convince republicans that he should? it is hard to imagine what that would be. well, former vice president joe biden launched an eight-day bus tour of iowa over the weekend pledging that he will win the states state s february caucuses. despite recent polls that suggest otherwise, biden was optimistic telling a few hundred supporters, quote, we re gonna win this race and we re gonna beat donald trump and we re going to change america. meanwhile, biden s aide acknowledged he must sharpen his message and bolster outreach ahead of the caucuses. they incite biden has a lot of support and well positioned to recover any lost ground. the latest emerson poll shows joe biden falling ten points in new hampshire, now trailing both senator bernie sanders and mayor pete buttigieg. senator sanders rose 13 points to lead the field at 26%. buttigieg follows with 22% after climbing 11 from september.
we re starting an important week in the impeachment proceedings. i think it s very important to look at the republicans arguments and we covered the first argument, the first defense. there retort to two weeks of incredibly compelling testimony from american patriots, people who have dedicated their lives to work quietly to defend this country and promote this country s values across the globe. their response to that is parroting vladimir putin s propaganda talking points, that donald trump s 17 intel agencies warned them against doing. and the second argument is, steve kornacki, that 50% of americans want donald trump removed from office. like a majority of americans want donald trump removed from office. 21% higher number than bill
i did not. i asked a very open-ended question, what you to want from ukraine. i know we ve asked this before as well, about who needs to write down in big letters what you remember about what you didn t do? it s so it s just incredible to watch the president reading out loud i want nothing and trying to remember it because he has to remember it. ambassador gordon sondland s recollection of a phone conversation he said took place on september 9th in which president trump said there was no quid pro quo but that he wanted ukrainian president zelensky to do the right thing as emerged as a centerpiece of the president s defense. just one catch, though, that september 9th call may never have actually occurred, according to a new just secured report entitled here s the proof that trump s no quid pro quo call never happened. and joining us now with the details, founding co-ed dittor and chief of just security and professor of law at new york
university school of law ryan goodman. also legal analyst for nbc news mia wiley. good to have you both. what are we looking at here, ryan? did this not happen? if you look at all of the depositions and the testimony and the records of the text messages, it didn t happen. and sondland said he wasn t sfw sure if it napped one or two calls, it was one call. he said he wasn t sure if it was september 9th or september 7th. it was september 7th. the call wasn t a no quid pro quo call, but then the president followed it with very specific demands for what the ukrainian president had to do. lots of different rabbit holes here. but at some point do you get called out for lying to congress, changing it, coming back and it s something else that s not true? how does this work? well, unfortunately the way this works is congress would have to make a referral to the department of justice in order
the past week because of the holidays, it s important to understand you saw two two really moving, important weeks of testimony and now the republicans are coming back, they still have no defense, and they re actually reduced now they re doing nothing but repeating russia propaganda points. as somebody said yesterday, if they do that, knowing the 17 intel agencies told them it was a lie and being warned in the united states senate, then actually they re not ignorant, that they ve actually turned themselves into being russian assets. that s where we are as a nation as this week begins. as joe said, this will be a co consequential week in the impeachment hearing for president trump for that alone. today, the house intelligence committee will review a draft of