Briefing Key News Today

Way. >> reporter: mike pence is ducking questions in the impeachment inquiry and whether he was aware of a quid pro quo with the leader of ukraine. >> im telling you that all of my interactions with the president, all of my conversations with president zelensky were entirely focused on issues of importance to the american people. >> reporter: former vice president joe biden is knocking mr. trumps response to russian interference in the 2016 election. >> hes an idiot. im tired of saying that. eve...

Pretty liberal town. >> reporter: the white house was asked why the president didnt share details about the mission going against a tradition of briefing key members of congress from both parties about critical national security operations. the white house spokesman accuse democrats of leaking information but when pressed for examples, the white house could not provide any. we should point out there is one piece of good news that everybody can agree on that we can leave you with, the president l...

Down that would change things. what is the next step? the president knows theres scent civil in the congress and around the country and the world so today youll see an escalation of the administrations briefing key members of congress, sharing some intelligence and some of the administrations thinking. dont look for them to lay out the plans, option one, option two, option three but trying to bring senior members of the leadership and armed services and intellgence committees to give them more i...