Toll us over the phone. I was at a shooting where two teenagers were shot and overheard on the radio traffic report that there was a shooting in the 5700 block of maze. Things seemed fairly calm. The Police Officer entered the house and you could hear some chaos in the background and following that you could tell the Police Officer had the heightened sense of awareness then asked for some extra help and soon, thereafter, within seconds, asked for what is called a 101 which is asking for many police, any available Police Officer, any officer that is nearby, and several Police Officers to the tune of 100 or so came from many nearby districts to that scene and, in the interim, they had asked for a couple of Chicago Fire Department ambulances. They didnt know how many people were shot. At first, that there was one and then two, then five, then eight, nine, ten. At the end, we find out 11 were shot. That number is going up as you heard. It is now at 13 people shot. Stay with us for more on this. We are expecting a Police News Conference at any moment and we will have a live report from the scene a little later. President trump is on vacation but not taking a break from his impeachment battle. Speaking to supporters last night, the president falsely claimed the democrats violated the constitution when they impeached him last week. Newly released email show that trump ordered his staff to freeze the military aid to ukraine shortly after his call with ukraines leader in july. Cnn reporter Sarah Westwood is joining us from west palm beach, florida. The president was in his element speaking in front of a crowd at west palm and slammed the entire proceeding. Reporter he continued to make the case that House Speaker nancy pelosi is holding the articles of impeachment refusing to transmit them to the senate because in his eyes the democrats have no case and arguing that the democrats dont want to send the articles over because they dont have sufficient evidence and that is echoed by Senate Majority leader mcconnell who Say Senate Democrats want to question more witnesses in the senate trial because they think their case is too weak to go to trial. Pelosi has made the opposite argument the only reason why she is withholding the arguments she wants to make sure the trial procedures wont be rigged in favor of President Trump, ultimately its up to mitchell mcconnell. He only needs a simple majority to set the parameters of the trial and while he has begun negotiations with Senate Minority leader the top Democrat Chuck schumer heading into the senate the two head into holiday break without doing that. Here is what the president said last night at an event. How about that deal where they had nothing. There is no crime. There is no nothing. No crime. Even their people said there was no crime. In fact, there is no impeachment. Their own lawyer said there is no impeachment. What are we doing here . The world is watching. Crazy nancy. She is crazy. No, no. So now she says she has no case, she has no case, so lets not submit it. Reporter while Senate Majority leader mitch mccom has sa mcconnell said its not President Trump actually wants the trial. He does not just want to be acquitted. He wants to be vindicated and white house officials want this to get start as soon as possible so the president could apply pressure to get that trial started. Meanwhile, newly released emails suggest that some aides had concerns about the suspension of aid to ukraine so that is sure to be just another wrinkle that Senate Democrats could be independence in looking at when the trial eventually comes. Sarah westwood in west palm beach, thank you. Back to the highly sensitive emails that were released. They are important because they give us new details about when aid to ukraine was put on hold and why. They show that the pentagon was told to freeze the military funds right after the july 25th phone call between President Trump and the ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky and one was concerned about the news spreading. Im joined by siraj hasmi and julian zeleny. Welcome to you both. Julian, lets start with you first. Especially regarding this new time line that we are seeing. This just adds to the evidence for the democrats even though just last night, you have President Trump falsely claiming that nancy pelosi put the articles of impeachment on hold because the democrats have no case but the case seems to be building still. Absolutely. That is not why the speaker put the case on hold. She is negotiating what the trial is going to look like and is concerned before the trial started, republicans made a series of statements essentially saying they are not prepared to look for the evidence. This new story points to yet more data that there were concerns about why this money was being withheld and that within omb there was a pretty big debate that unfolded when the president moved forward with this action. This politico appointee is mike duff ey. He said lets keep quietly and he was concerned it could raise concerns. Senator Chuck Schumer had been pushing to get mike duffey to testify and after these new emails came out, senator schumer tweeted this. Quote. Well, obviously Senate Republicans plan not to call any witnesses and highly unlikely we will hear from mike duffey. But do trump when the republicans need to worry about more revelations like this coming out and impacting Public Opinion . No, not at all. In fact, this trove of emails plush accomplished was not a bombshell. The state department operate on a need to know basis. So the fact that they are talking about aid or withholding aid or giving out aid, people not involved in that dont need to know about it. The sensitivity around the topic is justified in this regard. Talking about Senate Republicans calling up witnesses. Pitching this over to Mitchell Mitch mcconnell in the senate he has the option to drag this out as long as possible that could hurt democrats in the long run. The longer the trial draws out it hurts senators like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders campaigning to be president and Iowa Caucuses will be in early february and if they cant campaign or be where they need to be and instead ruling on what they might vote on which is, obviously, to remove President Trump, that could actually hurt them in the long run. Look. Its crazy times right now. We all agree with that, especially with this highly polarized nature in congress and the country with this impeachment. Julian, you wrote a piece for cnn. Com about this that a lot of americans are nostalgic and wishing to go back to the dals of normalcy and stability. Do you see that as a wave or a ticket that opens the door for joe biden who is talking about, look, ill bring this country back to its normal values that it was founded on . Yeah. My argument in the piece was that bidens nostalgic especially just to govern in a normal way and to bring some kind of stability has actually become a bold promise and its only a bold promise because of the way in which President Trump has governed in the way that we have seen republicans on the hill support this kind of governance. Things are so off kilter right now in american politics that biden has immense strength simply by standing on the debate stage and saying, ill govern like any other president youve seen in the past. And i think that is at the heart of why his polls remain very strong. Despite it all, the economy is strong, unemployment at the lowest its been in five decades. The markets are at the highest its ever been. At the last debate the Democratic Candidates were trying to downplay there and denial the economy is doing well. Is this a message the democrats should be sending . All right. Right now, democrats are not winning on the economy message because they are trying to make the case that the numbers dont matter, that their, quote unquote, fake news and you have andrew yang saying the economy isnt working for most americans. You cant take him seriously because he is running on a message of giving out money to americans really as a Campaign Ploy to buy votes. This is one of the things that is not realistic policy because where is that money coming from . You end up raidsing taxes as a result which stifles the economy and slows it down and leads us into a recession. While President Trump may not govern the way that most americans are used to, he is getting results and the thing is the economy is doing better than its ever been in five decades and you could chalk it up to the fact he is a republican or chalk it up to the fact he is undoing a lot of burdensome regulation that were implemented by the previous president. We have to leave it there. Thank you for the conversation, gentlemen. Julian zeleny and siraj hasmi, thank you. Happy holidays. You too. Next, what new satellite images out of north korea are telling experts. Plus why kim jongun met with his top military officials. Could the country be inching closer to making good on illustrates Christmas Gift promise . After 35 years, eddie murphy returns to saturday night live and talks about how his life has changed dramatically. If you told me i would be this boring stay at home house dad and bill cosby could be in jail, even i would have took that bet. 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Threatening to send a Christmas Gift. Joining me now to discuss is david sanger, a National Security correspondent for the New York Times and a security and national analyst. You broke the story last night for the times. What should we make of the new satellite images coupled with the war of words, et cetera . The first thing we know is in the 18 months since President Trump met with kim jongun in singapore, which i think was a good Breakthrough Initiative to have the american president to meet with the leader of the north korea for the first time. We have a story in the times one of the great few americans who have been inside north Koreas Nuclear production facilities, as estimating that they now have the fuel for 38 nuclear weapons. At the time singapore they had probably 20 to 20 30. As your photos show, they are continuing to build the missile launchers, the mobile missile launchers. And those are important because you can hide them away in caves rolled them out with a solid fuel missile to be able to launch them on very short order. That makes them much harder for the u. S. And others to detect. What we have seen is president kim is building up. Yeah. It doesnt look like the diplomacy efforts are really working. The last time we saw kim jongun conduct longrange missile test was back in 2017. You might remember that led to President Trumps fire and fury threats. But then since then, there has been, what, three facetoface meetings and still really no breakthrough. So lets say there is a Christmas Gift in the form of an icbm test or nuclear test. What options does the Trump Administration have left . Well, they do have the option that was considered and rejected by president s bush and obama trying to take the missile on the pad and that could lead to a war. President obama, as we reported two years ago, had a program to use cyber to try to disrupt a lot of the missile launches, that had mixed results. But we dont see any plan on the part of the Trump Administration right now to trial to disrupt this launch, if it happens. It would probably be one of those high arc launches so they wouldnt be dropping the simulated war head off of the coast of california but instead demonstrating that if you flatten this out, it could make it all the way to the united states. But the big problem for the president is political. He has always said the suspension of these tests is the biggest sign that his diplomacy was working. Good point. David sanger, we will leave it there. Thank you so much. Thank you. More on the breaking news in chicago. Now at least 13 people shot in a single event, a mass shooting there at a party overnight. We have the latest details after the break. If your gums bleed when you brush, you may have gingivitis. 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Joe biden made an appearance in iowa on saturday where he is hoping to regain some momentum in the polls. Cnns arlette signs was with him there. Reporter joe biden is across iowa state in a bus. No malarkey slogan. He was in making the case of uniting the country saying consensus is necessary even if democrats disagree with republicans. Take a listen to what he had to teled voters. Is there no one running for president who has more reason to be upset and angry with republicans. There is no one running who has had their family and their only surviving son attacked viciously. I dont say this because i think we are all Holding Hands and sing cumbayah when this is over and i say it because the only way to get anything done. I say the way because its designed the way to get our government to work. Reporter he says that consensus is necessary to unite the country. Biden is still leading in National Polls but in iowa a different picture as buttigieg is ahead in many polls and biden will shake hands and taking selfies with voters in iowa as he tries to make his case heading into the caucuses which is over a month away. Lets turn to