When its now. We have breaking news in the race for president. We are here and here feels like Bernie Sanders. The vermont senator, he just released new fund raising numbers. 34. 5 million in the fourth quarter. And youre going to remember this quarter for him started with a heart attack three months ago. That is an impressive number. We have a couple other numbers in at this point. You can see former south bend mayor Pete Buttigieg raised about 24. 7 million. Businessman andrew yang, 16. 5 million. We want to also note, this is a little bit different, little apples and oranges right now. The president s Campaign Announced 46 million for the last quarter. Back to the democrats, though, that is whats important this morning. The Iowa Caucuses just one month away. We could hear from the warren and biden campaigns soon on their numbers. Also we want to bring you these dramatic, remarkable, troubling images of the extent of the damage at the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. The iranbacked militia
Get me Rudy Giuliani on the phone. Hi, mr. Trump. What is new . What do you mean what is new, rudy . Im being impeached announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you. We are glad to have you here. We start this week with an impeachment investigation into the sitting president of the United States. We are learning this morning the white house chief of staff may be in a little bit of trouble with President Trump. We are told that the president blames Mick Mulvaney for the swift backlash from the whistleblow whistleblowers report and no plan in place for the fallout with ukraines leader and the white house denying any tension between the president and mulvaney. We are learning that Senate Majority leader Mitchell Mcconnell encouraged the white house to release the transcript with the president s call with the president of ukraine. Question is why. He thought it would exonerate the president. We will learn from kurt volker who stepped down fr
Were also going to get your forecast on the parade route in just moments. Also this morning, china is vowing to retaliate after President Trump signed two bills into law supporting human rights and prodemocracy activists in hong kong. Of course the big question this morning is how that could impact trade talks with china. Meantime, tensions are building between the president and senior military officers who say theyre troubled by mr. Trumps intervention in three war crimes cases and concerned about the behavior of the commander in chief. All of this as fired knaRichard Spencer wrote in an oped the president doesnt understand what it means to be governed by a set of rules and practices. We do begin on the parade route. Miguel marquez is live for us in new york city. All right. Last hour it was calm. Hows the wind situation now . Reporter i got to say, im feeling pretty confident right now that we are going to stop with that turkey thing. Thats my turkey thing. Sorry. Look. Tom turkey is
House speaker nancy pelosi. After wednesdays house impeachment vote, her next duty was to hand over the case to the senate. She is choosing to not do that just yet because she says she wants to ensure a fair trial. The first Family Spending this weekend through the holidays in florida, President Trump has expressed his desire to have an extended senate trial with witnesses. Now, thats reportedly not the vision of the Top Senate Republican majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, but the president said this week hed go along with whatever senator mcconnell decides. President trump this evening is speaking to a Student Action summit in West Palm Beach finishing about 20 minutes ago. He railed against the democrats in the house who impeached him insisting they are violating the constitution and that they have no case against him going forward. With President Trump now facing a senate trial, some trump votevot votevot voters believe the impeachment push will guarantee he will get reelected in 2020
While the red wave didn’t materialize, the fact that Republicans performed as well as they did thanks in part to radical gerrymandering should terrify us.