late watch. appreciate it. so the president. he has been publicly trying to say this is nothing. this is easy. i m happy they re impeaching me. this is great. i m going to win because of this. but privately and as he tweeted to all of you, he never thought his name would be connected to anything as ugly as impeachment. so what is going on inside the white house and how does that help control what happens in the senate? we know he has control of the house. we see that every day. cnn s jeremy diamond joins us now. what have you learned? reporter: well, chris, as you said, the president publicly has been criticizing these articles of impeachment, down playing them, calling them flimsy and pathetic and saying this is impeachment-light. that was the language he used last night at his political rally in pennsylvania. but privately we re told that the president has been griping about these articles of impeachment, really unhappy about the fact that he is likely all but certainly to become
comes to one of these activities has a badge and a wristband. and so our law enforcement was already there in crowd control. and as this occurrence took place, law enforcement immediately went into the crowd to help control, guide people as to how to get out of that event area. and so for those who were in there and having spoken to so many in the hospitals that were not seriously wounded but definitely were wounded, they didn t know, if it hadn t been part of the program or if it hadn t been fireworks that were going off as part of it. and they really didn t have a sense of where the noise was coming from or what it was. but after just that short amount of time and word spreading, then you can see in the video the movement. and while i have heard the word stampede, it didn t do that. it was a crowd that was moving