First, former president trum legal team turns the tables laying out their arguments against impeachment and forget their brevity. In a few concrete ways, they dismantled key pieces of the democrats rather incoherent constitutional argument. I will break down a few pieces tonight for you. The most important ones. The core claim of democrats Impeachment Article is that trump Speech Incited the januar. His speech on january six, here is strong counsel michael vanderveen. The senate should be extremely careful about the president the president this case has set. Consider the language that the house Impeachment Article alleges to constitute to incite. If you dont fight like hell, you not going to have a country anymore. This is ordinary political rhetoric that is virtually indistinguishable from the language that has been used by people across the political spectrum. For hundreds of years. And he had the example. Democrats are going to fight. We fight. We are going to fight like hr hrll we are going to fight like hr hrll. Its language that theyve used, that republicans have used , big deal. It shows nothing. Number two, the attorney responded with this. Rather inconvenient fact. Democratic candidates complained that an election was stolen because of russian collusion. That is in no way incitement to an insurrection. Somehow when Democratic Candidates decry an election as stolen or illegitimate, it is never a big lie. We have been doing it for years. Of course. We documented it. We covered it night after night after night. Trump was never a legitimate president. Number three, last night we showed you how Head Impeachment Manager tried to block the 2016 election results. Today the trump team exposed th coconspirators. I object to the votes from the State Of Wisconsin which should not be very. I object to the Certificate From the State Of Georgia Parit i object to the Certificate Fro the state of north carolina. Are they all guilty to . They dont like democracy. Know they had a problem with Th Certification so they made thei statement and they said their piece. By the democrats own standards. All of those soundbites, all of those comments, in some way constitute altogether something approaching sedition. Traders . Thats what they want you to believe thats the Bogus Threshold for incitement they offered against President Trump of. When use the same language they openly question the legitimacy of a president ial election. The ad the whole russian collusion onto it for it its totally innocuous. And in fact, its constitutionally protected speech. Finally, the attorney Vandervee Existing Fleet expose the democrats constitutional overreach. The house managers position as stated in their trial brief was and i quote the First Amendment does not apply at all to in impeachment proceedings. The text of the First Amendment expressly resists congressmen regulating speech. The position advanced by the house managers is essentially a unlimited impeachment standard without constitutional guardrails, unmoored to any specific legal test, under othe than the unbridled discretion o congress. But it certainly the intent of the democrats. Political revenge is the main motivation when it comes to the former president. Join me now is former White House Press secretary Senior Editor of the federalist. Founder of the center for american liberty, there is a lo of criticism of the Trump Campaign including from yours truly on day one. I thought it was as many did, rambling. Today, finally, i think a lot o folks felt relieved. Your thoughts . It shouldnt have been so hard for the democrats have hun themselves on their own contradictions and hypocrisy over the many years. Daisy abrams case in georgia when she said the race is still on from her. You have United States senators democrats who backed her up in that and so, this rhetoric is h easy to show. Him glad they did. There is a more complicated issue that still has to be hung appear. And wont defend the president when it comes to impeachment or conviction, he should have had the wisdom never to have called the crowd to washington on that day the boat was taking place. That was like assembling Nitro English or in. Just common sense says dont bring the crowd to washington o that day, it is too risky. I wish the president had the wisdom not to have done that. Thats a different question. Thats a common sense opinion, and i actually agree with you. I think it was unwise. Given everything that was happening. But incitement mean something very specific in our law. Brandenburg versus ohio 1969 Supreme Court case, the languag has to have an imminent effect to indicate that we would have violence likely to be spawned from those words. Its a tough standard to meet. They didnt even come close to meeting that standard. I thought President Trumps attorneys did a good job talkin about the standards and how the House Democrat managers had failed to even meet the first test of. I thought it was really interesting to that they weren just defending their client, bu really if you showed a little bit of those clips from their video non montage, those were utterly devastating. They went on at length showing how senators in that chamber ha use the exact same rhetoric tha they were complaining about President Trump using or in som cases far far far worse. In fact, violent rhetoric sometimes really prominent people like Kamala Harris talking about murdering about donald trump or mike pence. And also people talking about being violent with trump voters. At the end of it the attorneys talked about how even speech like that is constitutionally protected. It wasnt just about whats happening in impeachment, but talking about why we have Freedom Of Speech and why we want to protect that so people can use their words to talk against each other so that wors things dont happen. This is cnns astute analysi of trumps legal defense. Watch. Today was basically a legal demonstration of what about is him. There was a lot of stuff the are including a lot of what about ism. Is that the best they can do . This standard is imminent lawless action per your words have to provoke imminent lawles action. This is embarrassing. At some point it becomes in embarrassing for the media. In they are all using the same terms so they clearly have the talking points. A mold enough to remember when the First Amendment lawyers on both sides of the aisle would have fought to the death for th right for any american to say the words they want in a political setting and not be prosecuted for their thoughts and their words. To meet the standard has shifte dramatically to the point where even people in the room he used that type of violent language like molly just mentioned, themselves they see no irony in convicting others for using the same language. We are throwing the constitutio out the window and the law out the window youre turning the language of the very impeachmen standard out the window. It requires high crimes and misdemeanors paid the standard is not material. Him glad the defense team kept it tight today and it was very effective. We are looking forward to the acquittal. Not that theres anything happening in the country. He said something that i think undergirds what youre referencing earlier and just th hatred of trump at the core of this. Hatred at the heart of the Frivolous Contempt to blame donald trump for the criminal acts of the rioters based on no real evidence other than rank speculation. Hatred is a dangerous thing. We all have to work to overcome it. Hatred should have no place in this chamber in these proceedings. I thought that was, it was n legal argument, but i think tha cuts across party lines and i think people have had enough of all of this stuff. This is where i will defend President Trump. He was greeted by what, resistance. The resistance was the group that fought the in france. They said not my president. They boycotted, they tried to overturn his election and there was violence at his inauguratio and people they leaked an weapo eyes, Classified Information against donald trump and of course there was the whole collusion narrative to get him out of office. Since the day he was elected in 2016, if you want legitimacy Yo Have To Act by them yourself. You cannot hold this type of hatred against somebody else an not expect somebody to get mad at you one day. This is where washington is jus ascended into his terrible stat of partisanship. Molly commit today with nikk haley came out and she made a statement, and it was similar sentiment to what about how we can support what president trum did, she received an enormous blowback as you can imagine fro Trump Supporters online. The divide in the party, is it significant or is it the same old establishment where they just want to take it back. I think what Republican Voters are looking for people who dont fall for the media streaks. Nikki haley got in trouble because she talked to a reporte who probably wasnt operating i good faith and trying to cause problems. She needs to be smarter when shes dealing with media to avoid those types of traps that are set up that way. I think people, i think a lot o people are pretty unified and excited about having made some muchneeded Policy Updates and then also more people needing, whether thats having an Economic Policy that focuses on the middleclass and understanding that the left is actually going to war against the founding of this country in that that needs to be defended against. It needs to be defended against with some fights. So people are looking for leaders who have that fight. And dont get distracted by the media trap. Here is a key. If youre getting praised by th New York Times and washington post, youre probably not going to be the next Republican Party dominated. I think, of everything i saw, h won todays condescension and snobbery award. Not the most constitutionally sophisticated argument. As you heard in his voice there. To those glasses make you smarter. Your thoughts on this. Jake was a College Cartoonist , so look at him. This level of snobbery is reall out of place here. I think as editorial layer, the started slow. They did a great job today. I think the president was well served by his defense team today. We really need to move on from this and any republicans trying to linger over there hurt and rehashing all of this are doing a biggest service to the countr into the voters who put them in office. This is all over shortly. Do you think President Trump numbers go up after this, stay the same, or go down . Stay the same. Hes going to be acquitted. Its fascinating to watch him i florida without twitter and without communicating. Whoevers going to get that first interview with him, i hav a feeling hes got a lot to get off his chest. I think his Approval Numbers thats what i was getting at ou going up. When hes off twitter, people are saying i like those policies. Those were working out pretty well for my family. Biden want you to wear a mask for maybe another year, is that okay with you . Even if youre vaccinated. Mask up. 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The coauthors, it is not unreasonable at this time to conclude that surgical and clot masks have absolutely no impact on controlling the Transmission Of Covid 19. Safe mass can be harmful. Shocking, but not entirely surprising. Evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials did not support a substantial effect on transmission of love confirmed influenza. All right, joining me now is dr. Former covid virus or. Why has this study from may by the cdc then can completely. Thank you for having me. Masks are really the radioactiv issue of this whole pandemic. And its really something that is a real case study in how people have just simply ignored all the data that is contrary t what they want to believe and want everybody else to believe. The cd study in may 20 and all the show that masks on the general population, do not stop the transmission nor the receiving the infection. Thats what they say in two or three different ways in that article thats never reported. Its also never reported that they pointed out the abundant and evidence from europe, austria, elgin belgium, italy, the uk, spain, as well as there are 37 or 38 states in the u. S. And including the other states have had City Mandates on masks of the cases were not controlle by mask mandates. Then there is, the data from denver, one large randomized study of general Population Use of masks that showed not a significant reduction in the spread of cases. Along with this evidence that you will never hear about in th news. You will never see it in the newspaper. Its worse than that, the even raise the issue of studies that were performed, some of them ignored, then youre an anti mask. You are a person that once the virus to rage all over the world. But let me hold on, dr. Fauci said this past week even after youre vaccinated commies to have to wear masks. I guess forever. He also put on a little demonstration yesterday. Watch. You wear a mask, one of the ways you could do it if you would like to put a cloth mask over, which actually here, then here and here where you can get is much better contained. Dr. Atlas, if the science is lets say not clear, what is this whole act about leakage in demonstration and two or three, four masks. Why is he doing it . You know, the usage of masks again has taken on a life of it own. I think it shows something more fundamental which is that there is a tremendously damaged psyche , particularly in the United States a tremendous amount of fear that people thin okay, they want to naturally have some control over this whe they are afraid and the only thing they can really do beside watch their hands a lot is they can have a mask. So, im not sure, i think your point is very important, what i the endgame here . When are we going to be able to live normally. If everyone is vaccinated, we still have to socially distance wear masks, what is going on here . Is it true that if we dont hav any cases, we better still be careful because it could be a new strain that pops up . I just think that people really have to sort of i believe in giving people the information, we live in a free country,. Know we dont. Dr. Atlas, right now we do not live in a free country. Im sorry, but we dont. You cant go and visit your parents when you want too. I mean they want to restrict travel apparently to florida. So the idea, i mean doctor max v5 said this week that we are going to be Wearing Masks until there is virtually no threat from the virus. Apparently somebody in uruguay has the virus, that still a threat to us so were still going to have to be Wearing Masks. That is disturbing. I think its very worrisome here, the process of taking liberties, they are bigger than what we think. There could be curfews forever. Its conceivable to me that you can be restricted from going outside unless you are covid free. We have never known the power o the government until we saw it during this pandemic. Whats worse, we never knew the power of fear and people acquiesced into things even if they dont believe in them. Its a mask forever. We have to have Vaccine Equity around the world. This is going into a direction that i think nobody intestate paid it except a few of us that saw this coming. Let me. 1 other thing out. In a survey of the American Public that i read recently, 72 percent of americans say they plan on Wearing Masks even if quote the pandemic is over a. Im pointing out here, there is a tremendous damage to the american psyche. And very fearful for the country. I dont know whats going to happen here, we are definitely raising a generation of neuroti children. Do you think what they couldnt think, they cant even save facial cues. Everyone is a potential threat to them. It is a form of child abuse. Im just going to say it. Dr. Atlas, thank you so much freight how many vaccines does the country need . President biden apparently thinks it is one who. 100 million more and we are able to move up the delivery dates within an additional 200 million vaccines to the end of july. Were on track with enough supplies to treat 300 million americans by the end of july. Buy stock in the pharmaceutical current companie i guess. About 35 million americans got the first dose of the vaccine with more than 11 million getting both doses and the covi infection rate is down 36 percent over the last 14 days. Is this wise or even needed . Author of Unreported Truth Abou Covid 19 lockdown part three, alex, are the drops in cases, i the dropping cases due to the vaccine rollout, or Something Else . Its absolutely not down due to the rollout. It began about a month ago and it accelerated in the last couple weeks. It looks like seasonality may play some role in that. Its possible were getting close in some places to herd immunity, although i hate to even say that out loud because the vaccine has made a full out of people that said this before. The proof of that is israel in the uae which are to very different countries, but they vaccinated more people than anywhere else in the world per capita, especially israel which is using the Pfizer Vaccines which as one of the two vaccine we use here. And israel has had an actual outlier in the wrong direction. It is clear from the data that the vaccines are not going to get those 20 deaths or hospitalizations. Were going have to live with some. So if the goal is to eliminate this respiratory virus which is something weve never succeeded in doing in history, i dont know, were going to make ourselves crazy. Were going to destroy our society. People like you and me will be stuck on the outside viewed as these heretics because we have the gall to say. We only have hundreds and hundreds of years, thousands of years of viral science on our side, and emerging antivirals that provide no benefits. Great to see you tonight as always. Congrats on your new book, whic i have already started and im going to tweet out all the stuf about your new book. Coming up, joe and jill invite us in for participation, observation of their romance. And another zoom that fail, thi time in congress. Raymond has that and more. The Friday Volleys are next. Live from american headquarters, the cdc is offering guidelines to help students across the nation returned safely to classrooms. Everyone Must Wear Masks and maintain social distancing othe guidelines include handwashing and Contact Tracing if exposure occurs for this comes if some are desperate for schools to reopen. Teachers are also worried about the health risks once students return to school fulltime. The senate voted unanimously to award the congressional gold metal to Capitol Police officer eugene goodman. For protecting lawmakers. They the shared video. Redirecting. Now back to the ingraham anger help. For all of your latest headline visit foxnews. Com. It is time for Friday Volleys. Raymond arroyo. Raymond, it was like a Hallmark Card come to life at the white house today. They created a long display. You might call joe and jills garden of love. Everybody is feeling a little down. A little joy and a little help. Cardboard cutouts. It looks like those were made in five minutes. Out of work worker, the kid on zoom all day long. Look, i appreciate the gesture. The media use the occasion the real joe biden about all the issues on the americans minds. What is your gift for valentines day . Im not telling him. How do you next time, bring us coffee too. Love your dogs. Thank you. Which one is the old one. Happy valentines. Happy valentines. What genes are you wearing, joe . I thought you were serious that they were going to shout out questions are you really going to shut down travel cover Domestic Travel in the United States. A going to reach into mexico fo those Illegal Immigrants that were sent to mexico to live. Are you going to repopulate our country with people whove already been at least temporarily sent elsewhere . But no, how do you keep the lov alive . Look. There was a particularly disturbing moment i need to share with you. This was during a House Financial Services Committee Hearing you might say chairman Maxine Waters hearing was turne upside down by this film. Todays big economy and the alaska session it offers a jump to anyone who wants one. During covid 19 we must make sure that our nations sole proprietors and the smallest of Small Businesses picket will th gentlemen suspend . Im sorry, mister emery . Are you okay . I am. Era upside down, tom. I dont know how to fix that. Can somebody get that right side up . Is this a metaphor . I dont know, but hes upsid down. And i think that was a metaphor. People dont realize, this was the reconciliation hearing. This is the fast track of that 1. 9 trillion bill that they ar attaching to the minimum wage 15 minimum wage to the billiondollar prevailed cities. It is as upside down as the hearing was. It was picture pictureperfect. Raymond, what i see is maxin waters is as humorless as she i rude. And incendiary. Couldnt she roll with it a little bit and give us a little humor . Little humorous interlude . Are you okay . Are you okay . No, hes upset hes upside down because hes having an heart attack. In your home state of Louisiana Tesco Brown Ran Out Of Hairspra and decided i guess to pick up an alternative. I used gorilla glue. Bad bad bad idea. She couldnt get the glue ou of her hair, thats a shock. So Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeo removed it for her. My kids do this stuff all the time. He would think theys story would end there. But no, a louisiana man again our favorite people, he didnt believe missus browns viral moment with gorilla glue so he started his own glue challenge. Im going to take it put it in my mouth. Guess what, laura, the gorilla glue worked. At least Mister Martin wore his mask to the Emergency Room for the cup removal procedure. The ice bucket challenge, that was a good thing for another all these all Line Challenges that never go well. They never end up in a good place. You know the proper, idle hands are the devils workshop heard the continuation of that line is the idle lips are his mouthpiece. Both apply here. All i have to say to you is happy valentines day. Are you getting Rebecca A Cardboard Cutout . Oh no, it stuck. Were going to have to check back next week. Do something nice with rebecca. Happy valentines day. Our reporting on the Lincoln Project last night sent them into an absolute frenzy. There are others who helped their predatory coverup and they need to face the music. Dad, im scared. Its only human to care for those we love. And also help light their way. Its why last year chevron invested billions of dollars to bring affordable, reliable, ever cleaner energy to america. Last night independent journalist returned to the show to lay out tracking details. In its cofounder john weaver. As a Reminder Weaver has been accused of making food crude sexual overtures to dozens of young men and at least one minor. The worst allegations havent been published yet, but they ar criminal in nature. The news apparently sent the Lincoln Project into an Absolut Tailspin last night. This group, the group posted private twitter messages betwee their cofounder jennifer horn, and the journalist. We dont know exactly how they neither the horn or the journalist consented to it coul be illegal even if its not against twitter rules. As shocking as this behavior wa last night, the rock among the founders of this vicious and he trump group founded by corporat america and really rich people in hollywood was as clear is da to us for the past year. But again, that did not stop powerful forces from aiding the every step of the way because they were just obsessed with taking out trump by any means necessary. The Lincoln Project Biggest Funder was Chuck Schumer Senate Majority pack which forked over 1. 9 million. The group got halfmillion from hollywood heavyweights david geffen. No comment from him yet and another 326,000 from mitt romney s old firm. Of course they didnt know abou it, but do they want their mone back . And what about this 90 million really go . That they raised . Much of the money was paid to firms big shock run by the Lincoln Project cofounders. So its all an inside deal. Nearly 25 million to submit strategic communications, that the firm run by reed galan. Thats with the Lincoln Project. More than 20 million was paid T Digital Run by another founder. Here now is independent journalist lynn greenwald. Ive been dying to talk you about this. Success has many fathers, but s too does disgrace. Indeed, although its really interesting to watch the rats fleeing the sinking ship as fas as they possibly can. As you pointed out, there were lot of people pointing out for the last 18 months or so that these people who formed this group are notoriously unethical they say whatever they need to say in order to please people out of their money. Thats with the swamp in dc has done. People on other networks and in liberal outlets chose to ignore that even though they knew it was true, and venerate them, herald them and in the process convince their audience, truly they got funding from a lot of rich people, but they got a ton of funding from ordinary people as well in the middle of a pandemic and unemployment crisi it forked over huge amounts of their money assuming it was going to when reality the bulk of the money went to firms controlled by founders of this organization. Glenn, to your point here, folks like nicole wallace, anderson cooper, don lemmon, ja cooper, they dont this doesnt even register with them. We went to check and theres been 25 media appearances by Th Cofounders on cnn and msnbc since the lever story broke. So there is a recognition for their medias role in propping them up as well. For sure. The people who enabled this to succeed first and foremost were those outlets that you just referenced. As i said, it would be one thin if they were, but all those people are experienced journalist, Steve Schmidt and wilson and Jonathan Weaver have been around for ease of forever. No one is confused about who they are, they participated in the con because they to believe that this group was going to sway the election in bidens favor. At the irony is as study after the election found that they ha almost no impact on the electio itself because they werent publishing for swing voters or conservative voters, they were only Publishing Ads to stimulat liberal cable host and liberals because they were interested no in affecting the election but i inflating their own bank accoun youre absolutely right, is serious reckoning is needed especially after last night likely criminality and publishing those private messages without authorization. This is not just aiding and abetting the griff, that is kin of obvious. They are aiding and abetting what was being done on the payroll of this organization. I know a lot of vacation homes, a lot of luxury, they made a lo of money. And, some of that money went to weaver. Weaver, allegedly, from all of these people, was a and weve heard nothing from them. Weve not heard nothing from bain capital. May be they make a statement an i missed it. I certainly hope so, but i don think so. Governor cuomo downfall impacts another prominent voice. The last point right is next. The news about new York Governor Andrew Cuomo Covid Response coverup has put his political future in peril. There is another prominent official who spend months hamming it up with the older if promoting his policies as a model for the country. New york got hit worse than anyplace in the world, and they did it correctly by doing the things that youre talking about. Telling new yorkers at safet take the vaccine to you know, put us together we are like the modern day de niro and pacino. What do you miss the most that you cant get down there that you could get if you were back here in new york and brooklyn . And Nice Nathan Hot Dog in a really steaming pastrami stand which. Oh my god. Is that the new normal . Are we really going to have to see that night after night. I guess well just take another shot at go after the winners. Thats all the time we have tonight, have a great weekend everyone. Shannon bream and the fox news At Night Hello and welcome to fox news at night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. Breaking tonight three big stories of extraordinary allegations against the powerful. Amid a lurid section scandal involving young men and the Lincoln Projects cofounder one of the most visible members of the Never Trump Group is advising tonight. Former nor to john mccain sha myth is leaving so the group can reform and modern eyes. Main street media and condemnations of the Republican Party reaching