i m really worried about this will take the country. here s what i t think is best f the country. that wefo listen to the house s case based oftn the evidence th use to impeach if they do, that we not build upon that record. we let u the president give his side of the story of why it s not impeachable. then i think we should vote and end it. buthi appearing on this netwk tonight, democratic senator jon tester of montana had this warning for his republican colleagues.r co i think if folks want to tn this trial into a carnival, i think there will be hell to pay for that at the ballot box. i think people expect an honest and fair trial and depoliticize it as much as possible, and i will tell you that is very difficult after watching the house for a bit this evening. but theth bottom line is that i think the american people expect our government to work. here for our leadoff discussion on a wednesday night, philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief for
the president in this process is going to be a very difficult task. and what ita comes down to is just straight partisan loyalty for these republicanai senators phil rucker, there s no gentle or dignified way to ask this. does the white house feel that they have republicans in the senate willing to be as nakedly aggressive and sometimes fact-neutral as some of the republicans onso the house have provenan to be? the answer, brian, is a little bit complicated. the vote in the senate seems pretty much pre-ordained at this point. it appears that all the republican senators are likely to vote to acquit president trump. his removal from office does not appear to be in the offing, and the white house is very confident about that assessment. but what you re hearing from president trump is that he wants there to be a big trial, a big show of force in defending him. he s thinking much more about the public relations aspect of this. how will it frame the
well, they certainly seem to have been, there has been a big show of force, and we ve been reporting, there s been this subtle, i guess or maybe not so subtle change in tactics, where they deployed these liaison officers and it s emblazened on their uniforms to try to talk to the protesters beforehand. but there s also a sense of trying to figure out what the strategy is on both sides. joe biggs who was one of the organizers of the rally, the original rally on the right. they planted a flag on the left. it s hard to tell, from our limited perspective, i hesitate to make judgments it seems like there are more demonstrators on the left or at least dressed in the garb of the left than the right.
damage in their test of wills with the city authorities, and by extension the communist party rulers in beijing. let me also ask you kind of what has what we know, at least, since there s a lot of unknowns, what we know has transpired in the last few minutes since we ve been on air is we saw multiple large police buses pulling up to the airport. we saw police in riot gear outside. we saw some police walking in for it looked like a brief moment into the airport and now out. now paula is telling us that the police buses of at least left from that location. i don t know if entirely left the airport or what. that just seems really surprising that they would show this big present this big show of force and then turn around. what do you think? reporter: kate, i ve seen on multiple occasions now riot police move in, do a show of force, maybe fire tear gas and
this, his administration has telegraphed it for a couple of years and this is a form of deterrents they believe to have a big show of force and hopefully they believe have other people from crossing the border illegally. yes, i just want to applaud elise for what she has been saying, at least from what i ve heard, over the last 24 hours, talking about the people in the trump administration, who are aiding and abetting what is happening, calling the trump administration a racist regime, which is exactly what it is. and you know, i think it was adam, who made the point, that the cruelty is, the cruelty is the point here. the idea to elise s point, that they would use 600 i.c.e. agent, arrests more than 600 people, and have no plan for the children, who are left behind, on the first day of school, is, there are no words for it. it s cruel. it s inhumane.