Were in a national emergency. We need to act like were in a national emergency. So weve got to move. With everything weve got. Weve got to do it together. And we have the tools to fix it. We have the tools to get through this. We have the tools to get this virus under control, and our economy back on track. We have the tools to help people. So lets use the tools. All of them. Use them now. Folks, this is one of the cases where business, labor, wall street, main street, liberal, conservative, economists know we have to act now. And to a surprising extent, none legislative voices across the political spectrum agree on the act now part as for republican lawmakers and the do it together part, well, not so much. Administration officials tell cnn the president s preferred route is bipartisan and that he still hopes to bring ten republicans on board, however, a number have signalled opposition including moderates like Susan Collins so as a result, there is no agreement on that or even on a resolution on something as simple as how the senate will run day to day. And to that, you can add impeachment. The house managers will come to read the article of impeachment at 7 00 p. M. On monday, january 25th. Members will then be sworn in the next day, tuesday, january 26th. After that, both the house managers and the defense will have a period of time to draft their legal briefs just as they did in previous trials. During that period, the senate will continue to do other business for the American People such as cabinet nominations, and the covid relief bill which will provide relief for millions of americans who are suffering during this pandemic. Then, once the briefs are drafted, presentation by the parties will commence the week of february the 8th. The january 6th insurrection at the capitol incited by donald j. Trump was a day none of us will ever forget. Keeping then honest, it is rather amazing that less than three weeks after a full scale insurrection targeting some of the very same members who gather there today, how quickly some lawmakers are trying to push it down the memory hole if it means shoving their past statements down it, too. As a reminder, here is House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy a week after the violence. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by President Trump. Except his share of responsibility quail the brewing unrest and ensure president elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. Again, that was a week after the attack. Now, here he is just yesterday inside the memory hole looking out. Leader mcconnell said president former President Trump and other important people provoked the folks to come to the capitol. Do you believe former President Trump provoked . I dont believe he provoked if you listen to what he said at the rally. Listen to what he said. Kevin mccarthy should listen to what Kevin Mccarthy said just a week and a half ago. He might learn something. Or then again, maybe not. All of a sudden for him, its all so hazy. Yes, even now with National Guard troops still at the capitol and new reporting thousands will stay at least through the end of the month partly out of concern there could be more unrest during impeachment proceedings. Yet, still, there is this urge to put it all in the past. It was minority leader mcconnell after all that delayed the trial inform after Inauguration Day and now has received his wish to wait until next month. And though there is no reporting well get to shortly on his private desire to see the ex president convicted, his public move seemed to drag things out. In the meantime, its hardly a footnote, americans are dying by the thousands every day. Theyre losing jobs and going hungry. A lot to talk about starting with our new chief White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. President biden never had a strong abtppetite to impeach th former president but doesnt want this trial to drag out longer than necessary. Whats the reaction to this announcement from Chuck Schumer the trial will be delayed until february 8th . I think a lot of what we are heard President Biden say earlier could have had anfe efft on this. He was agreeing to delay the trial until next month and those arguments could have started as soon as next wednesday if the agreement was not struck between schumer and mcconnell. The white house has really tried to steer clear for this. They have been asked several times and were told that President Biden did not have an opinion on the timing but he did. He expressed that today and its put them between a rock and a hard place because they moved forward with the trial next week and affects the confirmation of their nominees, maybe the passing of that Coronavirus Relief bill that President Biden wants but the longer you delay it, the longer its looming over his agenda and first time in office. So President Biden has talked about the importance of not only getting his cabinet confirmed but agenda through the senate. That will continue for now . Yes . Yes. It will. That is kind of i think how this agreement got struck between the democrats and republicans because they said they are going to meet on monday. Thats likely when youll see janet yellen the romney to run the Treasury Department get confirmed. There will be time for this to happen. Republicans have something to tote saying were giving the president and his legal team more time to get legal briefs ready and legal arguments ready for the trial. Youre seeing both sides tote this agreement so well see how many of his nominees get confirmed next week. John, so far hes gotten two and thats critical to the agenda hes intent on pushing early on. Well wait to see how many they get. That impeachment trial is only a little over two weeks away so not a ton of time. That two is a much lower number than other recent president s. Kaitlan collins, great to see you, thanks so much. Joining us now, connecticut democratic congressman gjim hims who played a role in the impeachment last time. I want your reaction to the announcement of the beginning of the impeachment trial starting february 8th. What do you think . I think its the best play against a pretty tough hand here. Right . I mean, nobody, nobody wants an impeachment at the start of a new administration where youre hoping to turnover a new leaf and hoping maybe you dont have to talk about the old president but the attack that was committed, you know, and the memories are still quite vivid in my mind, the attack committed at the urging of the president was so serious that we just cant as you said, we cant slide the whole thing down the memory hole. We need to make sure people are held accountable and the American People know exactly what happened and how the president , well, ex president contributed to that. So the new timeline does give the senate more time to confirm some of the president s nominees, but it might also give republican senators more time, those who are sitting on the fence to be swayed not to convict. Is that a concern of yours . Well, john, im in the camp of believing that there is very little probability that youre going to get i guess, 16 republican senators to convict. I watched very closely the last impeachment and what you got one. I could imagine getting six. I could imagine maybe getting swit seven, will he be convicted . The senators are jurors. Each and every one of the republican senators is contemplating the fact that its a minority of their constituents but a minority of them are probably okay with what happened in the capitol. The republicans have created this frankenstein monster and by the way, you ran a clip of Kevin Mccarthy. You have to run the clip of Kevin Mccarthy looking into the camera saying this election was stolen. Republican after republican after republican contributed to this fact that there are millions of americans out there who believe the election was stolen and believe it because donald trump and Congressional Republicans told them that. They have this frankenstein monster raging in the village and they dont know what to do. Im guessing most of them are not going to choose to put their bodies in front of that monster and take the risks associated politically speaking with doing the right thing. So the former president is off twitter. Hes off facebook. And that absence is remarkable and notable. But what kind of oxygen does he still take up in washington and how formidable is his base . Im gratified to see that hard core maga base and that runs from qanon to the whole cast of characters that you saw assault the capitol, its in disarray and pointing fingers. They were promised there is a magical way joe biden would not become president and low and behold, reality happened and it hard for people who are living in an alternative universe with alternative facts to be, you know, have their nose rubbed in reality. I think there is disarray. I think there is finger pointing. I know, i think, ex President Trump has Approval Ratings that are about half of what the current president has. So, you know, this is a group of dead ente enders getting smalle. There are a lot of senators and members of congress that would love to do the right thing but know what sort of political massacre could occur if they do the right thing and stand up and speak the truth about what President Trump did. Congressman himes, stick around. I want to bring in john dean into this conversation and john, the claims from supporters of the former president that a senate trial is unconstitutional now that hes a private citizen. They stated as a fact but its not a fact. Whats the truth here . Its a debatable point but not going to be resolved in favor of the people who claim there is no right to have this trial. In fact, 150 scholars both the right and left including federal Society Scholars weighed in and said there is clear precedent, to have this trial and the fact hes an impeachment offense at the end of the term depart and not be held responsible. It is simply not determinedu. There is some precedent to let this happen. Nevertheless congressman, looking for a way out they dont have to judge the president s action. Im told by some its not constitutional. Oh, sure, sure, look. They dont need to be particularly compelling where we saw republican senators saying yeah, it was terrible behavior the phone call with ukraine but im not sure it meets my standard of impeachability or the figlies dont have to be particularly beautifully crafted where principal is not high on peoples list of things they care about. It will be that and a lot of republicans will hide behind the fact that i dont think anybody wants to see this trial dragged out for weeks and weeks and weeks. Its likely to go in days. A lot of them will point to that and say it just a couple of days. Dont forget by the last impeachment, they voted against witnesses and bringing evidence to the senate but theyre going to say gee, the due process was not nearly enough for me to vote to convict. John, when you look at the former president s defense team, you say you see some parallels to president nixons team. How so . Well, the parallel is he hired an attorney who has very Little Washington experience. My digging around in his background appears that mr. Bowers sent a year in washington and thats it. He doesnt know the ways of washington and knows south carolina. Hes playing on a different stage. This is what happened. He hired a boston attorney with no experience in washington, no real feel for the way the senate and houseworked and it cost nixon. I think its one of the reasons he was forced to resign because they really didnt prepare a good case. Thats a situation here. This two weeks to prepare is case is not long when hes been hired for a few days and he is a sole practitioner and doesnt have a big firm behind him. I dont know the money and resources available. You were part of the group trapped on the house floor and i mentioned the plan to keep thousands of National Guard troops in d. C. Over concerns of more unrest during the impeachment trial. How concerned are you and your colleagues about your own safety . Well, it was very gratifying to see the National Guardsmen there for the inauguration that made a huge difference if we had a 15 of that presence on january 6th, what happened would never have happened. Im glad until this chapter is in the history books in its entirety, we have that degree of security. You know, it may not be a situation where the president is going to urge thousands of people to march down pennsylvania avenue but you dont know what a group of proud boys or whatever they call themselves will decide to come to the capitol and raise hell. Ill be glad to see the back of this situation. You know, it just pains me beyond measure to see the capitol looking like our embassy in kabul. This is the peoples house. 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And among those are former Trump White House officials, former members of congress, current and former staffers, and also, a lot of big gop donors who have a lot of influence. Will Mitch Mcconnell vote to convict . We havent even started the trial yet and we know that it is a high bar but one member of congress, a republican said to me the following, the member said mitch said to me he wants trump gone. It is in his political interest to have him gone. It is in the gop interest to have him gone. The question is do we get there . I think we have to remember that it would take 17 republicans plus all 50 democrats but in the last impeachment, there was only one senator mitt romney who convicted. Will we get to 17 . A lot of people think the chances are very slim. But maybe as congressman himes said a little while ago, maybe we get to five, six or seven. Which in itself would be significant. There is some <