Movements. My guests this morning, senator minority whip democrat dick durbin of illinois and republican senator david purdue of georgia. Plus, Elizabeth Warrens refusal to shake hands with Bernie Sanders. I think you called me a liar on national tv. Lets not do it right now. Has stirred fear in the left that this threatens the chances of securing a democratic nominee. And the nbc news countytocounty project. You have to speak to us. But ive been hearing people will change and get behind the nominee no matter what. We talk to africanamerican voters in milwaukee about 2020. Joining me for insight and analysis are hugh hewitt, formed maryland congresswoman donna edwards, and the authors of a new book on President Trump, phil rucker, White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post and carol leonnig, also of the Washington Post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck to
Global tugofwar. Critical tests. A spacecraft explodes minutes after launch. Why Todays Mission was a success. And a world war ii veteran finally gets the recognition he earned at 103 years old. Gods been good. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im omar villafranca. The countdown has begun to the Historic Senate trial of President Trump. It begins tomorrow morning. House managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill sunday to work on strategy. Senators are getting ready for what could be a grueling few weeks listening to hours of testimony with no questions allowed. Ben tracy starts us off from the white house. Well be sitting there in our chairs probably on the order of six hours a day. Reporter senators are now preparing to be jurors, deciding in just weeks whether or not President Trump remains in office. Republicans dont have enough votes for a quick dismissal, but they are confident the president will be acquit
Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Im annemarie green. It is the eve of opening arguments in President Trumps impeachment trial in the senate and the rules coconcerning possible new witnesses have not yet been established. Meanwhile some of mr. Trumps supporters are defending him. Senator Lindsey Graham called the impeachment process yesterday a partisan railroad job. The president s highprofile defense attorney Alan Dershowitz said he plans to prove the charges against mr. Trump are not impeachable. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says hes prepared to force votes for witnesses and documents, even if Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell does not call for it in his proposal. Johnny fernandez is in new york here with more. Reporter the president s attorneys are expected to file a more detailed trial brief today laying out their arguments. The white house plans to argue the impeachment articles allege no violation of the
Now at 4 30 and streaming on cbsn bay area, as we take a look at oakland and beyond in the east bay. It is a great morning to be a 49ers fan. They are super bowl bound. Here is a look from inside levis stadium after the 49ers won the nfc title game. This is the teams first trip to the super bowl in seven years, congratulations to them. Im michelle griego. Im kenny choi. We will have more on the niners all morning long, they are headed to miami in a couple of weeks. First lets get a forecast. You can see coit tower lit up in our niners colors as we celebrate that big win yesterday. Lets talk about our temperatures as we start off our day, we are looking at temps in the 40s and in the low 50s. 44 in concord, oakland coming in at 50 degrees, livermore 41. 48 in downtown San Francisco. 45 san jose and 41 for santa rosa are mostly cloudy skies and patchy fog inland for the trivalley and for the north bay this morning. As we head through the afternoon, a cool day with many locations in the l
Working. Weve made u. S. Businesses competitive against with the rest of the world. We lowered the Corporate Tax rate to 21 . We now have a Corporate Tax rate that is competitive with the rest of the world. We lowered Corporate Tax rates, and that in itself costs less than 100 billion a year to do that. But it stimulates huge economic growth. The businesses in the United States can now thrive, which means they can grow, they can go our and hire people, which weve seen. Weve seen record unemployment. Weve seen record unemployment rates down to 3. 5 . Weve seen wage goa. Weve seen 3 plus wage growth. Most importantly the tax law . Ou put this all a lot of it has to do with the tax law. It has. To weve seen higherend wage growth at the bottom pay scale than we have at the top. Weve seeing the incentives we created in the tax law by lowering the corporate rate, were seeing that happen. Brennan there is a whole debate about the contribution to the deficit. I want to put that aside and i wan