good evening. chris cuomo is off tonight. a new window into the heart of the impeachment case. the "new york times" citing emails and documents as well as interviews with dozens of current and former administration officials, documents the 84 days that could end a presidency. 84 days from the president's first question about blocking military aid to ukraine to the moment it was finally released.

this new account has a lot to say about how it all played out and who the players were and the concerns. it was either politically unwidunwise or just plain wrong. mick mulvaney has been described as deeply involved in holding up the aid. the "times" reporting shows the white house budget office was seeking legal clearance for withholding the money. bolton, you'll recall, reportedly referred to it all as a drug deal, according to testimony. he's central to the "times" report along with three others, all four of whom happen to be the very officials the white house does not want to testify. they are now at the center over the battle of what the senate impeachment trial might look like. i want to go to kaitlan collins

near mar-a-lago tonight. are the president and his team working on a plan for the senate trial while he's down there in florida? >>. >> reporter: yeah, anderson. they still have a lot of big decisions to make sources are saying and essentially are making those decisions while they are here. there are people around the president like mick mulvaney but others have been back in washington working on this strategy as they're trying to nail down who exactly will be defending the president when and if they do have that senate trial and the president has been pushing this very aggressive republican house members on his team but there are still questions about who else he can bring in and that kind of sheds some light on the outside influence it's been on the presidents are by the fact that he was golfing with people like trey gowdy, who has been advising the president at the white house for several weeks and the two were seen golfing together on sunday, which could

indicate any decision the president is going to make over the next several days. >> i talked to boris sanchez and he raised the name of alan dershowitz who has been on air coming up with legal arguments the president might be able to use. >> alan dershowitz is a name floated by the president. president trump said privately he wanted to bring him on the team. a lot of people have cautioned the president about that saying that is only going to open them up to are more scrutiny, unless over allegations around alan dershowitz in recent days. today he was seen golfing with senator lindsey graham who has been telling the president he needs brick in attorneys from the outside, constitutional law experts in addition to it the white house counsel saying essentially he's going to need more attorneys that just that guy. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. the "times" reporting what stands out, the fact that the main characters on the parj are the same ones the president

didn't want talking to the house under oath. they do not want them testifying at the senate trial either. i spoke about it just before air time with congressman steve cohen, a democratic member of the house judiciary committee. >> congressman, how much of the details in the the "new york times" increased the need for mulvaney, bolton, blair, duffy to testify in front of the senate? their names are over this. >> to any objective, logical thinking person, you'd say it increased it a lot, but mcconnell is a political animal and he's just trying to figure out how to save the president and thereby save himself because he's really running low in the polls in the kentucky and needs trumg 's support. of course trump has his wife hired as secretary of transportation. it says you should have this testimony, the public will demand this testimony and witnesses but it puts the republicans in a difficult position because if the truth comes out, there' nothing

anybody can really say except this was a crime, it was an impeachable act, it was a disavowing and disobeying his oath of office, trying to get a foreign power to interfere in our elections and sacrifice our national security and it's everything that we've been saying in our impeachment hearings and why we voted to impeach. the case is clear. the republicans have gone to their last line of defense which is, burr they got the aid. they're saying they got the aid means, yeah, he did wrong and he was doing wrong but at the last minute he went ahead and gave in. they can still probably do that. >> the thing about that argument, they got the aid argument, which it seems intellectually dishonest to me in that they got the aid because the whistle-blower came forward and this blew up. i mean, that's what -- that's why the aid ended up going when

it did. >> yeah, and that's of course true but that's a logical thinking person looking a this the objectively and trying to think about what's right and wrong. mcconnell's not doing that. you don't that when your client and basically trump who is on trial is the client of the juror, mcconnell, you know he's guilty. so just like, heck, i'm a lawyer and i understand everybody has a right to a defense. so, yeah, the -- you say self-defense, that's what you're going to say, it was self-defense and the defense attorney is going to tell the people to say that. but, you know, i don't are client's guilty. >> according to the "times," after president trump first asked to put a hold on the aid, a white house aiz robert blared wrote, "expect congress to become unhinged," it certainly seems like an understatement given how this has turned out. it was a very accurate warning.

>> well, it was an accurate warning and we didn't become unhinged but what we did was the democrats at least, we did our duty even to us in article one to look out for the constitution and to talk the so responsibility of impeachment to keep a president who was a rogue president operating outside of the constitutional norms and put him in check and that's what we did. the republicans went unhinged because, fen, they didn't have a real defense. all they could do was talk in high-pitched voices and loud and and take their coats off and talk about the fact that the aid was released or come up with a bunch of other huey about the bidens and whad hunter did in a car in florida sometime. obfuscation, deflection, they can't defend him. he's guilty. >> when it comes to the articles of impeachment, which haven't yet by sent over to the senate, how long do you think is too long for speaker pelosi to hold

them, or is is it possible to just never send them over at all and just not have it go to the senate? >> well, my friend don schlitz wrote a song called "the gambler." nancy pelosi would be a great card player because she knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. i'm not going to suggest to her when to do it because she's the best. >> congressman, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> you take care. >> for more now on all this, legal analyst cara cordero, alan stewart and paul beg la. paul, have you ever seen anything quite like what's detailed in the the "new york times" reporting? >> no, no! it was jaw dropping. you think three years into this presidency we'd be used to the dysfunction. set aside whether the policy was right. there is a policy process we are

a superpower. we have the largest military and the largest budget. when you make a decision, you bring in all the experts, the generals the diplomats, the allies. here in you have in the "times" reporting, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the national security adviser in charge of coordinating everything, all three sitting down and they say, iris, we is to release this aide. in a fight between the secretary of defense, the secretary of state and the national security adviser versus donald trump, rudy giuliani and vladimir pu n putin, it wasn't even a fight. they just got rolled. that's unprecedented in my i my long experience in washington. >> one of the things that jumped out in in "new york times" report is this previously

undisclosed meeting, that something is in the interest of the united states, which is giving the aid to ukraine and the president ignoring it. >> right. this was an excellent report. it has a lo has a lot of information. i understand at the end of the day, there's not a lot of new informationthis is really and i do not believe this rises to the level of impeachment. one nugget of information in this articles that really gotten overwookd what was white house aide blair mentioned. had he heard, the pre that they would look into the bidens, he didn't rook at that as anything more than the president withholding aid and he also has

concern about corruption in ukraine. he lessent that's exactly how he took it. clearly there's much more to it than that into something that absolutely does need to be considered. >> it's an interesting point, the counter argument to it is that the president has never talked about corruption anywhere in the world, except suddenly now ukraine and the own name he brings up is something that would, you know, be about ukraine involvement, not at the time thought to be his biggest political opponent.

it interesting, this guy might not have thought it was a problem but i'm not sure there really is a track and the. >> it's not a big fight from in cred. >> right. i mean, what's missing from or even a reasonably believable narrative for why the aid was being held up. and why, for that matter, the meeting with the president of ukraine wasn't given. and what we have to look at this new report in the context of is everything else that we know from the actual impeachment hearings, from the call that was released, the transcript, the summary of the call from july 25th, none of these things are happening in isolation. the new report from the the "new york times" is not in isolation. it all has to be tone together.

when we loom a all of the information that it's in the primeline of when the president was also pressuring the president of ukraine to conduct and to announce the conduct of investigations into his political opponents. and a person who seems to maybe know all of that is mick mulvaney. and i think the in it's awfully interesting that he in particular and the president unwilling to allow him to testify in front of congress. >> we have to take a quick break. also, turns out rudy giuliani has been busier than we. and the official foreign policy he seems to have been contradicting.

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president's water with regard to this ukraine situation and really gone out on a limb for him, i thought it was interesting that he's left out of a lot of these meetings with president trump and rudy giuliani. and that would be something if i was mick mulvaney, i would want to be in on those calls. the question is if i were a democrat, i would want to know what's the reason he was left out of those meetings? is it for him to have plausible deniability or is it because the president and rudy giuliani wanted attorney/client privilege? that is something that anyone would want to know the answer to that and would be interesting to find that out. >> paul, in the article i any it indicates he was leaving the room because he wanted to give them attorney/client privilege. to me that raises the question that he's assuming that whatever business they are conducting is legal business, is personal, is based on the president's personal interests.

if they're discussing ukrainian policy and mulvaney thinks it's all the president's personal interests, that sort of argues against the very notion that he was doing the people's business in holding up aid to ukraine, if it's all just -- this is all just part of his personal, you are know, shenanigans with rudy giuliani. >> right. i'll let carrie speak more precisely because i'm a terrible lawyer, but even a terrible lawyer knows the attorney/client privilege isn't some imagine being cloak of invisibility. it only applies when you're giving legal advice and there's a crime fraud exception if a crime was occurring. if i'm talking to my lawyer, bob bash e barnett and bob barnett says bet on uva in the football bowl. that's not legal advice. it's why mulvaney and the other aides need to be under oath. it's why the pressure on republican senators is going to

be enormous to simply get these people and get the facts. it may be alice is right and that mr. blair completely exonerates the name of our president. then let's get him up there and clear the fine name of our president. >> one thing, it's really a good idea to pay your lawyer and so your lawyer is working for you are. if you're not paying your lawyer burr you allow your lawyer to make all sorts of side deals with whoever they hp to bring into their net because of contact with you, that leaves a whole lot of room for shenanigans, to use a stupid word, to go on. using giuliani and security deals with officials in ukraine and turkey and lobbying the

president for klein sense, trying to get maduro out of venezuela la and supply surveillance equipment to the army. none of that is a good idea if that's your enjoy. >> well, it's also not the nature of pro bono lawyering. there's all sorts of wonderful lawyering that goes on that is pro bono and not for pay and those are real legal matters. that's not what's going on between the president and rudy giuliani. he's engaged in all sorts of things, paul is right that, would not be legally privileged as the conversations that they have are the legal vice to the voice of the clount but even all the other things thatted and there is this piece where we have just come to accept this odd relationship between the

president and robert mueller. as his lawyer but when we think about what was in that articles, the passage that alice was describing where mick mull vinny steps out of the ops. >> he doesn't work for the u.s. -- the american people and he really should not be involved in matters of state. so if there are actually matters of state that mick mulvaney is stepping out for for the president to be able to discuss with ryan lochte, that means the president is using him in a way that is potentially national defense matters or national security matters, certainly this matter of ukraine was an important national dispense matter. so it really is actually quite it's a blurring of lines between personal and official u.s. government -- >> alice, i have 20 seconds.

>> there's nothing more costly and expensive with real help. >> it really does raise the question who is benefiting from that? hope any it's this president and the united states but we just don't know. >> tomorrow i'm calling any attorney i've ever met and making sure all my bills are paid. >> still to come, tonight, two horrific attacks and two sets of worshippers this weekend. why hate crimes are on the rise. did have

tonight the attorney general of new york state announced she'll establish a task force which will vet hate groups of a the stabbings of five people on a hanukkah celebration in rockland county, new york. it's the late nest in a series around new york city. more than a thousand miles away, innocent people were attacked trying to practice their faith. a man opened fire inside a texas church killing two people. we're about to show you that attack as it unfolded. we do want to warn you, we are blurring the most disturbing

images. it is disturbing nonetheless. it is also very loud. but it is something we believe it's important to show, the bravery of the hero who took down the attacker in just a matter of seconds as church goers dove to the floor. security members are security deputy sheriff and firearms instructor. here's the video you'll see at the top of the screen. [ gunfire ] >> that's how fast it happened. as with the shooting in the church, the home where the hanukkah attack took place was packed with worshippers. miguel marquez has new details in the new york investigation. >> reporter: tonight federal hate crime charges lay out what prosecutors say was the anti-semitic motivation behind a machete wielding attack in the middle of a hanukkah celebration. investigators say on the

suspect's phones internet history, searches for synagogues in new york and new jersey. the search terms, "why did hitler hate the jews" and prominent companies founded by jews in america. investigators recovered from his home handwritten journals expressing anti-semitic entries. the teachings of the same group were connected, says a law enforcement official, to the attack on a kosher market in new jersey earlier this month. >> joseph gluck was in the rabbi's home when the suspect walked in and announced no one is leaving. wielding an 18-inch machete and according to court documents began stabbing and slabbing people. seven people were injured, one

remains in critical condition with a skull fracture. >> i started to come back to the front door. i opened the door and saw an older gentleman bleeding. he stayed in there and the attacker cam back from the kitchen to the main room. >> gluck had the presence of mind to chase the attacker to his car and get his license plate number. less than two hours the suspect was arrested by officers as he returned to manhattan. investigators say his clothing and hands had blood on them and his car smelled of bleach in a possible attempt to wash away evidence. >> my impression from speaking with him is that he needs serious psychiatric evaluation. >> reporter: the suspect's family says he is a former marine and is not anti-semitic but does have mental health issues. his lawyer says he looked over the same journals described by investigators. >> there is no suggestion in any of those ramblings and pages of

writing of an anti-semitic motive. >> miguel marquez, cnn, rockland county, new york. >> hate attacks are on the rise. jonathan greenblatt is the national director of the anti-defamation league. what do you think about the hate crime charges filed today? >> i think it's incredibly important. when someone bursts into a person's home after having driven almost a half an hour with a machete and attempts to butchering them while they're lighting a hanukkah menorah, that's a hate crime plain and simple and calling it out as it is is critical so the broader community understands this wasn't just an isolated incidents. this wasn't just an attack or a crime committed against a single family. it's a threat to the entire community and needs to be treated as such. >> and you have seen in new york a rising problem on this?

>> we've seen a rising problem across the country. this happened last weekend, over the past few days after a series of incidents. we have nearly doubled the number of anti-semitic instances across the country. >> double? >> double. and in new york we've had hundreds of anti-semitic instances, in man hathattan and brooklyn and now in muncie. we have an environment where hate has almost become part of the public conversation on a daily basis. we have lead who are engage in prejudice. it happens full stop from the highest levels of the land. secondly, we see leaders in other positions of authority who almost dismiss or deny that anti-semitism is a problem. but when you fling around conspiracy theories, when you make accusations against

zionists in a haphazard kind of way, this creates an environment in which anti-semitism is toll vated at a time when we need a zero tolerance policy on prejudice. >> when leaders use that language and have that attitude, it emboldens everybody else. >> you know, you can think of anti-semitism like a virus. it's been around for thousands of years. it existed before we had the united states of america, right? literally it's been part of the human condition for millennia. so this virus exists just under the surface. but when our collective immune system is weakened because leaders engage in prejudice, because other people don't can't it out when it happens, because social media encourages a remarkable amount of slander and stereotyping. when our collective immune system weakens, the virus explodes and shows up in awful, ugly ways that as happened this this weekend.

sfli cannot give over the fact that hundreds of americans were willing to show up, you know, carrying naz oo flags and chanting "juice will n chanting "jews will not replace us," obviously i'm not an idiot, i know these groups exist bub the blatant showing of those colors to me is -- >> yeah, we were talking about this. i remember it very distinctly, it just a few years ago. our analysts at adl, we knew that rally would be big. it's much larger than we thought. but flash forward to 2018. we have the third highest total of hate crimes that we've seen in 40 years. only 13% were committed by known white supremacists. almost 09% were committed by ordinary people. talk about acts of harassment,

vandalism and violence. and the machete assailant this weekend, who ehad known ties to white supremacist groups. we don't foe if he was -- we don't know anything about mim other than he was a deranged individual and that's the problem. the normalization of anti-sem tim, anderson. an environment in which people teal like it's okay to traffic in and we need this to stop now. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> just ahead it is neck and neck in iowa. i'll speak to one of the democrats hoping to break through the log jam, former massachusetts governor deval patrick. innovate...ck to to introducing products faster... to managing website inventory...

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only five weeks to go before the first real test of the 2020 election where the voters finally get their say. ats are swarming iowa with the stakes rising for the field of 15 who are left, hitting each other more directly in these final days. pete buttigieg went after joe biden. bernie sanders told an iowa audience when it comes to questions about his medicare for all plan he shouldn't being the only one facing scrutiny. >> it is fair to can ask me how i'm going to pay for it but it is also fair that my opponents a

to ask them why they are paying outrageous rates they cannot afford. >> you heard what bernie sanders says. as somebody who opposes the medicare fof ar all, how do you respond to him? is the alternative fair? >> first of all, the al teternae is not the status quo, at least in my view. it's not exactly correct to say i oppose medicare for all because we're using that slogan to mean a whole bunch of different things today, anderson. building on the aca with a public option is a better and smarter way to learn as we go. and so if that bik optipublic o medicare, that's fine. what i like about that approach is the creative tension you have from the private insurance industry on the one hand having to figure out how to compete for all of folks who are going to move to that no-cost or low-cost

public option, that's a good things and frankly we need innovation in medicare as well. >> your decision to enter the race, you entered late obviously. people had talked about you entering before. was it that you saw that if there are lanes that candidates are in that, you are know, people say you're in the more moderate, centrist wing of the democratic party, they would say you're in the jooid, buttigieg. do you see a joe biden as -- i mean, is that the lane you're in? >> so, you know -- >> obviously no one likes to be put into a lane. >> that's it. i don't think any of us really fits into a box. we were ready to go a little bit more than a year ago. we were about three weeks from a stepping out date when my wife, diane, was diagnosed with

utilitierin cancer. we celebrated 35 years in may and i'm delighted and relieved to say she's out of free. i watch a field whaul of whom i respect and are my friend but who seem to be missing the mome moment. >> in respect to what? >> there's a the lot of perfectly understandable focus on the incumbent president and how divisive and destructive he is. but if the tark ter of the candidates is at ib ou, we had an opportunity to address the anxiety and the fear and the hurt that everybody is feeling in different ways and in many cases for the same reasons. and to use that as an opportunity to unite the country, fix systems but also unite the country. >> do you think it's a mistake for democrats to focus so much on the character of president trump? you have mayor bloomberg running

a lot of ads focusing on the character of trump. i saw there was a poll just a new gallup poll, president obama and president trul were tied for the most admired man. >> do you stl. >> look, i think that -- i think that beating president trump is obviously a prewek which -- if all we do is offer him a formula with removing him from office, we're going to miss this moment, right? we have -- you look at the financial numbers, look at the economic indicators. they don't tell the whole story. we have low unemployment we have, you know, low inflation as well as you don't cost the cows of housing, the very pings that

having ground up in welfare and going to college and being a civil rights attorney, a business executive, a two-term governor. i see that american dream becoming more and more out of reach for more and more people. i think it is a thing worthity fending and i think we will get there pa also we have to have obviously it's a key state. how much more difficult does it make it for sfu. >> we're looking at all of our options. that's a whack one's name they put on and one's name they

didn't. what's right about that? just fundamentally that doesn't work. but it turns out, there are other candidates who have had trouble getting on balance, senator we're raising money to are competitive. we'll be up very soon on television in the early stage, particularly in new hampshire and south carolina. we have organizations in each of those states and it's a wide open race. so, you know, i'm later, not late. it's not late until the voted and it's important to remember that. >> appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> happy new year. >> thank you, and to you. >> coming up, linda ronstadt, her artistry and incredible career. ♪ limu emu & doug

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♪ ♪ linda ronstadt is one of this country's musical legends. from rock to country to rhythm and blues, she soared with her unique voice and presence. i spoke with her recently at the kennedy center for performing arts in washington about her beginnings, her self-confidence, her lack of it at times, and the incredible arc of her career. it's all part of the new cnn film "linda ronstadt, the sound of my voice". >> i hadn't realized how early you started singing.

it seems like music from the earliest memories -- >> i roemember trying to write song when i was 2 on the piano. >> when you were 2? >> yeah, it was called tweet, tweet, tweet. it was about a bird. >> did you ever plan on becoming a superstar? >> i never thought about that. i thought i wanted to sing, and i thought it would be nice if i could make my living singing. that meant paying the rent and groceries. i wouldn't have to go work at a bank or something else. and i always managed to do that. i never had to get a different job. but, you know, when i was getting paid $30 a week to sing, i thought i was doing fine. i thought that was really success. >> what did you feel when you were singing, especially early on? >> i just felt like i wanted to make myself feel like music that i liked made me feel. i'd hear melissa armstrong and ella fitzgerald, and i'd go, i want to go that, i want to feel that why. >> the act of singing, was it joyful? >> well, it was something

because people used to turn around when i sing. in school, you're supposed to pretend and sing and go la, la, la. but i was going, let's sing, you know? because my family sang. so i sang with my older brother, who was in the tucson arizona boys choirs, one of the soloists. he was wonderful. >> and he taught you about bravado and -- >> yeah, he did. and we learned harmonies. we just didn't have to be taught them. we just knew how to sing harmony. we used to sing in the back of the car. we used to sing with our hands in the dishwater. i think everybody should do their own singing. up don't have to be a professional. you don't have to delegate your sorrows to professionals. you can sing your own sorrows. some music is just for privacy. it's something you sing in your bedroom. and some music is something you play at the piano for a select group of friends. >> were you confident as a singer? did you know how good you were? >> oh, i never thought i was. >> you didn't? >> i always thought i might get a little better tomorrow. but i always felt like my phrasing was kind of hopeless.

>> in the documentary, somebody says about you that when you would be onstage, if you saw people in the front row, two people sort of whispering to each other, that you assumed they were saying bad things about you? >> yeah, poor lady, she can't sing. >> you really felt that even -- i mean you're on a stage in front of thousands of people. >> i tried to keep my eyes closed. you don't see the audience very much because they're not lit, but you are. so you can pretend you're by yourself. when i see the audience, it's why are all those people staring at you? in the animal kingdom, when an animal is staring at you, they probably want to eat you. it's deep rooted instinct, you know? >> was there ever a point when you were satisfied with the quality of it? >> in the '90s, i sang better than the '80s. it's always a work in progress. it's very weird to hear a recording because it's frozen in time. i go, oh, i sang it better in jacksonville, florida, in 1978. you remember the moment that you

really achieved something. but it's not the whole song even. it's just a phrase or a note. you go, that was the gold standard, you know. >> so it's just a little piece of a song that you feel, okay, that meets my standards? >> yeah. when i hear records, i go, that phrase was nice. that measure was nice. that song sucked. you know, that song proves i never could sing my whole life anyway. >> you weren't a songwriter, but you picked songs, and you made them your own, and i mean in such an extraordinary way. how did you know what songs to -- because it seems like a number of them, you heard on a radio or you heard somewhere. >> well, i'd hear something and it would speak to me urgently that that was like something i'd felt in my life. sometimes it was only a phrase, and then i'd have to figure out how to make the rest of the song fit. and sometimes it was not music terribly well suited to my style, but i'd have to make it that bay. >> as a said, a remarkable

artist. here's a quick preview of the documentary, "linda ronstadt: the sound of my voice". >> >> she came to los angeles. >> ladies and gentlemen, ms. linda ronstadt. >> i was 18 years old. we formed a band called the stone poneys. >> the l.a. scene was in gear, and the whole damn thing broke loose. >> there was rock music, folk music commingling. >> how could we define what this was going to be? >> linda was the queen. she was like what beyonce is now. >> she was the only female artist to have five platinum albums in a row. >> i can't it if i'm still in love with you was a hit on the country charts. you're no good was a hit on the r and b chart and the pop chart. i became the first artist to have a hit on all three charts ♪ you're no good, you're no gl >> she was the first female rock and roll star. ♪ you're no good, you're no

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who would have think it, new year's eve 2020 is just about here. in less than 24 hours, andy cohen and i will once again be in times square where the weather forecast is actually not terrible. here's a look at some of the joys of last year's program.

>> i'm so grateful that it's in the 40s tonight. >> it is amazing. >> i don't even care about the rain. >> no one cares about the rain. >> boy, the rain is really picking up. >> no talking about the weather. >> no, i'm enjoying it. i'm cozy as all get out. >> they don't even want us to have the umbrella. it's been a fight. >> we've been fighting with them about the umbrella. >> you would be proud of your son. he was literally like, put me in a paddy wagon. i'm not getting rid of this umbrella. >> it's true. this is some grade "a" b.s. it's like a joke. what do they care about an umbrella? i was so happy before. i just want to say, it's pouring. >> by the way, i finally at one point during a commercial break turned to andy and was like, shut up with the stupid umbrella and the rain. no one wants to hear about it. and he then stopped talking about it. by the way, times square alliance, they reversed their decision. they now allow umbrellas. so andy likes to think of himself like the norma rae of

times square. there's almost no chance of rain tomorrow night according to weather reports. coverage kicks off tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. eastern live in times square. we go to 11 ] this is "cnn tonight" i'm victor blackwell sitting in for don lemon. with the impeachment trial of president trump looming whether the senate reconvenes in january, new details are emerging about the administration's decision to with hold nearly $400 million in military aid to ukraine. "the new york times" reporting that a month before the phone call where the president asked ukraine's leader to investigate president trump's political rivals. a top adviser warned mulvaney that congress will become unhinged in the money is withheld. the times also reports that top trump officials including former national security adviser john