The impeachment trial of donald trump has started in the us senate. Its just the third time a president has gone on trial in us history. Heres how it began. Hearye, hearye, hearye. All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. All the senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives, against donald john trump, president of the United States. Mr trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Well go over those charges in more detail later. Mr trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. But the debate at the moment is not about the president s guilt or innocence. Senators are arguing over the rules that will govern how the trial proceeds. The democrats are accusing the republicans of trying to rig the trial. 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. This is the
Mathews. In manchester, New Hampshire. Its the night before the states legendary primary where some are expected to show up at midnight to cast their ballots. Candidates are fanned out making their appeals. Bernie sanders extending his lead here and nationally. A new Quinnipiac National poll shows sanders going from five points behind joe biden just two weeks ago to an eightpoint lead over him. Michael bloomberg who is skipping New Hampshire has doubled his support in that same time. Four years ago sanders defeated Hillary Clinton here by more than 20 points. The final cnn tracking poll ahead of tomorrows vote shows sanders leading with 29 percent followed by buttigieg at 22 , biden at 11, senator Elizabeth Sanders down at 10 and Amy Klobuchar at 7. But the final boston global track has sanders leading at 27 followed by buttigieg at 19, klobuchar jumped into third place at 14 after fridays debate followed by biden and warren who are now at 12 . Buttigieg and sanders went into overdrive
Its almost like a hail mary context the stakes of new pass. Strength in the cities of new place. And minnesota senator klobuchar at this point, its like the hell with it. Hampshire. Seven largest cities in the lets just see what works. Who seemed to capitalize on the state lined up with sanders. If nothing else has worked, ill strong debate performance the be myself, and it worked, you know . Other night finishing in a that was a more natural all of them with sanders tonight connection. Surprise third place. The nevada thing and what she the weakness that he had one of does now is a whole separate problem. Neither senator warren or biden got enough votes to qualify for the weaknesses he had was in i mean shes got like 30 staff in nevada. Delegates in New Hampshire. A lot of them are beto former bedroom communities. Sanders took to the stage in new beto people or people who are in hampshire to celebrate with his outside of manchester in bedford iowa who drove through the night this is a
Michael bloomberg will be standing on the stage. His campaign that was important to tell nbc news he will not be perched on a box this evening. Not clear if they were bragging about that or not. In fact, bloomberg shouldnt be on the at all. For a full year, Democratic Party maintained clear rules but would qualify for their debate. Candidates need to meet a polling threshold. They also needed donations from a large pool of people, and that was on purpose. The point was to ensure candidates had actual grassroots support and words, say, using their vast personal fortunes to buy name recognition with slick tv ads during judge duty and rise mechanically in the polls. They didnt want that. Candidates likean cory booker ad Julian Castro complained bitterly about these rules and asked for them to be change, but the dnc wouldnt budge. It wouldnt be fair to make exceptions, they said. And then mayor mike arrived. First, he sent a 300,000 bribe november, just two days before entering the race, a
North charleston, south carolina, the two gop candidates duking it out for victory in iowa will come face to face for the first time in 2016. For most of the Campaign Donald trump and ted cruz have been reluctant to take each other on. Trump waiting until provoked, although poking the bear a bit. Cruz hoping to curry favor with his rival supporters, a strategy hes referred to as bear hugging trump. But now with the Iowa Caucuses less than three weeks away, all that starting to change. Tonights debate is hosted by fox business. Its the first one to feature just seven candidates on the main stage with rand paul and Carly Fiorina having been bumped thanks to low poll numbers. All eyes on trump on center sta stage and the man to his left. Trump remarked on the new dynamic between cruz and himself. Teds been really nice until the last couple of days, ted cruz. Hes been really, really nice, other than the last couple of days, getting a little testy. Ive been waiting. Ive been waiting. As iow