And trying to craft the narrative. Remember impeachment inquiry here the public has to go along with it. They have to be on one side or the other. In favor or against. A lot of people are in the middle trying to figure out what they believe. His job is say hold on lets put it into perspective. The context that helps my client. Remember, that whole phrase the audience of one, a beneficiary of one when it comes to the nation and president United States cant cut it in democracy. Who sekulow is speaking to what cases need to be made and what the American People need to know to make up their minds. Ill be watching. Thanks. Lets get to it. This is a cnn special hour the white house in crisis the impeachment inquiry. Im laura coates. Tonight well dig deep into every angle of this fast moving impeachment investigation. Headlines include a new and extraordinary effort to protect the ukraine whistleblower. The democrats expanding the inquiry with subpoenas for officials at the pentagon. And the
Impasse over it, and the tweet showed that while he may be on vacation in florida, President Trump has yet to take a break from washington, and what waits for him when he returns. Right now, it looks like hell face the ongoing uncertainty when the Senate Impeachment trial will start. House Speaker Pelosi is withholding the two arms of impeachment from the senate amid concerns the Senate Republicans will not hold a fair trial. That trigger, this question. A primary for n . For the record, nancy pelosi represented californias 12th district 30 years winning the last primary with 68 of the vote. Now to cnn White House Reporter Sara Westwood near the president s resort and we know the president is thinking about impeachment. Thats is clear. How is he preparing for impeachment, though, during this winter break . Reporter jessica, President Trump is increasingly agitated about that uncertainty you mentioned surrounding all aspects of the Senate Impeachment trial and hes been lashing out nearl
Arent diverse candidates. Ill speak with andrew yang in just a moment. A close friend of Elijah Cummings going viral for refusing to shake mcconnells hand at his funeral. Ill speak with him this hour. We start with vindmans devastating testimony and attack hes facing. Adam schiff speaking up about that tonight. I want to thank colonel vindman for his courage in coming forward, his willingness to follow the law and do his duty. I want to say how deeply appalled i was at the pernicious attacks of him last night on fox, the suggestion that because hes of ukrainian origin he has some dual loyalty. This purple heart recipient deserved better than that zandilozan scandalous attack. So good to have all of you on. I want to start with this new reporting out that the times reported and cnn confirmed as well. It said that vindman told investigators that President Trump referenced tapes of joe biden talking about ukraine corruption during that july 25th phone call. It happened at the point of the
Its the president at the center of the impeachment inquiry, but its the state department where they believe the most evidence can be found. And we begin the hour with the dramatic impeachment standoff. House democrats now say theyll issue a subpoena for testimony and documents of the european ambassador of the European Union, Gordon Sondland. Republicans blocked his testimony. Their case is the president abused his power with the president of ukraine and used joe biden. Blocking the testimony is just a stronger argument that the white house is obstructing the democrats from doing their job and hiding critical evidence. Were also aware the ambassador has Text Messages or emails on a personal device, which have been provided to the state department, although we have requested those from the ambassador and the state department is withholding those messages as well. Those messages are also deeply relevant to this investigation and the impeachment inquiry. In a statement, sondlands Attorney
President calls the group of nations brain dead because of the u. S. But first a critical week on capitol hill as the clock winds down to a Christmas Day deadline for an impeachment vote. Today members of the House Intelligence Committee are expected to review a report on the inquiry into President Trump and ukraine. That is ahead of a tuesday vote to release those findings to the house Judiciary Committee. Thats the panel that will actually draft articles of impeachment. The Judiciary Committee holds its first impeachment hearings on wednesday with the white house has decided to skip that hearing, despite President Trump complaining for weeks that hes been denied a chance to participate. The white house saying the witnesses are still unknown, and the president calling the process unfair because democrats have more witnesses than republicans. We have senior White House Correspondent pamela brown here with us to discuss this. The Trump Administration actually has until friday to decide