Abrams on the new arguments. How the Legal Community is undercutting the former president with George Conway and how the Republican Party is radicalizing against democracy. And as we break 2 million daily vaccinations for the first time, new alarms about how quickly the more Transmitible Uk strain is spreading in america. It could be dominant by the end of march. Thats the sobering news. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We are one day away from the start of the historic firstever second impeachment of donald trump which left five people dead. We are in unprecedented territory. We have never impeached a president twice. Never tried one of office. Theres the long tables moved in for Impeachment Managers and defense teams to socially distance. O course, we have a pandemic. Theres a pretrial memo arguing the trial is unconstitutional and a politically motivated attack on trump. House democrats filing a see you in court type of response. Heres what we kno
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blast partially destroys russia s prized crimea bridge. also ahead, after months of legal sparring, the clock ticks for elon musk to close the deal on twitter. and a toddler miraculously rescued after his parents car is stolen with him trapped inside. you re in the cnn newsroom. a prized achievement of vladimir putin, an apparently target of his ukrainian tormenters. this right here is the exact moment the russian president suffered his latest blow in his war on ukraine, the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links russia to crimea, its annexed territory in the south. now a huge bottleneck chokes a critical supply route for putin s war in ukraine. ukraine hand sn t claimed responsibility, but it is celebrating it. ukraine will issue this commemorative postal stamp with a nod to the titanic. one senior ukrainian official couldn t ignore that the explosion came just hours after putin s 70th birthday. happy birthday
jeanine pirro, bill hemmer and dana perino. this is the five. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promising to make hamas pay for the barbaric assault on israel. the death toll topping 1300 and 27 americans have been killed and netanyahu telling the world there s no difference between hamas and most radical islamic terrorist. hamas is isis and just as isis was crushed, so too will hamas be crushed. and hamas should be treated exactly the way isis was treated. they should be set out from the community of nations. no leader should meet them. no country should harbor them. and those that do should be sanctioned. israel continues to hammer hamas targets in gaza with the precision air strikes and promising to root out every single terrorist in response to butchering innocent men, women and children. no matter what israel does, progressives like aoc will accuse the country of ethnic cleansing. our responsibility is to the stability and the security of the region. that m
indict. and on that note, i will turn it over to you, pam brown, and cnn tonight. that s quite the turnover there, abby. sorry. it really happened. had to do it i understand. you can t bleep it out. he is the leading republican president democratic convention candidate. totally get it. have a great weekend. good evening everyone. i m pamela brown. great to have you with us thon late friday night. there is news happening. donald trump telling reporters tonight he may be in court on monday. are you going to your trial on monday? i may, yeah. that is for the $250 million civil fraud suit. the new york attorney general is bringing that against the former president and his business empire. while in georgia one of trump s codefendants pleaded guilty today, flipping for the prosecution agreeing to testify. plus historic flooding in new york city. i mean, these pictures, wow. a month s worth of rain falling in a few short hours today. surging flood waters, overwhelmin