President zelensky in early september. I want to get straight to cnn Congressional Correspondent manu raju on capitol hill, and manu, i know you have some news to tell us about. Go for it. Reporter yeah, thats right. The democrats in the house are now signalling theyre on a fast track on their impeachment probe. There are a number of new steps theyve taken that show President Trump could be impeached by the end of the year, in just a matter of weeks. Youve seen these steps taken in a few different ways. One, the move to public hearings next week. Two, house intelligence chairman adam schiff made clear in a letter to his republican counterparts today that they were not going to bring back all the witnesses in closed door depositions to come for public hearings, and also two actions that could delay potentially prolonged court battles. One, they withdrew a subpoena for a top official, a National Security council official who used to work there, charles kupperman, because they were concer
Volker revealing the existence of Text Messages that talked about quid pro quo and withholding military aid to ukraine withholding opponent investigations. Gordon sondland was one of the men leading diplomatic efforts there, and he testified that the president told him to involve Rudy Giuliani and that giulianis efforts in ukraine had secretary of states mike pompeos blessing. Manu raju, tell us what youre hearing and what youre hearing about Mick Mulvaney. Democrats want to hear from Mick Mulvaney and his role in about 14 million in military aid, as well as discussions he heard in that july phone call between President Trump and president zelensky of ukraine and discussions about this push for ukraine to announce investigations into the 2016 elections as well as into the president s political rival, former Vice President joe biden. What they say in this letter is rquesting a deposition by friday, saying Mick Mulvaney may play a direct role in pressuring the ukranian government by manu
A remarkable rescue. A car stuck on the tracks. An officer jumps in with literally no time to spare. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im christine romans. Good morning. Good morning to all of you. Im dave briggs, thursday, october 17th. It is 4 00 a. M. In new york. Hours from now, the ambassador at the center of the impeachment inquiry will be testifying under subpoena on capitol hill. Gordon sondland was supposed to show yup last week but was blocked by the state department. He really wants the deliverable, that suggested a link if they investigate joe biden and his son that trump will set up a meeting with trump and the president. He didnt think there was a quid pro quo for the president to release security aid to ukraine. The Washington Post suggests that the gist of that text was guinn to sondland by the president himself. Sondland is expected to testify that he has no knowledge if the president was telling the truth. He didnt
Reports that the president s anger about being in essentially impeach innocent limbo. He tweeted, i want an immediate trial, exclamation point. Its apparent the president wont get what he wants before christmas. That specifically is to know the house will actually send the two articles of impeachment to the senate triggering the impeachment trial. Speaker pelosi made it clear she has not done that yet delaying the handoff expressing concern whether or not the senate would hold a fair trial. Heres more from the Senate Committee chairman lindsey graham. I just left President Trump. Hes mad as hell that they would do this to him and now deny him his day in court. The reason theyre denying him his day in court is because they know their case sucks. One scholar is speaking out about Nancy Pelosis delayed handoff. Harvard law professor noah feldman testified for the democrats during the impeachment inquiry saying if the house doesnt send the articles over to the senate that means the preside
Heardgunshots, lets go. Lets run. We ran through the field. As Law Enforcement headed into saugus, students and staff could be seen rushing out evacuating the school in a now familiar singlefile image. Right to cnns Stephanie Elam in los angeles just southwest of Santa Clarita. What do we know about the victims at this point . Reporter one thing we are learning from a statement put out from the School District where Saugus High School is, they put out a press release and in it said in there that several of the students had been taken to the hospital. So that points to the idea that the people in these hospitals we know right now, there is one female has died at henry Mayo Hospital in valencia, california, and be two males in critical, one male in Good Condition there and another hospital holy providence in mission hills. They were students and they were speakingwhat this implies is all of the people shot may have been saints based and what were seeing from the School District and the s