we have proceedings from the house intelligence committee. even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intelligence agencies began earlier. in a way that was unprecedented. so we have a special focus this year on not just the intelligent agency the self but the messages in place to oversee them. one of the classic problems of intelligence surveillance is how to balance the need for operations that are secret. surveillance that is done publicly in surveillance. how do you balance the need to conduct certain kinds of operations information gathering in secret while at the same ti time, holding them accountable to the public? given the unfortunate history around the world but in our country as well. secret ceramic power being used in purposes. we have programs today that include a discussion with one of the most important bodies during the oversight. we'll have discussions on the renewed war, one of the mechanisms that text large scale collection. we will examine this morning some of what we have learned about compliance iss

maybe they are too big, these intelligence committees, but as has been pointed out other committees engaging in oversight but we have a lot of members of congress who at least can't examine with intelligence agencies are doing. my sense, when i spoken to former legislative liaisons for cia and i spoke to a couple of them, i have to say for what it's worth they were very unimpressed in the years where they did that work with the sort of attention and questioning that ca received from members of congress. you would think in the modern era with the big committees, big staffs, all the laws we have that the quality of oversight would be better than it is, but one consistency across the long haul from 1947 through today, if i can believe these former legislative liaison is strangely not enough attention given by most members of relevant committees to intelligence oversight. >> why do you think that is? that's a question for the group. a special in our advocacy on whistleblower protections and increased transparency in the intelligence community, it's been my experience we go up to fail and meet wi

>> reporter: members of the intelligence committee are in the room right now. they have started the meeting where they will under all the circumstances matly vote to transmit this report to the house judiciary committee. tomorrow chairman nadler will open the hearing with four constitutional law experts. >> hold on for one moment. hold on for one moment. house republican leadership are speaking right now. i want to hear what they are saying. >> now for several weeks since the impeachment process began. i would ask people to remember that they have failed despite the fact they had a process that basically put everything tilted in their direction. democrats were able to act as judge and prosecutor. they were able to select every single witness. the democrats were able to prevent and did prevent witnesses from answering republican questions. they decided what the american people would see and when. they decided the timing on release of important pieces of transcripts. they still have not released the transcript of the inspector general. the democrats stack staged t

maybe they're too big, these intelligence committees. but as has been pointed out, other committees engaging in oversight. we have a lot of members of congress who at least can examine what the intelligence agencies are doing. my sense of it when identify spoken -- i've spoken to former legislative liaisons for cia, and i've spoken to a couple of them, i have to say for what it's worth they were very up impressed -- unimpressed in their years where they did that work with the sort of attention and questioning that cia received from members of congress. you would think in the modern era with these big committees, big staff, all this, all the laws that we have that the quality of oversight would be better than it is. but one consistency across the long haul from 1947 through today, if i can believe these former legislative liaisons, is that there's, strangely, not enough attention given by most members of relevant committees to intelligence oversight. >> why do you think that is? and that's a question for the group. i think especially in ou

adam schiff the house intelligence committee chairman signaled that a staff counsel will likely present some of the findings in today's report before the house judiciary committee and then there could be action on articles of impeachment before the house judiciary committee and that could happen as soon as next week before the full house could vote the week after to actually impeach the president before the senate would take up the trial and that could go into next year and then the republicans will have to decide whether or not to remove the president from office. or allow him to stay in the office. at the moment they are saying they will let him stay in the office but nevertheless the democrats here in the house are still making the decision about what to do. even though the report is very clearly lays out the case for impeachment, the chairman of the house intelligence committee today i asked him if he would get behind impeachment at this point and he still shopped short. >> do you support impeaching and then the senate removing him from office? >> i'm going to reserve any kind of a

schiff: the work of three committee the intelligence committee the oversight committee as well as the foreign affairs committee, into the president's misconduct with respect to ukraine. at the outset, i want to just thank the incredible members of all three committees as well as our amazing staff that did long hours of work through depositions, open hearings, and compiling all the evidence into today's report. it was enor -- it was an enormous task and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine elijah cummings. we continue to be inspired by his legacy. and guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity he always showed in his work. i also want to thank my colleagues, chairman engel, chairwoman maloney, for their tremendous work as well. this report chronicles a scheme by the president of the united states to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing the president's political dirty work. it involves a scheme in which donald trump with held official acts of -- acts, a white house meeting, a

so the church and pike committee investigated intelligence abuses and the committees were stood up as a bipartisan way of putting boundaries on intelligence activity. i think the scandalous births, the birth from scandal that these committee, these select committees show is an interesting political piece to the whole picture. that these -- this oversight was done sporadically up to this point and then decided we need something more formal to rebalance in relationship. >> i think that's important, when you think about congressional oversight. it's not just house and senate intelligence committees, for example, fisa is overseen in part by the judiciary community and play a significant role here as well. the story for the house and senate intelligence committee, from being overseers to being, you know, the supporters or almost the boosters for the intelligence community. so, the role that they've played has changed from the post church and pike committee role and overseers to no, no, we're going to be your biggest advocates and advocate for things you don't necessarily want. and the gove

today we transmit the report of the work of three committees, the intelligence committee, the oversight committee as well as the foreign affairs committee into the president's misconduct with respect to ukraine. at the outset i want to just thank the credible members of all three committees as well as our amazing staff that did long hours of work through depositions, open hearings, and compiling all of the evidence into today's report. it was an enormous task, and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late cleek olleague of mine eli cummings. we continue to be inspired by his legacy and guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity that he always showed in his work. i also want to thank my colleagues chairman engle, chairmanwoman ma loloney for th tremendous work as well. this report chronicles a scheme by the president of the united states to cores s coerce an al ukraine into doing the president's political dirty work. it involves a scheme in which donald trump withheld official acts of white house meeting as well as hundreds of millions of

we're minutes away from the house intelligence committee members going behind closed doors to review the committee's impeachment report. what is the very latest information you're getting? >> reporter: yeah, just a matter of moments members of that committee will go behind closed doors and review this report and that is something they can do up until tomorrow when the committee will release the report and send it to the house judiciary committee and they will use this report as the basis of articles of impeachment against this president. expect this democratic report to be long. potentially hundreds of pages long detailing the findings of this two-month investigation into ukraine. the democrats allegations the president abused his power and dealings with that foreign country and his ask for ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden at the same time as security aid was withheld for ukraine in a key meeting that ukraine sought also withheld and that is all detailed in the report. we'll wait to hear the exact recommendations but undoubtedly this will form the basis of the arti

joining me now is the intelligence committee chairman adam schiff.o you worry that you will have a lot the to answer for? this report for the first time lays out a case against the president accusing him of obstructing the impeachment investigation. >> all right well, i think the president is really the one who has a lot to answer for, and as we laid out in this report, the evidence is quite overwhelming that the president of the united states used the power of his office, $400 million of taxpayer military assistance to help an ally fighting the russians as well as a desperately sought meeting in the white house to coerce an ally into doing his political dirty work, to doing these investigations that he thought would help his re-election. the president will have to answer for that, and we will have to decide here in congress whether this is what the founders had in mind when they provided a remedy to a president that is violating the public trust and endangering the national security. >> today in your press statement, you had a very stark message to

an historic vote this hour, and the house intelligence committee voting for the impeachment, and it is big one here and accuses president trump of grave misconduct and abuse of power. it is now, this entire document in the hands of the judiciary committee and it is a handoff that matters for american history because it is the judiciary committee that will write the former articles of impeachment against the 45th president of the united states of america. donald j. trump and this report includes new phone ridiculouses that democrats say show the president's allies and including the top republican on the intelligence xhisht intelligence committee devin nunes, and mike pence's role in helping trump abuse the power of the presidency for personal political gain. so we'll have much more on all of what is in these pages in just a moment. i want to go first to capitol hill and manu raju is out front. first of all, this is a crucial vote in history in this process. what more can you tell us about where we are and what just happened? >> at the end of this phase, of this impeachment inquiry and a

an increase in support for impeachment by independents after we held the hearings by the intelligence committee and had all of those 12 witnesses come before us. >> it is kind of creepy that republicans in lockstep would be to willing to essentially try to muddy the waters before this committee report comes out. you would think there would be a way to have just one committee report that has some dissension in it without trying to just basically destroy sworn testimony. >> well, because the republicans aren't acting independent of the president. they are basically taking his talking points and mouthing them and much like devin nunes was trying to create some falsehood by racing over to the white house with this information and racing back when, in fact, it was at the white house the whole time shows you that from the very beginning this is been orchestrated by the president and the white house. and they are just following orders. and you may ask well why are they doing it? because they care more about being re-elected than they do about the state of the country. and when our national security is

republican senator richard burr is the chair of the senate intelligence committee. it's a big job. ommittee investigated and commissioned a report into the widespread and systemic efforts by russia to sabotage the campaign of hillary clinton on behalf of then candidate donald trump using a variety of legal means. burr's committee also reportedly looked into the notion ukraine meddled in the election. and while that part of the report has yet to be released, politico citing people with director knowledge found no evidence akin to trump's efforts to win in 2016. no evidence. yet senator richard burr is now effectively rejecting the determination of his own committee, the one he chairs in order to lend credence to the wild theories the president and his allies are now resorting to. >> is there any evidence that ukraine meddled in the 2016 election? >> i don't think there's any question that elected officials in ukraine had a favor in the election. every elected official in the ukraine was for hillary clinton. >> okay. >> is that very different than the russians being for donald trump?

take a look at this live pictures from capitol hill where the house intelligence committee is expectedto the judiciary committee which will almost certainly use it as a basis for articles of impeachment against president trump. the report cites what it calls overwhelming evidence of misconduct and obstruction by the president of the united states in his effort to get ukraine to investigate his politicals.

it is a letter from the intelligence committee and the oversight and foreign affairs committees which three committees that conducted the impeachment investigation. it's a letter to the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler. dear chairman nadler, pursuit to section 2, pra r 6, enclosed is the intelligence committee trump-ukraine impeachment inquiry report, together with its appendices. additionally as authorized by section 3 of house resolution 660, we are today transmitting to the judiciary committee additional records and other materials relating to the impeachment inquiry. these records and materials are being transmitted by the committees on flash drives containing materials and records already released publicly. other records cited in the report and certain sensitive materials. thank you for your prompt attention to this matter, signed the three chairs, again, of the intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committee. this is the official transmittal of the impeachment report, which we got a public version of earlier this week, all 300 pages of it. it is being officially co

in this letter sent to vice president pence tonight, the intelligence committee chairman adam schiff says this. quote, in accordance to relevant procedures for handling classified information jennifer williams provided a classified supplemental submission to the committee november 26th. in an unclassified cover letter to that submission her counsel explained that, quote, in preparation for the november 19th hearing in which she testified in public, ms. williams reviewed certain materials that caused her to recall additional information about the september 18th call between vice president pence and the leader of ukraine, information that she wished to disclose to the committee for the sake of completeness. the letter says, quote, pursuant to the house of representatives impeachment inquiry i write now to request that the office of vice president declassify any classified material contained in that supplemental written submission. the committee believes that the information in ms. williams supplementing submission is relevant to the impeachment inquiry and should not be classified. the

doing the bidding for russia, it's -- it's quite serious. >> the inquiry now moves from the intelligence committee to the judiciary committee. judiciary is a very different place than intel. some of the president's most ferocious defenders like doug collins, matt gaetz, jim jordan, they all serve on judiciary. how concerned are you about what happens there? >> i think what will happen there is what happened really in the intelligence committee. you're going to have experts come forward. you're going to have constitutional scholars talk about whether or not this is an impeachable offense, how you would move forward with impeachment. i mean we do have the facts in front of us. we have a whistle-blower complaint that the president himself corroborated with the summary of the phone call that establishes that there was bribery. and so at this point the republicans will make all the noise that they are able to make, but i think the facts speak for themselves. and i feel that it's incumbent on us to make sure that the law is followed here and not the law of donald trump. >> congresswoman speier, i apprec

the house committee on intelligence was our fact finding committee. that's why they performed closed-door depositions because they wanted to avoid witnesses coaching each other and coordinating their testimony. >> i will give mr. collins. >> we're driving down an interesting hole here. i also am ranking member of the same committee that said early on that if the president saw something he didn't want he could write us a letter. he could write us a letter. a couple of these things. the white house has not received all the documents it's supposed to have. we're doing impeachment right now and they still haven't received the documentps. i still have not received all the documents. i don't know how we get around that. we can pretend and paint pretty faces. also here's another thing. the staff member they send, mr. goldman, would not testify or answer questions on the methodology of how they did their investigation. even in an egregious violation in their report where they named members of congress and their phone records, he would not actually say who ord

the house committee on intelligence was our fact-finding committee. that's why they performed closed-door depositions because they wanted to avoid witnesses coaching each other and coordinating their testimony. >> we are driving down an interesting hole. ranking member of the same committee who said early on that if the president saw something he didn't want, he could write us a letter. that was said. that's how it would be taken care of. the white house hasn't received all the documents it's supposed to have. we are doing impeachment and they haven't received the documents. i still have not received the documents. i have not received the documents. that's in direct violation. i don't know how we get around it, but we can pretend. here's another thing. the staff member they sent would not testify or answer questions on the methodology and how they did their investigation. even in an egregious violation in their own report where they named members of congress and their phone records, he would not actually say who ordered it, chairman schiff or him? i'v

tomorrow evening, the intelligence committee is due to vote on whether the impeachment report should be conveyed to the judiciary committee to start the process of weighing actual articles of impeachment against president trump on the basis of that evidence. it is possible that we the public may get access to the impeachment report as soon as tomorrow night, although that is not yet totally clear. i will tell you, the chairman of the intelligence committee who has been leading the impeachment investigation, congressman adam schiff is here live in studio with me tonight. hopefully he can help clarify some of that in terms of what we expect to see and when. but you know, part of the reason we don't have a great road map in our heads for how this is all supposed to go, for what's supposed to happen next procedurely is because we haven't had very many impeachment proceedings in the history of this country. one, there's very little precedent, but two, the precedent that we have in this country, we're not necessarily following. at least we're not following it at the justice department. than

the format will be much like what we've seen in previous testimony before the house intelligence committee. first the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerry nadler, will deliver his opening statement followed by the ranking republican doug collins delivering his. then each of the four witnesses who are all legal experts will weigh in about high crimes and misdemeanors, whether this had been met under the constitution. now we're getting a taste of what some of these witnesses have said based on their opening statements we've heard so far. and a couple of things stand out. one from michael gerhardt, one of the democratic witnesses invited by the democrats from the university of north carolina, says the president's serious misconduct, including bribery, solicitting a personal favor from a foreign leader in exchange for his exercise of power and obstructing justice in congress are worse than the misconduct of any prior president, including what previous presidents who faced impeachment have done or been accused of doing. now the republican witness, one of the four who is testifying,

that this was based on the report that was delivered to us by the house committee on intelligence. of course, that's a play on words, too. there were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the house committee on intelligence, the house oversight committee and the house foreign affairs committee. the way we structured this impeachment process, which is completely our prerogative under article 1, section 2, clause 5, as you said, mr. chairman, is to have fact investigation into this affair, which involved foreign governments and ambassadors and so on in the intelligence committee. then to have them bring the facts in a comprehensive report to the house judiciary committee, which would then make the decision about the law. do all of these events rise to what we think is impeachable conduct? of course we did. there are lots of fact witnesses. the fact we also had the counsel for the house intelligence committee come into deliver the report and defend the report and all of my friends on the other side of the aisle had the chance to question as we had the chance to question. when you say t

understanding that chairman schiff did not transmit all of the material collected be i the intelligence committee to the judiciary committee, and is that the case? >> it is still true to this day. >> and so you do not agree, and i would ask both of you that the house judiciary committee would have had the time and opportunity to review all of that information? >> we did not have that time and information and it is a violation of the house rules 660. >> all i can tell you is that the vast amount of what was produced publicly along the way, and i know that the intelligence committee made the commitment to release those depositions, and those deposition statements publicly. i considered it a fair an in any event all of it is in the final report. it's been there for all of america to see and i don't want us to lose sight of the big picture >> we don't know if it's all there. if you haven't seen them yourself. >> we don't know that, that's assuming something based on evidence we don't know. this is the classic case of evidence being given from a prosecutor. we don'tknow what we've not seen . a few thi

it's an intelligence committee product. intelligence committee members will get to review it. tomorrow night, they'll get to vote on it before it's released publicly. republicans have been working on their own version of the report. that will likely move on to the president's defense. >> joining me now is ellie hone egg. the white house argument is that they're not going to participate because they don't know who the witnesses are going to be, and two, they don't know if president trump will get a fair treatment, is that reasonable on legal grounds, on political grounds? >> well, jake, i think the white house has a binary choice here, either they can engauge in the merits, facts, substance or sit it out and be the victims of an unfair procedure. they've chosen the latter point of view. they do v a little bit of a point. jerry nadler has not specified who the white houses are going to be on wednesday nadler left the door open there, to allow the white house to explain that it's an unfair process, nadler i think needs to sharpen up his game a little bit here, and not give the wh

well, after weeks of testimony, the house intelligence committee voted to adopt the impeachment inquiry report late yesterday afternoon. now this process goes to the judiciary committee which traditionally is charged with drafting articles of impeachment. now the white house earlier this week despite an invitation declined to be at today's hearing. house democrats released a 300-page report detailing their findings in the impeachment pinquiry so far. >> this is about whether the american people have a right to expect that the president of the united states is going to act in their interests, with their security in mind and not for some illicit personal or political reason. >> reporter: covering two months of depositions and public hearings, the report says president trump used the power of his office to applying increasing pressure on the president of ukraine to investigate mr. trump's

the house intelligence committee is expected to approve the document on a party line vote tuesday, passing it on to the judiciary committee. kicking off a new phase in the investigation. democrats say they are just following the constitution. >> they want to get at this president before everybody completely sees through the process sham of the elections for next year. >> every single member of the house of representatives will have to decide whether they want to put principle over party or the constitution ahead of corruption. jon: holly henneberg has the latest from washington. reporter: wednesday the house judiciary committee takes over and that's the committee that could draft articles of impeachment. the ask democrats efforts are working to bring the republicans over to their side on impeachment. >> i have been extremely troubled and disappointed by the behavior of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. their refusal to hold this president accountable and clearly go into their partisan corner and protect this president at any and all costs is troubling to me, and i believe it's

the house intelligence committee. last night, they released this 300-page document outlining their findings in their investigation. the house intelligence committee. give us some of the major, major moments that they released in this document. >> well, they try to make a case this was a scheme perpetrated by the president to try to push for matters in helping his political campaign and undermine national security, undermine foreign policy and leverage his relationship with the ukrainian government in order to push forward on those investigations. they tried to make two broad categories. obstruction of congress by not turning over records to capitol hill. those are generally probably going to be the outlines of articles of impeachment we should expect to see coming draft in the coming days, abuse of congress, abuse of power, obstruction of congress. but also new revelations about phone records they obtained from subpoenaing third parties that sheds new light about the context of rudy giuliani, the president's personal

our entire intelligence committee. the nsa, the cia, the fbi. the senate committee on intelligence, all of them say the same thing which is that it was russia that conducted with the department of justice called a sweeping and systematic campaign against our election in 2016. remember, they injected propaganda into our policy through social media, facebook and twitter and so on. they directly conducted cyber innovation and attack and espionage against the democratic national committee. hillary clinton's headquarters, and they directly try to get into our state boards of election, not two or three, all 50 of them they try to get into, that's what russia did and that we have the president of the united states telling president zelensky that if he wants a $391 million that we voted for and that he's been certified for by the department of defense and the department of state clearing every anticorruption screen that would've been put in place and called for by congress, does he want the money and does he want the white house meeting he desperately wa

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

that this was based on the report that was delivered to us by the house committee on intelligence. of course, that's a play on words, too. there were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the house committee on intelligence, the house oversight committee and the house foreign affairs committee. the way we structured this impeachment process, which is completely our prerogative under article 1, section 2, clause 5, as you said, mr. chairman, is to have the investigation into this affair, which involved foreign governments and ambassadors and so on in the intelligence committee. then, to have them bring the facts in a comprehensive report to the house judiciary committee, which would then make the decision about the law. do all of these events rise to what we think is impeachable conduct? of course we did. there are lots of fact witnesses. we also had the counsel for the house intelligence committee come in to deliver the report and defend the report and all of my friends on the other side of the aisle had the chance to question as we had the chance to question. when you say there are

. >> overnight the house intelligent committee announcing it will vote tuesday on chairman adam schiff's impeachment report which will make a case for the removal of president trump. intel committee members will be able to see a draft of that report as soon as monday. >>> from the impeachment inquiry to the nation's first big blast of wintry weather, we will cover it all for you this hour with our team of reporters and analysts. let's begin with the latest on the impeachment process. the house intelligence committee set to vote tuesday on chairman schiff's impeachment report which lays the case for the congressional removal of president trump. that vote happening just one day ahead of the scheduled hearings by the house judiciary committee. joining me now scott wong report from the hill. good morning, scott. let's get to what house democrats are doing which is going on a pretty fast moving pace here. walk us through what's happening. do they get ahold of this tomorrow night, those on the intel committee and others to look through it and then pass it along? >> that's what it looks like at

host: it sounds like you watched a fair amount of the intelligence committee. ll you watch today's house judiciary committee? caller: i'm planning on it, yes. people are listening to too much of the press. they are not listening to what is actually said. one word can change the definition. democrat he said democratic. that changes things. i do plan on listening to it i'm home and i am very much involved. keep on top of these things and see what is going on. i would like to know what is going on. in.: thanks for weighing the impeachment report itself, available report is on our website, c-span.org/impeachment. here is part of it. president repeatedly threatened and attacked a member of the intelligence community who filed an anonymous whistleblower complaint. more than 100 public statements appeared in just two months. they publicly question the whistleblower's motives. disputing the accuracy of the account and encouraged others to reveal the identity. most chillingly the president issued a threat against the whistleblower. suggesting that they could face the dea

tomorrow, the house intelligence committee is expected to vote likely along party lines to release it to the house judiciary committee. that comes one day before the judiciary committee has its first hearing with four constitutional law experts where they will go over exactly what the basis for impeachment would be. i can tell you tomorrow, sources are telling me the house judiciary democrats are going to hold a mock hearing basically to prepare exactly how to run their hearing on wednesday. this is an important factor because democrats feel like they are coming off the momentum after a couple of weeks of blockbuster weeks in the house intelligence committee and want to keep that going in the house judiciary committee, but the presidents's lawyers saying they will not participate wednesday. we will know by friday whether or not the white house will participate in the rest of the judiciary's proceedings. >> republicans have just released their own report. how are they defending the president? >> reporter: essentially, wolf, they're saying the president has done absolutely nothing wrong

we did learn a lot of interesting facts 3 house intelligence committee hearings when we had all of those people from the state department testifying and so we got the full picture of exactly what happened although i think that there 5 are still you know some some questions remain the senate intelligence i mean the house intelligence committee's report offered some interesting new facts very new telephone records that had been subpoenaed and they show interesting lee enough that the ranking member of the house intelligence committee devon nunez was speaking to the white house and rudolph giuliani and left parnassus the one of the ukrainians who is now been indicted in the southern district of new york and so there's questions about what representative nunez is involvement in this whole ukrainian debacle is and so we may still learn new facts in the coming days i think that the senate the house intelligence committee is still interested in putting out more information but i think it's going to be a dribble and i don't think in the end any new fact is going to change people's m

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where this is going to lead the intelligence committee report will be voted on tonight and be released at the same time transmitted over the judiciary committee. why that matters, that's where the articles of impeachment will be drafted. obviously there is the hearing tomorrow. obviously there will be a couple of hearings in the judiciary committee we expect over the course of the next week or so. why it matters it this is the starting gun to the final sprint to impeachment. over the course of the next couple of weeks based on the intelligence committee product, the president of the united states is likely to be impeached before christmas. how that actually happen, what the articles look like, that's still being debated but this is happening and happening fast, kate. >> rebuttal, prebuttal. you never correct me. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm now cutting your mic. >>> joining me to discuss on a much more serious note, a member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me on. >> let's talk about the house intel hearings really quick. you think th

the intelligence committee is set to vote on its official report, tuesday evening. though both reports will ultimately be sent to the judiciary committee, which conducts its first public impeachment hearing, the next day. president tom, railed against the timing of that here, before heading to london, to mark the 70th anniversary of nato. >> the whole thing is a hoax. everybody knows it. >> reporter: white house counsel did declined an invitation to participate in wednesday's hearings, saying it exacerbates the complete lack of due process and fundamental fairness for the president. >> the white house has not ruled out participating in future hearings and has until the end of the week to decide. >> reporter: some republicans are split over wednesday's hearing. >> i think it would be the president's advantage to have the attorneys there. >> why would they want to participate in another rerun? >> reporter: nancy pelosi refused to comment on the hearings. >> when we travel abroad, we don't talk about the president. >> reporter: it remains the focus in washington, wednes

up u to obstruct the investigation. >> let's bring in peter welch, a a member of the house intelligence committee and oversight committee as well. congressman, this report is coming from your committee. two things involved here. are you confident that this will be enough to convince the republican colleague that is the president is a danger to the 2020 election? >> well, i do. it certainly convinced me and ari got it right. this report all goes back to the president saying i want you to do me a favor though. what this report does is show how determined, ferocious, rerentless the president was in employing every person and tool he could to then ukraine to do his bidding on the investigation of biden. that's what's really depressing, frankly, but also shocking. then secondly, it creates an historical context, where previous presidents who have hated impeachment inquiries, johnson, nixon and clinton, every one of them produced witnesses and ef single one of them produced documents. president trump has taken the unprecedented position that the separation of powers doesn't exist and apply to him. so t

the house intelligence committee is going to vote this evening to adopt that report, and then it's movedthe house judiciary committee which will open up formal impeachment proceedings in that panel, but the committee is going to detail the findings of this investigation that has spanned more than two months looking at the president's handling of ukraine in detail. the democrats' case for impeachment. i'm told from a source familiar with the report that this report already discusses the historical nature of impeachment and suggests the president may have met that threshold for high crimes and misdemeanors, suggests that the president acted in a way that abused his office and dealings with ukraine. also suggested that the president obstructed congress by not giving up his documents, sto stonewalling their demands. democrats planned to include that in this report. phone logs make this in detail. a narrative of sorts going back before the ouster of the foreign ambassador, planting a scheme by the president to help himself quickly and leverage that relationship with ukraine, in the meantime t

we have had the intelligence committee, we have had the oversight and investigations committee. and now we're in judiciary because we're looking at the constitution. we're looking at how you actually right those laws of impeachment. and i think that should lie with the judiciary. it doesn't preclude us from having information from any of the other chairman, any of the other committee people, but we also are working in concert. we are very cohesive in looking at the information. it has been public. i don't think we lose anything by taking it to the judiciary. i think that is absolutely the place it should be at this time. >> representative cisneros, we're all poll watchers. it's what we do, politics is the stuff you do professionally and we watch and we report on. the support at least right now from americans for the impeachment and the removal of the president within the last couple weeks, you see the latest, 47% do support impeachment and removal from office. that number has been slowly decreasing. what does that say to you? >> for me this has always been an issue about nationa

it makes sense that the intelligence committee would do the investigating. the judiciary committee is good at judicial things and articles of impeachment would be an indictment from a grand jury. it makes sense to let the lawyers do it. >> let our viewers join this conversation.s wi let's start with john who is calling from silver springs maryland on the democratic line. john, good morning. >> good morning. thank you for taking my call. professor, if you send someone a subpoena and those are the people that commit the crime and they don't want to show up, will that also be a part of this case that make sense that the president holding those people that commit the crime not to show up in front of congress? my next question is, and i very worried about the witness yesterday in the capital testifying. if ie am in a court and i am complaining of someone who is harassing me and did a lot of things against me and the person sends me a text message saying that you are no good, you are worthless, isn't that a part of the impeachment when the president is sending twee

the intelligence committee makes the case that ukraine compromised security. it asks whether we as a nation are committed to the rule of law or instead whether the president uses his power of the office to coerce foreign interference in a u.s. election is something that americans must simply get over. >> they voted on tuesday night to send their more than 300-page report to the house judiciary committee. of course, this is a significant step as the house intelligence committee is concluding its more than two-month investigation into the president's call on july 25th with ukraine's president and, of course, the withholding of that nearly $400 million in u.s. military aid. on wednesday the house judiciary committee will hear from constitutional law expert discussing the merits of impeachment, that setting the stage for the potential writing of articles of impeachment. of course, that's a very significant step as the democrats on the judiciary committee are going to be tasked with writing the articles. now next week there could be more impeachment hearings as wel

introduce the to chairman of the intelligence committee, adam schiff. the president of the united states has been impeached for now only the third time in history. the president of the united states should be tried. the question is whether senator mcconnell will allow a fair trial in the senate, whether the majority leader will allow a trial that involves witnesses and testimony and documents. a trial that should be fair to the president, yes, but should be fair also to the american people. the american people want to hear from people like john bolton, people like mick mulvaney. the american people want to see what is in those documents the president has been hiding at the state department, in the office of management and budget, in the white house itself. we have done our duty in the house. we have upheld the constitution. we have done as the framers would have us do when a president abuses his office and obstructs a coequal branch of government. the question is, will the senators uphold their oath? do the senators want a real trial? we have to hope th

our top stories: in the us, the house intelligence committee releases its impeachment inquiry report, accusing president trump of putting his interests ahead of america's. he was willing to sacrifice the national security of the united states in order to get what he wanted. the two men who founded google, larry page and sergey brin, are stepping aside from running its parent company. the tech billionaire elon musk claims in court that he did not literally call a british cave diver a paedophile. and the winner is — all of them. all four artists shortlisted for the turner prize declare themselves a collective and the prestigious prize is shared between them. with president trump in london at an international summit, his opponents in washington have moved against him, with the next phase of the impeachment inquiry that has the potential to remove him from office. he has described it as an "unpatriotic witch—hunt", a "one—sided sham." but the latest report from the house of representatives, which is dominated by the democrats, claims there is "overwhelming" evidence that mr trump placed p

and the intelligence committee will pass the baton to the judiciary committee. its first public hearing is wednesday. overnight, republicans pushed back on who is scheduled to testify. during that hearing, president trump will be an ocean away in london for a nato summit. with election day in the uk right around the corner, prime minister boris johnen so, a friend of the president, wants to keep the president at a distance. there is a battle of the billionaires. mike bloomberg is spending tens of millions on ads. so is tom steyer. pete buttigieg is criticized for comments he made in 2011 about kids in lower income minority neighborhoods. as he struggles to attract support from black voters, he goes to church this morning before morning worship, the reverend william barber will join me. ned price, a special assistant to president obama. now he is an msnbc analyst. christina greer, beth couey and kyle cheney, congressional reporter for politico. kyle will be up for the next round of impeachment hearings, the first scheduled for wednesday. underpinning that is a re