present the case against the president, kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial? >> well, what we are going to have is the -- an opening statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, you'll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president's defense. paul: is there a possibility that you'll hear from impeachment managers and if the majority leader mitch mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments? >> this is something more and more republicans are thinking about. you know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans weren't willing to go there. paul: right. >> and simply not do senate duty, could they simply say, you guys in the house, we have given you the time you asked, you've given it your best shot, this is so weak, we will not listen to the president's defense, we will have a vote to acquit right now. paul: star lineup of potential lawyers defending, ken starr, alan dershowitz, robert ray, former prosecutor, pretty strong team. >> yes, and the president seems to be two minds on this depending the day of the week. i think there's a case where republican response on the record responding to the charges. paul: they haven't had an official opportunity legally. >> and the public might deserve to hear that. paul: systematic way on taking on -- there's argument just for the history books, right? >> also what you're hinting at, this is what could be new in the impeachment, we've heard mostly what the democrats have, all the things repeated ad nauseam. we have defense of the president and also i presume they cast out on some of the witnesses that they already have and it would be interesting to hear. paul: there's a game of chicken after the two sides present and they'll be votes presumably on the witnesses, the democrats say you must call witness that is the house didn't call strangely enough, you must do it but then the republicans are saying, okay, you want to call john bolton, you want to call mick mulvaney, the white house acting chief of staff, we will call hunter biden and joe biden. >> that's exactly what's going to happen. a lot of people that the republicans would like to call and i think as much as there may be pressure on some republican senators to allow john bolton and the democrats to call their witnesses i'm not sure the democrats will really push this if you're going to have this parade of other people, i mean, you could just have hunter biden up there asked to go into his expenses and so forth, i also think the more barisma is follow -- is in the news the more it hurts hunter biden. >> i think they will drop this and probably wisely, so i think nancy pelosi strategy and the democratic strategy is try to delegitimize what the senate is up to and say this is a cover-up, seems to be the new buzz word that nancy pelosi is using, process was treated as a joke by the senate who is trying to cover up for the president, so i see them pushing that line rather than pushing arguments for witnesses going forward. paul: kim, what about this new supposed evidence that's been introduced, the lawyer who is under indictment as i understand it and claiming that somehow the president knew about rudy giuliani's actions in ukraine, how significant is that? >> yeah, i'd call it much a do about not very much. first of all, you have to remember that as indicted individual, there's a credibility issue here and whether or not he's saying this just to get public support or help from democrats or the validity of it, but also there's a question of -- of honesty in it too in that he's claiming that he knows that the president knew that the vice president knew, that the attorney general knew, he provided no information to establish how he would know that, look, we've had lots of witnesses and one one of the iss is that no one has been able to say exactly what's on the president's mind or what was being debated in the white house, this has been one of the failures of house impeachment because they didn't manage to get any fact witnesses, he's not a fact witness. paul: why didn't the house call him and let him testify? >> well, excellent question and i think that gets to the speediness of their political timelines. it looks as though by the hurried nature of them throwing this out and in half hazard way that they hadn't gotten to a point where they could do that and they didn't want to wait long enough to get there. paul: thank you, president trump's impeachment trial shaping up 2020 race as democratic hopefuls get pulled off the campaign trail at a critical time. >> we've got to deal with impeachment trial but we cannot forget the very serious problems forget the very serious problems facing the american ♪ ♪ wherever we want to go, autosave your way there with chase. chase. make more of what's yours. beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. because beyond technology... there is human ingenuity. every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. apps except work.rywhere... why is that? 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>> this is an opinion of bureaucracy, the timing is suspicious. comes right out as -- this is kind of the pattern we've seen, never go with what -- when it was bob mueller investigating we were supposed to look for that, then didn't produce it, look for something else in the headlines, gao has an opinion, some people disagree with that opinion, in 2014 they ruled that bob b,. >> no statute was violated, looks like this might be over procedures, protocols that weren't followed, but the white house has the authority to hold up aid and, again, this is another example of no statute being violated and therefore no crime, let alone a high crime warranting impeachment over. paul: all right, kim, regarding democratic senators, warren, sanders, klobuchar, close in iowa, are they going to be hurt at all by not being able to campaign, big help for biden and mayor pete? >> yeah, they are seeding the field to joe biden and pete buttigieg and they are not happy about it especially because it's not just pulling them away, given the rules and the way that it's set up, there isn't going to necessarily be a big opportunity for them to grand stand or use this opportunity to show iowan voters that, you know, their chops in the senate, they will have to sit there, no phones, they can't talk with their staff and listen to lawyers on in the floor, this is what we will get in the week, it's not active campaigning by any stretch. paul: they'll certainly give biden and mayor pete a chance to have the field for themselves but that doesn't stop the campaigns from advertising in those states on the air and, you know, they can come out and use the -- the microphone be in their face, what do you think of this evidence and what do you think of that evidence, they'll get air time. >> especially in iowa where it's a caucus system, a lot depends on pressing, the person least happy is amy klobuchar because iowa is make or break for her, if you look at real clear politics, biden is ahead of bernie by a hair and bernie ahead a little bit in new hampshire, they're all 3 to 4, 5 points, a lot of undecided people, those two primaries can have a big effect. if biden swept all the primaries -- paul: it's over. >> he basically has the nomination. paul: let me ask you about electoral potential impact, jason, on the race campaign for the senate, i'm increasingly believing that the democratic strategy here is really keeping impeachment going as long as possible and tarnishing trump and putting pressure on martha mcsally, gardner, susan collins and jody ernst. >> mitt romney or lisa murkowski who have been known to show independent streaks in the past. i believe that's what pelosi is up to here and it's because they don't really have the goods and they know they're not going to -- to be able to follow through with the bomb shells they promised, in terms of, you know, russian collusion and -- and that sort of thing and so this is what they're left with. paul: what's the calculation of somebody like romney, he has principles about white house, he clearly doesn't like trump and he's getting a lot of lobbying pressure from supporters who are the most ferocious never trumpers but i saw a poll this week that showed approval rating in utah had fallen 9 points, i think, in a morning consult poll because of lost of republicans. >> i think with romney frankly it might be personal with donald trump, but it's also his honor he sees himself as independent person and so i think that -- that's what's driving him. murkowski also, i think, is someone who -- i think has a dispute not only with trump, with the republican establishment in general over the way she's been treated in the past and i think, you know, she figures she has nothing to lose and not up for election and alaska a corky state to begin with. paul: kim, the calculation of those on impeachment, what do you make of it? >> here is the important thing, here is what republicans understand, democrats have failed to convince the majority of republicans out there, voters of the case for impeachment and these guys are their base back home, so the question of conviction is almost off the table, they would themselves be done, they would not get reelection and i think you'll see that play into some of the discussion that they have days going forward. paul: thank you all, when we come back elizabeth warren plays the gender card against bernie sanders, the two square off during and after tuesday night's debate in iowa, would it help her w oh, hi, samantha. you look more like a heather. do you ever get that? it's nice to finally meet you in person. you're pete nocchio? oh, the pic? that was actually a professional headshot. i'm sure that's it, yeah. i, uh, i think i've lost a few pounds recently too. i'm actually doing a juice cleanse. wait! you don't... 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[laughter] >> i disagreed. bernie is my friend and i am not here to try to fight with bernie. paul: showdown in iowa this week as senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders faced off in the final debate before the caucuses there, the vermont senator denying on tuesday night that he told warren in a private meeting in 2018 that he did not believe a woman could win the white house and warren later accused sanders of calling her a liar on national tv as supporters of both candidates took to social media to continue the fight, all of this raising fears on the left that the split could hinder efforts to nominate a progressive candidate to take on president trump in november. so i am not here to fight with bernie, but let's fight with bernie. [laughter] paul: why did she and the end the nonaggression pack? >> well, she ended it because she's falling in the polls, paul, and her other strategies are not working and thus far it's really been elizabeth warren and bernie sanders splitting the progressive voter, most of the progressive vote, which explains biden's consistent lead, frankly, we knew gloves were going to come off, i thought the moderation, the moderators were quite unfair in how they handled after he denied it, they turn to her and say, when he did this, what was your was reaction and i wonder why elizabeth warren has been given the benefit of the doubt, this is a woman who has been constantly dishonest about big deals, being native american to advance her -- her academic career, where she sent her children to school, about being fired when she was expecting a child, why is she suddenly going on the treated truthful on this issue? paul: this goes back to bernie sanders and some of the hillary clinton supporters who were still soar at home for staying in the race for as long as he did in 2016. >> this was orchestrated and you got to why it was particularly nasty as well, because it's meant to revive in people's minds all of the complaints that the clinton people had about the bernie bros who were mean to her and picked on her because of her gender and elizabeth warren was trying to get two things out of this, she gets to damage bernie sanders' reputation and gets to pivot and say you and the democratic party, it's time to break another barrier, just like when you elected a catholic in the 60's, just like when we elected an african american in 2008, today step up and elect a woman. paul: how do you think it's going to play? >> they are faced with a conundrum so long elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are in the race they are splitting the progressive vote, for one to triumph the other has to leave the race, i understand why elizabeth warren did it, i think it actually served her purposes. paul: you think it'll help her? >> if you watch the debate on cnn and they all said she had great line, they were all saying she won the debate in this way and that unfair as it is, at a certain point it doesn't matter whether bernie said this or not, he has to have an answer for her. paul: he denied it. >> right, this is what happens in presidential races, not always fair and people are looking for someone that can handle it. >> i think it's a very short-sided strategy on her part, paul, because i don't think she can catch joe biden without bernie sanders' supporters come over to her and this is a weird way to reaching out to them by accusing their guy of behaving this way and having -- >> they are all putting snake emojis on twitter feed. literally. paul: absolutely. maybe the biggest winners here are pete buttigieg and biden and klobuchar perhaps, what do you think, kim? >> yeah, well i think that's why in fact, we had the mutual nonaggression pack between bernie and elizabeth because they understood that this was where it was going to go, you were going to end up corroding potential support if you went after one another, in the end elizabeth warren is hail mary, she decided that the calculation was such and i don't think it helps her in the end. paul: what else did you learn, anything from the -- from the debate? i will tell you one thing i learned, bill, was i think that the democrats need a reality check on the economy, they make it sound like this is 2008 or 1932, you have to recognize that there are some good things happening in the economy and then move to health care or something. >> i agree on that. to me the more striking one was iran. president trump killed the bad guy who killed americans, you would think that even democrats could be for that and what you saw, even pete buttigieg was let's return to the days of giving iran deals and sending them pallets of cash over to ask them nicely to stop killing our people and they were just very uncomfortable with it, they said we have to adopt a new national security challenges like the marines against, you know, mother earth or something, but i thought it came through loud and clear, they have a reluctance to state that they would use force. tom steyer, i don't know, bernie, even questioned the afghan resolution, not just iraq but now they are going to use of force in afghanistan. paul: all right, still ahead back to back trade wins for the white house as the president signs a phase 1 trade deal with china and the senate passes the usmca agreement but were the trump tariffs worth pay stay restless with the icon that does the same. the new rx, crafted by lexus. lease the 2020 rx 350 for $419 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. ♪ limu emu [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... ...lots of money with liberty mutual. we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! 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>> we think it's a significant step forward, first of all, because it is going to bring back a greater measure of certainty to u.s. economic relations with china and certainty about the tariff involvement, as recently as a month ago we were looking at the prospect of tariffs being extended $100 billion plus of consumer goods we import from china, it's good to see that we are not expanding the trade war. as we've gone through some of the reforms that are in the agreement, we are pleased to see some that we think are meaningful, for instance, new protections for intellectual property, opening up of the financial service's market, the challenge to see how these are implemented in the months ahead. paul: yeah, that's the big point here, i've been at this for a long time and, i mean, i don't know how many -- was it 2 years ago or 30 when china promise today open up the financial service's market, so in a way the most interesting thing about the deal is the consultation and potential enforcement mechanism that is if you're an american company in china and you feel that you've been harm and instead of going to regulator you can go to u.s. trade representative and that will trigger a bilateral process of review, do you agree? >> absolutely. some of the commitments here are familiar, we've heard them in one form or another in bilateral dialogues for years, even decades but now monthly meetings at the -- at the level of lower officials and quarterly at the deputy minister level and so on up to chain. paul: right. >> robert lighthizer, u.s. trade representative, he regards it as job one here to see that the changes to the chinese economy, that the chinese i think for their own interest, for their own rationale are committing to, that they're actually implemented. >> i guess the question that i also have was it worth the 2 years of uncertainty and tariff imposition, some some of the tas are still going to be on, was it worth the price economically? >> i think that that's a difficult question to answer. as you say tariffs on $350 billion on import from china are still there, the cost has been substantial to both economies, china's economy growth has slowed pretty dramatically and for the united states, we just have new numbers in that in 2019 the u.s. manufacturing sector contracted by more than 1%. agriculture has been in a recession, that's the price and looking forward, we have to see how these measures are implemented to see, you know, that we are going to get payoff from that. paul: we should get some at least near term relief growth as that uncertainty adds i would assume this year and the economy bouncing back a little bit, is that what you anticipate? >> we do, there's a number of reasons that we expect the economy to be bouncing back, one of the drags on the economy has been business investment has been low and that's been in part because of uncertainty about tariffs, we see that lifting up because of the china deal and also because of usmca. paul: yeah, let's talk about usmca briefly, nice to get that finally done and behind us, so i guess you guys are pretty happy about that even though there's a managed trade component here and waged dictates for the auto industry that generally business like. net on net, big improvement or not? >> so for most businesses and most sectors of the economy the really good news is that free trade across north america is going to continue as it has for 2 years. we have excellent market access and we have some modernized trade rules like digital trade, other measures to combat behind the border kinds of protectionism, you mentioned with regard to the complicated rules that are going to raise costs for the auto industry, now, raising costs for an industry isn't usually a good way to make more globally competitive. paul: right. >> most companies are indicating that they think they can implement without too much cost but the devil is in the details as we go through implementation phase, the question how regulations implementing will be framed and will be on that as well. paul: briefly, john, do you see this basically being trade for the next year until we get through the election? 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>> i think apple does, it protect journalists, distant in foreign countries, politicians, sure criminals use it but it's very important benefit. paul: well, i guess the question is why not let -- create a back door that justice wants for everybody else but if law enforcement wants to get in, then apple would be able to open -- >> there's no such thing as just a back door for law enforcement, if you create a vulnerability in the software and encryption, you're basically allowing other foreign, foreign countries, any other kind of cyber espionage could get in there too. paul: and basically so apple is saying we will not create any vulnerability like that, so -- >> right, it has vulnerabilities, no system that's hack proof, right, in fact, justice department and other law enforcement agencies around the country actually have utilized private companies that -- paul: private cyber companies that can break in. >> the justice department has spent $1 million over the past few years, estimated $15,000 to break into a phone, so if it's really important they can do that. paul: they did, there was a fight similar to this, killers from 2015 and james comey the fbi director then also pushed on apple but they dropped that because the fbi got into that phone, did it not? >> right, i think this is case that they do not want to bring to court because they are worried if it were challenged. they are not only asking apple to turn over data, apple has been requiring data request, cloud servers, it's basically asking court to require apple to create or a special back door which is very different and i think that would actually lose if it would go to supreme court. paul: you think it would lose, bill, what do you make of this dispute and why is barr doing this if allyisia's arguments hold? >> i'm not sure the legal arguments are clear, i'm not an absolutist in this way, i can see apple's case, communication's assistance law enforcement act and telecoms and banks have to accommodate, my understanding in this case is that unlike the case in san bernardino, they're not asking for a general key to open up all of the phones, just helping getting into this phone, i'm not just sure -- are we going to have reasonable searches or are iphones going to be beyond that and the real question will be not after a dead guy you want to search his phone but if you think that there's intelligence there, that's a risky bet i think. paul: what's your response to that? >> congress can legislate a solution to this, actually has been basically sitting on its hands because it doesn't want to touch nuances either, but looking back in 2018 right before -- right after the supreme court heard very important case about whether the justice department can strip of data on servers abroad, congress addressed the issue to move to supreme court ruling that they were afraid would go against them. paul: kim, there's also the benefits of encryption for society, when we have -- i mean, a bank accounts, for example, they are protected by encryption, if you create vulnerabilities, there could be a lot of broader damage. yes, a allysia said that only the department of justice would have access to back door is ludicrous. department of justice stands accused of abusing surveillance authority against carter page, i'm not sure we should be so trusting. paul: okay, all right, thank you. when we come back iran issues warning to europe, france, germany and the uk move closer to siding with the u.s. on the 2015 nuclear deal. >> let's work together to replace the jcpoa and get the trump deal instead ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ wherever we want to go, we just have to start. autosave your way there with chase. chase. make more of what's yours. ♪ ♪ ♪ paul: iranian supreme leader lashing out at european leaders on friday calling them the footmen of the u.s., just days after france, germany and the uk formerly triggered a dispute mechanism written do into the 2015 nuclear deal, tehran announced earlier this month that it would no longer abide by the deal on uranium enrichment prompting joint statement tuesday warning of issue of noncompliant is known resolved through negotiations, europe would reimpose sanctions in the regime. senior fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracy, welcome, great to have you here, so let's talk about this european statement, how significant is it in the battle over the nuclear deal? >> well, great to be with you, paul, the europeans have been dragging their feet on iran policy for a very long time whether it's nuclear, ballistic missiles, regional, terrorism or human rights, the europeans haven't put their money where their mouth is, they are sending serious signal to the islamic republic that they may not be wedded to the nuclear deal forever, when you compound that with statements from boris johnson in the uk where he's talking about getting a new deal, quote, unquote, trump deal, the iranians have to worry how much bigger and broader and expansive and more restrictive a deal would be. paul: said there's no trump deal and wait until after the election to see if trump wins reelection because the democratic candidates are all -- all are promising to reenter the deal. >> you know that's exactly right and most unfortunate when america's adversaries, russia, china, iran or north korea are cognizant of fault lines in domestic politics and use that for their own gain, iranians don't want to give trump going a card going into 2020 elections saying he delivered tehran to negotiating table, that his sanctions were effective in record time which they are and were and remain and i think iran will wait out until 2020 which is why it's crucial for the administration to double down on the sanction's pressure, replicate the oil sanctions, penalties on the nonoil sector of iran's economy and put the squeeze on them because time is of the essence. paul: having triggered this negotiating mechanism then europe could join the united states in reimposing sanctions? >> that's right, there's a long process basically baked in the jcpoa, 2015 nuclear deal, where the europeans by triggering the mechanism get to talk about iran's nonperformance and escalate the crisis all the way to security council where the u.s. can weigh in and the sanctions can be restored but right now more iranians escalate in the region, they may actually risk driving europe even closer and even faster towards the american position, a tough spot to be in for the regime. paul: let's talk about iran, inside the death of qassem soleimani, conventional wisdom in the west, most corners in the u.s. is that this will cause -- this would have caused rally around the regime reaction in tehran, but there are protests now against the regime in iran, what's been the reaction inside iran? >> you know, i'm so glad you mentioned the counterprotest against the regime which happened so quickly after the 3 days of public mourning in tehran for noted terrorist, for qassem soleimani, the speed of protests tell you that the iranian people will use every accident, the accidents, the downing of the ukrainian airliner or economic issue as you saw in november or political issues as you saw in 2009, their values and their interests are drastically different from the values of leaders in tehran. we will be seeing more protests more often. paul: how significant was soleimani to putting down protests in iran? we know that he led foreign expeditionary force, was he significant in terms of domestic counteraction to the protests? >> his colleagues were quite significant, personally he was interesting to putting reformist protest in 2009, you saw many of iran's political military and security officials like soleimani talk about the threat of reform but not really, many iranian reformists, revolutionary, people who are dissatisfied with the regime dislike him any way though because it's his force that ruins iran's national reputation abroad and also spends the money on all the conflict zones abroad so many reasons if you're dissatisfied with the islamic republic. paul: okay, i guess the big picture here is, the big question is how vulnerable is the regime to domestic, you never really know from the outside but they are under a lot of economic pressure, are they not? >> that's right, the more the regime acts ideologically abroad and spends dwindling revenues on the foreign wars or foreign adventures, the more flashpoints it creates economically at home to make accidents to keep preferences and that can have ripple effects on the state and the society for state and society to drastically open and sharpen, so i think the regime could be in something of a defeat loop in 2020. paul: interesting, thanks for coming in. >> pleasure, thank you. paul: we have to take one more break, when we come back hits and misses of the week fun fact: 1 in 4 of us millennials have debt we might die with. and most of that debt is actually from credit cards. it's just not right. but with sofi, you can get your credit cards right by consolidating your credit card debt into one monthly payment. including your interest rate right by locking in a fixed low rate today. and you can get your money right with sofi. check your rate in two minutes or less. get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. get a no-fee personal loan the better question would be where do i not listen to it. while i'm eating my breakfast... on the edges of cliffs... on a ski lift... everywhere. for a limited time, go to audible.com to save $50 on your first year of membership. paul: time now for our hits and misses of the week. kim, first to you. >> so, paul, a miss to the fisa court, the same court that just found out that it was duped for two years by the fbi into providing surveillance warrants on the basis of russian bogus information. what does it do about this? it appoints david chris, a former obama official and fbi you poll gist as the guy to oversee fbi reform. this is crazy. this is a courts desperately in need of restoring its credibility. this is the wrong way to do it. judges need to understand that all they're doing is bolstering arguments by folks like us and others that it's time to abolish the court all together. paul: allysia. >> this is a miss to california democrats who are proposing to cut traffic fines in half if you qualify for public benefits. they basically tack on various fees to traffic tickets if you have a license plate you can get hit up for a $1,000 ticket. nobody is paying the tickets. they burden the poor. now they're saying we must create a two tier justice system to help the people we are hurting. paul: jason. >> another miss, paul, this is for mike bloomberg who made remarks recently about jack wilson, the fan who -- the man who killed the texas church shooter last month mr. bloomberg sees things differently. he says civilians like wilson shouldn't be allowed to carry guns, only law enforcement should be able to carry them. i think how many more people in the congregation might have died if they had to wait for the police to show up. i think mr. bloomberg have things backwards. bad guys are counting on only police having guns. paul: bill. >> first hit goes to lsu for the victory over clemson and victory lap at the white house for that win. the second goes to lsu for celebrating the old fashioned way with cigars, even though a police officer threatened to arrest them, anyone who didn't put out the cigar. the third goes to the higher ups of the police who probably realizing that carting joe borough off in cuffs would not be a good look for the police. paul: thank that's it for this show. thanks to my panel and thanks to all of you for watching. don't forget to tune in monday for the debut of bill hemmer reports at 3:00 p.m. eastern. n. maria: happy weekend everybody welcome to the program that positions you for the week ahead. i am maria boucher mono makes was an interview with the nations banker, jamie diamond as we touched on another of topics for the day he gives us hear his outlook for the day. but first it was quite the week on wall street, record-setting across-the-board white house trade advisor peter tavarez here to talk at the impact of the historic week that was. the signing of the trade deal

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