Be removed from office. Look at that middle line. Look at independents. A slim majority, 51 of independents here in iowa, a critical battleground state, say he should not be removed from office. Only a third, 34 , say he should. Watch that number over the course of the trial. If that 34 goes up, not just here in iowa, but nationally as well, and that 51 comes down, that will have ramifications for the Politics Around the trial such as calling witnesses or other matters that come up. So at the same time, though, david, the polling also shows majorities across the party lines think that trump what he did in ukraine was not okay. Reporter and this is key. While some people obviously feel that he shouldnt be removed from office, you are right. Majorities across all parties say no candidate should be asking a foreign country to dig up dirt on a rival, to have interference in the election. Take a look at that. Even 59 of republicans believe what the president is accused of doing here is not
Believe, so he also had a big role in investigating president bill clinton, but of course the other big name thats going to be widely discussed over the next several days is also alan dershowitz. Were told by sources that dershowitz had been pretty reluctant to join the team, but the president pushed for him. He made clear he wanted him on. And dershowitz is saying even though he voted for hillary clinton, he is going to come because essentially he views it as vital to the constitution to make the argument. It kind of gives you a preview of what hell be saying on the senate floor. All three of these guys on the screen right now are expected to present on the senate floor. Of course dershowitz is coming under scrutiny for other reasons, and that is one of the reasons people tried to advise the president not to pick dershowitz. They dnidnt think it was necessarily in his best interests because hes come under so much skrcrutiny for th high profile clients hes represented including of cour
Flights be grounded until tensions with the u. S. Cooled off but irans military said that request was never carried out. Our reporters are covering all of the angles around the globe. Tell us about the blame game we are seeing playing out where you are. Yes, theres certainly some blame being thrown around and a lot of public anger in tehran. On one hand you had the revolutionary guard commander in charge of the air Defense Forces who said he did ask for flights to be grounded in the aftermath of iran shooting those Ballistic Missiles at the iraqi bases with u. S. Forces on it. He said that request was never relayed. He also says after finding out that one of their surface air missile batteries fired at an aircraft, they told authorities on wednesday already that that had been the case. However that only became Public Knowledge until early this morning, iran time late last night, u. S. Time. Iranians are saying essentially what happened they were on a heightened state of alert thinking
We begin right now. In the streets of tehran, grief turned to outrage after an about face from iran admitting that it shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by mistake. Listen. Iranian media report a vigil turned to a demonstration on saturday. Video of protesters demanding the Supreme Leader to step down and even death to the dictator. Most of the 176 victims on the flight were iranian and canadian. Of course, iran initially denied it shot down the plane but a top iranian general says the jet was misidentified as a Cruise Missile that came amid tensions with the u. S. , canada and ukraine say its good that iran came clean, but now they want tehran to cooperate with International Investigators and give the families of the dead justice. The protests on the streets picking up International Pressure on iran certainly in play. Cnns International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is following it all for us in our abu dhabi bureau. Good to have you with us, nic. If there was a sense of unity amon
White house and Courtney Kube is at the Defense Department. Courtney, lets start with your new reporting. Tell us what youre when the president authorized soleimanis killing and what it does to the administrations justification for the strike. So geoff, its not just when they authorized the killing of soleimani but when he really first came into the sights. My colleague cara lee found out in fact it was early on in the Trump Administration in early 2017 that they began tracking Qassem Soleimani more closely than they had in the previous administration. But then it was last summer and the summer of 2019 when the u. S. First the Administration First started to target him for the possible target list. Back in may, the white house, particularly john bolton then National Security adviser put out a statement about a large deployment of u. S. Military to the region because of some threats from iran. Well, the tensions over the next several weeks and months between the u. S. And iran were very