schumer to release to the public and not just to mitch mcconnell his his. suggestion urge urging that then witnesses such as john bolton or mcmahon while they may be called because what that does is influence public opinion and put some pressure. mcconnell i don't know whether he'll feel that pressure directly or not but it becomes i think part of you know what you and i and all of us talk about what's in the newspapers the fact that john bolton mick mulvaney and others and documents have not been released and that really you know that really speaks to this 2nd article of pietschmann which is obstruction of congress congress is not allowed to do its due diligence basically in oversight and i think people will stand up and take notice or they you know. or at least i hope so right when you say people will stand up and take notice which

people are talking about because again you know the polls show is that we have this incredibly divided nation when it comes to impeachment where democrats support impeachment republicans don't support impeachment. well polls change as we know from the election in 2016 and it's very early at an election so when i say people take notice i think there's a long ways to go i mean it may be true that it may be a jiffy trial and maybe it may be a show trial in that sense but it's also true that whether it is or not there is an election coming up and there are quite a number of democratic candidates who are themselves going to be talking about this quite a bit and you can be sure that they're going to refer to not just the trial in the senate but the fact of impeachment because you can't get away from

that in if the house as we expect it will votes to impeach donald trump donald trump is an impeached president whether he stays in office or not he is an impeach president and there have only been 3 brenda one apple and alan brown thank you both for your time and for now thank you. when we are into the final hour of the debate over whether to impeach the president of the united states the democrats and republicans in the house of representatives making their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution he's accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival is also charged with stonewalling the investigation by congress. well the man at the center of it all has left the white house on route to a supporters rally in michigan when donald trump is heading to battle creek a city which voted comfortably in his favor during the 2016 election of president

trump has been relatively quiet during the past few hours of the debate after previously tweeting saying democrats had launched an assault on america. well let's take another look now at news from around the world lebanon's former prime minister has announced for the 2nd time that he doesn't want to lead a new government subsidy resigned in october after weeks of anti-government demonstrations on monday the president planned to hold consultations with political parties to decide on a new prime minister but that's been postponed until thursday or people have been watching their anger against corruption sectarian politics governing their country for decades

the supreme court of india has suspended any further discussion or debate on the controversial citizenship amendment act it's asked the government for specific clarification and that won't happen till the new year as hell raman reports from the northeastern state of assam the delay leaves countless families in limbo. it's a sleepy village in the middle of a sam's agricultural belt people who live here in christian life are hindus and muslims yet all may soon be deemed undocumented migrants sudan soccer is a pensioner he was born and lived in the region for as long as he can remember a big old speaking hindu he says this is home and he's indian but a recent government census deemed him and his family illegal migrants from bangladesh he was arrested and placed in a detention center for 3 years. released on bail he says his experience was

traumatic and has led to complex medical issues and psychological disorders when they go back and we would wait for old college to wash have a cup of tea and do a little exercise and then they would lock us up to be in the room was not large enough and we slept on the floor about what do you do and sometimes not be fed until the next day. he shows me documents that date back to the 1930 s. proving on the surface that his family has always lived in india the bengali originating hindu and muslim communities here in christian i numbered around about 400 families and they've lived here for decades living alongside each other in peace and of course working the paddy fields here you can see behind me but the passage of the citizenship amendment could very well undermine their very existence and render some of them stateless the new law potentially allows anyone fleeing

communal riots or religious persecution to apply for indian citizenship. but sudan and some of his neighbors can't apply because the government does not recognize their status high court lawyers like hafiz giardia waiting to see how the supreme court's rule of the controversial legislation now it is all an act of the past with parliament so. let's go with what we can see benefit to those books on what i was formally to look at mention here. for the indigenous people of the somme the new legislation is worrying they say it'll make them a minority in their own state by giving citizenship to him directly jesus and then we'll have read his district in the region have seen violence occurring and been goalie hung do speaking families their business have been burnt down and there'd been economic loss but thank really no loss of life on this occasion the being goalie who speaking community is scared of saddam's future is still uncertain his

family's meager earnings revolve around the production of these plastic bags and the status of his family like those in the village of krishna i may not be made clear for some time. so he'll rub it out is there a question i assam. now the u.n. secretary general is calling on the world to find new ways to improve the lives of refugees and tonio tara she was speaking in geneva at the global refugee farm the 1st meeting of its kind involving humanitarian organizations business executives and refugees themselves and high on the agenda how to share the burden of helping refugees 80 percent live in poor developing countries. the strain he has experienced is hottest day on record the average temperature across the country on tuesday was nearly $41.00 degrees celsius and that record could be broken on wednesday as it's only the start of the southern hemisphere summer when the searing temperature temperatures have made things worse for crews dealing with more than 100 bushfires in the eastern state of new south wales.

bolivia's attorney general has ordered the arrest of former president evo morales is on charges of sedition and terrorism what outis resigned and left bolivia and november after protests and allegations of irregularities in the country's election he fled to mexico and has since flown to argentina where he's been granted asylum he says the protests which forced him from office after nearly 14 years were part of a right wing kook. one of the world's most watched football matches was brought to a brief halt and bosler enough to cotland separatist protesters threw inflatable balls onto the pitch of thousands of police were deployed around camp new stadium as pro independence demonstrators plant the game known as el classico it saw bosler in a face off against its fierce rivals real madrid there were also some minor clashes on the street with protesters setting fire to rubbish bins at least

a dozen people were injured protesters were hoping to take advantage of global media coverage to promote their bid for katan independence. we are now into the final hour of the debate over whether to impeach the us president let's take a listen to some of the arguments made on both sides those who voted against impeachment and not just indorsing president past actions but its future ones as well democrats have delivered to weak articles of impeachment abuse of power not according to the ukraine president lewinsky confirmed many times that there was no quid pro quo no action taken and significant military aid was delivered without anything in return this vote this day is about one thing and one thing only they hate this president they hate those of us who voted for him. they think we're

stupid they think we made a mistake they think hillary clinton should be the president and they want to fix that and the speaker i would remind the gentleman that if the president is president trump is impeached and removed the new president will be mike pence not hillary clinton. well let's bring in our correspondent there she's live for us on the from capitol hill and washington d.c. so 5 hours in one hour left to go heidi what can we expect from the last hour. that's right an hour and give some i would suspect because they're running the clock on this 6 hours of debate but it's stretching a little bit longer than that in real time but what we are expecting is more of these partisan arguments as each member of the u.s. house of representatives are really jockeying to get their names down that's part of the record leading up to this historic historic vote which in all likelihood

will impeach president making him only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached and we're hearing these partisan arguments over the 2 articles of impeachment which are abuse of power and obstruction of congress both relating to these accusations that trump use the power of his presidency to try to get you trained to open investigations on to his political rivals democratic house speaker nancy pelosi said that doing this was in danger a national security and that because trump's trump was trying to get dirt on his political opponent for this upcoming presidential election she says that trump remains an ongoing threat to the country which is forcing the democrats to take this. action of impeaching the president we've heard democratic leaders say that this is a solem that no one wanted to teach the u.s. president well very different terms coming from republicans who are accusing

democrats of gleefully approaching this vote saying that they've been trying to undo tromso action since the day that he took office now there's little that republicans can really do though to stop things from where they are now they tried some delay tag. tactics in this morning which pushed everything back by about an hour and a half or so but really the democrats have the numbers to get these articles of impeachment passed then that would impeach president trump and push it over to the senate where he will be put on trial put on trial and sentenced in a senate that has a that is dominated by the republicans heidi who are of course expected to not remove him from office. absolutely and not only do republicans have the majority in the senate but the u.s. constitution sets a very high bar for a president to be convicted of 2 thirds of those senators must vote to convict

which essentially boils down to 20 republican members of the senate who would have to defect from their party in there so orange which has been so far 100 percent behind president donald trump in voting for his acquittal in fact the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell has said point blank he is not impartial he is one of the jurors that will decide the president's face but he is not impartial and he says he is in full court a nation with the white house in establishing the senate rules for this trial that we know the president in the past has said that he either wants a quick trial or he wants witnesses that he himself wants these are the whistleblower who started this impeachment inquiry and also the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff both have been scapegoated by republicans as making this impeachment

a biased and partisan effort well democrats say that they want different witnesses they want to hear from trump's innermost circle of aides the people who may have incited the truth into trump's motives when he withheld security aide to ukraine and that is at the very heart of the case against him. democrats say that this motive was corruption a trump wanted to use the powers of his office to get political dirt that would benefit only himself at the cost of the country republicans say that this was not the president's motive that he was doing that was he was withholding this aid to get ukraine to crack down on corruption within its own country and so really the only people that can clarify that are those who have been silenced thus far by the white house democrats hope to call them to the witness stand before the senate trial they can't do that though since they're in the minority in the senate and republicans have already said they will not be calling those witnesses and in fact

again as mitch mcconnell the top republican in the senate has said there is no chance that trump would be removed from office all right heidi thank you for that for now that is. live on capitol hill well the man at the center of it all has left the white house on the road to a supporters' rally in michigan donald trump is heading to battle creek a city that voted comfortably in his favor and the 26th well president trump has been relatively quiet in the past few hours of the debate after previously tweeting saying that democrats have launched an assault on america. and vice president mike pence is in michigan he's written off the impeachment as a failed political attack what's happening on capitol hill today is a disgrace you know the truth is they're trying to impeach this president because they know they can't defeat this president. they're trying to run down this president because they know they can't run against our record they can't run

against our results they're pushing this partisan impeachment because they know they can't stop you from giving president donald trump 4 more years in the white house. well let's bring in our correspondent john hendren he's joining us live from battle creek michigan and no doubt donald trump will be happy to arrive that much friendly a territory than that in washington d.c. right now. those are. lines for the as right we're expecting the president to arrive here in just a little over an hour it's expected that's of value that house will be voting on these 2 articles of impeachment so we are likely to get the 1st reaction from the president on being impeached right here in battle creek michigan and we can expect that to be defiance we know that from a letter he wrote to nancy but you see there from the speaker of the house of representatives yesterday mentioning this entire if you know what i'm going to seriously think that he's been issuing in recent days i want to know what his

general overall nature that would be to you rick here on stage and the reason he's here in western michigan and expanded is because this is the kind of town indicated state that the president needs he won michigan by 47.3 percent to hillary clinton's 47 percent you can hear me and yes and the president here there is a chance usa this is the fort of the state where he won there's an election through a lot of. middle class working class voters here have been supporting him for the last republican who won the state of mission. it was george herbert walker bush 1008 that gives you an idea of this state has switched back and face group trump and how many there all of this control of that when watch it remains divided there's a local congresswoman been a democrat who announced that she would be voting in favor of impeachment at a town hall here and she was cheered in buddhism relates to the people that we've

been talking to here despite this small protest outside there of course has been the support for the president here despite the protests is it is senator that is not acquit him it will be in places like this that trumps faith local tumut leaders decided in november of 2020 and john what are the people there you know who are out there supporting the president. think about the impeachment proceedings that are taking place in washington d.c. . well as you can expect right here inside the arena there is no support for the peach was what about a lot of people here say that they are expecting that that will drive republicans to the to the polls in november numbers of people we talked to here is that it makes them more likely not just to support the president but to be vocal about it if it got to activate in their neighborhoods and to try to get people to support the president but outside they're all protesters in or around the country their

chests so this isn't necessarily representative of what's going on in the country but it's certainly representative of what is going to trump needs to do in 2020 you did win in 26 states. john thank you for that from now that is john hookham live in battle creek michigan where the president will be touching down at that supporters rally in about alan would of course return to john when that happens to listen to what the president has to say john for now thank you. well let's bring in brenda wine apple she is the author of the same pitch as the trial of andrew johnson and the dream of a. just nation she's in new york the 1st let's cross over to alan baron he's in washington d.c. and he is a former special impeachment counsel to the house of representatives thank you very much for staying with us as we watch the final minutes of what's happening in the house of representatives before we get that vote and again mr barron you know as

once we have the votes and the democrats votes on those 2 articles of impeachment and it goes to the senate but before before that what happens procedurally to go from the house of representatives to the senate well a resolution is passed by the house of representatives authorizing the managers and also part of that process will be selecting who the managers will be or maybe half of the house and the number can vary in the judicial impeachments i handle we had approximately 4 or 5 managers but i suspect that for a presidential impeachment trial be many more maybe 1012 there's no set number but i'm sure more would want to be a part of but in any event even if it doesn't prevail will be an historic moment. and then once the you literally the the managers take a copy of the impeachment articles and literally walk from the house chamber down

the long long corridor from one end of the capitol to the other and they are allowed to come on to the senate floor the lead manager will go into the well of the senate and read the articles to the senators and typically all of them will be in their seats which is a rare occasion in washington when it's finished the of house majority leader will i'm sorry the senate majority leader will thank them he will accept the articles and say we'll get back to you when we are ready to proceed and then they all march out again. and this one apple if i can bring you in now the senate trial itself what it sounds like there are no set rules we don't know the shape of it yet or whether or who will testify whether that in fact they will be witnesses. we don't know in the constitution really doesn't have a blueprint doesn't have you know

a guide book to what is supposed to happen in the senate we know that the chief justice in this case will be chief justice john roberts is to preside and we do know that the senators are to as chief john justice roberts will take an oath to be impartial beyond that there are precedents certainly there was precedents that were. ironed out in the andrew johnson impeachment trial in 1960 a been there were other precedents that were added and pretty much not changed too much for the clinton impeachment trial but it's anyone's guess really as to what is going to happen here and there are all kinds of questions that are to be raised because remember this is not a criminal court so that you do not need evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to a vote for guilt and the removal of the officer or

in this case the president and this one apple why do you think that we are in a situation now where the 2 sides the republicans and the democrats and their this is the public sees what's happening in this case with the impeachment so very differently. well you know you have to wonder what least i wonder what the republicans actually see because to the extent that i listen to them today and in other contexts they talk about hatred they talk about process they talk about hillary clinton but they really don't talk about the evidence that was presented by and large so it's almost as if they are avoiding their various disaffect question in an attempt to circle the wagons around their president for whom they feel a tremendous loyalty fealty or fear it's hard to know what's really motivating that

but if someone like mitch mcconnell says he has no intention of being impartial right there he's breaking henri's he's not he's he's not acting as the juror should be made me wonder as i was listening what would happen if senator john mccain were alive and what lindsey graham and be saying then. and mr bauer and you don't you wondering. mr barron do you think that. while this has the impeachment looks like it could even work in donald trump's favor if people see it as a very partisan vote you know with the democrats voting in the house of representatives to impeach him in the senate a question him not removing him from office but do you think that it could also vote you know could it could it work against the republicans in one manner if you

have the sort of. college educated i guess suburban swing voices who want to see a fair trial you know who want to see the president on such of these charges and the republicans block those efforts could that work against the republicans. oh i think very definitely the slot the slice of the electorate that you referred to could determine the next election in 2020 and i think that's a very interesting and very good point. that slice of the electorate will. not be quite as ready to simply jump on a bandwagon because it has the label republican or democrat on it they will want to understand what do the facts show and what does it take to impeach a president and remove a president from office and i think you're touching on a very important issue that the republicans. really have to worry about because

that's the bloc of voters that may well determine the next presidential election this one apple what what do you make of that. i grew completely i wanted to say exactly because they'll be wondering i would imagine where is john bolton where is mick mulvaney where are you know where is the full readout of the call and those are interesting questions there are real questions and if those questions aren't answer to anyone satisfaction and the only way they can answer is to bring those people in those documents into the senate then people will start to start to wonder about what exactly is going on and what really is being covered up and i think that's really very important so i think it's really significant that we discuss you know the way in which this impeachment even if trump is acquitted the way in which it could really damage donald trump and the republican party not the

way it could help them but do you think it could damage him and the republican party in the next election. sure why not i mean it's very possible we don't know how really we don't know how thick as it were his popularity really is we have a sense of those rallies that are going to be televised people are you know excited they're screaming they're kind of raised to a pitch but who's outside what about those protests that your correspondent was talking about and what about those you know what used to be called the silent majority maybe they will be exercised to just say wait just a minute there seems to be some corruption here and there seems to be some confusion here there seems to be some really partisanship and not necessarily just on the side of the democrats but really rather on the republicans so it's very very

possible i think any of us would be really naive to entirely predict what's going to happen because in some sense all of the ukraine in the phone call in the withholding of a that was pretty unpredictable right there was asking that is brenda what happened in new york allan barron and washington d.c. thank you both again so much. get out of the pronto it is $23.00 g.m.t. that 6 pm and washington d.c. and we are into what's likely to be the final hour of debate before a vote on whether to impeach the president of the united states democrats and republicans in the house of representatives in making their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution he's accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden and a look see.