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Even want to go to trial. they said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process, but now they are content to sit on their hands. this is really comical. >> reporter: of course, jake, this is important because the house of representatives, they are having their very last votes of the year right now. not included in that, a vote on the house manager. thats a snag that we do not expect nancy pelosi to transmit those articles of impeachment before the new year. >> lauren fo...

I dont think any -- zero, to put it mildly. they took a perfect phone call that i had with the president of ukraine, an absolutely perfect call. they all know it. nothing was said wrong in that call. >> reporter: now, jake, despite this letter from the president that vote is still going to happen tomorrow. even he seems to hint in here at the end that he doesnt think this letter is going change the outcome of that vote but he says i write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put ...

Able to call them too. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you so much. so it is possible the republicans in the senate call no witnesses but we are now also starting to hear two sources telling cnn that the whistle-blowers legal team is preparing for the possibility that lawmakers will call their client to testify in the senate. lets chew over all of this with our team. laura, let me start with you. what do you make of that? we dont know if the senate will call witnesses or not. ulti...

Are not necessarily comfortable with how wide of a scope the impeachment articles my claw. one member telling us today he wasnt even sure he would vote for impeachment at all given the speed and the pace this is all gone. one thing they are saying repeatedly is the leadership needs to understand that there are political repercussions even if they dont believe this is a political effort and there needs to be support and leadership needs to listen so well see how it plays out in the week ahead as ...

Political party and attended a kgb camp when he was younger according to his website. >> reporter: jake. >> pamela brown, thanks so much. lets chew over this. amanda, let me start with you. trumps legal team planning this defense in a theoretical senate trial. for those not familiar, if the house does vote to impeach it is not the end of it. it then goes to senate and they serve as jurors whether or not to remove the president from office. the trump team and republicans want to bring in joe bide...

With baseless privileged claims and provide any exculpatory information. >> alex marquardt, thank you very much. lets chew over this news with our panel. and mary katharine, one of the excerpts from the republicans on the house intelligence committee, their rebuttal says which they say president trump not only this doesnt rise to the level of impeachment but that he did nothing wrong. one of the quotes, the democrats impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconducts it is a...

Lets chew over all of this. we are awaiting president trump and turkish president erdogan taking questions and well go to that live. but before we do that, there was a point you were making because jim jordan had talked about, the republican jordan had been asked if you are criticizing the people for secondhand information, these two witnesses what about bringing in the people with firsthand information and he said there is a tradition of that not happening because of executive privilege and you...

And the answer is no? >> reporter: the aid was released on september 11th. only after the hold had been reported and there was pressure on the white house, including from republican senators. and it was just two days before president zelensky had planned to announce the investigations that trump wanted. all of those arguments will be on full display tomorrow in the first open hearing is gavelled into section with ambassador taylor and george kent and they are together because they were witnessed...

Into were back with the 20 lead and the youngest candidate in the presidential race is surely smiling as he reads a brand-new poll from the rushl -- early state of iowa, pete buttigieg is at 22%. joe biden at 19% followed by elizabeth warren at 18% all within the margin of error for the top spot. senator bernie sanders at 13% and amy klobuchar at 5% and the other candidates poling at or above 5% and as biden loses the once solid front-runner status he is sharpening attacks against elizabeth warr...

Including death threats, called with obscenities to her house and people hammering on her front door. she was called a mole for george sur os which is a common anti-semitic slander and accused of colluding with enemies of the president. jake. >> alex marquardt, thanks so much. lets chew over there. mary katharine, vindman testified that sondland, who is the ambassador to the eu, who was running a point for the white house on ukraine and sondland told him he was coordinating with mick mulvaney on...