and chill. melania trump made combating cyberbullying a primary focus since taking on her position as first lady and i m joyed by cnn s kate bennett out with a new book actually free, mannia melania. the president targeting a 16-year-old. and about the fact she as as be berg asperger s syndrome. she calls it her superpower. how damaging is it for the first lady to stay silent here? i think it s damaging for a couple reasons. one, just last week a little more than a week ago she tweeted about barron trump and being involved a minor child in politics one of the law professors testified on the hill brought up his name using as an analogy. the first lady went after that person for bringing up kids.
it does not cede any ground despite what we heard from officials during the hearing. where this is going to lead the intelligence committee report will be voted on tonight and be released and at the same time transmitted over the judiciary committee. why that matters, that s where the articles of impeachment will be drafted. obviously there is the hearing tomorrow. obviously there will be a couple of hearings in the judiciary committee we expect over the course of the next week or so. why it matters it this is the starting gun to the final sprint to impeachment. over the course of the next couple of weeks based on the intelligence committee product, the president of the united states is likely to be impeached before christmas. how that actually happen, what the articles look like, that s still being debated but this is happening and happening fast, kate. rebuttal, prebuttal. you never correct me. i m sorry. i m now cutting your mic. joining me to discuss on a much more serious
committee, house judiciary as the basis of what they would use to draw up articles of impeachment against the president. a lot to get to. let s go to london. cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins is there traveling with the president. kaitlan, it s been an extraordinary afternoon for you, morning for everyone here, especially with regard to the back and forth between trump and french president macron. reporter: yeah, rapid-fire is what you described it. that s certainly one way to put it. every meeting the president ha had ever since his first one has come with question and answer sessions that are pretty lengthy, of course, the president set the tone at his first one where he said those comments by the french leader i believed were nasty and disrespectful but, kate, those were not criticisms he repeated later on when in the room with macron. an interesting view between the two of them as they were sitting there in this brutal back and forth going after one another and listen
dinner party and you walk away going, why is he with her? she s so funny and he s so dull, or vice versa. i think people question it, but for them it works. real quick, have you gotten any response from the white house about your book? not yet, no. and again, melania trump being a very private person, i m not sure that i will, but certainly, you know, i cover the beat. they know i ve been working on a book, so we ll see. and you ll continue to cover it and it s a great read. kate, thank you so much. congratulations. free melania out today. still ahead, a busy day ahead for president trump. moments from now he meets with members of the royal family. plus, what s the falloutgoing to be after that faceoff we saw play out this morning with the president of france?going to be after that f we saw play out this morning with the president of france? works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin.
today what he is saying is that countries that don t meet their financial obligations to nato, their commitments he may not come to their defense, obviously that opens them up to attack. and that s what i m wondering. is this a situation where donald trump plays coy because he doesn t want to give an answer to a question coming from a reporter? i mean he asked would you commit if there s a country that is delinquent on these payments, would you commit to defend them if they were attacked, his answer being i m going to be discussing that today. it s an interest it s a very interesting question, isn t it, he says to the reporter. if it is just him being coy and this isn t a major statement would be we might not, what does it do? well, kate, again, this is a softball question. this is a signed treaty and this is the basis of our collective defense arrangement. when he makes this kind of noncommittal answer, he is opening up countries to threat, countries that don t meet their 2% obl