With more. What will happen between now and the big vote tomorrow . Hey, testisteph, good mornin. When they vote on those two articles of impeachment, the House Rules Committee has to establish parameters for that floor debate. Theyre the smallest committee in the house. They neat in one of the smallest committee rooms, and members of that committee will consider things like how long wednesdays floor debate will last, which committee should have members on the floor offering up arguments. If people should offer proposals for any amendments that would change the articles of impeachment. We also expect they hear presentations from the top democrat and republican on the house judiciary committee. Normally that would be chairman jerry nadler. But a source connected to the committee tells us that he is back home dealing with a family emergency, and doug collins, the Top Republican will speak on republicans. We expect this rules committee to agree on rules. There is a 94 split that whatever they agree on will be for House Speaker nancy pelosi herself. Our team has been tracking announcement after announcement from front line democrats, most of them coming out in support of impeachment, all but ensuring that by this time on thursday, certainly, we expect that President Trump will be the third impeached by the house in the history of the country. Thank you so much. Now we must turn and buckle up to the other fascinating piece of this. Rudy juliani refusing to keep quiet bhiel his cliewhile his ce verge of being impeached. He spoke about Marie Yovanovitch being fired. Now this hit piece, and it is a hit petiece, has you on the record saying you forced out Marie Yovanovitch. Youre a personal attorney for the president , why do you need her out of the way . I didnt need her out of the way, i forced her out because she is corrupt. He alleges that she blocked visas for people like Victor Shokin. But he has never produced any evidence of those allegations and none have ever surfaced. Once more, yovanovitch did not block the visa, the state department blocked it. That is according to testimony from one of mike pompeos top officials, george kent. Kent himself told house investigators this, knowing mr. Shokin, a have full faith that it was a bun of hooey and he was looking to engage in a con game out of revenge because he lost his job. Barrett burger, a former federal pros crecutor, former u attorney, also worked as assistant director for the fbi office for congressional affairs. And the assistant professor of politics. I have a full house, we have a lot to get into, greg, to you first, these claims by Rudy Giuliani, ais there any evidenc backing up what he is saying it. It would appear there is no such evidence. Dr. Fiona hill said all of this was a domestic political errand. He finds some ukrainian, any ukrainian, that will Say Something negative about the bidens, and two to try to make money off of this whole adventure there in ukraine, and the questions, of course, appear to be chiefly what exactly does the president know about this, and what extent is the president directing juianny, but he made it clear he is giuliani, but he had not made it clear that he is producing any evidence of any of this. When you have rudy goouli gi a private advisor, at one point he ran for president of the United States. When he allegations that people like Victor Shokin are Truth Tellers and marie yo vvanovitchs criminal, what do we make of this . It is not just a lie, but it is a particularly egregious type of lie. It is the exact opposite of what happened. Shokin is a corruption prosecutor, the imf and republicans in the senate including senator portman of ohio and senator johnson signed a letter pushing ukraines government to fire shokin because he was corrupt. That is why he was pushed out. Giuliani is trying to resurrect him in some way because it is politically addadvantageous to trump. And now he is a figure in this politicaler rant trying to help the president s reelection campaign. Beyond that, giuliani should not be conducting u. S. Foreign policy. He is not elected, not appointed, and he should not force anyone out. Why is he conducting this behavior and then going on fox news last night and talking about it . Who is this a win for. That is a great question. Especially given the fact that the reporting is that juliewe j giuliani, but i think brine races a great point, if this was a serious issue where people thought that ambassador yovanovitch was corrupt, that investigation would not be being led by a private citizen, it would be done by the endire justi entire justice department. She still works for the state department. She has not been terminated. It would all lead to the fact that she has found to not be construct. She works for the state department, the u. S. Giuliani. This is what i dont get. Giuliani says he tried to pass on documents to the state department. He tried to do it in this administration. Were talking mike pompeo and bill barr. If they were not willing to play ball with rudy goouli ygiuliani does that tell snus. T us. They would do a review and investigate those allegations, but there is no evidence that is happening, and given the current climate i submit that even if that was happening that might be suspicious. But lets assume that if, in fa fact, there was such evidence and we know of nothing. There is no evidence that any real investigation of any u. S. Persons activities in ukraine is ongoing. There is a wide ranging investigation of giuliani and his associates. That is what i think everyone should be watching. What shoe will next drop in sdny. It appears that giuliani is a target of that investigation, will he also be indicted . That is where the action is. It is not with respect to u. S. Persons acting in ukraine. There is no evidence of any investigation for thattivi acti. A great person that loves this country and he does it out of love. He sees what is happening. He sees the hoeks that happens. The russian collusion delusion, and he sees it and he is a great gentleman and the greatest mayor in the history of new york and probably the greatest crime fighter in the last 50 years. I think that is part of the goal. I think you have to take a look at this from the president s point of view from his allies, not with standing the weird nature of what Rudy Giuliani has been saying. They were looking for ways to recast the narrative. And that it wasnt the president that did something wrong in conspireing with russians, it was ukraine conspireing with democrats. Rudy was running around trying to dig up dirt to that effect. I dont think the president feeting like there is anything wrong here. To see the weird name of what Rudy Giuliani is doing, that is people that put water in cereal, were talking about him admitting to trying to get the ambassador to ukraine fired. It is not weird. It is unusual, but the point im trying to make here, but what i asked him is if Rudy Giuliani was acting in his behest, he said he believed. And i think what we have seen the president and their allies happen to use any set of facts they think are true but then theyre not facts. A set of facts, and youre can talking about facts but theyre not facts. I am explaining to you the effect, the effect is to have a counter narrative to combat what the president did on the call, and in order to know that the president supporters and say hey, there is a whole mess of things going on here and they were trying to uncover and therefore what he did was justified, and that is and by saying yes he did this, and whether or not he means it or not, i didnt do anything wrong and the reason i didnt do anything wrong was justified. I think things are done to me, around the country, voters, clearly if they had something to hide here they would be trying to hide it. I cant believe he is doing this, it implicates that trump is part of a chemoand republicans that defend trump see and what voters see is a side that that theyre being very open. If theyre being very open they cant have possibly done something wrong. I dont think that Rudy Giuliani has been open about trying to pursue business relationships with some of the same alleged sources. The ukrainians, brian, can you weigh in here, this is not just about love of country as the president says, rudy is trying to get paid. Yeah, he is trying to get paid, he is a associated with some very unsavory characters. I want to go back to the point of what were talking about here. There are things that are true and things that are not true, and it is definitely the strategy of the president to try to believe things that are not true. And it might work. People based on what they believe, not based on what is true. I think our responsibility is to say this is not true. What is happening is he is spreading thing thats are f false, that are lies, and we have a bias that we believe if someone does something in the open it is not nefarious. That is not acceptable. That is an abuse of power. But it doesnt matter that he did it on tv, it is still unacceptab unacceptable. We need to be clear this is truth, lies, and right now lies are on the republican side of what is aihappening. Can we go through the whole impeachment trial based on what rudy is saying . I think he would be a very dangerous witness for either side to call. He is unpredictable. I think he is too much of an unpredictable witness. There is a lot of central players in this saga that were froebl e probably not going to hear from. He seems to have plenty of different forums. But he is getting them out in places where he is unchallenged. I agree, and it is unfortunate, there are so many witness thats have not gotten a had to be deposed, and he would certainly have a lot of firsthand information, but i think, you know the republicans are probably scared of calling him and i think the likelihood of hearing from him is probably pretty slim. Thank you all so much. Definitely got us smarter on a complicated morning. Were going to go into new details as the president prepares to be impeached by the house. 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She said the chief impeachment strategy is pat sippiloni. He has a better relationship with President Trump than don mcgahn. They were shut out from that process in the house. We are watching for this class. This is a showman type trial. But Mitch Mcconnell was the cautious manager that wants a quick trial without witnesses and it appears clear, although the white house says they would be satisfied with it either way, that this thing should come and go in the senate as quickly as possible. Certainly the push back right now is pushed back at Chuck Schumer that just reiterated his call for several former and current officials and their acting staff. They were blocked from participating in the house proceedings. The president s aids accuse shumer of being hypocritical. They called for no witnesses when bill clinton was impeached or in the senate trial back then, but schumer pushes back on that and says it was different back then because this time around these witnesses did not testify in front of the house. It is the first time for them to hear the facts as laid out by those individuals, it appears the president , his team, and republicans that they are working in corroboration. How does Kellyanne Conway make the point to you. It was the white house who blocked Mick Mulvaney and others from testifying. Yeah, that is fundamentally the flaw, right . When they were given the opportunity to participate they said they would not parties paint. They blocked testimony and they said the house members wanted to hear from them. You heard the recent comments saying he could not be an impartial juror in this process. They are focused on the politics of this, tried to wrap it up and quickly as they can and trying to capitalize on democratic lawmakers that voted for President Trump hoping to turn this into a political bludgeon. Yes, the white house said they would not cooperate unless nancy pelosi took it to a vote, which she did, and they would not cooperate unless the witnesses were testifying publicly, which they did. President trump already declared victory even ahead of tomorrows vote. Does the white house believe theyre winning or is this just part of the president s core strategy of always say youre binning and you will start to convince people. I think that is a nuanced answer. Kellyanne conway. I think on one hand you have a president who is deeply embarrassed by the fact that he will be the third president from the very beginning. It made him very, very angry, understandably so. In some candid conversations from people i spoke to over the weekend, there is a sense that im okay, kind of the reaction that you would expect to get from somebody who is going through a very traumatic experience but they are holding up and putting on a brave face. Now i be say there is, there has been, over the least few weeks, weeks, or so, a change in the done that i have been hearing from republicans that is no longer we wonder how many people we might lose. Its more like we wonder how Many Democrats might feel pressured to vote to acquit President Trump. Someone said to me the other day we cant believe how lucky we have gotten. The facts, as damaging as they are. The president crossing clear lines that he should not have crossed, they have not changed over the course of the impeachment proceedings and people are where they were in the beginning knowing this behavior, this conduct is inappropriate and not how president s should be conducting foreign policy. At the same time the impeachment proceedings failed to produce the kind of damming revelations that would cause more republicans to break with their president. Then, jeremy, what will the democrats next move be if trump gets acquitted in the senate trial . I think they just need to keep reminding i heard theyre going to do that, their not moving on, right . Theyre sticking to the facts of the case which, indeed, are very damaging. They show a president who is willing to use the power and prestige of the office for his own perm and political gain. They will remind voters of that. I am told this is not normal conduct, and the question, i think a lot of these democrats are wrestling with, is do voters factor that in . Is the cost to them great enough to consider going out or being a trump supporter. Thank you so much. You boys will have a very busy day tomorrow. I will let you take a rest. Now a very serious story, a series of deadly storms that left three people dead. 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