Nightmare, end quote. The senate has to file their brief today, but some are already making their case. There is a reason for having impeachment, and those are we dont want to see president s who are dishonest, we dont want to see president s who abuse their power. Thats all untrue. But when it comes up to creating the criteria for impeachment, we dont use terms like dishonesty or abuse or maladministration or malpractice. We have to focus in on specific criteria to avoid weaponization of impeachment. Here with more now, cnns Boris Sanchez with the president in florida, cnns Sara Westwood on capitol hill. Can you hear me . I can hear you, and for axios, margaret talev. Hopefully you can hear me. Were going to mix things up a little bit. How about you, boris . Lets go to you first. What is the president s disposition right now as his legal team is preparing its briefs to meet that noon deadline tomorrow . Reporter yeah, fred, well, were hearing from sources at maralago that President Tr
Tonight. Its 1 00 a. M. On the east coast. Not the situation that any of us expected to find ourselves in as we are still awaiting results from the iowa caucus. And i dont mean just the few outstanding to trickle in. Basically all the results. Its the first votes being cast in the election. Much anticipated. All objective metrics showing interest and turnout from the roof as we head into this election hour and at this hour we do not have anything really data wise to report to tell you. And thats because there appear to be inkipt sits of the reporting data 37 they are trying to carry out quality chex before making the data public but theres a a new app that was noent speed up reporting in iowa, which appears to have done just the opposite. That may sound familiar to you if you have tried to use an app spoke with a caucus secretary from ames, iowa. The app that we were told to download just hasnt been working. So in the handbook we were given, we were given a hot line to call to report t
Matt rivers is at the tokyo airport. Matt, when do evacuees plan to be back in the u. S. . Reporter well, in terms of when theyre going to take off, fredricka, im not sure yet. Officials are really remaining very tightly lipped, but what we do know and what weve seen in the past couple of minutes, the planes are over my shoulder there. Were in a parking garage adjacent to the airport. And for the first time, weve seen passengers begin to line up outside of one of two 747s that have been contracted by the u. S. State department to evacuate these americans. Theres going to be almost 400 people that are going through the process of getting on board these planes. It has been not only a twoweek or so period for them in quarantine on that japanese in the japanese port here on that cruise ship, its also been an ordeal just tonight. They started to get off that cruise ship more than 5 1 2 hours ago and theyre just now getting on board this plane. This is all part of a process that the u. S. Go
Administration. That leaves 265 days to go until the 2020 president ial election. It has been exactly one week since the u. S. Senate voted not guilty. After warnings of a Retribution Campaign by the president the president seems to be in the middle of a campaign of retribution. It started with the removal of Lieutenant Colonel vindman and vindmans twin brother and the ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. Then when the feds at the Justice Department announced their intention to pursue a federal prison sentence of seven to nine years for trumping friend of 30 years roger stone, in keeping with federal sentencing guidelines, trump put this out to his 72 million and change twitter followers. A horrible and very unfair situation and a miscarriage of justice. The Justice Department then overruled the recommended sentence, which then led all four of the federal prosecutors on the case to withdraw themselves in protest. The president said with a straight face he didnt get involved and then a
Angered President Trump, because he has attacked him publicly. And now, the attorney general says that he has the legal right to interfere in the attorney gener generals justice cases. So our analysts are standing by to discuss. First, i want to bring in evan perez. And evan, two major developments from the Justice Department tonight, and tell us what you are learning. One of them, brianna is this fact that the Justice Department is now doing a review of this case against Michael Flynn. You remember that Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty in 2017, and he has been awaiting sentencing since then, and more recently in recent months he fired his lawyers and changed the legal team, and waging a campaign arguing that he actually never lied to the fbi. That is what he pleaded guilty to. He says that essentially he was the victim of prosecutors of the fbi who were out to get him, and out to get President Trump. This is a case that is sort of garnering some sympathy from the president , and some