[Lynda Kinkade, Cnn:] Hello and welcome to CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Lynda Kinkade in Atlanta. We are following two major stories this hour. It's day two of the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump. And he currently right now is in Davos. He is touting the U.S. economic achievements and the new trade deals. And of course, blasting the impeachment trial before he leaves Switzerland. Plus our Max Foster has an exclusive interview with the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles. We're going to bring you that interview shortly. Well we are just hours away from the opening arguments in President Trump's impeachment trial. It will follow a fiery debate that went on into the early morning hours. Now the rules of the trial are set after Democrats failed in their repeated attempts to be allowed to subpoena witnesses and documents. House managers and the President's lawyers are facing a deadline to file new motions. A few hours ago before leaving Davos, President Trump weighed in on the impeachment fight. Take a listen to what he had to say.
[Donald Trump, President Of The United States:] This is the way I look at it. It's a total hoax. It's a disgrace. They talked about their tremendous case and it's all done their tremendous case. They had no case. It's all a hoax. It's a con job like Schiff. He's a corrupt politician. Now I'll leave that to the Senate. The Senate is going to have to answer that. I have great respect for the Senate as a body and many of the individuals. I have great respect. So I'll leave that to the Senate.
[Kinkade:] Our White House correspondent Jeremy Diamond is in Davos for us now. Also U.S. Congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly is in Capitol Hill. Good to have you both with us. Let's start with you, Jeremy, because that was indeed a pretty long and rambling press conference from U.S. President Trump. And he was asked, obviously, a lot about the impeachment trial and whether witnesses should be called. What did he say?
[Jeremy Diamond, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Yes, well, you heard the President there at the end there saying that will be up to the Senate. And that is what the President was saying today. Of course, we've heard him give a million different answers on this very same topic. Suggesting on the one hand that he would like to see witness, particularly the whistleblower, to see Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden appear on the floor of the Senate. And of course, the President's own lawyers are arguing against having witnesses come forward. Any witnesses at all. So that is kind of how the President spun it today. He was a little more specific when it came to his former national security adviser John Bolton, who, of course, Senate Democrats are trying to get to come forward as a witness in this trial. It's unclear as of now if enough Republicans will join them once these initial arguments are made in order to bring John Bolton forward. But the President said that basically it's an issue of national security, a question of executive privilege. Arguments that we've heard him use before. But at the same time, we also heard the President say today that part of the reason he doesn't want him to come forward is because they didn't exactly end their relationship on great terms. Meaning that John Bolton when he left the White House fired, according to the President, resigned according to John Bolton, that they didn't leave on good terms. And so, the President seems to be concerned perhaps that if John Bolton comes forward, he'll have an axe to grind against the President.
[Kinkade:] Exactly, that would be interesting to hear from him if he does indeed come forward. If you just stand by for us, I will come back to you. I want to go to Phil Mattingly. Because it certainly was a long day yesterday, day one of this trial. Finishing close to 2:00 a.m., next hour, the trial resumes. What can we expect?
[Phil Mattingly, Cnn U.s. Congressional Correspondent:] So here's what you'll want to pay attention to going forward. One, everybody needs caffeine desperately at this point. Those of us who were here until 2:00 a.m. and are now already back here. So an hour ago was the deadline for any motions related to the trial to be filed by either the White House defense team or the House managers. Our expectation at this point in time is none will be filed which is good news from a process side of things. That means what we're going to see when the Senate trial gavels into session at 1:00 p.m. is pretty much the immediate start to opening arguments from the House managers. Now they will have three days, 24 hours total, to present the entirety of their case against President Trump. Their case for why the President should be removed from the first for the first time in U.S. history in this, only the third impeachment trial in U.S. history. But there's one other thing you need to keep an eye on. Obviously, they will be presenting a case, much of which we've heard at various points over the last couple of months, but they have a targeted audience here. And such as the public it is a very select group of Republican Senators. Those Republican Senators, four, five, maybe six tops who those Democrats, those House managers, need to vote with them later on in the process to assure there will be subpoenas for witnesses and documents. It only takes 51 Senators to basically dictate whether or not that is going to occur. Only 47 Democrats in the U.S. Senate chamber. That means they're going to need at least four Republicans to join them. My understanding right now is for the House managers, that is their target audience. Try and get moderate Republican Senators, Senators who are on the fence with witnesses to come their way based on what they present over the course of the next three days Lynda.
[Kinkade:] A busy few days. And of course, Phil, the Chief Justice John Roberts had to admonish or admonished both sides yesterday. He certainly is going to have his work cut out over the coming days.
[Mattingly:] Yes, no question about it. And look, if you ever need a reason to tune in for the entirety of the proceedings, this happened about 12:45 a.m. this morning. I think most people were either asleep or their eyes had glazed over. What was occurring on the floor is a pretty intense back and forth between House Democratic manager jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, and the President's lawyers who were going back and forth really kind of accusing one another of lying, making pretty sharp accusations as to the intentions of the other. And at one point, John Roberts, the Chief Justice who is presiding over the entirety of this trial stepped in and said, look, you guys need to I'm quoting here remember, you're in front of the world's greatest deliberative body which the United States Senate is often called. And essentially told them, tone it down a little bit. Understand where you are. Now it's worth noting, the Chief Justice has an enormous amount of power in this Senate trial, if he wants to use it. But the expectation is, not unlike what we saw in Bill Clinton's trial in 1999 with Chief Justice Rehnquist, he's going to be passive. He'll let the Senate decide kind of how this is going to go moving forward. However, last night proved that he's not afraid to step in if he feels like it's necessary. We'll see if it happens the rest of the way. But don't sleep and I don't mean to pun that. Don't sleep on the Chief Justice. He has power here and can weigh in and kind of change the dynamics of how things are going.
[Kinkade:] Well hopefully everyone gets a bit more sleep tonight. Phil Mattingly, good to have you there for us. I want to go back to Jeremy Diamond in Davos. Because as microphone off man is like it is beyond representatives from some of the world's biggest companies spoke about plans to go carbon neutral, we heard from the U.S. President Trump who seems to liken climate scientists to fortune tellers.
[Diamond:] Yes, and he did worse than that, frankly, in his speech yesterday. He compared them to doomsayers, suggesting these are people, climate activists, scientists who back climate change, who are people who are essentially predicting Armageddon from one decade to the next. Of course, the science behind climate change and the climate crisis is overwhelming. There's an overwhelming scientific consensus behind that, but the President made quite clear during his trip to Davos, he was not on the same page. That is despite the fact, of course, that the World Economic Forum this year was focused on that climate crisis. Now the President was asked today whether or not he thinks the United States needs to do more, particularly after the President has pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords, after many of his administration's policies have essentially rolled back a lot of the progress made towards countering climate change. Here's what he said.
[Trump:] We have to do something about other continents. We have to do something about other countries. When we're clean and beautiful and everything is good but you have another continent where the fumes are rising at levels that you can't believe. I mean, I think Greta ought to focus on those places.
[Diamond:] And you hear the President there mentioning that teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. The President clearly hasn't let go of that spat. You know that the President, of course, had referred to her anger management problems in the past, talking about the teenage climate activist. The President raised that again today. He also raised the fact she had beat him out for "Time's" person of the year. It seems the President is still holding a grudge there.
[Kinkade:] Yes, no surprise there. Jeremy Diamond for us in Davos, Switzerland. Phil Mattingly on Capitol Hill. Good to have you both with us, thank you. Well, also in Davos today is Britain's Prince Charles. Climate change and the environment as we just heard is topping the agenda for many, including the Prince of Wales. And in his keynote speech, the heir to the British throne stressed the urgency of battling global warming and saving the environment. Well just moments ago, Prince Charles sat down with our Max Foster for a CNN exclusive interview. And Max joins us from Davos with more on that. Max, great interview that you managed to get there. Prince Charles is, of course, the heir to the British throne and so much focus these past few weeks has been on his son Harry and wife Meghan. What did he speak to you about?
[Max Foster, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, he spoke to me on one topic. That was the only topic he was willing to speak about. It wasn't the case that the palace say can't speak about this toing, that topic. They just want to talk about this crucial topic for him. And it's the only interview he's doing this year, and climate is the big debate, obviously, here at Davos this year. So I think it really shows how much he cares about the issue that he chose to do his one interview on this topic. Interesting as well, just before the interview, we went with him to go and meet Greta Thunberg. Two icons really of the climate movement and in very different generations. So I started off asking him about that.
[Foster:] There is a fascinating moment to see you there next to Greta. Two icons of the climate campaign really for very different generations. What do you make of her and her contribution to the debate?
[Prince Charles, Prince Of Wales, United Kingdom:] She's remarkable. She represents one of the main reasons why I've been trying to make all this effort all these years. Because as I said, I didn't want my grandchildren to accuse me of not doing something about this in time. And of course, there they are, all her generation, almost my grandchildren, all desperate because not nearly enough has happened. We've left it so late. So I've always worried about the fact that so often, in terms of humanity, we leave everything too late. So you have to hit a brick wall and experience a catastrophe before anything happens. But this time, of course with this this kind of disaster we've engineered, it takes a huge amount to turn the whole thing back to how it should be, to restore the balance.
[Foster:] It's interesting to hear your positivity around the Paris Climate Accord. A lot of people are being very negative about whether or not it's achievable at all. Just explain to me why you think it is achievable.
[Prince Charles:] Really because I think partly we've suddenly noticed a 35 years ago, when I first started trying to encourage corporate and social environmental responsibility and I had endless workshops, conferences, gatherings, seminars, dinners, you name it, to try and encourage the private sector and executives to take on these issues seriously. We could never get the capital markets or the financial services sector to take it seriously. But in the last two or three years, as I was saying just now, there's been this extraordinary change where suddenly there's a huge amount of more investment, I mean vast amounts, wanting to find sustainable investments to put their money into the right things. And of course, at the moment, there aren't enough sustainable projects that have been worked out. So how do they work out the investment model that's needed. For instance, for nature-based solutions which is one way of trying to tackle this and the other ways, all the different technologies, there's carbon capture. There's an amazing range of remarkable ideas and techniques which are there but undercapitalized. And it's an immense challenge. I've just been to a gathering we had where the former Secretary of State John Kerry was describing just how I know the barriers and challenges are vast, but there is a real opportunity now to link the investors with the projects. And I know just from the case of the Commonwealth, there's such vast challenges there with deforestation and fisheries and agriculture. What we could do is transform a lot of this, particularly with by putting the secular bioeconomy at the center of all of this. And the bioeconomy is now even more possible in terms of the returns you can make, the difference you can make to people and their environment. The use of wood and what they can now do. The forestry sector, in terms of wood-based products being used for alternatives of plastics, chemicals, aviation fuels, biofuels, everything and building materials with immense strength. All this provides a real incentive to do the right thing. To put trees again where they're needed in order to capture carbon but also to help fuel an economy that centers around nature's own services. The ecosystem services we depend on.
[Foster:] You talked about how the reason you're doing this is for the children, for the grandchildren, for your grandchildren. What vision do you see for the likes of Prince George, if something isn't done now?
[Prince Charles:] Well, I mean, it's not very encouraging, is it? If you look at what's happening at the moment. We can't go on like this with every month another record in temperatures being broken, one warmer and warmer and warmer. Last year was the hottest ever. And we're already seeing a winter where it's even warmer. So if we leave it too long and we have done, just growing things is going to become difficult. I mean, even in many of these forest areas, in other parts of the world, if you deforest below a certain percentage, you end up with breaking the hydrological cycle and then you can't plant anything because there's no water to, you know, to keep the system going. So we only have a very short window. And this is why it's so absolutely critical, I feel, and with the help of the World Economic Forum, why we're trying to bring as many of these investors together with as many of the companies and sectors as possible. And try to do this each month from now on in order to try and see if we can create the right framework and the right response to make possible for your children and my grandchildren to have a decent, reasonable future.
[Foster:] Your Royal Highness, thank you very much. So there you are. That's the interview. That's the sort of message he wants to get out to the world when his family has been so high profile recently. No word at all on the Sussexes from here. This was all about a look into the future. Looking to Archie perhaps, talking about the grandchildren. What sort of world they're going to be living in Lynda.
[Kinkade:] Absolutely, very important cause. Max Foster for us in Davos, Switzerland. Thanks so much for bringing us that interview. Well still ahead increasing concern about the rapid spread of a SARS- like virus first detected in China. We'll have a report from the epicenter of the outbreak when we return. Also, the livid response from Saudi Arabia after the Crown Prince is accused of a high-profile phone hack on Amazon's billionaire founder.