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here's cnn's ryan nobles. >> reporter: amid rising tensions house republicans are set to meet behindlosed doors next wednesday. members and aides telling cnn they expect the regularly scheduled gathering could turn into a venting session. over the impeachment vote, two weeks ago, that's divided the conference. in the aftermath of the capitol insurrection, some gop leaders signalled a break with the former president. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. >> reporter: only to reverse course. house minority leader kevin mccarthy flying to florida for a face to face meeting with trump thursday and releasing a statement after highlighting the former president's hold on the party. today president trump committed to helping elect republicans in the house and senate in 2022. make car think said, a republican majority will listen to our fellow americans and solve the challenges facing our nation. despite that show of unity, there are signs of division over trump's role in the party moving forward. >> president trump is going to keep fighting

cnn's ryan nobles on capitol hill for us. ryan, hello to you. when is the vote tonight and when do impeachment proceedings begin tomorrow. >> reporter: it looks like it is going to pass, don. we are waiting on stragglers to come and cast votes but the democrats have more than enough for this particular resolution to pass which would ask vice president pence to invoke the 25th amendment which he has said he is not going to do. the democrats are prepared to move ahead tomorrow morning with their articles of impeachment. that process will begin at 9:00 tomorrow morning. don, the difference between what we saw, you know, a couple of months ago, the last time president trump was impeached and this time around, is that it is going to be a much quicker process. there are fewer articles it they plan to speed through this and it could be done. >> ryan, we need to listen in. here we go. >> without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> i'm sorry. i didn't hear, but it passed. the resolution is adopted. i didn't hear the actual thing,

cnn's robin -- ryan nobles -- hello, i know your name, ryan. sorry i messed that up. you're in milner, georgia, where the vice president just spoke to supporters. how concerned are the campaigns over the impact of this call from president trump, and also what he might say tonight? >> reporter: well, i would say they're very concerned, brianna. this entire runoff has been spent by republicans trying to explain away president trump's behavior since the election, because they do not want to alienate trump supporters here in georgia, while the republican party is very strong in this state, traditionally a red state for quite some time, there's no doubt that president trump holds an unequal sway on some of these republican voters. it's been a difficult asking to try to tell the republican voters that a, the election is filled with fraud, which it's not, but then try to convince them they still need to vote on tuesday. the vice president mike pence tried to strike that balance during his speech here a few hours ago. take a listen. >> i want to assure you, i share the concer

our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is joining us now. arning about this latest operation to try to expel this congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from congress? >> reporter: wolf, there's no doubt there is a lot of angst on capitol hill, particularly from house democrats about marjorie taylor greene and the rhetoric she posted online and her activism prior to becoming a member of congress. of course, there is the cnn k file report that uncovered many of these social media posts where she even went so far as to suggest members of congress should be executed, including the house speaker nancy pelosi. but she also was someone that was very confrontational with activists on all levels, including the victims of the parkland massacre. take a listen to this moment where she went after david hogg who was on capitol hill advocating for stricter gun control. >> what happened in manchester? i'm a gun owner. i have a conceal carry permit. i carry a gun for protection for myself, and you are using your lobby and the money behind it and the kids to tr

ryan nobles you are right, you said there was a few stragglers and it has passed. s listen. >> 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> so, it sounds like, ryan, the house will adjourn until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. and that's when the proceedings will start again. different proceedings, this time, for impeachment. >> yep, that is right. and you know, they are going to, you know, be a series of debates as they go through the process. you know, they have already approved the rules for tomorrow, that happened earlier today. and, you know, we should point out, dn, you and i talked earlier about how many republicans would vote for this stage of the process. there was only one and that was ed a kinzinger of illinois. we expect far more republicans to vote in favor of impeachment tomorrow, we know of at least four that have come out publically and said that they are going to. that number coco increase, could be as many as a kodozen or more. it is different than last time around where it was very much along partisan lines and it will be a quicker process and the big question we don't know the an

ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. >> you just heard ryan mention trump ally lindsey graham. here's the republican senator with a message for president trump and those calling for unity. >> you talk about unifying the country. if you do not stand up against the impeachment of president trump after he leaves office, you are an incredibly weak figure in american history. >> well, many republicans aren't explicitly defending trump. instead, they are attacking the process claiming it's unconstitutional to impeach a former president. david cicilini disagrees and laid out the evidence they are planning to lay out. >> we will present overwhelming evidence that the former president of the united states incited a violent attack on the capitol, bloody attack that involved efforts to hang the vice president, murder the speaker of the house, hunt down members of congress but most importantly stop the sacred ritual which represents the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. the president of the united states incited that violence to stop that from happening so he could

our congressional department reporter ryan nobles here. nfusion is thrown into the mix with the possibility of an impeachment trial next week. >> reporter: they were already delayed in getting this cabinet up and running in time for joe biden to take office. there was hope that janet yellen could be confirmed as soon as this afternoon, but already that process is being held up, and that is in part because of this 50-50 split in the senate. yes, democrats control the majority, but it doesn't take much for republicans to gum up the works. democrats had hoped to bring these nominations to the floor under the terms of unanimous consent, but just one republican can raise concerns and prevent unanimous concern from happening. that appears to be happening right now from blinken and yellen. there is still the opportunity their votes could come up later this afternoon, but it is more likely now that it could happen on monday. just take a look at this list of cabinet secretaries that president biden is still waiting to be confirmed. his pick for the

ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. >> thanks, ryan, for that. as we wait for the house to start impeachment proceedings, a growing number of republican lawmakers are speaking out. they're publicly placing at least some of the blame on president trump for wednesday's insurrection. one senator says the president's political career is virtually over. >> i think the president has disqualified himself from ever certainly serving in office again. i don't think he's electable in any way, and i don't think he's going to be exercising anything like the kind of influence that he has had over the republican party going forward. >> there's no question in my mind that he was -- he was responsible for inciting this riotous mob. this was an insurrection, and, you know, they stormed the capitol and threatened to kill the vice president and put the lives of people in danger, and he had a huge part -- a huge role to play in that. >> i talked to some of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle today. i do believe there's an appetite whether that's a censure or som

let's go to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles. carthy telling his fellow republicans? >> reporter: well, wolf, what he's attempting to do here is quell the rising tensions within the republican house conference and attempt to stop them from publicly attacking each other. we're told that on a conference call today with republican house members mccarthy told them very directly to, quote, cut that crap out. he is trying to implore his republican colleagues that they are much better off together than they are apart. this of course comes as members are openly warring over what happened on january 6th and the resulting action that many took including liz cheney, who's the third-ranking member of the house republican party. she of course voted with several other republicans to impeach president trump a couple of weeks ago. and that led to other republicans that are loyal supporters of president trump like matt gaetz of florida to publicly attack her and say that she should be removed from her committee leadership post. in fact, gaetz trav

ryan nobles is on the ground, joins us where the vice president is about to speak this hour. , the stakes can't be overstated here. a busy last day. >> reporter: no doubt about that, john. i kept in contact with a pretty bide collection of gop operatives since the runoff kicked off after election day. for the most part, they found a way to put a positive spin on president trump's contribution to the race, insisting his passionate supporters will ultimately come out and support david perdue and kelly loeffler. wenls, after the call with secretary of state, they were throwing their hands in the air saying they don't know how to handle this, they're particularly concerned about how the president will act at the big rally planned for later tonight. they're very worried he will spend all his energy talking about baseless claims about election fraud instead of the task at hand, and that's winning the senate runoff. listen to what one georgian republican said. no one has any rational reason to believe it will go well. the possibility of it being a s show is off the charts. if disaste

cnn ryan nobles is covering the breaking news from capitol hill from us. cnn's jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. ryan, there is also a pressing time issue, obviously, a short deadline speaker pelosi is giving the vice president to act. what are you learning? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. 24 hours, nancy pelosi essentially putting vice president mike pence on the clock, asking him if he plans to move forward with the effort to remove president trump from office by using the 25th amendment. and if vice president mike pence says he's not going in that direction or he doesn't respond to pelosi within 24 hours, she said she and her democratic colleagues are prepared to move forward with articles of impeachment. now, the timing is a little bit vague from speaker pelosi. she said she's going to introduce this resolution as early as monday morning, but then asked for unanimous consent. if she asks for unanimous consent, even one republican could object and then force an up or down vote. that may not happen until tuesday, which would mean that the impe

here's ryan nobles. >> the impeachment trial of former president donald trump is now beginning to take shape here on capitol hill. on monday, the house will send over the articles of impeachment starting the clock on the trial itself. on monday, the senators will be sworn in: on tuesday, they'll pick a presiding judge, but the trial itself won't begin until february 8th. that gives the former president roughly two weeks to get his legal house in order in time for the trial to begin. republicans pushed for that. they believe that was part of the due process that the former president should be afforded but it comes with an issue for president trump. in that time frame more information could come out that could be damaging for his legal case. "the new york times" bomb shell that came out over the weekend that suggests the president was putting pressure on members of the justice department to look for examples of voter fraud that would help him overturn the election. that's not directly connected to the capitol insurrection. if there's more examples that republicans could find with preside

ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. >> well, as house speaker nancy pelosi indicates that the house will move this week to impeach president trump, the president faces the increasing possibility that he will become the first president in american history to be impeached twice by the house of representatives. now, a trial in the senate is a whole other matter and it's very unlikely that will happen before president-elect joe biden is inaugurated on january 20th. but the president is facing not only the prospect of impeachment. he's also facing calls for his resignation including from several key republican senators. and he's also facing these questions of the 25th amendment with some calling for the president to be stripped of his presidential powers through that amendment. now, president trump making very clear according to our sources that he has no intention of resigning despite his role in inciting that mob on capitol hill last week. but there is this question of the 25th amendment, and the move by the house speaker nancy pelosi will put a lot more pressure on vice president mike penc

cnn's ryan nobles has all of the latest developments from capitol hill. >> reporter: the united statesse of representatives one step closer to impeaching president donald trump for the second time in his presidency. the first time that's ever happened in the united states. the house voting on tuesday to ask vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment with the threat that if he did not go through with it that they were prepared to move ahead with impeachment. pence already letting speaker nancy pelosi know that he is not going to do that. so, tomorrow, at 9:00 a.m. wednesday morning, the house will move forward with those articles of impeachment. it's going to be a little bit different than it was the last time around. it should go much quicker. there are fewer articles of impeachment to go through. and the other big difference is that there will be republicans that vote in favor of impeachment this time. there will be many, it's not the majority of the republican caucus but notable names including liz cheney, the third-ranking republicing in the house of representatives has

ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. >>> the top u.s. house republican said the president bears some of the blame for wednesday's riot.he says mr. tr accepted responsibility. according to a source, kevin mccarthy also admits that the violence was not caused by the left wing group antifa despite what many of his fellow republicans have claimed. he and other members of the party are floating the idea of censuring president trump for inciting the violence. >>> well, even though mr. trump is back on speaking terms with mike pence, all is not well at the white house. kaitlyn collins has more. >> this is the first time that president trump and the vice president have spoken since that deadly riot broke out on wednesday when the president sent mike pence up to capitol hill with vulgarity because he was not doing what the president wanted. we saw what ensued after that. this is the first time they came together we are told in the oval office and had a conversation. the readout we got from a senior administration official did say the president is

cnn's ryan nobles has more from washington. >> reporter: the united states senate is one step closero the impeachment trial of former president donald trump. on tuesday, the senators were sworn in as jurors for that trial. and senator patrick leahy of vermont was selected as the presiding judge. now, it didn't come without a bit of controversy. republican senators led by rand paul offered up a point of order to ask that the impeachment trial be halted because it is not constitutional. their argument being that because of the former president is out of office that he can no longer be convicted from an impeachment article. now that ended up not going anywhere. in fact, five republicans voted with democrats to table that motion. but it did, perhaps, offer an indication where this trial is headed. in fact, paul said it means that the impeachment of the former president is dead on arrival. that's because 17 republicans will have to cross party lines in order to convict president trump. there were far from 17 republicans willing to do that today. now, it's not necessarily indicative of wha

ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. >>> at least two republican senators have called for mr. trump's resignation. pennsylvania's pat toomey and alaska's lisa murkowski. toomey says he's not sure impeachment is the right move. meantime, republican senator roy blunt says it's time to look to the future and house republican nancy mace says impeachment risks inflaming trump supporters. take a listen. >> one of the issues i have right now whether it's the 25th amendment, whether it's impeachment right now is further dividing the country and pouring gasoline on the fire. i risked my life to take the vote on wednesday night to certify the electoral college. there are many of us out there that that happened to, where people were threatening us. i was accosted in the street on tuesday night and i worry about that because the impeachment articles if it passes with a simple majority in the house, it needs 2/3 in the senate. i don't know if there's an appetite in the senate. it doesn't get to the senate until the 19th of january, the day before joe biden is sworn into office. we need to

ryan nobles is the one breaking the story for us live in washington. more about the memo and what members were seeing. >> reporter: yeah, brooke, what this member shows susthere was certainly a level of concern about the volume of people that were around the capitol in the week leading up to january 6th. such a great concern that we're told that a number of democratic members of congress went to the sergeant-at-arms and the capitol police and requested that these tours that were ongoing during this period of time be brought to an end. now, it's important to point out that public tours of any kind have been banned on capitol hill since march when the pan dem you can took place but that members of congress have special privileges. they can essentially get around these rules because they are members of congress. in the week leading up to that january 6th riot there was an increasing number of these tours that were being run by members that were taking place all around the capitol complex, and that raised a lot of concerns from these democratic members. th

. >> cnn's ryan nobles is with us from atlanta. ryan, obviously we're in the final stretch for the two races. millions of people have cast their votes. what are the candidates doing to try to keep up the momentum? >> reporter: christi, first, i have to say, you live in atlanta. i can't imagine being a george began. you were a swing state to begin for the november election and here we are into 2021 and you're still being hammered with political ads. >> it's a lot. >> reporter: they spent half a billion. it's got to be so much. so many people in georgia that just want this thing to be over with. we are finally near the finish line, but what these candidates are doing is they are out on the trail this weekend. election day is going to be very crucial, particularly for republicans. you mention that 3 million people have already cast their votes in the early voting stage, predominantly democrats. they've won the early voting stage of this and now it's going to be incumbent on republicans to make up that gap on election day. they believe

and ryan nobles, he's covering capitol hill for us. ryan, first of all, you're learning new details, new information right now about the house speaker's next steps in actually trying to remove president trump from office. tell us what you're learning. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. house speaker nancy pelosi for the first time saying that she and her caucus are prepared to move forward with articles of impeachment against president trump. and they're planning to do it in a unique way, essentially putting vice president mike pence on the spot. they are going to offer up a resolution tomorrow morning here on capitol hill that will give the vice president 24 hours to begin the process of invoking the 25th amendment. if pence refuses to do so or doesn't indicate he plans to do that, they will follow-up on tuesday morning by formally filing those impeachment proceedings and beginning that process. of course, wolf, that doesn't necessarily mean president trump will be removed from office before his term ends in ten days. it's just the begin

cnn's ryan nobles is with us from atlanta. talk to us, ryan, about democrats saying these early voting numbers, obviously they're a good sign for them, but this has been such a strange year just because you are a registered republican or registered democrat, that doesn't mean we know exactly how you're going to vote, especially when checks and balances could be at stake here at the federal level. what do you know about the votes that have already been cast and where we go from here? >> reporter: yeah, it's such a great point, christi. we know by their registrations more democrats have voted in the early voting stage of the georgia runoff than republicans have. we also know that democrats are more inclined to vote in less traditional ways by mailing in their ballot or by doing it ahead of time while republicans tend to stick to doing it the old-fashioned way, by voting in person on election day. republicans are really focused on kind of closing that gap of democratic voters between republican voters on election day. that's what

cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins me now from capitol hill. what's the latest on the impeachment trial, ryan? >> pam, you mentioned that "new york times" report today about what was going on in the justice department in the closing dows of the trump administration. and already the senate majority leader chuck schumer tweeted about it tonight suggesting that it could become part of the president's impeachment trial that is scheduled to take place on february 8th. you talk about the timeline. yes, those articles of impeachment will be brought over to the senate on monday and the senator sworn in and a presiding judge picked by tuesday. there's going to be about a two-week period of time where the former president is going to get his legal ducks in a row and prepare for that trial. now, republicans were initially pushing for this. they said that the president deserved an opportunity to build a legal team and prepare his arguments, but we're already finding out that this could also be a problem for the former president because more information coul

ryan nobles joining us now from an event for kelly loeffler in jefferson, georgia. what is being anticipated today, ryan? >> reporter: it's a busy day on the campaign trail for these candidates running in the george senate runoff. three of the four candidates are going to be crisscrossing the state today, getting out the last-minute voters. of course more than 3 million votes have already been cast in this runoff. what we're finding is that the democrats did much better than the republicans, at least when you look at the registered voters that have cast their ballots. but republicans did anticipate this. they know their voters are more traditional and will likely vote in person on election day. but that means they've got a lot of work to do here over the next 24 to 48 hours to make sure that they get those voters to the polls. still, democrats are pushing as well. jon ossoff, one of the democrats in the race, he was out on the campaign trail this morning and he laid out the stakes to the voters that he was talking to. >> georgia has so much power right now. georgia v

cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us now. ryan, what more can you tell us about the impeachment timeline and how this new report is affecting thinking in the senate? >> pam, there's no doubt that this timeline, which was set out on friday by chuck schumer, which indicates that the impeachment articles will be brought here to the senate on monday, but the trial itself won't begin until february 8th was initially something that republicans applauded. they thought that it was good for president trump to get an extra amount of time to prepare for his legal defense, but what we're seeing tonight, in this report by "the new york times," is the pitfalls for the trump legal defense that could arise over those two weeks. this two weeks essentially allows democrats that will prosecute this case during the trial of the impeachment trial to gather more evidence. to provide more evidence that president trump was essentially working to overturn the election and in part, to incite the riot that took place here on capitol hill. now, the timel

. >> we want to go to ryan nobles live in atlanta. president trump and president-elect biden we know are scheduled to campaign in georgia on monday. it has been the never-ending election in this state. even my children, ryan, are saying enough, and they're 11 years old. so just walk us through where we are right now and really i believe, correct me if i'm wrong, kamala harris is going to be here tomorrow, yes? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, and tell your kids it's almost over. we don't know how long it's going to take to count the votes, but at least those political ads are going to end on tuesday in georgia. this never-ending election. what we're seeing here over the next couple of days is a real push to get voters, those final undecided voters to the polls on january 5th. that's really a bigger job for republicans right now than it is for democrats. the democrats are very happy with the turnout that they've seen during the early voting portion of this election. as you mentioned, more than 3 million people have already cast their ba

. >> we've got cnn's ryan nobles joining us live from atlanta. reaking turnout already in this senate runoff. what do things look like on the ground and how are the candidates keeping up the momentum in these final days? >> reporter: well, john, they're hitting the trail today. they're going to be out engaging with voters here in these closing hours of the georgia senate runoff. you're right, this is just an amazing turnout for the early voting section of this runoff. it is breaking records. and that is good news for democrats because democrats are more open to the idea of voting outside of the traditional window of just on election day and in person. there have definitely been more democrats than have returned absentee ballots and shown up in early voting locations to cast their ballots. while republicans are concerned that the democrats are doing so well, they still believe they have a real shot to win here because they know their voters are going to come out in big numbers on election day. that's where they're focusing all their energy, getting

cnn's ryan nobles joins us live from atlanta. , what are you seeing on the ground as we head down the final stretch? >> reporter: well, you know, there's so much at stake here in georgia as both of you know. control of the united states senate is in the balance. so there's a ton of emphasis by both republicans and democrats to get their voters to the poll on the final day of voting on tuesday. and of course president trump not making it easy for these republican candidates with his continued attacks on the electoral system here in georgia. sowing doubt that perhaps it will not be reliable for the runoff because he believes that he won the election in november, which he didn't. that forced the republican secretary of state to go on television yesterday and make it clear that the system was safe and that the results in november were accurate. >> we just have to accept the facts of what happened in the november election. not happy with it, and many conservatives aren't either. but at the end of the day we want to make sure that we ha

let go to ryan nobles at the capitol on this historic night. what's the latest on the timetable for the trial? >> the clock is ticking. the impeachment managers brought the articles over tonight. tomorrow the senators will be sworn in and the presiding judge will take his position in looking over this trial and then begins the paperwork phase of this. roughly two weeks of time for president trump to get his legal affairs in order. there are two deadlines where the paperwork needs to be submitted in time for the trial itself to begin on february 9th. >> can you explain why the senate president protemp patrick lahey will be presiding instead of chief justice john roberts and what else the trial may look like in terms of witnesses and lawyers? >> it's a good question, anderson. under normal circumstances if president trump were still the president, because he's no longer the president, that allows the senate some flexibility and so the chief justice decided he did not want to be part of it it would fall to vice president kamala harris. there was a

here's cnn's ryan nobles. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi still dealing with the fallout fromce. she announced that she's going to ask russel honore, a general who came in when things fell apart in new orleans. to look into the questions what exactly went wrong when it comes to security that day. the speaker being asked by a number of her members to appoint an independent commission and a variety of other things. this is the first step that the speaker plans to take. now, this comes against the backdrop of impeachment proceedings that took place this week. house democrats with a handful of republicans impeaching president trump for a second time. and nancy pelosi expecting to send those to the senate sometime next week. and it appears it won't be in the senate until after the hands of the democrats. and the question remains will there be enough republicans to join with the democrats to ultimately convict president trump. the current majority leader mitch mcconnell who won't be for much longer could hold the keys and something we may not get an answer to until after the inaugur

>> reporter: well, i'll tell you what my colleague ryan nobles found out in talking to his republicanpoke with two of them looking at gop data of turnout and this is what they are telling ryan. what they are saying is that democrats are currently outperforming where they were in the 2020 general election. and that has republicans concerned here in georgia. what it means is essentially the there's more democrats already voting, they have to figure out how to get more republicans to the booth on election day. it is something they are confident they can do, biana, but certainly it gets tougher as those democratic numbers climb in early vote. >> we have the president and the president-elect both coming down there next week as well ahead of that big crucial vote tuesday. kyung lah, thank you so much. for more on these races, harry, we had so much fun earlier this week, we decided to do it all over again. >> sure, why not? >> you make statistics so fun. so let's get to it. senator purdue off the campaign trail in the final days of a close race. how much could this hurt him? >> it can't help

more from cnn's ryan nobles who joins us from his new beat at the capitol. ratulations on that, ryan. how is senate majority leader chuck schumer responding to mcconnell's proposal to delay impeachment trial by two weeks? >> at this point, anderson, he's not saying very much. he is just saying he is reviewing the mcconnell proposal. he is going to mull it over and then respond. we are hearing from other democrats including one very close to president biden, delaware senator chris coons. he told our wolf blitzer he'd be open to an arrangement if democrats offer to push off the impeachment trial until the middle of february the democrats would go along with that as long as it meant that republicans were going to swiftly confirm the president's cabinet nominees. it's not very clear whether or not that's the assessment that schumer has and also the assessment that the speaker, nancy pelosi, has. they are the two that really control this process. so even though mitch mcconnell has offered up this proposal, we won't know where it goes until we hear from the speaker

ryan nobles reporting for us, thank you very much.'s discuss this and more with the chairman of the house intelligence committee democratic congressman adam schiff. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of this formal proposal now by mitch mcconnell to delay the start of the impeachment trial in the senate, say until mid february, maybe even late february? >> well, you know, as most things have come from mitch mcconnell it is what suits mitch mcconnell's interests best. that doesn't mean senator schumer would reject it or that the speaker would. ultimately it is the speaker's decision which i would imagine she will make in consultation with jamie raskin and the team of managers but, also, consulting with senator schumer about what is possible, what the timelines would be, what the conflicts would be, so this is mitch mcconnell's view of what is ideal. that doesn't make it a done deal by any means. >> senator chris coons in the last hour here with me in the situation room said democrats might actually be open

let's go to ryan nobles who's at the republican candidates' headquarters. earning, ryan? >> reporter: well, jake, election day is always important if you are a political candidate, but in this era of early voting it becomes less and less important. that's not the case for the republicans here in georgia. while voters have been casting ballots for more than two weeks in the state, the democrats had much more success in turning out their voters during that early voting period. that means that republicans needed their voters to come out in big numbers here on election day. that's tradition naally that's way they vote. karl rove is the head of the battleground georgia fund, this is a fundraising organization that helped to funnel money into the state, that they're targeting 1 million total votes cast on election day as the target that they need to reach in order to be successful today. they feel confident according to their models that they're going to be able to reach that number before the returns come in and they don't exactly see who's voted for whom. they f

ryan noble begins our coverage in atlanta at the gop headquarters there. ven this record early turnout that anderson referenced and what we see today. which is no lines anywhere we've heard of. what is the mood at the gop headquarters? >> reporter: well, erin, from the very beginning republicans had the sense these races were theirs to lose. even though deaths had made big gains over the past several years including almost winning the gubernatorial race in 2018, of course joe biden winning on, in november. that this was still a red-leaning state. especially in a runoff where turnout is not traditionally as great that the republicans just needed to get their vote out. today that, they're going to find out whether or not that theory is going to be a reality. because there's no doubt the democrats did much better during the early voting phase of this election. not just in terms of more democratic registered voters coming out. also, compare it to their pace in the november election. still republicans believe today is their day. they -- republican voters much mo

i want to bring in cnn's ryan noble who has been covering this.his is going to take a moment, but this is all by certain to pass because democrats have control of the congress. tomorrow, this sets them up tomorrow to vote on impeachment. >> yeah, that's right, don, this will probably take an hour for all the members of congress set to cost a vote on this resolution, and it could lend insight to tomorrow. it should pass without much trouble because of the democratic majority of the house. but we could some republicans voting in favor of this as well. there is a growing list of republicans who said they will vote for impeachment. there are some who say they will vote no on this, because they hold them accountable for what took place on wednesday. the more republicans we see voting tonight, could be an indication of how many vote for it tomorrow. of course there are already big names we talked about tonight, liz cheney, the third most powerful republican in the house of representatives and others. it could give us indication where republicans are hea

i want to go straight to cnn emphasis ryan nobles. rning about the next steps speaker pelosi is trying to take to try and remove president trump from the white house. >> reporter: we're learning for the first time speaker pelosi does fully intend to moval ahead with impeachment proceedings. in a letter tonight she outlined the process she sees this moving forward by, and she said they're going to offer up a resolution by unanimous consent on the floor tomorrow morning that is basically going to set the clock for vice president mike pence. it will give him 24 hours to begin the process of invoking the 25th amendment. if pence refuses to do so or doesn't communicate to them he's heading in that direction, they will then immediately begin the impeachment proceedings. so that means the impeachment proceedings could begin as early as tuesday morning. this really does put a lot of pressure on mike pence. of course our white house team has reported he's left the option of the 25th amendment on the table, but he hasn't really talked to anybody

ryan nobles has more details for us.e you learning about the momentum on the ground right now? >> reporter: there's no doubt that democrats are very encouraged by their performance here in the two weeks of the early voting stage of the georgia runoff. it does have some republicans nervous. i talked to quite a few gop operatives yesterday who believe that from what they're able to tell about the numbers that have come in at this point that the democrats are actually outperforming their early vote totals when you compare it to how they performed during the general election. remember, that the democrats won the general election at least at the presidential level and were close enough to force this runoff happening right now. democrats also feel pretty positive about how well they've done up to this point and i caught up yesterday with stacy adams, the former gubernatorial nominee in 2018, she's been very involved in the senate runoff and i asked if she was encouraged by the performance. listen to what she had to say. >> i w

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cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins me now. a very busy weekend for you there on the capitol hill, ryan. how does all of this fit in on the impeachment timeline? >> you know, this bombshell report by the "new york times" doesn't directly connect itself to the impeachment trial but it certainly is something that could be in the back of the minds of these senators as they make the decision whether to convict president trump. already the senate majority leader chuck schumer is responding to this report. he tweeted earlier today, quote, unconscionable that a trump justice department leader would conspire to subvert the people's will. the justice department inspector general must launch an investigation into this attempted sedition now. then he adds and this is important and the senate will move forward with trump's impeachment trial. of course the articles of impeachment will be brought to the senate on monday and the senators sworn in. a presiding judge picked by tuesday. then there is a two-week period of time where the former pre

cnn's ryan nobles is on the scene for us. ryan, tell our viewers what we're about to see, because this is going to be a beautiful sight on the mall. >> yeah, it really is. you know, so much of what we normally see during inauguration has been robbed because of security concerns and the coronavirus pandemic. no one from the public is allowed to participate in the inauguration this year so the committee is trying to replicate that by finding a way to really dress up the national mall and it starts here tonight. it's really dark here behind me but in just a few minutes it will take 46 seconds in honor of the 46th president joe biden. they are going to illuminate 56 pillars of light in honor of the 50 united states and 6 territories and what the lights will illuminate are some 200,000 flags that are up and down the national mall here frommer single state and territory and what the flags are designed to replicate are the people who would normally be here during an inauguration. wolf, i know you've covered many inaugurations, so hav

ryan nobles is on capitol hill and following this for us. ryan, what is the status for the biden cabinet and what is the timing expectation of getting people in place? >> reporter: well there is to doubt that president biden will like to see the cabinet secretaries confirmed as soon as possible. but there are two factors. first is the timing in general. there could be an impeachment trial that begins here as soon as next week perhaps, and that goods going to mean more time is going to taken up by the business of the senate that could be focused on confirming the cabinet secretaries and even though democrats now enjoy control of the majority in the senate, it is only a 50/50 split. so that is easier for them to gum up the process and make it go normally under certain circumstances and press the biden cabinet secretaries. so it depends on cabinet secretary in terms of the timing. you have janetel yellen and anthony blinken. both are expected to have relatively easy confirmation fights. but it is still going to take this some time. now run into

cnn's ryan nobles joining us live from atlanta. ryan, how does this last-ditch attempt to overturn the election in the senate impact the georgia runoffs? and has david perdue indicated whether he would join the effort if he's re-elected? >> reporter: well, to answer your first question, john, it does have a big impact because both of these senators could be involved in the process, and both have refused to say where they stand. david perdue in particular has an exit ramp on this because he's not going to be there on january 6th. in fact, as of this afternoon, david perdue is no longer a united states senator and may not be unless he wins on january 5th. there's a period of time where there isn't enough time between when the election happens on the 5th and when the results are certified for perdue to be in the office on january 6th. he's punted on the issue and said since he's not going to be there he's not going to talk about it. kelly loeffler yesterday said that everything is on the table, that she is open to joining this group of