it'll ruin your house. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like meow. >>> breaking news tonight, president trump impeached by the house for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. joining me now to discuss, john kasich, the former governor of ohio. good evening, governor. good to see you. president trump impeached. >> thank you, don. >> could not bluster his way out of this. what do you think? >> well, my reaction is it's a really sad day. i mean i -- frankly i'm bummed out about the fact that this has happened. then i looked at the fact that there wasn't one republican that crossed over. i mean it's just astounding. it was almost a straight party-line vote with a couple democrats saying they weren't going to vote for it but basically strict party line, which really shows us where the country is today. we're so divided. don, it's really troubling for us, and, you know, it's just -- what can i say? it's just we're not in a great place in america. you know, perhaps at the end we'll see wh

debate on the house floor now. it is in its four hour. it will continue. fox's chad pergram for the state of play such as it is. blake burman mentioned earlier, chad, people have been talking about the ultimate split screen possibility this evening with the president's rally in michigan. he is supposed to leave the white house within the next few minutes. the impeachment debate possibly or a vote happening on house floor. how are things going that we're so far into it? can those two things line up this evening? >> absolutely we think we will have the votes in the 7:00, 8:00 hour tonight. two distinct votes here. i will run you through some parliamentary algebra. we know with 431 members of the house it would take 216 members to impeach president trump. this is the reality. in the two roll call votes they cast earlier they were at 425 and 426 members voting. you could see where the number might be 213, 214. order should be abuse of power. that is the first article of impeachment they vote on. then obstruction of con

hear from the white house counsel -- former white house counsel don mcgahn saying his information could be relevant to possibly additional articles of impeachment. in a court filing today, house lawyers said the impeachment investigations didn't end with last week's votes. it's the latest turn in a drawn-out legal battle over mcgahn's possible testimony. cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us now. so, evan, lawyers for the judiciary committee are saying a second impeachment could be necessary? >> could you imagine the tweets from the president given his reaction already from the current impeachment debate if he were to be the first president to be impeached a second time? that's certainly what the democrats are raising here in this court filing. nobody really thinks that the democrats are going to pursue this, but what they are saying is simply that just because they barely mentioned the mueller investigation and the information from don mcgahn in the current articles of impeachment that are pending before the senate or will be pending before the senate doesn't mean that

public housing development to occupy a new affordable housing units. >> can we take this item same house, same call? without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. please call the next item. >> twenty-seven is an ordinance to amend to administrative code to apply eviction controls to units that are exempt from rent increase limitations because they first received a certificate of occupancy after june 13th, 1979, or have undergone a since of -- substantial rehabilitation. >> supervisor haney? >> thank you. thank you to the rules committee for unanimously supporting this ordinance. for 40 years, the san francisco rent ordinance, which our city has a set of laws which govern renters' rights, has treated tenants differently based on when they're building was built. if you're building was constructed before 1979, you have the benefit of rent control and protection from arbitrary eviction. if you're building is any newer than that, you simply don't. we have little data on what happens to tenants in the post 17 -- 1979 buildings. fifteen% of renters reported they were

the white house has until 5:00 p.m. this afternoon to decide whether they will participate in a hearing on monday. lawyers from the intelligence and judiciary committee will present their findings from investigations into the president. monday's hearing sets up a issue judiciary vote with a vote of the full house possible the week before christmas. lauren fox with more from capitol hill. >> reporter: dave and christine, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, making it clear, the democrats are moving forward with impeaching the president. >> the president leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election, for his own benefit. >> reporter: now, what we do know is that next week is going to be another explosive one on capitol hill. on monday, the house judiciary committee will hold another hearing, this one to discuss that 300-page report from the house intelligence committee, all revolving around that july 25th phone call between donald trump and ukraine's president, zelensky. the

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we never left the house. the thunder may roll, the lightning may strike, but we must never leave the american house. we must stay together as a family, one house, one family, one american family. [applause] >> gentlemen from illinois. without objection, the house will be in order. gentleman has five and a half minutes. gentleman, just suspend until we have order. gentleman may proceed. >> my friends, those of us who are sinners must feel especially wretched today losing bob livingston under such sad circumstances. one's self-esteem gets crushed at times like this. i think of a character who feels so crushed he asked god if he can be useful in wiping something up or filling a hole or being a bad example. something is going on repeatedly that has to be stopped. and that is a confusion between private acts of infidelity and public acts, whereas you raise your right hand and ask god to witness to the truth of what you are saying. that's a public act. infidelity, adultery, is not a public act, it's a private act.

thanks for joining us. >> house democrats along with nancy pelosi draft articles of treatment, the house judiciary committee on evidence. democratic and republican and counsel presenting findings for the impeachment inquiry. >> campaign 2020 this weekend arrives in iowa following the democratic presidential candidates. mayor pete in a senators amy, bernie sanders and cory booker speak at a forum in cedar rapids. then sunday at 1:00 p.m. easte eastern, bernie sanders speaks with supporters at simpson college in indianola. live campaign 2020 coverage from iowa this weekend on c-span. want any time at c-span.org and listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. this weekend, book tv features three new nonfiction books. saturday at 8:45 p.m. eastern, scott adams, creator of atomic strip and author of loose or think. >> all elevated in our opinions because the news model is forcing us toward more provocative stuff. they would say well, here's the news. now it's replaced in retainment. >> retired navy and nato supreme allied commander, james discusses his book, true north. >> i would go int

house chief of staff mick mulvaney. and former national security advisor john bolton. schumer also proposed subpoenaing documents from the trump administration's decision to delay the military assistance to ukraine. of course, the trial in the senate depends on wednesday's full vote in the house. that's the actual impeachment vote. for more on that, i am joined by new york congressman. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> you are on the rules committee. you are going to be, tomorrow, all eyes are on the rules committee and that's not something i have said a lot in my career. they're all going to be watching what you do. and basically, you are going to be determining how the impeachment vote unfolds on wednesday? >> yeah. so we're going to be doing what i believe is the first time in the history of the rules committee, which is taking up the rule that describes how the impeachment debate will unfold on the floor. so this is the first time in american history. it did not h

house of representatives.] the chair: the nays are 246 -- the chair: on this vote the yeas are 249 and the nays are 166. amendments en bloc are adopted. the unfinished business is the equest for a recorded vote on amendment number 4 printed in house report 116-330 by the entleman from maryland, mr. brown, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes from veiled by vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 4 rinted in house report 116-330 offered by mr. brown of maryland. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or comm

from testifying in the house. the list includes the acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney, and the former national security adviser john bolton. majority leader mitch mcconnell sounded reluctant last week about calling witnesses. today he sounded a note that was closer to maybe. it could be that public pressure from senate democrats would be enough for them to get some of what they want in an impeachment trial, but with republicans having a narrow majority, democrats could conceivably get support for rules that they like by persuading a handful of republican senators to go along. the names most commonly on that list include senators like mitt romney of utah, he sioux murkowski of alaska, and susan collins of maine. if they could get those people together, they could get the rules they needed. joins us is former north dakota senator byron dorgan. senator dorgan, good to have you with us. >> thank you, ali. >> do you think those senators i just named, three republican senators, could be persuaded to push

there are people they want to have called as witnesses that the white house house democrats would not have calleded. that may be dicht in the senate where mitch mcconnell and the republicans are in charge. they said they want hunter biden to testify. a whole host of people. >> it's not clear that the folks lead iing the charge in senate would call them. >> i agree. but i think there's a list of people that the white house will say we'd like these witnesses to testify and that's the kind of negotiation that will go on with the republican senator. i think for that what's worth at the end of the day, the american people are going to expect this be a thorough and fair process. if you don't call any witnesses, it won't look like there's a fair consideration. >> what is the definition of three ring circuses? as john cornyn put it. who defines what a substantive witness is. we will soon find out because coming. train is leaving the station as we speak in the house it looks like. good to see you guys. very much. coming up, joe biden gets a boost today from a former presidential nominee. what

but when this house impeached him, which i didn't agree with, i went to the house floor and i said i thought what president clinton did was wrong. because moments like this call for more than just reflexive partisanship, they require honesty, they require courage. are any republicans today willing to muster the strength to say that what this president did was wrong? let me say again what happened here. the president withheld congressionally approved military aid to a country under siege to abstract a personal political favor. he did not do this as a matter of u.s. policy. he did this for his own benefit. that is wrong. if that is not impeachable conduct, i don't know what is. now, i've heard some on the other side suggest that this process is about overturning an election. that is absurd. this is about president trump using his office to try and rig the next election. think about that. we like to say that every vote matters. that every vote counts. we learned in braid school about all the people who fought and died for that right. it is a sacred thing. you know, i remember as a middl

the house judiciary committee, which voted last week to send the articles to the full house, issued a 600-plus page report laying out the case. it says in part, president trump's abuse of power encompass both the constitutional offense of bribery and multiple federal crimes. he has betrayed the national interest, the people of this nation, and should not be permitted to be above the law. i want to get right to capitol hill where manu raju is and always will be from early morning to late at night. manu, you've been working the halls. what are you hearing at this hour? >> reporter: well, democrats are very confident they're going to have the votes on wednesday to impeach the president, that historic vote, you mentioned, the third time in history that this would occur. they're not planning on whipping this vote. they don't believe they actually need to because they do believe those 31 house democrats, people who serve in districts that president trump carried in 2016, by and large most of them will vote ultimately to impeach the president and likely on both counts, abuse of power and obs

house speaker nancy pelosi does not lose votes on the house floor. and if those are the two articles they're going to put on the floor, those are going to be the two articles. is binary, it is a big decision, probably the most momentous decision when it comes to a roll call vote that any member of congress can take besides a vote of war and you have to be on the right side of this. you have to think about how you judge voting on this. you had republicans being criticized because they put four articles on the floor and two failed. they thought they overreached. >> shannon: so maybe that guided some of the decisions this time around. always great to see you, thank you. investigators revealing you now have a suspect in the attack at the naval airbase in florida got his gun. the legal loophole and his last words to the world next. also, hundreds of thousands of our soldiers to afghanistan, many of them came home hurt or didn't come home at all. by the thousands and now secret documents say leaders spent years misleading you the american public to convinc

vote in the house? >> yeah, they're focused on the beginning of next year. i was speaking to kellyanne conway. she said the chief impeachment strategy is pat sippiloni. he has a better relationship with president trump than don mcgahn. they were shut out from that process in the house. we are watching for this class. this is a show-man type trial. but mitch mcconnell was the cautious manager that wants a quick trial without witnesses and it appears clear, although the white house says they would be satisfied with it either way, that this thing should come and go in the senate as quickly as possible. certainly the push back right now is pushed back at chuck schumer that just reiterated his call for several former and current officials and their acting staff. they were blocked from participating in the house proceedings. the president's aids accuse shumer of being hypocritical. they called for no witnesses when bill clinton was impeached or in the senate trial back then, but schumer pushes back on that an

even on the house side. as you know, it takes place in the senate, but we invited the president's counsel to all hearings. we invited the president's counsel for an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses and object to testimony. we gave him the opportunity to appear before the judicial community before calling witnesses. it reminds me of the president blockading all these witnesses and saying, you don't have any -- >> first of all, were those rights provided only in judiciary committee? because you're not the principal committee of impeachment here. you're sort of the final stock. so did the president get those in the intelligence committee? >> i believe not. i would have to check. >> i can assure you not. >> you may not accept this analogy, but here's the analogy we proceeded on because this is the first moderate impeachment where the fact finder was a house of representatives itself instead of a special council or independent council. when the special counsel did that in impeachment, all of that takes plac

because what i hear is that an impeachment inquiry, if the white house does not give the house of representatives in this committee everything we ask for, then that's obstruction of congress and an impeachable offense. and that's not what the law said and it's not what the law should be. there are certain privileges and immunities that the president has. irrespective of whether we're doing oversight or whether we're using our article two power. the sole power of impeachment. and he ought to be able to present those, you know, in a court of law. this is not a court of law. you know, i don't blame white house counsel cipollone for not saying that there were any privileges involved because we know what the answer's gonna be. and, that is, we're going to blow any claim of privilege away. we're going to blow any type of executive immunity away. we are going to simply say we want it and you got to give it to us no matter whether it's private information or doing some legitimate oversight. now, we know that the rejection of the argument that we shouldn't have to go to court for that is bogus. because th

this is what a housing crisis looks like. this is 200 beds, but there are thousands of people on the streets in san francisco. we need more shelters and related services. we need more protection for renters. we need a million homes throughout the region. our region also needs a single seamless competitive transit system to have a chance of addressing the housing crisis and climate change. i thank the mayor and everyone involved forgetting this navigation center built so quickly. i want to say to all representatives it is time to be way more ambitious. thank you. [applause] >> mayor breed: i want to take this opportunity to thank muhammad for his leadership in getting this built so quickly. thank you to deputy chief from the san francisco police department. we know public safety is important to the community. we know that the department has added additional resources to help ensure safety in this particular neighborhood. you know, it really did take a village to get this done. so many folks standing behind me and folks from th

the sydney opera house, everywhere you can imagine. we have 15,000 celebrations going on this year which are going to draw millions of people, but this is the one that has spawned this great network of similar celebrations around the world, in countries that didn't have thriving jewish communities for many many years, and especially in recent times given with what's happened here in the united states both in terms of the jewish community and generally, i believe that in the darkness that has started to lurk in the forms of senseless hatred and acts of violence and things of that nature. one of the most effective responses we can have is light. >> yes, so this is an evening of celebration and inclusion, but, you know, you talk about moments of darkness, and how the nation is grappling with so much, particularly 25 jewish democratic members of congress are actually calling now for the removal of a senior white house adviser, stephen miller and is citing, you know, his promotion of stories from white nationalists as their reasoning and lo

units from the housing stock. this concludes staff's presentation. i'm available for any questions. >> thank you. we will now hear from the project sponsor. you have five minutes this time. >> put it over here. that goes to the planner. the posting goes to the planner. >> you got five minutes. you want is to tart your presentation? >> i got to set up. >> okay. good evening. my name is joe. i've been brought onto help him present his views and changes to the project that were requested by planning at our last meeting. at our last meeting, the commissioners had requested us to explore the idea of a.d.u. units, also issues with regard to the height and frontage of the buildings with regard to the neighborhood. in that regard, we conducted a study of the neighborhood and prepared an appendix that's been provided to you. it's about 200 houses in the neighborhood that i went around and took pictures of from across the street so you can see that they have such a varying structure that it is the bric-a-brac of san francis

do you anticipate they'll be any more successful than the house, because the house tried to get those same documents as well? >> i think americans regardless of where they stand on impeachment overwhelmingly understand that in order to have a fair trial in the united states senate you get to call the relevant fact witnesses and you get to look at the relevant documents. that's what this is all object. we just highlighted the importance of that issue with the document you mentioned already from michael duffey who's a political appointee at the white house in the office of management and budget directing the pentagon to hold the military assistance to ukraine 90 minutes after the president's call and clearly indicated in that e-mail that they recognize it was inappropriate in many ways, not wanting other people to see this document. so this is all the more reason that the public deserves to see the documents and that we get to call fact witnesses. the president keeps saying he wants a trial with witnesses and then they are saying well we don't want these key witnesses to testify. what d

we are seeing that in the house, house republicans are united, house democrats are divided. some of them are talking about censure because they don't want to vote for impeachment but this has been a completely partisan exercise, this has been partisan from day one, democrats have been after donald trump before he became president, they were talking about impeachment before he took the oval office. >> something, it will be partisan to the benefit of the president, here is chuck todd in his take on what he thinks. >> it is looking clearer and clearer to me we are not going to have a real trial because the white house is going to set up a straw man of what they think is fair and that includes all the biden's testifying. how do we end up -- i think mary garland. >> the supreme court nominee who didn't get to a vote in the senate. what do you make of that characterization and what you guys are planning? >> we will listen to the evidence the house has to present, the articles of impeachment, house members will come over and make that presentation, the president will be able to mak

that, there is usually 435 members of the house when the house is full. there is currently four absences. that gets the total number to 431. a majority is 216. that is why you should be looking for 216 as the number to watch for when the votes start coming in. i should note yesterday, delegate ellie -- eleanor holmes norton was trying to change the math a little bit. she went to the house floor for a vote on impeachment in the house floor. vote -- shely get a was heading to the house floor to discuss the impeachment and why it is unacceptable the 700,000 residents of the district of columbia have no vote. that willes that's -- be changed because she is pushing for a d.c. statehood bill. back in 1998 at the very start of the floor debate of the clinton impeachment, eleanor holmes norton was the first want to speak on the house for and she was speaking about the same matter back in 1998, asking for a vote that she never got, back in 1998. here is congresswoman eleanor holmes norton 21 years ago. [video clip] >> this on behalf of half a million- half america

full house vote next week. but you don't think the house should send this over to the senate just yet. tell me why you say that. >> well, i think the house is confronted with taking their case to a trial that can't begin to be fair, can't begin to be impartial, notwithstanding the oath the members of the senate have to take. we've got a majority leader who is openly colluding with the white house on what kind of theater they're going to put on, and it would be very simple -- i have had my nose in the rule book all day today to find some reason that nancy pelosi would have to send over the articles of impeachment after the house votes on them, and there is no rule. she do sit on them as long as she wanted until she thought the american people, who the house is representing in this instance, could get a fair trial in the senate. and that might be after the election. it might be in the next congress. >> have you been in touch with her or anybody? >> only by twitter and privately to some of the staff. >> what did t

the white house had a veto threat on it. you have a stalemate. there is not a lot of optimism. >> given what happened in 2018, with democrats taking the house, describe the influence of this group and others. others trying to curb gun violence versus the nra, the troubles they have had recently. >> i think the rise of these groups has been an important part squaring the debate, if you can square it against the nra. that has been what has been missing. viable, well-funded groups. i think, perhaps, the emergence of michael bloomberg in the democratic field, candidates, may raise the issue further. i think these groups are important, if only to equalize the debate. >> i think they have a lot of momentum from the students who spoke out. parkland, there was an outpouring of students willing to put their face to this problem. they got a march in d.c., across the country. you see people with the courage of youth, seeing their friends being killed, saying, we don't want this to happen. that has had a lot emotional impact. some lawmakers had family member

house democrats insisting they still need the testimony of former white house counsel don mcgahn because the investigation into whether president trump obstructed justice continues and could, in theory, lead to additional articles of impeachment. that in response to a filing overnight from the justice department. which argues the courts should avoid weighing in on mcgahn while a impeachment trial is pending. i want to bring in evan perez. so doj also saying that since the articles of impeachment do not include obstruction of justice, which they want to hear from don mcgahn about, his testimony is irrelevant at this point. >> that is right, erica. in the articles of impeachment, there is only one cursory sort of reference to the mueller investigation and that is one reason why the justice department said that the courts first of all should stay out of this. that is their argument for some months now that the courts should play no role in a fight that is between congress and the white house. but at the heart of this is the importance of this big question, which is can the president give ab

the house judiciary committee. basically it says the president committed numerous federal laws all meant to supplement the 2 articles of impeachment against the president. now looking ahead as everyone expects for this to go to a senate trial, democrats just want a fair trial. senate minority leader chuck schumer is urging republicans to be fair as an impeachment trial looms in the new year. >> trials have witnesses. that's what trials are all about. >> reporter: schumer sent a letter to majority leader mitch mcconnell proposing chief justice john roberts issue subpoenas to 4 administration officials including acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and former national security advisor john bolton. president trump tweeted monday read the transcripts. the impeachment hoax is the greatest con job in the history of american politics. republicans are trying to work with the president to figure out how the trial should look. >> if the president wants to call witnesses, if the president wants to call hunter biden

he has not treated it with the gravity that the clinton white house or the nixon white house did. but it is still something that is going to define him, even if he were to win re-election next year, which is something we should of course not count out. that's something that could still happen. but this is now -- as i think one of your later guests jon meacham put it, this is now part of, when i spoke to him today, this is part of his entry in the history books. he has been impeached and nothing can ever change that. >> mara gay, a couple things to note with you. number one the michigan history of your family and how we've seen the memory of john dingell soiled tonight, something we never thought we'd see. but also a mixed metaphor alert. what happens when the impeachment aura runs into the trump wall and seeps into the nation's bloodstream? i guess that's an unknowable at this early date. >> it is a momentous day. it does cut through all the noise. and it has me thinking about a few things. one is that i think for a majority of americans who didn't vote for this president and who

forgive me, but house democrats cannot be held responsible for the cravenness of the house republican caucus and their blind fealty to the president. leader mcconnell claimed the impeachment was motivated by partisan rage. this from the man who said proudly, i am not impartial. i have no compensation to be impartial -- i have no intention to be impartial at all in the trial of president trump. what hypocrisy. leader mcconnell accused the house democrats of an obsession to get rid of president trump. this from the man who proudly declared his number-one goal was to make president obama a one-term president. leader mcconnell claimed that democrats impeach the president for asserting executive privilege. president trump never formally claimed executive privilege. he claimed, quote, absolute immunity, unquote. the white house counsel wrote a letter stating simply that the administration would not comply with any subpoenas. leader mcconnell claimed that the democrats, quote, obsession with impeachment has prevented the house from pursuing legislation to help the american people. leader mcc

this week will be about the house and about speaker pelosi and about her leadership of the house democrats. but chuck schumer, there hasn't been a lot of legislating in the last year or so. chuck shchumer will get a spotlight here, too, to see how he manages it, both the politics and the math. >> when you do look at the numbers, you see this movement from independents. it's not from people who supported the president, right, it's from people who didn't support the president but wasn't quite sure about impeachment. republicans need to conduct a trial in such a way that it seems fair, and the people in the purple states can vote to remove the president, can vote to keep the president in office without invoking the teek. >> but that shows schumer positive ternlly, if you do this how the president wants, you may lose your voice. they think this was reckless. they think rudy giuliani flying around ukraine was reprehensible. some say it was not impeachable in their view, but they don't like it. >> when you hear from members anonymously whether or not they will put their name on a quote and what

it'll ruin your house. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like meow. . >>> in mexico, terrifying moments on board two carnival cruise ships that collided at port in cozumel. >> he's going to hit us next. >> the carnival cruise ship glory was pulling into port friday morning when it hit the carnival legend, which was docked. six passengers were injured on the carnival glory. polo sandoval is joining us now. officials say strong wind gusts may have caused the issue here. >> it seems it's back on its itinerary, back to new orleans. but really jarring moments. >> look at the damage. >> yes. they had to survey the damage here. they said after close inspection that the ship was safe enough to return to new orleans, as you point out, so that's where it was at the moment. a lot of the get guests on board were greeted by a letter from the captain, saying an investigation is under way but they believe wind gusts and strong currents pushed this ship into another carnival ship. the ship has been inspe

house representative ratcliffe called it a house of cards. watch. >> do you know who does not think the democrats have presented enoughar testimony to impeach president trump today? it's the democrats. sure in the house, democrats running thisid inquiry have declared they've done everything needed. theyey have all the testimony ad evidence necessary to impeach right now. down the hall, democrats in the senate are saying the exact opposite. they are complaining. they need more evidence and more testimony because senate democrats know that house democrats have built them a house of cards impeachment. >> jason: john ratcliffe, one meof the smartest people in the united states congress. now, nancy pelosi can do whatever she wants with her partisan proceedings, but the united states senate is not going to play her little game. that includes senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham who tweeted, quote, nancy pelosi's threat to transmit the house of senate is incredibly dumb and dangerous idea. there was a reason one person can't be the speaker of th

how the house republicans will respond specifically on the house floor? guest: we haven't. the conversation has been that nancy pelosi was indicating early on monday to her staff this would go beyond christmas. we saw that on the news reports. today we learned forget that. we will get to it today. it has almost been made a mockery of the whole process, picking an artificial deadline and have everything work for that deadline so people have to go home for christmas and articles of impeachment are done. the speaker is immensely afraid when people go home -- she saw this over thanksgiving, the people at risk in the 31 districts president trump won now held by democrats see this as them slipping. she needs her 235 votes. host: the tulsa world. across the capital impeachment saga shifts. congressman, how frustrating is it in terms of getting legislative priorities you have? what are some of those in terms of getting debate on that? guest: it should be set for all americans we don't have the government funded and we are running up against artificial deadlines and here we are agai

talking to house republicans. speaking, saying hearing from and by we i mean, is republicans, are united like never before. thank you president trump. saying to the president, you can send us ivanka anytime. host: off of twitter, you saw the chair or heading out not taking questions from reporters. they reported, that the chair went to nancy pelosi's office and continued to decline to answer questions. dan in alexandria, virginia. caller: thank you for taking my call. to the gentleman earlier who said that democrats did not give republicans a chance to call their own witnesses and so on and so forth. from my understanding, the democrats followed the rules that were adopted when john boehner was speaker of the house to a t. if anyone has a problem with the process the democrats followed, it is a republican process that they followed. saytionally, i just want to , the other item that has come up is whether or not the facts have been contested and from my perspective, the facts have not actually been contested by rep

custer 5 before the house despite the efforts of house democrats to compel those testimonies and in fact polling shows that the majority of americans want these witnesses to share their testimonies in a senate trial and in fact even 2 thirds of republicans have said they wish to hear from these witnesses who have been silenced thus far julie and is joe castor there live with the latest from capitol hill heidi thank you well president trump was taken to twitter in the last hour he says and i called impeachment poll numbers are starting to drop like a rock now that people are understanding better what this whole democrat scam is all about let's go live to our white house correspondent can be halted in washington d.c. hi there kimberly so does president trump believe the impeachment process maybe is even strengthening his base. it certainly is a mess as the president has been sending in light of the national poll numbers that seem to show that despite the weeks of hearings despite the weeks of damning testimony give the president the public opinion remains divided in fact the president quot

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chief white house correspondent jim acosta joins us from the white house. jim, what is the white house saying? >> wolf, the white house official line is that the president is unfazed by the likelihood he is impeached. the white house is responding to demand that new witnesses appear at the expected impeachment trial in the senate, but the white house is saying that request for new testimony proves the president didn't do anything wrong. with this week's expected impeachment vote hanging over him, president trump is lashing out in all directions, defending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who wrapped up a trip to of all places, ukraine. >> he sees what goes on, what's happening, he sees the hoax that happens when they talk about impeachment hoax or the russian collusion delusion, and he sees it. >> the president on a social media rampage, tweeting, retweeting attacks against perceived enemies, tlincluding nancy pelosi. he tweeted that nancy's teeth were falling out of her mouth. the president 's allies are playing defense. the results of the latest to d

she unilaterally, without a debate in the house, and the house is supposed to be a deliberative body, that's really what the rules are designed for clearly, procee procedurally decision-making. she exercised power, and i think seized the power of the house and said this is now impeachment inquiry, oh yes, eventually there was a vote, but only after the gu the die was cast and now the house intelligence committee with adam schiff and what in enormously poor judgment in the church of choice of someone to leave the impeachment inquiry. instead of someone like peter, a democrat during nixon, who was respected for his fairness, henry hyde, a republican, jerry who is not simply respected but beloved, on both sides of the aisle, very conservative republican but he believed in our culture of liberty as you well know. instead of someone like that of real dignity and stature, she chose someone who had led this extravagant ill-founded theory of russian collusion which, by the way was step in saying were going to listen to professor tribe on how this will hold up, now she is intruding into the po

and that weill forever negativey tarnish the history of this house. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. gentleman from new york. >> madam speaker, the president's conduct constituted the highest of high crimes against our country. an offense does not have to violate a criminal statute to be impeachable. that was confirmed in president nixon and again in president clinton. there is no higher crime than for the president to use the power of his office to corrupt his elections. i yield one minute to the gentleman from wisconsin. >> gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. this july president trump blocked 400 million in congressionally approved aid that ukraine desperately needed to defend itself against russia. he needed ukraine to do himself a favor first. he asked the president of ukraine to launch an investigation into military aide and other benefits would only come after. this is not about a single call or a single transcript. this is about a perfect storm, months of activity directly ordered by the president to his

what they used in the house to impeach president trump will be the trial record for the senate all in a moment we'll speak to castro who's on capitol hill where that vote will happen but 1st let's talk to our white house correspondent kelly how has candy let's unpack a little bit of what lindsey graham was saying that this very speedy trial but he's also talked about potentially weaponize ing impeachment he's saying that the process itself has changed fundamentally. yeah and this is the fear and also the allegation of so many politicians regardless of whether you're a republican or a democrat is that the accusation is that it's being weaponized now and it could be weaponized again when there is a democrat in the white house with regard to the length of the trial that is the big question mark you heard lindsey graham a senior republican a staunch ally of the president advocating for a short and speedy trial in the senate in essence to try and vindicate the president move on with the order of business and that is to represent the american public in the u.s. congress for the president to

in the house -- there are no house managers yet, have been saying. for example, congressman swalwell who said the other day, if you were innocent, you would come and testify. i guess he's heard of the fifth amendment. i cannot believe the guy is a lawyer. the senator's point is a rhetorical point. you can say if he really did nothing wrong, why doesn't he put his people up to testify? that's a political point. but to say we can vote guilty because of that is ridiculous. her duty, like senator mcconnell's duty, is to listen to the evidence and to make a decision in an impartial way. i do not think the senator should have said -- i do not think it was wise or right to say he is not impartial. >> laura: if he doesn't think it's a legitimate impeachment, fraudulent impeachment, i think it's his duty to say how he would vote. i disagree with you. i see your point. if it was a legitimate impeachment be i don't think he thinks is legitimate from the beginning. i want to play something with senator graham who met with the president today. >> i just met with

i was in the clinton white house then. what i'll tell you is that basically the democrats and the republicans came together to kind of come up with procedures to make the trial a reasonable and serious process. what we've seen here is a very partisan approach by the republicans, and i think what you saw in the house today in particular was an effort to demean the process, to diminish the process, to make it even more political, to make it even more partisan. and so it's not surprising to me that mitch mcconnell's doing that, but it's certainly not what either the democrats or the republicans did the last time we had an impeachment trial. >> kurt, you have been madly texting back and forth with folks you know inside the room where it happened tonight. what can you add to our reporting? >> it was with eric swalwell asking him about this abrupt decision to end the hearing. here's what he said. he said i don't understand their complaints, the republicans complaints we heard, especially doug collins at that microphone. they thi

the same in the house. i've been on the floor when we have expelled members of the house. so there is that remedy there. and sorry, i did not get your question. guest: i couldn't hear the first part. host: the first part was does the president have all the rights in the bill of rights when it comes to the impeachment process? -- thank you citizen, he has all the rights of the bill of rights. position, probably has more power than any of us, but the answer to the question is simply, yes. host: how long do you think the senate process will take? will it take a long time? do we expect it to last a month? if there is a trial in the senate, how long would it take? bett: i would never anything on what the united states senate is going to do. we used to refer to the senate, when i worked at the house, as the dark side, where the legislative house bills go to die. but this is so hyper political, i do not think you can make any judgment. this could be done in about 20 minutes. or, it could take months. host: final word? guest: i had the chance to work on the house and the senate si

the house speaker nancy pelosi undaunted by the house said this. >> the facts are clear, the president violated the constitution. >> trump's legal team has an official chance to defend the president in the impeachment inquiry, and they're declining. yet the president says over and over -- >> they don't give us any -- any fair play. it's the most unfair situation people have seen. no lawyers, you can't have lawyers. you can't speak. you can't do anything. the way they're doing it, they're taking away our rights. we literally have no rights on the other side. we have no right, we have no anything. and it's a very unfair situation. >> so refuse, stall, refuse, dodge, deny, confuse. it's not only the strategy of the white house, it's what republicans on capitol hill have been doing all along. so let's review the facts, okay? remember facts first because facts do matter. i know in this time it doesn't seem like they do, but they do. the rough transcript of president trump's now infamous july 25th phone call with ukraine's president shows trump clearly asking him to investigate joe biden and

five hours later, just after speaker of the house nancy pelosi spoke on the house floor, the president vented in all caps -- "such atrocious lies by the radical left, do nothing democrats. this is an assault on america and an assault on the republican party!" >> so, let's get right to jon karl. and jon, the president has repeatedly called impeachment an ugly word, a disgusting word. he did not want this to happen, but it would appear, jon, that he is also ready for battle. >> reporter: impeachment clearly bothers him, david. but he is in battle mode. he'll be out, of course, at his campaign rally in michigan tonight. looking forward to that battle in the senate, the senate trial, confident he will win and when and if he does, david, certain to claim complete and total exoneration and vindication. >> all right, jon karl with us live tonight, as well. jon, thank you. >>> and as you heard jon report there, the president headed to michigan for a rally tonight. clearly pivoting already. so, let's get right to martha raddatz, live at the rally. and martha, impeachment has already become part

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coordinating with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the president''s positin our position as to how to handle this. another trump ally and centraimfigure in the achment probe was in the white house today, just back from ukraine. rudy giuliani says he wants to brief u.s. officials on his trip. it seems the threat of impeachment has only emboldened the president's allies. >> for more, i spoke with a former assistant u.s. attorney and author of "how to read the cotitution and why." clearly this has divided the country. what do you make of the way democrats have handl everything? do you agree that they passed these two articles of impeachment? >> think they are clean. they are easy to understand. athid getting on sideshows around facts and political questions. although, i think that is happening evense t two articles of impeachment. tuere is some pushback that there is not an crime there. we will hear from republicans that it makes it not impeachable. all four experts whoesfied before the house judiciary

>> solely in the house of representatives. >> in the house of representatives. >> and the reason why it's stated that way, mr. hastings, is because the framers didn't want the senate thinking that they could initiative an impeachment, and they wanted to demar indicated demarcate it -- demarcate it saying that the supreme court should impeach. or the state legislature should impeach. there were lots of ideas out there. but they said that the house of representatives was the organ that represents the people. we are the people's body. the senate has some claim after the enactment of the 17th amendment, they're elected by the people now, too. but they really still do represent on the kind of disproportionate basis of each state getting to despite the size of the state. but we are as close as you get in our constitution to the pure representatives of the people. >> and the senate acts on oath and affirmation as well. am i correct? >> they are the constitutional errors. they will decide on matters of law, but they will make the final application of the law to the facts in this case. and th