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kicked off of the presidential ballot based on his role january 6th. and the first major test that the president is speaking with israel and ukraine and another possible government shutdown. sara sidner is in israel, and i'm kate bolduan with john berman in new york. this is cnn "news central." this morning a rapid intensification of israel's assault on gaza on the air and on the ground, and israeli troops are inside of gaza now as the israeli military is hunting for hamas and what is believed to be more than 200 hostages in that underground tunnel system underneath gaza. in the ...

Densically record shows wrong acts on that scale here. It shows a president who delayed meeting a foreign leader and provided assistance that congressed a his own advisers agrees serves our National Interests in promoting democracy and in limiting russian aggression. Saying, russia, if youre listening, you know, a president who cant have the Constitution Say russia if you are listening, but out of our elections. It shows a president who did this to strong arm a foreign leader into smearing one of the president s opponents in our ongoing election season. Thats not politics as usual. At least no...

Them. and the vaccinated folks are angry that it didn't help. so what is going on here? where do we -- we're divided on everything, even mask wearing. >> well, i think all of these things are related. what is happening on voting rights, on democracy, what happened on january 6th, and what is happening in our public health. it has to do with this, don. democracy is supported by two pillars. the common good, and a common set of facts. we're in the midst of this pandemic. we can't get people to agree on a common set of facts, mainly the republicans, to agree on a common set of facts. and the inab...

I want to focus on the law here. okay? what does the constitution say about impeachment? it says the house has -- >> it has the sole power of impeachment. >> and the senate has? >> the sole power to try impeachments. >> what does it say about the transfer of authority from the house to the senate? >> it says nothing explicit about it. it leaves the procedure in the house as it leaves the procedure in the senate to each of those chambers respectively. the house has complete control to decide how it wants to send over the impeachment articles. >> to be clear, the constitution itself says nothing...

Then at that point, the clock is ticking in the senate. as to when those house managers go over, that's up to the house. >> so the senate rules stipulate that it doesn't begin -- the clock doesn't start ticking until they get the articles of impeachment and the house managers. that is what nancy pelosi is holding up. so with all the history and explanation, what now? >> well, we're seeing the constitution at work now as well as the rules of each of those different chambers in operation. that at least for me as a professor is pretty exciting to see, very interesting to see because we've never s...