republicans. this has been a very important day in washington. it doesn't get much more important than the house of representatives considering impeaching a president of the united states. that's it for me. thank you very much for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. "out front" next, breaking news, the impeachment probe entering a crucial new phase, all but one witness saying it's time to impeach donald trump. that witness is firing back tonight and is rudy giuliani really back tonight in ukraine? let's go out front. good evening. i'm erin burnett. the house judiciary committee has ended its first impeachment hearing and it was contentious and highly partisan and aggressive questions and answers. the committee expected to announce the hearing at any moment. jerry na

jerry nadlera clear where he stands. all three professors said it was clear that donald j. trump should be impeached. >> professor feldman, did president trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power based on that evidence and those findings? >> based on that evidence and those findings the president did commit an impeachable abuse of office. >> professor carlin, same question. >> same answer. >> professor gerhardt, did president trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power. >> we three are unanimous. yes. >> it was a powerful moment and series of testimonies, but there was an exception on the deus today. a fourth law professor the republicans' alone witness jonathan turley. >> i'm concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a mraus usuality of evidence and

an abundance of anger. i believe this impeachment not only fails to satisfy the standard of past impeachments, but would create a dangerous precedent for future impeachments. >> alex marquardt is out front in washington with the details on today's contentious hearing. the blistering conditiclusion f all, but one. >> i would describe it the abuse of office of high crime and misdemeanor that they were worried about and they would want the house of representatives to take appropriate action and to impeach. >> noah feldman from harvard laying out the reasons why the president committed impeachable professor along with pam carlin, and all three invited by the democrats. >> then nothing is impeachable. this is precisely the misconduct that the framers created a constitution including impeachment to protect against.

>> awesome responsibility. >> carlin hitting back at ranking member doug collins who dismissed the hearing and suggested the experts hadn't digested all of the facts of the investigation. >> mr. collins, i would like to say to you, sir, that i read transcripts of every one of witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts. so i'm insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i don't care about those facts. >> the lone witness called by republicans, jonathan turley said he was want a supporter of the president and argued it is waiver thin. close enough is not good enough. if you're going to accuse the president of bribery you need to make it stick because you're trying to remove a duly elected president of the united states. turl turley who testified in the clinton impeachment warned that it could pave the way for more in the future.

that is why this is wrong. it's not wrong because president trump was right. his call was anything, but perfect. >> from the get go, the republicans blasted the hearing and the entire process. >> this is not an impeachment and this is simply a railroad job. >> you are observing the right to be on yekt. >> gop interrupting and delaying the proceedings with procedural maneuvers. >> may i make a parliamentary inquiry. >> while chairman nadler previewed possible articles of impeachment which may include obstruction of justice going back to the mueller probe. >> president trump took extraordinary and unprecedented steps to obstruct the investigation including ignoring subpoenas, ordering the creation of false records, and publicly attacking and intimidating witnesses. this administration's level of obstruction is without precedent. >> the experts drew on history, repeatedly making the case that the country was founded on principles opposing absolute

power. >> so kings could do no wrong because the king's word was law and contrary to what president trump has said, article 2 does not give him the power to do anything he wants. >> in comparing president bush to a king, professor carlin also said that the president could name his son baron, but not make him a baron and that got a lot of blowback including from the white house invoking the president's son. professor carlin said she was wrong to do that and she wishes the president apologized himself for all that he's done. >> thank you very much. we'll have much more on professor carlin this hour any became the center of the stage today. out front now, democratic congressman val demings who sits on the judiciary and intelligence committees and she's drafting articles of impeachment when that time comes. it was clear that the republicans would do everything possible to stall the hearing

and there were those procedural inquiries and points and some of them pretty arcane and chairman nadler didn't expect them all and it didn't happen as much during the intel committee hearings that you were also a part of. why do you think that is? what did republicans do differently this time? >> well, it's good to be with you, number one, but i just think as we get closer to the end of this process and further along, i just think that my republican colleagues feel the desperation. the facts are stubborn things as has been said many times before and the facts the evidence in this case against the president was overwhelming and the procedures that they raised today, at then of the day the president still used his power to coerce a foreign power into interfering with our elections and that's what we have to stay focused on. >> what do you think was accomplished today, congresswoman? >> i think the witnesses did an

exceptional job in laying out for us and for the american people what the framers had in mind when they were so concerned about a president trying to act like a king or trying to act like a dictator, that they were so concerned about the president of the united states abusing his power working with the foreign government and isn't it interesting as they lay that out that that is exactly where we are today. a president who abused his power, betrayed his oath of office and jeopardized our national security and tried to obstruct congress and justice. >> the one witness we heard from today who supported the republican view was jonathan turley, a law professor at george washington university. here are some of the crucial things that he said. >> i'm not a supporter of president trump. i voted against him. his call was anything, but

perfect. this is not how you impeach an american president. >> in his written opening statement he also said that trump's reference to the bidens on the call was highly inappropriate and he voted against him. he doesn't support him. the biden part wasn't okay, but he thinks it is the wrong call to impeach the president based on what you have now. when you put all of that together was turley a powerful and effective witness for the gop? >> we certainly appreciate professor turley coming in and sharing his viewpoint, but i just think that it is so interesting that when the republicans and their witness talk about the wrongdoing of this president they'll say things like the call was not perfect. or the president was just joking, he couldn't have been seriously. as a former law enforcement officer, i'm sure the criminals wish we would have looked at every time they broke the law we said that well, you know, it

wasn't perfect, but because it wasn't perfect we should just let it go. we appreciate turley's testimony today, but the facts are still stubborn things and we are still where we are in terms of the president's wrongdoing trying to coerce the foreign power. >> congresswoman, as always. >> thank you. >> out front income, breaking news. another impeachment hearing could be announced momentarily and votes to follow in the next days. >> plus melania trump going after one of the witnesses tonight and the judiciary chairman jerry nadler's words coming back to haunt him. ♪ ♪ wow! that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein,

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manu raju set to come on capitol hill and you have learned a lot about what's coming up next. >> we're expecting in the house judiciary committee starting likely next week. we expect another hearing to occur with staff attorneys for the house intelligence committees who have cleared the two-month investigation of the president's handeling of the ukraine and detailing the report that they abused the handling of foreign policy. we expect the staff counsel for the house democrats on the committee to testify last week followed by the republican staff counsel who also testified in that same hearing and we expect articles of impeachment. we expect that to be formally introduced, probably as soon as next week before the committee votes on articles of impeachment and then it could have moved quickly to the house floor soon thereafter and that could mean setting up a pre-christmas vote making president trump the third

american president to be impeached in history, and then come january, erin, the president is blocking out weeks at a team, and you need two-thirds majority to remove him from office and something that seems incredibly unlikely at the moment, so this will move quickly and it will consume washington and of course, consume president trump, erin. >> manu, thank you very much. i want to go out to john dean, gloria borger and david axelrod who is host of "the axe files." you just heard manu, and this is very quick, right? it could come within hours and if they're announcing it and extensively, that could be it and they're out to the committee and to the floor. >> that was the question about this sort of why rush to judgment argument of jonathan turley today who was the

republican witness there who said, you know, why are you rushing to do this? why do you need to do this so quickly? and congressman collins said the same thing and what was so interesting to me about this hearing today was it raised the large question about timing. what does congress do when you have an administration that is clearly trying to run out the clock on this? that is stonewalling and is not allowing congress to really do the kind of investigation that it would like to do. do you allow the president to run out the clock? and they're saying no, we're going to get this done and what would that do to the issue of checks and balances if you're wa not allowing congress to do its job? to those who would say they were rushing it, the question is well, if you don't want to rush it, how about providing some more witnesses for the congress so they could hear from people who actually spoke with the president about these matters.

>> right, and of course, the president is fighting that all of the way to the courts and they did their one witness today made it clear and he thinks they are rushing it and you should go ahead and fight that fight. jonathan turley had a warning for democrats and here he is. >> why you want to set the record for the fastest impeachment? fast is not good for impeachment. fast and narrow is not a good recipe for impeachment. if you rush this impeachment you will leave half the country behind. >> david, does turley have fair points? >> well, he had some problems with his argument and one is that the andrew johnson impeachment took place i think three days after the offense for which he was brought up on charges. >> technically not the fastest. >> he was wrong on his facts. you know, it seems to me it's a paradoxical thing. you heard members of the judiciary committee say we should be doing all these other

things and we shouldn't be absorbed by impeachment and they said you're rushing, but gloria's point is the most important one which is that it is the president when they complain that all of the evidence hasn't been heard and the main witnesses are being withheld from the congress by the president, and they do want to run the clock, and what if they did run this through the courts, would they all be arguing and now we heard from all of the witnesses in june or whenever it happened, and let's have the -- let's have the vote now? no. so it's kind of a cynical argument, and i suspect those who don't want to impeach the president will seize onto it and those who feel the president committed an impeachable offense would have been compelled by the testimony of the others. >> so, john, turley also tried to go at not just the process himself, but at some of the charges and he said trump did

not commit bribery and i want to play him and professor noah feldman who obviously feels completely the opposite as did the other two professors who were there and that the president should be impeached and here's professor turley and then feldman. >> the statement has been made, not just by these witnesses and chairman schiff and others that this was a clear case of bribery. it's not, and chairman schiff said that it might not fit today's definition of, and the bribery theory being put forward is as flawed in the 18th century as it is in this century. >> bribery had a clear meaning to the framers. it was when the president using the power of his office solicits or receives something of personal value from someone affected by his official powers. the president did commit an impeachable abuse of office. >> so what do you make of that, john? turley is trying to muddy the

water on something that is a pretty clear thing in all of this which is, you know, bribery. >> yes. law professors arguing about historical bribery versus contemporary bribery will come to very different conclusions on what facts are needed and that's what turley is doing. he's just throwing up some dust in this whole thing. he is one of those who, as you said, wants to slow this process down and there's a real reason the house is rushing and that's the case that chairman schiff made that this is an ongoing offense. we saw it in 2016 when trump solicited the russians and he's now solicited not only the ukrainians, but china. this is something that has to be resolved before the 2020 election and focus the light on it so that trump is reluctant to do it.

all of you stay with me, because i didn't play professor carlin in the segment because we'll hear a lot from her in just a moment. she was there quietly and then wow, she came out strong and melania is slamming her after professor carlin said this -- >> while the president can name his son barron, he can't make him a barron. >> world leaders laughing with president trump or at him at the nato meeting in london? trump sure knew what they were doing. ( ♪ )

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that president trump should be impeached apologizing now for invoking president trump's 13-year-old son's name during today's hearing after she faced attacks for doing so. here is pamela carlin's initial comments and then her apology towards the end of the hearing. >> contrary to what president trump has said article 2 does not give him the power to do anything he wants and i'll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king. the constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son bear know i can't make him a baron. i want to apologize for what i said earlier about the president's son. it was wrong of me to do that. i wish the president would apologize obviously, for the things that he's done that's wrong, but i do regret having said that. >> that came after karlan had faced from the trump campaign and melania trump, a minor child

deserves policy and should be left out of politics. you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering and using a child to do it. she obviously did feel the need to apologize for that at the end of the hearing. it was extremely clear, though, with her performance in the hearing where she was completely unafraid that team trump feels she is a target now. >> she is. look, she admits she made a mistake. she's not used to testifying. this environment was not hospitable to what was a great joke and she apologized for it only after melania and the vice president himself also went after her. she is a target. she's a liberal fro fessoprofes. they tried to figure out who these people voted for, as well and she's an easy target for

them and when you're not arguing the case itself. you're arguing the process which they continue to argue all day, and then you were arguing about the witnesses whom they felt were, you know these eggheads from liberal elite institutions. >> right. all right. so to the point that gloria just made, john, republican congressman matt gates called out for a series of donations she made over the years and let's just play that and then karlan's defense. >> professor karlan, you gave a thousand bucks to elizabeth war in, right? >> i believe so. >> you gave $200, to barack obama? >> no reason to question that. >> and to hillary clinton? >> because i've been giving a lot of money to charity recently because of the poor people in the united states. i have a constitutional right under the first amendment to give money to candidates, at the

same time, we have a constitutional duty to keep foreigners from spending money in our elections and those two things are two sides of the same coin. >> another witness, michael gerhardt said his family donated to president obama and another said he voted against trump. the question remains should democrats have found witnesses who didn't provide this fodder, right? didn't have thousand dollar, ult in imthousand-dollar donations to democratic candidates? >> i don't know. that was necessary, and i don't know if they even asked going in who did you contribute to and who did you vote for? this was information they could have found at the outset. what matt gates is doing is just really a sign of the times. he's a cheap shot artist and he loves to do this, and he did it, and it was expected, this sort

of thing out of him and it cheapens the process and that's what they want to do. they want to make this look like a much more unfair, less than partisan undertaking and that's what he tried to accomplish with those questions. >> david, the top republican on the judiciary committee also went after professor karlan and the other witnesses by suggesting and it wasn't whatever their donations might have been, and it was also that they did not actually know what they were talking about. let me play that. >> no offense to our professors, but please, really? you could aren't have actually digested the adam schiff report from yesterday or the republican response in any real way? >> and the one who fired back was professor karlan, here she is. >> mr. collins, i would like to say to you, sir, that i read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without

reviewing the facts. so i'm insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i don't care about those facts. >> david, you know, she was unafraid to be combative. was that effective? >> well, i thought that answer was very effective and i thought that she signaled from the start that she was not going to be cowed by those kind of tactics. the joke was unfortunate, something that when you're a professor you can make tasteless or bad jokes in the classroom and the students have to laugh, but it shouldn't have happened there and she was right to apologize and frankly, she deserved the criticism she got, but on that point, she was -- they were there, and they're esteemed scholars. she clearly had done her homework and she warrant going to get pushed around. i thought that was very effective, but john's point is very important. the republican strategy from the beginning is to depict this as a partisan scrum, as politics as usual, and take it out of the

realm of something extraordinary, and just fit it into the rubrick of washington politics so gates did that in keeping with that as did questions that were asked. >> how effective were republicans at trying to cheapen the whole process? >> well, i think they did cheapen the process to a degree. i think that we learned a lot, however, in this hearing about the constitution, about what the framers had in mind when they were talking about high crimes and misdemeanors, and about what the articles of impeachment, quite honestly are likely to be which is abuse of power, obstruction of congress and obstruction of justice so try as they did to kind of make this just a discussion about process and other things, what we learned from these constitutional scholars, i think, was very important for the american public. whether that breaks through

probably not to a degree. i think people are probably set. is this going to change any votes? i don't think so, but it was a meeting that the judiciary committee ought to have. >> as a country, whether you cared or moved your view was almost beside the point and you did need to hear from people who truly been this and know about the constitution. thank you all very much. next, republicans using the judiciary chairman jerry nadler's own words against him and new details on the phone calls that rudy giuliani was making to the white house, the budget office and the mysterious caller number one. (alarm beeping) welcome to our busy world. where we all want more energy. but with less carbon footprint. can we have both? at bp, we're working every day to make energy that's cleaner and better. and we see possibilities everywhere.

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breaking news. chairman jerry nadler under fire. republicans are going after the judiciary committee chairman by using his own words from the clinton impeachment. ranking member doug collins was the first one to launch an attack. >> you have the vote. you may have the muscle, but you do not have the legitimacy of a national consensus or the constitutional imperative. the partisan cue dethat will go down in infamy in the history of the nation. those are all chairman nadler before he was chairman. i guess 20 years makes a difference. >> out front now, rick santorum and joe lockhart, former clinton white house press secretary. joe, what was powerful about collins doing that and reading it the way he did was it sounded

the way exactly like he wanted it to sound that he was saying it now and i know that's chairman nadler 20 years ago. what does this do for nadler? does he need to defend himself? >> i don't think he needs to defend himself. listen, there are a lot of these things from 1998. lindsay graham -- >> that guy is in a class of his own. i would argue professor turley if you go back and look at his testimony, he testified in 1998 that if congress does not think something rises to the level of impeachment they make that decision which democrats were arguing it will vastly expand executive power and we will regret it forever. >> i think these things are two totally different things because i argued in 1998 that it didn't rise to an impeachable offense because it was a very personal mistake he made. it was wrong and he apologized for it and he cooperated. he testified.

>> the sexual lies and it wasn't an abuse of power. >> this was using the office was precedence toe try to get a foreign country to influence our elections and that was what the main takeaway was. this is the worst thing a president has ever done, worse than nixon. >> so what you're saying is now it could be completely consistent with what he believes now. senator, look, you know well things can change when the shoe is on the other foot. do republicans really want to go down this path? >> well, yeah. i think they have to go down the path to show that there's a hypocrisy here on the part of the democrats in saying that you have to have a national consensus in order to move forward with impeachment. clearly, no matter how much they're convinced that the president or this is the worst thing the president of the united states has ever done which is a bit of the hyperbole of itself, but even despite that the american public isn't with him, the vast majority of the

american public -- the majority of the american public. >> certainly republicans would be the vast majority and the idea that moving forward on impeachment and i look back and look at the clinton impeachment and say in retro speck given the fact that tey didn't know what going on, it certainly was not a political winner for us. i don't think in the end this will be a political winner for the democrats. >> joe thshgs is what we heard again and again from republicans during the hearing today. >> may i make a parliament inquiry. >> gentleman, not a inquiry. >> i have a motion. >> the gentleman is not in order to offer a motion. >> mr. chairman, i seek recognition. >> the gentleman's recognized. >> i offer a motion to postpone to a date certain. >> and so it continued. and then they'd have a voice

vote. >> yeah. >> and then they would raise their hand and demand that it would be counted and you'd have to go through all 40 people and counted and delayed and delayed and the whole goal was to sort of slow the process down and demean and. >> i want rick to call the roll on that. i don't think -- i think maybe their success was in losing some viewership, but they showed their hand early on which is they don't believe this is a serious process. they don't believe that what the president did on that call, and not just on that call, in the months surrounding the proceeding it and after, pressuring the ukraine, and using the leverage of the aid and the presidential visit. they just don't think there's anything wrong with that, and that's partly view of the republicans and there was a poll out speakering about republicans

that said 53% that they saw donald trump better than abe lincoln. >> do you think they were successful? they did keep doing this and i will say it hit a certain point where i would say this is just disrespectful. >> i wasn't a big fan of what they did, but jeoe's right and the republicans don't think that the president did anything wrong and that this is just another effort after the mueller investigation to get this president, and that's really the stark difference between the clinton impeachment and this impeachment and you had democrats get up and say what the president did was wrong. what the president did was illegal. he shouldn't lie to a grand jury and then they said it doesn't rise to the level of impeachment. you don't even have that among republicans and that's what makes it much harder for the democrats. >> that's what makes it sad as an american citizen. >> maybe john thune might be in

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breaking news, rudy giuliani in ukraine tonight. giuliani is there right now as he is front and center in the ukraine scandal and pretty incredible when reached by dana bash by text, giuliani wouldn't confirm whether he's in ukraine and he can't discuss what he's doing and this comes as we're learning about new details to calls he made to someone named dash one.

rene marsh is out front. >> newly revealed phone logs reveals calls by rudy giuliani and the budget office and one number stands out, an obscure, single-digit caller noted as dash-one on phone records. >> who do you think jieliany was talking to, who was number one? >> probably someone in the white house. >> the roger stone trial including these phone logs showing a call from dash-one, the implication at trial, it was probably trump. president trump wednesday brushed it off. >> mr. president can you explain why your personal attorney would need to talk to the press? >> i really don't know. you'd have to ask him. it sounds like something that's not so complicated. you'd have to ask him. no big deal. >> giuliani took a similar tone via tweet, quote, the mere fact i had numerous calls with the white house does not establish any specific topic. remember, i'm the president's attorney. and in a text message, giuliani

told cnn he didn't remember calling omb and not about military aid. multiple calls between giuliani who was not a government employee and the white house including the situation room, and the budget office came just days before the president's first call with ukraine's new president on april 21st and a few days after that call. the records only show the calls and not the content, but giuliani speaking directly to the agency that in june instructed the state department and pentagon to freeze military aid to ukraine is raising concerns. >> pay attention to ukraine. >> april 12th, eight hours before this fox news apparent, a short call from the office of management and budget phone number and seconds later, another call lasting more than 12 minutes. this time from the mysterious dash-one. after fox news, giuliani is back on the phone with the white

house for more than five minutes. >> i think i'd get interesting information from joe biden about the ukraine about his son, hunter biden. >> the same warning of this fox news appearance on april 24th, records show three phone calls between giuliani and a number associated with the office of management and budget. throughout the day, there were eight calls with someone at the white house. one of the calls between giuliani and dash-1 lasted more than eight minutes. later the same day the state department recalled ambassador marie yovanovitch over concerns from the white house and august 8th, giuliani texts a white house number at 8:53 p.m. a little over an hour later he misses five calls from the dash-1 number and 15 this call came as ukrainian were pushing u.s. diplomats for a meeting between zelensky and

trump. democrats say the call log show the extent to which giuliani was running the show on ukraine matters, conspiracy theories and the push for investigations. >> it does tell a story of giuliani really being the guy who is doing all of these things and driving this stuff in ukraine. and as we know rudy giuliani is not an employee of the federal government. >> well, erin, we cannot overstate it what the phone records reveal are highly unusual as a former omb official said to me this morning there is no reason the president's personal attorney should be calling people at omb regarding budgetary matters. because that's what the agency handles. we should point out the budget office says no one at the agency ever spoke to giuliani. there is some speculation that some of the calls may have been to mick mulvaney who earlier in this year moved from omb to the white house. but tonight a white house official told cnn that mulvaney and giuliani have not discussed ukraine and mulvaney's call

records show he didn't speak to the president during the times noted in the report. so everyone is saying it wasn't me. >> thank you very much renae. and retires go to cnn justice correspondent evan perez. evan, a lot of questions here obviously as rene said highly unusual. will we find out who number one is formally and what was said on the calls with number one. >> perhaps if some day rudy giuliani has to answer question base in, erin maybe we will find out. as you heard from renae the democrats believe it's the president. and the timing of in is right around the time is the president is about to oust the ukrainian ambassador marie yovanovitch and the time of the end of the mueller report. let of different explanation that is rudy giuliani could have to provide on this. >> and as was just said here there is reports giuliani is in ukraine tonight which sounds like a joke but may be true. he wouldn't confirm his location

playing a coy game. what is the game he is playing. >> he really believes the only way to defend himself and the president given the fact that he is under investigation is to go on offense. i think that's what you see. "the new york times" reported he is working on some sort of documentary which is going to blow the case wide open. we'll see whether that happens. erin, remember he is under investigation which the southern district of new york, the prosecutors there. and there are still a lot of questions what he was doing in ukraine, the removal of the ambassador, that could end up being part of a crime. so we'll see whether or not giuliani ever has to answer question base what he is doing. >> evan, thank you very much. and next video that's gone viral, world leaders talking behind trump's back and trump's reaction. he got scared. forget about vacuuming for months.

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world leaders aren't above a little gossip about the president of the united states. here is jeanne. >> forget the bagpipes, the drums, the horns. it's what we weren't supposed to hear at the nato summit that stole the show. canadian prime minister trudeau regalg other leaders about president trump's long press conference during his photo op with the president of france. >> and then there was this eyebrow raiser about a jaw dropper. >> trudeau later told reporters that was a reference to president trump saying the next g 7 summit would be at camp david. asked about the hot mic moment, the president unloaded on trudeau. >> well he is two-faced. >> don junior tweeted his dad is 100% right. trump calls trudeau two-faced.

see evidence below. posting a split screen of trudeau in black face referring to the prime minister's recent controversy. >> mics were smoking hot it at the nato summit even a second hot mic moment inspired by the first one. >> president trump was picked up complimenting his own dis of trudeau. >> that was funny what i said the guy is two-faced. >> both world leaders lablds emsment by the critics after calling trudeau two-faced president trump dialed it back. >> honestly with trudeau i find him to be a very nice. >> and trudeau later said. >> i have a very good relationship with president trump. >> president trump cancelled a scheduled press conference saying he had given enough before heading home. the daily show put the hot mic moment to trump's own words. >> they laugh at us behind our back. >> at the u.n. in front of him. >> didn't expect that reaction but that's okay. >> as for calling trudeau

two-faced, the president had to face taunts like, well someone likes both his faces. jeanne moos cnn. ♪ laughing all the way. >> new york. >> he cancelled the press conference after this. okay thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening, welcome to the next and pivot alin a drama about to consume the trump presidency and if the founding father had to right tap no the fundamental notions of what the country is how and president should behave. day one of impeachment hearings in the house judiciary committee. four distinguished law professor testifying to what the framers of the constitution considered impeachable offenses and whether this president meets the test. in short did the president's demands on ukraine constitute bribery or other crimes and misdemeanors were there abuses of office? this is what the law professors were asked to consider. but it's hardly a