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Committed impeachable offenses in pressuring a foreign power to open an inveigation into a political rival. Also this week, california senator, harr announced she is dropping out of the president ial race. Harris had gotten off to a strong start with an impressith performance withfirst president ial debate held in june. Since then, her campaign was marred by infighting and muddled messaging key issues such as healthcare. With us now is l. A. Times political reporter melanie mason. She joins us via skype from los angeles. Thank you for being here, melanie. Thank you for having me. In the studio politica writer carl m iannucci. Wa carla, i to start with you. It has been a big week in the impeachment inquiry. We know speaker ncy pelosi announced yesterday she has directed the house committees to draft these articles of impeachment. Can you quickly walk us hrough whpens now. Now wehave got come in the house judiciary committee, they will take up these articles of impeachment. We y hear fro
All that and more on making money. Charles the markets essentially flat. All eye what is happens next, in the first phase of this u. S. China trade truce. Both sides say there is more work to be done. President trump says in fact he could sign a deal with President Trump summit in chile. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says there is deal in principle and what is coming in store for next couple weeks. There will be deputy level calls this week. There will be principal level calls next week with ambassador lighthizer and myself and the vice premier. Those things are planned. I wouldnt be surprised if there are deputy level meetings in person. Our expectation well meet with the vice premier before the president s meet in chile to finalize any issues. We need more inperson meetings done obviously well do that. Charles coming collapse of china author, gordon chang. First your initial assessment of the agreement we saw on friday . I dont think there is really an agreement, charles. What the