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Even want to go to trial. they said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process, but now they are content to sit on their hands. this is really comical. >> reporter: of course, jake, this is important because the house of representatives, they are having their very last votes of the year right now. not included in that, a vote on the house manager. that's a snag that we do not expect nancy pelosi to transmit those articles of impeachment before the new year. >> lauren fox on capitol hill for us. thanks. let's chew over all of this. jackie i understand that pelosi peop...

I don't think any -- zero, to put it mildly. they took a perfect phone call that i had with the president of ukraine, an absolutely perfect call. they all know it. nothing was said wrong in that call. >> reporter: now, jake, despite this letter from the president that vote is still going to happen tomorrow. even he seems to hint in here at the end that he doesn't think this letter is going change the outcome of that vote but he says i write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record. thank you. let's chew over all this and let's s...

Able to call them too. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you so much. so it is possible the republicans in the senate call no witnesses but we are now also starting to hear two sources telling cnn that the whistle-blower's legal team is preparing for the possibility that lawmakers will call their client to testify in the senate. let's chew over all of this with our team. laura, let me start with you. what do you make of that? we don't know if the senate will call witnesses or not. ultimately it is up to a majority of the senate which is controlled by republicans. if they call the ...

Are not necessarily comfortable with how wide of a scope the impeachment articles my claw. one member telling us today he wasn't even sure he would vote for impeachment at all given the speed and the pace this is all gone. one thing they are saying repeatedly is the leadership needs to understand that there are political repercussions even if they don't believe this is a political effort and there needs to be support and leadership needs to listen so we'll see how it plays out in the week ahead as they move quickly toward the final vote, jake. >> phil mattingly, thank you. let's chew over th...

Political party and attended a kgb camp when he was younger according to his website. >> reporter: jake. >> pamela brown, thanks so much. let's chew over this. amanda, let me start with you. trump's legal team planning this defense in a theoretical senate trial. for those not familiar, if the house does vote to impeach it is not the end of it. it then goes to senate and they serve as jurors whether or not to remove the president from office. the trump team and republicans want to bring in joe biden, hunter biden, talk about burisma, talk about that. is the strategy just to muddy the water so t...