into why special counsel robert muller told congress that while there was no evidence trump had colluded with russia to win the 2016 election there may be grounds that he obstructed justice and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the pres you know for muller's appearance had little impact and the very next day trump told the president of ukraine over the phone that muller had quote a poor performance then according to the call transcript trump asked for an investigation into his political rival constitutional scholars called by democrats have testified that trumps impeachable offenses go beyond the ukraine phone call call i think the way you need to ask about this is how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president republicans counter democrats have been trying to remove trump since the day he took office they've always wanted to impeach the president why. i'm at their words watching at their actions watching what they have done the democratic majority in the house will likely vote to impeach trent before christmas then the senate dominated by the

into why special counsel robert muller told congress that while there was no evidence trump had colluded with russia to win the 2016 election there may be grounds that he obstructed justice and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the press you know the muller's appearance had little impact and the very next day trump told the president of ukraine over the phone that muller had quote a poor performance then according to the call transcript trump asked for an investigation into his political rival constitutional scholars called by democrats have testified that trumps impeachable offenses go beyond the ukraine phone call call i think the way you need to ask about this is how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president republicans counter democrats have been trying to remove trump since the day he took office they've always wanted to impeach the president why. i'm at their words watching at their actions watching what they have done the democratic majority in the house will likely vote to impeach trent before christmas then the senate dominated by the

instances of alleged obstruction detailed in the muller report perhaps a another article relating to the emoluments clause because of the president's retention in his private business and collecting revenues from foreign governments and foreign go foreigners who would tend to stay at the trump hotel in washington but it does appear that speaker pelosi and the democratic leaders are not looking favorably at that are likely to oppose articles specifically addressing those issues although you might see a preamble to an obstruction article that references the president's prior conduct in relation to the mower probe and what historical comparisons can we draw here when it comes to impeachment and you mentioned it and how politically polarized the country is right now how does this particular impeachment compare with the impeachment case against president bill clinton 20 years ago and richard nixon going back before then when 20 years before that. yeah well look impeachment is by its nature polarizing in and of itself and we do have this incredibly polarized climate right now in washington

muller, could you please read the passages, and he's like no, i don't know what it says. don't remember. i did it, it's done, i didn't really read it. can you just let me go. i mean this was a 300 page report. why drop it three weeks before christmas. but why drop at the night before the judiciary? kennedy: don't you want the representatives to read didn't internalize all that and be prepared? >> it's not just the representatives, how about the witnesses themselves? how are these for legal scholars can be asked questions about this without getting through that? and if i were on that panel, i wouldn't be reading a 300 pages. i be preparing for the questions, what's gonna come. they cannot possibly read 300 pages if they are going to be paired for the other questions that are going to come. so timing absolutely stinks. i don't get it. i just don't understand why they are doing this the way they are. and why didn't that start of the judiciary as well? >> in retirement president, policy are talking about that a lot. the rulebook, how we've always done it, but they're kind of

daly muller from our philly in phoenix has her story. >> they name this possum freeway and she's beennservation center. she got here on christmas eve. this young 1-year-old possum is resting up, she is will bit nervous after her long journey to get here. dps rescued the possum on interstate ten in east valley on christmas eve and because the marsupial is not native here, it's still a mystery how she was found all this way from home. >> she was found on the side of the row, were not exactly sure how she got there. she could've been hitchhiking from a vehicle that's happened with some of our other possums. we are not sure exactly what she came from. it's kind of interesting to find them here they are typically found on the eastern half of the night states. veterinarians with the conservation are taking care of freeway, with the help of donors. and because the possums are not from here, it makes it tricky for the animals to be released. they say they'll keep a close eye on her. but after the long journey, veterinarian say it proves possums are extremely resilient. >> they tend to be look

so publicly side with putin those harsh words related mainly to the investigation conducted by bob muller regarding allegations of collusion now interestingly a new report has just been released regarding how that investigation was carried out the new report seems to indicate that the f.b.i. made great errors and how they what about investigating donald trump during this this probe into alleged collusion donald trump spoke critically of the f.b.i. and pointed toward the report the report actually in especially when you look into it in the details of the report are far worse than anything i would have even imagine. what they were doing and what they would have. invited make a certain a certain move that was a very important move because it would have been even worse if that's possible and they might have been able to succeed this was an overthrow of a government this was an attempted overthrow of the meeting focused on nuclear nonproliferation as well as other international issues but it appears. that negotiations and moving forward on these vital international matters is being held back b

report the muller investigation found as many as 10 possible cases of obstruction of justice they put those aside no mention of bribery or extortion these are more legal cases these are codify that in law what bribery extortion already actually is and it can't be said enough that impeachment is a political process not a legal process so they want to make a political case not a legal case so democrats here are going with the strongest case they can make that they can make politically and ensure they have the case that the most amount of democrats people in their own party can be comfortable with let's not forget that when the inquiry itself was formalized several weeks ago they lost to democrats which was which they were still safe and getting the inquiry formalized but politically speaking it made the republicans gave republicans fodder to say you democrats are not even together on this so they really can't afford to lose any democrats in the upcoming impeachment vote that's probably going to happen next week well we know the republicans and the president don't think much of these and

on obstruction ofjustice we just don't know whether that would include obstructing part of the mullerhat is being debated as we speak. but that is what we are looking at here and we are looking also at next week hearings on those articles, and potentially a vote on impeachment right before christmas. i also want to show you this. after making her announcement to the press, mrs pelosi was leaving the room — when this happened. do you hate the president met him speaker? i don't hate anybody. asked by a reporter from a conservative tv network "do you hate the president" she replied "i don't hate anybody" — and then returned to the podium. asa as a catholic, i resent you're using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. i don't hate anyone, i was raised in a way that is heart full of love and always prayed for the president, and the still pray for the president, i the president, and the still pray forthe president, i pray forthe president all the time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. let's get more now from our us correspondent anthony zurcher. if nancy pelos

then i get the muller report and there's nothing.now there are some people in this audience, i spent not 45 million, 18 haters the angry democrats and muller. did muller do a good job? [booing] how is his performance in front of congress. [booing] but think of this, $25 million they spent, and i heard somebody say we got back some of that money. you cost this country billions and billions and billions of dollars and all of the things that didn't get done, and all of the embarrassment to our country. you caused a billions and billions of dollars and it was a hoax. but this guy shift, i have absolute proof, i have this, i have bats, this, that. every time he sees a camera he's stone silent. he is a pathological liar. i've never seen anything like it. even i would say i wonder what he has? what is he has? i haven't spoken to russia in years. what the hell do have did with russia? but this guy gets tough. so i think we have a vote coming in. so have every single republican vote for us, while. [applause] wow. [cheering] almost 200. so we

in july special counsel robert muller told congress that while there was no evidence trump had colluded with russia to win the 2016 election there may be grounds that he obstructed justice and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the prez you know for muller's appearance had little impact and the very next day trump told the president of ukraine over the phone that muller had quote a poor performance then according to the call transcript trump asked for an investigation into his political rival constitutional scholars called by democrats have testified that trumps impeachable offenses go beyond the ukraine phone call call i think the way you need to ask about this is how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president republicans counter democrats have been trying to remove trump since the day he took office they've always wanted to impeach the president. watch them at their words watch them at their actions watching what they have done the democratic majority in the house will likely vote to impeach trent before christmas then the senate dominated by

is staff is here the leading headline is their shift report but where is mr shift in lower robert muller testified against or for ken starr testified the author of the chauffeur board is not here instead he sending his staff to do its job for him i guess that's what you get when you're making up impeachment as you go so as we look forward here there's me plenty of time to discuss the factual case of this in the statements that are not been made what is very detrimental to me though is this this committee is not hearing from a factual witness this committee is not doing anything past hearing from all school professors and staff we've not been given the chairman says something about the president not to have a gun show me where he would actually have a proper process in this not talking to staff and not talking to law school professors and we could actually have witnesses that would be called. but i want to say this in me and. i love this institution i was here is a 19 year old kid is an intern. almost 32 years ago this institution as we see it today is in danger we see chairman were issui

narrow amol specific approach how is that going to be resolved right to remind our viewers robert muller was the special counsel investigating whether russian interference in the 2016 election in his report which came out earlier this year said that the term campaign had not colluded with the russian government during the 2016 campaign but it raised the question of whether president trump had tried to obstruct his investigation of it he came to no conclusion on that issue but a lot of democrats in reading the report said the evidence of obstruction was abundant and so the more liberal members of the caucus want to raise that in the as an article 'd of impeachment a separate article of impeachment from the ones that will deal with ukraine and whether president trump tried to subvert u.s. foreign policy to his political ends by asking ukraine to investigate the bidens but there are other democrats moderates who worry about the politics of bringing in the mall or investigation which is now in the past there all the asli crucial ethical and constitutional considerations with the decision to

have been obstruction of justice as president trump was trying to fire the special counsel robert muller but then critics within the democratic party said let's rather focus on the recent allegations. widening those articles would weaken their own he's right and they seem to be in a rush as well take us through their reactions as so far are the republicans still keeping up a united front. they are until now the republicans have been very very much united when it comes to the impeachment inquiry so their line of defense has been to discredit the in korea to sort of like argue that the democrats are simply afraid to lose the 2020 election and therefore the they see their only way in moving forward in impeaching president trump trump has also reacted this morning on twitter of course calling the allegations made against him pushing ukraine ridiculous that's what he wrote and he also said the ukrainian side confirmed there was no pressure that by the way is the republican line of defense that we've been witnessing here in countless hearings on capitol hill in recent days and weeks now intere

i'll guide is james muller the manager of the new production line a production line which only makes plastic bottles today they're producing bottles of phantom one of the numerous brands inside the coca-cola group. everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filled behind this window. to decode occupied by. the 3rd. is just to get around it but the book book returns in the long haul i've been. at the. $86340.00 bottles in 2 and a half hours that's a lot of plastic we did the calculations that 10 bottles a 2nd and that's only on mom production line in one of the factories in the country . and 5 years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day of our visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because they want to go the extra week apart from plastic allowed to be where you are. about the fridge apart from those who are it really rude in terms of specific set themselves . so it's good to look so good so i'm going to. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you have a glass bot

with their conclusions all the way back to his inauguration in january 2017 before ukraine, before muller, before anything they wanted trump impeached. so, let's translate into the truth. nancy pelosi's utterly disingenuous announcement last week. >> sadly confidence and humility. >> sadly what? this? >> impeach 45. >> impeach 45. >> were google and their -- we are going to go in about it and teach them. >> their sad, so sad. they've been dying to do this for three years. it's obvious they hate trump and they are loving this, but they know how wrong and divisive it is so they have to pretend to be sad. these people are so cynical. about this, the facts are uncontested. >> we've literally had weeks of the facts being contested. you can agree or disagree with the argument on either side but to say the facts are uncontested is truly doublespeak. equally offensive are how they shamelessly plunder the constitution to justify their petty partisan scheme. >> james mattis warned the president. [inaudible] another founder knew that a president may be bribed by greater interest. >> bribed, in these

the most extraordinary was bobby muller. dynamic,charismatic, captivating speaker. i still show the clip about this is where he talked about being shot in the chest. bobby was paralyzed from the chest down. he talked about the transformation on the soldiers themselves. he said the guys that went in and murdered 500 people, they w ere us. they were the good guys. they were the little league or -- leaguers. they were the choirboys. they experienced killing, and the process got transformed. i can tell you about my own transformation, from a good guy to a guy that left when -- laughed when kids got wasted. don't think it is some species of human beings. everyone of you can be turned that he would find inconceivable. -- you would find inconceivable. others come into class. the policyl with aspects. i kept trying to get robert mcnamara to come in. he was always friendly. he would always return my calls. i could not get him in. i invited him to come in with dan ellsberg, which was a mistake. [laughter] however, i got smarter. in highs best friend school, one time we were w

as you saw yesterday that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named robert muller an incompetent performance but they say a lot of it started with ukraine whatever you can do it's very important that you do it if that's possible here again president trump was referring to the baseless conspiracy theory that the ukrainian government not russia was behind the hack of the democratic national committee in 2016. not a single witness in our investigation testified that there was any factual support for this allegation to the contrary a unanimous assessment of the u.s. intelligence community found that russia alone interfered in the 2016 u.s. election and special counsel muller who indicted 12 russians for this conspiracy testified before congress that the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion dr fiona hill an expert on russia and president putin who served on the national security council until july testify that the president was told by his own former senior advisers including his homeland security adviser and

bribery, which is a trickier one, and jerry nadler, the chairman, has suggested they may go back to e muller report and see if they can find examples of either obstruction of justice or abuse of power. though there will be articles drawn and they'll, i promise you, it will be a straight party line vote. i would bet whatever i had on that, and we'll find out what those articles are by the end of the week, and then it goes to the full house. >> sreenivasan: so how does it specifically play out? i mean, consering that we almost know where the uptes are lineased on what party a members in?is >> yeah, thilmost like kabuki theater, where we all we know it's supposed to be said before it's goine to be said. estion is, will any republican house member vote for impeachment? so far the answer's no. one republican said he'd vote for impeachment and thenth promptly lefparty. there may be a few house democrats from strongly pro trump districts who may have a problem, but i'm guessing that will be at most in low single digits. and so, by year's end, the president will be impeached, which is an indictment,

would have been struction off just as when president trump tried to fire the special counsel robert muller however critics within the democratic party said let's just focus on now on this latest case with the in famous ukraine phone call otherwise it was it would weaken their own case all right now take us through some of their reactions are the republicans still keeping up a united front. they are until now the republican and republican party has been very united behind the president when it comes to the impeachment inquiry the defense has always been to to discredit the inquiry they were arguing that the democrats are simply trying to lose simply afraid to lose their 2020 election and therefore see the only way winning in peaching president trump the president himself stressing that the economy is doing great stock market the stock market is hitting record highs and therefore called this this morning on twitter impeaching him political madness as you wrote so in conclusion all over what will happen next will we hear from the president or will he take the stand what's going to happen well

other he is building in the democratic house to expand the articles of impeachment and include the muller obstruction of justice, and there are a lot of democrats that don't want to do that and some of them are in the lead i ship. >> reporter: take a look ahead to 2020. this is the calendar that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell just put out yesterday. what is missing here? the entire month of january. that's when a senate impeachment trial will likely take place. in washington with fox news. >> one of the four witnesses is a local professor. she had a fire response after the legit that si of the testimony. >> here mr. collins i want to say to you, sir i read transcripts of every one of the witnesses that appeared in the live hering because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts. i am con sulkeded that as a law professor i do not care about the facts. everything that i read -- >> that have not reviewed the prior witness testimony should not be considered an expert. karlan is an expert in constitutional criminal procedure, voting right and political process.

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the very day after robert muller testified that russia had systematically and relentlessly attacked thecked up the phone, and made his now infamous july 25 call to ukrainian president zelensky. asking the president zelensky, on that call, to quote do usa zelensky, on that call, to quote do us a favour though, and announce investigations into his political right rival, joe biden. we have since learned from numerous national security council and state department officials that the president did not even expect ukraine to open these investigations, rather, hejust wa nted investigations, rather, hejust wanted them announced, so he could smear his rival. rather than trusting the orders to decide who should hold the white house, he again sought the aid of the foreign country to tip the scales in favour again. after russia's unprecedented interference, a dark cloud hung over the 2016 election, and instead of leading the american people out from under the cloud, the president instead emboldened by a perceived lack of consequence, attempted to pressure zelensky lack of consequence, attempted to

ukraine allegations ever surfaced purely on the basis of that purely but largely on the basis of the muller report and then other matters such as the alleged violation of the emoluments clause so there are democrats on this committee who will want to expand the scope of the articles of impeachment to include other matters that go beyond ukraine you have a lot of reservations on that from speaker pelosi and other democratic leaders saying that could bog things down that could muddy the waters and it's going to be really fascinating to see how that plays out over the next week or 2 also fascinating to see what the republican strategy will be at this stage we heard a dot com and as you say pick up on the fact that not put this in the context of the miller investigation and and collins very critical of that what do you see the republican strategy being here. well the key phrase that was used by collins in his opening statement was partisan coup de kock couldn't cop ta that they are trying to the republicans are going to make the argument that this is a purely partisan matter that they do the ro

bear on whether the president committed impeachable offenses yes same old same old even though bob muller found no evidence of trouble russia collusion it's all about belief these days the democrats should look into some very solid facts like the recent ruling from the foreign intelligence surveillance court regarding the surveillance and. carter page now that's the very carter page who is transforming our foreign policy advisor just the very next day michael horowitz inspector general of the u.s. department of justice were due to the f.b.i. for failures during the early stages of the russian probe your field 17 different omissions and inaccuracy is in the carter page warrant applications and furthermore they included doctored documents and concealed information there were so many errors. we couldn't reach a conclusion or to make a determination on what motivated those failures although we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or the missing information and the failures that occurred now

bear on whether the president committed impeachable offenses yes same old same old even though bob muller found no evidence of trump russia collusion it's all about belief these days i believe even though i don't have the facts to prove it they wanted to elect a president trump i will always believe this that he agreed that if he got elected he would lift those sanctions while maybe instead of just believing she should look into some very solid facts like the recent ruling from the foreign intelligence surveillance court regarding the surveillance against carter page now that's the very carter page who is transforming the foreign policy adviser just the very next day michael horowitz inspector general of the us department of justice were due to the f.b.i. for failures during the early stages of the russian probe he revealed 17 different omissions and inaccuracy is in the carter page warrant applications and furthermore they include in dr documents and concealed information there were so many errors. we couldn't reach a conclusion or to make a determination on what motivated those failures

was so crazy, we had two years and $30 million of taxpayer dollars to finally figure out after the muller report came out that guess what, we did not collude with russia. so now here we are, it's russia 2.0, it's a ukraine hoax. versus third at about a phone call, right? we know this is not about a phone call. this is about the fact that the anointed candidate, hillary clinton did not win in 2016. right? [applause] they just knew, they all knew, the median everybody knew that she would be the first female president. she would be the 45th president of the united states. the problem is you guys didn't agree with that did you? no. >> you didn't, no, we have another man in office his name happens to be donald trump. [cheering] and you know i remember in 2015 before you guys remember the famous escalator ride when the president came down, when our amazing first lady milan you, how amazing is milan you. when they came down the escalator, a couple of days before that we all had dinner as a family. and i members all talking about this. and the president said you know this isn't just about me. thi

justice which would reach back to the russia investigation we saw from the special counsel robert muller in which he detailed episodes in which trump try to obstruct justice as he was investigating possible russia collusion with trump's campaign of course trump was cleared of that charge so again we're expecting 2 articles of impeachment to be announced this more . going in this historic day for trying to become only the 4th u.s. president to ever have articles of impeachment drafted against him and heidi the reuters news agency saying that the house judiciary committee is aiming to vote on these articles of impeachment against president trump no later than thursday so things quite moving quite quickly it seems yes indeed and in fact reports are that there was there were of course we had our 9 hour long hearing yesterday before the house judiciary committee and then reports are its staff members continue working overnight or in the morning hours in the united states for these articles that have been worked on up until the last minute to be unveiled in only a few moments time and if indee

bear on whether the president committed impeachable offenses yes same old same old even though bob muller found no evidence of trump russia collusion it's all about belief these days the democrats should look into some very solid facts like the recent ruling from the foreign intelligence surveillance court regarding the surveillance against carter page now that's the very carter page who is transforming the foreign policy adviser just the very next day michael horowitz inspector general of the us department of justice were due to the f.b.i. for failures during the early stages of the russian probe he revealed 17 different omissions and inaccuracy in the carter page warrant applications and furthermore they included doctored documents and concealed information there are so many errors . we couldn't reach a conclusion or to make the determination on what motivated those failures although we did not find documentary. or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or the missing information and the failures that occurred now

bring in at least the moller investigation the russia struction of justice and the obstruction of the muller investigation and of the impeachment inquiry when they were trying to investigate them. for example the house judiciary committee called on me again the president's counsel who was a key witness in the mall investigation began refused to testify so that's brought in by implication into the article so the articles where they're very narrowly focused do allude to other serious misconduct by the president their loan pages norman well it's pretty sure it's it's about right for what they're suggesting they could have included more material but basically by alluding to these other abuses of power i think the committee did the house judiciary committee basically did about the right thing they're going to parents. i believe so i think there's substantial grounds is overwhelming evidence that both of these articles are warranted. and i think they'll pass the house of representatives going to the senate is a different story but here's a just to go back to the watergate impeachment nixon impeach

interests above those of the country impeachment remember the flunk that was russia gate robert muller's investigation into trump's alleged ties to russia 2 years in the making and yet to deliver the grand revelations it promised but that's yesterday's headline the democrats have no time to lose with the 2020 presidential election looming closer they've put their hopes in the new ukraine gate report which this time took only 2 months to put together the dems say impeachment wasn't an easy conclusion to come to but come on guys we've been hearing this stuff since trump took office our rise today mr speaker. to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america your son 6 years as home alone if you want but only don't play and maybe things won't because we're going to go in there we're going to be some other we shouldn't be impeached for a political reason and we should avoid punishment for a political reason it may be that we undertake an appeal nonetheless the document is basically a summary of the impeachment hearing thus far it claims the testimonies were overwhe

threat to american democracy those harsh words related mainly to the investigation conducted by bob muller regarding allegations of collusion now interestingly a new report has just been released regarding how that investigation was carried out the new report seems to indicate that the f.b.i. made great errors and how they what about investigating donald trump during this this probe into alleged collusion donald trump spoke critically of the f.b.i. and pointed toward the report the report actually and especially when you look into it and the details of the report are far worse than anything i would have even imagine this was an overthrow of a government this was an attempted overthrow the report shows is that the democrats are not even the democrats but any government official that did not want donald trump that wanted to support hillary clinton but that does not want donald trump in office or donald trump as president united states will do anything including lie lie to congress lightest senate questions feed stories to the media break protocol violations of confidential investigations in