Gartin the u.s. House of Representatives are expected to bring the articles of impeachment to a vote of the full House as early as next week if those does impeach the president and Mr Trump will face a Senate trial in the new year unlike the impeachment of President Nixon these articles go to a house and senate that couldn't be more divided on the issue even a more moderate Republican New York Representative Peter King Tom the process a shameless baseless abuse of congressional power by the Democrats to those in his own ranks who asked why the articles couldn't have waited on testimony from the people closest to President Trump the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff said Congress was compelled to act. We stand here today because the president's continuing abuse of his power has left us no choice to do nothing would make ourselves complicit in the president's abuse of his I office the public trust and our national security the president's misconduct is as simple and as terrible as this President Trump solicited a foreign nation Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into his opponent and a baseless conspiracy theory promoted by Russia to help his reelection campaign. President Trump abused the power of his office by conditioning to official acts to get Ukraine to help Israel action the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that nation desperately needed and a White House meeting with an ally trying to fend off Russian aggression. In so doing he undermined our national security and jeopardized the integrity of our next election. The president who has previously expressed as does day in for the proceedings sent out a spokesperson Stephanie Gresham to decry the Democrats for manufacturing impeachment inquiry and forcing unfunded accusations down the throats of the American people the Republican minority whip in the house Steves can lease claimed abuse of power they're not impeaching the president because they can the list an impeachable offense there impeaching him because they're afraid he will get reelected that's not why you have the power of impeachment that's the abuse of power Speaker Pelosi Adam Schiff and her counterparts have been abusing the power of impeachment because they're afraid Donald Trump will get reelected on his own the American people should be the ones that decide who the president is not Nancy Pelosi or Adam chef because they disagree with the results of the 2016 election we're joined from Washington by our correspondent Tom a Kelver Hello Tara hello let's begin with these articles because these are about his not who aren't they as they could be that was a possibility earlier on that they were going to be as many at least as for articles of impeachment and no mention is made for example of the Mahler unquiet or the thing that Robert Muller the special investigator spent 3 years doing delivering it to the house and then saying if you want to take this further I have evidence that Russia was involved in that. Interfering with the 2016 election why why didn't the articles go in that direction. Well that's a really good question I mean there's no doubt that the Democrats are in a hurry to get this done so they've chosen these 2 articles of impeachment and they're focusing like a laser on these and they're looking both at abuse of power saying that the president had tried to put pressure on to the Ukrainian leaders and have them have them investigate his own political rivals and in this way the Democrats said that President Trump was trying to further his own political goals and trying to help of get a foreign power to help him win in 2020 and the Democratic lawmakers chose not to expand this and these articles are include other possible offenses partly because they seem to be wanting to get this done and rush things through some of the people even those who support the impeachment inquiry say that the Democrats are rushing things along they fast tracked it and that this hurry to get things done is going to end up hurting the Democrats that they should have waited until they had a stronger hand and a much stronger argument. And more try them shift response to that. Mr shift and the other Democratic lawmakers say that they're standing on principle they believe that they have plenty of evidence they say that they've had hours and hours of testimony people coming forward and describing exactly what President Trump had done and terms of withholding the security assistance for Ukraine and trying to convince the Ukrainians the Ukrainians and order to open these investigations they say that there's more than enough evidence and that it's important and that this poses that the president has posed a clear and present danger to the to the integrity of the United States and also to national security so they say they have to do this. At the moment rather any. Voting on these articles will be along all the party long. There's been some changes in the way people see these and impeachment proceedings the nation has become more involved in it and also more engaged and the numbers to go slightly up there's more people in the United States now who would like the impeachment inquiry to go forward like 4047 percent of the people do but about 43 percent of the people do not want it to go forward so there's a really strong contingency that says that they don't like this impeachment choir and if you look at the key battleground states these are the states where President Trump has to win in order to win 2020 and those states like Pennsylvania or Wisconsin and Michigan President Trump support has actually gotten stronger because of the impeachment inquiry he's now slightly more ahead of his of the Democratic rival in terms of 2020 than he was a few weeks ago and there are so many differences on the Torah between this impeachment and the impeachment of Bill Clinton or the impeachment of Richard Nixon in 1974 Absolutely President Trump has been in so many ways unprecedented and one of the things that you're seen is just as the statement that you heard today is President Trump and has allies use the arguments that are being used against him President Trump turned them around so he's accusing the accusers of wrongdoing President Trump its allies have tried to discredit the impeachment inquiry and make it seem like a partisan witch hunt which is what he's been saying and also earlier today when I was on the South Lawn and present Trump was shouting that us about how great the country was he was also talking about the weakness of Democrats he's been hammering away attacking his attackers and in this way he's been showing his supporters how strong he is and why he should remain in office and for a lot of people it's a convincing argument and so it becomes an actual political 2 that he can use in his campaign for reelection. Exactly his strategy has always been to say to his supporters look I'm there for you you know you guys who are the forgotten people but I'm here for you and I'm fighting for you and those Democrats those lazy do nothing Democrats are just causing trouble and when you're out in some parts of the industrial Midwest and you're talking to people they'll say to go say why don't those Democrats just let President Trump get back to work you know he needs to do his job so they're very much on his side and they're going to see him through the they're definitely going to be supporting him but it's not clear really the election is so close in these battleground states it's not clear what the outcome will be there's a difference isn't there between obstructing Congress which is what the 2nd article says and obstructing justice and initially I think people saw the one of the articles was going to be about obstructing justice I wonder why they decided to just keep it to obstructing Congress. Exactly you talked earlier about the mole a report in about how Mr Miller had presented certain kinds of evidence and said basically was at the Congress but the lawmakers they have their own strategy the Democratic lawmakers and they've chosen to narrow these offenses and to focus on them very precisely and part because that was the argument that they've been using through the hearings so they've been making the case to the American people at these offenses have taken place and this is why they're going forward with the impeachment inquiry they chose what they thought was a strong this hand and 2 of the things happened today which are worth recording aren't they one is that the president played host to quite a surprising for an emissary. Exactly the Russian foreign minister Mr Lavrov came to the White House today I was there at the White House and we were waiting I was part of the press pool and we thought that we might be invited into the Oval Office during the meeting maybe even remember 2 years ago when Mr Lavrov was there there were no u.s. Journalists there and afterwards there were reports that President Trump had passed on classified information so we were very hopeful for a while that we would be invited in but in the end we weren't and when Mr Trump came out after the meeting and spoke with me and the other reporters on the South Lawn I did ask him about his meeting with the Russian foreign minister but Mr Trump only wanted to talk about the impeachment inquiry and and how weak the Democrats are towards it it's by no means over them with any notes of that meeting nor any right her statement will be made as a result the White House has issued a statement about some of the discussions that some part of the discussion that took place between the president and Mr Lavrov and Mr Lavrov also gave his own press conference at the Russian embassy and there are some discrepancies between the 2 accounts and people here in Washington are still trying to work out what those discrepancies mean. What the other one was a new trade agreement. Exactly president talk campaigned on part part of his campaign was on how bad the old trade agreement was it was known as NAFTA a decades old agreement so President Trump on the south lawn was very triumphant about this win in terms of reaching a new agreement but the democrats are 2 they're also very happy with Stu agreement the Democrats feel as though they got what they wanted which is a reinforcement of labor reforms and Mexico and other provisions to the agreement and it's a win win in the United States that President Trump can go to he's in Pennsylvania tonight he can talk about the win with the trade deal and at the same time the Democrats can say that they also succeeded in reaching a trade deal so that even as the Democrats are going for with this impeachment inquiry and the impeachment itself they can say well we're still doing things for the American people so both sides come out ahead of time to think. Well there are fewer than 24 hours of campaigning to go this time tomorrow there can be no talk of politics as Election Day restrictions kick in so how are things shaping up the might before the last day of campaigning. Labor on the Tories are focusing on key messages around the National Health Service and Bracks but it isn't all plain sailing as recordings were leaked as you well know of shadow health secretary Jonathan Astra criticising Labor's election chances under Mr carbon and Boris Johnson still facing criticism over his lack of reaction to a never to a sick boy on a hospital floor I spoke to the b.b.c. Political correspondent Sean Curran who told me how the leaders will be spending this last day of campaigning this in a way is going to be a traditional end to a pretty unusual campaign it's the 1st December election since 1923 hard to imagine that party leaders wouldn't get dulled in frantic campaigning back then but today we are going to see the policy leaders crisscrossing the country trying to visit as many places as they possibly can before the end of the campaign and the voting starts and I think what we're going to see is them coming back to their core message is they going to be trying to spend the day talking about the things that they want to talk about a nothing else so for the Conservative Party a Boris Johnson that means Breck seat and forcing through this message that people are going to have to make a choice and evolves breaking what Boris Johnson calls the deadlock or the gridlock at Westminster in order for him to get his bricks it bill through parliament the labor it will be focusing on the n.h.s. And public services and their plans for health and education they want this to be about their proposals for domestic politics and also of course they want it to be a judgment on having had 9 years of Conservative Prime Ministers. Talk a little bit about Mr carbon for a minute because he did have an awkward Tuesday than he with and unguarded conversation Yes I mean elections we always hope as observers they're going to be full of surprises and sometimes all the surprises come out once we see Boris Johnson knocked off course when we have the story of the little boy on the hospital floor Labor hoping to capitalize upon that because obviously it brought the campaign on to their territory of the n.h.s. Just as they're about to do it with their shadow health secretary John of an ash worth 4 grand of a campaign up pops this leaked conversation that he'd have with a friend who was also a conservative activist about a week or so ago published by the good a faux website in which Mr Ashworth basically says he thinks labor is going to do badly in the election and he blames that on Mr Corbyn and on the party's attitude to Bret's it extremely embarrassing and knocking their campaign off course as well now has to be said Mr explanation is that this was just a bit of banter and a bit of joshing and that if we'd heard both sides of the conversation we'd have got a better just if that he was saying that he's trying to reverse psychology by talking down his side's prospects and it has to be said that Mr Corbett Although this probably was not what he wanted to be talking about was very relaxed insisting that he'd accepted this explanation and he was saying that it had been published to try to deflect attention away from the conservative record on the n.h.s. But definitely not something that shutter health secretary or the leader of the Labor Party would have wanted to be talking to the media about just a few hours after they felt they managed to get the debate on to one of their key elect. Seems I want to challenge our national thing called me straightaway he's out there campaigning for a local communities out there defending our national health service and John has my full support called neutral long break say when he said that the situation in some areas for labor was abysmal dollar and that someday it is called standard that was just done he said so maybe it was all about reverse psychology banter as in football supporters the other person is saying the opposite about their party and you know. It's not the kind of stuff you do not the kind of. Way I would talk to anybody even John was called make very very very clear and you know John has been a fantastic shadow sectors type of health he's exposed what this government is doing and I suspect he's quite came to take the place away from the State of the National Health Service and also this this is irrelevant relevant it's great instructive isn't it to hear Mr carbon given off the cuff interview because he doesn't do this at all no but I think it represents really the scale of the embarrassment the labor was suffering and the fact that they needed to respond to these so they could move on and get back to talking about what they want to talk about this really was another one of these unexpected things that is not of course they needed to make a response which means they could then say look we've talked about peace and now we're going to move on. Was was the boy on the court in the waiting room one day wonder or or is it going to be a bit of an albatross for the Prime Minister Well it was reflected in the day's papers so it was there at the beginning of the day and of course the reason that label were keen to talk about the story and the reason why people were highlighting it was that it did strike a what some people have criticised Boris Johnson for and that's this idea that he's not terribly sympathetic and empathetic with ordinary people and he doesn't really quite understand some of the challenges that ordinary people face now has to be said he had plenty of defenders and the justice secretary Robert Buckland was out insisting that Boris Johnson had apologized and he did empathize and they were obviously giving their response there but clearly been pleased that they were able to move away from that story when the focus went on to Jonathan Ashworth And what about the Liberal Democrats because you know obviously they've they've had a a campaign which started off with much much confidence and then it changed tack some way through there was this in the case in that they would be ready to be a 2nd party you know they would be ready to support somebody if they could just get what they want on Bracks it where the Liberal Democrats finish this campaign how strong for example is the leadership of Josue and. Well a lot has changed in a relatively short space of time it's only a few weeks ago the j. Swinson was declaring that she was the Liberal Democrat candidate to be prime minister and they were setting out a very ambitious plan and there was lots of talk about was a liberal democrats government would do now tied into that was this key proposal that they would in effect reverse Breck's it by revoking Article 50 so their argument was if we have a liberal democratic government we will scrap it. As the campaign has gone on the been lots of indications that that was not as popular on the doorstep as other people have gotten the beginning clearly as well the Seems to be a bit of a squeeze with people going back to either the conservatives or labor and that has led to I think a change of tone from Jay Swinson So we're not hearing that talk about scrapping bricks it and revoking there's much more of an emphasis on a 2nd referendum and of course this is always been the plights of smaller parties in parliament because they need to get a not seat that they can exert influence so for them they need to have another seat that they can then trade and say to a. Leader of another party Well yes we will support you may not be an official coalition and we've seen the criticism the chase Winston's had during this campaign over her time as a junior minister in the coalition so I might not be daft but it might be well we'll support you on these proposals and these policies if you give us a 2nd referendum and the focus now from the Liberal Democrats this campaign tools to a close is pushing for a 2nd referendum but also there are other messages they want to stop Boris Johnson getting a majority so it's a big shift from just a few weeks ago but it shows that they've still got things that they want to achieve before people go to the polls and are worried about the s.n.p. Because the s.n.p. Are in Westminster they've been a major bloc obviously have a lot of seats to the Fed and. Have they been talking much about their strategy how they're going to keep that number of seats they've already got maybe take some more from Labor well be leaders of the Scottish parties at Westminster took part in a debate last night one of. The interesting thing that came out of that was that Nicolas sturgeon the leader of the s.m.p. He was actually pressed more over independents and the prospects for a 2nd referendum and that he debates between the Labor Liberal Democrats and Scottish Conservative leaders with Nicolas sturgeon focused a lot on Bracks it and a lot of independents earlier in the day they Nicholas Sturgeon had been raising the prospect of