the American People decide, not elected individuals in washington, d. C. Thats why i think the senator frankly, this is a whole waste of time about rules that in the end do not matter. Nobody is going to remove the president from office other than the American People, or he will get reelected. Lets wait until november. Speed whether or not witnesses will be called, mark meadows, who has been deployed as part of the president s defense team, said this morning that responding to the allegation that no witnesses called means this is a coverup on the part of republicans. Here is mark meadows. You continue to hear a cell from Chuck Schumer, how this is a coverup, how actually things are not going the way that he wanted them to go. I can tell you, when we were in the house, it was an unfair process there. Where we are democrat senators . They were on the senate side at the senate lunch room sipping lattes, congratulating themselves on an unfair process. Sandra ari, is there any possibility that both sides can be appeased by what gets decided and how this all plays out in the senate . I dont rule that out. I dont rule out that ultimately after all this noise and maneuvering is done in the next day or two and we begin the actual impeachment trial that a small group will rise up and consent to have a following three witnesses come by. I dont think at the end of the date matters much. The outcome will be the same. If they have three witnesses who are relevant, fine. If they have no witnesses, fine. I think a small group could come to that in a few days. But first Chuck Schumer has to beat his chest and get this off of him, and act like House Republicans did. When it was in the house, we had secret hearings where republicans got to pick no witnesses and when they had republican hearings they didnt get the witnesses they wanted. They were given the witnesses the democrats told them they could have. Why is that fair, but this isnt fair . That is why when you are in the minority, you are in the minority, the majority rules. This is a political process, not a court of law trial. Sandra we will hear from both sides. 50 minutes from now, Mitch Mcconnell and chuck Chuck Schumer, as all this resumes in washington. Ari fleischer, thank you. Ed will have more on the impeachment trial coming up as the president s legal Team Announces eight members of congress are joining forces with the white house. What role they might play, coming out. Attention veterans. With the newday va streamline refi, you can refinance at near record low rates with no income verification, no appraisal and nothing out of pocket. For the last few weeks ive been working with white House Counsel helping them prepare the legal briefs that are being submitted in the trial and preparing the oral argument that will be presented later this week. I was one of a few members that was involved in both phases of the impeachment inquiry before the House Intelligence Committee and the house Judiciary Committee. Theres a lot of information there. Ed that of course is john ratcliffe, 1 of 8 House Republicans now advising President Trumps Impeachment Defense Team officially as the white house lays out its case for a quick acquittal. Lets bring in tom dupree, former Deputy Assistant attorney general under president george w. Bush. Thanks for coming in. Hi, ed. Ed talk about how effective they might be from the outside, outside, unnecessarily on the senate floor. As we saw today, everyone from adam schiff to Chuck Schumer themselves are out on the airwaves driving their message. You know, ed, i think they can play a useful role. Thats a big group of people. The fact is that all of those congressmen have been living and breathing impeachment for the last few months. They know the facts of the case, they know the arguments the democrats are likely to deploy. From the president s perspective, this is a talented team of knowledgeable people who can advise the lawyers behind the scenes of what types of argument they can anticipate, what facts they met want to introduce in order to rebut some of the arguments. Its really an opportunity for the white house to seize their cumulative knowledge and expertise in fashioning the president s defense. Ed that some of the messaging, the politics of all this. But the legal stakes you know better than many. The fact that Chuck Schumer is now revealing just this hour that he plans to start this trial off by starting to subpoena white house documents. What kind of delay might that lead to . To be know the white house is likely to invoke executive privilege and send us to the courts . How might this play out . I dont really see this delay in the proceedings at all. Senator mcconnell has been crisp and clear about his intent to move this thing forward. I dont think he will allow senator schumer or other democrats to derail or delay this proceeding. I think from senator schumers perspective, this is about p. R. Its about bringing the drum saying you need witnesses, this is a coverup, that sort of thing. I dont think senator schumer thinks its likely they are going to be able to get approval for witnesses at the early stage of this trial. Senator mcconnell has said this is a decision made later on. Even though senator schumer is going to be banging the drum on this i dont see it having much of an effect. Ed tom dupree, we appreciate you coming in. Thank you, ed. 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On a serious note here, Ozzy Osbourne sings was the most miserable year of his life. He was sitting next to Sharon Osbourne in this interview, that he slammed to the floor, he remembers lying there thinking, well, weve done it now. After that it was all downhill. Hes like this invincible guy. He lived this rock n roll lifestyle, outlived a lot of people who did a lot less than m, and then we saw a much different version of him this morning where he admitted that last year was really hard, it was a really big struggle. He canceled a tour because he was recovering. You are right, sandra, two things happen simultaneously. He suffered this fall then was diagnosed with parkinsons disease. Unclear if they are related but it may have been. The big take away for me was that he is so hopeful for his future. He says he is really bored, he hates being in bed and he cant wait to get out there. For fans of him it looks like he will be touring again, and hes got me was that coming out. Sandra he had to delay his tour, some reporters approached them anything his fans for all his support, and he looked at them and said, now buzz off heaves a different word. [laughter] let me get better, he said, tom. We know what he was like. We used to make fun of him, no we cant make fun of the way he talks anymore because he suffers from parkinsons. Everyone needs to have their impersonation. People who didnt grow up as heavy metal fans watched him on the reality show, and the kind of fell in love with his family. Hes obviously got a lot of spirit, this guy. I think his fans are with him. If he tours, even if he suffers from this disease, that would be a great message for people suffering from diseases. I think a great investor is someone like michael j. Fox, he keeps working. He works with his disease. You can see it and you think, is not the end of the world, life goes on. Sandra so many people coming out in support of him. 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Here is Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer just moments ago. The mcconnell rules seem to be designed by President Trump for President Trump. Simply executed by a leader mcconnell. Later mcconnell decided to go along with the president s desire to cover up is wrongdoing. Hook, line, and sinker. It almost seems that the resolution was