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Quote, has no case. The top democrat in the Senate Chuck Schumer says the impeachment trial in the senate has got to include witness testimony and nothing kept secret. Until we hear from the witnesses, until we get the documents, the American People will correctly assume that those blocking their testimony were aiding and abetting a coverup, plain and simple. So ill close by saying this. President trump, release the emails, let the witnesses testify. What are you afraid of . Cnns Kristin Holmes is in south florida not far from the president s maralago resort. Any hint from the president today that hes receptive to those demands from Senate Democrats . Reporter ultimately it is really not up to the president what this impeachment trial will look like. Its going to be up to the senators. As weve seen, really those republican senators to give into these demands despite the fact that Mitch Mcconnell has said hes working with the white house every inch of the way. Its really him who appears to be running the show. We know that at the beginning President Trump wanted to have a longer trial, he wanted to have a lot of witnesses. He believed this would be a good show, that he would be cleared with a longer trial. We know Mitch Mcconnell has been hesitant to have any witnesses, behind the scenes essentially telling the president the more witnesses that are brought forward, the more problems there could be for President Trump. When it comes to the president and this process, we heard today from the Vice President s chief of staff mark short, who said that the president is actually looking forward to a trail in the senate. Take a listen. Hes frustrated with what he finds to be a completely unreasonable impeachment. Sure hes frustrated by that. Hes anxious to not get just acquitted but exonerated in the senate. Hes looking forward to the opportunity to have a fair trial in the senate. Reporter if you look at his twitter feed for today, you wouldnt think he was looking forward to having a fair trial in the senate. He was slamming democrats, he was slamming crazy nancy pelosi as he called her. Not a man who looks like hes looking forward to being in front of all these people. The bottom line is you have the democrats and the republicans, they have dug their heels in and you have a congress that is not back in session until early january. Talk about the new information we learned this weekend in these new documents released as part of a freedom of information act puertaining to that phone call the president held with the president of ukraine zelensky and the aid being withheld. Reporter thats right. Essentially what were learning from this email is that it was 90 minutes after the call between President Trump and president zelensky that there was already a movement to contact the pentagon to freeze these funds. We reached out to the white house. The Budget Office says theres no use linking the two things, that theyre not related. But this is really giving fuel to democrats. Let me tell you why. Because that email came from a trump appointee, his name is michael duffey. He works at the office of management and budget. Hes one of the people that democrats have said they want to hear from in an preveimpeachmen trial. You heard Chuck Schumer talking about why they wont present these witnesses. It gives democrats a stronger case because again the man who wrote this email essentially getting the ball rolling for the pentagon to freeze this aid was one of the witnesses requested here. This is really raising a lot of questions about how this is going to play into the overall effect if it does really at all. As democrats and republicans battle to shape the messaging on the impeachment process, i want to bring in cnn political analysis karen emergen. I have to ask you about those newly released emails showing that aid to ukraine was frozen about an hour and a half after President Trumps call with president zelensky on july 25th. How significant is this evidence . Well, it sure raises the imprints of causation. That is that the call with zelensky was the predicate and the fact that followed it was the holding up of that aid, just as has been alleged by the House Democrats in their articles of impeachment. That is the quid pro quo is essentially laid out, i think, in those events back to back, which i think gives fuel to the fire of desire for there to be witnesses in the senate trial. Karen, do you think part of Nancy Pelosis decision to stall the process to let other possibly incriminating evidence come out . Thats a possibility. Were in a Holding Pattern anyway for these two weeks. So if she feels the holding back of naming the managers for the impeachment process and not sending over the articles gives her time, gives Chuck Schumer time to negotiate a deal that will let there be more witnesses in the senate, the then thats a potential leverage that she can try to use. I think it really depends, though, on what the president ends up doing, because youve got Mitch Mcconnell fairly locked in not wanting any witnesses. Clearly close and schumer do. If the gop sticks with Mitch Mcconnell, thats kind of the ball game because they have the majority of senators in the senate. If the president tries to push the envelope and say, fine, make a deal if i can get hunter biden and the whistleblower, i dont care if people from the administration testify. That would be going back on what the pattern has been for several months but it would strengthen pelosis hand in trying to push that. As more evidence comes forward, democrats can try to make that argument and see if there are any willing republicans on the gop side in the senate who can say wait a second, theres Something Else that we need to maybe take a look at. Its been a partisan discussion about whether those witnesses should be included to try to dig into this information thats coming out after the house vote. Public pressure plays a role when it comes to politics. The washington post, your paper karen and abc released this poll this week finding 71 of respondents believe trump should allow senior officials like Mick Mulvaney and john bolton to testify in a likely Senate Impeachment trial. Michael, you have this new poll, we have new evidence. Is it getting harder for Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to avoid agreeing to fact witnesses and having an impartial trial . If theres any break in the republican ranks. Remember, the question about whether there will be witnesses requires 51 votes. Mcconnell has 53. The if theres seepage of any republicans to get them over to the democratic side, then well have witnesses. If they hold true, mcconnell realizes that witnesses with firsthand knowledge will not help the president. Just as duffey has something to say about the quid pro quo, i think mulvaney and bolton have stuff too which is damaging. And i think that the speaker knows this and thats why he does not want these witnesses there. Karen, listen to senator roy blunt, a republican, getting closer to criticizing how President Trump handled the ukraine situation. Listen. Any other president would have said ill have the attorney general call you about some things were looking into. This one didnt. Did he make a mistake . President s make mistakes. I dont know if this call was a mistake, but i think there are plenty of mistakes that have been made by both president obama and trump regarding ukraine. Its still so hard for republicans to Say Something here isnt right and with many of the president s supporters actively battling against an impartial trial, why dont they want to hear from mulvaney or bolton, who could offer some clarification . And if republicans dont believe the president did anything wrong, couldnt they actually be beneficial to the president s case . Sure. But i think probably a lot of republicans are a little bit worried about whether or not the president did something wrong. Youre hearing some republicans say, look, this isnt necessarily exactly how i would prefer that a president conduct himself, which is a diplomatic way of saying theres something wrong here but i dont think it necessarily rises to the level of an impeachment offense and lets just stop it while we can before anything else comes out. Theres hints of that during the open impeachment hearings you saw in the house where you saw Gordon Sondland release emails where he said everybody was in the loop. You have to decide where the intent here at the outset was good or bad. I think given mulvaneys past comments from the podium, theyre not 100 sure those testimonies could go in favor of the president. Its a bit of a pandoras box that i think the gop has determined its better to leave closed. Again, the question is does more evidence come out and does the president put his thumb on the scale one way or the other to make it more palatable to enough gop senators to say, actually maybe we should be hearing from more people here. When you talked about Public Opinion a moment ago, yes, our poll shows that more than 70 of the country thinks these people should come forward, but at the same time you still have the country pretty much stuck at under 50 approval for the whole impeaching the president and pushing him out of office. The second article has to do with obstruction of congress. This is like the mixup in where peoples emotions are and what they will call maybe not perfect but maybe not impeachable. Senator schumer called what republicans are doing aiding and abetting a coverup. Would you go that far . Im not sure id use the words aiding and abetting but its certainly making the case that the House Republicans tried to make, which is that this was a case in which there was no actual witnesses who had firsthand knowledge. Now theyre saying, well here are these witnesses with firsthand knowledge and youre refusing to allow us to have them be called. Thats essentially aiding and abetting or in some respect preen preventing the truth from being heard. You really need some kind of National Closure at the end of the event. People have to feel that the process was fair, we reached the conclusion that was promo appropriately reached and now we should move on. The way this is set up now, were going to have this rush to judgment in the senate and people feeling uncomfortable. This thing will linger on and on. I think thats a very bad thing for our country. Good to have both of you here. Thank you so much. Thank you. Happy holidays. Happy holidays to you too. North korea has a holiday warning for the United States. New cnn reporting on what kim jongun may have meant when he talked about that christmas gift. Plus, Rudy Giuliani kicking off the holidays with a party at maralago. And i sit down with a man behind the movie just mercy. May your holidays glow bright and all your dreams take flight. Lease the glc 300 suv for 439 a month with credit toward your first months payment at the mercedesbenz winter event. Iclimate is the number 1ove priority. Sage. I would declare a state of emergency on day 1. Congress has never passed an important climate bill, ever. This is a problem that continues to get worse. Ive spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies. Stopping pipelines. Stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. How are we going to pull this country together . We take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world and do it together. Cnn has obtained new satellite images of north korea. They show the expansion of buildings linked to the production of long range Ballistic Missile launchers. Its a disturbing revelation as the world waits to find out exactly what north Koreas Kim Jongun had in mind when he ominously promised to send the u. S. A christmas gift. Will ripley joins us from hong kong. We know that talks between the u. S. And north korea have stalled in recent months, but how concerned are u. S. Officials that north korea intends to make some kind of provocative display . Reporter i think the United States is keeping a very close eye on activity in north korea right now and north korea knows that. Yes, we have these satellite images showing expansion at a known Production Facility tied to their missile program. There was also a meeting over the weekend between kim jongun and his top military officials. That said, i spoke with a source who says the chances of some sort of a long range Missile Launch this week around christmas actually very low. This according to my sources, north korea trying to dial up the pressure on the u. S. , but not to cross a line that would alienate not only President Trump but also china and russia, traditional allies that have just started to kind of open up the smuggling routes into north korea more than they have over the last year and a half or so. North korea wants to have ties go well with its allies. They dont want to do something that could turn the clock back in terms of the level of pressure on their country right now. Thats why sources telling me at least for the time being the chances for a launch are low. Kim jongun expected to announce a new hard line stance when dealing with the United States, including taking denuclearization completely off the table. There is some indication that kim jongun sees President Trump as politically weakened because of impeachment. Explain why trumps situation matters to north korea. Reporter because they want to make sure that President Trump actually has the political power to implement any sort of a deal that would be reached. Given the deep division and the fact that President Trump was impeached in the house, they know that as of right now he might not be in the best position to focus on any sort of nuclear deal or at least the implementation of it especially given this is now moving into 2020, a very sensitive election year. My sources say the north koreas are going to take a step back, continue to remind the world that they have this nuclear capability. I wouldnt rule out a launch in 2020, but theyve already gotten the effect they want around christmas time which is lots of western media talking about the possibility of a launch. Why would they need to go through with it now when they could save it for an even more vulnerable time closer to the u. S. Election perhaps. Thank you for your reporting. The president s personal attorney is talking about all the dirt hes digging up in ukraine but who are the people feeding him that information . Well take a look at the questionable reputations of Rudy Giulianis informants. First, before the bell with christine romans. Its likely to be a quiet christmas week on wall street, quite a difference from a year ago when stocks tanked. This time investor versus a lot to celebrate. Those factors helped push major averages to new highs this year. All three are on track for gains of more than 20 in 2019. Could we see that kind of performance again next year . 2020 is going to be a lot tougher than 2019. Not a bad year and in fact if we could get a real trade deal with china, it could be a good year. Trade remains a risk, though. Analysts say if the phase one deal isnt signed next month, optimism will begin to fade. Dont get mad. Get e trade, dawg. Itintroducing the new braava jet m6 robot mop. With an adjustable Precision Jet spray and advanced pad system braava jet breaks up messes and gets deep in corners. Braava jet. Only from irobot. Can you tell me the story again . Every family has their own unique story. Give your family the chance to discover theirs this holiday season, with ancestry. This holiday season, up here at the dewars distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. Its the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. Dewars. Double aged for extra smoothness. At tmobile, were lighting up 5g, and when you buy a samsung note 10 5g, you get one free. Plus you can experience it on the nations largest 5g network. So you can stay connected like this. Score a last minute this. Get home easier, like this. And share all of this. With that. So do this. On that. With us. And now, buy a samsung note 10 5g and get one free when you add a line. When it comes to using data, which is why Xfinity Mobile is a different kind of Wireless Network that lets you design your own data. Choose unlimited, shared data, or mix lines of each and switch any line, anytime. Giving you more choice and control compared to other top wireless carriers. Save up to 400 a year when you switch. Plus, unwrap 250 off a new samsung phone. Click, call or visit a store today. After President Trump was impeached this week, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was reportedly seen dancing and socializing at the president s Maralago Club last night. Giuliani tells cnn trump continues to be very supportive of his efforts to dig up dirt on democrats in ukraine. Giuliani declined to say if trump actually directed him to go on his most recent Fact Finding Mission there, but apparently many of the people giuliani is working with in ukraine have dubious reputations. Cnns Senate Chuck Schumer<\/a> says the impeachment trial in the senate has got to include witness testimony and nothing kept secret. Until we hear from the witnesses, until we get the documents, the American People<\/a> will correctly assume that those blocking their testimony were aiding and abetting a coverup, plain and simple. So ill close by saying this. President trump, release the emails, let the witnesses testify. What are you afraid of . Cnns Kristin Holmes<\/a> is in south florida not far from the president s maralago resort. Any hint from the president today that hes receptive to those demands from Senate Democrats<\/a> . Reporter ultimately it is really not up to the president what this impeachment trial will look like. Its going to be up to the senators. As weve seen, really those republican senators to give into these demands despite the fact that Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> has said hes working with the white house every inch of the way. Its really him who appears to be running the show. We know that at the beginning President Trump<\/a> wanted to have a longer trial, he wanted to have a lot of witnesses. He believed this would be a good show, that he would be cleared with a longer trial. We know Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> has been hesitant to have any witnesses, behind the scenes essentially telling the president the more witnesses that are brought forward, the more problems there could be for President Trump<\/a>. When it comes to the president and this process, we heard today from the Vice President<\/a> s chief of staff mark short, who said that the president is actually looking forward to a trail in the senate. Take a listen. Hes frustrated with what he finds to be a completely unreasonable impeachment. Sure hes frustrated by that. Hes anxious to not get just acquitted but exonerated in the senate. Hes looking forward to the opportunity to have a fair trial in the senate. Reporter if you look at his twitter feed for today, you wouldnt think he was looking forward to having a fair trial in the senate. He was slamming democrats, he was slamming crazy nancy pelosi as he called her. Not a man who looks like hes looking forward to being in front of all these people. The bottom line is you have the democrats and the republicans, they have dug their heels in and you have a congress that is not back in session until early january. Talk about the new information we learned this weekend in these new documents released as part of a freedom of information act puertaining to that phone call the president held with the president of ukraine zelensky and the aid being withheld. Reporter thats right. Essentially what were learning from this email is that it was 90 minutes after the call between President Trump<\/a> and president zelensky that there was already a movement to contact the pentagon to freeze these funds. We reached out to the white house. The Budget Office<\/a> says theres no use linking the two things, that theyre not related. But this is really giving fuel to democrats. Let me tell you why. Because that email came from a trump appointee, his name is michael duffey. He works at the office of management and budget. Hes one of the people that democrats have said they want to hear from in an preveimpeachmen trial. You heard Chuck Schumer<\/a> talking about why they wont present these witnesses. It gives democrats a stronger case because again the man who wrote this email essentially getting the ball rolling for the pentagon to freeze this aid was one of the witnesses requested here. This is really raising a lot of questions about how this is going to play into the overall effect if it does really at all. As democrats and republicans battle to shape the messaging on the impeachment process, i want to bring in cnn political analysis karen emergen. I have to ask you about those newly released emails showing that aid to ukraine was frozen about an hour and a half after President Trump<\/a>s call with president zelensky on july 25th. How significant is this evidence . Well, it sure raises the imprints of causation. That is that the call with zelensky was the predicate and the fact that followed it was the holding up of that aid, just as has been alleged by the House Democrats<\/a> in their articles of impeachment. That is the quid pro quo is essentially laid out, i think, in those events back to back, which i think gives fuel to the fire of desire for there to be witnesses in the senate trial. Karen, do you think part of Nancy Pelosis<\/a> decision to stall the process to let other possibly incriminating evidence come out . Thats a possibility. Were in a Holding Pattern<\/a> anyway for these two weeks. So if she feels the holding back of naming the managers for the impeachment process and not sending over the articles gives her time, gives Chuck Schumer<\/a> time to negotiate a deal that will let there be more witnesses in the senate, the then thats a potential leverage that she can try to use. I think it really depends, though, on what the president ends up doing, because youve got Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> fairly locked in not wanting any witnesses. Clearly close and schumer do. If the gop sticks with Mitch Mcconnell<\/a>, thats kind of the ball game because they have the majority of senators in the senate. If the president tries to push the envelope and say, fine, make a deal if i can get hunter biden and the whistleblower, i dont care if people from the administration testify. That would be going back on what the pattern has been for several months but it would strengthen pelosis hand in trying to push that. As more evidence comes forward, democrats can try to make that argument and see if there are any willing republicans on the gop side in the senate who can say wait a second, theres Something Else<\/a> that we need to maybe take a look at. Its been a partisan discussion about whether those witnesses should be included to try to dig into this information thats coming out after the house vote. Public pressure plays a role when it comes to politics. The washington post, your paper karen and abc released this poll this week finding 71 of respondents believe trump should allow senior officials like Mick Mulvaney<\/a> and john bolton to testify in a likely Senate Impeachment<\/a> trial. Michael, you have this new poll, we have new evidence. Is it getting harder for Senate Majority<\/a> leader Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> to avoid agreeing to fact witnesses and having an impartial trial . If theres any break in the republican ranks. Remember, the question about whether there will be witnesses requires 51 votes. Mcconnell has 53. The if theres seepage of any republicans to get them over to the democratic side, then well have witnesses. If they hold true, mcconnell realizes that witnesses with firsthand knowledge will not help the president. Just as duffey has something to say about the quid pro quo, i think mulvaney and bolton have stuff too which is damaging. And i think that the speaker knows this and thats why he does not want these witnesses there. Karen, listen to senator roy blunt, a republican, getting closer to criticizing how President Trump<\/a> handled the ukraine situation. Listen. Any other president would have said ill have the attorney general call you about some things were looking into. This one didnt. Did he make a mistake . President s make mistakes. I dont know if this call was a mistake, but i think there are plenty of mistakes that have been made by both president obama and trump regarding ukraine. Its still so hard for republicans to Say Something<\/a> here isnt right and with many of the president s supporters actively battling against an impartial trial, why dont they want to hear from mulvaney or bolton, who could offer some clarification . And if republicans dont believe the president did anything wrong, couldnt they actually be beneficial to the president s case . Sure. But i think probably a lot of republicans are a little bit worried about whether or not the president did something wrong. Youre hearing some republicans say, look, this isnt necessarily exactly how i would prefer that a president conduct himself, which is a diplomatic way of saying theres something wrong here but i dont think it necessarily rises to the level of an impeachment offense and lets just stop it while we can before anything else comes out. Theres hints of that during the open impeachment hearings you saw in the house where you saw Gordon Sondland<\/a> release emails where he said everybody was in the loop. You have to decide where the intent here at the outset was good or bad. I think given mulvaneys past comments from the podium, theyre not 100 sure those testimonies could go in favor of the president. Its a bit of a pandoras box that i think the gop has determined its better to leave closed. Again, the question is does more evidence come out and does the president put his thumb on the scale one way or the other to make it more palatable to enough gop senators to say, actually maybe we should be hearing from more people here. When you talked about Public Opinion<\/a> a moment ago, yes, our poll shows that more than 70 of the country thinks these people should come forward, but at the same time you still have the country pretty much stuck at under 50 approval for the whole impeaching the president and pushing him out of office. The second article has to do with obstruction of congress. This is like the mixup in where peoples emotions are and what they will call maybe not perfect but maybe not impeachable. Senator schumer called what republicans are doing aiding and abetting a coverup. Would you go that far . Im not sure id use the words aiding and abetting but its certainly making the case that the House Republicans<\/a> tried to make, which is that this was a case in which there was no actual witnesses who had firsthand knowledge. Now theyre saying, well here are these witnesses with firsthand knowledge and youre refusing to allow us to have them be called. Thats essentially aiding and abetting or in some respect preen preventing the truth from being heard. You really need some kind of National Closure<\/a> at the end of the event. People have to feel that the process was fair, we reached the conclusion that was promo appropriately reached and now we should move on. The way this is set up now, were going to have this rush to judgment in the senate and people feeling uncomfortable. This thing will linger on and on. I think thats a very bad thing for our country. Good to have both of you here. Thank you so much. Thank you. Happy holidays. Happy holidays to you too. North korea has a holiday warning for the United States<\/a>. New cnn reporting on what kim jongun may have meant when he talked about that christmas gift. Plus, Rudy Giuliani<\/a> kicking off the holidays with a party at maralago. And i sit down with a man behind the movie just mercy. May your holidays glow bright and all your dreams take flight. Lease the glc 300 suv for 439 a month with credit toward your first months payment at the mercedesbenz winter event. Iclimate is the number 1ove priority. Sage. I would declare a state of emergency on day 1. Congress has never passed an important climate bill, ever. This is a problem that continues to get worse. Ive spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies. Stopping pipelines. Stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. How are we going to pull this country together . We take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world and do it together. Cnn has obtained new satellite images of north korea. They show the expansion of buildings linked to the production of long range Ballistic Missile<\/a> launchers. Its a disturbing revelation as the world waits to find out exactly what north Koreas Kim Jongun<\/a> had in mind when he ominously promised to send the u. S. A christmas gift. Will ripley joins us from hong kong. We know that talks between the u. S. And north korea have stalled in recent months, but how concerned are u. S. Officials that north korea intends to make some kind of provocative display . Reporter i think the United States<\/a> is keeping a very close eye on activity in north korea right now and north korea knows that. Yes, we have these satellite images showing expansion at a known Production Facility<\/a> tied to their missile program. There was also a meeting over the weekend between kim jongun and his top military officials. That said, i spoke with a source who says the chances of some sort of a long range Missile Launch<\/a> this week around christmas actually very low. This according to my sources, north korea trying to dial up the pressure on the u. S. , but not to cross a line that would alienate not only President Trump<\/a> but also china and russia, traditional allies that have just started to kind of open up the smuggling routes into north korea more than they have over the last year and a half or so. North korea wants to have ties go well with its allies. They dont want to do something that could turn the clock back in terms of the level of pressure on their country right now. Thats why sources telling me at least for the time being the chances for a launch are low. Kim jongun expected to announce a new hard line stance when dealing with the United States<\/a>, including taking denuclearization completely off the table. There is some indication that kim jongun sees President Trump<\/a> as politically weakened because of impeachment. Explain why trumps situation matters to north korea. Reporter because they want to make sure that President Trump<\/a> actually has the political power to implement any sort of a deal that would be reached. Given the deep division and the fact that President Trump<\/a> was impeached in the house, they know that as of right now he might not be in the best position to focus on any sort of nuclear deal or at least the implementation of it especially given this is now moving into 2020, a very sensitive election year. My sources say the north koreas are going to take a step back, continue to remind the world that they have this nuclear capability. I wouldnt rule out a launch in 2020, but theyve already gotten the effect they want around christmas time which is lots of western media talking about the possibility of a launch. Why would they need to go through with it now when they could save it for an even more vulnerable time closer to the u. S. Election perhaps. Thank you for your reporting. The president s personal attorney is talking about all the dirt hes digging up in ukraine but who are the people feeding him that information . Well take a look at the questionable reputations of Rudy Giuliani<\/a>s informants. First, before the bell with christine romans. Its likely to be a quiet christmas week on wall street, quite a difference from a year ago when stocks tanked. This time investor versus a lot to celebrate. Those factors helped push major averages to new highs this year. All three are on track for gains of more than 20 in 2019. Could we see that kind of performance again next year . 2020 is going to be a lot tougher than 2019. Not a bad year and in fact if we could get a real trade deal with china, it could be a good year. Trade remains a risk, though. Analysts say if the phase one deal isnt signed next month, optimism will begin to fade. Dont get mad. Get e trade, dawg. Itintroducing the new braava jet m6 robot mop. With an adjustable Precision Jet<\/a> spray and advanced pad system braava jet breaks up messes and gets deep in corners. Braava jet. Only from irobot. Can you tell me the story again . Every family has their own unique story. Give your family the chance to discover theirs this holiday season, with ancestry. This holiday season, up here at the dewars distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. Its the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. Dewars. Double aged for extra smoothness. At tmobile, were lighting up 5g, and when you buy a samsung note 10 5g, you get one free. Plus you can experience it on the nations largest 5g network. So you can stay connected like this. Score a last minute this. Get home easier, like this. And share all of this. With that. So do this. On that. With us. And now, buy a samsung note 10 5g and get one free when you add a line. When it comes to using data, which is why Xfinity Mobile<\/a> is a different kind of Wireless Network<\/a> that lets you design your own data. Choose unlimited, shared data, or mix lines of each and switch any line, anytime. Giving you more choice and control compared to other top wireless carriers. Save up to 400 a year when you switch. Plus, unwrap 250 off a new samsung phone. Click, call or visit a store today. After President Trump<\/a> was impeached this week, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani<\/a> was reportedly seen dancing and socializing at the president s Maralago Club<\/a> last night. Giuliani tells cnn trump continues to be very supportive of his efforts to dig up dirt on democrats in ukraine. Giuliani declined to say if trump actually directed him to go on his most recent Fact Finding Mission<\/a> there, but apparently many of the people giuliani is working with in ukraine have dubious reputations. Cnns Fred Pleitgen<\/a> has more. Reporter unfazed by President Trump<\/a>s possible imminent impeachment, Rudy Giuliani<\/a> is continuing his push to dig up dirt on the bidens. He has a lot of good information. I hear hes found plenty. Reporter but in ukraine giuliani is relying on some d b dubious and controversial figures. He is meeting with two lawmakers who have been spreading unsubstantiated corruption allegations about former Vice President<\/a> joe biden. Of course it was President Trump<\/a> who pushed ukrainian leader zelensky to investigate biden and his son hunter, who was on the board of Ukrainian Gas Company<\/a> burisma on a phone call thats now at the heart of the impeachment proceedings. I believe there was tremendous corruption with biden. Reporter thats where two more of Rudy Giuliani<\/a>s proclaimed witnesses come in. Former ukrainian prosecutors general Viktor Shokin<\/a> and yuri lutsenko. In an interview, shokin claims he was fired at bidens behest for investigating burisma even though there was International Consensus<\/a> that shokin was ineffective in fighting corruption. His successor yuri liutsenko sas he often butted heads with former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. In a stunning twist giuliani is now acknowledging he wanted yovanovitch out. Yovanovitch needed to be removed for many reasons, most critical she was denying visas to ukrainians who wanted to come to the u. S. And explain democrat corruption in ukraine, giuliani tweeted. Kent objected to a visa request from shokin due to his ineffectiveness in fighting corruption. Yovanovitch corroborated that. Did giuliani try to overturn a decision that you participated in to deny shokin a visa . Yes, thats what i was told. And that denial was based on mr. Shokins corruption . Yes, thats true. A new movie tells the true story of a man who served six years on death row after being wrongly convicted of murder. Well talk to the man who helped sit him free about why he believes America Needs<\/a> to hear this story now. Democrats and republicans can hardly agree on anything, but one thing they can and did agree on is criminal Justice Reform<\/a>. One year ago President Trump<\/a> signed the First Step Act<\/a> with bipartisan support. As a result more than 3,000 inmates were released from prison. Critics were quick to point out that only addressed Prison Reform<\/a> and not sentencing reform. Six months later the Justice Department<\/a> announced that the federal government would resume Capital Punishment<\/a> after a nearly two decade lapse. A new movie called just mercy tells the true story of walter mcmillan, wrongly convicted of murder. He served six years on death row. He was exonerated with the help of a young lawyer. Now this movie is distributed by warner brothers. It will be in theaters starting christmas day. Heres a preview. They convicted an innocent man. I was always taught to fight for the people who need the help the most. I sat down with Brian Stephenson<\/a> whose book just mercy, a true story of the fight for justice inspired the movie. He is also an executive producer of the film. You take people to death row and give us some insight into part of the judicial system most people dont even want to think about. Right. Why tell this story now . Well, i continue to worry about whats happened in this country. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. We went from a prison population of about 300,000 in 1972 to 2. 2 million today. We have 6 Million People<\/a> on probation and parole in this country. Theres 70 million americans are criminal arrest histories, which means when they try to get jobs or loans, theyre disfavored by that arrest history. We have a criminal Justice System<\/a> that treats you better if youre rich and guilty than if youre poor and innocent. Thats not fair, thats not right. You know, the Death Penalty<\/a> is in many ways ground zero of a lot of the excess that has characterized how weve managed criminal justice over the last half century. For every 9 people weve executed in this country, weve now identified 1 innocent person whos been exonerated. The work youve been doing at the equal Justice Initiative<\/a> in the past 30 years, you have been able to get the release, the relief or the reversal of more than 140 people who have been either wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced to death. That is incredible when you think about those numbers. What struck me about the movie and the one story you really focus in on, walter mcmillan, as somebody who is learning his story as the facts are revealed, its so obvious that he was wrongly convicted. And yet even as those facts are put out there, the truth almost didnt set him free. Thats right. How do you explain that . You know, i think we have allowed ourselves to be governed by fear and anger. When you have people pushing these narratives of fear and anger, people will begin to tolerate things they shouldnt tolerate and accept things they shouldnt accept. I actually think that fear and anger are the essential ingredient of injustice and oppression. In the 70s and 80s we said that people who are drug addicted and drug dependent cant aare crimi. These people have a health care need and we need our Health Care System<\/a> to respond. But revved up by all of that fear and anger and demonizing, it became impossible to talk strategically. Everybody wanted to be tough on crime. Everybody wanted to put people in prison and lock them up forever. In that sort of environment innocent people are going to be wrongly convicted. Is there any evidence that the Death Penalty<\/a> serves as a crime deterrent . No, no. If anything, we see increases in Violent Crime<\/a> in some of the places that are most actively implementing the Death Penalty<\/a>. I think for a lot of people, you know, if the state can kill, if the government can kill, it doesnt help advance the point that no one should kill. Theres a kind of illogic to the Death Penalty<\/a> in my view. We say were going to teach people that killing is wrong by killing someone. Most people who are in crisis, the mentally ill, the people who are in the margins of society arent going to be deterred by the threat of violence or death. Do you think there is any circumstance in which the Death Penalty<\/a> is warranted . No. I dont think that, as i said, for me the Death Penalty<\/a> is about do we deserve to kill. You know, if you focus the question on does someone deserve to die, you can come up with those scenarios. But if you turn the question to do we deserve to kill, we dont have a perfect system and the Death Penalty<\/a> requires a perfect system. If you make a mistake, you dont have the ability to recover from that. As you know, the Supreme Court<\/a> just halted the trump administrations effort to resume executions in federal Death Penalty<\/a> cases after a 16year hiatus. I think thats the right response. Whenever you try to use the Death Penalty<\/a> for some political goal, youre going to do things that are unjust. How do you square the trump administrations advocacy of the Death Penalty<\/a> with on the other hand the criminal Justice Reform<\/a> like the First Step Act<\/a> we saw passed last year or the pardoning or commuting of sentences like that of Alice Marie Johnson<\/a> . I think its progress that weve gotten to the point where you have people in both Political Parties<\/a> that recognize that reform of the criminal Justice System<\/a> is needed. It doesnt mean that people dont also say things that are echoes of this whole era of fear and anger. But its really important to remember that laid eleadership these issues is not going to come from washington. You know, our criminal Justice System<\/a> is a statebased system. 90 prn 90 of the people in our jails and prisons are there based on state convictions. Less than 10 of the prison population in this country is there as a result of a federal conviction. The president and even the congress no matter what kind of reforms they implement will only have a small impact of whats happening nationwide. Your work has taken on another layer as you continue to explore the history of racial inequality and economic injustice with your museum from enslavement to mass incarceration in alabama. What do you hope it accomplished . I hope we can create an era of truth and justice in this country. We are still burdened by slavery because the worst thing happened during that period wasnt the involuntary servitude. The myth that black people arent fully human and theyre dangerous. That created this ideology of White Supremacy<\/a> this racial hierarchy. Thats why people are put out of their homes. You can be talented, gifted, a doctor, a lawyer, but you still have to navigate these presumptions of dangerousness and guilty. Thats why i believed it was time to get out of the court and Start Talking<\/a> about these larger issues. Just seeing whats happened in other parts of the world where theres been the willingness to talk. You go to rwanda. They insist on telling you about the genocide. I go to berlin with the holocaust, you see the symbols everywhere that mark the places where jewish families were abducted. The germans want you to go to the holocaust memorial. There are no Adolph Hitler<\/a> statues in germany. They dont want to be thought of as nazis and fascists. We havent marked the places in this country where lynchings took place, we havent talked about this legacy. That has to change. That was the motivation for creating the Legacy Museum<\/a> and National Memorial<\/a> which is dedicated to thousands of victims of lynching. Thanks to Brian Stephenson<\/a> for that conversation. The house impeachment was only the third time a president has been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. But history doesnt always repeat itself. Well show you what could happen next live in the cnn newsroom. Now that President Trump<\/a> is impeached in the house, the senate will eventually hold a trial to determine if he should be removed from office, but before that happens, House Speaker<\/a> nancy pelosi has to send over the articles of impeachment, which she says she wont do until a clear and fair path forward is presented. So how does impeachment work in the senate . Cnns Victor Blackwell<\/a> explains. House democrats and twhous officials are spending the holidays prepping for the president s senate trial. Heres how it will all work. The rules were written for Andrew Johnsons<\/a> trial in 1868. Everything is minutely choreographed. The sergeant at arms kicks things off and you will be seeing a lot of him. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. The senate of the United States<\/a> is sitting for trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives. Then senators take an oath of impartial justice in weighing the arguments presented in the trial. Do you solemnly swear that in all things pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of William Jefferson<\/a> clinton, president of the United States<\/a>, now pending impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god . I do. At least two republicans, Senate Majority<\/a> leader Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> of kentucky and senator Lindsey Graham<\/a> of South Carolina<\/a> have already declared they are not impartial jurors. Im not an impartial juror. Supreme Court Justice<\/a> john roberts precedes. He has the power to compel the senate to vote and the power to decide things like the rules of evidence, but he can be overruled. If a senator disagreed with him, he or she can ask for the full body to vote. I want the whistleblower who put in a false report to testify. You know by now that President Trump<\/a> has talked about calling witnesses like hundredor biden, adam schiff, the whistleblower, but hell need 51 senators to agree. The witnesses cannot just be called at will by the prosecution or defense. If a senator wants to question a witness, they have to put that in writing and give it to chief justice roberts. So then expect much of the show boating weve seen so far. Then we get to the vote. It takes 34 senators to acquit. There are 54 republicans. Lets do the math. That means that 20 of them would have to side with the democrats and two independents, assuming that all of those members will vote to remove him from office. All 100 senators then stand at their seat to cast their decision as either guilty or not guilty. That sounds easy enough, but it isnt always so cut and dried. Senator Arlen Specter<\/a> said not proved, therefore not guilty. He was making the point that he didnt necessarily think clinton was innocent, just that it had not been proved. His vote was still counted in the not guilty column. A lot of people are talking about Eddie Murphys<\/a> return to saturday night live. A look at how the past met the present and whether the humor held up after 35 years. Whos directing this picture maie me this is the gumby story, dammit. Y half the story . At t. Rowe price, hundreds of our experts go beyond the numbers to examine Investment Opportunities<\/a> firsthand. 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You and i both know we need term limits, that congress shouldnt be a lifetime appointment. But members of congress, and the corporations whove bought our democracy hate term limits. Too bad. Im tom steyer and i approve this message because the only way we get universal healthcare, address Climate Change<\/a> and make our economy more fair is to change business as usual in washington. Weve been following a chaotic scene all day. Virginia state police say 51 people were injured in a massive Chain Reaction<\/a> accident in eastern virginia. Also reporting 69 vehicles were involved in this crash on interstate 64 outside of richmond because of foggy icy conditions that happened outside early this morning. Amazingly thankfully no deaths have been reported. The huge accident scene caused authorities to close both sides of the interstate for four hours. Hear a candidate dont boast about taking selfies with supporters, then are you really running for president . Selfies are the new political currency for the 2020 campaign connecting with voters, building free exposure. Heres cnns dana bash. I love you have a tattoo, lets do a selfie. Reporter its a critical stop on senator Elizabeth Warren<\/a>s campaign trail, her selfie line. Hundreds of thousands of informal photos with her supporters. And then we get to most important part of democracy, and that is selfies. A 100,000 selfies. Reporter it was enough to get the attention of a top opponent. Youre not the only one who does selfies, senator. Reporter candidate selfies are the new campaign currency, a key way for candidates to connect with voters who then build buzz on social media. And its not just democrats. Mr. Trump in the rain for four hours, could i have a selfie and my people said no, no, no, i said absolutely you can. Reporter one Sticking Point<\/a> is over the word selfie itself. Ane an apparent parrot twitter account orin heck points out its a selfie theres an entire industry of Fact Checkers<\/a> letting Elizabeth Warren<\/a> getting away with calling these selfies and i wont stand for it. Dana bash, cnn, washington. Youve got to have long arm tuesday do a good selfie. Thank goodness my husband has those long arms. Hes the selfie master in our house. It was a revival 35 years in the making. Last night eddie murphy made his much anticipated return to saturday night live for the First Time Since<\/a> he left the show in 1984. In a rarity for snl murphy appeared in every single sketch apart from the cold open, and he oven apprised some of his most iconic roles. Heres a recap. Girl, its your old pal mr. Robinson. So much has change since we last spent some time together. My neighborhood has gone through so much. Its gone through something called gentrification. Its like a magic trick. White people pay a lot of money and then, poof, all the black people are gone. Remember me . Im gumby, i saved this damn show from the gutter. You have the nerve to sit there and bring up the nerve of poky. I dont believe this. I make my triumphant return and youre talking about a can of dog food. Howd you even get this job . Whatd you win a radio contest or something . You cant help but laugh. If youre looking for laughs on news years eve join two best friends for one epic night. New years eve live begins at 8 00 p. M. Only on cnn. Not all the Democratic Candidates<\/a> actually running for president actually qualified for the last debate. Coming up ill ask one of those candidates senator cory booker how he plans to get back into the conversation. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Is that ireland. 1953 . How did you know . Mom. That was taken at the farm. It was in this small little village. In connemara . Right connemara it is. Honestly, we went there oh, oh look at that look at that. Only roomba i7 uses two multisurface rubber brushes. 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Metamucils gelling action also helps to lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption to promote healthy blood sugar levels. So, start feeling lighter and more energetic by taking metamucil every day. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. President trump his first weekend as an impeached president , but you wouldnt think so just by looking at his job approval opinion polls. Despite being handed the strongest punishment possible by the democrat controlled house, President Trump<\/a>s supporters are so far anyway standing by him. Take a look at these numbers according to the Polling Group<\/a> 538, an average of polls shows the president this week saw his highest Approval Rating<\/a> in more than 2 1 2 years, just shy of 45 . His popularity peaked on the day he was impeached. Analysts point to the Strong Economy<\/a> for keeping the president s opinion poll numbers study. 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