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Tuesday. and he qualified for alabama's primary last week. senator kamala harris' campaign is touting the endorsement of the 10,000 member strong united farm workers union, a key endorsement for her struggling campaign, especially in the midst of the growing list of democratic presidential contenders. and ten candidates will take part in the next democratic debate which is this wednesday and biden still leads the race for the democratic nomination in the polls. eric. eric: christina, thanks so much. arthel: it is down to the wire in louisiana's race for governor. both sides pulling out all the...

Of the united states. the democrats are saying this is illegal, could be added to the articles of impeachment. you're a lawyer, john. what's your view? >> well, it really depends, eric, on what the intent was of the president. if his intent was indeed to influence the testimony of marie yovanovitch in any way, that would be unlawful. the president when asked about this yesterday said he's exercising his first amendment rights. that's not a good argument. the courts have said your first amendment is not trump trying to intimidate a witness in an official proceeding. this of course was an offici...

High crime could be -- they could impeach the president for having bad hair. so this is a political thing. him going out and tweeting this, trying to get his base to support, i think it's too far a stretch for the democrats to say this is witness intimidation. what they should say is why is he attacking this woman, this career diplomat, this career public servant. shows you he's scared. instead of calling it witness intimidation, address it for what it is. it's a response that comes out of fear. >> let the congressman deal with the issue. if he wanted to confront this particular witness or any...

>> i don't know if anybody knows that for sure. i tend to think not, eric. because of the enormous traditions of independence and freedom inside of hong kong. i do think the protesters will stand their ground and it remains to be seen how far president xi is willing to go to do that, vis-a-vis the domestic political pressures inside of beijing. eric: you talk about the fact that they would potentially try to do this, would not be successful doing it. what about the money and the trade because hong kong is such a generator of that. that certainly would entice beijing to try and make some moves ...

Until time's gone by until today. many of the yellow vest are protesters say they're not being listened to, the government's concessions are not enough. i think we will see this protest movement continue to some extent and also worth noting on the fifth of december there is going to be a national strike in france. back to you. eric: it's become a regular saturday event in paris. kitty, thank you. arthel: another closed door deposition on capitol hill and a new batch of witness testimony as house democrats forge ahead with their impeachment inquiry. what can we learn from the white house budget...