Based on the objectives that the administration has laid out, based on the strategy that theyve laid out, i cant come up with a reason now why the United States should support this action. Bob you said at one point, anybody who votes for this might as well clean out their office, they were going to be defeated the next time around. But this, are there thing that is you would be willing to put your the fact that youre elected on the line and vote against what your constituents dont want . Absolutely. But in this case, were talking about war. Ive spent a lot of time in my district when we found out the president was going to go to congress as he should do we decided to hold a series of town halls. 11 meet negligence two days. I met with constituents and whey saw was astonishing. Not just disapproval of the war, but overwhelming disapproval from republicans and democrats. And when youre dealing with war, you must take into consideration what the public thinks. Youre talking about asking p
Imposing a strict new travel ban aimed at keeping new cases of coronovirus from reaching the u. S. Thats right. The directive takes effect at 5 00 p. M. Eastern time, before boarding planes for the u. S. Airlines must ask passengers if theyve been to china in the past two weeks. Foreign nationals who answer yes, they will not be allowed on the flight. U. S. Citizens who have been to china will be rebooked to one of seven u. S. Airports, including new york, los angeles, and atlanta. Once back in the u. S. , theyll be quarantined for 14 days. In the meantime in the Philippines Health officials report the first coronovirus Death Outside of china. A patient in manila, who had flown to the country from wuhan. In china the virus has killed more than 300 people and its infected more than 14,000 others. Cnns david cullver has been reporting this story from the very beginning and joins us live from beijing. What are the latest developments from there, david . Hi there, natalie and gorge. The co
Evening someone questioned for the survey raised an issue the way their interview was conducted. That means the results of the poll would have been compromised. We werent able to determine exactly what happened during this persons interview, and we dont know if it was an isolated incident. So out of an abundance of caution cnn and Des Moines Register and the company who conducts the poll decided not to release tonights poll. We take the standards that we apply to our polling very seriously. And to keep the highest possible standards we wanted to present this information to the public and explain why we didnt proceed with releasing this poll this evening, ana. Okay, David Chalian, im glad you are there. I know youll have much more coming up live from des moines, but first to the campaign trial. Some influential democrats appear to be fighting more among themselves against the freshly impeached donald trump. And instead of looking forward, theyre rehashing the past. Here we are friday ni
Witnesses in the trial. 51 of the senate defied the expressed will of 75 of the American People, who have told pollsters they want to hear from witnesses in the senate trial. The 51 senators who voted against witnesses represent 151 million people. The 49 senators who are on the losing side of that vote represent 170 million people. The senators who lost the vote in the senate yesterday represent 19 million more people than the senators who won that vote. In a New York Times editorial entitled a dishonorable senate, the times says the vote also brings the nation face to face with the reality that the senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal and stupid power politics. Faced with credible evidence that a president was abusing his powers, it would not muster the institutional selfrespect to even investigate. The senate may acquit mr. Trump, but it will not it cannot exonerate him. Mr. Trump is the most corrupt president in modern times, a reality americans
You could tell how good i feel by how nervous the establishment is getting. Joe biden trying to proving his electability. Ill beat him like a drum. Elizabeth warren changing tactics. I just want to be clear, women win. Pete buttigieg hoping to regain his momentum. Its so important that were ready to turn the page. A wideopen race that may tell us where the democratic nomination is headed. Former south bend mayor Pete Buttigieg is my guest this morning. Joining me for insight and analysis are democratic pollster cornell belcher. O. K. Henderson, rich lowry, editor of the national review, anna palmer, and nbc news senior correspondent, tom brokaw. Welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in des moines for the Iowa Democratic president ial caucuses, this is a special edition of meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning from des moines, iowa, where tomorrow night caucus night, democratic voters will finally get their first say on who they