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About the senate trial? who are going to be the managers of that? who are going to be the stars of the show and over the $64 million question is how much of a party line vote will this be? will no republicans break ranks and will the president be acquitted in the new year? >> what are you expecting to hear from the hearing this morning at 10:00 a.m. from the inspector general? >> a lot of that -- this gets back to sort of the same kind of christmas gifts. there are people on both sides of the ai...

Family, you can talk about great economic numbers, near record low unemployment, stock market at record high, and then the big news yesterday, the nafta 2.0, the new trade agreement with mexico and canada, and so trump supporters are like greatest president ever, and of course for the democrat on your shopping list, the presidents about to be impeached. thats sort of the split screen moment, within an hour of each other yesterday we had the impeachment articles introduced and then we had the dea...

Primary, ted cruz, marco rubio. both are here in the senate. cruz on this panel with an oversight function and senator graham himself. he made self effacing remarks that he wasnt seen as a big enough candidate to wind up in the texts. i wonder if you could walk our viewers through the politics that hangs overall of this with candidates who lost to donald trump, who are now trying to defend him and as you say are trying to carry water for a view of a quote, unquote, witch hunt even on the day of ...

Election in 2016. how did this meeting happen? how long was it planned? who else was in on the meeting? >> its a good question because lavrov has been kept at sort of arms length distance by secretary of state mike pompeo. theyre not known to get along or like each other, and pompeo has pretty much stayed away ask avoided the russian portfolio. he left it up to john bolton when john bolton was there. hes left the nitty-gritty to his lower level envoys. lavrov and the russians have been pressing ...

House meeting. we still just have the white house read out to trust when it comes to that. >> final question here, the context here is very high stakes peace negotiations between the u.s. president and putin maepg today in paris. how does the symbolism of this matter to that effort? >> well, its a pretty fascinating split screen because of course the united states is the key backer of ukraine when it comes to ukraine fenldsiding this russian backed insurrection. zelensky as you mentioned has alw...

And its not clear with anyone i talked to if that would clarify the matter. it might actually muddy it even more. but, of course, you know, the key thing is lavrov was not confirming that trump warned him in this white house meeting. >> right. >> we still just have the white house readout to trust when it comes to that. >> final question here, the context here is very high-stakes peace negotiations between the new ukrainian president and putin happening today in paris. how does the symbolism of ...

Abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> it is an impeachable offense for the president to exercise the powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring, or injuring the national interest. when he was caught, when the house investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry, president trump engaged in unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inqui inquiry. >> the presidents oath of office appears to mean very little to him. but t...

Replacement of nafta, something he has campaigned of from the very beginning. so on the one hand you have her making an announcement the democrats have reached a deal, while the president is tweeting about this impeachment inquiry and now the articles of impeachment, calling it a witch hunt, saying that he did -- he put no pressure on the ukrainian president and rolling out a bit of a new argument saying that when he said i would like you to do us a favor though, he said us, referring to the u.s...

>> its been one of those dramatic split screen moments weve had at this white house. theres a lot of split scereen moments. after the articles of impeachment were announced by house democrats, the president tweeting about usmca. and then nancy pelosi came out an announced a deal on usmca. during that, president trump tweeting about the impeachment inquiry, trying to make his defense for that. you know, this is an interesting dynamic here because for so long the president has used the democrats i...

About the split screen moments. the department of justice inspector general report, that is getting big-time coverage on networks the president likes to watch, concluding the russia probe was justified. but that is not the line that president trump and his attorney general are hitting. the president now slamming his fbi director and were going to have a look at all of that coming up in a sec. ec my psoriatic arthritis pain? i had enough! its not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tendernes...