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lawyers leaving. within a couple of hours, it was an exodus, five of them gone. the trial s a week away, where does this leave the defense? it s a disaster for the defense. five is all that there are. it s not simply that they open a week from tuesday. he has briefs due with his basic legal position on tuesday. it s inconceivable to me that he could get any kind of halfway professional lawyer and get together his basic claim to submit by tuesday, especially since he seems to be insisting on staying the course with the sort of big lie fraud claim that actually was the source of the problem in the first place. it was his sort of insistence and at all costs clinging to this claim that s led to the insurrection here. if he were to go in it would be the ultimate leading with his chin. now that all his lawyers have deserted him, i don t know what any litigant, let alone the former president in an impeachment trial, is to do 72 hours from when he has to state his legal posit ....
all around the world. i m robyn curnow. thanks for joining me. so ahead on cnn, little more than a week before the start of former u.s. president donald trump s impeachment trial, five of his defense attorneys leave the team. plus a tiny bit of good news in the fight against the coronavirus in the u.s. as cases reach a new milestone. also, protests across russia are under way again in support of activist alexei navalny. but now supporters are reaching out to the u.s. for help. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with robyn curnow. and we begin this hour with breaking news. with just a little more than a week before former president trump s second impeachment trial begins, we re learning his five defense team lawyers have quit. south carolina attorneys butch bowers and debra barbier were expected to be two of the lead attorneys. they re no longer with the team. also gone greg harris, johner and joshua howard. according to people familiar with t ....
scenes yiek we ve seen throughout day here, i think we are going to play some pictures, but we have matthew chance live there. there are the pictures now, we ve seen lots of activity by security forces and we expect these protests to ramp up throughout the day. matthew, let s go to you now. first of all, what can you tell us about the situation right now where you are and across the country? reporter: well, where i am right now in moscow the protests hasn t really properly gotten under way yet although there is a big security operation under way in the center of the russian capital with riot police being deployed in the city center where the protest was going to be held, i understand it may have moved locations so there is some confusion about where this unsanctioned protest in the russian capital will actually take place. we have a team on the ground right where the protest is happening so obviously we will be able to bring you more information directly from that pro ....
and what it wants to align with as pressure is mounting. this afternoon marjorie taylor greene is emboldened by former president donald trump and unapologetic tweeting she had a great call with trump. this is a sitting congresswoman a history of dangerous and incendiary rhetoric, including repeatedly indicating support for the execution of prominent democratic politicians and the former president who reportedly supports her, he s staring down a second impeachment trial for inciting a deadly insurrection at the nation s capitol as officials warn from a heightened environment of disagreement. suzanne malvo, tell us more about this call. reporter: this call will be coming in the coming days. we don t know exactly when, but we do know, however, that the call d at least the leadershi call for mccarthy for tuesday has been cancel because in part he s not quite ready to deal with or talk about the controversy regarding lawmaker greene so this is going to play out. this is g ....
hitting the beach, the big waves are coming. why there are extra warnings being given at one san francisco beach. it was a sold out event. people came to see michelle obama speak. she was in town promoting her new book. let s go to rosemary orozco on what a call tree day. i will go today. yes. i m going to go today. saturday is your day. we have a chance of scattered showers. as we roll through your afternoon, more of the same, but for the most part today we get a break. giving a view at jack london square where we re looking at what am i looking at, guys? it is jack london. they give me this view and it throws me off. i m used to seeing the palm tree. so it is dry at the moment. you see oakland, the central bay and the south bay. we see scattered showers this morning. santa rosa just a few sprinkles reported. the scattered shower activity will be best over the north bay. for the central and south bay, it will be a partly sunny, mostly cloudy day as we get into ....