A deep sigh when they hear the possibility of more articles of impeachment. Tell us just how realistic this might be. Thats right. And, remember, those 31 democrats who are in trump districts in the house are the ones that are going to be sighing the loudest about more articles of impeachment. This is likely just an argument that was being made by the House Counsel in court as a way to emphasize why they still need to get testimony from don mcgahn. The Justice Department is arguing, look, if you already passed articles of impeachment, why do you need to hear from this person as well . What if he has more information that would lead to more articles of impeachment, or what if he has information that would help in a senate trial, which, of course, is the next stage of where things are going. Of course, theres a disagreement between Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer over the question of witnesses. Heres what schumer said yesterday about the sense of getting witnesses. We at the very minimum will require votes from all the senators on each of the witnesses and about each of these sets of documents. And i dont think my colleagus,s democrat or republican, are going to want to vote to withhold evidence in such an important trial. And, of course, democrats dont have the votes to get the witnesses they want to hear from including john bolton or the president s acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. Theyd need four republicans to cross the aisle. Thats a very steep hill to climb in the next couple of weeks. Of course, well be watching to see if theres any agreement between mcconnell and schumer over the holidays. Ryan . Lauren fox live on capitol hill with the latest on this new development. Lets discuss this how with former state and federal prosecutor elie honig. Thanks for being here. Lets talk about this fight for mcgahns testimony and how this all plays out. Whats the argument democrats should be making . The democrats have a legal right to get don mcgahns testimony. Theoretically they can go and consider a new article of impeachment or impeach again. We also need to operate in the real world. That ship has sailed. Theres no way thats going to fly politically better. Theres no way thats going to fly with the american public. No way Speaker Pelosi will allow them to go back and add a new article of impeachment. The fact of the matter is the democrats have waited too long. Jerry Nadlers Committee waited too long to bring this lawsuit and were too far down the line now. Is there any type of an argument for double jeopardy, impeaching the president twice . Havent they already done that or does this not apply in that setting . There is no double jeopardy in impeachment. Double jeopardy is a concept in criminal law that says you cant charge the same person with the same crime twice. But as a technical legal matter he you can impeach. The house can impeach a president or another official over and over or on repeated lear different bases one at a time. Politically, you have to be realistic. Thats just not going to fly. So even if the courts do rule that mcgahn must testify, this could be months before we get a final ruling. Theoretically, the senate will have long weighed in and had their impeachment trial. Will it even matter at that point once we get a decision . Yeah, i think thats a good question. Its important that we understand the timeline here. The Mueller Report came out in april. It took four months for jerry nadler to get this into court in august. We then got a decision from the district court, the lowest level federal trial court in november. Here we are in the court of appeals which is the middle level federal court. So i believe well have a decision from the court of appeals january, early february. Were looking at spring or summer. Even if they dont were looking into march. By then, by all realistic calculations, the senate trial that were talking about with ukraine and the two articles of obstruction will be over. So the timing here is just a big problem for the democrats. Is there any possibility that well ever hear from don mcgahn . What could be the setting after this all plays out . We could still hear from don mcgahn. It would have to be separate from the current ukraine and obstruction of congress impeachment. Congress still has a right to say wed like to investigate. We want to follow up on mueller. If they win in court and i do think democrats ultimately will prevail. They won in the district court. The judge issued a strong ruling. I think they are going to win. The courts are going to say you get to hear from mcgahn. It may be separate and apart from any impeachment process. Imagine that. A don mcgahn public testimony and hearing some time in the middle of the summer around the time of the president ial conventions. It could be explosive. Elie honig, thank you. President trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani just gave a bizarre and rambling interview to new york magazine. He talks about conspiracy theories and his trips to ukraine. He also says hed like to crossexamine some of the impeachment inquiry witnesses so he can attack their credibility. Listen to what giuliani said. He said the guy that overheard the telephone call, anybody check if that guy has an ear piece . Maybe he doesnt have it in. How old is he . How do we know he isnt a paranoid schizophrenic or an alcoholic . Joining me is cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Someone who talks to giuliani on a regular basis. Giuliani seems to be asking questions we already know the answers to. Is that part of what his strategy is . Is that what hes going for . Kind of. How do we get into this. That particular quote you just put up there. That is classic giuliani 2019. Almost 2020 giuliani in that he kind of does thinking out loud. Theories out loud, conspiracy theories out loud. And thats kind of how he communicates, particularly with reporters. This was an interview that he had over a couple of bloody marys after he got off a transatlantic flight coming back from ukraine. But broadly, this is exhibit a, b, c and d of giuliani not letting this go. You know, we have heard it in conversations weve had here at cnn with him. Hes talking to many other reporters. This is just done in new yorker magazine style with a little bit of well, with a lot of sass. Speaking of sass, lets unpack what he said about billionaire george soros, obviously, a big liberal backer who giuliani is clearly not a fan of. He says dont tell me im antisemitic if i oppose him. Soros is hardly a jew. Im more of a jew than soros is. He doesnt belong to a synagogue. He doesnt support israel. Hes an enemy of israel. Dana, giuliani doesnt seem to be too concerned about how hell be remembered when asked about his legacy. He actually said f it. Is this shocking you and surprise you . This guy was the mayor in the wake of the 9 11 tragedy who had a lot of respect across the country. That doesnt seem to matter to him as much. Thats what he says. If he didnt care about his legacy, he wouldnt be trying to vindicate himself. He says hes trying to vindicate his client, which is true, but hes also trying to vindicate himself because hes the tip of the spear here. He is leading this whole thing and go back to how it started. It was conversations that he had with the president. Information he was also feeding to john solomon who was a climpt f columnist for the hill. What i found interesting on the george soros thing, what he said about him that giuliani is more of a jew than he was, was in response to olivia, the reporter, her question to him, or followup question when he mentioned soros. And alleging that soros his connected with the former ambassador and he really funded ukraines involvement in 2016 which is baseless. He claims he has evidence. Hes not giving us the evidence. But her followup was if you attack soros are you worried its going to be perceived as senatesemitic. Thats when he said, give me a break. Im more jewish than he is. It is not as if mentioning george soros is not explicitly, blatantly antisemitic in many parts of conservative media, in many parts of, you know, of sort of the right wing discussion. He was trying to separate himself from that. But its hard to do that considering the discussion and the attacks on george soros kind of go back to tropes we have seen and heard for hundreds, if not more than hundreds of years about jews kind of running the world. So dana bash, thank you for that. At the very least this interview shows us Rudy Giuliani not going anywhere any time soon. Meanwhile, President Trump spending Christmas Eve at maralago where this hour, hes hosting a video teleconference call with members of the military. Cnn National CorrespondentKristen Holmes live in west palm beach. Normally this teleconference call between the president , members of the military, not very newsy. Very just kind of a normal part of the president ial activity during the christmas holiday. But sometimes with President Trump, that can veer in a direction were not expecting. What yoare you expecting today . Good morning, ryan. Thats absolutely right. In the pedestriast weve seen pt trump make these calls political. He starts to slam judges. He has before bashed migrants heading to the southern border, essentially going off script from this holiday message and really talking to whatever is on his mind. And, ryan, this Holiday Season, it is very clear that impeachment is what is on President Trumps mind. We havent seen much of him, but we have heard quite a bit, especially on twitter. Even this morning, bashing democrats, hitting nancy pelosi, the impeachment process. So thats what were going to be watching very closely here to see if he really goes down this political rabbit hole while he is speaking to these men and women in uniform, serving their country away from their families this holiday. We also know he started that message right now. Hes currently reading from his prepared remarks. However, he has said hes going to answer questions, and that, of course, in the past is where weve seen him veer a little off script, ryan. Okay. President trump right now speaking with members of the military. Kristen holmes monitoring that. If something happens, well get back to you. Thank you so much. Still to come could the house bring more articles of impeachment against President Trump . Ill speak to a member of the House Oversight committee, next. Plus, very disturbing video out of california. A man wrongly believed to be a carjacker was violently removed from his own car by deputies and died after the ensuing struggle. Now his family wants answers. 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For example, we learned just last week that the hold was put on 90 minutes after the zelensky trial, there was a hold put on money going money going to ukraine. We didnt even have that information. So House Counsel themselves raised the notion that there could be more impeachment and indeed it looks like the president could indeed, since he thought he has done nothing wrong, continue to commit impeachable offenses. So before we get to perhaps additional articles of impeachment, we still have the existing ones your body recently passed. And Speaker Pelosi saying these not going to hand that over to the senate until he knows the senate game plan. At what point does holding back weve got to assign our own folks to go and argue the case. Argue the case from the point of view of the house of representatives. She has made no indication that shes not going to send the articles over. Remember, congress is gone for two weeks. Theres no urgency. Where do we send them to . An empty Senate Chamber . I would predict that by the beginning of the year, this will be ironed out. The house does not want to be engrossed in impeachment this year. We passed 400 bills. 70 of them, the senate has even looked at 70 of them and they werent even the most important. We got the house back because of health care. Weve got Prescription Drug prices over there. So nancy pelosi has no reason to want to drag this out. And as soon as we know what schumers ongoing negotiations with mcconnell will yield. Weve got to decide how long the impeachment goes, whether there will be witnesses and the like. Then she will know who to appoint to go over to the senate to argue the case for the house of representatives. Thats all that is. Theres no delay because theres nothing happening in the house and senate for two weeks because of christmas. So a big part of this negotiation on behalf of Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi is about witnesses. And one of the potential witnesses could be john bolton. A former aide to ambassador bolton was on cnn last hour. I want you to listen to what he said about his former boss. He flat out and bluntly said, quote, i actually have a lot to say on the subject. That, by definition, implies that he has information privy to the ukraine investigation and the impeachment process more broadly. He basically implied, i want to discuss what i have to say, but i cant do it at this point. That obviously begs the question, if not now, then when . We are at a Crucial Point in american history. You would think that ambassador bolton would want the senate to have all the information so that they can make a fully informed and productive decision. So it seems like john bolton is somebody that knows an awful lot about perhaps the missing gaps in this conversation about ukraine. But are you concerned at all congresswoman that a fight over allowing him to testify could drag this process out even more. So lets say they come to some sort of a negotiated settlement where they say we can bring these witnesses in. The Trump Administration could fight this out in court and that could make this process go even longer. How important is it for john boltons testimony to be a part of this process . Its not critical but he himself has said its important. If its so important he ought to say, i want to come forward and speak. Hes not going to say that. Everybody thinks its because hes tantalizing the public about a book hes writing. As it turns out, our case was so overwhelming that we really dont need him. But what he has said would make it his patriotic duty to come forward and say this is what i know. Hes not going to do that. And i predict that were not going to delay this matter waiting for him to go to court or waiting to go to court to find out whether he should come. We have so much evidence. It just isnt necessary. Its important, but not necessary, if you can understand that. Yes, i do. 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Right now in southwest florida or southeast florida, west palm beach, President Trump just after discussing the Holiday Season with members of the military, he did start to begin to take questions from the press. And he said quite a bit about impeachment. Hes talking about many of these Different Things going on in washington. Well show you a bit of that sound in a second. First, i want to bring in our panel. Sunlen kim and errol lewis. Before we get to that sound, i want to ask you about the articles of impeachment, the fact that Speaker Pelosi has decided to hold on to them. Do you view this as a smart strategy from Speaker Pelosi or does this give americans a chance to refocus from socalled impeachment fatigue . How do you view it . Well see after the next couple of weeks whether it was a successful strategy for now. But what democrats are doing here are a couple of things. And theyve had to kind of explain why they are doing this because this came out of nowhere on the night that the house actually impeached him. On the one hand, Speaker Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority leader are saying were holding these back as leverage until we can see what kind of a senate trial Mitch Mcconnell and President Trump and Senate Republicans will put up. Speaker pelosi, i had a tweet yesterday saying she doesnt want to name house impeachment managers until she sees what kind of defense and what kind of a trial that republicans will set up over in the senate. And what democrats are trying to do here broadly is to take some of that public attention and put it on the fact that as they keep hammering away at the fact that, as republicans keep hammering away at the fact they havent sent over the articles of impeachment, the fact that, or their view that they believe republicans arent going to have a fair and full trial. So thats the strategy that democrats are trying to do here. At the same time, republicans have gone after them saying youve talked several times about the need to do this expeditiously, that the president s actions are potentially a critical issue before the 2020 election. Now youre delaying the process . That doesnt make a lot of sense here. Democrats have had some explaining to do about this latest strategy. Lets talk about how the republican strategists are dealing with this. He tweeted this case should mirror the process used in the clinton impeachment and should come to an end in weeks, not months, which theres a variety of things we can unpack about this. We thought the white house wanted to do this quickly. Mitch mcconnell wanted to do this quickly. Now suggesting it should take a long time. But also, if we go back to the clinton impeachment, we remember the president at that time sat for a sworn deposition. Does that mean if were playing by Lindsey Grahams rules that President Trump should as well . Thats right. If lindsey agreement is held to his word and we go back to the pattern set in the clinton impeachment, there were all kinds of witnesses. Several depositions taken. And the idea of bringing in new witnesses to continue the evidencegathering process, even in the middle of the impeachment trial is exactly what happened back in that trial. So if Lindsey Graham really wants that, he may want to coordinate more closely with the white house because im sure thats not what they want. Whether its done in person and in the clinton impeachment they decided they didnt want the spectacle of people standing on the senate floor speaking in that manner. But senators from both matters were able to direct questions to them. There were videotaped depositions. There was a debate, although that was a closed door debate. It could be far more robust when even a partisan like Lindsey Graham says lets follow those rules. I wonder if republicans perhaps opening the door here to a conversation about potential witnesses that that could then bring in witnesses that perhaps democrats dont want to hear from. Maybe Vice President joe biden, perhaps hunter biden. Could that be a part of this negotiation process if they even open the door to the idea of witnesses coming forward in the senate trial . It could be. But republicans have been making clear privately and also to reporters for some time now that they dont see the need for witnesses on the senate floor. Despite what the president has said about bringing people like hunter biden or the whistleblower whose complaint triggered this whole impeachment inquiry to the senate floor for President Trumps trial. And mcconnell has told members privately and also said this publicly that if you kind of go down the rabbit hole of witnesses, it would be mutually assured destruction because to get the witnesses that republicans and President Trump wants, youll have to give democrats what they want, too. What mcconnell is trying to do is try to if you go back to the 1999 model, the case hes been making to the public to his republican senators is that back at the time, trent lott, tom daschle and the 98 other senators agreed to at least start the trial, do an ample amount of Opening Statements and question time on either side. And the actual vote on witnesses, because that was such a contentious issue back then also, didnt come until weeks into the trial. Thats what hes going for right now. Well see if thats what actually happens. We now have this sound from President Trump at maralago. And he talks about this process and the role that Mitch Mcconnell should play. Lets take a listen. Were in a good position. Ultimately that decision is going to be made by Mitch Mcconnell, and he will make it he has the right to do whatever he wants. Hes the head of the senate. People remember they treated us very unfairly. They didnt give us due process. A didnt give us a lawyer or anything. Now they come to the senate, and they want everything. You look back, just two weeks. Just look back at what they did, but over a long period of time, look at what they did. We werent entitled to witnesses. We werent entitled to lawyers. We sat in the basement. They would like everything. They would leak it. We werent entitled to do anything. They would leak selectively with the sick corrupt politician named schiff. No, they treated us worse than anybody has been treated from a legal standpoint in the history of the United States. Thats never happened before where you cant have a witness, cant have a lawyer. Even when they got the constitutional lawyers, they got three, we got one. Fortunately weve got one lawyer who is better than their three and also we had a much better case. We have a perfect case. They had no case. But they had three lawyers. We were allowed one. They had three. Think of that. They had three lawyers, constitutional lawyers. And each one spoke for an extended period of time. We had one lawyer. What do you think of that . So now they get to the senate. And now we have the majority. And its up to Mitch Mcconnell. And we have the majority, and now they want mcconnell to do whatever things for them. I mean, hes going to do what he wants to do. Very smart guy. Very good guy. Very fair guy. But they treated us very unfairly and now they want fairness in the senate. They ought to look back at the last year to see how theyve hurt this country. Fortunately, we have a president that was able to plow through all of the stuff that went on and goes on. And also tremendous amounts of information are being written about even by the fake news concerning fisa, concerning dirty cops, the people that started this whole thing. What theyve done to this country is incredible. And hopefully its going to be taken care of. The attorney generals working, and everybody is working, but if you just go because i like to stay out of it, and i do stay out of it, if you just go by what you see in the papers, its incredible whats going on. We had dirty cops, people spying on my campaign. They did terrible things. The likes of which have never been done in the history of our country. Its very sad. All right. Have a good time, everyone. Merry christmas. Mr. President mr. President , are you going to hold a signing ceremony . Were heading out, guys. I will probably be doing that at the right time. Ill be doing a smaller ceremony. Ultimately well be having, on the china deal, we will be having a signing ceremony, yes. Will you sign it, you and xi jinping . We will ultimately. Do you know where that will be . When we get together, we will well have a quicker signing because we want to get it done. The deal is done. Thank you. Lets go, press. Were moving out. All right. So thats President Trump just leaving part of his resort in maralago after he had just gotten done with a holiday message to members of the military here. We should point out he said it was proven that his campaign was spied on by the fbi. Even the fbis own director Christopher Wray pushed back on that. That was part of the inspector generals report on this particular issue. But errol, i want to bring you in quickly on this. The president said a lot there as he often does. A lot of rhetorical flourish. But i want to hone in on the one point hes trying to make here and ask if you think he at least has some sort of a leg to stand on here. The democrats had the majority in the house. They could run their impeachment their portion of the impeachment any way they wanted. Now republicans have the majority. Isnt it just as fair for them to operate as they see fit given they have more votes and can handle this any way they want . Look, fair or not, its inaccurate to say that Mitch Mcconnell can do whatever he wants, which is what i heard the president just say. Thats simply not the case. Hes got other members of the rival party who have some say in this. Weve got the chief justice of the United States who is going to be presiding over this impeachment trial, if it ever starts. And hes not going to just sit there like a statue. Hes going to be weighing in on where things stand. Mitch mcconnell also, despite what he personally might want to do and hes made here he just wants to defend the president at all costs, hes got a conference that he has to answer to that includes a number of senators up for reelection, whose reelection will be made considerably more difficult if they try and ram this through without any consideration for basic elements of fairness. Yeah, hes going to, i think, have a much more negotiated process than perhaps the president wants. And i would just say finally for just for historic reasons, when he says spying on his campaign and the likes of which has never been seen. Theres this thing called watergate. And the last time we encountered this level of spying, it was, in fact, by president nixon who paid the price for that. All right, errol louis and sunlen kim, thanks for being here and rolling with the breaking news. We appreciate that. Were going to be right back. Stay here. Lts with moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis uncover clearer skin that can last. In fact, tremfya® was proven superior to humira® in providing significantly clearer skin. Tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. Serious allergic reactions may occur. Tremfya®. Uncover clearer skin that can last. 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