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Lets go outfront. Good evening, i am erin burnett. Outfront, Breaking News on several fronts this hour. At the white house, the president meet whiting on stimu. It is a promise from biden to work across the aisle. We expect to speak to reporters after the meeting, well bring you that as soon as it happens. There at the microphone outside the white house. On capitol hill, major deadlines loom in the Impeachment Trial of former president donald trump. Democrats filing, and trump has to give his papers by tomorrow. President trump may add new lawyers to the defense team. If he does, theyll join the Brand New Team as of last night, two attorneys known for high profile, controversial cases. David schoen and bruce castor. David said i represent all sorts of Reputed Mobster ....
Evidence. Announcer this is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. A battle for the soul of the Republican Party is playing out on capitol hill this morning. Last night, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell condemned congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greenes lies and Conspiracy Theories as, quote, a cancer on the Republican Party, though he never actually used her name. Mcconnell said he had enough of what he calls looney lies. So, wha ....
To that and how they will defend him. Weve got a lot to get to. Lets go to our colleague lauren fox on capitol hill. Good morning to you, lauren. So at least the optics were of progress in the oval office yesterday. Susan collins leading that meeting with the president. But was there substantive progress . Well, sure. I think republicans felt it was a good meeting, a Good Opportunity to speak directly with the president about what their hopes are for their own covid relief package. But, look, democrats are charging forward with their plan to use that budgetary tactic to go ahead and pass that 1. 9 trillion bill with just democratic votes. They are arguing essentially that republicans are willing, if they are willing, they are allowed to come forward and vote for this process. They are welcome to be a part of it, but they are saying they need to be bold, they need to go bold and you saw that yesterday reflected in the statement f ....
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there ....
Himself to stop an investigation into him. this is very different than the border wall fight where he was trying to get a policy on the border wall and shut down the government to try to get it. at least you could make an argument that there s a policy he s trying to get for some people who wanted that. different from the trade wars where he s trying to get a policy for some people and asking for paying from others in order to get it. in this case it s really about the president and the investigation. it really is about him putting himself in front of the legislation for the american public. in addition to that and to make sort of a point on what john meacham was saying about andrew johnson, if you go back into the past, that s the argument against andrew johnson. he wasn t faithfully executing the job. that s part of the discussion if the democrats end up going forward with an impeachment at any point. eli, let s go with a history he is son. other presidents in this position took th ....