[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn:] President Trump often tweeting once again today mostly about the ongoing Senate trial, but they a lot he'll have to go a long way to beat the record he set yesterday. Look at this, 142 tweets and re-tweets. That's a single-day record for the Trump presidency so far.
[Jake Tapper, Cnn:] Congratulations to him for that. CNN's Kaitlan Collins is at the White House with the latest on how President Trump is focused on what's happening just down the street. Kaitlan, apart from social media, do we know and that's not a small thing, by the way, that's like a window into what is on his mind.
[Kaitlan Collins, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Yes.
[Tapper:] But beyond that, do we know what the President has been doing behind the scenes during the trial?
[Kaitlan Collins, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Well, this is what's interesting about today, because the first two days is all this was getting underway, the president had been out of the country, he was getting back yesterday. But today is the first day he's going to be here at the White House as these arguments are getting underway, under day two of these opening statements from the Democrats. And the president doesn't have a lot on his public schedule, just an intelligence briefing and then he's not leaving the White House until later this afternoon about two hours after the Democrats started speaking, to go speak at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting. So there is a lot of opportunity for the president to be keeping a close eye on this, and based on the people that he's been speaking with, he has been paying close attention. Remarking on certain things that the Democrats have said, talking about points that they've made as he's having to sit back and watch them make their statements without any Republicans or any his own legal team being able to rebut them in real time since they've got the floor to themselves. And we're told, Jake, that's actually irritated the president a little bit, because his team is not going to get able to start speaking until Saturday at the earliest.
[Blitzer:] You also, Kaitlan, have some news on yet another prohibition on cell phone use today. It's not just the Senate floor we're talking about. Tell us about that.
[Collins:] Yes, speaking of that Republican National Committee meeting that the president is going to, he's going to deliver a speech this afternoon. It's going to be held at this resort in Miami. But we are now getting a glimpse of the memo that the RNC sent out to those attendees who are going to be there, telling them that any phones or devices that have the capability to record audio are banned from the event, and not only are they being encouraged not to just record the president, which is typically standard for some of this speeches that he has with the RNC. They are not going to let them bring their phones into the room per this memo. They say they're going to have somewhere for them to store them and keep them until the end of the event, which is notable because, of course, in the past a lot of audio from these remarks, these closed door events the president has done where no press will be in the room, often it leaks from someone in there who's recording the president or taking notes and later let the press know what it is he says, which sometimes often mirrors what he says publicly. But this is pretty notable that there will be no phones allowed in there. And they say that if they break the rules, Wolf, they will are threatening to essentially remove them from the room if they do bring phones in there.
[Tapper:] Well, Kaitlan, is this voluntary, is this honor system, and how will they going to know if somebody has a cell phone in their pocket? Are they going to frisk them?
[Collins:] So that's the question. When they go into the room, are they going to be actually checking them like they would in any other events like this? Typically, Jake, it's the honor code. They just say, do not record the president or X, Y, Z, and they essentially leave it up to the discretion of the attendees at this event. But reading this memo, it's pretty harsh. We actually have a screen shot of exactly what they say, and they are threatening them that if they break the rules, they will not be allowed in the room. And then they're saying, we're going to have somewhere for you to keep your phone, which does make it seem like they are going to be taking them from them before they come into the room. That of course we'll have to wait until about 3:00 this afternoon to find out how that actually goes down.
[Tapper:] All right, Kaitlan Collins, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Senators right now are arriving for the Senate trial. Democrats are trying to build their case against President Trump. And just moments, standby we'll be right back.