>> ari: i don't like it. i think the white house, both white houses need to stay out of matters that are judicial. if an investigation has to happen, let it go to the attorney general, the department of justice down the proper channels. there is a desired outcome. >> harris: if you put that the same category where democrats are putting ukraine? >> ari: i will put it in the same category as when barack obama said off-camera, i'm running for reelection, can you give me some space, help me with my reelection so i can be quieter about missile defense, that is even worse than what donald trump did. >> harris: we have to move on but marie looks like she wants to -- senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has made a big prediction about the impeachment trial. we will get into it next. ♪ look, this isn't my first rodeo... and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it's just a loan designed f

the beat with ari melber starts right now. good evening, ari. >> thank you, chuck. we begin this episode of "the beat" with news breaking. december 2019, the u.s. congress unveils two articles of impeachment against president trump. if congress votes on these new articles, donald trump will become only the third president ever impeached in the first, think about this, the first elected president ever impeached in his first term. >> the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment. >> the first order of business for members of congress is the solemn act to take an oath to protect and defend the constitution. >> the articles put forward today will give us a chance to show that we will defend the constitution and that our oath means something to us. >> the democrats unveiling the plan, speaker pelosi moving forward uniting her caucus with a narrow case against him here. introducing just two articles of impeachment. now, this is not a situation where they are throwing everything at donald trump and seeing what sticks or narrowing on the ho

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good evening, ari. >> that's it? >> that's it, buddy. >> i really expected a rap lyric for this one, ari. >> to quote jayz -- >> a line from drake. >> i think barr flipped it and reversed it. >> do you have any for us? >> lean back and welcome to the party. >> it's getting hot in here, maybe not you. >> no, i'm cold. >> you guys realize this is weird, right? >> it is super weird. >> the awkward silences. >> oh. >> let's reflect on that. i did want to let this moment sit. >> sit. >> that's how they know about the martians who landed here. actually i'm making a joke. >> okay. >> i'm going to end with my bad holiday joke. are you saying the cattle industry had beef with oprah? this is a holiday where you say, look, let my full report go. i'm sorry. >> come on. >> wait, this is ending toxic masculinity right here. >> it all happened here. thanks for being part of it. we won't soon forget it. ♪ limu emu & doug hour 36 in the stakeout. as soon as the homeowners arrive, we'll inform them that liberty mutual customizes hom

ari melber is next. i will be back in t minus seven hours. good night from new york. >>> good evening. welcome back to our series "impeachment: white house in crisis." tonight we join you for the first time since the house judiciary committee voted to approve those two articles of impeachment against donald trump clearing the way for the house to clear the second impeachment. now tonight we have a whole series of experts to help us break down the charges against president trump and also how to watch what's coming next. we will also look at why democrats chose to go with this narrow case for impeachment. i have another story that relates. the origins of the russia probe and a justice report that debunks many of donald trump's claims about bias in that issue, which of course relates to the impeachment issues. but we begin with a look at the events that have led to the congress moving towards articles of impeachment. >> the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment. >> a clear and present danger to our free and

tonight -- jack black host of msnbc's "the beat," journalist ari melber, featuring the 8g band with coady willis ♪ [ cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. how is everybody doing tonight [ cheers and applause that is fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news president trump this afternoon hosted a hanukkah reception at the white house. said trump, "it's hard to believe that hanukkah is already nine years old [ laughter ] make a wish, hanukkah. that's right, president trump hosted a hanukkah reception at the white house. it's his favorite holiday because no matter how hard he tries, he can't misspell it. [ laughter ] in a new interview, house speaker nancy pelosi said that she never watched president trump on "the apprentice," and then trump said he never watched her on "golden girls." [ light laughter ] "you were blanche, right?" according to reports, rudy giuliani has reached a divorce settlement with his third wife they opted for divorce after she realized he was difficult t

>> and not just any senator, ari. he's the majority leader of the senate. and when you go on hannity's show which is critical place for the followers of donald trump and in effect say i'm rigging this process and i'm going to try and make sure that every other republican goes along, it's putting pressure on them as well. and, you know, how this plays out is going to be a curious thing, but, boy, if i were the democrats in the senate i would be raising hell every minute about this. as joyce said the clinton impeachment was political, but the members tried to follow the facts, they had votes and in some cases disagreed on what witnesses to call, but they set a fair process in place, and we had republicans who decided after hearing the facts that it didn't rise to the level of impeachment, and democrats decided that it did. we're not going to see any of that at this point, and it's just further poisoning of a process and one that mitch mcconnell has basically blown up over the last decade or more in the senate. there isn't a norm remaining in the body that he

ari melber has rolling press himself. you've got the book report. >> you and i are the same, when the government does big things, it's worth reading the primary source. and now people see on twitter, we've been reading it. >> it's amazing. i was just going to say, if you choose to read, you will learn something. >> i agree. and that's not unlike supreme court opinions. there's a lot in the footnotes. >> thanks a lot, brother. >>> we begin with breaking news. as congress releases its blueprint for impeaching the president. releasing the fact finding in this ukraine plot, releasing a definitive account of president trump's alleged abuse of power and chairman schiff has receipts, as i was just discussing with chuck todd, about 3 h00 pages of receipts, what could only be described as an exhaustive document that formally shows that congress completed its fact finding and democrats say they have here a factual basis for impeaching the sitting president. this, i really, having spent some time with it, don't think it's another pr

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back to ari. you found something in the documents. >> one of the big questions here has been okay, are we going to get a readout of everything we watched in those hearings and prosecutors do that, too, a summary, or new information. i can tell you, we have new information. the kind of stuff that would be breaking news, blockbuster front page stories if it were a story. it's just coming from the government itself. according to the spell jensen committee's report, i'm holding newly released logs of rudy giuliani in august with the white house and zbres interestingly with the office of management and budget. what is rudy giuliani, the personal attorney for the president of the united states, need to do with the office of management and budget? well, that goes to one of the central questions in this entire alleged plot, which was was rudy giuliani illicitly involved in extorting a favor? >> why we have any contact with omb. i think about bill taylor having that video link conference call about the sec

ari, if melania reads books to young children, she gets attacked. melania trump puts up christmas decorations, she gets attacked. it is never ending. i don't remember that happening to michelle. except when she said for the first time in my adult life i am proud of my country. >> yeah, well, this is what i find so distressing about the asked back atmosphere today. and the one thing that i see is politics is fair-minded, and to give my critics of people who oppose my thoughts the benefit of the doubt that they are good people with good motives. but once you start talking about people who disagree and you being in colts, this is what is so divisive and harmful to america. i don't view the people that oppose donald trump as evil. that is their point of view. they are entitled to do that. they should give the same respect to people who support the president and particularly his wife. it is out-of-bounds to have these criticisms against her. where all of the women's magazines that used to have first lady is on the cover? they don't grace the covers of mi

>> ari, you've been around this town a long time. you know that these big spending bills are often omnibuss or mini buses we call them. there are lots of things loaded on there. so you can't take one issue in isolation. we vote in large measure is. >> sure. so you were for ukraine getting the money. you were against other stuff in that vote, on that bill. >> yes, of course. ukraine has this aggressor, russia, right over their shoushlgsd and they're an ally of ours, and we do need to assist them. i, like most american citizens want to know that when we send the funds over there, it's not going to be squandered by political corruption there is a lot of corruption going on. among that was this very suspect situation about burisma, which is an infamously corrupt corporation. and hunter biden gets put on the board with no experience, no background, and he is paid $80,000 a month. that does raise questions. and anybody that is looking at it objectively i think would agree with that. >> well, i think that raises two questions. you say raise

go ahead, quickly. >> ari, i call it like i see it. and we had issues and i've got a really good relationship with leader pelosi. but i will tell you to watch her operate is something to be seen. i call it like i see it. >> there you go. i think viewers might be interested in an update to that story. life is long. >> my thanks to each of our special guests for special coverage. >>> up next i want to tell you what we're going to do: break down how it works when the senate puts donald trump on trial. our team has been researching 200 years of president. we've dug deep into the archives. i would argue we have amazing footage you haven't seen yet. we're going to analyze how it will hold mitch mcconnell and others accountable. this can answer a lot of the questions that are about to face the country. that's coming up next. e country. that's coming up next. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everyw

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good evening ari. >> good evening, chuck. we have a lot to get to on "the beat." the white house responding moments ago to congress's offer to participate in the impeachment hearings. also tonight, new heat on rudy giuliani. could he be in trouble on the way he's talking to witnesses. and more on revelations in the impeachment report. we've been breaking news night by night assisted by the new evidence, some of you you may not have heard about yet. but we begin now with breaking news. the white house making it official, they will not participate in this next impeachment hearing on monday. donald trump formally refusing to present any kind of evidence or even engage with what will be the first witnesses presented direct evidence of the ukraine plot to this judiciary committee. this is the committee that will be writing articles of impeachment against the president. this breaks with bipartisan precedent. in the nixon and clinton impeachment investigations, those presidents cooperated. even past presidents who faced allegation of corruption wanted to show cop raugs.

and ari, i asked chairman schiff about the phone call that's not fully identified. rudy giuliani and who, and is that the president of the united states? we'll find out maybe. >> i thought your interview with chairman schiff was fascinating for several reasons including your line of questioning about when did devin nunes know he was busted. >> right. >> and how did he know it. >> as you know, the committee usually shares information with everyone on a committee, right? and so when i saw that today i thought when did they tell nunes they had him? >> and i took the chairman to be saying to you they gave him that information among other material in a stack, whether he did or his staff did the homework is up to them. >> how could they miss it? >> there's that. there's this very mysterious interesting tantalizing material about who is minus one, negative one, all the different mysteries. obviously as the chairman said rudy giuliani's formal relationship is with the president. so it would be a reasonable inference that would be one of his intended calls. the other surroun

ari, i want to start with you. andrew yang had a good point but i haven't heard many democrats make it, but it seems resonatinw even with a guy like me. >> it is amazing if you make a point we need to focus on the american people and the working people who will seek their way out of poverty and make their way to the middle class. that is what the american people are focused on. and you sort of stand out on democratic debate stage because you're different. what a night. i did fall asleep halfway through the debate, so i did not watch at all. [laughter] >> jason: fairir enough. matt, you heard what andrew yang said, but also what tulsi gabbard did. a lot of democrats scratching their head. the democrats made the point they had to rush, hurry up and they can't stand donald trump and now they will not even transmit it? how do you read what's going on. >> i think the democrats are in real trouble here and republicans have made similarr mistakes in the past so parties have been guilty of this. but democrats are way over

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. >> ari what jumped out at you reading this today, reading a statement? >> the bottom line here is they didn't find what made everyone interested in this report. people weren't waiting to discuss the third and fourth round of the foreign intelligence surveillance act warrants. it's just not why everyone is interested. you could go back and pretend that the trump administration is stark with libertarians or members of the senate committee are really concerned about international wiretap abuse but they actually have a record of opposing those kind of controls. indeed, political conservatives tend to back up any national security surveillance of any kind. what you have is a lot of folks trying to pretend that the carter page piece of it, i interviewed him last night, that that is the big deal. in fact, that's the house that's left. >> maya, you read this opening statement. >> i'll agree with ari, what we're not talking about -- >> he is getting ready to take a seat. >> he will open by reminding us that the whole thing started in terms of russia investigation

"the beat with ari melber" starts now. >>> good evening. we begin with breaking news altering the course of the trump era. today the united states congress took its most formal step towards impeaching president trump, the judiciary committee passing two articles of impeachment, a move that came after two days of debate that ranged from solemn to exhaustive. chairman nadler adjourning close to midnight, bringing members back for this today. >> impeaching donald j. trump for abusing his power, the clerk will call the role. impeaching donald trump for obstruction of justice. >> there are 23 ayes and 17 noes. >> if you follow the news, you knew this was coming. you watch the process unfold, the hour that is led up to a little moment, a party line vote. but it is a vote that actually changes everything. it puts house democrats on record and on track for a full oat in the united states congress on the house floor next week. from what we can tell right now, there's no going back, and if the house passing impeachment, it will then tap the managers

. >>> i'm ari melber reporting live in msnbc headquarters. we have been watching live coverage of this much anticipated and at times admittedly dry senate judiciary committee hearing. this is all about an exhaustive report on what started the now very famous russia probe, the origins of which were cleared by this report. the justice department inspector general, the witness you've been hearing from, not exactly allows hold name, but an important person within these debates, michael horowitz is the sole witness in today's proceedings. what he just laid out were some of the key findings of this investigation. a committee right now is taking a break, as you heard for senate votes, and we're going to show you everything you need to know as well as give you the latest on impeachment news in washington right now. i can tell you this witness, horowitz has been questioned by graham, feinstein, leahy and grassley. >> we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the fbi's decision to conduct

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>> i think that's right, ari. and of course that will be much more friendly terrain, because mitch mcconnell will fundamentally be controlling the process. and i think something to watch for over the next couple of weeks as this moves inexorably towards a senate trial to what extent republicans will try to dictate witnesses can be called and how much time each side can have, and to what extent chief roberts who will be presiding over the trial will be promulgating those rules. i don't think we know that yet. i think in this phase, ari, in some ways most observers, i think all of us know fundamentally what the outcome is going to be. you're going to have a couple of articles of impeachment on the floor, and donald trump in all likelihood is going to be the third president in u.s. history to be impeached. we just don't know whether it's going to happen before we put on the 2020 glasses or after. >> gene? >> yeah, i agree. and jeremy mentioned something that i'm kind of focused on but of course we can't answer. what

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ayman mohyeldin in for ari melber. welcome to "the beat" on this monday evening. tonight democrats ramping up the pressure for impeachment witnesses after new ukraine revelations. also, neal katyal on why mitch mcconnell is wrong about the senate trial. s are also, a new court filing showi ining democrats are still thinking about more articles of impeachment against the president. we start with new demands for witnesses in the trial of donald trump. those calls getting louder after release of emails sent 90 minutes after trump's infamous ukraine phone call. white house officials ordering the pentagon to stay quiet about the frozen military aid at the heart of this plot. a budget official writing, quote, given the sensitive nature of the request, i appreciate you keeping that information closely held to those who need to know. now that frozen aid is at the center of the impeachment case, and now democrats say these new emails highlight the need for more evidence and more witnesses. >> this email is explosive. a top admi

ari melber, you are watching and listening along with us. your thoughts having crossed this clethreshold. >> great to be you. because the country is seeing this. the president stands credibly accused of on extortion plot to try to cheat an election and an obstruction plot to cover it up. and now with these votes coming in it looks like the congress impeaching him for both of those things. in law, brian, we would call what the president has done a voluntary confession. and you saw this in the floor statements today, that's what brings to the floor the lawlessness and brazenness because it is rare to see someone confess and then obstruct. he walks out onto the white house lawn and says forget the corruption defense. i want an investigation of my rival. i wanted the bidens taken out. that's what he says. he confesses and he goes onto obstruct the congress openly, defiantly, wantonly. it's a bad day for the president in his first tum. he's the first elected president ever to be impeached in his first term. >> ari, keeping in mind i am watching t

of course, this has meant that russia is now an adverse arie again. another great lord of that mission, the great u.s. diplomat said in the 1990s said expanding nato post soviet russia will be a self-fulfilling prophecy that's what it has done. they've maintained their jobs. >> you seem to have a skeptical view of nato's role. you are a russia expert. is russia still the for midable foe it was >> it is nowhere near the threat the soviet union was with regard to the nuclear arsenal it is true nato has struggled to find a strategic mission for itself the expansion eastward, there has been a lot of philosophy around that. it did provide eastern european, poland, baltic states the emerging and security they needed to develop democratic constitutions and consolidate as market economies but it is true that nato has gotten so large that there is going to be diver diverge ans of turkey. particularly with turkey the detachment is something we are looking at quite a bit >> and that is the catalyst out of the comments from macron was the turkey incursion i'll as

we will have more on the impeachment hearings and what's next coming upsufter the news ary. national security advisor roberr n said today that the shooting at the pensacola naval air station on friday "appears to be a terrorist attack."ai o'brien alsoit is unclear if the gunman had any ties to terror groups. at a news conference today the killed three sailors and wounded eight other people at the navalb air station ieved to have been the only shooter on friday. officials would not call it ant terrorism, but did say they are investigating using that presumption.e, >> we s we do in most active shooter investigations, work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism. nvis allows us to take advantage oftigative techniques that can help us more quickly identify and then eliminate any additional potential threats to the rest of oucommunity. >> sreenivasan: at a news conference this morning, officials said the saudi air force second lieutant who was killed in the attack purchased his handgulegally and that other saudi studentsre currently confined to the base and coopera

i mean, as -- and ari, i think you covered this last night. if you look at how many people actually did wrong, who were caught doing wrong through a ross that worked that was not politically bias, that was based on evidence what we should be saying is, by and large, we have an accident that worked and worked well and worked effectively. should we be concerned when there are management failures? absolutely. and we should be applauding the inspector general's report for doing exactly what inspector generals are supposed to do. they're supposed to point to ways in which you can make your agency work better. and that is exactly what we should be supporting the fbi to do, is find the ways to fix and fill those holes. yes, congress can and should take up questions about whether there are additional protections that citizens should get in this country. that's a longstanding debate. we were having that debate over the patriot act. >> right. >> it's not as if this is a suddenly new one. and i think the danger of politicizing law enforcement is really t

former law clerk to supreme court justice sonia sotomayor, and msnbc's own chief legal correspondent ari melber, who happens to be the anchor of "the beat" on this broadcast. garrett haake is on capitol hill. and garrett, if we can, i'd like to start with you. set the scene for us there. and how, perhaps, today feels different from the last time we did this, the last time we set up what we knew were going to be days of coverage on the hill. >> reporter: yeah, brian, today the surprises won't come from the witnesses. the actual testimony we expect to hear today will be part history lesson, part legal seminar. if that's not very exciting to folks, the fireworks today could come from the members themselves. the judiciary committee in the house is historically the most partisan committee in the house, and this body is no exception. you'll see some of the president's top defenders here, doug collins, ranking member on the republican side jim jordan is back. matt gaetz will likely introduce himself as one of the president's more vocal defenders here. the witnesses here, all law professors, wil

good evening, ari. >> that's it? >> that's it, buddy. >> i really expected a rap lyric for this one, ari. >> to quote jayz -- >> a line from drake. >> i think barr flipped it and reversed it. >> do you have any for us? >> lean back and welcome to the party. >> it's getting hot in here, maybe not you. >> no, i'm cold. >> you guys realize this is weird, right? >> it is super weird. >> the awkward silences. >> oh. >> let's reflect on that. calls climate change a hoax quite often. and so we're lacking that kind of belief in doing technology in a big project that brings the country together. joe biden's talking about a cancer moon shot to cure cancer. buzz aldrin thinks the next moon shot's a mars shot to go to mars. but there are many people that think we need an earth shot, something here on the planet to take care of our oceans and our environmental degradation of our forest and wetlands and wildlife corridors. >> some other of the subjects doug has written about in his career. and ladies and gentlemen, in our audience

ari said it's the eurovision playlist, no shame there. i agree with you, ari. a tweet from martin who says i haven't listened to any new music since about 1991. last night in the car it was revolver by the beatles. and remy said he doesn't stream music, he prefers to buy cds and put his favourite music on his ipod —— ipod. i know it's frothy in light but it's friday. i will be back shortly. hello there. the next few days are looking more unsettled now and even indeed as we head into next week, it looks like the weather will be taking some sort of trollercoaster ride. one day, unsettled, wet and windy, the next day generally fine thanks to a ridge of high pressure. now, friday looks like being one of those more unsettled days, lots of isobars on the chart, weather fronts too indicating outbreaks of rain but one thing you will notice, it's going to be very mild, especially england and wales as we are drawing up our air off the atlantic from the south—west. so a blustery start today, very mild too across the south. wet, but that rain band will move away and

well let's be honest ari that's his job he has to be upbeat about the alliance he's the one that has to bring all these $29.00 leaders together and show that the alliance is better together than divided and that's going to be the message that he wants to come out of this meeting at that's what british prime minister boris johnson as the host said going into this meeting that everyone agrees that they are better off inside nato than outside nato and that they're going to very much push that message even as everyone is very worried about the wild card president from he used photo opportunities yesterday to hold unilateral press conferences and he's got 3 more bilateral meetings scheduled today and nobody knows what he's going to do everyone's just hoping that by having a short meeting of just 3 hours they can minimize the opportunity for it to be hijacked for anything else they would like very much to come out and endorse this statement all 29 leaders and say we're going to address the challenges of the future together with teri schultz in dungeon thank you very much for that assessmen

here is ari melber's look at the top ten legal stories of the year. number ten, r & b singer r. kelly arrested. >> the bombshell involving r. kelly, the music star who has been trailed by allegations of sexual misconduct for years has now been criminally charged with sexually abusing multiple underaged victims. >> he is expected to head to trial next year. >>> number nine, mexican drug lord el chapo on trial. >> everything was larger than life. >> the most powerful and notorious leader of the sinaloa drug cartel hi, was convicted on drug and murder charges. >> guilty on all ten counts. >> sentenced to life in colorado supermax prison. number eight, the border crisis. >> breaking news tonight on the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. >> overcrowding. four showers for 756 immigrant. >> sparking outrage across the country. >> none of us would have our children in that position. they are human beings. >> number seven, the fight over the president's tax returns intensifies. trump going to the supreme court, asking them to block a house subpoena for his tax returns. they are

ari melber breaks down the biggest legal stories. >>> first as this decade comes to a close, we want to know what you think the biggest story was. head to nbcnews.com/decadestories and give us your choice. any comments doug? yeah. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. con liberty mutual solo pagas lo que necesitas. only pay for what you need... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> legal battles dominated the headlines in 2019. the top ten legal stories that captivated us this year? >> number ten, r&b singer r. kelly arrested. >> the bombshell surrounding r. kelly has now been criminally charged with sexually abusing multiple underage victims. >> he's expected to head to trial next year. number nine, mexican drug lord el chapo on trial. >> everything about this trial was larger than hief. >> the most powerful and notorious leader of the sinaloa drug cartel. >> convicted on drug charges and murder conspiracy. >> guilty on all ten counts. >> sentenced to life. >> number eight, the border cri

ari fleischer and doug sloan -- doug shown will also join us. and it's friday, you know what that means. it's time for friday follies with raymond arroyo. he's going to take us through the hilarious, behind-the-scenes moments that you didn't see you during these impeachment hearings. we have the r r camera angles te rest of the media didn't show you. we will show you. but first,he the house judiciary committee, as i said this morning, approved two articles of impeachment. they now go to the full house for a final vote. it's only the fourth time in american history this has happened. but what'sic really historic is the democrats' hatchet that got -- job that got us here. remember how they said impeachment should be always, always bipartisan? >> it will have to be something that has such a crescendo in a bipartisan way. >> ifom the evidence isn't sufficient to win bipartisan support for this, putting the country through a failed impeachment is not a good idea. >> you have to be able to think at the beginning of the impeachment process, the evidenc

good evening. >> hey, ari, how you doing? >> i'm all right. there's a lot in this we're still getting into. what do you think about the propaganda portion? >> it goes back to what dr. fee yo ma hill said. this is language sanctioned from russia that's going to divisive to our country and destructive to our democracy. and what they did, there's no such thing as coincidence. all the bread crumbs are laid out in ub approximate lick. they led the public know exactly what they were doing and using the same play book from 2016. the only difference here now is we had a whistleblower. we had a whistleblower who came forward with a report and complaint and now congress has taken steps to get to the truth and what they've done with all the expert testimony, all the witnesses coming forward is now schiff's team has laid out a very clear case against trump and what he and all of his allies have been doing this entire time. and there's no way to rebutt it. there's no way to really counteract all the facts they willingly went out and said public. >> it take

good evening, ari. >> good evening. as we come on the air right now, we're getting new evolving details about how congress plans to hold this vote on impeaching president trump tomorrow. we have that for you. meanwhile, the president lashing out with a new letter claiming he is being mistreated. some dubbing it a rambling screech of rage. plus later tonight, my breakdown on the terms for any senate trial and why chuck schumer hit a road box and the rules and precedents for how they can push for better fact-finding on the case of president trump. later we also will get into a new admission from none other than rudolph giuliani. some say it actually helps the impeachment case against donald trump. that's what we call giuliani lawyering. we begin right now with the painstaking process for impeaching a process. to paraphrase cold play, nobody said it would be easy. for good reason. the founders did not intend for this process to be easy or fast. neither the house nor the senate. tomorrow's vote is being teed up in today' ho

i think you're absolutely right, ari, as is joyce. the speed of this in part is thanks to that whistleblower complaint which has proved so accurate. every witness who has come forward in the house has really said exactly what the whistleblower said was reported to the whistleblower and the whistleblower complaint itself was so detailed that it in and of itself would have resulted with where we are now. but that call summary being released on the heels of the whistleblower complaint just reinforced everything that the whistleblower complaint was alle alleging. it was a real double whammy that goes to what joyce was saying about the speed of this process. it really put it on steroids. >> if it's been a steroids process of fact finding, that is what speaker pelosi has empowered adam shaf to do. we don't know what history will ultimately judge as these different phases. but for democrats at least, they have seen a shift phase and they are about to enter the nadler phase. take a look. >> there is more work to be done, but at the same time