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We cannot just allow humans seven million of them, possibly to, over the next few weeks, be sent out to the streets. reporter: after a night of camping out on the capitol steps, missouri representative cori bush was joined by senator elizabeth warren. we ve got 11 and a half hours for the c.d.c. to step up and say we re going to extend the moratorium. our states and our localities need to push the money out. the money has to be released. reporter: but the white house says a recent supreme court decision prevents the c.d.c. from approving another extension, and house democrats didn t have the votes. the longer it takes to finish, the longer we ll be here. reporter: meanwhile, on the other side of the steps, democratic and republican senators are working to hammer out a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. fancy word for bridges, roads, transit systems, high-speed internet, clean king w. reporter: but f, eyfini writ. we re finalizing the last couple of pieces of legisla ....
Asserted privileges. for example, when they wanted john bolton to testify, john bolton, national security advisor for the president, his lawyer went to federal district court. says the house asked me to testify. white house is asserting executive privilege. your honor, what do i do. judge i have two conflicting demands. i will do what you tell me to, your honor. you know what the house democrats did, never mind? they backed away. they didn t subpoena bolton. didn t litigate. the nixon case was litigated to the use supreme court. the u.s. supreme court handed white house to hand over white house tapes. two days later richard nixon resigned that is how you fight the matters. house democrats didn t do that instead their assertion is, simply claiming a privilege is an impeachable offense. if that were true, all 45 presidents going back to george washington everyone would have committed impeachable offenses. that is laughable. ....
Witnesses or not, but which witnesses. and in that vote, that was kind of split along party lines. but there were enough democrats that said we ought to hear from miss lewinsky. so there were three witnesses. so that s not what mitch mcconnell is talking about right now. he s being a little disingenuous. when you look at the senators who could be persuadable. it s really about the question of witnesses more than the highest bar that exists which is removal. which none of the previous presidents impeached got to. what is the republican argument at the end of the day against a murkowski s concern saying that, look. we shouldn t have witnesses. even though we think the president did nothing wrong, more witnesses would be bad for the pursuit of the truth. they felt these were significant enough. house democrats would have tried harder to get them to testify. of course house democrats didn t do that because they knew it would get dragged out in the ....
That. i think that s why witnesses related to those two issues are on the list. the second level, i think, the house republicans are going to want to point out and we should expect this to happen next week at every turn that the process is unfair, and they re going to use this list to show, kind of bolster their position that the process is unfair, that they submitted a list of potential witnesses and that the house democrats didn t call any of them. they re not looking to get to the truth, and the house republicans were sort of shut out of the process, and let me throw out a third point that i think you re going to, that s going on here. which is sort of a shot across the bow about a senate trial because right now, democrats in the house control the witness list in the senate. it s going to be the republicans who control the witnesses, and i think the house republicans are sending a message. giving them some ideas. well, yeah, if you pass articles of impeachment, get ready for a s ....
Impeachment. the historic vote could happen by christmastime. thank you, manu. right now an aide to vice president mike pence is testifying behind closed door s jennifer williams subpoenaed amp trying to block that testimony. on the phone call between president trump and a counterpart from ukraine and she was concerned about what she heard. as for former national security adviser john bolton, he was a no-show. manu alluded to that. house democrats didn t bother to subpoena him amp his attorney threateneded a court fight. go to cnn congressional reporter lauren hill there on capitol hill, and we know the vice president has claimed to be in the dark about any of these discussions regarding ukraine. what are the key questions williams is being asked today? reporter: jennifer williams just left the scif after hours behind closed doors with ....