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nancy pelosi the day before the house vote to impeach mr. trump. more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials, mr. trump wrote. you have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word impeachment . look, this has been a a total sham from the beginning. ierybody knows it. reporter: the president icused pelosi of inventing the charge of abuse of power branding it, completely elsingenuous, meritless, and baseless. pelosi, he wrote, suffers from trump derangement syndrome. earlier this month, pelosi says she harbors no hatred for the president. ay i was raised in a way that is full a heart full of love and ys pys pray for the president. ded i still pray for the president. reporter: in his letter, though, the president wrote pelosi is offending people of faith by suddenly saying, i pray for the president, when t u know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense. mr. trump said today he accepts no responsibility for the
pot when a reporter asked her about it, she called it ridiculous, and really sick. iorah. o donnell: all right, nancy, thank you. pe president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani, has been front and center in the edandal that led to tomorrow s impeachment vote. and tonight, he is at it again, eaying he needed the u.s. ambassador to ukraine out of the way and that he told the president that. the question still remains, why? paula reid reports. he s a great person who loves cor country, and he does this out of love. po reporter: president trump says he fully supports his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, as he investigates the bidens role in ukraine and debunked theories about 2016 election interference. my job is to defend him. reporter: giuliani recently returned from ukraine, and last atght, admitted that he helped force out former u.s. ambassador marie yovanovitch. our state department, under yovanovitch, went to the police hed told them not to do the investigation.
n,lculation, then i wouldn t have come out for an inquiry and i wouldn t be voting yes on woicles. reporter: it s a tough vote for some swing-district republicans, too. pennsylvania s brian fitzpatrick announced his no vote today but added, let me be clear, president trump s call with president zelensky showed poor judgment. i m not an impartial juror. reporter: today, republican leader mitch mcconnell rejects the democrats call to hear from arw witnesses, like acting white ses,e chief of staff, mick aff,aney, in the senate trial to come. this concept is dead wrong. reporter: but he thought it was dead right during the eninton impeachment trial. have you done a 180 on this? t i think it s pretty safe to say in a partisan exercise like peop, people sort of sign up with their own side. hd what we may have felt 20 years ago may not be the same as today. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi has had no official response to the scathing letter t esident trump wrote her.
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