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At the pentagon. mack, lucas played >> hi, julie. and president trump went on to say he is ready for anything north korea could send him the gift, naughty or nice. >> that is okay, well find out what the surprise is, and we will deal with it successfully. we will see what happens. everybody gets surprises for me. lets see what happens. i handle them as they come along. >> official say north koreas christmas gift may not be a long-range missile test as many are speculating. they could test any co...

Democrats, doj lawyers told a federal appeals court that a request for grand jury materials from the mueller probe of russian interference is no longer relevant since the house impeachment articles do not involve the russia probe. house lawyers disagree, saying the information could be used in the senate under the current articles or lead to different ones from the house. arguments for the case are set for january 3rd to 2020. while you are opening your gifts later this week, national security o...

>> as the judiciary committee voting on articles of impeachment, president trump was finalizing phase one of a trade deal with china. >> a lot of rules and regulations, a lot of things covered. a phase one deal, but a lot of big things are covered. i say affectionately the farmers are going to have to go by much larger tractors. >> the details are murky, pending legal review. china has also agreed to buy an additional 40-$50 billion in agricultural projects over the next two years written exchan...

Crime. lets return to the text of the constitution. treason. thats a crime. bribery. they hoped for bribery. and then other high crimes and misdemeanors. so the text guides the house of representatives. you need to go find a crime. but this article has essentially been shaped conceptually, i think, laura, by the law professors. the law professors came in and with a very originalist, bowed to the founding fathers, said te founding fathers were really concerned about abuse of power. the problem is...

Basically everything that was happening in the lead-up to this call.s and so she is prepared to testify before congress, according to people we spoke to, that, you know, she saw -- witnessed rudy giuliani and gordon sondland basically do an end run around the foreign policy process thats traditionally done within the ce white house, specifically on it ukraine, and more importantly that they were doing that and had a direct line to the president. so they were cutting out people like fiona hill, l...

So they were cutting out people like fiona hill, like john bolton, who is the national security adviser and essentially running a sort of shadow foreign policy operation that focused on ukraine and also while dealing directly with the president and none of the people who typically would be involved in a process like that. >> carol, she is out of government service. can her testimony be blocked? can they still stop her? >> yeah, its a great question. its sort of a little murky. you know, weve all...

Ukraine and also while dealing directly with the president and none of the people who typically would be involved in a process like that. >> carol, she is out of government service. can her testimony be blocked? can they still stop her? >> yeah, its a great question. its sort of a little murky. you know, weve all known the white house is blocking current officials from cooperating with congress, but it gets a little trickier when its a former official. and so, you know, we dont know exactly whet...

Forth with volker. so, we want to know about this. he had prepared to testify, all of a sudden, he gets a call from the white house. >> what was the key you that wanted to learn about him? >> we wanted to know -- the conversation was kind of murky, at one point, he says give me a call. he may want to tell us why he wanted volker to call. and what was behind that type of interaction. and this is critical to the investigation. >> did you know -- one thing that adam schiff said this morning, one th...

Of the federal reserve says and whether or not he will keep his job. ed henry asked the president if he will keep his job, the response was interesting. here it is. >> im not thrilled with the fed. we have an incredible economy and no inflation. his job is safe, sure, why not? he has a job and im disappointed in him, very disappointed in him. i think he raised far too fast. >> sandra: it has been a common question lately whether or not he will keep his job. >> the legal debate aspect thats murky...

Specific issue. >> once theres classified information and theres shared memos -- >> im not going to talk about it one way or another. >> the report also provides some new detail about what is the critical may 2017 timeline before the appointment of the special counsel and "the new york times" story that really kick-started the probe. some of the timeline frankly is a little murky and doesnt add up. but what you can see is the critical days are between may 14 and may 16, shep. >> shepard: thanks,...