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We werent sure that impeachment would go forward. it seems as though its a near certainty. the question obviously is how much hemorrhaging on the republican side will there be. democrats have remained pretty strongly against trump. both in terms of their overall disapproval of the president in public opinion polls and support for impeachment. the numbers in the cnn poll that i saw earlier have gone up. among republicans. theyre still low. like 14%. but to me thats the number that ill be watching...

Breaking news, as president trump continues to rail against as far as the evidence shows baseless claims of corruption, the first member of congress to back his white house run has just pleaded guilty to crimes connected to actual proven corruption. republican chris collins of new york, the congressman who resigned from the house of representatives today, pleaded guilty for charges related to insider trading. brynn gingras joins me. tell us what happened inside of the courtroom? >> reporter: jak...

Michael, i hope people at home are listening. could you ever imagine a president of the united states tweeting out or saying something like that about someone who works in the government, about a whistle-blower, that we want to find out who they are, its treason? i mean its -- its just -- i cant believe its -- i cant believe i actually read it when i read it. >> yeah. i mean i think youre absolutely right, don, to be just shocked and gobsmacked by this. i think the rest of us have become way too...

Phone and calling the world leader and deputizing the attorney general to get involved. this is far outside of -- and process matters. we know this. its a remarkable thing start to see the attorney general literally showing up in these instances of wrongdoing by the president. >> elliott williams, thank you so much. >> thank you. all right. so if you missed what happened in hong kong overnight, wait for this. beijing is celebrating 70 years of communist rule but this is whats breaking out in t...

My thought is theyll figure out this impurity and i think it will be back at some point. >> sanjay, thank you very much. oh, im talking now, hi. thank you, thanks for all of the information. now, to this, this afternoon, new york congressman chris collins who you will remember as the first congressman to endorse president trump well, hes expected to lead guilt to insider trading charges. cnns brynn gingras is here. what have you learned? >> its going to be addressed on the house floor. and its...

Trying, for instance, to ask for help in investigating the origins of the russia meddling investigation. >> its pretty bizarre. the attorney general, he designated a u.s. attorney is conduct an investigation. ive never heard of an attorney general traveling around the world. i worked for the department for 13 years -- traveling around the world for specifically lobbying details to undo supposed wrongdoing. its unusual from a justice department standpoint. its also concerning from an intelligence...

Ministrations to discredit them all or probe and that of course shows how obsessed president trump if i may use this word is with discrediting the russian probe alexander coming back to this impeachment inquiry we heard the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he would have no choice but to consider articles of impeachment if the house approved them so what are the chances that we could see it come to that. well 1st of all we of course have to say that the impeachment inquiry has just s...

Amazing developments there and all of this happening while you have the republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying that he would have no shore use but to take articles of impeachment if the house of representatives approves them is it likely to come to that alexander. well the inquiry has just started and we have majority of the house membership saying that they supported the beginning of the impeachment proceedings but they have not committed to how they would vote on impeachment ...

>> they took things out of context. they had anonymous complaints. they didnt allow us the opportunity to address them. they implied and somehow magically divined motives and intentions that werent really there. and they took every single ambiguous thing that happened and spun it in the worse possible way to create this sort of prosecutorial brief of wrongdoing. and they are doing that to the president. they have done it for three years in a row. he said if you look at the call. there is no prob...

Personally interrogated khalid sheikh mohammed enhanced interrogation if you read his book you would understand for sure he stopped countless terror attacks by what he did. dr. james 34eu678. 34eu678 mitchell. you said you have seen whats happened to the president and its deja vu. what they did to you. >> what they did to me and dr. jessen is they took things out of context. they had anonymous complaints. they didnt allow us the opportunity to address them. they implied and somehow magically div...