welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing this consequential day with us. speaker nancy pelosi giving the impeachment green light, saying the president has abused his powers, giving them no choice. plus deciding what articles of impeachment to draft and whether they should be limited to ukraine or include other details. then it goes to the house and a trial in the republican senate. >> sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to

our founders and a heart full of love for america, today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. >> the speaker gave a speech on national television to push forward her rushed and partisan impeachment. nothing on usmca or the ndaa or fur funding for our armed forces. it's all impeachment all the time. >> and we begin there on capitol hill with history and high stakes. speaker nancy pelosi officially blessing the impeachment of president trump. the nation's highest elected democrat made the announcement this morning, casting the abuse of power and obstruction case against the american president as overwhelming. >> the facts are uncontested. the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit. our democracy is what is at stake.

the president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit. >> speaker pelosi deliberately leaving things open-ended on how many articles will be drafted and the specifics of what will be included in them. president trump responding with defiance, tweeting this. if you're going to impeach me, do it now. fast. so we can have a fair trial in the senate and so that our country can get back to business. with these high stakes comes raw politics and raw emotions. the speaker turning angry and then turning back to the microphone when asked this morning about republicans who say democrats are impeaching the president because they hate him. >> do you hate the president, madam speaker? >> i don't hate anybody. i don't have the ability to hate anybody in the world. don't accuse me of that. >> i did not accuse you. i asked you a question. representative collins yesterday

represented that the democrats were doing this specifically because they didn't like the guy. i think it's an important point. >> i think this president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. i think he is cruel when he doesn't deal with helping our d.r.e.a.m.ers, of which we're very proud. i think he's in denial about the climate crisis. however, that's about the election. this is about the constitution of the united states and the facts that lead to the president's violation of his oath of office. and as a catholic, i resent your using the word "hate" in a sentence that addresses me. i don't hate anyone. i was raised in a way that is a heart full of love and always pray for the president. and i still pray for the president. i pray for the president all the time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that.

>> cnn's manu raju was in the room for that. manu, a reminder there is the specifics of the impeachment case, but there is also some of the politics here that are quite personal. >> reporter: no question about it. she's trying to make the case that they came to this deliberatively, they resisted doing this and that's why they ultimately went forward because the facts were overwhelming, that the president in their view abused his office and they had to take this course of action. she certainly didn't like any sort of suggestion that this is a personal move by her to go after someone she does not like. now, the republicans, on the other hand, try to make this as if this was already an outcome that the democrats predetermined the moment they took power in january in the house, that they wanted to impeach the president, they wanted to remove him from office. kevin mccarthy moments ago tried to make that case. the republican leader also sized up questions of sorts that the speaker didn't like the president. and it was asked whether he

thinks it's appropriate for a president to ask for help from a foreign leader that's at the heart of the political scandal. he wouldn't answer that question and focused on the president asking about help with the 2016 elections, which he claimed was appropriate. nevertheless, the democrats are figuring out how to draft the articles of impeachment. it will be made up by nancy pelosi in consultation with the judicial committee chairman, jerry nadler, and the intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff. while we can expect two or three articles of impeachment, likely an abuse of power that can include bribery, as well as obstruction of congress for defying subpoenas, and potentially obstruction of justice that can include the allegations that the president sought to undercut the mueller probe that was detailed in the mueller report. all of that is going to happen rather quickly. expect articles of impeachment could be introduced next week. there will be a hearing in the house judiciary committee on monday where the staff counsel of the house intelligence

committee and the judiciary committee discuss findings as part of their own investigations. we'll see this happening rather quickly in the house where a vote could happen on impeachment, john, before christmas. >> a fast pace in a raw time. manu raju, appreciate the live reporting. busy day on the hill. with me to share their insights, julie pace with the associated press, jonathan with the "new york times," and "politico's" heather caygyl. the speaker here essentially responding angrily, testily to that question from james rosen saying, i don't hate anybody, don't you dare mess with me, and the president, sticking to politics responded quickly, nancy pelosi just had a nervous fit. we'll soon have great new judges. i don't believe her, not even close. help your homeless in the

district nancy. usmca? it is impossible to separate the politics in the public debate from the specifics of impeachment because it is a political protscess. you see here the highest ranking democrat in the land and the highest ranking republican in the land who have a history. >> there was a time we thought they might be able to work together. chuck and nancy at the white house. you really got a sense from pelosi today of just how personal this actually is. not because she hates the president, as she said, but she's leading the house through something that we just don't do that often in our nation's history. i think sometimes this had the sense of inevitability and you can lose sight of this. she is doing something quite historic that few speakers of the house have done before and she knows it's risky. she doesn't know how the politics will play out next year. she has a sense of this and the president has a sense of this, but truly neither of them know

what this leads to next year. >> her father was a mayor in congress, her brother was a mayor. she came up through california politics working her way up in the ranks. was a state party chairman. comes to congress, works her way up in the committees and becomes the speaker of the house after serving as minority leader. she is someone who has worked this system, who is so of this system. to her marrow she is sort of a democratic figure of the old school. trump is none of that, right? he's never really been in either party. he picked the republicans out of convenience, more or less. he could give two you-know-whats about institutions and shows that every day. you have so many differences between who these people are in their bones. >> we saw that in the -- we saw the different sides of speaker pelosi. very sober, somber in the announcement this morning which, to your point, we lose sight of this sometimes because it has been viewed as inevitable for several weeks the house will impeach the president, but the

speaker gave the green light today, saying draft the articles. they got into the actual process of impeaching a president. very sober. then the response there, you walk the halls of the hill every day, that's why she's speaker, actually. she gets it, she's emotional, she has the loyalty of her caucus, and don't mess with me was a warning not just to the reporters in the room, to anybody as this debate goes into the next critical chapter. >> i think that's going to be a historic pelosi quote for decades. i have been in that press conference every week for several years. i have never seen her do something like that and let a reporter get under her skin like that. i think it just speaks to what an extraordinary moment we're in and the high stakes and emotion on each side. i will say after her announcement this morning, she went into a private caucus meeting and she reiterated this is a very somber moment, this is very serious, she said. but she explained her position, and she said, if we aren't going to impeach this time, we should remove impeachment from the

constitution. and that to me says, i'm all in, then she read a bible verse. so -- you know. >> and the president getting right back at her, number one, not surprising, but number two, a reminder again the president is trying to keep his base. the speaker believers she has the overwhelming majority of house democrats. she might have a handful she has to worry about as we go forward, but she believes she's playing to her base and the president getting back in her face, he's trying to personalize to keep his. >> we have to process some new information that's come out, but in terms of the ultimate outcome, i don't think either seed expects more surprises. they expect the house to pass impeachment, they expect the house to reject it. if that is going to happen, the president should spin this in the most positive way he can for his campaign, try to make sure when he gets to the senate he has the most favorable trowel he possibly can have. if it's going to be impeachment, let it be a big televised spectacle of impeachment.

that's what he said. he wants it to happen fast, he wants to move over to the senate. i think when both sides see where this is going, this is all about messaging, about strategy, about the politics of this and everybody sort of knows what the outcome will be from the outside. >> one thing the speaker did not do, and it was deliberate, was tell us how broad she thinks the case should be. i want to read this from the national journal and "politico." the moderates want to keep it narrow and focused specifically on ukraine. jim hines of connecticut says there is always a temptation to throw in everything but the kitchen sink, but we have to be cautious. melissa slotkin of approxima"poi know there is a temptation to throw in all but the kitchen sink. we can only talk about all the things we're concerned about regarding the president.

did she offer any clues about what she wants to be in there? >> she did leave a clue when she said all resides lead to putin. senior democrats, including pelosi, are looking to do something that starts with mueller and, you know, lays out the obstruction of justice detailed in that report but then shows how that establishes a pattern of behavior that carried over into the ukraine scandal. they think that will be enough to offer some kind of political cover, and i think that's where we're headed right now. this program note on this very important day. nancy pelosi will take questions in a live cnn town hall tonight. that's tonight, 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. up next for us, what will a senate impeachment trial look like? some senators already making their predictions. >> it will be a little jarring, i think, for the american public to be able to turn on their tv and see the sergeant-at-arms

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needs to wait for a senate trial in january. >> we're ready. if the democrats are foolish enough to actually pass these frivolous articles of impeachment of which they have no evidence and factual basis, we want a trial in the senate. we're ready for a trial in the senate. >> if we get to a senate trial, that will be more familiar with most americans who understand a judge and jury system, are familiar with it by seeing it on tv. if we get to that, that will be very different and i think that's when the defense goes on offense. >> phil mattingly on capitol hill. phil, the president's team says they're ready for a senate trial. the president also expecting unified, strong, republican defense. will he get it? >> he will actually have a defense by his own lawyers. you saw pat cipollone, the white house counsel walking through where the white house is on this issue. it's not something we've seen in the house, and it's a shift for the white house. they've talked about no trial at

all or trying to shift the trial. the reality is they don't have the votes to do that. republicans on capitol hill and the senate have told the white house, you don't have 51 votes to dismiss this trial, we're going to have to move forward. i think the interesting element here is the role of senate republicans. john, they can't talk during this trial, so in terms of how they will defend the president, it will larging e inly be laceb resolution, who they have come testify. they want joe biden to come testify, people like the whistleblower to come testify. not all people are on board with that. i talked to republicans who want to avoid that at all costs, not because of what it would turn the process into, but because of the senate. they're worried about turning this into a circus. one democrat said if witnesses started coming forward like that, it would be like a hand grenade tossed into the middle of the chamber. here's the reality. majority leader mitch mcconnell

and lindsey graham will meet and try to figure out an agreement for this trial. 75% figure out how this trial goes. are there members in both parties who care about the institution or are worried about the legitimacy of this trial and want to move this process forward that will come together across party lines, not to remove the president, necessarily, but just to make sure the trial works out. you got where the white house is on this, you got where senate republicans are on this and also the democrats, but you have people who aren't talking but will soon on how to keep this on the rails, because it very well could go off entirely. >> an excellent point. i want to applaud your discipline. while you were speaking there with perfect focus, jerry nadler went right pars fst phil mattin and he had complete focus. he's going chasing after him

now. speaker pelosi holding her cards tight because of the democratic politics. the majority leader on the republican side holding his cards tight, too, because he doesn't know how this will go. first he has to see how convincing the house case is, if republican opinion does move. the representative from delaware talks about how the republicans need help if there is motive to call in hunter biden and others. >> they ultimately could set the rules for this impeachment trial by a bare majority. there is very little democrats in the senate could do to stop them. we will be relying on a small number of republicans who are pushing back against this idea and who recognize that impeachment is a serious, significant constitutional moment. >> this to me is fascinating in the sense that like speaker

pelosi, leader mcconnell can do the math. leader mcconnell speaks to all his members. he will know if they want to push hunter biden. you saw the president tweet this morning, i want to see biden testify, i want to see pelosi testify, i want to see adam schiff testify. he's going to have to check in with susan collins and cory gardner and mitt romney and the five or six republicans who are at risk of saying, to phil's point, no, we're not going to turn this into a circus, or in the case of a gardner or collins, this could hurt me. i'm on the ballot this year. >> the president has had luck in the house, he's had almost unanimous support among house members in this impeachment process. it's not clear that the senate is going to follow the president when it comes to sort of pushing some of these conspiracy theories, when it comes to trying to get hunter biden to testify. you have to remember that former vice president joe biden was in the senate for six terms and he

does have some relationships there, even though that started to fray a little bit with the loyalties of trump we see from lindsey graham. but the president is not going to have as much support when it comes to pushing the senate to become this sort of reality tv style body where he can sort of do his 2020 campaigning. there is going dobto be a lot o pushback from the senators facing reelection, but also the institutionalists who want to see this process take place in a stayed and highlighted form, and it's clear the president isn't going to get what he wants from those senators. >> so the question from me is what does the president try to put forward? you saw them saying the house is not fair to us, when we get to the senate we're going to have a trial. but the president said during his nato trip with mick mulvaney and mike pompeo, i wouldn't testify in the house but maybe in the senate. is there any chance the white house will actually send up the people who can answer some of the unanswered questions about

who knew under oath? >> i think if the president is following the advice of his legal counsel, the answer to that would be no. the president may not follow that advice. but i think the question as to what kind of defense the white house puts forward will also be interesting in terms of what these senate republicans want. in the house you saw the senate republicans largely line up behind what the president wants, which is a defense of his actions, not a defense that maybe this was bad but not impeachable. he wants a defense. these were perfect calls, i did nothing wrong, i am allowed to do this. there are republicans in the senate who want the ability to say, actually, i don't agree with his behavior. i don't believe it's impeachable but i want to voice my dissent over what he did. >> you'll get much more of that in the senate where -- well, the house members have smaller districts, the house has become very -- >> the politics are different. >> i will say, though, there was some chatter this morning before pelosi's announcement before

anyone knew what it was. they were worried she would come out with a censure vote. they were worried they would lose house members, but a lot of them would like to say, i don't agree with what he did. i don't think it's impeachable, but i don't agree with it. >> that's a big thing in the senate, too, will mcconnell offer a censurehood who has members who don't know which way to go and with behavior they clearly find to be wrong. >> he will only do that if he feels that's what he needs to do to protect the senate majority. one of the interesting things from yesterday, and bill clinton did this and you see it in president trump's tweets now. i'm trying to do your business, we have a strong economy. this is a -- clinton used different language, he didn't have twitter, but this is over the top. it was personal conduct then, it's professional conduct at play now. but liz cheney after the hearing yesterday trying to say essentially, these are elites.

the constitutional lawyers are self-righteous law professors, two of which are liberal donors, and this is the elites trying to undo the results of the last election. >> it's easier to make that case when the white house won't let the people who are trump's closest advisers testify, because they would be forced to actually reveal the truth. so what you're left with is, yes, law professors but also career employees working in the white house in the national security apparatus who are telling the truth. it's pretty damning to the president but it does give the opportunity for them to say, well, they're deep state or they're elites. yeah, because trump won't let his actual political appointees go up there with the exception of gordon sondland who went up there and made headlines. >> you make a key point. the factual case is overwhelming. you can have a debate about

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the big takeaway in washington this hour. articles of impeachment are moving forward. that also raises a big debate.

how big of a case should the democrats bring against the president? speaker pelosi offering a hint this morning with a single word: again. >> the president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt once again the election for his own benefit. the president has engaged in abuse of power, jeopardizing the integrity of our elections. his actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes. >> cnn legal analyst carrie cordero and shan wu join our conversation. the stress among the democrats is two articles of impeachment all about ukraine or add a third or fourth to bring in the mueller stuff. do you take a clue from what she does? she does note that in her view this is part of a pattern, the president providing interference

in election help? >> i think they should include something from the mueller investigation. there were perhaps up to ten potential acts of destruction detailed in the mueller report. they could take the four or five strongest of those and include them, and that would go some distance in addressing one of the what i think were complaints of professor turley yesterday in the hearing that there was an insufficient record. nobody could dispute the extensive record compiled throughout the mueller investigation. so that would be one way to quiet that dispute this they brought it up. >> impeachment is more of a political process. but the chairman of the committee yesterday also seemed to express the view, at least during the hearing, that this is not just about ukraine. >> president trump welcomed foreign interference in the 2016 election. he demanded it with the 2020

election. in both cases, he got caught.ue say, you know what? let's not confuse people. let's keep this tight. one or two charges and boom. >> i agree with carrie, i think they should go a little lighter. if it's a criminal prosecution, you go very narrow. you want very few charges, the strongest evidence possible because you're afraid of the domino effect if you present one weak charge. but here i think it makes sense for them to go a bit broader and the mueller report is extensively documented, so it was kind of laid out for them to do that, although mueller was too timid to say that. >> he was one republican witness at the hearing yesterday and he said the president did nothing wrong here. he said you should find more witnesses. >> the abbreviated period of this investigation, which is

problematic and puzzling. this is an incomplete and inadequate record in order to impeach a president. we have conflicts that have not been fully considered, unsubpoenaed witnesses with material evidence. to impeach a president on this record would expose every future president to the same type of impeachment. >> do you believe that? >> with all due respect to his credentials, i thought his analysis was very weak yesterday. he's kind of ambivalent. like he says, we should wait for the courts to weigh in, which timewise is a possibility, but he walked that back to say, no, congress has the sole power of impeachment. last time i checked, the framers didn't have public opinion polls. >> i didn't find it puzzling at all in terms of the reason why a more expansive record hasn't been established. the irony and where i disagree with professor turley's analysis

on that is the fact that the reason there is not more of an extensive record of documents of witnesses is precisely because of the obstructive acts on the part of the president from preventing documents to be disclosed and witnesses from appearing. >> which could lead to impeachment itself, so it's sort of a cycle we're in here. >> if democrats had not asked for those witnesses as opposed to, we've asked them for, we have subpoenas in several cases, and the republicans say go away. another thing that's going to happen is the release of the long-awaited inspector general's report which became the mueller investigation but at first was an fbi-challenged investigation. there is more and more evidence the president is not going to get what he wants. he wants a report that says the fbi spied on me, the fbi was out to get me, the deep state was after me. michael horowitz, the inspejust

inspector general, consulted u.s. intelligence agencies as well as john durham, the prosecutor conducting a broad investigation into the intelligence used to start the russia investigation, to ask whether they could provide any evidence to back up the spy claim. durham said the intelligence agencies responded that they couldn't provide any such evidence. he wants this report to be the impeachment distraction. the russians spied on me. they want to impeach me. that's why he wants to connect the dots there. this sounds like facts will be brought up by the justice department. >> not only does he want the ig report to be a distraction, but he and barr keep pointing to the durham investigation to say, let's see what happens there. but durham has been traveling all over the world, interviewing officials in all parts of the country and may ultimately not give the president what he wants, either. >> where does this put the

attorney general who, in his own confirmation hearing, believes there may have been spying. does he say, i accept the opinion of those who work for me to do this investigation? what happens then? >> it puts him in a difficult position because he did really go out on a limb, and i viewed it as inappropriate at the time for him to confirm that there was, quote, unquote, spying on the campaign. look, i've never seen an inspector general report come out that doesn't find something that went wrong. there will be things in this inspector general report that look bad, that were perhaps individual instances of things that were either done wrong or should have been done better. that is guaranteed. what it doesn't sound like there is is any evidence that the report is going to demonstrate systematic abuse of the system. and i think that's going to be the important takeaway. >> monday we'll be here. you guys should come back in. it's going to be an interesting day. as we go to break, jimmy carter was admitted to the

hospital over the weekend for a urinary tract infection. the president was hospitalized last month to relieve pressure on his brain. we send, of course, the former president our best wishes. we'll be right back. so, we got jean-pierre. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with renters insurance. ♪ yeah, geico did make it easy to switch and save. ♪ oh no. there's a wall there now. that's too bad. visit geico.com and see how easy saving on renters insurance can be.

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topping our political radar today, they want them to block a subpoena for the president's tax records. the justices have already put a pause on the subpoena while they consider whether to take up the case. a big 2020 endorsement today. the former secretary of state john kerry backing joe biden for president. kerry, of course, a former democratic presidential nominee himself, also a former senate colleague of joe biden's saying, quote, i believe joe biden is the president our country desperately needs right now. not because i've known joe so long but because i know joe so well. kerry is heading to iowa to campaign with his friend joe. today, rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney,

is in ukraine. the "new york times" reporting that the president's friend met with several corrupt ukranian prosecutors that have been peddling claims about the 2020 democratic presidential rival joe biden. he said he did make a visit but wouldn't say what he was doing there. >> are you gathering evidence to support your own defense? >> i'm not here to get anything on myself. i didn't do anything wrong. i didn't do a darn thing wrong. >> help me. >> it is quite the provocative move in the middle of impeachment for rudy giuliani who was at the center of this, in a lot of ways to go back to the center of the place that is also at the center of this. at the same time he's under investigation for some of his actions in sdny. but rudy appears to be taking a page out of the trump playbook which is absolutely no shame,

confess to nothing and plow forward. >> does it make it legitimate for people trying to vote for the president that rudy giuliani is over there, most of the people he's meeting with are pro-russian labeled by all interested parties, other western nations, other organizations as corrupt people, and there he pops up. >> i don't expect when this goes over to the senate to hear many republican senators defending rudy giuliani or even taking up some of his messages about corruption in ukraine or election meddling or this idea that ukraine and not russia was actually responsible for getting involved in the 2016 election of the the fact that he's over there does make it a little harder for them to kind of distance themselves from him and the fact the president continues to stand up for rudy giuliani, at least for now, says he's a good guy, he's a crime fighter. we'll see if that changes over time. but republicans, especially in the senate, are not big fans of what he's doing, especially the people he's getting involved with, including a couple people in the party that were indicted.

>> he said rudy finds corruption anywhere he goes. the biden campaign trying to capitalize on the president's combative meeting with nato allies last week. >> nato leaders caught on camera laughing about president trump. >> the world sees trump for what he is, insincere, ill-informed, corrupt. dangerously incompetent and incapable, in my view, of world leadership. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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before we go today, lightning rounds in the 2020 campaign. one of them being the fallout from the senator kamala harris departure from the race. the other campaigns trying to get her reporters, trying to get her staffers. she had some good staffers from key states. the outreach was so swift that a former chairwoman of the democratic party of iowa and one of the harris campaign's most high-profile supporters in the state, tweeted her condemnation of the other campaigns. i don't know who needs to hear this but stay the [ bleep ] away from the harris field, dvorsky wrote. of course you want them to work for you. they're freaking amazing. and sad. and grieving. sit all the way down. they know where you live. they'll get back to. or not.

>> there is nothing subtle in politics, especially in a primary where someone drops out, and they have staff and donors that the other campaigns want. they want to be respectful for a few minutes, but they also want to get those folks signed up. >> there is not a lot of time left. this is the window. >> also it's flattering for those people to get the call fast. because that says to them, you're important, donor x or endorser y, we need you and we need you now. they're not going to wait too long. they're going to swoop in to try to get her supporters. >> to your point, joe biden, elizabeth warren, all of the candidates, but here's joe biden and elizabeth warren saying, she's awesome. trying to send a signal. >> senator harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be. she is solid, she is -- she can be a president someday herself, she can be a vice president. she can go on to be a supreme

court justice, she can be attorney general. she has enormous capabilities. >> she's smart, she's confident, she's got this terrific voice. >> they don't say those things about you when you're still in the race. but cory booker in a fundraising email also trying to take advantage of this. he said as the current democratic debate lineup stands, not a single one of our candidates who appear on stage is a person of color. our party is better than this. it's time we show it. >> he sees this as an opportunity to say, hey, democrats, we are a diverse party and we're going to depend on a diverse group of voters, we should have a diverse candidate on the debate stage. >> the fact that kamala harris dropped out is an opening for other candidates to make that argument. she was seen when she first came into the race as sort of the antidote to president trump

because she was a person of color, she was a woman, she had been a formal prosecutor and the fact she had to exit the stage early gives a sense to other candidates that something needs to change about the process in order to get more diverse candidates up to the top tier of the primary. >> i love sue dvorsky. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." jim sciutto is in for brianna keilar. he'll start after a quick break. ♪ yeah that's all me. ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin ♪ that's my new plan. ♪ nothing is everything. keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. of those, nearly 9 out of 10 sustained it through 1 year. and skyrizi is 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. ♪ i see nothing in a different way ♪ ♪ and it's my moment so i just gotta say ♪

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