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THE DAILY SIGNAL

Jan 21, 2020

Good morning from Washington, where the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump begins at 1 p.m. What happens next? Tom Jipping and Elizabeth Slattery have answers. A new district attorney means a radical turn for the rule of law in San Francisco. Fred Lucas introduces him. On the podcast, March for Life leader Jeanne Mancini previews Friday’s assembly. Plus: what Ukrainians say about Iran’s downing of that airliner, and a pro football player’s faithful plays. On this date in 1977, President Jimmy Carter pardons hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.

	ANALYSISThe Senate Impeachment Trial: 8 Things You Need to KnowBy Thomas Jipping House managers will act as the prosecution, presenting the case for impeachment to the senators, whose role is a combination of judge and jury.MoreNEWSSan Francisco DA Touts Progressive Ambitions for Already Troubled CityBy Fred Lucas Chesa Boudin spent his childhood influenced by members of a radical left and violent domestic terrorist organization. During college, he worked for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.MoreANALYSIS‘Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman’: What to Expect From 2020 March for LifeBy Virginia Allen Since 1974, the March for Life has gathered to remember the lives lost since the Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion, and to remind America that each life has value.MoreNEWSUkrainians React to Iran’s Admission of Guilt in Shooting Down AirlinerBy Nolan Peterson “The one thing that we definitely didn’t want to happen is for this tragedy to become the subject of yet another disinformation campaign,” said Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, a research officer at the Kyiv-based Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group.MoreCOMMENTARYNorth Korean Christian Martyr: ‘Even If I Die, I Do Not Have Any Regrets’By Tony Perkins “The torture he went through was so gruesome that it is unimaginable,” recalls his wife.MoreNEWSFaith, Family, Football: Why Patriots Tight End Benjamin Watson Champions LifeBy Mary Margaret Olohan “We shouldn’t be advocating for anyone to have to kill their children,” says Watson. “Let’s challenge fathers to stand in the gap and be there for the children that they create because they have a huge role in this too.”More

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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ROBERT FROSTFord to Ask Supreme Court to Clarify Where It Can Be Sued Proposed Missouri Bill Would Fine, Jail Librarians for Giving Kids ‘Age-Inappropriate Sexual Material’ JCPenney Announces More Store Closures, Shutting Call Center in Kansas Guide to the Trump Impeachment Trial in the Senate  President Donald Trump’s attorneys called on the U.S. Senate to dismiss the articles of impeachment sent by the House and immediately acquit the president, calling the charges against the commander in chief a “brazen political act” that must be rejected. Read moreAt least 18,000 Second Amendment advocates hailing from across the country assembled at Virginia’s State Capitol building to rally against a slew of gun control proposals that are in the process of passing through the Democrat-controlled state legislature. Read moreAs the United States and Japan mark the 60th anniversary of the U.S.–Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, a leading critic of the Trump administration from Japan’s academic community said last week that U.S. President Donald Trump may be right to push Japan to pay its fair share for America’s military defense of the island nation. Read moreA bipartisan group of 68 senators and representatives think it’s time that Congress be told how much new legislative proposals are going to increase the interest costs of the national debt before deciding whether to vote for them. Read moreChina reported a fourth death due to a new strain of viral pneumonia, in addition to dozens more infections in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong Province, as a top Chinese health official confirmed that the disease can be transmitted from human to human—raising concerns that the illness has already spread widely across the country. Read moreHuawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou appeared in a Vancouver court for the first day of her extradition trial, which would decide if she can be transferred to the United States for criminal processing. Read more  See More Top StoriesSocialism appears to be on the rise in our country, especially among the young, and we want to understand the extent of that support. That’s why you have been selected by Hillsdale College to participate in a National Survey on Socialism. With your response, you will help Hillsdale College more clearly understand the views of mainstream Americans—views that we will make available to policymakers and opinion leaders. Every month, Hillsdale College is reaching millions of Americans with educational outreach. Your response to this National Survey on Socialism is essential in helping us form the most effective strategy in fighting for the future of our country. As Winston Churchill noted, “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” And education is the surest way to defeat it. If you agree, please stand with Hillsdale College as we promote intelligent patriotism and defend liberty through education.  One Year and Seven Debates: The Three Reasons the Democrat Race Remains Undecided By Thomas Del Beccaro The Democratic nomination race started within days after the 2018 Midterms. Since then, a year has passed, two dozen have declared their candidacy, and there have been seven debates—and yet there is no clarity as to who will be the nominee. Read moreNot Impeachment, a Nervous Breakdown By Roger L. Simon I was going to write how the impeachment is a farce, as in Marx’s “History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” (Actually, it would be the third time. Clinton’s impeachment was also a farce.) Read more  See More OpinionsChina Expert Explains the Country’s Chronic Problems By Valentin Schmid (March 10, 2015) No matter where you look, China is swamped with problems. The economy is a gigantic bubble and political infighting is paralyzing the regime. To some, China is still an enigma and most outside of China… Read moreFormer Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the Justice Department to release text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, according to a sworn statement by Rosenstein in a Jan. 17 court filing.  Rosenstein Says He Authorized Release of Page–Strzok Text MessagesAdvertisement:

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Your First Look at Today’s Top Stories – Daybreak InsiderHaving trouble viewing this email? View the web version.SPONSORED BYDaybreakInsider.com  @DaybreakInsiderTUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 20201.CNN Poll: Post Impeached Trump Better than Pre-Impeached Trump His approval is up to 43 percent, tying the highest CNN has had him at since March, 2017 (CNN).  Meanwhile, some rules are now in place.  CNN notes “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives House impeachment managers and the President’s legal team 24 hours each to make their opening arguments over two days. The resolution raises the prospect that the trial will have 12-hour days and go late into the night, according to a copy of the resolution obtained by CNN” (CNN). How things are likely to go today (Fox News).  From Congressman Doug Collins: An impeachment supported by only one party is a failure. Refusing to proceed in a bipartisan manner reveals the Democrats’ lack of thoroughness and seriousness and, above all, their lack of compelling evidence. This impeachment is antithetical to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and, as the speaker would have agreed until recently, deeply damaging to the country (WSJ).  2.Biden: Don’t Arrest and Deport Illegal Immigrants Unless They Commit a Felony If they are caught driving drunk, he says let them stay (Washington Examiner).  Interesting coming from a man who falsely claims his wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver (Washington Times).  Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders apologized to Biden for a surrogate’s op-ed (CBS News).  One story claims Joe Biden is “the king of the sweetheart deal, with no less than five family members benefiting from his largesse, favorable access and powerful position for commercial gain. In Biden’s case, these deals include foreign partners and, in some cases, even US taxpayer dollars” (NY Post).  Advertisement3.Second Amendment Rally Held at Governor’s Mansion in Virginia Which an NBC reporter called a “white supremacist rally” (Daily Caller).  From Tim Carney: For starters, NBC News reporter Ben Collins, again, he’s a reporter, not an opinion writer, flatly and falsely called the demonstration a “white nationalist rally” in a tweet calling on everyone covering it to “verify information” before tweeting it out. Collins has deleted the smear-tweet, but you have to consider the nature of the error (Washington Examiner). From Governor Ralph Northam, after the obviously peaceful protest:  We are all thankful that today passed without incident. The teams successfully de-escalated what could have been a volatile situation. I will continue to listen to the voices of Virginians, and will do everything in my power to keep our Commonwealth safe (Twitter).  From Erielle Davidson: The 2A is for everyone. The media stoking a race war over a rally that brought Americans from all creeds together is quite telling. The media does not care for American society. They want to watch it burn (Twitter). From David Harsanyi: If things keep up this way, the last person heard spouting violent rhetoric in Richmond will have been Northam when he explained how to kill inconvenient babies (Twitter). One individual, who some believe was a plant, tried to stir up violence but the crowd told him to get lost (PJ Media).  AOC is shocked that there weren’t more police at the protest (Twitter).  4.DeVos: Religious Liberty in Schools Must Be Protected In an op-ed, the Secretary of Education explains “The notion of “separation of church and state” is not an invitation for government to separate people from their faith. Yet, too many students and too many teachers are separated from their faith while they are in school.” USA Today 5.World Happiness Report Starts with Premise that Happiness Begins with GovernmentTherefore, the story notes, “Western free countries with the most socialized systems are at the top of the list as the happiest countries, led by Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, with the U.S. coming in behind Canada and Israel, albeit ahead of France, Italy, Spain, and the Czech Republic.” National Review Advertisement6.AOC: Billionaires Need to Give Us Their Power She told a live audience billionaires “need to give up control and power. So I don’t want your money as much as we want your power. The people, not me.” Twitter 7.Black Pastor Calls Pence One of the “Most Persecuted Christians in America” As Pence spoke there on Sunday. Christian Post 8.China Dealing with SARS-Like Outbreak With human to human transmission confirmed.  The story reminds us “SARS first infected people in southern China in late 2002 and spread to more than two dozen countries, killing nearly 800. The Chinese government initially tried to conceal the severity of the SARS epidemic, but its cover-up was exposed by a high-ranking physician.” AP AdvertisementCopyright © 2020 DaybreakInsider.comSUBSCRIPTION INFO This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. It is only sent to people who signed up from one of the Salem Media Group network of websites OR a friend might have forwarded it to you. We respect and value your time and privacy. Unsubscribe from The Daybreak Insider OR Send postal mail to: The Daybreak Insider Unsubscribe 6400 N. Belt Line Rd., Suite 200, Irving, TX 75063 Were you forwarded this edition of The Daybreak Insider? Get your own free subscription Copyright © 2020 Salem Media Group and its Content Providers. 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Tuesday, January 21, 2020Good morning and welcome to Fox News First. Here’s what you need to know as you start your Monday …Trump defense team gets last-minute reinforcements as Senate impeachment trial is set to begin After an opening salvo of back-and-forth arguments from President Trump’s attorneys and Democrats’ impeachment managers on Monday, Senate impeachment trial proceedings are set to begin at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday with the expectation they will stretch well into the night on Capitol Hill — even as key procedural questions, including the timeline for debate and whether additional witnesses will testify, remain undecided and hotly contentious.In a surprise move Monday night, a group of high-profile House Republicans announced that they would formally join the president’s legal team, including Reps. Doug Collins, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Debbie Lesko, Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin. The last-minute show of force underscored the fluid nature of the Senate trial, which is also set to feature full-throated arguments against impeachment from constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz and Bill Clinton independent counsel Ken Starr.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell revealed Monday that he wanted a condensed, two-day calendar for each side to give opening statements, at 12 hours per day. After the four days of opening arguments, senators would be allowed up to 16 hours for written questions to the prosecution and defense, followed by four hours of debate. Only then would there be votes on calling other witnesses, likely next week. Much of Tuesday’s proceedings will focus on debate over McConnell’s proposed resolution for the parameters for the impeachment trial. Click here for more on our top story. Stay with Fox News for complete live team coverage of President Trump’s impeachment trial on all platforms.Other developments in Trump’s impeachment: – Giuliani ‘heartbroken’ by Lev Parnas’ ‘stupid lies,’ says he’s trying to avoid jail – Alan Dershowitz: Trump impeachment is a ‘motion-to-dismiss’ case – Jenna Ellis: Here are four legal problems House Democrats have to faceTrump, climate activist Greta Thunberg set to cross paths at World Economic Forum conference in Davos The World Economic Forum [WEF] meeting in Switzerland opened Tuesday, and it could play host to a potential round two of the public fight between President Trump and teen climate activist Greta Thunberg.Following tensions at last fall’s United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York – which included icy glares toward the president by Thunberg and mocking tweets by Trump – the two are expected to cross paths once again in Davos with climate change and its effects on the global economy being major discussion points of the summit.WEF founder Klaus Schwab said he welcomed both Trump and Thunberg at the summit, calling it “reassuring” and adding that both were set to speak Tuesday on the meeting’s opening day. Click here for more.China coronavirus claims 4th victim, screening of travelers heightened A fourth person has died in an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, authorities said Tuesday, as more places stepped up medical screening of travelers from the country as it enters its busiest travel period.The increased control measures followed a sharp rise in the number of infections to more than 200 people since last month, with epidemiologists still uncertain of its nature and mode of transmission.Chinese health authorities confirmed late Monday that some cases had been transmitted person-to-person, a development that means the illness could spread faster and more widely, particularly at the start of the Lunar New Year travel rush. Click here for more.    CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPTODAY’S MUST-READS Biden accepts Sanders’s apology over unofficial surrogate’s blistering op-ed. AOC declares Democrats a ‘center-conservative’ party. Super Bowl LIV will feature 49ers coach Katie Sowers’ historic appearance.THE LATEST FROM FOX BUSINESS Macron tweets he and Trump reach truce on taxing tech companies. Boeing’s 737 Max jet crisis has company seeking loans: report. Here are the most and least educated states in America.   #TheFlashback: CLICK HERE to find out what happened on “This Day in History.”   SOME PARTING WORDSTucker Carlson warns President Trump and Republicans not to get overconfident about the 2020 election.Not signed up yet for Fox News First? Click here to find out what you’re missing.Click here to find out what’s on Fox News and Fox News Radio today!   Fox News First is compiled by Fox News’ Bryan Robinson. Thank you for making us your first choice in the morning! Enjoy your day! We’ll see you in your inbox first thing Wednesday morning.

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THE DISPATCH

The Morning Dispatch: The Impeachment Trial BeginsPlus, an exclusive look at Trump administration in-fighting over nuclear program funding.Steve HayesJan 21Happy Tuesday! For better or worse, this newsletter is going to feature a decent amount of impeachment news over the next several weeks. We’ve tried to shield you from as much meaningless partisan bickering as we could, but the Senate is finally getting to the meat and potatoes of the thing. Don’t worry, we’ll continue to supplement with plenty of other interesting stories.Just the third impeachment trial the country has ever witnessed—we’re living through history!Quick Hits: What You Need to KnowPresident Trump’s impeachment trial begins today.Mitch McConnell laid out the proposed ground rules for the Senate trial in a four-page resolution last night. Impeachment managers and President Trump’s legal defense team will each have 24 hours split over two days to make their respective cases, and the Senate will have to vote to admit evidence from the House’s investigation.The White House named eight Republican House members to the president’s impeachment team.CNN released a poll showing 51 percent of respondents in favor of Trump’s conviction and removal compared with 45 percent opposed. Also, 69 percent of respondents believed the Senate trial should include testimony from new witnesses, and 26 percent said it shouldn’t.And Away We Go!President Trump’s impeachment trial gets under way in earnest today in the Senate. But it wasn’t until last night that we finally got a real sense of what the affair will look like.On Monday evening, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled the proposed rules that will govern the trial. They’re designed to move things along quickly. After a full day of procedural wrangling today, the House will present its full case beginning Wednesday afternoon. It will have 24 hours to do so, spread over two session days. The White House will then be allotted the same amount of time. Afterward, the Senate will question the parties for up to 16 hours.As we wrote in Friday’s Morning Dispatch, last week’s hot impeachment topic concerned whether McConnell was likely to allow the Senate to subpoena its own witnesses or to consider new evidence that has cropped up since the House filed its articles of impeachment. McConnell’s proposed rules guarantee neither. In fact, in a move that has Democrats howling, the proposed Senate rules will not even permit the House’s evidence to be entered in the Senate trial without a separate vote—and that only after the question of whether to subpoena new witnesses has already been disposed of, following the presentation of both sides’ arguments.All of this is catnip to the president’s legal team, which revealed portions of its impeachment strategy on Monday as well. In a lengthy legal brief, they called for a speedy rejection of the House’s charges, and indicated that Trump’s substantive defense remains simple: The president did nothing wrong, and convicting him would be not only a gross miscarriage of justice but also a blow that would “permanently weaken the presidency.”“House Democrats have not presented any evidence that the president made any linkage between either a meeting or the security assistance and the investigation that House Democrats claim,” an official working with the president’s legal team told reporters on a White House conference call Monday. “The facts show that the president was not pressuring anyone to do anything about any investigation.”The White House will rely heavily on McConnell to keep things running smoothly and quickly, as many of the arguments they are preparing to make will require the Senate to admit no additional evidence if they are to function. Case in point: On that same call, the official argued that the impeachment was preposterous because Trump had not broken any law.“To impeach a president, to remove a president from office, an impeachable offense has to be a violation of established law,” he said. “So anything that you might describe, that you might call an abuse of power because you think that it was bad, and that it wasn’t the right use of power, that’s not sufficient. There has to be a violation of established law.”But wait a minute—didn’t an independent oversight body, the Government Accountability Office, just determine that the White House did break the law by withholding military aid from Ukraine? The official’s response: “It’s not in the articles of impeachment. We’re going to trial on a specific set of charges … The charging document doesn’t include anything about that GAO report. So in our view, that’s not properly part of the accusation that’s been brought to the Senate.”One more interesting note on Trump’s legal team: The White House announced Monday night that several House Republicans who defended him fiercely during House impeachment proceedings, including Jim Jordan, Doug Collins, and Elise Stefanik, will assist his legal team during the trial. The announcement brought an end to a weeks-long, behind-the-scenes squabble between Trump, who loved the idea of bringing his gung-ho House defenders on board, and GOP senators who winced at the idea.Among those to whom the announcement was apparently news: some of those House Republicans themselves. Earlier Monday, one of your Morning Dispatchers asked a spokesman for Jordan whether they were still expecting to play a role at the trial. “Doesn’t appear so,” he replied, adding that they didn’t think other House Republicans would participate either.When we followed up with him after the White House announcement, the spokesman responded with a “mind blown” emoji. Join nowIt’s Budget Hawks vs. Defense Hawks Over Our Nuclear ArsenalOn the website, Steve has an interesting look at a growing behind-the-scenes fight between defense hawks and budget hawks over the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Top national security officials have been urgently calling for additional modernization funding for literally decades. But with few exceptions, other priorities have won out. Now, top nuclear experts and Republicans in Congress are warning that time is up. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the under secretary of energy for nuclear security and the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), requested $20 billion in funding for her agency in fiscal year 2021. That would be an increase over 2020 funding levels, but well short of what many nuclear experts believe is needed to begin a serious modernization effort. And yet, Gordon-Hagerty’s request was rejected and the White House budget office proposed $17.4 billion. In mid-December, Gordon-Hagerty wrote to her boss, energy secretary Dan Brouillette, with a stark warning. After years of underfunding, Gordon-Hagerty wrote, failing to fully fund NNSA would “seriously risk the nation’s deterrent capability, and put at risk the nation’s status as a superpower … Reductions of this magnitude bring into question our ability to provide a safe and secure and effective nuclear deterrent. At this level of funding, NNSA will need to reduce the size and composition of the stockpile almost immediately.”There is no longer time to put off the long-needed improvements, she argued in the memo. “We have been at a tipping point for years and we will begin managing to failure many parts of the nuclear security enterprise. This reduction will directly reduce the effectiveness of the nuclear deterrent and is essentially unilateral disarmament by the United States of America … A budget of $17.487 billion with a 2.1 percent increase for four years is a $16.3 billion shortfall and will cut NNSA’s modernization program in half. These reductions do not meet the commitments of the policies set forth in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, 2017 National Security Strategy and Nuclear Weapons Council requirements.”Gordon-Hagerty’s memo was not well-received. According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, her appeal was rejected and she was instead told by Brouillette (among others) to sign a letter endorsing the lower amount and offering assurances that the NNSA mission could be achieved despite the lack of resources. She was being asked in effect, to lie. She refused.Last week, defense hawks in both chambers of Congress wrote to President Trump requesting a meeting to discuss the funding. They are hoping to get on his schedule when he returns from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this week. The White House budget is expected on February 11.Says Rep. Liz Cheney, House Republican Conference Chair and a signer of the letter: “Modernizing America’s nuclear forces is crucial to our security. Our adversaries, including Russia and China, are making strides that threaten to overcome the superiority and effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent. President Trump has been clear about his commitment to fully funding NNSA at $20 billion this year with sufficient increases in following years. This shouldn’t even be a debate.” Worth Your TimeFour years ago, Russian hackers pantsed America’s cybersecurity apparatus with a bargain-budget election meddling operation that proved wildly successful—stealing troves of emails from the Clinton campaign and DNC, poking around state election websites for vulnerabilities, and stirring up discord with astroturfed accounts on social media. This time around, are we any better prepared? Andy Kroll examines the question in this fascinating feature for Rolling Stone. Baffled by conflicting media narratives over Monday’s gun rights rally in Virginia? Be sure to read Stephen Gutkowski’s on-the-ground report from the event in the Free Beacon. In other rally news: Later this week, thousands of members of the pro-life movement will flock to the National Mall to participate in this year’s March for Life. In light of that, check out this piece from National Review’s Alexandra DeSanctis, which concerns new research suggesting fetuses are capable of feeling pain significantly earlier than previously thought.Presented Without CommentTimothy Burke@bubbaprogWell, this is unfortunate. January 20th 2020234 Retweets1,215 LikesPop Culture RecommendationWhen the hip-hop world mourned Mac Miller’s tragic and untimely death in the fall of 2018, it also mourned the end of the Pittsburgh-born rapper’s discography. Or so it thought. Turns out, Miller was deep in the process of recording another album, which his production partner Jon Brion completed “based on his time and conversations” with Miller.We recommend you check out Circles, out now.Toeing the Company LineTo kick off our impeachment coverage, Jonah takes a deep dive into the history of executive privilege, which the administration has cited to keep close advisers from testifying. As he writes, “All presidents have worked assiduously to protect executive privilege, starting with George Washington.”Here is a link to Steve’s piece, in case you missed it in the excerpt.And if you were off yesterday, don’t miss Sarah on the 10-year anniversary of Citizens United.Let Us KnowThe version of Martin Luther King Jr. presented in history textbooks, on statues and memorials, and by politicians across the political spectrum is a far cry from the man who led a movement to fundamentally change the fabric of the country in the mid-twentieth century. In his day, King was an incredibly polarizing figure.Ryan Struyk@ryanstruykMartin Luther King Jr. favorable ratings via Gallup –> 1966: 33% favorable, 63% unfavorable Now: 94% favorable, 4% unfavorableJanuary 20th 2020118 Retweets249 LikesWho (or what) is someone (or something) that is controversial and divisive today, but will be universally beloved in a generation or two?Reporting by Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey), Andrew Egger (@EggerDC), Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons), and Steve Hayes (@stephenfhayes).You’re on the free list for The Morning Dispatch. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber.Subscribe© 2020 Steve Hayes Unsubscribe PO Box 720263, San Francisco, CA 94172

POLITICO PLAYBOOK

POLITICO Playbook: Why McConnell’s move infuriates Democrats

By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN 

01/21/2020 05:57 AM EST

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DRIVING THE DAY

IF WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL, it’s that he uses the power afforded to him quite liberally, in a way that makes his opponents red with anger and most of his allies gleeful. We’ve seen it during Supreme Court confirmations, and now we’re seeing it with impeachment.

MCCONNELL has orchestrated the Senate trial of President DONALD TRUMP thusly: The president’s attorneys and the House impeachment managers each have 24 hours to use over the course of two calendar days to present their case, condensing the meat of the trial into what could be as short as four days in total. These rules will likely have the Senate in session all night and into the wee hours of the morning, as it tries TRUMP for high crimes and misdemeanors. Another highlight: Evidence gathered in the House investigation must be admitted by vote — nothing is automatic. MCCONNELL announced that he had the support of all Republican senators for his rule package weeks ago, essentially ensuring its passage.

THINK OF IT THIS WAY: This could be all over by sometime next week — ahead of the State of the Union on Feb. 4.

SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER called the resolution McConnell will formally introduce later today a “national disgrace,” and said it’s designed to acquit the president quickly. Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine on McConnell’s plan for a “speedy trial”… The resolution

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY as the trial gets started:

— IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON, Democrats and Republicans have their party lunches in the Capitol.

— AROUND 1 P.M., MCCONNELL will offer his resolution, which will detail the rules for the Senate’s trial. Each side has an hour for debate.

— AROUND 3 P.M., SCHUMER will move to amend the rule package to allow for witnesses and documents at the front end of the trial. That is also subject to debate for an hour on each side.

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW: How exactly SCHUMER is going to try to amend the rule package. He can force one vote, or multiple votes seeking to amend the package in different ways. Democrats’ priority is to force votes on guaranteeing witnesses and document production as part of the trial. BUT: Democrats’ efforts to amend the package are almost certain to fail.

— ONCE DEMOCRATS finish trying to amend the rules, there will be a vote on the package and the trial will then begin.

DEMOCRATS’ HIVE MIND: The reason they want to try to force witnesses at the front end of the trial is threefold: If a witness is subpoenaed, it will take days to work out a deal for their testimony, so they might as well do it concurrent with the trial; why start hearing arguments and asking questions when you know there could be more information out there? And when the testimony from House managers and Trump’s defense team starts, there is no guarantee Republicans will allow witnesses.

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JOHN BRESNAHAN and BURGESS EVERETT: “Here are the five Senate factions that will decide Trump’s fate”: “The Three Amigos, Part Deux: The Republican triumvirate of Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah) have been the center of a media frenzy for weeks. … The key issue for this moderate group — and maybe the biggest question for the entire Trump trial — is whether there will be a fourth Republican who joins them. The likelihood of that happening is pretty low at this point, however.

“Republican Institutionalists: If Democrats are to get a fourth GOP vote for witnesses, their best bet is from a group of veteran Republicans who believe in protecting the Senate prerogatives or are retiring and thus have less to fear from a vengeful Trump. This group include Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.).

“Trump Hardliners: [T]here are a number [of senators] — such as Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Josh Hawley of Missouri, for instance — who have blasted Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats and the media for a ‘sham impeachment’ that isn’t going to result in Trump’s ouster.

“Democratic Moderates: There’s a small group of Senate Democrats who are in play for GOP leaders and the White House. This group includes Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Doug Jones of Alabama, the most endangered Senate Democrat this fall, wants to hear from witnesses, but he has also called for Trump to ‘get a fair trial.’

“Trump Is Guilty Already Democrats: Like the Senate Republican Conference, most of the Democratic Caucus has already made up its mind — Trump is guilty, but let’s get more witnesses and documents anyway — even if they don’t say it publicly. So they’ll loudly back Schumer’s motions for witnesses, they’ll have sharp questions for Trump’s defense team, and they’ll complain mightily when the trial is over that Trump was acquitted by a Republican majority that is interested in political survival rather than the truth. And then they will use this case, and everything Trump has done over the last three years, to try to take over the Senate in November.”

NYT’S ANNIE KARNI with POTUS in Davos: “Before the Senate impeachment trial begins in earnest on Tuesday, President Trump was more than 4,000 miles away from Washington, in this glitzy Alpine village, planning to drive a competing narrative — one that has nothing to do with pressure on Ukraine, abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. …

“Mr. Trump, aides said, planned to highlight the first phase of his trade deal with China and another with Mexico and Canada, accomplishments he thinks are being overshadowed by a focus on an impeachment trial he is trying to dismiss as a ‘hoax.’ And the audience was expected to be friendly — to his face, at least — having warmed to him over the past two years because they have benefited from his policies.” NYT

JOHN HARRIS COLUMN: “Isn’t That Special: Trump, Impeachment and American Exceptionalism”

NEW … WAPO’S RACHAEL BADE and KAROUN DEMIRJIAN are writing a book about the impeachment process called “Impeached.” The book will be focused on Capitol Hill. William Morrow is the publisher, and Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer at Javelin sold the book. Here’s how they describe it: “Impeached” will be a “deftly reported inside look at the biggest constitutional showdown of our generation—Trump’s impeachment—with behind-the-scenes details about the historic interparty clash on Capitol Hill.”

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NEW … UNITE THE COUNTRY, a super PAC aimed at boosting JOE BIDEN, is running a new ad in Iowa called “The Storm.” The spot shows stormy seas and on the screen flashes “Battling the Storm … Joe Biden. A President to Right the Ship. … The Democrat Who Can Lead Through the Storm,” all while Biden is talking about his experience working in government. The 30-second spot

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SIX TICKETS OUT OF IOWA (or more), via Natasha Korecki: “The Iowa caucuses have ended a long line of weak White House bids, traditionally culling the presidential primary field to just two or three viable candidates. But this year’s unique dynamics have a very real scenario shaping up that could mean at least a half dozen — or maybe more — candidates move to New Hampshire and beyond …

“‘If you look historically, only three candidates have come out of Iowa earning delegates in the modern era; there’s never been more than three who have broken the 15 percent threshold,’ said Jeff Berman, a delegate guru now with the [Tom] Steyer team who was a key figure in Barack Obama’s successful 2008 campaign. In 2020, Berman said, ‘There may be more tickets out of Iowa than ever before.’ …

“The probability that Iowa fails to produce a breakout frontrunner and instead sends through more than a half-dozen candidates is the latest turn in a tumultuous primary that began with a historically large and diverse field. It’s indicative of a contest that’s long from settled; with just two weeks until the Feb. 3 caucuses, there’s still a looming question over what, exactly, the Iowa results will mean. Aides with [Amy] Klobuchar, Steyer and [Andrew] Yang indicated that there’s almost no scenario that would cause their candidate to drop out before New Hampshire.” POLITICO

BERNIE’S GOODBYE, via Des Moines Register’s Nick Coltrain: “U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders made a plea Monday to his supporters in Des Moines: It’ll be up to them to carry his Iowa campaign across the finish line.

“The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump means he won’t be spending as much time in Iowa as he would have liked, he said at a Des Moines rally. But, he joked, it just means his campaign slogan — ‘Not me. Us.’ — will need to be a little more literal in the homestretch of the first-in-the-nation nominating caucus.

“‘Ironically, the “us, not me,” is becoming very much a reality in the last two weeks of this campaign, because I’m not going to be able to be here as much as I would like,’ Sanders told a crowd of more than 750 at the State Historical Museum of Iowa. ‘So you guys are going to have to carry the ball.’” DMR

A PRIVATE PLANE went from Columbia, S.C., to Des Moines to DCA on Monday. On Saturday, it went from Burlington, Vt., to New Hampshire, and on Sunday it went on to Columbia. The jet

MEANWHILE … MIAMI HERALD: “Michael Bloomberg campaign scores prominent Miami politico as Florida primary nears,” by Joey Flechas: “Two-term Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, whose time in City Hall mirrors Bloomberg’s mayoral tenure in New York, is joining the campaign as a policy advisor and surrogate weeks before the first votes are cast in the 2020 presidential primary season. Diaz will serve as the campaign’s national political co-chair, along with former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Diaz will also co-chair Bloomberg’s Florida campaign.”

TRUMP’S TUESDAY — THE PRESIDENT was slated to give an address in Davos in the 5 a.m. hour Eastern time. At 6:15 a.m., he is slated to speak with Klaus Schwab, who runs the World Economic Forum. At 6:35 a.m., the president is scheduled to participate in a reception with the International Business Council. At 8:30 a.m., he is scheduled to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. At 10:15 a.m., he will speak with Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga. At 11:20 a.m., he will meet with Pakistani PM Imran Khan. At 12:30 p.m., he will have dinner with CEOs before heading back to his hotel.

THE PRESIDENT’S OTHER DAVOS BILATS: Iraqi President Barham Salih; Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government. Follow along with Davos Playbook

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BOSTON GLOBE: “Northeastern University student from Iran faces possible deportation,” by Jeremy Fox and Max Jungreis: “An Iranian student planning to enter Northeastern University for the spring semester was detained at Logan International Airport by immigration officials and a hearing will be held Tuesday in federal court to determine his status, according to lawyers and the university.

“Attorneys for Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein, 24, filed an emergency petition Monday night to block his deportation and allow him attend the university. They are set to go before a judge at 10 a.m. at US District Court in Boston.” Boston Globe

FOR THOSE KEEPING TABS — “Lev Parnas Asks Barr to Recuse Himself From Criminal Case,” by NYT’s Benjamin Weiser and Ben Protess: “Lawyers for Lev Parnas, the Soviet-born businessman who was involved in the campaign to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rivals of President Trump, asked on Monday that Attorney General William P. Barr disqualify himself from overseeing his criminal case because he has too many conflicts of interest.

“Mr. Parnas, who was charged in October in Manhattan with violating federal campaign finance laws, requested that a special prosecutor instead be appointed to handle his case.

“‘It is in the public interest to remove this matter entirely from the Department of Justice,’ Mr. Parnas’s lawyers wrote to Mr. Barr. The lawyers, Joseph A. Bondy and Stephanie R. Schuman, argued that federal prosecutors working for Mr. Barr should not be involved in his case because Mr. Barr had participated in some of the same activity for which Mr. Parnas was being investigated.” NYT

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PLAN B … WAPO’S ROBERT COSTA and RACHAEL BADE: “Trump’s lawyers, Senate GOP allies work privately to ensure Bolton does not testify publicly”: “President Trump’s legal defense team and Senate GOP allies are quietly gaming out contingency plans should Democrats win enough votes to force witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial, including an effort to keep former national security adviser John Bolton from the spotlight, according to multiple officials familiar with the discussions. …

“One option being discussed … would be to move Bolton’s testimony to a classified setting because of national security concerns, ensuring that it is not public.” WaPo

QUOTABLE … CNN: “Dershowitz on impeachment reversal: ‘I am much more correct right now’”

WSJ’S GREG IP in Davos: “Mnuchin Warns U.K., Italy Over Digital-Tax Plans”: “Italy and Britain will face U.S. tariffs if they proceed with a tax on digital companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc., U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned.

“Mr. Mnuchin issued the warning after France agreed to delay the imposition of its own digital tax in the face of threats of steep U.S. tariffs on French exports. Mr. Mnuchin said French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to hold off on the tax through the end of the year while the two countries work out a permanent resolution.

“The truce is ‘the beginning of a solution,’ Mr. Mnuchin said an interview with The Wall Street Journal at a Journal-sponsored event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.” WSJ

FOR YOUR RADAR … REUTERS/BEIJING: “With millions of Asians traveling on Tuesday for the Lunar New Year holiday, authorities in China confirmed that a new virus could be spread through human contact, reporting 15 medical staff had been infected and a fourth person had died. The chilling update on the coronavirus outbreak that began in the central city of Wuhan sent shivers through financial markets, as the World Health Organization called a meeting for Wednesday to consider declaring an international health emergency.”

REMEMBER HIM? … TEXAS TRIBUNE: “Big bucks — and a big donor — fuel Allen West’s bid for Texas GOP chair,” by Patrick Svitek: “For months, the race for Texas GOP chair has been in full swing, with incumbent James Dickey and his high-profile challenger, Allen West, appearing at a slew of at times feisty forums.

“But it was not until last week that the two had to disclose their campaign finances for the first time — and West’s report brought something of a bombshell: Not only did the former Florida congressman raise nearly half a million dollars — a large amount for such an election — but $250,000 of it came from a single person. That person: Richard Uihlein, the conservative megadonor and shipping supplies magnate from Illinois.”

BOOK CLUB — Rev. Al Sharpton’s “RISE UP: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads,” will be published by Hanover Square Press on Sept. 15, covering “the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election, and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP.”

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SPOTTED: Chuck Schumer on an Acela train arriving to D.C. late Monday night.

TRANSITION — Tim Urban is now a senior principal at Bracewell’s Policy Resolution Group. He previously was a principal at EY.

ENGAGED — Blake Waggoner, a PR strategist and Targeted Victory and John Kasich alum, and Erin Bottger, state government affairs manager at Verizon, got engaged Saturday. They met 10 years ago while working at the Nebraska GOP and reconnected when Waggoner moved back from D.C. Pic

BIRTHWEEK (was Monday): CBS’ Peter Greenberg

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Becca Glover, director at the Brunswick Group. A fun fact about her: “I have a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the first 12 seasons of ‘The Simpsons.’ My favorite vignette for Halloween (Treehouse of Horrors) episodes is ‘The Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores.’” Playbook Q&A

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… Jonathan Grella, president and CEO of JAG Public Affairs … James Waters is 41 … Michael Anderson … Bailey Roman, Iowa trip director for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign (h/t Casey Clemmons) … Christopher Spillane … Michael Vanzetta … Jack Weiss … Brian Kupfer is 45 … Roberto Coquis … Alex Plitsas is 35 … Morgan Currier … Matt Friedman, communications and outreach manager for the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission … Elizabeth Wickett … Cindi Leive … Jordan Grossman … Collin Hansen … Forrest Brown … Tommy McKone … Ron Bell … Tony Reinke … Kyle O’Connor … Caite Irvine … Margaret Olmos … Josh Warren … Michael Lemov … Katie Loovis … Rich Juliano … Len Colodny is 82 … Cynthia Faulkner … Amy Allman … Steve Rosenthal is 67 … Campbell Spencer (h/ts Teresa Vilmain and Shari Yost Gold) … Jeff Simmons … Marisa Renee Lee … Oliver Griswold

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Share with a friend you think would love this!Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Trump Adds House Republicans to His Legal Team As He Prepares for Impeachment Standoff Senate impeachment trial proceedings are scheduled to begin at 1 PM this afternoon following a series of arguments presented on Monday by Trump’s attorneys and the Dems’ impeachment managers. Trump has added a new squad of House Republicans to his legal team, including some of his more vocal defenders: Reps. Doug Collins, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Debbie Lesko, Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin. From Fox News: “We are not planning for them to present statements on the Senate floor,” a senior administration official told Fox News, referring to the latest additions to Trump’s defense team, headed up by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow. “The group will continue to give critical guidance on the case because of their strong familiarity with the facts and evidence.” From Washington Examiner: “The lawmakers will likely not speak on the Senate floor during the trial, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposed the idea. Rather, each member will aid Trump’s defense in other ways, which could include speaking to the media and advising the White House.”   AOC Doesn’t Think We Have a Real ‘Left’ in America In her latest bout of incoherence, NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes insists in an interview on Monday that we don’t have a genuinely left-wing party in the United States. In fact, she asserts, our Democrats are a “center” or “center-conservative” party. Her critique appears a sad attempt to normalize what by all metrics would be considered radical policies – from Medicare for All to gun confiscation programs. From Chrissy Clark at The Federalist: “The current Democratic Party stands for far left-leaning ideas. Every single 2020 Democratic candidate is running on some form of expanded government-issued insurance, whether “Medicare for All” by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, “Medicare for all who want it” by Pete Buttigieg, or expanding Obamacare, as Joe Biden suggests. These Democrats are also running on removing remaining abortion restrictions, canceling existing student debt, and attempting to establish free college for everyone. These radical proposals are the epitome of far-left ideologies. The Democratic Party isn’t “conservative” in any sense.”   Fearmongering Around Richmond 2A Rally Falls Stunningly Flat Despite media predictions, fears around the Richmond gun rally did not come to fruition. Instead, what took place in Richmond on Monday was a peaceful gathering of tens of thousands seeking to defend their Second Amendment right. From Brad Polumbo at The Washington Examiner: “News outlet Axios billed the protest as possibly “another Charlottesville.” As my colleague Timothy P. Carney noted, one NBC reporter called it a “white nationalist rally.” Even the Washington Post’s post-event headline was ridiculously inflammatory: “Weapons, flags but no violence: Massive pro-gun rally in Virginia capital.” The bias shows liberals in the media took cues from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who set off the alarmism by declaring a state of emergency in anticipation of the peaceful rally. He had cited vagaries about “credible threats” but provided no evidence. 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