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Chance of winning acquittal the senate. it does suggest there is likely to be a party line vote in the house in the near future. >> so annie karni, help us turn the corner. does anything at the white house change by dint of what we witnessed today. by more people added are we going to see a new response? a >> theyve been talking about adding a few new communications aides for a little while. we may still see that. the one thing i heard today from republicans -- lawmakers who have been speaking t...

Of those democrats who were from swing districts where trump won in 2016 and voting against it didnt work, for the most part the democrats stuck together. it was pretty unified caucus. i think a good day for the president in the sense that the republicans also stuck by him. in fact, not a single republican went along with this idea of an inquiry. and its a lot easier to vote for an inquiry if youre a republican than to vote for an actual impeachment article if thats what it comes to in a couple ...

Go about it. there is a line that leaders are continuing to walk. not saying impeachment, but theyre working on their oversight duties. and that actually is going to extend into the 2020 race, how that is messaged, how senators are playing into this, and how, if they can have a cohesive message going into and out of these investigations. because youre right, if the preside -- the president is going to use the threat of impeachment whether or not it comes true. so how they go about it will be a b...

Of a strategy, such a high-profile strategy coming from his team. >> well, especially when hes trying to sell it to the anchors who he invited there for lunch. exactly right. he said, you know, he made very clear that he wasnt all that excited about giving this speech or making this trip to mcallen, texas, tomorrow. he said i dont think it will change anything, he says but these people think it will work and pointed to his communications aides who were there in the room at the time. and, you kno...

A friday night beginning now. good evening from new york. im steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 575 of the trump administration. and there is new reporting from "the washington post" that the president is demanding more security clearances be pulled as part of his war on the russia investigation. the "post" reporting quote the white house has drafted documents revoking the security clearances of current and former officials whom president trump has demanded be punished for criticizing h...

All of them, said one senior white house official who indicated that communications aides including press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and bill shine have discussed the time to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycles. theyre going to be pulling these clearances and putting this information out when they need to distract from something. thats blatantly political. >> of course its blatantly political. we have to go to the very basis of what trump is doing here. he is, as p...

Sources say she was sending out e-mails to white house surrogates as usual. thats her job. she directs white house surrogates. theres no indication that any change to her duties will be made. she has a relatively forward facing position. she still has to direct talking points to people who are supposed to represent this white house. the communications aides, ana, tell cnn that they plan to stand by kelly sadler through this controversy. they clearly hope its going to blow over. and now they seem...

They are in it to take on a front-runner and we havent seen that yet. >> we do see with the clinton campaign emerging campaign a lot of press aides, a lot of people reporters know well. this is a sign of homefully stropg strong with the press corps and not nastiness in the past. >> i didnt cover hillary clinton in 2008 but when you talk to reporters that did, they are down right traumatized about the relationship they went through, relationship between clinton campaign and reporters, you could s...

Hearing is a go. hes arrived this morning at the white house for a fourth straight day, and cnn learned hes continuing with practice sessions toprepare for possible questioning from lawmakers. kaitlan collins is there. what is the word there this morning? >> well, kate, we saw judge kavanaugh arrive here a little over an hour ago. he had a bag and he was with an aide. we saw him walk the to the executive office building, and thats where hes been huddled for four days straight, speaking with aide...

Carl, ive got to ask you. the "washington post" is reporting tonight that the white house has drafted more clearance cancellations. im going to read from that. "trump wants to sign most, if not all of them, said one senior white house official who indicated that communications aides including press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and bill shine the newly named deputy chief of staff have discussed the optimum times to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycles." juliette touche...