Dramatic moments at a iowa town hall. Joe biden gets in a Heated Exchange with a voter. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im christine romans. Happy friday, everybody. Im dave briggs. December 6th. Were 59 days to the Iowa Caucuses and one step closer to impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has officially directed the Judiciary Committee to lay out the charges against the president in articles of impeachment. Just hours ago, at a live cnn town hall, pelosi said the constitution and the facts are now clear. This is a very sad day, i think, for our country. Its something i would hope we could have avoided. But the president s actions made it necessary. You cannot violate the constitution in full view. Here are the next steps in the process. The white house has until 5 00 p. M. This afternoon to decide whether they will participate in a hearing on monday. Lawyers from the intelligence and Judiciary Committee will present their findings from investigation
Trying to corrupt, once again, the election, for his own benefit. Reporter now, what we do know is that next week is going to be another explosive one on capitol hill. On monday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold another hearing, this one to discuss that 300page report from the house intelligence committee, all revolving around that july 25th phone call between donald trump and ukraines president , zelensky. The democrats will have to be drafting the articles of impeachment. We have a sense of where they are going. Whether or not the president obstructed congress, not allowing witnesses or information to be revealed to the intelligence committee. We know theyre looking at the abuse of power charges against the president. And there is a debate within the Democratic Caucus whether to broaden this out to include anything in the mueller report. We know that could potentially come in the form of an obstruction of justice article of impeachment. All that will have to be voted out of th
Also stepping up its rocket attacks. The pentagon has pushed back since last night against several reports that its looking at sending up to 14,000 troops to the region. Were told that is not what theyre looking at. Its much more in the range, 4,000 to 7,000 troops to the middle east. Further deterrence against iran. No Firm Decision has been made yet. Brooke . Got it. Barbara, thank you very much. From the pentagon to the halls of congress and the west. Anticipation and speculation what happens next into the impeachment inquiry into President Trump . We know nancy pelosi resisting calls to even pursue impeachment is now firmly in favor of it. The president leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit sadly. With confident and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. Lets begin with cnns lauren fox who is there on
hamas in gaza. i can t thank you enough for making time for us. we re all thinking about you and your family. thank you very much. and we pray for the safe return of all of the hostages as soon as possible. this is a humanitarian issue. this is not some political issue, and people trying to make this a political issue, especially, the government trying to make this political. no, this is a humanitarian crisis. and everything should be done to get them back as soon as possible. thank you very much. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. 250 days, just unbelievable this is where we are. thank you, my friend, as always. so i want to start with a story that in any other universe would have absolutely nothing to do with politics or anything even approximating controversy. the kind of news we all used to read or hear and accept. but in the post-trump era, this kind of news has become a sort of conservative litmus te
seats of government, the seats of power, and embarks on a campaign, a political intimidation, in order to secure outcomes that personally benefit him. and that at the core is part of the sticks of our democracy that are before us today. because once rule of law goes out the window, it is not something that is easy to get back and it is very much a part of the decision that we have to make before us in the next few months. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, congressman jamie raskin, thank you for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts now. we have new exclusive audio from the supreme court historical society that lauren winsor has given us and we will be playing that in the hour, so stay tuned. i will pick like i said, exclusive never before heard audio recordings of justice samuel alito speaking to an undercover progressive activist. that is what we have tonight. that is in addition to the bom