states and undermine the integrity of the united states democratic process. she ignored and injured the interest of the nation. of course the conduct of the following me about one, president of trump acting both directly within and outside of the united states government solicited the government to ukraine to publicly announce the investigations. and the huge presidential election number to cover the same corrupt motive is president of trump acting both directly and with agents with inciting outside of the united states government the release of 390 million, $91 million of the united states taxpayer funds is a congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose the russian aggression which president trump ordered suspended. the president of ukraine sought to demonstrate support in the face of the russian aggression. number three, faced with a public resolution of actions, president trump ultimately released the military and security assistance to the government of ukraine tha

united states of america. in maintenance and support of its impeachment, against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. articlesd one, abuse of power.th the constitution provides that the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment and that the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. in his conduct ofti the office f the president of the united states, and in violation of his constitutional oath, faithfully to execute the office of president of the united states, and in the best of his ability preserve and protect and defend the constitution of the united i states, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, donald j trump has abused the powers of the presidency and that using the powers of his eye office, president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government ukraine, and 2020 united states presidential election. he did so through a sch

states articles of impeachment against donald john trump president of the united states. the managers on the part of the house will now proceed. mr president the managers on the part of the house of representatives are present and ready to present the articles of impeachment which have been preferred by the house of representatives against donald john trump president of the united states the house adopted the following resolution which with the permission of the senate i will read. house resolution 798 appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of donald john trump president of the united states resolve that mr shift mr navl or ms lofgren mr jeffries ms deming's mr crow and ms garcia of texas are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment trial against donald john trump president of the united states that a message be sent to the senate to inform the senate of these appointments and at the managers so appointed may in connection with the preparation and conduct of the trial exhibit articles of impeachment to the senate and take all other actions nece

states largest exports to china historically a lot of those producers you know in the united states while they were sitting idle were losing business to brazil and other countries are providing those products and those trade relationships that have been established will continue to exist and so united states companies and farmers will be less competitive over the long run because china is sourcing those those supplies and components elsewhere so do you think farmers will see it that way that that that this really perhaps doesn't benefit them the way that donald trump has tried to present it in clearly during this trade war their foreign ministry has been subsidized because they have been losing phil. yeah they've been they've been subsidized but you know it not not entirely i mean plenty of farmers have been hit very hard by this a lot of logistics companies have been hit hard and with the agreement itself it provides 2 years of commitments and even those commitments are called into question vice premier lou said that you know china would only buy what the market demands and there i

states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means: (1) president trump, acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government, corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into (a) a political opponent, former vice president joseph r. biden, and (b) a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine, rather than russia, interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election. (2) with the same corrupt motives, president trump, acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government, conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he had requested (a) the release of $391 million of united states taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russi

states press against the united states. infiltrations of the united states position, shots fired in the direction of the united states parameters and positions. roughing up of the united states citizens in the street. >> sabina virgo, a national labor organizer, was in panama just weeks before the invasion. >> provocations against the panamanian people by the united states military troops were very frequent in panama, and they had several results and in my opinion probably a couple of different intents. one, i think, was to create an international incident, was to have united states troops just hassle the panamanian people until an incident resulted and from that incident, the united states could then say that they were going into panama for the protection of american life, which is in fact exactly what happened. >> on the night of december 16, a group of u.s. marines ran a military roadblock in front of pdf headquarters and were fired on by panamanian guards. [gunshots] >> one lieutenant, a u.s. marine intelligence officer

states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation. president trump engaged in this game or course of conduct to the following means: number one, president trump acting both directly and through his agents both in and outside of the united states government corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into haiti, a political oppone opponent, joseph r biden jr., and b, a discredited theory promoted by russia, that ukraine, rather than russia, interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election. number two, with the same culture motives, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within the united states government, to code official acts on the public announcement that he had requested. a, the release of $391 million of the united states taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian aggression, to which p

in the united states. thate lacks the charisma soleimani had. he had a unique relationship with the supreme leader. directly reporting to him. it was a very clear and affectionate relationship. go back and look at the pictures . nobody else i think in the leadership with whom he felt as close. whose judgment he trusted. they are going to continue their work but it won't be as effective, i think, as it was, because of the personal aspect. again, the parliament just yesterday increased the budget for the brigade to the tune of 200 million euros. but increased budget isn't going to mean that is all it takes. they have crossed some of their ability because of the personal contacts and personal relationships. is viewed asimani a martyr, the set increase the potential for intensified attacks? -- does that increase the potential for intensified attacks? guest: i would be surprised if it does anything other than what the supreme leader suggested. was the executor of this policy, the architect of the policy was and

states, and all times that the senate is sitting in trial with the chief justice of the united states presiding be an acco with the allocations and provisions now sent to the desk, and i asked that it be printed in the recor >> is there objection? if not, so ordered. sen. mcconnell: i ased the unanimonsent that the senate proceed to consideration of h. res.>> 471. the court will report. >> senate resolution 471, authorizing the taking of a photograph in the chof the united states senate. >> is there objection to proceeding to the consideration? withoutse objection, thte will proceed. sen. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to and th motion be considered maymulate up on the ble with no intervening action or debate. laura: so we are looking atethe united s senate. wet are lookingnator chuck grassley and senator majority leader mitch mcconnell could the articles of impeachment has been sent from the house of representatives to the senate. mthns that the trial of president trump can begin. we have been hearing the senate majority leader talking about how it i

anywhere in the world is the united states. our country has never done better. >> that's quite a claim, and it's a claim not everyone agrees with including democratic senator and presidential candidate michael bennett. and he gave one compelling example. >> barack obama's administration created more jobs than donald trump's administration on average per month. i mean, if donald trump were creating jobs a the same rate barack obama were creating jobs, we'd have a million more jobs here in this country right now. >> that is true. a million more jobs were created during the last 34 months of the obama administration than in the trump administration so far. now, critics argue that while the economy is solid, it's not working for everyone. bankruptcies are rising. so the president says this is the best economy in history, but you take that back, you had some pretty strong quarters in the obama economy. and back in the '90s and also some years post-world war ii you had much stronger economic growth than you're seeing today. i always

states in this is the key and it is very influential, the country, the united states that the united states is showing up for unilateralism so somehow any to pull the united states back and work together. so as i told you global change, global warming and the issues china and russia are taking initiative in this issue, this is good they, tackling global issues but to political things in this area so you need to pull the united states back, and japan need to coordinate laws by the major stakeholders and work on the issues together and this is my idea and as for -- japan is a non permanent member today therefore it is quite difficult to show more commitment to the making a resolution against it, so prime minister abe has a stronger will to have a tight wreck talk with kim jong-un. but it takes more time to have it because japan is not, should not direct contact and need to wait for communication between kim jong-un and trump for the time being and wait and see for the moment and then japan has another issue between korea that is projection issues that should be more carefully japanese

states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation. president trump engaged in the scheme or course of conduct through the following means: number one, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government corruptly solicited the government of ukraine -uk to publicly announce investigations into a a political opponent, former vice president joseph r biden junior and b,sc a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine, rather than russia, interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election. number two, with the same corrupt motives president trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government conditioned to official acts on the public announcement that he had requested. eight, the release of 390 million, $391 million of the united states taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vitalh military and security

states that has been completely destroyed make no mistake what the united states did what president trump did was a direct attack on the poor leadership of the islamic republic of iran he has unified the factions within iran against any negotiation with the united states and he's unified their determination to expel us forces from the region it may not happen tomorrow but president trump may go down just as president carter did that's what the iranians are looking for a humiliating defeat for what is a real test of the islamic republic of iran an attack on their core leadership ok and finally under this creek your final thoughts on this is to pull missy day it's a reserve so a chance to resolve this 'd in a relatively peaceful manner. i do agree that this was an attack at the heart of the islamic republic and the islamic republic is with the back with its back against the wall you know protests and economic crisis the question is if they move forward no are they going to are they willing to escalate because escalation is not going to serve the iranians well either they're very strat

states of course united states is is going to react so i think iran our iran backed you know forces in iraq instigated the united states surely act so if iranian got what they have wanted in fact a from from that reaction in fact that's is the golden moment for them to condemn what has done by american but. and the other hand we are turning a blind eye for what is going on in the other side i think what is going on that iraq iraqi you know state is not a state is a project to say it's not me who is saying that iraq is a fragile state and why it's iraq is a fragile a state because of the political parties who owns army groups not only the shia but maybe also the kurds who are having much marga they don't want to state the floor they don't want a state that. they don't want to state is a powerful death with control on each and everything they want to be above the lol and that's really is pushing you from a foreign world iraqi government is is is in this situation or in the position they cannot you know react they cannot do anything towards any thing that is happening and i would ask y

of each member of the united states senate. which is to uphold the integrity of our system of democracy, uphold the integrity of our system of justice, and to uphold the integrity of the united states senate, which has a responsibility to do fair and impartial justice, which means demanding more from that the american public in each member of this body receive all evidence, documents and individuals who are witnesses so that we can engage in a fair deliberation. and make the decision that reflects the ideals and the values, and the very principles of the united states system of justice. and so that is what is before us today. and we took a very solemn oath, it's a very serious matter. which each of us should take responsibility, and take seriously, understanding that whatever the party affiliation of the president of the united states, right now it is incumbent on the united states senate to do the work of upholding america's constitution and our very system of justice. >> thank you, senator harris. senator koontz. >> thank you

they believe they have been in a state of war with the united states ever since the u.s. left the nuclear agreement. they want the u.s. to lift all those sanctions and if possible, to go back to the nuclear agreement. one of the things they've been saying, if you want to renegotiate this whole thing, come back to it first. that doesn't look like it's in the cards. from a negative perspective in all of this, one is president trump also announced those tough new sanctions he will hit iran with. the iranians saying very clearly, as long as the u.s. is out of the nuclear agreement and those sanctions are in place this conflict will keep going on and simmering, john. >> interesting to see as kaitlan noted earlier, we will see what the president has in mind with sanctions. thank you for being here at this critical time. >>> let's go to nic robertson. you were in the capitol waiting for the president of the united states and encouraged by the announcement to step back from military confrontation and waiting for a road map of what comes next. what is the administration's longer t

john trump, president of the united states. the managers on the part of the house, will now proceed. mr. president, the managers on the part of the house of the representatives are present and ready to present the articles of impeachment which have been preferred by the house of representatives against donald john trump, president of the united states. the house adopted theth followig onresolutions which would with permission of the senate i will read. house resolution 798, appointing and authorizing managers from the impeachment trial of don and john trump, president of the united states. result to mr. shift in network and the smart, mr. jeffries, mrd are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment trial against donald john trump, president of the united states hathat a message be sent to the senate to inform the sentence appointments and that the managers so appointed in connection with the preparation and conduct of the trial, exhibit articles of impeachment to the senate and take all of their actions which may includee th

they are in negotiations about batch in the united states. the united states of america will be able to remove the duty onhas prevented steel imports, 25%. this is a sensitive issue, and we hope that this duty will be rescinded. if we have road and bridge construction, as well as natural gas and oil development. we expect the participation of american companies to do well offshore. besides, ukraine is thriving to build a sufficient cooperation with international finance and development cooperation. we are interested in implementing joint cases in different sectors of our country. i would like to express time and again great gratitude to the secretary of state of the united states, mike pompeo, for his support and assistance of ukraine and for the fruitful negotiation. yesterday, on the 30th of -- was born, and he said the only realization of tomorrow will be our doubt today. there state of ukraine, is no doubt whatsoever regarding the strategic partnership with the united states of america. that is why we are confident in realization of all o

the united states, the president of the united states undermines impeachment. what more would boast his position and perhaps other than a war? the fact that they did response the way the president wanted kind of two-tiered that whole process the united states taking another step that would be more? i think the fact that iran could not do something more kind of made him kick it. >> will take that and a response. >> first of all, i'm not sure the assumption is correct. i don't think the president engages in the full regional war in the middle east. it is going to be a major military and economic disaster for everyone. i think what's on president trump elective, the fact that he wants the u.s. to get out of the middle eastern wars. so it is old that foreign wars getting them busy. american politics right now is getting with impeachment. you're right, i think iran did show this in the reaction but you have to realize the iranian economy and society is very fragile. the economy is very much in corruption, confident and added to that, one of the most remarkable, diff

he believes in the utility of alliance with the united states. second strategy is the peacemaking strategy. he wants to reduce tension with north korea and wants to build confidence with north korea and he wants to adopt an end of war declaration. he wants to transform the armistice agreement into some sort of peace agreement or treaty. he wants to sustain a viable peace regime under the korean peninsula. in fact, that has been one of the most important policy strategies of the moon governments. third, he's interested in peace building. peace building refers to the elimination of codes of war under the korean peninsula but he * believes the piece economy can lead to peace building. if north of south korea make a corporation and if they agree to come up with some kind of arrangement through which peop people, goods and services can move freely across the tmz and north and south korea can pursue common prosperity president moon strongly believes there won't be any more on the korean peninsula. in a sense it is like he's [inaudible] trading states d

nations a government that supported by the united states i think. has a faction or an opportunity of winning but it's going to be very difficult concept physically how which is why he's been propped up and supported by the turks who are who have already expressed to send their military might to support him there are too many actors playing and supporting a competing factions which for we know we're not showing exactly who's going to succeed in the white the back so let's get to ensue. and al qaeda affiliate her. struck in kenya a u.s. service member and 2 civilian contractors have been killed in the african country after all members attacked a military base shared by the u.s. and local troops the terrorists also destroyed several u.s. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled washington has been using the base in kenya county since 2004 to train at the country's naval units. and that does it for me i will be back with more of the weekly at the top they are this is our international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have

the united states is our ally, iran is our neighbor. what do you think he meant by that. >> iraq can't change the geography of where it is. it shares a 1400 kilometer border with iran and trying to establish some peace given they waged their own war against one another for years, it is still the middle east's bloodiest long-term conflict. the last thing iraq wants is to become a battlefield for a conflict from the united states and iran. i think the iraquis have been at war with various players in the region for 40 years, since 1980, 23 under saddam hussein and 23 since u.s. intervention. it's a deep fear it could be whether overtly or covertly the stage or arena for another war that could dwarf the earlier ones. >> president salih told you iraq could not survive another conflict in the middle east. what do you think, if forced to choose between iran and the united states, which seems to be a choice that is very real at this moment, what will the iraquis decide? >> we saw that play out in the iraqi parliament yesterday when it voted to

the united states has crossed a line. not in trying to eliminate an imminent threat even if we were to believe that but in taking out a sitting member of the government of another country. i think iranians want to -- they want the united states to think it is not easy and cost free to take iran in this manner. i think in many ways aside from a symbolic retaliation or deterrence by iran, iran is now determined to force the united states out of iraq. the mood in iraq supports that. there is anger on the street. it's possible to galvanize the iraqi public and politicians around this idea. in a way, the united states has over played its hand and has now put itself on the defensive in iraq, put itself in a position of having to justify why it carried out this assassination. those things give iran a lot of opportunities. also the trip of the foreign minister to tehran shows that america's allies are not happy with what has happened. they want iran punished but they didn't want to destablize the region, which is exactly what the

the united states is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it. i want to thank you and god bless america. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. >> and that is the response that the world was waiting to hear from the president of the united states. gloria borger, let me bring you in. what's your reaction? >> well, my reaction to this is, first of all, that the president made it very clear that he intends to continue and invoke more economic sanctions against iran. this was not a call for negotiation, this was a president who believes he is dealing from strength and said we are going to double down here to a great degree. i think it was interesting that you saw all the generals arrayed behind him during this kind of a speech. we do not see that when the president delivers what is considered a political speech to the nation, but they were standing there and we have not seen that in the past. one other thing i also want to point out is the president blaming barack obama for all of this, saying that as a result of the iran nuclear agreement this

the united states has no official language. english is not the officially was of the united states. in some parts of the united states like pennsylvania, they could just as well have made germany official language. spokearts of eastern ohio check. they spoke german, saying german songs. remember, the suspicion we have four people were not like us who defective,tically racially defective, colonial league defective, then muscle can easily be rerouted. what we see in 1914, certainly in 1915 is that it becomes downright dangerous being german, suspected of being , doing, consuming anything german -- we get reports in the united of people going out with and poundingl bats dogsand dogs -- dachshund because they represent germans. that they becomes -- that thing becomes indicative of german. in your way of proving your position -- position alley -- position ality, club it. your no longer sauerkraut, -- you are having freedom caverns. -- freedom cabbage. it is not french fries, it is liberty fries. stein, thereing a are public stein crashing gatherings where you show you are making real you

then later tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 p.m., the chief justice of the united states will arrive here in the senate. he will be sworn in by the president pro tem, senator grassley. then the chief justice will swear in all of us senators. we will pledge to rise above the factionalism and to do justice for our institutions, for our states, and for the nation. then we will formally notify the white house of our pending trial and summon the president to answer the articles and send his counsel. the trial will commence in earnest on tuesday. but first, some important good news for the country. we anticipate the senate will finish the usmca tomorrow and send this landmark trade deal to president trump for his signature. a major victory for the administration, but more importantly, for american families. so let me close with this. this is a difficult time for our country, but this is precisely the kind of time for which the framers created the senate. i am confident this body can rise above short-term-ism and factional fever and serve the long-term best interests of our nation. we can do this.

states the great satan and they warned that if the united states allies in the region. it was used to retaliate against iran then iran would target dolls' regional countries and they also said that they did not recognize israel as a separate entity from the united states and if if iran is attacked and that opens up the door for a dragging in israel and other regional countries if this is to escalate but how did we get here how did we get to a position where we could possibly be facing a wider conflict now iran has made it clear that this is a retaliation to a single event to the assassination of general costs and so the money they said they do not want a war but if the united states respond they would have to respond but we've got had this goes all the way back to 2015 the nuclear deal that obama signed with iran things looked like they were getting better but when donald trump came into office he pulled the united states out of that deal in 2018 and that deal was designed to curb iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief but when donald trump came into of

the united states is different. other than the native americans, we are all immigrants, some forced through slavery, but we are all immigrants. so we have had over the last 200 years cycles in terms of immigration policy. sometimes extremely welcoming and sometimes perhaps, when there is perceived economic duress or some political advantage to be taken, that is when we see the restrictions. what we have seen now that distinguishes our history from ourselves has been the attitude we are taking toward refugees. the united states previously had always been one of the most welcoming nations toward refugees. now not so much. tom: abby joseph cohen of goldman sachs, love doing this. it is the year ahead. and we have done this with abby joseph cohen of goldman sachs. we hope for all of you it is a wonderful 2020. i cannot promise you that equity returns of last year but perhaps you get half as much this year. this is "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ lisa: i'm lisa abramowicz. welcome to bloomberg "money undercover," a show th

law gives the united states there the right to seize his assets but not to kill him . in washington reaction was split along party lines republican support of the strike senior democrats called it reckless. silliman he was a murderer but this reckless move escalates the situation with iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new middle east conflict our priority must be to avoid another costly war. u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe tweeted a video showing iraqis celebrating the attack while still a money enjoyed widespread support for leading the charge to displace eisel from iraqi strongholds some iraqis blame iran for instability and interference in their country and solute money directly for the deaths of more than 500 iraqis in violent antigovernment protests which began in october feared by his enemies inside iran has for years been one of the most popular national figures in the country the international face of iranian resistance to american pressure he remained largely untouched by the waning popularity in recent years of the country's elected g

the united states raged an economic war against iran. the united states has to come to its senses. europe can play a useful role by informing the united states of the serious error in their analysis, that they should stop listening to clowns. that they should base their policy based on realities and not some illusions of some clowns who have ambitions elsewhere. >> let's go straight to tehran to my colleague, our cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen. the ayatollah said he wanted iran's military directly involved. they were. u.s. officials are still worried about iran's proxies taking action in the future. tell us more about that and who they are. >> reporter: well, iran certainly controls a lot of proxy forces all along the greater middle eastern region. you know, brooke, before these ballistic missile strikes took place that the iranians conducted, a lot of people were thinking that if iran was going to threaten the united states anywhere in the middle east, they would probably use some of those proxy forces in places like iraq, in places like syria and in places l

states of america it says that no one is above the law that includes the president of the united states. also coming up crimes against its own people 30 years ago tonight in east berlin crowds stormed the headquarters of the secret police just in time to stop the shredding of a dark past. then with a fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike and huge effort to convince west german elites and politicians who want to keep a lid on this for various reasons. viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the vote that sets in motion the trial which could mean the end of the trump presidency last month the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach donald trump on abuse of power and obstruction of congress's power to investigate that abuse well today the house voted to send those 2 articles of impeachment over to the u.s. senate now that is where beginning next week for only the 3rd time in u.s. history a sitting u.s. president will stand trial senators acting as jurors deciding yes or no to convict and remove trump

where is the win for the united states there? >> there is no win for the united states. it could pour into israel, into the middle east. and soleimani, he's symbolically very important. he can't control the reaction now that he's gone. iran can't control the reaction. people in cells around the world want to take a shot at america because soleimani has been killed. you can't control the forces around the world. that's why it's important for the president to keep the moral high ground. we have a little bit of that, treasure it, use it, be the good guy. that's the place we want to be in, so everybody can move forward and have a win. >> thank you to both of you. and thank all of you for watching. please stay with cnn through the night. we will have the latest on this breaking story. you ever wish you weren't a motaur? sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i could see that. for those who were born to ride, there's progressiv

trained b by the united states. u.s. train military men "provided logogistical support d a gun in the plot to kill caceres." can you talk about what you know about the u.s. connection? >> i believe what we have seen since the coup is how extractive is him as massively entered into our country. theew that extractivism, military are able to gain control of these extractive companies. since the coup, they become entrepreneurs and we also witnessed how the government of the united date is complicit and allows the installation of this coup. then we see how the united states government continues toto support government in honduras, which are highly obsessive and violators of human rights. the united states supports these governments, particularly in the area of militarization. at the time of my mother's murder, one of the things that caught our attentionon is that t was said that members of the fbi were investigating her killing -- which the u.s. embassy never clarified, even though it was not true. and the u.s. embassy a

and what followedn the united states senate floor. take a watch. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. while the house of representatives are exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against donald john trump, president of the united states. >> the managers on the part of the house will now proceed. >> donald j. trump, president of the united states, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors with the permission of the senate i will now read the articles of impeachment. >> president trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the united states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. >> the presiding officer will now administer the oath to john g. roberts, chief justice of the united states. >> i am now prepared to take the oath. >> will you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand? do you solemnly swear in all things pertaining to the trial of impea

the top iranian official in the united states. >> mr. ambassador, thank you for your time tonight. >> pleasure. >> with these sudden developments, obviously, the entire world is focused on this story. when you look at what happened here, was this a declaration of war? >> in fact, it was an act of war on the part of the united states against iranian people. the u.s. started an economic war against the iranian people back in may 2018 when president trump decided to withdrawal from the jcpoa, the nuclear deal. and started the maximum-pressure policy against the iranians, putting lots of economic pressure on iran. and they have continued until today. last night, they opened a new chapter. attack against iranians by assassinating one of our most beloved generals. who is popular not only in iran but also in the countries in the region. so that was, as i said, a new chapter which is tantamount to opening a war against iran. >> so you say it's tantamount to opening a war against iran. president trump, today, said -- his words -- we took action t

states and canada to replace the united states-mexico-canada agreement. the presiding officer: the motion is not debatable. the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed. the clerk will report the bill. the clerk: calendar number 406, h.r. 5330, an act to implement the agreement between the united states of america, the united mexican state to replace the north american free trade agreement. the presiding officer: in accordance with section 151 of the trade act, there will be 20 hours of debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. merkley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: and that my fellow would have privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. the presiding officer: without objection.

president says that iran appears to be standing down in its confrontation with the united states while he himself has not threatened any further military action against tehran the u.s. president spoke today at the white house just hours after iran launched a missile attack on military bases housing u.s. troops in iraq iran claimed that at least 80 americans had died in that attack today trump confirmed that no lives no american no iraqi lives were lost. a crucial and highly anticipated moment no americans were harmed. in last night's attack by the iranian regime. we suffered. all of our soldiers are safe and orderly minimal damage was sustained at military bases or donald trump confirming no troops were injured or killed in iran's missile attack meant there was no need to escalate tensions between the 2 countries. it's all about the iranian state television had earlier claimed missiles fired by iran's forces had killed 80 u.s. soldiers at the ein al assad air base in iraq because. the attack was an act of revenge for the killing of top military commander general kasim any the move has

who collaborate with t the united states. they have been through this. this was the story of the past decade. it is strange as we enter a new decade and we just repeat the same story on the same narrative, only in a bigger way. amy: we want to thank you so much for being with us. ghaith abdul-ahad is a correspondent for the guardian newspaper. only come back from break, we will hear the response from congress member ao alexandria ocasio-cortez. we will hear from a man who is trying to stop war with iranan o feels he was instrumental in leading to the war in iraq, the chief of staff of colin powell, colonel lawrence wilkerson. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. over the weekend, i caught up with congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez. she had come to the showing of a film that has just been shortlisted for the oscar which chronicled her race, her unlikely victory in queens and the bronx to become a congressmember from new york. i asked her for her response e o the assassinion of the

states is, we have 237 coal plants left in the united states. we have close to hundred 90. we will close the other 237 because there is no economic strength. there are 1500 coal plants in the world. there are plans to build 1200 more. if they build 1200 more coal plants and we close 237, we lose. everybody loses. who could actually lead a moral, technological, commercial and financial charge to clean up the way we generate and use energy in the world other than us? nobody. we are going to have to think about this internationally. we will have to think about in terms of how our government works, and how we relate to other people. i was saying before, this is not bad. having a purpose as a country to stand up for what's right, and to save the world is not a bad thing. [applause] mr. steyer: and let me say. that is what they invented the united states of america for. that. this is exactly who we are supposed to be. the people who make the moral choice to do the right thing and lead the world and a way that makes everybody better off. that is exactl

contained in that constitution of the united states. so we take that oath. and when we become members of congress or other public office, we take an oath to protect and defend that constitution of the united states. and the president of the united states takes an oath to preserve and protect and defend the constitution of the united states, an oath that he has blatantly violated and for this reason, he was impeached by the house of representatives. . for this reason we thought it would be helpful to have not overwhelm the strong case for impeachment and removal that was put forth in this house, but to know that more was to come. we didn't make it come because we said we are going to wait until after christmas to send this over. they would have liked to send it over on christmas eve so they could dismiss it. perhaps they don't realize that dismissal is cover-up. but that has been one of their trains of thought. dismissal is cover-up. i was so disappointed the other day, last friday, thursday, when the leader of the united states senate,

states imposed on iraq are now increasingly going to start to see the united states and its military on their territory as not the solution to their problems but has the problem you know yeah i mean as glengall it clinton seems to mean we have to remind our viewers that in the 1980 s. iran and iraq want an 8 year war something akin to like trench warfare in the 1st world war it was bloody it was awful it was destructive. and now we have this illegal invasion of iraq and the net outcome of that is that. iraq has moved closer to iran a country that they fought a bloody war for 8 years. doesn't the american stance actually than in push forward a better iraqi iran relationship because you know the trumpet ministration say we're going to leave and part of the conditions is that we want everyone else to leave everyone should get out of iraq i think you could sell that idea the i think a lot of iraqis would go for it i think the majority of iraqis would like to see all foreign troops all foreign opera operatives leave but the way the trumpet administration is playing it works to iran's adva

adversaries of the united states. in recent years, a particular focus has been iran's nuclear program. despite iran's claim that it sought nuclear power purely for peaceful purposes, legitimate suspicion of its intent led to a global campaign led by the united states to sanction iran even more as a means of getting the country to abandon its western nuclear weapons. after years of negotiations between six nations -- france, britain, the u.s., germany, russia, china, and iran -- an agreement was reached in 2015 whereby iran would pledge never to seek, acquire, or develop nuclear weapons in exchange for gradual relations, relaxing of u.s. sanctions against iran. the agreement known as the jcpoa contains strict limits on iran's nuclear program that would gradually relax over 25 years. iran's pledge to never acquire or develop nuclear weapons was permanent. as was its commitment to abide by the inspection protocols of the international atomic energy agency to ensure compliance with that fundamental pledge. the jcpoa was n

the fact that the united states designated. on its own unilaterally as a foreign terrorist does not give the united states in law or in practice even the right to kill him it in u.s. law gives the united states the right to seize his assets but not to kill him and i think here again we're looking at u.s. government under president trump and unfortunately even under just under president trump prior presidents have been under this dissolution as well that somehow we can control the situation in and with iran that has just been flagrantly not true for 40 years we have underestimated that country it's an enormous country 80000000 people sophisticated educated it has a very significant conventional military force it has a significant asymmetric military force it knows every inch of where the americans are and have been around the middle east and has done so 2 in a deliberate way i think since president bush 1st designated the entire country of iran as part of the axis of evil back in 2002 so my concern is the united states is yet ag

this is a world threat to all countries, not just the united states. so now he's going to be able to come in and say, look, the negotiations i've had with china have worked. despite all of the negative feedback from even the american press. and look at what i've done with canada and mexico and bringing jobs back to the united states. i'm not the president of the world. i'm the president of the american people. and he is there representing us and he's not concerned about these impeachment hearings because right now he is showing that he can walk and chew gum and he's got the best interest of the united states on his mind 24/7. cheryl: joh she brings up sog interesting there, it's about protectionism. this isn't just happening in the united states, we're seeing russia and china also. these are countries that are put being their own economies, their own people, even india is doing this now, they want to be separate. but had that is kind of the opposite of what we've had with nato. that's the opposite of the paris climate aaccord, the opposite of g-7. i'm

states where iran may cause problems for the united states let's not forget of course the persian gulf. has been a target before used by iran and let's not forget as well cyber attacks so at the moment what's being saying said here in the united states is you know let's express a little bit of caution let's wait let's not just assume that everything is absolutely fine between these long term enemies now rather than calling for more conflict calling for new diplomatic efforts what will those efforts look like i mean these are 2 sides that have been going at it another green on march how likely is it that they can find any common ground. well it may come as a surprise to many but in fact the united states underrun actually do have contacts of some sort it all goes through other embassies or other countries that they do have links with one that's been mentioned a lot here in the united states it's switzerland so they communicate that way or through other embassies but the idea that the 2 will sit down and actually discuss it is maybe hard to believe you know president trump did mention th

states, defining the united states as the great satan. that is a source of a lot of friction. that is different from what happened in 1953. >> a tweet, we have been hearing a lot from viewers with regard sayingiran nuclear deal, we should have corrected the ignoring color that -- caller that obama did not send tax dollars to iran, it was money -- >> under the terms of the jcpoa, iranian money that was being held -- iowa.go live to you can watch the rest of "washington journal" on www.c-span.org. c-span is back live with political science scholars looking ahead to the state's democratic caucus is taking place on monday, february 3. >> how they see the race unfolding, who is ahead and who is behind. discussion, i report we have breaking news. a cbs poll just out has