nancy pelosi has returned to her chairand nancy pelosi has returned to her chair and the nancy pelosi has returned to her chairand the time nancy pelosi has returned to her chair and the time is up on that. that was a speed round of voting. there are 215 votes at the moment in the yes column and we are waiting to see if that clicks up to 216. she waits to tally all the votes and i imagine some of those no votes, 216 there. some of those no votes now we re there. some of those no votes now were either miss counts or people who changed the vote of the last minute but usually it is to do with the tallying vote —— process. in a minute we will have, i imagine, nancy pelosi gambling this second round and then all of the focus will shift from the house of representatives into the senate for the impeachment process. that is in january. but tonight it will shift also to michigan where donald trump is in the middle of giving an election campaign rally, effectively, to his supporters in michigan as this process is taking place down here in washington. this is one of those extraordinary momen

nancy pelosi and the democrats have been sitting on that agreement for 370 days. we have got millions of americans jobs riding on that. 176,000 new jobs. no state will benefit any more than the great state of texas. this is the thing that needs to be done. liz: thank you for having us in your homes. lou dobbs is next. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody, the radical dimms are gasping in what i see as mortal pain as they behold president trump's rising levels of popularity, this achievement of more success and clear and unassailable case for reelection in 11 months. the economy under president trump is a runaway record breaker and so too are the markets. the trump economy creating 666,000 new jobs in the month of november, including 354,000 manufacturing jobs. the unemployment rate

nancy pelosi is holding cards. the committee chairs in the senate, his colleagues, they do not want a situation where a precedent is established of the executive not turning over any documents or witnesses. 13 months from now there could be a president warren or president biden and the republican chair of these committees don't want to get stonewalled by that so they have institutional interests in seeing witnesses and documents. and then you have the vulnerable republican candidates who are up this year. and they are clearly going to want to see some witnesses because they don't to explain to their constituents, their independents that they need to win general elections. you know, why this was a fake trial, they need it to be a real trial. so i think by the time this is over, lawrence, there will be a genuine trial in the u.s. senate. >> how do you see the politics of this for republicans, especially some of those vulnerable senate republicans? >> well, first of all, i think that somebody cited the polls that show

the comments about nancy pelosi's teeth. they're afraid of what's going on between now and the end. >> bret: i talked to a number of republicans who were cringing about the dingell stuff. he has the wind at his back politically and why? >> he should save his insult comedy team for the living and we won't have to deal with these questions. what i think nancy pelosi is afraid of and leadership among the democrats is that the president is going to be acquit in a bipartisan fashion but he'll point to that as vindication and he will get even more wind at his back. >> bret: thanks. when we come back, bringing holiday spirit to a work place. 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 everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪ spread a little love today ♪ spread a little love my-y way ♪ ♪ spread a little something to remember ♪ philadelphia cream cheese. made with fresh milk a

but before we get there, you have covered nancy pelosi a long lyme. she rehas become the driver of thisprocess. so much control and she really resisted it until the ukraine scandal broke. what political calculations you think the speaker has made in the last few weeks? >> to is point, as you said, she was very careful in the beginning talking about how this is going heto affect members. how devices disive it woul be for the country. that was a blower and the ukraine revelations changed everything for her. as she said this week this is about the constitution, not about the election anymore. it is about protecting congressional rights of oversight and 's also about issues like obstruction of justice. we are going to see how far these impeachment articles go. are they going to ruinclude obion of justice and the corruption, and maybe the russia investigation. we will sehow that goes. but what pelosi is, is now the driver. >> want to bring melanie in here. we now support for impeachment is really split upon party lines and the country is very split on this

nancy pelosi is holding cards. the committee chairs in the senate, his colleagues, they do not want a situation where a precedent is established of the executive not turning over any documents or witnesses. 13 months from now there could be president warren or president biden and these republican chairmen of these committees don't want to get stonewalled by that so they have institutional interests in seeing witnesses and documents. and then you have the vulnerable republican candidates who are up this year. and they are clearly going to want to see some witnesses because they don't to explain to their constituents, their independents that they need to win general elections. you know, why this was a fake trial. they need it to be a real trial. so i think by the time this is over, lawrence, there will be a genuine trial in the u.s. senate. >> how do you see the politics of this for republicans, especially some of those vulnerable senate republicans? >> well, first of all, i think that somebody cited the polls that s

nancy pelosi has a choice to make care. the idea that she's going to now delay the articles brings up two things. the first as she is thinking about the election because if she does give the articles over now, as she showed. this puts a trial right in the time frame of the iowa caucuses and who's going to have to sit and listen to the trial? senator klobuchar, senator warren, senator bernie sanders, senator cory booker. to post a lot of the candidates off the campaign trail. they've not been impartial. they are running against the president for the white house. that questions about their participation and whether they should recuse themselves will certainly be discussed. nancy pelosi deciding that she is now no longer in a rush after people like adam schiff, who she put in charge, that we have to do this now before the president cheats again in 2020. really discredits her argument. >> harris: judy miller? >> i disagreed. i'm sure that will come as no surprise to k/d. nancy pelosi is the best vote counter in the world. more

nancy pelosi isthe most aker powerful woman in america. in cajanuary, she speaker a second time after democrats flipped control of the house and set a record number of women to congress. in recent weeks, nancy pelosi has championed house democrats impeachment investigation of president trump and made a case to it to a skeptical public. a new book by her daughter christine, describes the political and negotiatinha skills i made speaker pelosi such a formidable leader. joining me now is author and chair of the california democratic party women's caucus christine pelosi. thank you so much for cong in. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> this book is aimed at giving young women the choice to become leaders. one chapter is entitled to claim your at at the table. you talk about what your mom arrived in washington in the late 80s that wabasically she asked to give a list of priorities to the male congressman and told to st aside. how does she react to that and what do you take from how she handled thatkind of thing? >> nancy pelosi was first elected to

maybe that's what nancy pelosi wants to do here. i'm with maggie. i think mcconnell looks at this and says, fine. we'll move on and you'll look completely craven and political and they'll be ready for that attack. >> can they move on without the articles of impeachment? very quickly, jeffrey? >> they can't have a trial. but the point maggie is making is mcconnell will say, if you don't want to do your job nancy pelosi, i can't force you. and we're going to go on about our business. that's the risk she's taking by raising this subject. >> yeah. i don't know if it's that big of a risk to her. she's saying if you don't want to do your job, mitch mcconnell, then we're not going to move ahead either. >> i know. but i think that we're getting into the territory where the democrats have made a series of contrary arguments and one of them is move fast, fast, fast, fast. no, actually, let's slow this down. voters sometimes do have trouble holding these two ideas at once. and i think in this nuance world we leave in now, that's dangerous. >> you know what the

i this is nancy pelosi, literally saying she has no case. she's already lost one democrat over this fiasco last week. jeff van drew had enough already. i will not be a part of this anymore. who knows how many more she will get to switch or beat next year because the country is fed up with this theatrics, this drama by speaker pelosi, now trying to take over the senate. she has no case in the house. shouldn't moved impeachment in the first place but they did it the country says look, focus on lower drug prices and care about the working families. fortunately, president trump cares about those families and delivering a great economy with a lot of people and a lot more money in their paychecks this christmas. >> dan: congressman biggs, i have to believe the democrats as much as i disagree with their rancid political ideology, they are not stupid, they are not. they are usually tactically efficient. they have to know this has been a spectacular face plant, public polling is down, independents moving in the opposite direction, swing state pollsar

i'm ready to follow nancy pelosi's lead. so far she's come out on top. >> although she has opposed the president on so many issues. and certainly she is going up against him on impeachment, she's still getting things done, by passing various legislation the president wanted, like the usmca renegotiation and ulgters. >> but in this year of new media, you'd never know it. they all seem to blame each other for its passage, rather than celebrate the moment coming together. and house democrats would make the case that they've send over hundreds of bills as they die. and republicans controlled both chimebers as well. the senate doesn't act as fast as the house. what the house democrats under nancy pelosi's leadership has done is help in 2020. get gun violence off the streets, reunite families of immigrant whose come here, perhaps without documentation too, be the party of dreamers. frr and it will stand in contrags to the agenda donald trump saw rejected in the midterms. and that's the greatest affirmation is her leadership over t

i'm ready to follow nancy pelosi's lead. so far she's come out on top. >> david, to that same point, though, although she's opposed the president on so many issue wheres, and certainly she is going up against him on impeachment, she's still getting things done bypassing, you know, various legislation that the president wanted like the usmca renegotiation and others. >> yeah, but in this era of new media you'd never know it. they all seemed to plam each other for its passage rather than celebrate the moment coming together. house democrats would make the case they've sent hundreds of thousands of bills over to the senate that have died in mcconnell's graveyard as he suggested. the senate doesn't act as fast as the house. elections are about contrast. and what the house democrats under nancy pelosi's leadership has done is created a contrast for 2020. they are a party looking to protect health care, get gun violence off the streets so you reunite families of immigrants who come here to be the party of dreamers and it will stan

i thought nancy pelosi would be smarter than this. you are in a leadership position but again, what am i missing? she is usually tactically smarter than this. >> well, you know, she used to be in control of that caucus. now with this new socialist democratic party, aoc as you were indicating, aoc is driving the train now. it's her party. if you go back to the impeachment inquiry, she was not going to do an impeachment and when we can aoc tweeted that the real crime is the democrat majority not impeaching president trump. literally, two days later, nancy pelosi said she would impeach the president. aoc is driving this party. why so many moderates have no place left. there are no blue dogs left in the democratic party virtually here and she's run them off because they are tired of the socialist style. that's all she's got and they are controlling things right now. >> i forgot about that. >> dan: congressman bigs, nothing they told us about this impeachment was strewn no quid pro quo, first-hand witnesses told us the exact opposite. gord

as nancy pelosi always says we and show yourwife. book, no you have to know your call to service, your purpose. why are you there, what are you doing, how are you there to help people? power only matters if you are using it to help other ople. a lot of people have tremendous problems in politics by the hazing, the bullying, very active in fighting sexual harassment in politics. people think that the trappings of power are such that they allow u to lordit over other people. nancy pelosi would tell you that the way to have power isn't to have the trappings of power but to constantly give it away by empowering other people and ing your power to make progress in the lives of other people. >> we will have to leave it there. much. na pelosi, thank >> my pleasure, thank you. >>> we are well into holiday season. a time year whwe gather with friends and family to enjoy good fo and goodtimes. but we are not all alike. family members come in all stripes. how do we stay connecosd with we love despite political and religious differences? here to

>> nancy pelosi doesn't want a fair trial. she is scared a fair trial would show what a complete sham this is. there is nothing whatsoever to compare this impeachment and this whole process with bill clinton in the 90s. he was actually charged with a crime. there was bipartisan support for impeachment. and the senate agreed unanimously on the rules for procedure. nancy pelosi is forgetting the constitution. the separation of powers fully we can see that the house then when they put forward an impeachment that is so rankly unconstitutional. then the senate can in its discretion and with looking at the baseless accusations dismiss it outright and say this has been a political impeachment, this is something the founders never intended. is there not evidence to support this. so mitch mcconnell would be within his constitutional prerogative for the members of the senate to say we are done here. gregg: americans are pretty smart. they know what's going on here. this thing is a sham and a farce. even the virulently trump-hating micha

nancy pelosi is doing this because she's scared to death. this thing is a gigantic hobgoblin for her. she's freaked out by it and she does not want to entrust us with conducting a trial. why? she knows it'll end very badly for her. >> jason: the argument that john ratcliffe makes the same time the democrats in the house and nancy pelosi are saying this, it's overwhelming, obvious to anybody who looks at it that the people you sit next to and united states senate are saying, we don't have anything to work with over here. is that the right read of this? >> yeah. we do and not have anything to work with in the sense that there is nothing there. there is no there there. they realize they screwed this up. in an effort to ram this thing through, they did a shoddy job of letting us together for that, by the way, is the excuse they used for denying the president of his due process rights. they say, should, we didn't do a very good job of this. she tries to extort us. and use this as a tool for extortion, this idea that, well, if you don't eat your v

this is nancy pelosi pulling a trump style power move on donald trump. what she's doing, every day this sits the house being in recess, every day the president has to see these headlines and has to know there is an*on his presidency whether or not he gets reelected he will get angrier and look at this carefully laid out plan mitch mcconnell has gotten the senate that will most likely acquit him and start yelling about how he wants more, too boring, too narrow and once his, quote, total exoneration and the moment he starts demanding witnesses and documents is the moment nancy pelosi has won because that is what she wants in terms of new information in the senate. >> from the whole gop predict bipartisan acquittal at trump impeachment trial. the expectation democrats and conservative states like joe mansion of west virginia and i don't alabama will join with republicans? >> that is my expectation. i will be surprised if democrats unanimously voted in favor of removable is given the demographics of the state with those two senators, menchen, jones, senator

nancy pelosi is holding cards. the committee chairs in the senate, his colleagues, they do not want a situation where a precedent is established of the executive not turning over any documents or witnesses. 13 months from now, there could be a president warren or president biden, and these republican chairmen of these committees don't want to get stonewalled by them. so they have certainly institutional interests in seeing witnesses and documents. then you have the vulnerable republican candidates who are up this year, and they are clearly going to want to see some witnesses because they don't want to explain to their constituents, their independents that they need to win general elections, you know, why this was a fake trial. they need it to be a real trial. so i think by the time this is over, lawrence, there will be a genuine trial in the u.s. senate. >> todd coleman, how do you see the politics of this for republicans, especially those vulnerable senate republicans? >> first of all, i think somebody cited the p

i've known nancy pelosi for most of my life. they don't talk about hateful feelings about other human beings. in truth, i've never heard her say anything different. >> do you agree that people think, with the joe biden thing, i heard people say, it's about time. it's about time. >> i don't like that. >> that's what they're saying. i'm asking you. >> they are saying it. what's the concern -- i'm getting wrapped. not tonight. >> role reversal. >> now you know how i feel. >> it's 11:00 at night. we have time. the idea of, what's the problem with biden? they call him a weak front-runner. i've never heard of anybody being a front-runner, as long as he's been and called weak. why? optics. does he have the edge to go against a perceived dragon in donald trump? when donald trump denigrates him and calls him stupid names and has him echoing his anger, what will joe biden do? it's not an easy thing to answer. if you're going to match tone, that's a wrong analysis. people want normal. and normal isn't hostile and name-calling. you know, th

this as nancy pelosi and president trump are sparring over who gets to claim victory. i think the american people can claim victory. mexico, our biggest trading partner, that's a big deal. >> katie: i find it funny that nancy pelosi wants to take credit when it's been languishing. she has to prove she can do things the same time if she's impeaching the president. she's trying to take credit for it. they've change some things in the house. >> sean: she just made them walk the plank on impeachment. >> harris: only two of them walked. >> sean: she now needs to say, you can work with president trump. this is the attempt to do this. the president was the one who came up with the idea, the one who forced both mexico and canada to the table multiple times. the one who went and said, this is. he pressured the house into doing it and we went around the country selling these things. president trump deserves the credit. >> harris: i want to ask you this, why wouldn't mitch mcconnell go ahead and do what he needs to do here? look at all the gamesmanship that's being played right n

nancy pelosi doesn't take chances. she knew she would have the votes for the drafting of the articles of impeachment or the impeachment investigation, and then the impeachment vote. glou she is in an interesting place, because mitch mcconnell is going on tv and telling anyone who will listen that i'm going to do what i did with judges, with obama not getting his appointments through, i'm going to hold through, we're not going to hold a testimony, i'm not interested in witnesses, i'm not interested in testimony, donald trump is going to be exonerated by the senate. >> this is the issue, which is mitch mcconnell does this with every fight, just to be clear, he did this on the aca, he did this on taxes, he does it on judges. he declares finality. and i think the importance of what speaker pelosi is doing is, through this next few weeks, the number one concern the american people have is a fair trial. and she is putting pressure and she is making clear to the country that mitch mcconnell, who is, let me remind, much less p

>> a comic irony to nancy pelosi claiming it. if you go back to 1993, she had a choice between the big corporations giving her money wanting to offshore the jobs to mexico and working men and women and lane or organizations in this country. she chose the corporations and she voted for nafta. 25 years went by, she lift evidence no finger to repeal and replace that thing. and then president trump once he got it to her desk she let it gather dust for over a year. if you look closely at the details of the agreement all nancy pelosi did was put another coat of polish on president trump's usmca ferrari. >> jon: the president tweeted about that. he said the great usmca trade deal, mexico and canada has been sitting on nancy pelosi's desk for eight months. she doesn't even know what it says. after passing by a wide margin in the house today pelosi tried to take credit for it. labor will vote for trump. trade deal is great for the usa. economically this nation has been on a roll during the trump administration. do you think that this agre

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nancy pelosi was kind of made for this in a funny way. and she has the gravity and she is a hidden hand in a way that allows people to come to a decision when they're together with her, when the moderates in the house that nia was talking about, wrote an op-ed and said this ukraine thing crosses the line, nancy pelosi announced, i believe it was within a day or so. >> yes. >> that they had to pursue this. and so i think she leads by listening and following. i'm not going to say women do that, but following her caucus. >> wait. what are you saying, gloria! >> and i think you hear that in the way she has risen to the gravity of the moment. >> i think, mark, she's saying, i don't need directions, i know where i'm going. >> she certainly does. what's interesting about nancy pelosi, to pick up on what gloria is saying, if you go back to day one, she was never pushing for impeachment. >> not at all. >> she was the governor, slowing it down a little bit, let's be methodical about it. >> she thought the best way to do it initially was to vote him

now nancy pelosi is demanding due process in the u.s. senate, the same due process she denied in the house. >> the word i would use is pathetic. this started when the president released two transcripts to show he did nothing wrong. nancy pelosi has a lot of problems in her own state she should be dealing with. gregg: chuck schumer is arguing in support of witnesses, witnesses that it was the duty duty of the house to call, not the u.s. senate. schumer apparently has forgotten that two decades ago he argued against witnesses in the clinton impeachment. isn't this just another case of hypocrisy and why americans are so sick and tired of the career politicians like schumer that invade and inhabit the swamp? >> it's funny you just said the swamp. in my short time in d.c., i understand the term and why we said drain the swamp. outside of washington, d.c., people are so tired of impeachment. poll numbers are showing that. people care about their pay checks, their families, their healthcare. that's what they care about. our president will conti

, nancy pelosi, not have been warned very firmly by their speaker, nancy pelosi, not to doa their speaker, nancy pelosi, not to do a victory lap here. without objection, the motion to reconsider article two is laid on the table. pursuant to section seven b of house resolution 758, the house stands adjourned until 9am tomorrow. so there we have it, the proceedings wrapping up in congress. it has been along day of debates but it has ended with the impeachment of president donald trump. we can go to capitol hill to gary o'donoghue, i think we can go to the white house injusta think we can go to the white house injust a second, think we can go to the white house in just a second, but first let's go to gary o'donoghue on capitol hill. a historic day for donald trump and for congress, isn't it? well, it's one of those real paradoxes, isn't it? it is an utterly, utterly predictable vote, but really truly, truly historic moment. and we have seen truly historic moment. and we have seen it go down party lines, as we expected. 197 votes from republicans against impeachment on the first article, 198

nancy pelosi does. people are focussed on why the senate is covering up donald trump's crimes. >> wait a minute. just one second. aoc doesn't represent the democratic party. >> of course not. >> she is the brain trust of the democratic party. >> only on fox news. >> mark, nancy pelosi moved the articles of impeachment because of pressure from aoc. >> that's ridiculous. >> oh, no?o? >> the moderate democrats said the corruption from donald trump solitting a foreign power to rig our elections in his favor were too much for them to ignore. all of trump's people that testified under oath. >> not one fact based witness mark -- >> [overlapping talking]. >> why are they covering this up? >> i have to be quiet. do me a christmas favor and be quiet. aoc is not important and nancy pelosi is the head of the party >> aoc has tens of millions of followers on twitter and most are not fox news watchers. they see aoc as the future of the party. nancy pelosi has cotowed to her. nancy pelosi would like to think she is th

this is nancy pelosi versus donald trump. yes, there's the substance and the articles and the process to go ahead. but as america deals with this very sober fact. put names aside, parties aside, that's a huge historic deal. who leads the conversation? and speaker pelosi, someone the republicans had tried to vilify and sideline as a vulnerability for the democrats, she is the glue that holds them together. just as the president is holding the republicans together in very different ways. but you have these two dominant figures in american politics who are going to be the face of the argument as we go into this process. >> and he's expressed respect for nancy pelosi the last few months. >> julian epstein because you were the judicial counsel during the last impeachment this country went through, what would your advice be in terms of the scope. they're drafting them now. do they keep it narrow? do they stick with ukraine? do they broaden it out and include the potential obstructive acts laid out in the mueller report? >> i think

now nancy pelosi earlier today made that historic announcement. said she came to that decision, but claims she had no choice but to go this route. >> today, i'm asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment. i commend our committee chairs and our members for their somber approach to actions which i wish the president had not made necessary. >> as they draft those articles, there are some key dates coming up including on friday, a deadline for the white house to respond to a house judiciary committee request to ask if they want to participate in the proceedings. but the question is will they participate in the one coming on monday. that hearing will include the house intelligence committee's counsel, who will present the findings of its two month investigation into ukraine. also the counsels will present a significant discussion of the mueller report in that monday hearing. now after that, later in the week, we do expect that's when the art articles of impeachment will likely be voted on in the house. the once they're introduced, it c

here is nancy pelosi on with her whole king analogy again. watch. >> having just fought a war of independence, they specifically feared the prospects of a king president corrupted by foreign influence. trish: just to be clear, we know who has fallen victim to foreign influence. the democrats themselves. vladmir putin had one goal. divide and conquer undermine the integrity of the great american election system and that he sure did. >> i brought a hat too, a russian hat. i mean, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. >> tried to hack into an affect a lech. >> chris, chris -- >> do you deny that. >> russia hacked our election. >> donald trump would not be president today if it not for the assist he received from the kremlin. >> the russians were successful. >> they accomplished what think set out to do. trish: who needs russian influence when vladmir putin has hillary clinton, adam schiff, obama's intel team and cnn doing the whole job for them, right? yes, we are a victim of foreign influence. putin stirred the pot and the democrats and mainstream m

the president complained that house speaker nancy pelosi is holding up the deal. it is clear that trade wars are not easy to win. and competing headlines will be the market drivers until something is decided. >> back to the usmca, what's the hold up in that deal? >> there's a couple of things. the democrats want more labor protections. they want enforcement of labor protections. they want to be able to see that factories in mexico have the same standards that u.s. factories have. >> not likely. >> the mexican government -- look. there's a lot there up for grabs. protections for u.s. workers seem to be at issues for the democrats. >> all right. >>> ahead, a terrifying rush hour scene. a deadly police gun battle in broad daylight. details, next. >>> a frightening fatal gun battle breaks out when armed robbers hijack a u.p.s. truck during rush hour and led police on a dramatic chase. it started when two men robbed a coral gables jewelry score. one woman at the store was hurt. minutes later, the police said they took a hostage at gunpoint. and they led police on a bre

we await nancy pelosi any moment. to you first, mike. >> that first hearing in house judiciary was a marathon session making the case for why president trump could be impeached. there was professor jonathan turley from george washington university law school saying he didn't vote for president trump but said this impeachment should not be rushed and warned it would not cure political anger in this country. late in the day a key republican asked the witnesses how much they know about the president's actions. >> to all of the witnesses, if you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the schiff report please raise your hand. let the record reflect no personal knowledge of a single fact. >> noah feldman from harvard urged going forward. >> if this committee and house fail to act you're sending a message to this president and future presidents that it's no longer a problem if they abuse their power. >> once it was done republicans were left asking what comes next? >> right now there is a mist coming out from t

nancy pelosi has ball control. democrats in both the house and senate think the republicans in the senate, especially mitch mcconnell, have tilted the playing field and this would be a trial that would favor the president. they might say wait a minute we don't think that's fair. were going to continue holding on. why would mitch mcconnell have any reason to talk to chuck schumer to set up a deal like they dated 1999 if he doesn't have the articles. as elder points that i think is very important. when you look at having these articles of impeachment and you don't move them over and you continued to sit in this limbo. this gives democrats the opportunity is he going to the 2020 elections and talk about how unfair they think that senate republicans are, especially mitch mcconnell who they call the grim reaper. this is a pretty interesting situation. the other thing is that in the constitution it says article one section three, that the sun as the sole power of impeachment. you can't have a senate trial if you don't ha

so now nancy pelosi is like let's get this done, let's get this done right away. i hope they get it done right away and i hope they start a trial in the senate and they put on nancy pelosi and adam schiff and joe biden and hunter biden and all of the players. you want to show, let's put on a show but here's the problem. is my wheelhouse a little bit. the bottom line is there is no evidence. you have a bunch of trump hating people with this female professor going after barron trump and people couldn't pass an english course who say that when the president says u.s. a favor because our country has been through a lot, he is really saying doing the king a favor. >> tucker: i almost feel guilty highlighting the steps, a lot of the cable networks are abetting this ridiculous sideshow. but i did say one thing today i wanted to ask you about my one of the nuggets that i think is significant is the fact that adam schiff's committee somehow wound up with the phone records of the president's lawyer. so the congressman from today suggested the republican's subpoena adam schif

when nancy pelosi is doing here is exactly the same thing. the parallel with the first article impeachment is that they are using the powers of their office to try to investigate the head of the opposing political party who happens to be done in 1600 pennsylvania avenue, what they are doing is the impeachment itself much less the holding out for the articles of impeachment and not sending for the senates. it's the utmost abuse of office. he really is a travesty and it shows you how blindly -- how much blind hate. they have for the president that they are willing to throw off every norm in order to find some dirt on the president to get him out of office. >> jason: what's interesting for me, going back to the pesky constitutional question, i think i saw donald trump jr. puts this out, when then simply pelosi is actually wanting as a quid pro quo. i will send you over if you do this, it's kind of ironic and the whole thing. the constitution says it has a soul power. it is the house has the sole power to move forward articles of impeachment and

so do you see this backfiring more than anything on the democrats and nancy pelosi? >> i see it ultimately just amounting to not much because the republicans are going to do one of two things. either mitch mcconnell is going to say you don't want to deliver your articles, fine, keep them. you can have them forever. and then we can say that the system was short circuited and that's not what the constitution expects. the constitution says impeach, then try. or mcconnell can just say, look, we don't need to wait for you. we don't need your permission. the constitution gives us sole power to trial. trial starts x date. you can deliver them or not but we're going to start it and good luck getting us to court and getting us to stop. the court will never do that. >> thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, amara. >>> new calls for president trump to fire his top advisor stephen miller after leaked emails purportedly show that he promoted stories from white nationalist groups. >>> plus u.s. steel is closing one of their mills and laying off hundreds of workers. we'll t

that is speaker nancy pelosi. cnn chief mitt cal correspondent looks at her role as leader. >> these days house speaker nancy pelosi is a cult like figure among democrats for going head to head with president trump. sun glass clad out of an oval office meeting after democrats won back the house. saying this. >> don't characterize the strength i bring to this meeting. >> taking an image he tweeted as an unhinged melt down. making it her own social media profile picture. a show of strength. >> you think a woman can't beat donald trump. nancy pelosi does it every day. >> with the impeachment the skills that got her where she is. a leader who knows how to manage diverse democratic caucus are being tested. >> the one thing i learned about her since i have been here, is she does listen. she understands the importance of building consensus. she didn't move forward on impeachment without knowing that that's where her caucus was. >> part of knowing her caucus. making sure vulnerable democrats had victories on other bread a

i don't think for a moment nancy pelosi sees this as a big winner for democrats. remember she was reluctant for the longest time to go down this road because she knows at the end of the day and the president has said and mcconnell has said it will entd in acquittal in the senate. so she was reluctant to go down this road and she did it because the president forced her hand with his antics in ukraine. so, you know, i think pelosi has gotten pretty high marks here for the measured way in which she's handled this and as for -- i want to make also a point about what laura said earlier. i do think the lawyers allowed him in ways that he they shouldn't have to write what he wrote or to release what he wrote but i do think it's about managing him. i think that, you know, he desperately wants his point of view to prevail. they told him as was said earlier this isn't going to help you in a trial. and the quicker the better. we got to extinguish this thing. we can't have witnesses, we can't have debate. so out of frustration, you see this, this letter. >> he can't be manage

nancy pelosi moving the topic to a christmas time vote. the white house saying they are happy, a good day for the president. senator mike lee met with the president's so-called impeachment quarterback on the white house strategy but we kick things off with mike emanuel with highlights from the hill. >> each side use expert witnesses hoping to make their case for or against impeachment. >> he did everything in his power to prevent the american people from learning the truth about his conduct. >> reporter: the first impeachment hearing in the judiciary committee featured an effort by democrats to make the case with legal scholars the donald trump committed impeachable offenses. with the stakes so high, ranking republican doug collins fired back noting the committee would not be hearing from fact witnesses. >> america will see why most people don't go to law school, no offense to our professors. but please. really? we are bringing you into testify on something most of you have already written about. >> the panel feature four law professors, t

well, as i was just saying to rachel, nancy pelosi did it again today. it was like that electrifying moment where she literally stood up to donald trump in the cabinet room. it was unscripted. it was provoked by someone else, but she seized the moment. as dramatically as any fiction writer could have provided for any fictional politician in a movie scene. and i am sure that she got a silent cheer from some people working at fox news today when she did that. and she did that after making history first thing this morning. and we begin tonight with that history. we begin tonight with an historic statement by the speaker of the house without any warning the night before the speaker scheduled an announcement for 9:00 a.m. with a hint that it would be something momentous because it was not scheduled for the press briefing room where she and other house members usually make announcements and take questions from reporters. about 5:30 a.m. this morning reporters first got the word that speaker pelosi would be making an announcement in a majestic location in the h

nancy pelosi can hang onto this article in perpetuity. she's even said she'd like to see rudy giuliani come. he would invite him to come so even some republicans are saying they would want witnesses at that point. >> i think the notion of witnesses should really apply to two articles of impeachment. i would not want to bring in hunter biden, joe biden, all the others republicans dream of asking questions to because i've never seen that work before. we've got a great witness that all make our case, slam-dunk, america will believe us, it never works that way. it's always a clouded, confused mess. i would have a narrow trial focused on the charges brought against the president, walk through them and then take a vote. the present is not going to get anywhere close to convicted, that's why this is such an obvious waste of time. go ahead, harris. >> harris: i was just going to ask, we know everybody's getting ready to take their holiday break and just thinking about how quickly this has gone, nancy pelosi getting us this impeachment through the

and susan page, you've been covering nancy pelosi, i know you're doing a book on nancy pelosi. she seems to be right in her moment, and particularly, as we saw her gesturing to the caucus not to be cheering, let's play a little bit of her declaring the vote and then the gesture, if you look closely as how she was gesturing them to calm down and not be jubilant about something this serious. >> on this vote, the yeas are 230. the nays are 197. present is 1. article i is adopted. on this vote, the yeas are 229, the nays are 198, present is 1. article ii is adopted. >> she made it very clear, su n susan, she is the leader with the iron hand. that is the tone she has tried throughout. she was reluctant to this process, back when maxine waters was calling for impeachment, elizabeth warren, among the 2020 candidates, nancy pelosi was still saying don't use that word, not until after ukraine happened, of course. >> that's right. nancy pelosi was reluctant to impeach. she was standing against the most liberal members in her caucus after the mueller report came out, saying no, let's not