At an iowa voter. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway tonight. Well, good evening once again. Day 1,050 of the Trump Administration. This was the day the speaker of the house made the call and alerted her Committee Chairs to begin drawing articles of impeachment against donald trump. She announced the decision in a brief televised address this morning invoking the powers of the congress and the rule of law. If we allow a president to be above the law, we do so surely at the pearl of our republic. In america, no one is above the law. The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our National Security by withholding military aid and crucial Oval Office Meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival. Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit. Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. This moves us into some rarefied history. The order from the speaker sets up a constitutional show down between the branches of government. An hour before she spoke, there was this from the president. If you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the senate and so that our country can get back to business. We will have schiff, the bidens, pelosi and many more testify and well reveal for the first time how corrupt our system really is. The move to this crucial stage of the impeachment process comes against the backdrop of pelosis tortured history with this president. And on that subject, this morning after she made her remarks, she heard a question from a reporter that she decided to answer on the spot fully and personally. Do you hate the president , madam speaker . I dont hate anybody. I dont i dont hate anybody, not anybody in the world. So dont accuse me. I did not accuse you. I asked a question. Representative collins yesterday suggested that the democrats are doing it because they dont like the guy. Let me just say this. I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is when he doesnt deal with helping our dreamers. I think hes in denial about the climate crisis. However, thats about the election. This is about the election. Take it up in the election. This is about the constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the president s violation of his oath of office. As a catholic, i resent you using a word hate in a sentence that addresses me. I dont hate anyone. I was raised in a way that is a heart full of love and always prayed for the president and i still pray for the president. I pray for the president all the time. So dont mess with me when it comes to words like that. That brought this from across town. Nancy pelosi just had a nervous fit. She says she prays for the president. I dont believe her, not even close. Tonight on a cnn town hall broadcast, the speaker was asked about trumps response. The president is a master at projecting. When you call somebody else nervous, hes the nervous one. When he suspects that somebody is not praying, hes probably not praying. At a white house lunchin today President Trump was asked about impeachment and how history will now remember his presiden presidency. No, not at all. Not at all. Its a hoax. Its a hoax. It is a big, fat hoax. No schedule anountsed by the speaker who today met with the six house Committee Chairs that have been investigating the president for a wide array of potential misconduct. House Judiciary Committee has already told the white house its got to Tell Congress by tomorrow if they plan to be involved in impeachment proceedings. Judiciary has also announced a hearing for next monday, december 9, to hear evidence from house intel. Thats the same day the Justice Department on fbi russia inquiry is expected to be released. That hearing could potentially clear the way for articles to be drafted and voted on next week with a vote by the full house the week after. Friday, december 20th by the way is the last scheduled day of the house session before the holiday break. That means trump might face a senate trial some time in january. Politico is reporting senators intend to of trump. It does say they are leaning against a lessor penaltylike sen su sen sure. They have subpoenaed the phone records of adam schiff. No. Im not going to do that. I wouldnt want my phone records subpoenaed. Now, if someone investigative body outside the Senate Oversight wants to do it, thats up to them. But when house members and senators start pinning each other as part of oversight, really the whole system breaks down. As the houseworks on the specific charges against trump, there is growing speculation about the role the Mueller Report could have in all of this, how far back, how deep the democrats want to go in deciding their charges. Earlier today, our colleague asked the speaker what she wants included in the articles of impeachment. Do you want to see elements of the Mueller Report or these other investigations . My chairman will be making recommendations. Do you have a personal view on that. As to what the our counsel, our lawyers, our chair, staff of the committees have been sensational. And well look to them for their judgment about what the articles of impeachment say. On that, here with us for our leadoff discussion on this thursday night, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, joe White House Reporter for the Associated Press and garrett hake. Welcome all of you. Peter baker, now this president takes his place alongside both others. In history, the i word is impossible to expunge from your record. It makes its way into the first paragraph of your obituary, often into the first sentence. In your view, where does today put us . Well, i think were seeing a process play out that we knew was coming. We know basically that the democrats are more or less al n aligned behind the idea of impeachment. We know the republicans are more or less aligned against it. By the end of the year we will have a vote on the house floor. Now, the president feels somewhat comfortable in that he knows the moment, answer sent new information or absent some sort of dynamic political change that he will almost certainly be acquitted or in some way not acquitted by the senate. But it doesnt take the i word away from the history book. That is a stinging indictment, a stinging judgment, even if it is a partisan one. Bill clinton would not like to be remembered as the second impeached president. It is different this time. You have an elected president heading into a second Election Campaign after the impeachment trial will be over. Assuming hes not thrown out of office, he will take this case, and so will the democrats, to the voters who will be the ultimate Appeals Court and they will make a judgment about whether in fact the president is fit or office or whether the impeachment was a justified thing or it was a hoax as the president says it is. Across america, this was a thursday in the lives of busy people in the runup to the holidays inside the beltway of something quite different. And im told white house official tonight told you they are ready. Yeah. I mean, that was the message from the president himself even before nancy pelosi stood up there and announced the move forward with writing the articles of impeachment. Look, even though the president today said pubically he is not concerned about what impact this might have been his legacy, according to sources i have spoken to, across news organizations, this is something that the president did not want to have. He recognizes, he understands what this means for his legacy. What you had today was a white house and also the president s campaign basically coming out there and pubically saying what we have been hearing privately, that this president is going to be impeached by the house. Theyre out there saying they understand thats whats going to happen. Now the focus turns to this senate trial. At the moment the president and other folks at the white house believe they can use this trial to their advantage. You saw the president tweeting today about wanting to bring joe biden to testify, adam schiff to testify, nancy pelosi to testify and really describing this as this made for tv moment, made for court tv moment that this president particularly is drawn to, believing that this could be used as an opportunity for his allies and the obviously Republican Controlled Senate to defend him and take down democrats and be able to use this as an argument to voters heading into 2020. Were happy to be able to talk to you. Normally your 21 hour workday prevents you from being on our shift. Lets expand on the question you asked the speaker and where you put the effort to either let it go or to avoid mission creek. Call it what you will, going back to the Mueller Report to find additional potential articles of impeachment. The second half, the stuff that deals with obstruction. There are a lot of democrats, especially on the Judiciary Committee who feel like the obstruction laid out in the Mueller Report is part of a pattern, part of the same objective behavior you are seeing from the president even now refusing to comply with subpoenas, to come and testify. There are some democrats who would like to see that included in whatever the house committees produce. It doesnt have to be a separate article. But they think it is instructive and all part of the same issue here. I think frankly there are probably some House Democrats who have been dealing with this issue for so long on the Mueller Report, they want to see it included just to get it all wrapped up. What nancy pelosi wants is still a mystery. You saw her not answer my question there. She dodged a similar question during that cnn town hall tonight. She will be part of this process. She made it clear she is not going to be caught by surprise by what they do. Shes going to be involved and well see how much of that obstruction portion of the Mueller Report ultimately finds its way into the texts of whatever they produce. Sara sanders says the president reads more than anyone else she knows. If he picked up this book that you coauthored and read the chapter on the clinton impeachment, which lessons perhaps might he come away with that might be helpful to him in the coming weeks and months. One lesson he has not taken from that experience is how president clinton reacted to the impeachment effort. He tried to delegitimize it just like President Trump tries to do you but he did so by ignoring it. He focussed on the fight while he at least gave the presentation of being concerned more about issues that matter to the voters, that he was going to focus on policy and not politics. He was above it all. He did not weigh in day in and day out. President trump obviously doesnt feel that way. He doesnt approach it that way. He gets into the muck. He gets into the fight. He gets into the ring. He wants to punch back. It is almost impossible to imagine him constitutionally doing what president clinton did. It worked because he came to an advantage that President Trump doesnt have, which is to say his popularity numbers are always high. His job approval numbers were in the 60s. Two days after he was impeached his numbers went up. President trump has always been best at the mid40s. So he had the advantage that President Trump does not have. One thing President Trump does have is a pretty good economy. President trump is counting on that to be important in this process as well. Indeed, jill. I want to share with you and our audience how the speakers position has migrated over these past nine months. They wanted me to impeach president bush for the iraq war. I didnt believe it in then. I dont believe it now. Trump is goating us to impeach. Thats what hes doing. The president is almost selfimpeaching because he is every day demonstrating more obstruction of justice and disrespect for congress. Impeachment is a very divisive place to go in our country. I feel no pressure from my members to do anything. The facts of the ukraine situation just changed everything. It is about russia. Who benefitted by our withholding, withholding that military assistance . All roads lead to putin. Understand that. And so that was the ahha moment. So, jill, that has been as close as we can approximate of the at least the electronic migration of this speaker. How do they view their political to poeb innocent of that white house right about now . You can see there. Nancy pelosi is acting extremely methodically. Very much over the last number of months trying to avoid the impression that democrats number one goals since the president has been elected is to impeach him. This is the argument out of the white house saying, look, there is nothing to these charges. Democrats have been looking for any excuse to impeach him. We knew this was going to happen. Nancy pelosi wanted to prevent that argument. She talked again and again how important it was for this to be a bipartisan effort for the American Public to be onboard with this, describing this as a political process, that you needed to have the country behind it or else it wasnt going to be effective. At this point clearly pelosi has come to the point where she relies on this untenable situation that he has to move forward. American Public Opinion has moved somewhat, but not entirely supportive of this effort. So now you are going to have this ongoing showdown between this white house trying to paint this as nothing but a politically motivated witch hunt, as the president describing it. It will be interesting to see. The public has heard a lot about the specifics of the ukraine situation, really been walked through it in a series of focussed hearings that laid out the case. But if democrats start including things like the mueller hearing, various other charges and allegations against the president , it will be interesting to see how that winds up playing with the public. I want to get you on record for the one surprise that was in the Schiff Committee report, and that was these phone logs. I wear between reporters and lawmakers most of the surprise was because they hadnt leaked. We hadnt known of their existence before now. I notice judge jeanine went on fox news tonight fully in favor of looking at adam schiffs records, something even the president s most steadfast subpoena pores say would not be a good idea. There was a lot of grasping at pearls when these records first came out. Or the former columnist from the hill whose name also appears here that his records were subpoenaed. They came out and said it was neither one of those gentleman, no journalist or member of congress intentionally had their phone records sought, but rather these were people communicating with folks whose records they were after, likely, namely Rudy Giuliani and his associate currently under criminal indictment here. We dont know exactly how or when the committee got a hold of these. We know how they didnt. It is likely they subpoenaed the phone company, which is more likely to comply with a subpoena than the white house has turned out to be. But this is an investigation that will go on in parallel tracks while the Judiciary Committee moves toward to get these articles done and ready to be voted on. Adam shaf made it clear they will continue to pursue a lot of these records that they have been denied thus far and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Much obliged to our big three tonight. Thank you all three of you for coming on. 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You can give help and hope to those in need. This melting pot of impacted species. Everywhere is going to get touched by climate change. Rudy giuliani under investigation for his role in ukraine is in ukraine tonight where naturally hes conducted interviews as part of his investigation into the bidens. Earlier today the Associated Press obtained photos of giuliani meeting in kiev. The ap reports he has promoted unsubstantiated claims against the bidens. Hes a key figure working to build a Corruption Case against hunter biden adding, quote, he pressed giuliani on the need to set up a joint investigation into corruption in ukraine at the meeting in kiev. He also vowed to set up an anticorruption group in the ukraine parliament. Earlier today, giuliani posted this on twitter. The American People will learn that biden and other officials contributed to the increased level of corruption in ukraine between 2014 and 2016. This evidence will all be released very soon. We should note there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either joe biden or his son hunter. Back with us in our studio tonight, former assistant u. S. Attorney with both the Eastern District of new york and the Southern District of new york. Counselor, what is the possible upside of a trip by Rudolph Giuliani to ukraine right now. It is hard to see how there is any possible upside to this trip. It is hard to imagine how somebody who is being investigated by the Southern District of new york for his involvement in this ukrainian Corruption Scandal then goes right back into the mix. One would think somebody in that situation would leave well enough alone, but we would be wrong. What this shows me is that giuliani has been undeterred by the reports of the investigation of the Southern District and by the impeachment inquiry so far. I know you dont speak about the Southern District. When we say that someone is under investigation by the Southern District, for lay folks watching, what does that mean to your life . And if it includes electronic surveillanc surveillance, does that travel with you overseas . The answer is a subject of an investigation doesnt know what the prosecutors are investigating. You only know that when you get charged. He may have read he is under investigation, but he doesnt know the full scope of the investigation any more than we do. So he doesnt know what crimes theyre looking at. He doesnt know who else they have cooperated, what other witnesses they have spoken to. To try to play with the edges of what you think somebody is investigating you for is a pretty dangerous game. Im going to read for you a piece of the New York Times, a clip in the New York Times. I think we have it to put it up on the screen. Former playboy model who has said she had an affair with donald j. Trump before he was president sued fox news on sunday saying that tucker carlson, one of the networks hosts had intentionally defamed her on his television show. We have a clip. Well play it right now. Two women approached donald trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesnt give them money. That sounds like a classic case of extortion. What do you make of this as presented . Defamation suits like this are notoriously difficult to prove, especially for somebody like someone who would be classified as a public figure. Youd have to show some sort of a negligence. If youre a public figure, you have to show that the person who made that statement was acting with malice, which just means they knew or they should have known what they said was wrong. So these are tricky cases to prove. My guess is this may end upsetling or not going all the way, but in any case i hope it gets to the discovery stage because that could be interesting. 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Nancy pelosi said when she was announcing the crafting of articles of impeachment said that in essence the rouge sha 2016 scandal and the ukraine scandal are different pieces of the same story, that all roads lead to putin. Do you see it that way yourself . I do. Absolutely. Positively. White house declined to participate as we have said in this weeks impeachment hearing, but they are preparing for this possible full trial in the senate. This is the washington post. Po President Trump wants his case made fully in the senate, previewing a strategy that will include live witnesses on the senate floor rather than videotaped deposition that were entered into evidence during former president clintons impeachment trial in 9. Just yesterday during a Campaign Stop in iowa, joe biden was asked if he would voluntarily appear in a possible senate trial as a witness. No, im not going to let them take their eye off the ball. The president is the one who has committed these crimes. And im not going to let him divert from that. Sorry about that audio. With us for more, ron. Senate you kish yar, former chief of staff to al gore, former chief of staff to joe biden who these days he is informally advising along the way on the campaign. Ron, if the president is really talking about a witness list that includes pelosi, schiff, joe and hunter biden, can they say no . Can they be compelled to appear . Well, i think if a majority of the senate were to vote, then they could. But were talking about a trial, brian, not a Reality Tv Show produced by donald trump. And the people who i think if there are going to be witnesses at the trial will be witnesses who were part of the events. Joe biden, nancy pelosi, adam schiff, they werent on that call on july 25th. They werent the ones that took the transcript and put it on a secret server. They werent the ones who stone walled congress. Theyre not witnesses in any sense of the word to the president s conduct. So if the president is interested in having a trial with witnesses, lets see the people who were involved in all of these events and have them come and have them testify. My guess is that donald trump is going to back off this witness thing pretty quickly when he realizes the kind of witnesses who would be called are witnesses to his conduct, not witnesses to his fantasies and his conspiracy theories. Would that be the first test of cooler heads in the senate, if we see that movement to call all these boldface names quashed . I think so. I dont know about cooler heads in the senate. But in the end the senate will have to conduct a trial that is that does pass the smell test and asking people who are not witnesses to the events to come talk about the events i think wouldnt pass the smell test. And i think when that becomes clearer to the white house, i think their enthusiasm for all this is going to diminish considerably. We see this time and again in the administration. First the president was going to, you know, put on a big testimony for mueller and then backed down. He was going to participate in the mu sish yar hearings and backed down. Time and again the white house blusters and claims they will be active participants. And then when its show time they actually go and hide in the back room. You have unknowingly just walked right into my tv trap. Im glad you invoked all those times he was going to testify. Im glad you invoked Reality Television because now im going to play for you Andrew Napolitano from fox news. If you go to a senate trial, who testifies on behalf of the president . Himself. You believe that could happen . I do. I think it will be the most dramatic legalpolitical event in the history of our era with the president of the United States testifying under oath in front of the chief justice in the senate and 200 Million People watching on television. Ron, let me just remind you hes our first ever president that came from a reality tv star, 14 seasons of which aired from the building im sitting in. What do you make of the claim . Well, so here is the difference between President Trumps highly rated tv show and a Senate Impeachment trial. Testimony impeachment trial is under oath. And a president who is liked 14,000 times in three years is more allergic to testify under oath than he is likely to win an emmy for the apprentice. I dont think there is any chance at all that donald trump raises his right hand and answers questions in that impeachment trial. Thank you. I had to ask. Finally if i can get you on the record, what do you think of the debate within the Democratic Party in the house . And that is how far back to reach for articles of impeachment . How much of mueller do you unseal and open up and try to include because after all you only get one goaround at this. Yeah. And, look, i think that impeachment is in this way a small peep in the process. Spoker pelosi has to count the votes. My guess is it will be for including the obstruction of justice elements that are similar in the Mueller Investigation and this investigation, but probably not reaching back to the substantive conduct of the 2016 campaign and that first volume of the Mueller Report. Thats my guess as to where this comes out. Thank you for coming on our broadcast. We always appreciate having you here. Coming up for us thanks for having me. It happened on this network in response to what p k Speaker Pelosi said today. Well play the moment for you when we continue. Well play the when we continue female anchor how often should you clean your fridge . Stay tuned to find out. Male anchor beats the odds at the box office to become a rare nonfranchise hit. You can give help and hope to those in need. 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. Do you hate the president , madam speaker . Because i dont hate anybody. I was raised in a catholic house. We dont hate anybody, not anybody in the world. Speaker pelosis sudden rather stark words today drew an especially poignant response from one of our contributors on this network today. Here is how it happened on the air. Here is former republican strategist Steve Schmidt. It is an Important Movement because this shared sense of victim hood makes the trump cargo. One of the things thats true in this country is that authoritarian movements historically have never caught on. If you want to look historically, say the high watermark in our countrys history for authoritarian itism might be in 1938 for a meeting of the german american boot. There is a pew poll out that says 43 of republicans would like to see the checks and balances inherit in our system. The courts and the congress is gone. So the president would be unobstructed in the implementation of his will. That type of leader, there is a word for it in the english language, is what we would call a dictator. And, so, when you have 43 of a Political Party in a twoparty system that has taken on for the first time in American History an authoritarian bent that will smear any person, any decorated combat veteran, Career Foreign Service officers, people that have spent their entire service, their entire lives in service to the american nation and to the American People, when they will burn it all down in the name of trump, we are in a crisis as a country. And what you saw from nancy pelosi was an articulation, and we dont see it very much, but of duty. The sense of duty that should be top of mind for every elected official, every person who has taken an oath, has assumed power as ste wards and fiduciaries of the American Public to shepherd for our time on earth a Stronger Union for the next generation. It is completely absent from our politics and thats why that was such a remarkable momento d tod with us to talk more about that moment and about the news of the day is a woman you saw at that table today at 4 00 p. M. , a member of the New York Times editorial board. Was that as much of a moment as it appeared as a tv viewer . Oh, absolutely. It is undeniable. Steve was right on and really cut to the heart of the matter. It also has me thinking about what a Public Servant really is. Nancy pelosi as speaker of the house was not somebody who was excited about impeachment. She was pushed there by a sense of duty and frankly by the president s wrongdoing. It is time for republicans and others to stand up and do their job. And i think its really important that the American People understand that they are not just there members of congress arent just there as, you know, sports fighters. Theyre not mma fighters. They are Public Servants elected to support the public good as well as the constitution of the United States. There are worse things than losing an election. There is so much at stage right now. One of the mysteries to me and frankly strategies i think about this time we look back will be the number of people in congress. Right now they tend to be republicans. Lets be honest about what the look of it is. Who are unwilling to stand up and do whats right because theyre worried about their seat or theyre worried about a challenge. It is time to stand up and do the right thing. If you have to sacrifice yourself for that, that is a sense of duty. We are missing that from actually not just donald trump but from an entire republican party. And that is what Steve Schmidt is talking about. It is scarey because it is important to have different views in democracy. But if one party has abdicated its responsibility and its interest in democracy, then what do you do . And i think steve is right about so much. The one thing i would say, i would just take it a step further and the authoritarian strain that runs through this moment does have a corollary in our history. If you think about the Civil Rights Movement as actually not a Civil Rights Movement but indeed dmemomrization. Its always been directly linked with race. With racism, with White Supremacy and with nationalism. And i think in order for us to move beyond that, we need to confront it and understand it. And i think that nancy pelosi went a long way today to just call the problem out for what it is. And she wasnt acting as a partisan official. She was acting as somebody that served the American People and i just hope that others will follow. You concur with steves Central Holding that she is preeminent among politicians right now, that she holds a unique position in american politics . She does. And there are democrats that can take a lesson from her as well, lets be clear. But democrats arent the ones who have abdicated their responsibility to the American People. So, you know, people need to republican members of the Congress Need to look beyond fox news and the next two years, the next political cycle and they need to look their children in the eye. I dont know how any of them can do that tonight. Coming up, things got intense on the trail today as we will show you for joe biden. E reportm the New York Times. This melting pot of impacted species. Everywhere is going to get touched by climate change. Sent your son to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no expense with gas or nothing in order to get access to the president. Youre selling access to the president just like youre a damn liar, man. Thats not true and no one has ever said that. I saw it on the tv. I know you do. By the way, thats why im not. Let him go. Joe biden had largely avoided talking about his son hunter during this no me larky bus tour across iowa as it toes cas cal. But today the former Vice President engaged and then some. If you want to check my sheet, lets do pushups. Lets do whatever you want to do. [ applause ]. No one has said my son has done anything wrong, and i did not on any occasion and no one has ever said it. I didnt say you were doing anything wrong. You said i set up my son to work in an oil company. Isnt that what you said . Get your words straight, jack. Said . Get your words straight, jack. You could argue that that man was telling the story as hes heard it as told by others and not the biden team. Absolutely. I mean, joe biden has yet to directly clear up in a consistent way that is intelligible to most voters quickly what exactly happened and what didnt happen. His team really needs to help him come up with a way to address this directly. And part of the problem is that there is a kernel of truth at the heart of this accusation, which is that, you know, its not a good look to have family members of the president of the United States or the Vice President of the United States or anyone in Public Office who may have a conflict of interest. And i dont think that there is any evidence here there is no evidence that actually burisma got access or got special favors from the obama white house. There is none, and joe biden can say that. He can also stand tall, i think, and talk about his own conduct. But he may have to be a little bit clearer when he addresses this. And frankly being angry with voters and arguing with voters, it just looks like hes lost control. This is an out of nowhere question, but its absolutely right there and germane to everything we see every day. Can you tell me how the democrats are going to end up with an allwhite stage at the next debate . How did that happen . Well, you know, theres not much a pipeline, so thats one thing to consider. I also think that black voters interestingly enough in supporting joe biden, for example, have really proven to be conservative not in the way we might think about it but in the sense they are extremely concerned, maybe more than any other voter about who is theoretically electable. And so far theyve gone with joe biden. I think itll be interesting to see what happens after iowa, though. Because, you know, if joe biden doesnt win iowa, black voters might see that as they did in 2008 when barack obama won iowa. And they might say, well, wait a second let me rethink this. So i think their vote is up for grabs. But i do think its disappointing that we dont have a more diverse array of candidates. We will have a woman or two on the stage, so thats a good thing. We have a gay man. Thats a good thing. But hopefully the concerns of all voters will be addressed. Mara gay, always a pleasure to have you. 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