into some embarrassing moments for the former president. at one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today. also saw testimony from trump organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attention he paid two amounts considerably smaller than $35,000 checks. he wrote to michael cohen the day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for mistrial and denying his request to modify the gag order. he is under so we can talk about stormy daniels and capping it all off. stormy daniels tweet this evening saying this about the former president, quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court oh, wait. never mind. back of the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways on my takeaway. was that the continued cross-examination of stormy daniel
concession at all. was michael dreeben essentially admitting the attorney for the special counsel s office, essentially admitting that these facts were so strikingly intertwined in a colloquy with justice barrett that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. that s how i interpreted his statements, at least. well, and to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasn t official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. he was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. but trump has argued, total immunity. he has not said, well, some of these are private x. this would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial. we believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. we ve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the district court proceeding through the circuit. now at the the us supreme court, that what we re
andhoma about tom cole oklahoma represenative tom cole. the senate, upon two articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the house of representatives, and 2/3 of the senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein, it is, therefore, ordered and ajudged that the said donald john trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles. host: our first hour this morning dedicated to hearing from you on the u.s. senate voting to acquit president trump from those two articles of impeachment brought by the house. you can give reaction to the conclusion of the trial, the mostly party line vote of the senate, including the action of utah republican senator mitt romney, who became the first senator in history to vote to remove a president of his own party. here s how you can let us know your thoughts this morning. republican, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. if you want to text us this morning, you
conference continuing through most of the day today. if you missed any of what vice president pence had to say, you will be able to watch it on c-span.org. the search bar on our home page. we will also re-air his remarks tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. coming up next, live coverage of the john batchelor radio program from the stage. later, we will have conversations with senator ted cruz, education secretary betsy devos, and labor secretary alex acosta. trump s sonsident eric trump to read tomorrow, we will have president trump speaking to the gathering after washington journal. comments fromave kellyanne conway and fcc chair ai.. high a ajit p [general chatter] [general chatter] you heard vice president pence mention the reverend billy graham who passed away yesterday at the age of 99. officepeaker paul ryan s announced plans for a memorial at the capitol. speaker ryan said in a statement, the late reverend billy graham will be brought to the capitol, where he will
calling his fire and fury ultimatum a load of nonsense. . . not even holding the 22,000 level for the dow right now. it s at 21,941. down over 100 points as investors flee to the safety of the safe haven assets, plus, president trump s battle with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell rages on for the third day now. the unicorn ipo as prove numbers and trust me they are not looking today, charlie gasparino will break it for us. welcome, everybody. we are less than an hour to the closing bell right now. let s start the countdown. lauren: stocks drop for the third day. the dow, s&p and nasdaq and even the little guys, the russell 2000 are in negative territory. this could be the first time all three close lower for three days in a row, first time since april. the nasdaq is the worst performer today, down 1 and a half percent. investors are fleeing to the safety of u.s. debt, the yield on the ten-year treasury, 2.1%. gold, that looks good in times like this. this is where