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- [John] Tonight.

- Should they expunge theimpeachment in the House?

They should.

- [John] The president,still letting loose

after a long week.

- She broke the law.

- [John] Accusing the speaker of the house

of illegality for tearing up his

State of the Union address, and...

- Not countin' on New Hampshire.

- [John] The Democratic presidential field

moves to New Hampshire,leaving the muddled results

from the caucuses in Iowa.

This, as more Americanssuccumb to the Corona virus.

- They're somber, it's pretty quiet.

- [John] A cruise shipquarantined as questions mount

over the official toll in China.

All this and more tonighton "Faith Nation."

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- New positive job numbers out today,

but the president is still reeling

from impeachment fever.

Welcome to "FaithNation," I'm John Jessup.

Jenna Browder has the night off.

President Trump pushing back today

on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim

that he will forever be impeached.

This, after reports someRepublican lawmakers

plan to expunge Trump's impeachment record

if they win back the House.

CBN White Housecorrespondent, Ben Kennedy,

joins us now to explain.

Ben, this all rests, ofcourse, on the condition

that Republicans canactually win back the House

in the general election.

- Yeah, John, you'reright, the GOP is confident

that will happen.

The voters have, quite frankly, had enough

of Democrats and predict, come November,

they will give control to theHouse back to Republicans.

President Trump got windof some lawmakers' plans

to clear his name if thathappens, take a listen.

- Should they expunge theimpeachment in the House?

They should because it was a hoax.

It was a total political hoax.

- Now President Trump spokefor some seven minutes

before leaving the WhiteHouse here behind me,

and again called out HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi.

He used words liketerrible and disrespectful

after she ripped up his speech following

the State of the Union address.

- First of all, it's an official document.

You're not allowed, it'sillegal what she did.

She broke the law, but Ihaven't been asked a question

other than, a lotta people that viewed it,

they couldn't believe that she did it.

I thought it was terrible.

I thought it was very disrespectful

to the chamber and to the country.

- Trump also touted thelatest economic report,

which quite frankly looks pretty good.

A quarter of a million jobswere added in January alone.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports

construction, healthcare, transportation,

and even warehousing are among

the strongest areas of growth.

- We just came out withfantastic job numbers.

I think it was 230,000or something thereabouts,

which was much higher than projections.

So jobs continue to be great.

Our country continues to do great.

- This is the first jobsreport since Trump signed

a Phase I trade dealwith China, and again,

trade agreement with Mexico and Canada.

China also slashed tariffson $75 billion worth

of US goods, which includes thousands

of American products likesoy beans, oil and cars.

It will begin next week on the 14th,

but John, as you know, the strong economy

is one of the president'sstrongest campaign points

heading into 2020.

- All right, CBN White Housecorrespondent, Ben Kennedy,

thanks Ben.

Well tonight, the Democraticpresidential candidates

face off for the firsttime since the fiasco

in Iowa's first in the nation caucuses.

CBN news reporter, Caitlin Burke has more

on tonight's debate in New Hampshire

ahead of the first in the nation primary

Tuesday in the Granite State.

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- The Democratic presidentialcandidates are making

their final pitches tovoters in New Hampshire

before next Tuesday's primary,

including another debate tonight.

Seven candidates qualified, Andrew Yang,

Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer,Senators Bernie Sanders,

Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar

and former vice president, Joe Biden.

Buttigieg and Sanders leadthe pack in new polling,

the latest resultsputting the two candidates

in a virtual tie, but Warren and Biden

want people to know they're still in this.

- I'm not goin' anywhere.

(audience applauding)

And I'm countin' on New Hampshire.

We're gonna come back--

- This is a moment whenpeople are off the sidelines

and people are ready to get in this fight.

- Tonight's debate will take place

at St. Anselm College'sSullivan Arena in Manchester.

The format will allow candidates to answer

direct questions for oneminute and 15 seconds

with 45 seconds for rebuttals.

There will be no openingor closing statements,

however candidates willget a closing question.

- All right, CaitlinBurke, thank you so much.

Joining us now is CBS News

political reporter, Musadiq Bidar.

He has spent the last eightmonths and three days,

to be exact, in Iowa covering the

Democratic presidential race there for CBS

and joins us now from Des Moines.

Thanks for being with us, Musadiq.

- Thanks for having me, John.

- Well, with 100% ofIowa's precincts reporting,

the AP says it stillwon't declare a winner.

Can you give us a lookback on the chaotic week

and what happened in the caucuses?

- Mm hmm, well, we have beentrying to figure that out

for the last few days, but what is clear

is that there was abreakdown in the system.

The phone applicationthat the precinct chairs

and county chairs were meantto use to report results

from the grounds of party headquarters

stopped working in many instances.

Precinct chair were unableto get into the app.

Some gave up on it.

I had one county chairtell me that she instructed

all her precinct chairs tojust call in the results.

Of course, this is whatthey had done in the past,

but in this instance on Monday night,

when you have all these precinct chairs

all of a sudden callingin the party headquarters

to report results, the phonelines were bogged down.

It took a long time.

Some were on hold foras long as 45 minutes

up to three hours and many precinct chairs

and country chairs justkinda gave up on it

on Monday night andsaid, we're goin' home.

We're gonna do this tomorrow.

At this point, we still didn't have

any of the results.

Candidates gave their speechesand went to the airport

to head for New Hampshire.

At about 1:30 in the morning,the Iowa Democratic Party

held a short press call and told us that

they are reviewing theresults and we won't know

much more until Tuesday.

By Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.Central Time, we finally got

about 60% of the results and, after that,

it took nearly three days to get to 100%.

Where we are now is that, you have

Mayor Pete Buttigieg slightly ahead

in the state delegate count

while Senator BernieSanders is slightly ahead

in the popular vote.

- Right, Musadiq, thepresident today weighed in,

declaring in a tweet thatIowa and New Hampshire

will not be moved fromthe primary schedule

as long as he remains in office.

He called it a great tradition.

How seriously are partyofficials entertaining

the idea of ditching Iowa?

- Well, this is aconversation that comes up

every four years.

Of course, this year,on the Democratic side,

you had a presidentialcandidate actually calling out

Iowa for its lack of diversity and saying

that it shouldn't go first because

it doesn't represent the people

of the Democratic party.

Secretary, Julian Castro did that.

Mayor Michael Bloomberghas also called for it.

And last night, DNC Chair, Tom Perez said

that there will be seriousconversations about this.

He said that, every four years they

have conversations about reforms.

After calling the Iowacaucuses last night,

Tom Perez, he called ita major league failure.

He said that there are going to be,

he said, make no mistake about it.

There will be conversationsabout the order,

about how primaries andcaucuses are going to work out.

So it's something thatwe're gonna keep an eye on

because it's a conversation that

comes up every four years.

- Musadiq, turning to the debate tonight

and next Tuesday's primary, how critical

is New Hampshire now for the remaining

Democrats still in the field?

- It's gonna be very criticalbecause the one thing

you get out of Iowa is, Iowa is supposed

to narrow down the field.

It's supposed to provide thecandidates with momentum.

The delegates you get out of Iowa is

a drop in the bucketcompared to what you need

to win the Democratic nomination.

You need about 1991 delegates.

Iowa awards 41 pledged delegates

and what happened on Monday night is that

no one candidate wasable to explicitly claim

that momentum to kindagive them a jump start

they need in New Hampshire,Nevada and so forth.

So it's going to becritical for the candidates

on the debate stagetonight in New Hampshire,

and then, in the followingdays to get that message

and make that final closingargument to the voters

that they're the candidate who can

represent them in the general election.

- Well, Musadiq, I'msure that you are eager

to get back home, awell-deserved one-way trip

ticket back to California after your

eight months covering Iowa.

Thanks for being with us today.

- Thank you for having me.

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is CBN News chief politicalanalyst, David Brody.

David, it's as though the upcoming week

is now the official beginning

of the Democratic race afterthat false start in Iowa.

- Yeah, 100%, and if youthink about this week

kind of overall, horriblefor the Democrats,

great for Trump.

I kinda have a winnersand losers, if you will,

of the week 'cause, youknow, after the full week

is done, you wanna kindajust kinda decompress

and think who's up, who's down.

Well, Trump is up clearly.

Pelosi is down, Democratsare down for sure.

But also, I think ultimately, what this is

gonna be about is, thisis a big week, actually,

for Pete Buttigieg, andI think this got lost

a little bit in the shuffle to a degree.

Sanders and Buttigieg tied in Iowa.

We can talk about that in a moment.

But watch out for Buttigiegcoming up in New Hampshire

and beyond, that's something to watch.

- Can we rewind a little bit

- Sure.- And help put this week

into perspective?

We started out the weekwith closing arguments

in the Senate impeachmenttrial, still ongoing Tuesday

when President Trump delivered his

State of the Union address,and then the following day,

he was acquitted.

He took a victory lap yesterday.

So how does this week go down in history?

- Listen, here's thething, and I'm trying to

kinda pause and say this.

This truly is an historicweek ever in Washington, DC

and in the country, and the reason I pause

for a moment, John, isbecause, it seems like

every week on "Faith Nation," we say,

this is historic.

We've never seen thisbefore, but really, John,

we have never seen back-to-back, I mean,

Monday, Tuesday, every singleday, there was something

and it was all consequential,

not just in this week, butthe ramifications it will have

as we move forward into November.

- David, the presidentis looking to expunge

his impeachment record in the House.

You heard Ben's report earlier.

Is that even possible?

- It's possible, look,they're talking about it.

Okay, so let's just get thisout in the open right now.

Expunged does not meanimpeachment goes away, okay.

So he's an impeached president.

Check Wikipedia, it'll be there forever,

but expunged means, in essence,

it's more symbolic, if you will.

In other words, the Republicans would say,

that's it, we're done.

There really wasn't an impeachment.

Now remember, that means they have to win

the House of Representatives in November.

They need to flip 18 seats.

Kevin McCarthy and theRepublican leadership

think they can do that because

Nancy Pelosi went downthe impeachment road.

- They think it's doable.

- They think it's doable.

- For those who thought we were putting

impeachment behind usafter that Senate vote,

we learned that that's not the case.

House Judiciary Chairman, Jerry Nadler,

already saying that he will likely

subpoena John Bolton.

Will we ever see the endof these investigations?

- No, never, and so, this is the Democrats

shooting themselves in the other foot.

They shot themselvesin the foot this week,

and now, if they wannasubpoena John Bolton,

really, you're serious?

I mean, you already have a stain on,

you've already riled thebase up on the Trump side.

Now you wanna go after Bolton?

I mean, this is just, itreally makes no sense,

and it kinda gets to,and I've taken some hits

for saying this, but some blind hatred

by the Democrats for this president.

Now people say, it's not blind hatred.

It makes sense, we don't likethis president for a reason.

Fine, but at some point, you have to say,

you know what, let'sorganize and get together

and defeat this presidentat the ballot box

rather than wasting all your time on

all different sorts of investigations.

- David, just under a minute left.

The president's ongoingspat with Speaker Pelosi,

what's going on here?

- Well, you know, what Ifind fascinating is that,

if you read the mainstream media clips,

they say Pelosi is a genius,

that she is able to corral her caucus,

which is true, by the way, in terms of

corralling the caucus, but she has

had a lot of missteps,from going after Trump

on impeachment to thetearing up of the speech.

I mean, look, one thing we'velearned about Donald Trump

is that he usually steps on himself

after a big night on State of the Union,

and she didn't let himhave that opportunity.

She stepped on herself that night.

It was just a colossal mistake.

Back to blind hatred, I'm concerned,

if you're a Democrat,you have to be concerned

that they're not keeping their eye focused

on the final victory here in November,

which is what they want rather than just

getting Trump at any cost.

- All right, CBN newschief political analyst,

David Brody, thanks for being with us.

- Thanks, John.

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This, as a number of confirmedcases in China skyrockets.

CBN News national security correspondent

Eric Philips has the latest, Eric.

- Well, John, totalcases now exceed 31,000

along with a growing death toll.

That number includes one ofthe first doctors in Wuhan

to raise the red flag about the disease.

Concern over the Corona virus spreading

in confined spaces intensifiesas two massive ships

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including 428 Americans.

Fortunately, passengersbeing held on a ship

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With the cases in Chinanow exceeding 31,000,

President Trump still struckan optimistic chord Friday.

- They're working really hard and I think

they're doing a very professional job.

I had a great conversationlast night with President Xi.

It's a tough situation.

I think they're doing a very good job.

- [Eric] Meanwhile, thedoctor who first warned

about the illness died from it.

Dr. Li Wen Liang, a 34-year-oldWuhan ophthalmologist

was reportedly reprimandedwhen he spoke out,

his death sparking massive grief online

and in the streets of Beijing.

- [Interpreter] We heardthe news of his death

with heavy hearts because he gave his life

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We are extremely grateful.

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- [Eric] The US continuesto fly loads of Americans

back home from Hubei province.

They'll be quarantined for 14 days.

Some, like Frank Wucinski and his daughter

became sick in Wuhan.

- We've been in this hospital probably

for the next three days tillthe CDC results come back.

- Today, President Trump'sCorona virus task force

announced the US government is prepared

to spend up to $100million to assist China

and other countries as well as the WHO

in battling the Corona virus.

By the way, the number of confirmed cases

of Corona virus in the US has remained

in the low double digitsfor about a week now,

and none of the 600 plusCorona virus-related

deaths have happenedon American soil, John.

- All right, CBN News national security

correspondent, Eric Philips, thanks, Eric.

Well, joining us now from New York City

is Gordon Chang, speaker, columnist

and author of the book,

"The Coming Collapse of China."

Gordon, thank you for being with us.

Let's get right to it.

You say China isoverwhelmed by the outbreak

and the number of casesis probably much higher.

How bad are we talking?

- We really don't know,John, and that's the problem.

Consistently, Beijinghas been under-reporting

and part of it isdeliberate falsification,

but also it is becauselocal health workers

are not even able to pick up corpses.

So, accurate tallying of the deaths

and the number of patients,

that's a very low priority,so you can understand that.

I tend to think that thisis just gonna skyrocket

for another few weeks, andprobably, we're gonna see

cases in China, newcases in April and May.

Towards the summer, that'swhen these types of diseases

tend to peter out becauseof the hot weather.

And then we'll have relief.

- Gordon, after speakingwith his Chinese counterpart,

President Trump todaypraised China's response

and predicted Xi Jinpingwill be successful

at stopping the outbreak.

Based on your last answer, I suspect

you don't share the samedegree of confidence.

= No, I don't becauseBeijing has gone back

to its old ways of secrecy.

On January 26th, theCommunist Party announced

the formation of itscoordinating committee.

It's called The Leading Groupand, of the nine people,

only one was a public health professional.

The group is heavy with propaganda types,

including its vicechairman and the chairman

is the premier of thecountry who is considered

to be politically expendable.

So that shows, in a very visible way,

that Beijing is much more serious about

controlling the narrative thanit is solving the problem,

and by the way, those two goals

are inconsistent with each other.

You either control the narrativeor you end the disease.

It's very hard, almostimpossible to do both.

- Gordon, any suspected foul play

in the death of Dr. Li?

Now, he's the whistleblower physician

who first sounded thealarm about the virus

back in December and, of course,

news reports of him passingaway just yesterday.

- Well, there are all sorts of rumors

that are circulating in China,

but the basic narrative isthat, it's not the virus

that killed Dr. Li, it'sthe Communist Party.

And they're speaking metaphorically.

Not that somebody stuffeda pillow over his head.

This is, I guess, the important thing

because people are nowcalling for freedom of speech

because they realize it's thenature of the political system

that allowed the virus to spread.

And that's why theysay the Communist Party

is responsible for his death.

That's the reason why this has caused

such an outpouring of griefand anger across China.

And it also comes justafter a Xinhua University

law professor has calledfor Xi Jinping to step down.

That shows the Chinese people are

losing their fear of China's ruler.

- Gordon, last question for you.

How effective is the quarantine in Wuhan?

Is there any chance that we could see

it spread to other places where

it's kind of already been reined in,

like Beijing or Shanghai?

- I don't think it's been reined in

in those other cities.

The mayor of Wuhan saidthat, before the quarantine

was put into effect, 5million people left the city.

That means a lot of thosepeople were infected

and that, we're probably gonna have

serious outbreaks, not onlyin the area around Wuhan,

but maybe Chongqing, maybe Shanghai.

We just don't know, but these people

have been traveling aroundthe country already.

And these draconianprocedures that China's

put into place, they sound good,

but they're far too late,after the Communist Party

allowed this virus to spread.

- All right, GordonChang, from New York City,

thank you so much forbeing with us this evening.

- Thank you.

- Well, to other foreignnews, the president says

the United States carried out

a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen

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Al-Rimi is a founder of AlQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

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to carry out attacks on the US homeland.

Al-Rimi claimedresponsibility for last year's

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