the first white house political appointee was deposed behind closed doors. republicans calling it a loss for democrats as tim morrison who was on the ukraine call, was not concerned about anything illegal but was concerned about the conversation being leaked. the city's violence not taking a break for trick or treat, a little girl is fighting for her life, that heartbreaking story. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with correspondent leland fitted on impeachment inquiry rules, nobody agrees what it means but break it down for us. >> people don't agree about a lot. scripture tells us a house divided against itself that house cannot stand. lincoln said something similar before the civil war. tonight the people at house is as divided as it can be, the final vote on the impeachment inquiry came down strictly on partyline save two democrats siding with the president in contrast with a similar vote to launch an impeachment inquiry into president clinton, 30 plus members of the president's own party voted against him and 400 house members voted in favor of the

>> the first part of it -- up to president truman's renditions novations at the white house. this takes the story to the end of the first bush administration. >> how did you approach the story? >> the whole story. >> who are you writing it for? >> the central characters of the house and the various people who go there and the various people and their reactions to living there. the development of an institution which president obama will enter a very well organized institution to serve his work. and you have to look at it that way in the white house. >> if you had to pick a president, this is not a political question, more of a interesting or fun or whatever. which president and his family would you like to have lived with in the history? >> that's very hard. probably monroe. it was an interesting time in american history tv. the period of monroe and the end of the war of 1812. and going into a boom situation. i think the years from 1816 to 1819 would have been fairly exciting at the white house. what would it have been like in the white house? >> james monroe was looked a litt

preparing for the whole thing in a matter of weeks to go public but also on the hill today, the first white house political appointee was deposed behind closed doors. republicans calling his testimony today a loss for democrats. tim morris and was on the ukraine call, reportedly said ht anything illegal, but was concerned about the conversations being leaked. breaking tonight, tragedy in chicago, the city of violence not taking a break for trick-or-treaters. now a little girl is fighting for her life, that heartbreaking stories, the details and an update straight ahead peered hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin tonight with correspondent lehman bidders on today's houseboat on inquiry rules. make it down for us. >> people don't agree on a lot right now. scripture tells us if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. lincoln said something similar, in the years before the civil war. the house is about as divided as it can be. the final vote on today's impeachment inquiry came down strictly on party lines, to save two democrats siding

vindman is the first white house official to testify who listene in on the phcall president trump made to ukraine's leader veasking him t igate joe biden. government corresponmaria d nt lagos and ron elving, joining d.c. hello. ton, >> hello. >> good to be with you. >> hello to you both. thank you. ron, let's start with you. been an intense week in er has politics and the case for impeachment. what are two of the biggest obstacles democrats face with the impeachment process moving forward? >> well two big obstacles, it's complicated and takes them tra concion and a little attention and people may need to read things and things might need to be explained. people don't necessarily always that. lot of patients for they haver things to think about in their lives. the second biggest challenge is getting over what will be a ferocious resistance from the republicans in the republic hearings and the people who are suppose to be in that room and people who are not suppose to be in that room will trying in one way or another to distract from the preedings and they will be trying to fill the air

dman vindman is the first white house official to testify who listened in on the phone call president trump made to ukraine's leader asking him to investigate joe biden. joining us now are kate and gos and ron elving, joining us via skype fromloashington, d.c. h >> hello. >> good to be with you. >> hello to you both. thank you. ron, let's start with you. this final week in october has been an intense week in politics and the case for impeachment. what are two of the biggest obstles democrats face with the impeachment viprocess forward? >> well two big obstacles, it's complicated and takes them li concentration and le attention and people may need to read things and things might need to be explained. people don't necessarily always have a lot of patients for that. they have other things to think liout in their s. the second biggest challenge isr getting hat will be a ferocious resistance from the republicans in the republic hearings and the people who are suppose to be in that room and people who are not suppose to be in that room wi be ying in one way or another to distract from the p

. >> the first white house political tim morrisson moojed that president did investigate joe biden and his son. but he also said he did not think it was illegal. it all comes down to the transcript of the call. and i will read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. when you read it it's a straight call. >> the investigation meantime turns full as well as a former national security vidz sorry john bolton back to you guys. >>> all right. thank you. doug luzader live in washington. . . . . . >>> kamala harris. rudy giuliani has pocket dialed several news reporters. she says the claims resident various concerns that >>> the 49ers win over the cardinals. next what the players have to say about the win. they're taking on their division rival in monday night's game. you know when you're at ross and you realize you are the the hostess with the mostest. yes! yeah! that's yes for less. entertain in style all season long. it feels even better when you find it for less-at ross. yes for less. so that early retirement we planned. it's going ok? great. now i'm spending more time w

today a white house staffer testified. he's also the firstofficial to appear on capitol hill. abc7 news reporter david wright has thela >> reporter: he's the first white house staffer to testify in the impeachment inquiry. mark sandy of the office of management and budget. democrats hope sandy will shed light on the administration's decision to briefly withhold $400 million in military aid to ukraine allegedly as leverage to get ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals. friday night, david holmes, an embassy staffer in ukraine, testified for six hours behind closed doors. in his opening statement obtained by abc news, holmes said he overheard a phone call between the president and ambassador gordon sondland and that sondland later told holmes trump didn't care about ukraine. quote, the president only cares about, quote, big stuff, big stuff that benefits the president like the biden investigation. earlier in the day, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testified that she was the victim of a smear campaign spearheaded by the p

come to order. >> as marie novembyovanovitch's hearing was gavelled many, the white house the white house released the firstn. >> when you're settled in and ready, i'd like to invite you to the white house. we'll have a lot of things to talk about. >> the transcript immediately raising questions because it made no mention of corruption. that contradicts a readout published by the white house months ago which claims the two leaders discussed ways to root out corruption during their first call. the white house has insisted fighting corruption was the primary reason trump held up the military aid to ukraine and officials didn't explain discrepancy when cnn asked for comment. today, the press secretary said he would only watch nunes' opening statement, but for the rest of the day, he will be working hard for the american people. though trump later admitted he had been paying close attention! i've been watching today for the first time. i started watching. >> everywhere yovanovitch turned bad, trump tweeted. started off in somalia, how did that go, then transferred to ukraine where the president spoke unfavorabl

later and not actually part of the original statue of liberty. >> that was white house senior advisor stephen miller in his first new e-mails show miller regularly e-mailed a reporter at breitbart with a link to white supremacist websites. i'll start with you maria theresa. this is part of the story apparently according to in august of this year -- actually this is later, a justice department newsletter contained a blog post, the newsletter summaried a link to a post from vdare, and we now are finding out stephen miller was sending vdare articles and other white nationalist haunts to this breitbart editor and suggesting she source article from them. this is not surprising i think to most people who have paid attention to stephen miller, but what do you make of it? >> the challenge of having stephen miller in the ear of the president in the white house in one of the highest capacity tuesday dictate not only his hate, to translate into policy, and that's basically what he's been doing. when you find out, the ap broke yesterday that 69,000 migrant children have been held in detention, that's the consequence. and we

impeachment hearings for president trump continued behind closed doors yesterday a white house staffer testified, he's also the firstdget official to appear on capitol hill. writ. >> reporter: he's the first white house staffer to testify in the impeachment inquiry. mark sandy of the office of management and budget, democrats hope sandy will shed light on the administration's decision to briefly withhold $400 million in military aid to ukraine, allegedly as leverage to get ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals. friday night david holmes an embassy staffer in ukraine testified for six hours behind closed doors. in his opening statement obtained by abc news holmes said he overheard a phone call between the president and ambassador gordon sondland and that sondland later told holmes trump didn't care about ukraine, quote, the president only cares about, quote, big stuff, big stuff that benefits the president like the biden investigation. earlier in the day the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testified that she was the victim of a smear campaign, spearheaded by the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani.

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impeachment hearings for president trump continued behind closed doors, yesterday a white house staffer testified, he is also the firstdget official to appear on capitol hill. abc news reporter david wright has the latest. >> reporter: he is the first white house staffer to testify in the impeachment inquiry, mark sandy of the office of management and budget. democrats hope sandy will shed light on the administration's decision to briefly withhold $400 million in military aid to ukraine, allegedly as leverage to get ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals. friday night david holmes an embassy staffer in ukraine testified for six hours behind closed doors. in his opening statement obtained by abc news, holmes said he overheard a phone call between the president and ambassador gordon sondland and that sondland later told holmes trump didn't care about ukraine, quote, the president only cares about, quote, big stuff, big stuff that benefits the president, like the biden investigation. earlier in the day the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testified that she was the victim of a smear campaign, spearheade

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now, chuck, this would hardly be the first white house to kind of construct -- you'll forgive the phrase -- a wall around the president and try to make distance between the chief executive and those who work for him. is it a good legal strategy to indicate, identify, publicly name those who are about to spend more time with their families? >> i'm not sure it is. when you see shifting defenses, brian, it's another way of perhaps admitting there is no defense, right? first we heard there was no quid pro quo. then we heard the quid pro quo was fine or not illegal. then we heard there wasn't transparency in this process. now we're hearing that other people sort of took the reins from the president and were freelancing on ukraine. it's sort of like this -- forgive the analogy, but if you accuse my goat of eating your roses, first i could say it wasn't my goat. then i could say it wasn't your roses. if you prove it was my goat and your roses, then i just claim my goat was insane at the time of the offense. every time these defenses shift, right, it's sort of an admission that there's no defens

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white house has sort of invented. you think of the white house counsel and you think of privilege. we think of a lawyer and privilege and privileged communication. first of all, white house counsel is the counsel for the president, office holder of the president. he has his own personal counsel, rudy giuliani. >> heard of him. >> you might have heard of him. that is his private counsel. there is no absolute immunity for this person. also if there was immunity, the president has waved that immunity. he let mcgahn testify many times to mueller. if there was privilege, he waved that privilege. i think that's what the judge will rule in this case. why that's important for the judiciary committee is they want mcgahn to testify about what he told a colleague, a friend, about what trump told him, what he said. i want you to fire mueller. he said mcgahn said to this colleague, i felt like it was going to be a saturday night massacre, recalling nixonian times when that's what happened in nixon times. the judiciary committee wants that language, that saturday night massacre language in front of the american public, to set the table for the intent behind preside

white house. yesterday was the first time the two leaders have met since president trump's troop withdrawal that ledo an invasion of kurdish forces. >> reporter: president trump welcomed turkish president erdogan to the white house as the first impeachment hearing proceed the two weeks away on capitol hill. >> i hear it's a joke. i haven't watched. >> reporter: the leaders touted their relationship despite tensions last month after president trump pulled the u.s. military out of syria. the president's troop withdrawal led to a turkish invasion against kurdish forces. the same forces that were u.s. allies in the fight against isis. a small group of u.s. troops remain to guard oil fields while turkish and russian forces patrol a 20-mile safety zone along the border. >> today the cease-fire continues to hold. i want to thank the president for his partnership and cooperation as we work to build a more stable and peaceful and prosperous middle east. >> reporter: the leaders emphasize a strong relationship during the visit with president trump, touting a return to business as usual with items such as trad

major, first, the white house used its taxpayer-funded twitter account to tweet out an attack. >> reporterp. >> o'donnell: lieutenant colonel vindman, a decorated military man, and who also still works in the white house. what did both sides achieve today? >> reporter: well this attack from the white house suggests ele thing you're seeing playing out in these hearings, that if you're a career foreign service or military person and your testimony is sympathetic to the president, you're regarded as fine. if you're the same kind of e reign service officer or part of the military and your testimony isn't, there's wrmething wrong with you, there's something suspicious, either about your testimony, your motives or about your political leanings, even though ti witnesses they've said, "i have no political leanings." all of them have said that. so there's something strange about this approach. if you agree with the president you're okay, if you don't, there's something wrong with hou, even though you have similar resumes. what democrats did today was try to lay out and reaffirm the essential narrat

investigate the president's political rivals in exchange for military aid and a coveted white house meeting. and for the first time white house officials testified the quid pro quo was orchestrated by acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. this as another potential witness, former national security advisor john bolton signals he knows key new details that house investigators do not. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the top ukraine expert on the national security council was listening in on the july 25th phone call when he heard what he called obvious demands by president trump for ukraine's president to investigate the bidens and the 2016 election. he was asked, quote, were there any -- was there any doubt in your mind as to what the president, your president, was asking for as a deliverable? vindman answered, there was no doubt. lieutenant colonel vindman was also present when ambassador gordon sondland told ukrainian officials that a face-to-face meeting with president trump was dependent on ukraine making a public announcement of these investigations. he described the quid pro quo. quote, it

that contradicts a published by the white house months ago which claimed the 2 leaders discussed ways to root out corruption during their first call the white house has insisted fighting corruption was the primary reason trump held up the military aid to ukraine. >>and officials didn't explain the discrepancy when cnn asked for comment. >>today, the press secretary said trump would only watch nunez's opening statement but for the rest of the day. he will be working hard for the american people. though trump later it, it'd he'd been paying close attention that been watching today for the first time i started watching. >>maria van of it when turned back. trump tweeted an hour into the hearing. she started off in somalia, how did that go then fast forward to ukraine where the new ukrainian president spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. it is a us presidents absolute right to appoint ambassadors they call it serving at the pleasure of the president in a surreal moment, adam schiff from read the tweet live on television that you on a >>as we said are testifying the president is attacking you twitter. i'm l

. >> it is beginning to look a lot like christmas the white house, first lady melania trump, welcomed the delivery of the 23-foot douglas fir. the tree from valley farms arrived with horse and carriage. it will be the center piece of this year's white house decorations in the blue room no word yet on what this year's theme will be. >> this week's theme will be i think chaotic i guess a little bit outside, bill. >> hard to believe we have severe weather to deal with, snowstorm to deal with a classic storm brewing in the middle of the country. we have 22 million people under winter weather advisory watches, warning, from california right through the central plains the heaviest snow throughout the day is colorado, nebraska the northern half of iowa. then northern portions of wisconsin. minneapolis could pick up 6 inches of snow with he have a risk of severe storms later today we gohave to watch this in throughout the day today if you want good travel weather, stay on the east coast, looking great from the northeast to the southeast. >>> we'll give the parade forecast coming up for macy's

ellison barber is standing by with the latest from the white house. firstgh, garrett tenney in our d.c. bureau. >> reporter: jon, republicans have identified at least 14 individuals they want to testify during the impeachment inquiry's public hearingsing, but only a handful are expected to be approved by democrat chairman adam schiff. last night schiff informed the intelligence committee's top republican, devin nuÑes, that the impeachment inquiry, quote, will not serve to carry out the same sham investigations into the bidens or conspiracies about 2016 election interference that president trump pressed ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit. those who likely won't be called to testify include hunter biden and his business partner, nellly orr who worked on the now-infamous trump dossier, and a former democratic national committee staffer who allegedly met with ukrainian officials for dirt on the trump campaign. democrats argue that since the impeachment inquiry's about what president trump did or did not do in relation to withholding military

so what happens is from the ground, at the white house, first and foremost, we have to make sure thater occupants of the white house are safe and if they need to be relocated to a different area, that is done immediately. if you think about how fast an airborne threat could come into the white house, there is a big difference between a drone threat and a commercial airliner coming into potentially attack the white house. so again, make sure that the occupants of the white house are safe, evacuate the areas necessary. and we saw some of that happening earlier this week. second part of that is the airborne response. the military has protocols to go ahead and intercept that type of threat based upon what they are seeing. the ality tud of the threat and the speed at which it is traveling. you don't mitigate a drone threat with a fighter jet. so the military has split seconds to decide which type of mitigation they will put forth to stop that threat from coming inbound. >> jonathan, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> appreciate it. >>> and two bilingual best friends couldn't find the boo

sessions' southern accent in the is from bob wood wards' book, fear trump in the white house, the president of the united states first used a derogatory term for jeff sessions mental capacity, which i won't repeat on tv and went on to say, quote, he's this dumb southerner, trump told rob porter the white house staff secretary. he went on to say how in the world was i ever persuaded to pick him for my attorney general? he couldn't even be a one-person country lawyer down in alabama. went ton call him a traitor and said his decision to recuse himself in the russia probe was, quote, the ultimate betrayal. that's what donald trump thinks of the guy who cut the hostage tape yesterday seeking his approval. >> and let's be very clear about it. jeff sessions did what any attorney would do in recusing himself. had he no choice under investigation himself for some misstatements he made on russia. he had no choice but to recuse himself. but donald trump doesn't respect the rule of law. he certainly doesn't respect somebody doing what's ethically right. that's exactly what jeff sessions did, and for it he got just absolute blast

the first hearing, is two white house officials. one that works in the marble security office, and the other is alex crane. both of them testified in their closed-door depositions, they had concerns about trump's july 25th call with se len ske szele. particularly the kind of outside shadow that was run by rudy giuliani. these are two witnesses. curt volker, and tim morriston, a top hand on the national security council, are requests from republicans. curt volker, he says no quid pro quo. he raised concerns about the individuals involved with the policy. same goes for tim morrison. he made clear he was on the call. and made clear, various elements of the ukraine/u.s. policy, were problems in their roles. that's tuesday's hearing. i want to flash forward real quick. on thursday, a new individual has been added to the testimony list. that would be david holmes. he's the u.s. embassy in ukraine official, that overheard the phone call between sondland and president trump. that's now become central to the impeachment inquiry. that will co

first. return to white house correspondent kevin corke. reporter: good to be with you.he president sets the foreign policy for this country, not the diplomats on the ground. today he didn't say a lot. in fact he didn't answer any questions before he made his way to louisiana. but he did allow white house officials to act in his stead. among them kelly and conway, she had plenty to say and a chance to handicap tomorrow's proceedings. >> we learned that the democrats had no case against the president. this was a real court of law and not adam schiff's kangaroo court. objections would have been flying from any reasonable attorney. to say hey we've just discovered staffer of mine overheard a conversation the a staffer was having about the president in a restaurant. reporter: democrats as you pointed out remain convinced the president's conduct in that conversation with ukraine's president amounts to high crimes and misdemeanors. so for them it's full steam ahead. tomorrow wee continue with the impeachment inquiry. marie yovanovich will be back on the hill. keep' and watch f

come out here just for that reason. >>> the centerpiece of the holiday season at the white house has arrived. >> firstaccepted delivery of the white house christmas tree. it arrived by horse-drawn carriage. the tree came from a farm about 40 miles north of harrisburg, pennsylvania. it will eventually take its place in the white house blue room. >> meanwhile one of these birds becomes the official national thanksgiving turkey today, complete with a presidential pardon. the white house yesterday named the pair bread and butter. >> bread and butter, were you expecting those names? we were talking about the names yesterday, bread and butter. there you go. >> peas and carrots from last year, 2018's turkeys, bread and butter, because everything's better with blue bonnet on it. >> salted butter, get that salted blue bonnet. i do like some blue bonnet. >> i just like butter. i like anything. >> i'm going to embarrass my mother for a second, so my mom makes these incredible sweet potato pies, she uses blue bonnet, like the sticks. i remember helping her make them one thanksgiving. she put in like one stick. i

. >> reporter: as marie yovanovitch was gavelled in today, the white house released the transcript of the first which devin nunes read. >> when you're settled in and ready. i'd like to invite to you the white house. we'll have a lot of things to talk about. >> reporter: the transcript immediately raising questions because it made no mention of corruption. that convicts a readout published by the white house months ago which claims the two leaders discussed ways to root out corruption during their first call. the white house has insisted fighting corruption was the primary reason trump held up the military aid to ukraine. and officials didn't explain the discrepancy when cnn asked for comment. today, the press secretary said trump would only watch nunes' opening statement, but for the rest of the day he will be working hard for the american people. though trump later admitted he'd been paying close attention. >> i've been watching for the first time, i started watching. >> reporter: everywhere marie yovanovitch went went bad. trump tweeted. she started out in somalia, how did that go? then fast

impeachment inquiry which will include public hearings, the white house not unexpectedly calls it sham proceedings. thank you to both of you. you firste white house demanded today's vote and they got the vote. but they're still complaining about the process. what gives? >> yeah. they're saying that the votes that happened today is still unfair to them. a lot of the criticism has been focused on one point which is that the house intelligence chairman gets so much leverage in the rules laid out this week and of course, the president doesn't like adam schiff. doesn't like him at the white house. that has been a sticking point behind the scenes. they've been making this argument. they don't think this affords the president due process. with this vote, they recognize that democrats have undercut this argument that until democrats vote, this is not a real inquiry. so look at the next few days to focus other things like they were doing saying, when most most that, if it came down to impeachment, it would have to be bipartisan. something they were focusing on today. two democrats voted against the resolution. no republicans voted for it. foc

you heard it here first, white house chief strategist steve bannon and former adviser to the clintonsark penn told me last month. >> i think that bloomberg and clinton are still there as biden is in fourth in iowa, second in new hampshire, dropping to third. he's losing steam everywhere. maria: do you think michael bloomberg or hillary clinton will enter the race? >> the two representatives of the centrist party. maria: who are you expecting to enter the race? >> i'm not sure exactly who is going to enter, if you're a michael bloomberg, hillary clinton, john kerry or michelle obama, you're probably sitting there saying, i could take this field, maybe i should get in, maybe not, i think all four of them are possibilities. maria: that's why we love our guest so much because you heard it here so much. i mean, this is a story. what's the impact, james? >> the initial impact is this is great for the democratic party and for america to bring another voice of steve bannon said moderation, democratic voters are going to find a lot to like in mr. bloomberg's social liberalism, but he's going t

first lady milani at trump welcomes the white house christmas tree. welcomes theump white house christmas tree, a douglas further from pennsylvania. it will stand in the blue room. ♪ ["oh christmas tree" being performed] ♪ ] ♪h christmas tree" ["oh come, all ye faithful"] ♪ "]hark, the herald angels sing ♪ the impeachment inquiry hearings continue next week, when house judiciary committee jerrold nadler holds the committee's first impeachment inquiry into president trump, focusing on the constitution at the history is impeachment -- history of impeachment. watch live coverage on december 4 at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. extended anler invitation to the president and his counsel to appear before the committee. read the letter the president on our website, c-span.org/impeachment. follow the inquiry live on c-span3, online at c-span.org or listen live on the free, c-span radio app. thursday, supreme court justice elana kagan on the innerworkings of the court amid today's polarized political climate. here's a preview. message would be to the court and

president trump and first lady melania trump invited people to the white house for the annual turkey pardoning. this takes place at the white house every year shortly before thanksgiving. >> thank you very much. always nice to begin by saying the stock market is up again, just set another record. so we should say that. substantially up. i think that is 132 times we have set a record from the time we got elected, on that very great day, but good to know that a lot of people are very happy. we are doing very well. the country is doing very well paired the first lady and i are delighted to welcome you all to the white house on this magnificent autumn day. on behalf of the entire trauma family, i wish each and every one of the a very happy thanksgiving -- the entire trump family, i wish each and every one of you a very happy thanksgiving. we are happy to have representatives jason smith and jason rouser, they are all warriors, great warriors. mark renner, thank you very much. the three of you, please stand up. they are warriors and great people. thank you very much for being here. thanks

white house. so, congratulations. [applause] pres. trump: just another record for the nats. but today, the firsty and i are thrilled to welcome to the white house the 2019 world series champions, the washington nationals. [applause] pres. trump: for the first time in nearly 100 years, our nation's capital is celebrating a world series victory. that's big stuff. [applause] pres. trump: the last time washington, d.c. was home to the world series champs, the president was a gentleman named calvin coolidge. that's a long time ago. nearly a century later, the nationals have brought back the trophy to america's capital, and you've won it. this is the first world series in franchise history, and it's going to be, really, the first of many, i predict. [applause] pres. trump: i want to congratulate the terrific owners of the team. your principal owner, mark lerner, ted lerner. great people. the lerner family. [applause] pres. trump: a man who's become very famous. i think he's much more famous than me right now, general manager mike rizzo. you have become very famous, huh? [applause] thank you, sir. a ma

he became the first white house official who heard that call to testify in the impeachment inquiry, testifyingd house investigators that the transcript released by the white house omitted words and phrases. he s he testified in his opening statement that "i did not think it is proper to demand investigation on a u.s. citizen." fox news's laura ingraham and others on fox questioned his loyalty because he was born in ukraine. vindman was born in ukraine which was then a soviet state, he and his family fled to the u.s. from religious -- he served the united states for decades. that does not make him disloyal. that makes him a patriot. trump tweeted an attack on vindman, calling him "never trumper." it was not fox personality that went after vindman. on tuesday, gop congressman and current cnn contributor, shawn duffy had this to say hours before vindman testified. >> it seems clear that he's incredibly concerned of ukrainian defense, his main mission was to make sure the ukraine got those reference. i understand it, we all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from. joining me now is aut

serious allegations about the president having had a sexual relationship with a young white house aid. let's go firste president. >> he is investigating allegations that you encouraged a 24-year-old woman, a former white house intern to lie underoath about her having had an affair with you. mr. president is that true? >> that is not true. that is not true. did you get a whole thanksgiving? well you remember what happened last year. you can't bring a backup thanksgiving to my sister's house. it's not like we're going to walk in with it. we'll bring it in as we need it. ...phase it in. phase it in? yeah, phase it in. phase it in? this is what medicare from blue cross blue shield does for mia's pulse. and with over 80 years of healthcare expertise, imagine what we can do for you. this is the benefit of blue. ♪'cause no matter how far away for you roam.♪ys.♪ ♪when you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze.♪ ♪for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.♪ the united states postal service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home. son, i need to tell you something. what is it, dad? if you ever

. >>> a holiday tradition renewed at the white house today. firsthite house christmas tree. the tree was grown in pennsylvania and was selected in a national competition. the tree will be put in the blue hall of the presidential residence. >>> our state capitol christmas tree will be lit next week on thursday december 5th. this tree was chopped down in the state forest. this was a replacement tree. the first one cracked and wasn't safe to put up. >>> it's one month until christmas. share the joy with this animated badge. >>> are you ready for the rain? it will be here tomorrow. >> spencer has the full forecast for thanksgiving week next. ♪the beat goes onp for heart failure look like? it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. ♪the beat goes on it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. ♪la-di-la-di-di entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart, so you can keep on doing what you love. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart, so it may not work as well. entr

leading the effort in the white house and what organizations in identifying potential judicial nominees? guest: in the white house, white house counsel, don mcgann, for the first couple years, now pat and his team, have led the way on making picks. i think they received information from -- on all sorts of folks. host: william next in manassas, virginia. independent line. sorry, william. you're not there. try that, william, manassas, virginia, go ahead. caller: i'm here. good morning. my question to your guest is when he is saying about the iginal, kind of a little confusing here. the law has been in the book for the people who wrote the constitution mainly there were a few white men, no women, no african-american, no hispanic, no american england where the the who drafted constitution. how is that ever changing society now would be governed or being ruled by a law that has or only siding white men drafted by white men? i'm just taking my question off line. thank you. guest: well, the caller's point i think is an argument against the constitution. not originalism. he's saying how can we accord legitimacy to this document that was adopted by a bunch of white men

and in september, we hosted the first-ever national tribal broadband summit. and earlier this month, the white house hosted the first-ever native american veterans' conference. some of the folks in the room were there. with operation lady justice, we will bring new hope to native american communities across the nation. we will deliver justice for the victims, closure for the families, and safety to those in harm's way. and on behalf of every missing or murdered native american woman and child, i am going to sign this order, and it will be a great honor to be signing this order. and thank you all for being here. thank you very much. [cameras shuttering] pres. trump: so, that's something that should have been done a long time ago -- decades ago, frankly. [applause] pres. trump: so, we have with us some of the great leaders, melanie benjamin, chief executive of the mille lacs band. would you like to say something? come here a minute, melanie. say a few words, please. >> [speaking in foreign language] and it is my honor and my privilege to be here today with the signing, because we cannot have this happ

but there's a pattern that goes back to the first days of the white house and the russian interference, and bob mueller put ten distinct, specific examples of obstruction of justice in. so i think that will go in. i don't think they'll go into the collusion and all of that stuff. but i think they will look at ukraine, abuse of power, the bribery to get to the high crimes and misdemeanors. obstruction of congress because the most of the senior people at the white house haven't testified, and obstruction of justice. >> scott, i want to ask you about something that you briefly hit on at the top. as we go forward -- is this kind of moot? do you want to just see these proceedings sort of end the house vote and -- and get into what we think will be the inevitable next step, and that's the trial in the senate? >> yeah. look, i mean, i think we can analyze all of what's about to happen to death. but i think the outcome here is really certain. and the house is going to do what it's going do. i think the only thing i'm wondering about is are they going to get so full of themselves that they're g

white house. blake. reporter: president trump, first lady, their son left white house to the thanksgiving break to head tondrews air force base and to florida after that. we had a good idea what the president potentially faces when we gets back from the thanksgiving break. house committee jerry nadler, impeachment hear national that committee will take place one week from tomorrow, december 4th. that is important because that is the committee that could eventually recommend articles of impeachment on which the full house would vote. no reaction from the president as he left the white house though we briefly heard from him today regarding a possible trade deal with china. the president was asked this morning about the election results in hong kong. he expressed support for both hong kong and china's president xi xinping while also tying in the potential trade deal. listen. >> we're with them. i have a very good relationship as you know with president xi. we're in the final throws of a very important deal. i guess you could say one of themost important deals in trade ever. it is going very well. but at the