and donald trump labels the new house intelligence committee report on his impeachment a joke as u.s. democrats hang their hopes on the document being enough to pin the president's. i live from russia this is r.t. international my name's colleen brain it's wednesday evening at 9 here in moscow it is 7 pm in germany that's where we're starting this hour it's announced that it's made to russian embassy employees persona non-grata in connection with the murder of a georgia national in august but attorney general says there's evidence moscow may have been behind the killing to claim that russia vehemently denies evangelos sepsis picks up the story. through employees of the russian embassy are to be expelled and over to cleared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin allow us august with seem to be an asylum seeker in the country germany has taken this action against the russian employees and or to russia because they believe that russia has not done enough to help the authorities in germany looking into thi

well the report from the house intelligence committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his reelection campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this report chronicles a scheme by the president i'd states to coerce an ally ukraine that is at war with an adversary russia into doing the pleasure of the president's political dirty work and he was willing to sacrifice the national security of the united states by withholding military aid and diplomatic recognition in the form of that white house meeting in order to get what he wanted now before departing the country on monday donald trump dismissed the allegations that were expected to be leveled in this report this is what donald trump said prior to leaving the country before the report was relea

well the document that is over 300 pages issued by the house intelligence committee democrats basically puts forward 2 main accusations against the president of the united states the 1st is that the president conditioned military aid on a meeting with the ukrainian president and that he give a public announcement that was beneficial to donald trump in his reelection campaign they're essentially alleging that the military aid that was approved by congress for ukraine was conditioned on the president's olinsky of ukraine making an announcement about an investigation into the company associated with joe biden's son hunter biden in the investigations etc secondly they are alleging that the president carried out obstruction of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry and that essentially because donald trump was instructing witnesses allegedly and that agencies to ignore subpoenas and he was basically obstructing a congressional investigation those are the 2 main points that donald trump conditioned ate up on this meeting and made political conditions to president alinsky of ukraine

that's where we're starting for you this hour democrats there on the house intelligence committee have published their report detailing how president trump allegedly abused his office for personal gain and solicited interference from ukraine in the 2020 election the release of the 300 page document which is based on testimony given in a series of closed door and public hearings marks the start of a new phase in the impeachment process let's go to speed on where we are now then live to new york hi again it's been billed as another big turning point in this inquiry what does it outline exactly. well the report from the house intelligence committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his reelection campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this

democrats pietschmann hope sold me a new house intelligence committee wants everyone believes its contents with many there's nothing new included anyway. a new investigation discover some popular dating apps like tinder and ok cupid don't screen whether or not their members are registered sex offenders. and should be ultimately responsible for people say. we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility to protect the women that utilize their app you can't trust these companies to tell you who's good news bad you need to take that into your own hands. 247 news live from the russian capital this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neil. welcome we begin with breaking news from berlin where germany has announced its me 2 russian embassy employees persona non grata in connection to the murder of a georgian national bach in august rochelle's the night any state blank house call the expulsion substantiated let's go live now to berlin. hi there are 2 embassy workers expelled how much more do we know about this story. well you will if now w

and the white house is tearing into the report from democrats on the house intelligence committee calling it quote, the ramblings of a basement blogger, that is mild compared to president trump's description of adam schiff in the day as a redangered human being and deeply personal attacks came as the president was clashing with nato leaders and doing some clean-up here in london. in between meetings with the queen and nato president trump made it clear he has a royal in the form of house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. >> i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he grew up with a complex and i think he's a very sick man and he lies. >> reporter: in response to the report alleging the president abused the power of his office to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden, the white house got personal as well saying in a statement, at the end of a one-sided sham process chairman schiff and the democrats failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by president trump. chairman schiff's report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger. they will torment a democra

trump was swift to reply he described house intelligence committee chairman democrats adam schiff as corrupt and said he must answer for his actions some americans may agree that a witch hunt is being waged against trump but democrats also showed that they were prepared to work with the president house democrats and the white house announced a deal on a modified north american trade pact to nancy pelosi to announce it was. actually general to save their outs that they are going to have to show. the 45th president of the united states this hands chump a major capitol hill when something the president himself calls the silver lining to impeachment. correspondent. has been following the impeachment process explains exactly what's behind those 2 articles released on tuesday the democrats have decided to stick to 2 articles of impeachment the 1st of which is abuse of power and that relates to president trump allegedly withholding military aid from ukraine in exchange for kiev investigating the former vice president joe biden and possibly president trump's democratic rival in the president

military aid and for a meeting at the white house the other one is of course obstruction of congress that when the democrats in the house intelligence committee try to start investigating this potential misconduct that trump what they say in an unprecedented way try to block every means of access for them to game gain witness testimony documents and these kinds of things from the executive branch from from trump's officials these are the 2 interesting is what's not in there obstruction of justice is not in there bribery extortion is not there we heard a lot about that and of course very no mention of mahler of the mother reported anything having to do with russia russian interference democrats really here wanted to go with what they see as their strongest case not only to make the public but also to keep to keep ranks to round up the wagons within their own party ok only 2 articles of impeachment but still very serious charges tell us more about how donald trump and the republican party are reacting to this i mean i think we've heard it before we have been hearing for a long time then seen as a complete part is the move on the part of the dem

joining me now, a member of the house intelligence committee, democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthiing to get to those phone records. thank you very much. what does "thus far" mean? can you tell us what that means? >> sure. i think that, you know, as this inquiry has proceeded and even during the hearings, people were coming forward with information. the challenge is you have to sift through the information. you have to see what's legitimate and what's not, and you can't just kind of convene a hearing with a new witness. you need to first receive their documents, make sure that it's relevant, it would actually move things along in terms of our understanding of what's happening. >> mm-hmm. >> and i think that's what i think chairman schiff was referring to by "thus far." so the investigation continues even after we submitted our report or send our report to the judiciary committee. but for right now, we thought that the evidence is so overwhelming with regard to the wrongdoing at issue, we had to forward this particular report, and then we can supplement it later if need be. >> let's

raskin the house intelligence committee, democrat phone records, including four phone calls by intelligence ranking member new ness, how did they get those phone records. >> i will have to ask staff counsel to pass me a note. >> house counsel didn't answer that? >> he wouldn't answer the question. >> telling us to go ask somebody who didn't answer the question -- >> well, i understand that we forcefully represented that no member of the house of representatives and no members of the press was targeted with any investigative resources. >>> oh, that's -- >> really? i mean i respect mr. raskin, but i'm not sure he got that statement out without stumbling over everything. you cannot say -- talk about numbers, at some point, somebody with the ranking member's phone number had to look for the ranking member's phone number and look for mr. solo mon's phone number. this is what they don't want to deal with how bad it is screwed up. they want to gloss over process and how they did their investigation because the time and the calendar are terrible masters. this is what we're talking about. they would

and leading off our discussion tonight is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, democratic congressman adam schiff of california. chairman schiff, thank you very much for joining us on this important and historic night. what can you tell us about the possible continued elements of your investigation that might be continuing beyond this point? >> well, there's a lot that we still have to learn about the conduct of others. we know i think very well what the president did that he withheld this military assistance, that he withheld this meeting in the white house to coerce ukraine into doing investigations to help his re-election campaign. but how much involvement did the secretary of state have in this? we know he was in the loop from the documentary evidence and testimony of ambassador sondland. we know the vice president was aware of the conditionality of the military aid on these political investigations. we certainly know mick mulvaney was deeply involved in this. there's more to learn about their role. there's also more to learn unt when this whole scheme began because th

maggie, devin nunes, ranking republican on the house intelligence committee used to be chairman until the democrats took control of congress, in 2018, devin nunes is all over the report and not in his role at ranking republican on the committee. he's in there as, well -- >> we don't know. >> a lot of phone messages to giuliani. phone messages with giuliani's indicted friend lev parnas. >> and we don't know the duration of the calls. they're fairly short but raising questions the republican ranking member on the committee was having discussions with this witnesses about the facts democrats were saying were not real. >> and given how much of a stink was made about a supposed conversation between the whistle-blower and staff to the house intelligence committee, you know, they sort of have thrown that away if lev parnas is off talking to devin nunes repeatedly. >> they are suggesting it's all part of a disinformation campaign? call records show communications between conservative journalist john solomon, an opinion

>> reporter: the next hearing is likely going to be with staff counsels of the house intelligence committee. both democraticexpected to present findings to the house judiciary committee in an open hearing. we don't have the exact date. it could happen, only required to give 24 hours notice under house rules to actually have a hearing. we'll see when they actually schedule that. then we probably could expect articles of impeachment introduced soon thereafter. then at that point see if they decide to have an official hearing on the actual articles of impeachment before they move to a committee vote on those articles. they still have to make a decision before they move forward on the articles exactly what that would entail. wei expect we expect abuse of power. obstruction of power. and considering obstruction of justice very seriously including the allegations included in the mueller report, the president apparently trying to thwart the mueller investigation into his campaign and presidency. that could be part as well. once they make those decisions the articles will be introduced, the hearings will happen, wh

joining us now, member of the house intelligence committee democratic congressman jim himes of connecticutthe first question. joe. >> hey, congressman, thanks so much for being with us. i want to ask you what we're going to be hearing about later today, but let's back up just a little bit. i'm curious if there's any talk inside the democratic conference about, perhaps, slowing down a bit. expanding out this impeachment inquiry. i know the thought originally was let's move fast, it's an open and closed case, we may get some republicans on board here, but, i mean, they've taken to spouting vladimir putin's talking points, russian propaganda. so why don't democrats take their time, expand it, and leave a record for history about how donald trump just may be the most corrupt president in the history of this republic? >> yeah. well, joe, there's a couple answers to that. number one, you know, you were never going to get to a point where you had everything that you wanted, particularly, and remember this is not our issue, particularly when the president has said i will not cooperate, my people n

tolowing the house votes impeach president trump, house speaker nancy pelosi joined by house democratic leaders including intelligence committee chair adam schiff and judiciary committee chair jerrold nadler held a news conference. this figure was asked whether she would delay sending the articles of impeachment to the asked -- the speaker was whether she would delay sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. pelosi: december 18, a great day for the constitution of the united states. a sad one for america that the president's reckless activities necessitated us by our having to introduce articles of impeachment. chairs who have been legislating, investigating, and litigating. today, that came to a culmination on the floor of the house with the judiciary committee under the leadership of jerry nadler of new york under the leadership of adam schiff of california who brought articles of impeachment to the floor to a conclusion when i have passed. i thank them for their tremendous leadership. i think chairwoman maxine waters neal ofornia, richie massachusetts, the chair of the ways and means committee. chair of the oversig

following the house votes to impeach president trump, house speaker nancy pelosi joined by house democratic leaders including intelligence committee chair adam schiff and judiciary committee chair jerry nadler holt -- held a news conference. the speaker was asked whether she would delay sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. >> this is a sad day that we had to introduce articles of impeachment. we have been legislating, investigating and litigating. to a, that came culmination on the floor of the house and the judiciary the guidance of jerrold nadler of new york and the intelligence community under adam schiff of california brought the articles of impeachment to the floor to a conclusion where they have passed. i thank them for their tremendous leadership. i think chairwoman maxine waters of california of the financial services committee and the chair of the ways and means committee, carolyn malone, chair of the government reform oversight committee and of course, adam schiff, the chair of the intelligence committee for their great work overtime. i just want to say before yielding to the chairman that i could not be pr

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the new house intelligence committee reports on his impeachment a job as u.s. democrat hopes on the document being enough to pin the president. here in moscow now thursday the 5th of december welcome to your update this 1st germany has announced that it's expressed as evidence moscow may have been behind the killing it's a claim that russia vehemently denies sepsis picks up the story. 2 employees of the russian embassy are to be expelled and are declared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin a last august with seem to be an asylum seeker in the country germany has taken this action against the russian employees and or to russia because they believe that russia has not done enough to help the authorities in germany looking into this investigation and they also say that berlin is taking this stance because they say that there is some sort of russian state level and for women in this word or the federal foreign office today declared to employees of the russian embassy in berlin t

summary of the case against the president as assembled by the house intelligence committee and by the house intelligence committee democrats, because as the clips that you played leading into this, it did not include the evidence or the witnesses presented by the president, and now certainly, the republicans took part in those hearings and did some questioning, but they are not satisfied with that. when it is going to judiciary committee on wednesday, then we are in a new phase. judiciary is the home base for impeachment going forward and they are going to begin with a hearing that deals with the academics who are knowledgeable on the constitutional grounds of impeachment and house republicans are asking to expand those planned witness panels there to include the conservative academics as well as those who might be more on invited by the democrats who might have an opinion against the president. so that is going to be a sort of the civics lesson event wednesday. the president was invited to send his own counsel to this wednesday event. we have not yet received word what the white house position on that will be, and then on

are gaining steam after the house intelligence committee released what democrats are calling a damning report the document claims that president trump abused his office for personal gain by soliciting interference from ukraine in the 2020 alexion donald trump branded the election or the allegations rather a joke with details and commentary here's our views don't quarter president donald trump is on the impeachment block again hearings are under way again and then another impeachment reports been released accusing him of more than just a few misty perhaps that's why trump thinks it's a joke i saw it and it's a joke everybody is saying it for the democrats though this is no laughing matter. president trump and his senior officials may see nothing wrong with using the power of the office of the president to pressure a foreign country to help the president's reelection campaign however the founding fathers prescribed a remedy for a chief executive who places his postal interests above those of the country impeachment remember the flunk that was russia gate robert muller's investigation int

house intelligence committee democrats released their findings yesterday, saying the evidence of the president's misconduct is overwhelming and so too is the evidence of obstruction of congress. joining me now from the white house is kevin cirilli, bloomberg's chief washington correspondent. spoke to aerday i senior eight to a prominent republican senator who told me they are not blinking as the house continues forward on the task toward -- path toward impeachment. house judiciary committee -- today's house judiciary committee meeting is being met with i roles at the white house -- eyerolls at the white house. today, four professors are testifying, legal scholars there testifying before the house judiciary committee. three of them selected by the democrats in control of the committee come up one of them selected by the president. president trump yesterday in london said he would have preferred for hunter biden, joe biden, other folks that republicans would like to see investigated testifying before the committee. democrats say that is not simply the case. the question from a timetable

and trump labels that the new house intelligence committee report on his impeachment a joke as u.s. democrats hang their hopes on that document to pin the president. has a lot of direct our studios in moscow this is our team international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us we're going to start with a developing story coming out of hawaii this hour a shooting has been reported at the pearl harbor naval base now we do have information our team is getting across that right now there appear to be at least 3 victims with one dead and 2 others injured a witness claims that the gunman took his own life the base is now closed while 40 s are investigating the situation of course as i said our newsroom is staying on top of the situation and we'll bring you more information as it develops. moving on now germany has announced it is expelling 2 russian embassy employees in response to the murder of a georgian national back in august berlin's attorney general says there is evidence moscow may have been behind the killing a claim russia vehemently denies now the man was shot twice in the head

and labels the new house intelligence committee report on his impeachment a joke as us democrats hang their hopes on the document being enough to the president. studios in moscow this is our national thomas. all right germany has announced it is expelling 2 russian embassy employees in response to the murder of a georgia national back in august berlin's attorney general says there is evidence moscow may have been behind the killing and claim russia vehemently denies the victim who is living in berlin with his family was shot twice in the head and chest in a central park on august 23rd as he was heading it to a mosque he was a 40 year old asylum seeker of chechen descent from georgia who fought alongside anti moscow separatists in chechnya the republic of russia that is a republican russia rather with more on the details of this case here's our correspondent. 2 employees of the russian embassy are to be expelled and are declared a person non grata after this new general tourney of germany is taking over the investigation of the murder of the chechen in berlin a last august with seem to

we are expecting later to see that report in just hours now, that the democrats on the house intelligence committee put together. >> reporter: right. you're right about that. at some point today we expect that democrats in the house intelligence committee will release their findings and we expect they'll take the testimony and condense it into a narrative form to tell the story of how president trump allegedly pressed his counterpart to open investigations into trump's political rivals that would be beneficial to him in the 2020 election. in the process, so say democrats, he violated his oath of office and undermined national security. our current understanding is that before that report is made public, the house intelligence committee has to approve it. and they're set to meet tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern in the skiff, in the private basement area where the house intelligence committee does a lot of their work to approve it. we expect that the committee will vote to approve this report on the party line vote. after that the report gets kicked over to the house judiciary committee which has respons

house intelligence committee. in an interview, the chairman of the committee, democrat adam schiff, says the report will be released publicly today. it comes on the eve of the the house judiciary committee's first impeachment hearing into president trump. nancy cordes has the latest. >>> an absolute disgrace. >> reporter: before departing for london and while in the air, president trump railed against the impeachment process which enters a new phase this week. >> look at the words that the ukrainian president, that he just issued, and you know it's a hoax. >> reporter: in a new interview, president zelensky tells "time" magazine that he never discussed a quid pro quo with president trump. but he also criticizes mr. trump's decision to withhold military aid this summer, at the same time u.s. officials were pressuring ukraine to investigate a democrat, joe biden. "you have to understand we're at war," zelensky said. "if you're our strategic partner, then you can't go blocking anything for us. i think that's just about fairness." >> begin the testimony -- >> reporter: this week, just as it did during the clinton proce

i will be talking to mike squiggly, on the house intelligence committee and democrats and analysts are standing by. first, we're joined by cnn congressional correspondent, phil mattingly. we're seeing plenty of attacks. what if anything is happening behind the scenes in the impeachment standoff? >> basically nothing. the impasse still stands but the barbs are very much alive at this point. as president trump continued his holiday barrage against democrats on impeachment, speaker pelosi pressing her party's case in her own tweet saying the president abused his power for his own personal gain. for all the 232 character thoughts the battle of what the senate trial will look like will remain where it has been for days at an impasse. no conversations between the top two senate leaders have occurred or are likely before january. with the action tabled for the moment, a clear democratic strategy has emerged, to get under the president's skin, something sources tell cnn is happening. >> they're playing games, don't want to put in their articles, ridiculous phony articles. >> reporter: more imp

truck of the judiciary committee will formally hear from the house intelligence committee with democratic and republican lawyers such to testify. >> this is precisely the kind of contact the founders are most concerned about when they provided this impeachment. >> reporter: they told face the nation there is overwhelming evidence against the president. >> that is the president of united states would abuse his power to seek foreign intervention in affairs and do so in a way that threatens the ordinary mechanism of removing a president from election. to the white house says it will set out the hearing while the president accuses democrats a change in the guidelines is not giving him due process. >> he was acting and concerned about ukraine the third most corrupt country in the world, i think is also reflecting specific concern about the biden connection. >> this is a kangaroo court in the house that will go to the senate, it will go nowhere . >> reporter: chairman nadler did not say how many articles of impeachment would be presented but he suggested there may be a focus on possibly obstruc