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Read te to support kennedys claim. and new tonight, a report from republicans on key committees backs the president, saying last months public hearings showed no evidence of wrongdoing democrats are set to release their report tomorrow before the judiciary committee takes over lester >> all right, hallie jackson, thanks. a surprise shake-up for the chicago police department superintendent eddie johnson fired after what mayor lori lightfoot called a series of ethical lapses coming a month befor...

Report called the trump/ukraine impeachment inquiry report. theyve released a 17-page executive summary to that report and i would implore you -- i know a lot of people dont take time to read sort of academic style or congressional reports that are 300 pages. id read the report because for all you think you know about this, there is a lot of detail in there that was not known before the release of this report, a lot of detail. the congressman of illinois is a member of the house intelligence com...

An associate whos been indicted in my hometown of chicago. so this is the type of problem that you see when our foreign policy gets colko commandeered other purposes and thats why this whole series of incidents and wrongdoing is so serious. >> testimony from marie yovanovitch, from bill taylor, from fiona hill and others who would know because they worked in that world of foreign policy testified that rudy giuliani had undo influence. they talked about what happened with gordan sondland. they ta...

Report, they write that there is no evidence that the president had a negative apparatus. but they talked about an irregular channel. . there is really nothing this thing that acknowledges any form of wrong doing. you might say he is trying to get to some wrong doing, but there will be no acknowledgment that donald trump did anything wrong let alone impeachable. >> that is right, and that has been their posture all along. for them to concede that this president did anything wrong would be to put...

Impeachable wrongdoing but no wrongdoing was undertaken by the president and then you drop this report that has things like call records and details that they did not come out in the hearings that make for some very, very, very interesting reading and fact finding. tell me what the thinking is about not having this come out before today. >> i think that, first of all, i like works of fiction like anybody else but that republican report was ridiculous, ali, and i think that it completely mischara...

That didnt exist and that there was, again, no wrongdoing by anybody but that such a thing didnt exist. if you put everything aside, there is a valid question as to what rudy giuliani is doing in the middle of all of this. >> thats exactly right. i think that what rudy giuliani appears to be doing is basically serving as the presidents point man for all of his personal agenda items. basically, as ambassador sondland said, it was explicitly told to the three amigos and everybody in the oval offic...

Impeachment articles before the christmas recess. amid all this, and with his legacy hanging in the balance, president trump has declined to mount any formal defense against the accusations he faces. the white house counsel yesterday informed the committee that nobody will represent the president in wednesdays hearing, calling the proceedings unfair. im joined tonight by former director of the cia john brennan. we begin tonight with democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi. this report, it see...

Parrotting the trump narrative or president trumps narrative that any public servant who wishes to bring forward evidence of wrongdoing against him is a member of the deep state, they are a never trumper and so forth. but you and the american people saw for themselves exactly how compelling marie yovanovitch is, bill taylor is. >> i did. >> lieutenant colonel vindman, fiona hill, and the list goes on and on and on. these are not people who are political. they are career public servants who stuck...

They havent. told witnesses, do not show up. if congress allows that to stand, it will not only mean this president is able to escape exposure of his wrongdoing, any president can ignore congressional oversight. it will fundamentally alter the balance of power that will make corruption and malfeasance much more likely because congress will be powerless to investigate it. >> congressman adam schiff telling us there will be a public release of the impeachment report by this time tomorrow. sir, its...

And continue into the 2020 election. >> which means for the democrats, this is going to look like a political exercise and a very costly one at that. so what could be the political consequences of that when it comes to the vote in 2020? >> well, this is something that nancy pelosi has really tried to avoid since the very beginning, and i think was one reason why she was so reluctant to engage in this process, simply because the american public is relatively split in terms of public opinion over ...