First, lets get to the white house right away. Chief White House Correspondent k Kaitlan Collins is joining us right now. Theres a huge gap between what the president is seeking in covid relief and what these group of ten republican senators are offering. Reporter wolf, its a very wide gap. The white house is downplaying expectations for whats going to come out of this meeting with these ten republicans. Happening right now inside the oval office, where reporters are about to go and cameras are about to be there to capture it all. The white house is saying dont expect them to whack out of that room with some kind of bipartisan deal theyve struck. Theres a wide gap between the 600 billion proposal and what President Biden has put forward which, of course, is 1. 9 trillion, and the devil is in the details of what republicans are looking at and what republicans are saying theyre going to push ahead with. Listen to what the White House Press secretary said a few hours ago when asked about
Release details tomorrow on their proposed 600 billion coronavirus package, far short of the Biden Administration 9. 1 trillion relief package. The question now, how far is the house willing to negotiate. One week before the second Impeachment Trial of president donald trump, his entire legal team walk out. According to a source, trump wanted them to make his lie of a fraud Election Central to his defense. Arlette saenz and sun lin are fooling this. What do we know about the package and are ten on board . Its essentially trying to get the talks to move more toward the middle, and these senators sending a letter to President Biden saying, the question, our letter states many of your priorities, and we believe this could be passed quickly by congress and with bipartisan support. Heres what the senators are proposing. Theyre proposing a new round of what they are emphasizing is more targeted direct payments. They are trying to reach families they say need it the most. It includes 160 bill
Team has quit, all of them. A Trump Adviser saying a final decision on legal strategy has not yet been made. That leads to the Trump Problem part two. Will the former president show up at his trial and personally take part in his own defense . What would that look like . The trump legacy that so many republicans have hitched their futures to is on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination. So to washington we go now and correspondent Sunlen Serfaty is joining us. Sunlen, we are days away from trumps second Impeachment Trial. We have a mass exit by the lawyers and the clock is ticking. Reporter the clock is ticking, ana. This is such a dramatic development, the fact that you have the entire Trump Legal Team walking away. But the fact that it is also happening so close to the start of the trial. Now, if you look at the calendar here, just days away from some of these key deadlines the Trump Legal Team should be needing to set up to meet including legal briefs due in two days. The trial th
To vote, to acquit. I want to bring in cnns washington correspondent sunlen serfaty. Is there enough republican support for donald trump to acquit him in the senate trial no matter what defense is presented . Reporter that certainly is the key question here. A lot of people of course pointing to that procedural vote that the senate had last week as an early indication on where the final vote may end up. And that was a vote on senator rand pauls Point Of Order to vote on the constitutionality of an Impeachment Trial. It was then that only five republicans broke ranks and voted with the democrats on that question so potentially a lot to read into there although many senators are saying they are keeping an open mind and notably that five is not enough. They need 17 republicans in the end to break ranks. The senators who of course will serve as jurors say theyre keeping an open mind but specifically still much attention on each and every word that republican senators are saying. Heres just