Process, a lawyer. Anything. Now they come to the senate and want everything. A lot of those comments need Fact Checking. First we go to cnn White House CorrespondentBoris Sanchez in florida where the president is spending the winter holiday. Boris, the heard the president going after Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the impeachment proceedings. What else did he have to say . Reporter jessica, as impeachment has essentially reach add standstill and the president has spent several days at maralago surrounded by supporters really getting into some of his uglier instinct, the president is lashing out, and hes focusing specifically on House Speaker nancy pelosi. Said to he said the speaker hated republicans, and that she hates people who voted for him. Hes also suggested that shes effectively stalling not handing over the articles of impeachment over to Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell because democrats dont have the eford and are struggling to build a case. Of course, thats quite the read on the situation. The president saying giving democrats witnesses in a senate trial would be unfair. As you played their, he voiced confidence in majority leader mcconnell effectively saying mcconnell can do what he would like with a senate trial. Very different than weve been hearing behind the scenes for several weeks with President Trump telling close aides he wants a senate trial. He wants a show to effectively vindicate him, to call all sorts of witnesses that weve heard Senate Republicans say that they do not want to take the stand. People like the whistleblower whos complaint launched this entire impeachment process. Jessica . Well break it down. We have Fact Checking to do and analysis. Boris, stay with us. Also joining us, cnn reporter daniel dale and havent havent National Security analyst also with us who held several senior roles on president obamas National Security council. Thank you tofor being with us today. And President Trump ranted about the every tire impeachment process calling the house proceedings unfair, he wasnt afforded a lawyer or witnesses. You were the Fact Checking king here. What do you know about those claims . On the lawyer part in particular, theres some truth and some falseness. It is true that the white house, trump himself, the white house counsel, was not permitted to participate in the House Intelligence Committee hearings that kicked off the impeachment process. However, republicans on the committee were allowed to have their own counsel. Steve kaccast evekafcastor, ques and fully participate, and on witnesses it is true the white house didnt have the power to call witnesses, because democrats controlled majority, but democrats ended up calling three witnesses that republicans formally requested. Called in an official letter. On the question of fairness more broadly, i think trumps comments generally suffer from the same misunderstanding every time he speak. He seems to suggest that the impeachment process is subject to the same rights as, say, a criminal trial. Like hes a criminal defendant. Thats not the case. Its not true at all. So the premise of trumps complaints is simply not accurate. Right. Launching from there, misstatements like that one. All right. Daniel, thank you. Boris, the president once again also repeating this false claim today about fbi spies. Take a listen to this. And also tremendous amounts of information are being written about even by the fake news concerning fisa, concerning dirty cops. If you just go by what you see in the papers its incredible whats going on. We have dirty cops. We have people spying on my campaign. They did terrible things. The likes of which have never been done in the history of our country. Okay. Again, not true. The Inspector General of the Justice Department just discredited that claim. Boris, unfold the facts here for us. Reporter yes. In a horowitz report its very clear that there was no indication of political bias motivating the investigation. There were a few instances of conversations in which political bias were expressed, but some, any investigation in favor of trump others in favor of Hillary Clinton obviously. We should point out we heard similar language from the minority leader in the house yesterday Kevin Mccarthy suggesting there was a watergatelike break in. Thats not the case. The Inspector General found not only no breakin but no indication at any point anyone suggested that they should bring an informant into the investigation, into the campaign. Further, there were questions about the basis of those fisa warrants ultimately what horowitz found, that the continuation of those warrants, there were flaws in the justification of continuation of them. The ultimate basis was justified, jessica. All right. There are the facts on that. Another Conspiracy Theory to touch on sam, go to you on this one. That ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. He believed it, the president said, because president putin told him so. Watch this. What did president putin say to you that convinced you that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election . What did say to me about what . Your putting words in somebodys house. Who are you referring to . I never said anything about it. I never said a thing about it. So the ukraine conspiracy in a nutshell protects putin and russia who did meddle in the 2016 election. We know this to be true. The rest of this is just dangerous lies. Exactly right. Potus parroting putins propaganda actually has an Immediate Impact on the american people. Lets remember that putin is engaged in a massive disinformation campaign. He used to have to pay bots and trolls to spread lies, to divide the united states, spread confusion and spread divisions. Now all he has to do is have his guys retweet the president , retweet Kevin Mccarthy and keep refeeding propaganda to members of the republican media. Every time this propaganda is spread they are helping russias disinformation campaign. When the president and members of the Republican Party spread this russian propaganda, theyre directly undercutting their own Intelligence Community, who by the way is trying to protect our ear lections from actors like russia, because our own Intelligence Community gone up to the white house and briefed them on this is a russia propaganda theory theyre spreading and President Trump should have been briefed with the same information. Rather than rely on the Intelligence Committee the president and members of the Republican Party are relying on putin,s that is undercutting confidence in the American Security and compromising fiona hill. Right. She was the president s senior director, before this, on russian affairs. And she said it is russia, not ukraine and they will do it again. Interesting. Boris Senate Leaders from each party, Mitch Mcconnell, Chuck Schumer, trying to hash out what the Senate Impeachment trial would look like. Youre hearing mcconnells wing and option that involves needing no support from schumer, rather forging forward. Right . Yes. According to our colleague, manu raju on capitol hill that learned mcconnell would prefer to have a bipartisan rulemaking procedure in place with Chuck Schumer but ultimately mcconnell has the support among republicans to create rules without schumers assistance. All he needs is 51 votes and effectively just waiting until the session kicks back in in january, and nancy pelosi to hand over the articles of impeachment to go ahead and start that process. Thats part of the reason you hear the confidence from President Trump that mcconnells going to get this done for him. Ultimately, there are disagreements about exactly how that senate trial should play out. A lot of back and forth over that. Daniel, last question to you. Its kind of been the whole strategy of President Trump and the white house to discredit this entire impeachment process. We saw a lot of that today. Were going to hear more of it, im sure. How effective do you think that message has been, and i know this goes back to what you talked about beginning of the segment. Laying out all the facts. How true do you think that is . That this has not been a fair process . I think i should reserve judgment on the last part, because im a reporter and i think some is subjective. On the effectiveness of his claims, its just about as effective as his dishonesty usually is in that it successfully persuades a significant part of the country. Not a majority but enough he mean tains support among republican legislatures who depends on that portion of the ooeb electorate for their support. Succeeding with supported. And the level of impeachment, even for removal we can overstate this. He has not been with a Strong Majority of the country that he is correct. Thank you all for joining me. Have a good Christmas Eve. Coming up, joe biden and Pete Buttigieg are both trying to court moderate democratic voters in iowa. So which candidate has the tlectlecedge there . Youll hear from voters say. And a confrontation between the police and a carjacker. Turns out, that man was driving his own car. Right now billions around the world preparing to celebrate christmas at the vatican. Pope francis preparing to celebrate Midnight Mass. A live report from rome. Thats ahead. Five years ago, i had psoriasis everywhere. My skin hurt, i felt gross. But then i started cosentyx and i havent really had to think about it. Real people with psoriasis. Look and feel better with cosentyx. Dont use if youre allergic to cosentyx. Before starting get checked for tuberculosis. 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Reporter smiled with sanction. Do you walk away committed or see others first . Well, joe biden is also in town tonight. Im going to go see what he has to say. Reporter two hours later, she and her sister were there. Thank you for coming. Reporter from the an up close look at joe biden and admires and values biden the experience. Hes been there. So i feel good about that. Im really happy about that. I liked him. Reporter but you loved mayor pete . I loved mayor pete what does a guy do . I dont know. Im really kind of torn a little bit. Ive got to think about it, sleep on it. I dont know yet. Reporter just before christmas, democrats are still shopping for president ial hopefuls in iowa. Biden and buttigieg are going after the same voters. Literally. Which brought both of them sunday to the town of perry about 45 minutes outside des moines. For democrats searching for a more moderate candidate the choice is stark. A 37yearold mayor of south birthday, indiana, delivering an optimistic message. Even in this dark and strange time i have never been more filled with hope. Reporter for a former Vice President twice his age offers a dark warning about the consequences of President Trump winning a second turn. If we give him another four years i believe he will permanently alter the character of the country for at least several genre aces. Reporter pat is torn. Applauding buttigiegs intellect. Might be the by biden. Told me you would sign on with buttigieg. Now what . Probably go with mayor pete. So much to be said to be able to hit the ground running on day one and its a huge task. Biden lifetime of politics comes in handy to people of all ages. Thats it. Okay. [ applause ] that may be the most intelligence thing you hear all night. Reporter pat liked charisma of buttigieg and worried biden may be too old. After seeing him up close, in this moment, she said she changed her mind. I made that comment might be a little old but im a little old, too and in pretty good shape. He looks like hes in dynamic shape. Reporter quite a condition is ma is decision ahead of you . It wont be made lightly. Reporter legitimately torn between buttigiegs excitement and bidens experience. Six weeks to weigh that. Jeff zeleny, cnn, perry, iowa. All right. Great stuff from iowa, jeff. Thanks so much. Still ahead, President Trump says the u. S. And china will hold a signing ceremony for phase one of a new u. S. china trade deal. Dames get worked out after the new year. And while a potential trade deal with china is making headlines, the chinese threat to u. S. Research institutions is very real. We explain why, when we come back. D, blended and aged again. Its the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. Dewars. Double aged for extra smoothness. When youyou spend lessfair, and get way more. So you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. 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When we get together, well have a quicker signing to get the deal done. The deal is done. Its being translated right now. Okay . Thank you. Cnn political analyst josh rogin also a columnist for the washington post. Hi, josh. Great to you with you. Thanks for having me. The president said today, you heard him just there, they will hold a signing ceremony on this preliminary trade deal with china. Does it appear chinas onboard . Do we know yet if its a good deal for the u. S. . What the particulars are . Two separate questions. The Chinese Government is very much for this. Bragging about it in their press and think they got a good deal. Hard to know whether we got a good deal. You alluded, we dont know the details. Eventually they have to release details and then we can make a good judgment. Basic lally its a mausmall dea. Interim deal. When we see the details we can see if it solves any issues trump talked about all this time. And the talks with the u. S. Clsh shi u. S. china trade deal. You have to read. The chinese threat to u. S. Researches institutions is real. Took my breath away. This is very interesting. Tell us what this threat sand what the u. S. Is doing about it. Sure. Its kind of a crazy story. The last year or so the fbi and the National Institutes of health, which Funds Research all over the country, started going to all these Research Institutions warning them the Chinese Government is trying to infiltrate institutions paying off their researchers inviting hem to china and stealing all their stuff. The moffitt center, biggest Canter Center in florida took a look founded ceo, Vice President and four top researchers secretly paid by the Chinese Communist party and fired all of them on the heels of a similar incident, our Cancer Center houston. Dont we want to solve cancer . Whats the big deal . The fbi is telling these institutions. Not not just about collaboration, but is good, an organized chinese strategy to pay off all these american researchers, get them to china and steal all their nonpublic researchers to feed their scientific education aimed at us. Concerted effort to do just that, fascinating. Right. While i have you here. Your thoughts on north korea promising this christmas surprise for the u. S. Some options that may be on the table launching a rocket or satellite into space, conducting an underground nuclear test, test launching an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile or as President Trump said today, maybe a beautiful vase. What do you think well see out of north korea and do you think anything will actually happen . Sometimes they make threats they dont always follow through with . Right. Senior Administration Officials tell me today they think its very likely, very likely there will be a provocation today or tomorrow. They see preparations for it in the intelligence. We dont know until they actually do it. Best guess, may fire and icbm. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile into the air. That would be new. Represent a new capability for north korea basically mean they have the ability to hit us. The big question is how will President Trump respond and even his own officials dont know, right . Seems hes downplaying it in advance, an indication he might downplay it after it happens. Now, that seems bad, because if north koreans have capability to hit it seems we should doing in about that and seems that would be an end to the north korea diplomacy President Trump and his team has been pursuing but the president gets to make the decision. If he decides to pretend its not a big deal, his officials will go along with that and the well see a continuation of north korea politics. And josh rogin, happy holidays. Thanks for being with us. Anytime. Up next, a deadly case of mistaken identity. The incident caught on camera. 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Ah, ow ah let go of my leg ah the driver was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Cnns dan same sn in san francisco. Dan, you watched that video and wonder, how did that unfold . Well, hi, jessica. This begins when the deputies are chasing what they think is a stolen car, and the driver doesnt stop. Leads them on a highspeed chase that lasts several miles. Eventually once its over, the deputys body camera shows what appears to be a very severe arrest. Theyre trying to arrest him. Up see the victims head, as you said, smashed against the car door. Hes also tased several times. One of the deputies also puts him in a choke hold. What take thats miss especially tragic, jessica, is that the driver was, in fact, a victim. He had been carjacked a few days earlier, had reported his car stolen, but the deputies didnt realize that. They thought the car was still stolen. He never communicated that to them. The situation, you have a car chase. Now because of what has happened you have the deputy who administered the most severe force, been give an notice of termination, and i want to read a statement now from his attorney that says the deputy didnt cause david wards death. The victim. 52. Frankly mr. Ward caused his own death inexpolicedly taking bizarre actions confirmed to the deputy he was the carjacker he it a preexisting condition and had methamphetamine in this system, more significantly no indications of trauma to his neck. The statement from the deputy who is apparently going to be fired, we should tell you at this point, there has been no firm cause of death. The Coroners Office is still investigating. Have we heard anything from mr. Wards family . Well, they have released a statement. Havent said exactly what theyre doing to do. File some kind of lawsuit, but theres is a statement from wards attorney, the attorney forwards mother who wrote david was well loved in his community. When the time for mourning has passed justice will be done upon those responsible. No matter how you look at it, a real tragedy. One of the open questions le s is why mr. Ward didnt stop. Uhhuh. Obviously, had he just stopped, maybe none of this would have happened, jessica. Yeah. All right. Dan simon for us. Thanks so much. We are also learning the iowa woman who said she ran over a 14yearold girl with her car because the victim is mexican and allegedly targeted another child that same day. Charged with a second count of attempted murder. Police say she deliberately hit a 12yearold africanamerican boy. The two incidents just an hour apart and that is not all. On the same day franklin verbally abused a clerk and ku6 customer, at a store using racial slurs. Joining us now, franklin told police she hit that young girl because shes mexican. Is she saying anything else about that incident that day . Jessica, at this point police say she doesnt have to. They say Surveillance Footage of this 12yearold black kid getting hit showed she intentionally put, Nicole Franklin intentionally hit this kid with her car and according to a witness, the witness told them the suv gunned its engines before jumping that curb and mitting that kid, according to police. A kid just walking along the curb of a des moines, iowa apartment parking complex when that happened. This, of course, came just an hour before police say she did the same thing to a 14yearold girl because she was mexican. Thats what police say she admitted to them, and both of those incidents resulting in attempted murder charges that she now faces, and then thats not even where the day ended. An hour and a half after that when she went to a Convenience Store police say she reportedly was stealing things from the store clerk questioned why she was stealing, what she was stealing. She hurled racial slurs at the clerk and customer, as well and shortly after that she was arrested and these details are coming out now. Any idea what her motivation was . Any of this . A history of any behavior like this . Thats what police are trying to zero in on at this point. One thing of note that they say she mentioned the night she was arrested at that Convenience Store is police say she admitted she smoked meth within five hours prior that day. Something theyll look in on. One motivating factor is a common denominator in all three incidents. Police saying hate was at the center of all of these. Something theyre looking into moving forward. Tough. All right. Thanks so much. Still to come there were a lot of major trending moments on social media this year. Well look at what captured your attention the most with the biggest trending story of 2019. Thats next. 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Womens soccer team demanding equal pay to the passionate teach ager fighting to save the planet, social media a powerful medium. The top nine trending stories of the year. Number nine, a friend who nearly broke the internet. Jennifer aniston joined internet. Couldnt handful. Her first post crashed her page. First photo, an epic friends reunion selfie, the caption, and now were instagram friends too. More than 15 million likes. Number eight. Now to even more instagram royalty. The young son of the duke and duchess of sussex, Archie Harrison mountbattenwindsor whose birth, gender and name announced on the social media platform. Regularly posting before seen anywhere else. Another way the modern royals are shaking up the monarchy. Number seven, winter came and fans were not happy. One of the most eagerly anticipated final seasons ever and the most tweeted about show of all of 2019. While viewers were split on the unintended Product Placement brought divided fans together. A coffee cup, left on set. The internet erupted with memes. The official account tweeted, news from winterfell. The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Denarius ordered an herbal tea. Number six. And mount everitt, the 11th death this climbing season. Going firal how record numbers of climbers packed the summit. Some mountain ores think the traffic jam contributed to the death toll this year. Climbers waiting two to for hours in the death zone near the top of the mountain. Only onethird of oxygen found at sea level. Number five, a scientific event of intersblagalactic magnitude. First photo of a black hole. The most mysterious in the universe cloaked by even life is escaped. In a galaxy called n 87. Another black hole photo went viral processing the first image showing a massive phenomenon. To see it, scientists in multiple countries around the world linked local telescopes to create a virtual observatory. Predictably, twitter couldnt escape the doughnut memes. Number four. In paris a catastrophic fire shocked the world. The world famous Notre Dame Cathedral is on fire. Millions watched in disbelief as flames engulfed the iconic notre dame. The tower full, people screamed. Its so sad. Went through my mind, its burning. People poured on to streets to pray. And on social media, pays tribute posting photos of their visits to the holy site. Noertdame, the most tweeted of 2019. The loss entired generosity near and far establishing a 700 million reconstruction fund. Restorations are under way. Number three, in 2019, democrats took back the house. Nancy pelosi regained the speakership and had some of the years most viral moments from the infan misstate of the union clap back the rebuke that launched thousands of donpmesswithmememes. As a catholic i resent using hate in a sentence with me. I dont hate anyone. Dont mess with me when it comes to words like that. And staring down the cabinet room table, president ial caption, nervous nancys melt down, instead, showing the most powerful woman standing up to the president. Number two, the u. S. Womens soccer team proving again they are best in the world. Congratulations poured in from all over social media. Ellen degeneres said her world cup runneth over and former president barack obama thanked the women for being strong inspiration tore women and girls and everybody across the country. The players game poses became instant memes and many of the players took pleas for pay equity right to fans via social media pages. And number one, the teenager on strike for the planet. Our house is on fire. Times person of the year. Change is coming whether you like it or not. Greta thunberg leading a generation of climate kids. [ chanting ] people are suffering. People are dieing, and dieing eke systems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a masses extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you her impassioned speech at her social media rise making her the face of climate activision online. Thunberg used her plat the form to lead a Global Climate strike with 4,600 events in is a 00 countries and climate strike was the eighth most popular hashtag of the year. This is only the beginning. Brook, thanks. A dose of royal christmas cheer. The duke and duchess of sussex revealing the first Christmas Card with baby archie. Well show it to you after the break. If your glasses arent perfect, well fix them. So will we. No we wont. Dont forget to use your vision benefits before theyre gone. Now innetwork with vsp. Visionworks. See the difference. Up here at the dewars distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. Its the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. Dewars. Double aged for extra smoothness. Apps except work. 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John allen senior vatican analyst is outside of saint peters basilica. What are we expecting to hear from the pope this year . Reporter well, hello there and Merry Christmas to you. This, of course, is one of the holiest days on the christian calendar. We call it we still call it Midnight Mass here at the vatican even though it isnt actually celebrated at midnight. In the late 90s it was moved up under john paul ii to accommodate his age and frailty to 10 00 and then up to 9 30 and that is still where it is. So it started at about 9 30 p. M. Here local. Tomorrow pope francis will celebrate a private mass and then delivery his address to the city and to the world which is more of a policy address. Hes expected to review the events of the last year and kind of suggest his social, political, humanitarian priorities going forward. On december 26th, thursday, which is the feast of saint steven, the First Christian martyr, he will deliver an address. And then of course well be off and running with new years. So this is kind of prime time for the pope. And tonight kind of kicks it all off. He is expected to set tonight as he celebrates this very special mass, a very spiritual and religious tone about the birth of the christ child, gods love for humanity reflected in that event. Things will get a bit more political tomorrow with the orbit address but with francis who is the master of the unexpected, we have to stay on our toes because we can never be quite sure which rabbit this pope will pull out of his hat next. Do we know about his travels next year. He gets to all corners of the earth . Reporter yeah, the vatican is not yet confirmed any travels for next year. And now pope francis himself has personally taken one trip off the table which is his longawaiting home coming to argentina. He was expected to make it next year. But recently he said hes not going to do it. Hes concerned that it would be politicized. The one trip we know for sure that this pope has in his heart he wants to make and he said he wants to make it in 2020 is a trip to iraq to make a statement in favor of peace and also in favor of the struggling christian population there. Wow. John allen, Merry Christmas to you. Thanks so much. Well prepare yourself for a little bit of holiday cuteness. The duke and duchess of sussex harry and meghan releasing the first Christmas Card featuring baby archie. Take a look. It shows him front and center staring into the camera and you see his parents there smiling in the background. The message wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. And they are skipping the annual tradition of spending the holidays with with the royal family at the queens Country Estate in Northern England and instead the trio is celebrating christmas in canada. So Merry Christmas to them and to all of you. Thanks so much for watching. Erica hill fills in for jake tapper on the lead. It starts right now. All the president wants for christmas is a speedy trial. The lead starts right now. President trump with some holiday jeers going after socalled dirty cops and House Speaker nancy pelosi as he said hell go along with whatever Mitch Mcconnell wants for the Senate Impeachment trial. Rudy giuliani unplugged. The president s lawyer claims he knows how not to commit crimes. And has a rather colorful message about his legacy. Plus a Holiday Health scare. Travelers at multiple u. S. Airports exposed to measles. A warning from officials ahead. Welcome to the lead on this Christmas Eve. Im erica hill in for jake. President trump not even nice