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Hi, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. were one hour away from a deadline for the president to decide whether he plans to mount a defense in the house impeachment inquiry. all signs point to a white house more focused on what it believes to be friendlier territory in the u.s. senate with the house impeachment inquiry has rattled this white house and revealed an irrefutable trail of evidence that donald j. trump conditioned military aid for a nation at war on a commitment to investigate the bidens i...

Its not bad for people to see that side of him, brooke. >> yeah. in the end, americans get to be the judge. maeve, thank you. maeve reston in l.a. for us and how about this story? attorney general bill barr, top cop in the united states, just suggested that communities who protest police brutality might find themselves without protection. well explore that. plus, while under the microscope of a federal investigation, the presidents attorney, rudy giuliani, is finding time to travel to europe t...

Welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we begin with our toll picpolit and history with president trump almost certain to become the third u.s. president to be impeached by the house of representatives. speaker pelosi announcing earlier today house democrats are moving forward with articles of impeachment against the president. pelosi saying that mr. trump left her with no choice but to act. members of congress are now faced with these two key questions. one, what do we know about the presidents...

Nations in the world, in the top three, and hes talking to zelensky about that, he wants him to clean up the corruption there. he has a fiduciary obligation to the taxpayers in this country not to misspend our resources overseas and thats how president trump was thinking about this. >> if thats how he was thinking about it, reasonably, the full reasonable, if you were to ask people in ukraine, the official there is, when you think of corruption in ukraine, what comes to mind, how many do you thi...

An existential crisis? >> theres no question about that. zelensky was elected on a platform similar to president trump, he was going to drain the swamp in ukraine. its one of the most corrupt nations in the world, in the top three, and hes talking to zelensky about that, he wants him to clean up the corruption there. he has a fiduciary obligation to the taxpayers in this country not to misspend our resources overseas and thats how president trump was thinking about this. >> if thats how he was t...

The record for the fastest impeachment. >> martha: it would be the fastest impeachment in the history of the country and there are some reports that there are moderate democrats who are weary of the speed that this is going. and also of the sort of kitchen sink approach of potentially putting part of the mueller investigation into this as well. where do you stand on those two things? >> well, first, actually let me say, professor turley was wrong when he said that he has been debunked widely. ac...

Advance his personal political or financial interests. and when you break that covenant, i just dont think you can stay in office because it signals that were on our way to becoming much more like a tin-pot dictatorship than a democracy. so if republicans dont vote to render some consequences to president trump for the way that hes abused the office, i think they are just inviting future presidents to do the same. so im not letting them off the hook yet. i hope they take the time to read this re...

Simgs that were on our way to becoming much more like a tin pot dictatorship than a democracy. so if republicans dont vote to render some consequences to president trump for the way that hes abused the office, i think they are just inviting future presidents to do the same. so im not letting them off the hook yet. i hope they take the time to read this reports read the articles that get sent over. im not giving up on my republican colleagues. >> you know, some of your republican colleagues, i me...

Have been duped? >> a mild rebuke of john kennedy for his recent televised claims that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to hurt donald trump claims the democrats they have been debunked. >> that is a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by vladimir putin. to deflect attention away from russias interference in an election. >> there is nuanced disagreement about that. former national security staff revealed a whole acknowledged some had spoken negatively about donald trump which he claime...

A comparatively mild rebuke of republican senator john kennedy for his recent televised claim that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to her to trump. claims that democrats say have been debunked. >> that is a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by vladimir putin. to deflect the russian interference in our own election. >> in her testimony, former national security staff or hill acknowledged some ukrainian offn negatively about donald trump, t she blamed ukrainian collusion story on russ...