The president s defense team and he appeared on Fox News Sunday earlier this morning. The legal argument is that sense they didnt allege any impeachable offense, since they only alleged abuse of pow he, obstruction of congress, those are vague openended criteria of exactly the sort the framers had rejected back in the constitutional convention. Even if true, they did not allege impeachable offenses. So there cant be constitutionally authorized impeachment. Eric the trial resumes tomorrow. For a preview, Mark Meredith is live on capitol hill. Reporter good morning, eric. Senators have the day off. The impeachment trial will resume tomorrow. We heard from the president s lawyers. They gave a fairly short presentation. We expect monday to be a bit longer. We heard on saturday from president s lead lawyer, Pat Cipollone who said that the democrats are trying to impair the president going into the 2020 election and accused them of trying to reverse the 2016 election. They are reacting to th
To, you know, the need for, you know, more videos or youtube downloads. And in reality thats not what we should be thinking about as a society. Its really to enable, you know, the kinds of interconnected health care, energy, education policy. And its all going to be mobile. And if its mobile, you need spectrum. Host charla rath, Vice President of verizon for wireless policy development. This is the communicators on cspan. The communicators is on location in las vegas at ces international 2013, the Technology Trade show. More programming next week. And now, Ricardo Cortes talks about attempts to prohibit the use of coffee and coca in the u. S. And around the world. Mr. Cortes describes secret deals made by top u. S. Antidrug official harry answer linger pushing to banco cas use worldwide. This is a little over an hour. Okay. Um, and so tonight we are pleased to welcome Ricardo Cortes to discuss his latest book, a secret history of coffee, coe that and cola a tale of coffee, cocacola, ca
That will make you want to take a hot shower. Not only are they nasty, many are just plain wrong. We will look at some of the sleaziest ads of this election cycle and we will call out the biggest outright lies. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Were going to begin with the politics lead. Just under 27 hours from first poll closing in the Midterm Elections, a vote that could change the balance of power in washington. And just when you thought it couldnt get any closer, the polls are getting even tighter in states that republicans must win and democrats must keep in order to keep control of the senate. But even this late in the game, Neither Party knows whats going to happen. Our chief National Correspondent john king is ready to break it down for us. They say in football, any given sunday in elections, it should be any given tuesday. Were going right down to it. You mentioned the biggest prize, control of the United States senate. Democrats start at 55. Repu
The man who can tell us all about that is cnns chief national correspondent, thats dr. John king. Good evening, sir. How are you . Im good, how are you . Im great as well. Super tuesday, round two, tomorrow. Is donald trump poised to slam the door on this nominating contest or have the attacks begun to works . Theres some crumbs that attacks are working. Ted cruz won two of the four states on super saturday. The margins in kentucky and louisiana were pretty small for donald trump and some conservatives think its a sign of weakening. Lets see what happens, don. The big prize is tomorrow, mississippi and michigan. If donald trump can shut ted cruz out again in the south, if he can win mississippi, thats supposed to be ted cruzs evangelical base. The donald trump can win there, and then if he can win in michigan, in the industrial heartland, a state donald trump says he will contest with the democrats in november, tomorrows voting matters a lot. Michigan, big prize with the latest poll of
This is a pivotal week in the race for the white house. After the votes are counted, the debates on wednesday and thursday ahead of the key primaries next week. Theres a lot to and a very busy hour ahead. Joining me now is van jones, cnn political commentator who worked for president obama, senior political analyst, david gergen, and adviser to four president s, and political strategist, angela ry, and contributor bakari sellers. Good to have you all of you on this evening. Van jones, ill start with you first. What did you think of last nights debate . Do you think there was a winner . I know youre going to say it was the people of michigan, but was there a real winner on that stage . Well, i do think the people of flint won, because they finally got their voices heard. Look, i dont think any minds got changed. I thought that it was if you like Bernie Sanders, i thought that he did a very good job. He had that moment where he said, im going to release my transcripts, and when i talk to