This is cnn tonight, im don lemon it is the eve of a historic day on capitol hill and for the United States in fact, impeachment trial of President Trump getting under way in earnest in the senate and we begin with the breaking news the release of the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnells resolution for how he wants the trial to proceed, including giving each side 24 hours over just two days to present their opening arguments. President trumps defense team filing a lengthchy rebuttal to the charges, calling it a charade and a rigged process, arguing the president was well within his rights to attempt to get a foreign leader to investigate trumps political rivals. Tonight we have a trump fact check. Cnn has tallied 65 ways the president has been dishonest about ukraine and impeachment. And also ahead this hour, remembering dr. Martin luther king jr. And reflecting on the powerful words he used to fight Racial Injustice in the United States. First our breaking news on mcconnells impeac
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Dramatic testimony against an olympic hero accused of murdering his model girlfriend. Witnesses taking the stand with tales of bloodcurdling screams. We are live. All right, good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. A lot going on this morning. Im john berman. And im christine romans. Its tuesday, march 4th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. And we do begin with breaking news. This deals with the ukraine crisis. I should tell you, we are awaiting word from president Vladimir Putin of russia. Hes expected to speak any minute. Meanwhile, in ukraine, theres been a tense standoff this morning at a crimean air base. Youre looking at it right here. Russian soldiers firing in the air, as apparently, unarmed ukrainian troops approached. They were, we think, asking to negotiate. Armed soldiers are now surrounding Security Installations throughout crimea, and warships do remain shouting, the president holding the a latenight meeting as the administration has begun cutting ties with russia, canceling
Attacking this, laura, saying well hes making a bunch of assumptions but that not a fact. It is not a fact. To distill down what they are saying for the better part of two and a half and three weeks unless you hear it with somebody from the direct knowledge of the president it is all hogwash and inadmissible even in an impeachment inquiry and now somebody is saying let me break down what you are calling a presumption. Im giving you evidentiary basis for my thought process and giving dates and receipts and what led me to conclude if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is, in fact, a duck. And now the only viable strategy is to say, well, actually, youre basing this on an assumption of the mental state of the president was using his own mouth piece which is what one would surmise. What i was shocked by the real analogy here that reminds me of what was the defense to the Mueller Probe which is lets attack the origins of the probe as opposed to the substance of what is coming ou
Inquiry very seriously. Democratic senator chris murphy joins me to discuss next. Plus, taking the lead. Theres a new frontrunner in iowa. Very encouraging. At the same time, theres a long way to go. The south bend, indiana, mayor, surpasses his rivals in the first caucus state, but can he do the same across the country . Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is just trying to keep up after a difficult week. President trump is waking up to not so great news politically. Democrat Jon Behn Bel Edwards h narrowly won reelection in louisiana as governor despite President Trump putting his full support behind the republican challenger and traveling to the state to campaign twice in the past two weeks, trying to make the louisiana race a referendum on impeachment. This as new details are piling up quickly on saturday. Newly released transcripts revealed that former National Security countertim morrison testified that ambassador sondland claimed to be acting in Pres