He must be removed from office. Americans get a fair trial. And so i ask you, i implore you, give america a fair trial. Give america a fair trial. Shes worth it. It remains to be seen if those arguments will resonate with a republicancontrolled senate. In the meantime, trumps legal team is expected to make a very difference case for more on what to expect, we turn to manu raju on capitol hill. Reporter this is going to be a briefly overview of the case. We do only expect three hours of so of opening arguments on that teams side. What jay sekulow said, the president s attorney, its generally going to be an overview of details and then monday and tuesday when the Senate Returns into session, expect a fullfloated offense of the president s action trying to paint everything he did in ukraine in the most favorable way. And expect them to go after joe biden, the former Vice President and the former Vice President s son. And one question is whether or not Pat Cipollone counsel will show his r
Viewers in the United States and around the world. This is a special edition of new day. Saturday, january 25th, here in new york. Breaking overnight, the release of an explosive audiotape that features President Trump speaking to igor fruman and lev parnas at a dinner in 2018. Youll remember these are the two indicted Rudy Giuliani Associates Charged with funneling russian money to President Trumps political pac among others. This is the same lev parnas the president says he does not know. On this tape, mr. Trump does know him and is telling him to get rid of thenu. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Here it is. Get rid of her. Get her out i dont care. Get her out, okay. Do it. That audio was obtained by abc news. There is paeapparently a lot mo. Parnas lawyer says the full recording is nearly an hour and a half long. We will play more of what has just been released. The tape supports of version of events that parnas has been speaking to and refutes the president s claim that
Laced tirade by the secretary of state mike pompeo after she repeatedly questioned him about the Trump Administrations policy on ukraine. And the state of the race. With just over a week to go before the Iowa Caucuses, Elizabeth Warren gets a big endorsement tonight and theres also good news for Bernie Sanders. But lets get to President Trumps impeachment trial. His defense team beginning their opening arguments trying to undercut the house managers case that the president abused his office and obstructed congress. Cnns sarah murray has more now. Sarah . Reporter well, don, look, the arguments were brief. I think they were more reserved than a lot of people thought they would be. And at the end of the day the president s defense team pleased President Trump the first day of arguments. The president did absolutely nothing wrong. Reporter President Trumps defense team took to the floor arguing that the democrats have failed to make their case that the president should be we moved from of
Cottage. Paul marcs life at the white house with more. This video really just came out last hour or so. It was released to fox news and other media organizations across the country. As you mention, it came from the attorney of lava parnas who is a former associate of rudy giuliani. This video appears to be taken in 2018 and it made have been recorded on a cell phone. It bounces around disc because it was being taken discreetly. It appears to be showing President Trump saying get rid of her. And saying she may not be supporting the president. The video is about an hour long and you can see it is just raw footage here. We asked the white house about this on friday because the report was about the existence of this tape in the comments about yovanovitch. The presser told on friday that every president in our history has the right to place people who support his agenda and policies within the administration. We reached up to the white house to see if they have any additional comments but w
Degree of comfort when the American People needed to hear comfort. If you dont know whats happening with our troops, all you have to do is say what a horrible thing that happened to our troops, we are sorry that they had to be put in that position, i am checking on their conditions and we wish them the very best, and as soon as i get the adequate and right information, i will update the American People as soon as possible, because we are keeping them at the top of our thoughts and prayers and we want them to be in the best condition as possible. How easy was that . Its real easy if youre not worried about what that answer means to you. See, his sole guiding principle is how do i look in this . If these people are hurt because of the bombs in iran, then that means i was supposed to do something, that looks bad for me, so let me just deny theyre hurt. Then when he gets asked that question, you dont think traumatic brain injury is serious . Nah. Why . Because hes thinking about himself, n