welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing this very big news day with us. the trump impeachment now one step from the finish line. the house committee on party line votes this morning accusing the president of abusing his power and obstructing congress. plus the house is poised to take its final step next week, then on to the senate. the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, promises even before the trial begins that the president will not be convicted, nor will he be removed from office. and the reminder that the

impeachment fight is about to collide with the election year. >> today is a solemn and sad day. for the third time in a little over a century and a half, the house judiciary committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. the house will act expeditiously. >> this is really a travesty for america, and it's really tearing america apart. >> a very busy hour ahead including hearing from the president for the first time since that house judiciary vote just moments ago in the oval of office. the president telling america the democrats are trivializing the president. a little over two hours ago voting out two articles of impeachment against president trump. purely party line votes, 23-17, on both articles, abuse of power

ask obstruction of congress. the vote took less than 10 minutes. expect the full house to vote next wednesday. wherever you stand in this debate, this is a moment to pause, to recognize the reality and the map. the president of the united states will be impeached. let's get straight up to capitol hill and cnn's manu raju. a momentous day today. the resulvote was quick, the re monumental. >> we expect the house vet ote the middle of next week. the democrats do have the vote. a majority is all that is needed to approve these two articles of impeachment which will be voted on separately. the question ultimately now is just how many democratic defections there could be on the house floor. we are hearing from our sources that there could be a handful, but probably not more than that. right now there are two democrats who indicated they would already oppose moving

forward on the impeachment inquiry. i spoke to them separately. they've also indicated they're likely to vote against those two articles of impeachment also. a number of democratic freshmen i spoke to, people who serve in districts that president trump won holding their cards very closely. right now they're not saying how they would vote. they're saying they will talk to their voters and constituents over the weekend, they'll assess it and come back next week and make that announcement. the democratic strategy is this. they're simply letting their voters know how they feel. elizabeth warren says it's a vote of conscience. republicans are saying they are, in fact, whipping the vote. they are, in fact, seeing if these members are going to vote with the president. and at the moment, it appears that probably all of them are expected to vote for a vote against both articles of impeachment, side with the president.

can he ha kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader, told me there would be zero house defections next week. expect this party line vote to play out next week and that vote to occur mostly among party lines middle of next week, john. >> with me here in the studio, cnn's jeff zeleny, laura lopez and paul cain with the "washington post." it is hard sometimes to step back in the age we live in with all the tweets, all the screaming, all the finger pointing. the end result of what happened a little over two hours ago is the president of the united states, forget the party for a minute, a president of the united states is going to be impeached. >> absolutely. the house judiciary committee has only done this a couple times. you know, nixon and clinton in 1998.

we're into somewhat uncharted territory. those were in p a second term of a president also, so we're really into uncharted territory about there is an election coming up. we're, what, two, two and a half months away from iowa caucus results. the trial in the senate is going to be happening as the final weeks of the iowa campaign is going to be. you guys will be setting up a debate that may run into the impeachment trial. a lot of this has just never happened before. >> on that last part, let's put the president's name into it. this is important and historic for any president, any party, any situation in the politics of the country. but in this case, a republican president, a democratic house, a completely party line vote heading into an election year, it is just -- again, we're going to watch these undecided democrats over the weekend. that will affect the margins. but by this time next week, we'll be sitting at this table a beak from now and the president of the united states will have been impeached by the house of

representatives. >> this is an epic clash between two sides and it really reflects the divided nature in washington right now. you're not going to see a lot of defections on the democratic side, perhaps some. you'll see none on the republican side. the president made it clear how he is going to deal with this. in terms of the house process, he's declared it a sham, a witch hunt, political. he's refused to participate or let his people participate, and his folks will say when you look ahead to 2020, this has been an effective strategy. a campaign manager says they've seen fundraising tick up, they've seen volunteers tick up, they've seen more people at rallies that his people, his supporters see this as an attack on their president and this is energizing his base. >> i think anyone who has tried to project this out to next november, i get that's what the trump campaign is supposed to do, that's what the democrats are supposed to do. anybody who makes this go out to november, that is a little bit on the plank.

they ticked up a few weeks ago and then they froze. if you look at republican intensity, it is up. just a quick look at some of the polling. this is a quinnipiac national poll. should the president be impeached and removed from office? now and in november exactly the same. no. now and in november, the no up a little bit but essentially the same. you have the debate in the judicial committee, the public seems not to budge. you look at key battleground states and that's what makes the president emboldened. look at wisconsin, 40 35ers. 52% no. >> the white house, the campaign and the president himself leading this, so his supporters are following along. but this is one of the things what speaker pelosi, when she was very reluctant to do this from the beginning, she was

hoping for it to be a bipartisan event. that is now not going to happen. we probably could have seen or predicted that because there is no such thing, really, in this era of washington bipartisan. but it is those voters in the middle who are paying attention. you are absolutely right in terms of reading this out what this means for november. nobody has any idea what this means and it's the voters in the middle who decide every election, but this is a monumental moment. some democrats may vote against it, but they're just as at risk voting for it. they're tied to it or they're not. >> in the trump district or a swing district, if you vote against it, then the democrats are mad at you. the first thing you need is your base, then you try to reach out to others. if you lose your base, you're done, anyway. if you're elise slotkin, for example, your district is tough. here she is a while ago saying, i have not decided yet, but -- >> sometimes you have to make calls that aren't based on a

poll or some political consultant. if this is the end of my political career, at least i'm doing what i think is right and i'm basing my decisions on integrity. that is the most i can do. >> i'm trying to read your mind and that last answer sounds like a no. is that where you are? >> i literally have not made up my mind. >> alyssa slotkin. >> she's from wisconsin and i believe trump did win her district in 2016. she, like others, like max rose, other members have to decide whether or not they do want to say yes on this vote. it sounds like slotkin could be leaning yes, because she said, look, even though this may be the end of my political career, she feels as though this may be the right decision to make given history. i think it's also important to note on the polling that, yes, since the actual hearing started, it didn't tick up, but it is still at the highest that we've seen it compared to during

bill clinton's impeachment. bill clinton's numbers for removal never reached that height. >> your reaction to the vote in the house judiciary this morning? >> i actually, believe it or not, i was doing the final touches on the china deal. that's going to be one of the great deals ever, and it's going to ultimately lead to the opening of china, which is something that is incredible because that's a whole big untapped market of 1.5 billion people. if i was actually doing the finals, so i didn't see much of it. it's a witch hunt, a sham, a hoax. nothing was done wrong. zero was done wrong. i think it's a horrible thing to be using the tool of impeachment which is supposed to be used in an emergency, and it would seem many, many years apart to be using this for a perfect phone call where the president of that

country said there was no pressure whatsoever. didn't even know what we were talking about. it was perfect, the relationship is perfect. i've done much more for them than obama did for them. it's a scam. it's something that shouldn't be allowed and it's a very bad thing for our country, and you're trivializing impeachment. and i tell you what, someday there will be a democrat president and there will be a republican house, and i suspect they're going to remember it. because when you use impeachment for absolutely nothing other than to try to get political gain. that being said, my poll numbers, as you know, have gone through the roof. fundraising for the republican party has gone through the roof. we're setting records. nobody has ever seen anything like it. because the people are disgusted. the people are absolutely disgusted. nobody has ever seen anything

like this. i watched yesterday. i got to see quite a bit of it yesterday and i watched the democrats and the committee make fools out of themselves, absolute fools out of themselves. i also saw them quoting all the time incorrectly. they kept saying me. it wasn't about me, it was about us. the word was us. so they kept saying me. it said us. can you do us a favor? our country, comma, our country. then it talked about seeing the attorney general of the united states. for these people to say me, they would say me. you said, do me a favor. no, it didn't say that, it said do us a favor, our country, talking about the past election, talking about corruption. the other thing nobody remembers and nobody likes to talk about, and i talk about it all the time, is why isn't germany, why isn't france, why aren't other european countries paying? for years we've been the

suckers. but we're not the suckers anymore. big difference. but why isn't germany paying big money? they have a much bigger benefit than we do because ukraine is really a stoppage between russia and the major part of europe. why isn't france paying lot of money? why is it always the united states? we're 7,000 miles away. why is it always the suckers that pay? so we've changed that but nobody brings that up. i think that the whole impeachment thing, hoax, i guess you could call it, because it is a hoax. nancy pelosi knows it. by the way, they duped her yesterday. she was on an interview and she said, we've been working at this for two and a half years. so she was working on it two years before i ever spoke to ukraine. she said, we've been working on impeachment for two and a half

years. and reporters were shocked when they got this answer because it shows she's a liar. it's a very sad thing for our country but it seems to be very good for me politically. again, those people, because i watched some of the dishonest fake media. they're saying, well, the polls have remained the same. no, the polls have not remained the same. the polls have gone through the roof for it, especially in swing states. i could show you numbers that nobody has seen numbers like this before. so the impeachment is a hoax, a shachlly, it start a long time ago, probably before i came down the escalator with with the future first lady. it started a long time ago. when you look at the i.g. report and these horrible people talking about, we've got to get him out, the insurance policies.

just in case she lose pz, we've got an insurance policy. but we've been going through the insurance policy now for three years and it's a disgrace. thank you very much, everybody. >> do you know how much they'll be buying? >> i think in agriculture they will hit $50 billion. >> next year? >> pretty soon. they've already stepped it up. my deal with them was two months ago. we had it in pretty good form. i said, do me a favor, start buying agriculture, and they started. if you look, they're already buying even before the deal is signed, they're buying. >> what about the people of venezuela? >> with the people of venezuela 100%. they're so important to us. we'll be discussing venezuela later today.

>> do you expect a short process in the senate or an extended process? >> i'll do whatever i want. look, we did nothing wrong, so i'll do long or short. i've heard mitch, i've heard lindsey. i think they are pretty much in agreement of some concept. i wouldn't mind the longer process because i'd like to see the whistleblower who is a fraud. the whistleblower wrote a false report. and i really blew it up when i released the transcript of the call. and then schiff gets up and he -- i blew him up, too. because he went up in front of congress and he made a statement about what i said that was totally false. then a long time after he made it, when he got there he said, oh, this was a parody.

because of the fact he's in congress, he's got immunity so i couldn't do anything. the whistleblower wrote a totally false statement, so it's a fraud. then i say, where is the informer, the one that informed the whistleblower? >> he disappeared. youn why i released that transcript, we would an informer, we would have had another whistleblower. remember that? we have a second whistleblower, we have breaking news. not all of it, but much of the media is corrupt. these are bad people, they're sick people and they're corrupt. we're fighting the democrats and we're fighting a lot of the corrupt media. but i asked the corrupt media, where is the second whistleblower? now, had i not had a transcript -- i'm lucky we had this transcript. which, by the way, has now been verified by the lieutenant colonel. lieutenant colonel, okay? he's another beauty.

so where is all of this stuff that was going to happen? once i released it, and i released it quick -- quickly. but once i released it, all of a sudden the second whistleblower disappeared. the first whistleblower who was all set to testify, he all of a sudden becomes this saint-like figure that they don't need anymore once i released the text of what happened, the transcript, that was the end. everybody disappeared. so now floss info-- there is no informer. he said, i want nothing. no quid pro quo. we're dealing with a lot of

corrupt people. there was nothing done wrong. to use the power of impeachment on this nonsense is an embarrassment to this country. the president just said it. it's an embarrassment to our country. thank you very much, everybody. thank you very much. >> you hear chaotic moments at the end. discussions of impeachment also coming up as well as the china trade deal. some significant things the president said. number one, not everything the president said right there tracks the facts. that's not uncommon. but not everything the president said actually tracks the facts. including, he called the whistleblower a fraud. everything in the whistleblower

report, everything of substance, has been verified from additional witnesses in the impeachment hearings. but what the president was referring to there was political. the president essentially trying to keep the republicans on his side and keeping the american people thinking the facts are in dispute, even though the basic facts of what happened are not in dispute. you can argue whether it was an impeachable defense. the president held a military meeting and held the meeting from ukraine for investigations into the 2016 election and the bidens. what was most significant to me there looking forward, despite the politics, was the president said he'll do whatever they want to do when it comes to a senate trial. if you go back several days in the president's twitter feed, he was demanding the whistleblower be called, demanding hunter biden be called. now the president seems to be listening to the majority leader mitch mcconnell who met yesterday with the attorney pat

cipollone, saying, no, that's not what we want. that's not the votes we want. let's move on. >> he'll be down in mar-a-lago over the christmas break. this is going to be starting in january. we don't know where the president is going to end up once this begins in january. he's hearing from a lot of outside people. he said, i wouldn't mind doing a long process, i'm fine with whatever. he probably isn't fine with whatever, but lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell and others are trying to suggest to him that a short process without witnesses is a good thing. he could have talked for a couple minutes and switched to economy. >> it also quickly turns to, i'd prefer a longer one. lily skpchlt there has been this

effort to push him approximat y approximately. kaitlan is outside. kaitlan, to that point, the president wants a show. he wants republicans to call him the whistleblower. whi whichly the president would like to get hunter biden called in. what the majority leader has said to the white house. i promise you will not be kwliblgtd or removed from office. >> he is catering to people like mitch mcconnell who is talking about inviting those witnesses to come in person, and it's also something the president said lindsey graham is making that

argument to him. essentially their concern is that it could turn into a circus or that it could sf. they're going to be recalling who currently work here r. he was appearing to mock the enter colonel alex vindman who still works, we should note, in the building right next to the white house jurks a few feet away from where the president was sitting there. >> as he was travelizing impeachment. it was the vice president mike pence, secretary of state mike pompeo and the chief of staff mick mulvaney who are all at the center of this scandal with the president. of course, you have to keep in mind as he's making these

changes, as he's talking about whether the trial will be long or short, rudy giuliani was in this morning after he recently returned from a trip to ukraine. he said the plane was still making its way out of the runway when hely there is a lot of time to go before this trial get kicked off. zds he's northerly. kaitlan collins at the might house, appreciate it. a quick break and then we're back to this historic development. the house judicialment. a complicated

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vote.. we can do long or short. i've heard mitch, i've heard lindsey. i think they're in agreement on some kind of concept. i'll do whatever. it doesn't matter. >> the president in the oval ofls office a short time ago saying he'll do long, he'll do short. he's speaking of the impeachment trial. they'll have an impeachment trial early next year to decide whether the president should be convicted and removed from office. the votes are not there, not even close. that's why mitch mcconnell says,

i want to do this quickly and i'm working hand in hand with the white house. >> everything i do, i'm coordinating with the white house counsel. we'll be working through this process in hopefully a short period of time in total coordination with the white house counsel's office and the people representing the president. i'm going to coordinate with the president's lawyers so there won't be a difference on how they treat us. i'm going to take a cue from the president's lawyers. >> this is an onion we could peel for a while. let's start about the idea he's the republican leader of the senate. he's also the foreman of the jury. mr. mcconnell is the boss, he's the leader, which essentially makes him foreman of the jury. he's key to the rules. he's decided already before hearing a shred of evidence in the senate that the will not be

convicted. is that the way to do this or is this where we live? >> it is not a jury trial. it is a political trial, and chuck schumer has also made up his mind how he's going to vote. that is the reality that we're in right now. mitch mcconnell told his republican caucus the other day in a private luncheon, a long trial is mutually assured destruction, the way he described it. because if they want to call hunter biden, then he told them, we're going to have to call mike pence. for every biden, you get a pence. then you're going to get the other two people sitting on the couch, mulvaney and pompeo, because there just aren't enough votes to hold a completely partisan trial right now. so he just wants this to be clean and simple. >> a little more mitch mcconnell here. the reason you make that point is mitch mcconnell right here. he is calm at the moment. we company in texpect in the ho

will be zero republicans voting for impeachment. mcconnell is trying to keep that in the senate, but he knows they have difficult elections next year. >> the case is so darn weak coming over from the house. we all know how it's going to end. there is no chance the president is going to be removed from office. my hope is there won't be a single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. and sean, it wouldn't surprise me if we got one or two democrats. >> that's today. that's today. but to paul's point, if you demand the bidens, the democrats say give us mulvaney. you deny the whistleblower, the democrats say give us biden and pence. >> and they could say, what was that conversation you had with zelensky? there are senate leaders that if they have to sit through a very

long trial, their view could change and decide, this isn't the best option for me, to stay in line with the president. >> i covered the last impeachment. bill clinton lost three articles in the house. two ultimately passed the house. it was partisan, and it was nasty, yet compared to this almost -- not civil, but boy, was the volume lower. >> you can tell me, but my understanding there was a more agreed-upon process, both parties decided. there was taped testimony, so they did go into it with both sides agreeing on how to do this. so far we haven't seen that yet. >> trent lott was the republican leader then, mitch mcconnell said, what happened in the house was a circus. we're not bringing that over here. they also left the question for witnesses open at the beginning. they had a 100% senate role.

>> shanahan last evening, and the president trying to show there is no daylight at all here. it's a little bit like, oh, there is gambling at the casino with the white house. when you step back, you see it is sort of extraordinary they're coordinating here so closely. but as we've been saying, the president is going to be thinking about this and stewing about this, and he may change what he wants. in january he may say, i want a long trial, i want these witnesses, i want hunter biden. >> i think what's always important to remember about this president is he's fighting. he has both supporters and members of the house who want to see this. those things bolster him.

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welcome back. a very big day here in washington. the house judiciary committee voting this morning to send two articles of impeachment to the full house. the full house will vote next week. abuse of power and obstruction of congress are charges against the president central to the abuse of power. the democrats believe the president leveraged official authority to deny the ukranian president a meeting, then to deny ukraine congressional past military aid until ukraine announced two investigations the senate wanted. central to all of this is the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. today as the house was taking this big action, who shows up at the white house but rudy giuliani, just back a few days ago from a trip to ukraine where he again met with some of the controversial figures he's been pushing for months for dirt on joe biden. rudy giuliani, you see there, heading into the white house,

presumably to meet his client. he told this to the "wall street journal." when he returned to work on saturday, the president called him as his plane was still taxiing down the runway, giuliani said. what did you get? he said mr. trump asked. more than you can imagine, mr. giuliani replied. he said he's putting his findings in a 28-page report. in a normal world, if you had an allegation that you had a personal attorney who was running a rogue operation off the books counter to u.s. policy, counter to u.s. national security, meaning with known scum b scumbags in ukraine, you wouldn't have them meet you the day the house judiciary committee was impeaching you. why? >> they're trying to normalize all of this. the reality is if rudy giuliani presents this report, which he probably will, now it's their turn for their part of the show. after the vote next week, the house will go away, so over the

holidays rudy giuliani will probably spend more time with his client, the president. so who knows what else they'll come up with on this. that makes the republicans even more uneasy knowing that rudy giuliani is still digging for things. the president has been filling his head with conspiracy theories and other matters here, so not helpful, some members of the republican senate would say. >> we expect these votes to be all party line. they were all party line today in the judiciary committee. we expect there will be no republicans in the house. we'll see what happens in the senate. that happens publicly. privately, to your point, there is a slice of the base that loves this. it's in your face, it's deal busting, rudy giuliani is confident around the deep state. rudy giuliani had no right doing what he did. it's unethical.

he's making money at the same time he's doing this, but they won't say it because they're there for their president. >> rudy giuliani makes them uncomfortable. there are still outstanding court cases and rudy giuliani is one from the district of new york and he's being investigated. even if the senate trial happens expeditiously, we could still get more information about ukraine, about the mueller investigation for months to come after that because of these court katsz. >> if barack obama walked into the white house and we still had a republican white house, they would say, no problem? >> i think the last time i was on this set we were debating whether or not trump was going to dump rudy. we said, he's bad for trump, he's bad for trump. we got the answer. he walked into the white house today, he got the call taxiing down the runway on thursday.

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i frankly urge everyone on the other side after three and a half years an increasingly arid argument. i urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin. after five weeks of electioning, this country deserves a break and a permanent break from talking about brexit. >> that was the british prime minister boris johnson this morning after a historic victory for his conservative party. the tories now have a huge vote

for parliament. here are a few headlines from the u.k. this morning. the metro calling it a landslide for him. the daily mail saying, rejoice. the big b's, boris and brexit. and the mirror says nightmare before christmas. nic robertson on 1010 downing street. nick, what does this mean? >> this means brexit leaving the european union by the 31st of january. a deadline for the european union the end of next year. this gives boris johnson a very strong hand. a majority historic in proportions. nothing like this since margaret thatcher since the late '80s. nothing since tony blair in the '90s. it's an historic turning point

for the country, and you heard the prime minister say let's not talk about brexit now, let's get on with christmas. of course, after christmas, yes, it will get real. he's talking about uniting the country. he's saying that because it's been deep and divisive over the past few years, the whole brexit issue. he's talking now about living up to the other things he's promising, putting massive amounts of money into britain's health service, more doctors, more nurses, more police on the streets, better education, new stra infrastructure. talking about patching up holes in the whole british network just a couple weeks ago. perhaps now the biggest challenge will be from scotland. the scottish national party won an additional 13 seats. they now have 48 out of the 55 seats in scotland, and their leader, nicholas sturgeon, a

very smart politician, is calling for a second referendum from scotland. boris johnson said no. that is a clash waiting to happen, john. >> more of a challenge ahead. appreciate the live reporting from 1010 downing street. just a short time ago, the president of the united states not only congratulating a prime minister he considers a friend, but suggesting there is some meaning to this. >> i want to congratulate boris johnson on a terrific victory. i think that might be a harb harbinger of what's to come in our country. it was last time. i'm sure people will be thrilled to hear that. >> i like that, i think people will be thrilled to hear that part. >> he's not the only one. democrats like mike bloomberg and others are saying, hey, we need to learn a lesson here and not go too far left to the progressive.

we don't know what it means exactly, but there is a reminder that things happen. >> one thing you can take from this is the same trends and dynamics that helped propel donald trump to victory helped boris johnson. moving in a conservative direction. trump saw that with brexit and is seeing it again. that's the thing the democrats are anxious about. if your party moves too far to the left, you lose those people. >> if it's at least a perceived power of elites, there is a factor to it. you mentioned trump said maybe it's a harbinger. boris johnson is winning in a walk. he predicted headlines when he said the labor department moovlz so, so far to the left. it comes up with ideas that are not able to be contained within a rational basis quickly.

you're also going to see people saying, my god, boris johnson, who is kind of a physical and emotional clone of the president, is able to win. >> i do think it's an oversimplification of what happened in the united kingdom. jerry corbin in the labor party has had issues with anti-semitism, which is something that can't be ignored when it comes to how that could potentially have affected the election there. >> there have been instances in the u.k.-u.s. relationship where things were positive. you also had periods with obama and cameron from different wings of their parties. it's too much to assume that everything is going to mirror that trend. >> things are too volatile in american politics, period, for the last decade plus to make long-term predictions. it's an interesting thing to watch. imagine if we lived in a normal political world in the sense that the president says this is a hoax and a witch hunt.

no, a whistleblower filed a complaint of alleged serious conduct. this is not a hoax and a witch hunt. but boris johnson wins in the united kingdom. the president caught a first step trade deal with china. there is a lot of work to be done, but he made some progress in the markets. he's going to get his u.s.-c u.s.-cana u.s.-canada-mexico deal through. he wanted usmca, a government spending on the campaign trail, he campaigned on other

things. it's a huge list of achievements but overshadowed by impeachment. don't go anywhere. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great evening and a great weekend. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. this is an historic day for america with a vote that took just around six minutes. the house judiciary committee approved articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. one for abuse of power, one for obstruction of congress making president trump the fourth u.s. president to face impeachment. >> today is a solemn and sad day. for the third time in a little over a century and a half, the house judiciary committee h