Service members were hurt in that attack in iraq last week, this after the pentagon said there were no casualties. But first, the senate trial for President Trumps impeachment now officially underway, and were now learning who the president has chosen for his Legal Defense team. White House Counsel pat cipollone, trumps personal lawyer jay sekulow expected to have the lead roles. However, sources tell cnn that mr. Trump also enlisted the help of these seasoned lawyers. Hey. Hey. Ken starr who led the investigation that led to bill clintons impeachment. Alan dershowitz, former attorney general and impeachment adviser, now you can take control of your home wifine. Pam bondi, jane raskin and and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Robert ray who helped in the impeachment trial. Kaitlan collins, what more can you tell us about the president s Impeachment Team . We heard he was thinking about adding additional att
that the hearings will have pre-taped testimony from ivanka and jared kushner. and pence s inner circle. the committee has long promised it will share new information in these hearings. a bigger mission afoot. explain by committee member, adam shift. the american people, i think, know a great deal. already they ve seen a number of bombshells already. there is a great deal they haven t seen. perhaps most important is the public has not seen it woven together. how one thing led to another. how one line of effort to overturn the app ultimately led to terrible violence. the first non peaceful transfer of power in our history. we want to tell that comprehensive narrative. the hearings also expected to reveal the funding that helped field attack. an interview with vanity fair, jamie raskin said, quote, the most expressing discovery that money played in the role of financial motive with all these events to keep the money pouring. joining me now, eugene daniels, he s a politi
He says he would like to cooperate with the impeachment investigators. He says he would also like to cooperate with the federal prosecutors who have charged him in the Southern District of new york. But he is right now out on bond awaiting trial. And i will just mention at the outset that i am cognizant of the fact that we are presenting the second part of this interview tonight rather than just diving right into some of the other momentous and historic news of today, including the start today of the senate trial of President Trump. Today marks only the third time in u. S. History that an american president has faced an impeachment trial in the senate and it was a solemn beginning today. The administering the of the oath to the chief justice of the supreme court, the administering to all u. S. Senators, all of the senators individually signing their names to the oath one by one in alphabetical order. Its a solemn thing. Its a sobering thing. This is a big deal. A and it is worth the ma
Home about what she was going to accept in terms of witnesses, when she returned from the Holiday Season back to the senate, she essentially brought that 1999 clinton resolution to the floor, and she handed it to mcconnells staff, essentially asking them, okay, show me what is going to change in this resolution and what is going to stay the same. We know the majority leader had made it very clear he was going to follow the, quote, clinton motto. But she wanted to see it in writing. She wanted to understand what does that mean in terms of getting witnesses sochlt what transpired was weeks of negotiations between senator collins staff, murkowskis staff, Lamar Alexanders staff and leadership to go over word by word who was going to be in this resolution. So the expectation and we should be cautious here. We have not seen the resolution yet. It hasnt been released. But the expectation is that it will actually include a vote after the presentations of evidence by both sides and a debate fro
Impeachment proceedings. There is a lot still developing over the course of the night. Claire, before we talk to your former colleagues in the senate, let me ask you how that closing worked for you from adam schiff. Well, he wasnt as emotional as last night. But i can get emotional about the courage card he dealt. Because if youre from a tough state, the conflict between your principles and your polling, the conflict between what you believe in and what the majority of your state is screaming at you about is a very painful process. And what he tried to do tonight was isolate that conflict and put it in the context of a constitutional crisis and the strength of the United States senate to stand tall in history and maintain the equilibrium of the checks and balances in our constitution. And i can tell you it is a hard thing. And im not trying to express sympathy for the republicans. Dont go nuts on me here. I am trying to say those moments, if youre from a red state or blue state, they d