Or omissions in the applications. The chief judge of the fisa court writing today, the frequency representations turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case calls into question whether information contained in other fbi applications is reliable. Todays rare response comes after james comey acknowledged wrongdoing in seeking the fisa warrant to survey carter page. Hes right. I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. Its incredibly hard to get a fisa. I was overconfident in those. Reporter its not been real hard to get a fisa warrant. The government made 1,081 requests. The court rejected only one of them. That is an approval rate of 99 . A concern raised that the court has been a rubber stamp for the fbi. Many of us have been looking at this secret fisa court for years. This isnt the first and wont be the last time that the fbi misrepresents evidence before this court. If theyre not willing to discipline people who manipulate evidence given to the court, its going to be hard for us to say the court should stay around. Theyre ordering the government to submit a sworn statement by january 20th of what it has done and plans to do to ensure the statement of facts in each fbi application accurately and completely reflects information poessessed by the fbi that is material to information presented by the application. This is all information that may factor into the ongoing criminal investigation. Bret more on this with the panel. Right now, the House Rules Committee is Still Holding a hearing to set up the full house debate and a vote on two articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Down pennsylvania avenue, President Trump released a fiery letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi accusing her of declaring open war on american democracy. Just a short time ago, the House Speaker called that letter from the president ridiculous. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts has the latest. Reporter on the eve of what will likely be his impeachment, President Trump today lashing out at democrats. They took a perfect phone call that i had with the president of ukraine and absolutely perfect call. You know it. They all know it. Nothing was said wrong on that call, to impeach the president of United States for that is a disgrace. Its a mark on our country. Reporter the president was strident in person and scathing in print, sending a sixpage letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping the contest as an abuse of power by democrat lawmakers. Denouncing the articles of impeachment as completely disengenerous, meritless and baseless. And taking aim at pelosis faith, you are offending americans of faith by continually saying i pray for the president when you know this statement is not true unless it is meant in a negative sense. It is a terrible thing that you are doing. But you will have to live with it, not i. He adds, for due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. The president writes he sent the letter to put my thoughts in a permanent and indelible record. Asked today, President Trump insisted no, i dont take any. Zero, to put it mildly. Reporter with impeachment almost certain to be handed to the senate for trial, the majority today scolded Chuck Schumer for making public his letter to mcconnell on how the trial should proceed before the two even had a conversation about it and suggested the senate process will likely be a mirror image of the house. I think were going to get an almost entirely partisan impeachment. I would anticipate an almost entirely partisan outcome in the senate as well. Reporter today schumer kept up the drum beat. We have not heard a single argument from leader mcconnell as to why the witnesses we have requested should not come forward. Reporter a new cnn poll found support for impeachment has dropped five points from midnovember, now trailing opposition. And a new usa today poll showed President Trump beating every major democratic president ial contender in headtohead national matchups. While some aides question the strategy, Rudy Giuliani was out yesterday defending the president on questions about ukraine, telling the New York Times he briefed the president at least twice on the need to remove the ambassador from her post saying she was impede ing investigations that maybe beneficial to the president. But telling fox news he wasnt trying to get the ambassador out of the way. I forced her out because shes corrupt. I have four witnesses who will testify that she personally turned down their visas because they were going to come here and give evidence against biden or the democratic party. Reporter the letter to Speaker Pelosi is unlike anything any correspond has seen to the speaker of the house. The president will hold a Campaign Rally in battle creek, michigan. That rally will likely start right after the vote in the house. Quite something. Jon roberts, thank you. Bret impeachment is a political process. The ongoing rules committee you see looking live, been going on all day, setting the terms of the debate for the house floor. And it is split along party lines. Chief congressional correspondant mike emanuel following the lawmakers. This majority has tried so hard to be like clinton and nixon and failed so miserably. Reporter they heard from key voices on the Judiciary Committee as they set the parameters for impeachment debate and votes on the house floor expected tomorrow. As expected, there were partisan clashes. Are you implying theres another transcript out there . Im implying theres more than what we have here. Which no witness testified to. No witness understood. Reporter with democrats outnumbering republicans 94 there was efforts to put doug colt ly collins in an awkward spot. Was it appropriate for him to ask another country to investigate an american citizen sent . There was nothing wrong with the call. Reporter jared nadler did not appear due to a family emergency. Raskin took some heat. I understand that we forcefully represented that no member of the house of representatives and no member of the press was targeted with any investigative resources. Really . I mean, i respect mr. Raskin, but im not sure how he got that statement out without stumbling over everything. The time and the calendar are terrible masters. Reporter ahead of floor votes, leadership needs 216 to vote yes on each article of impeachment. Michigan dingell, iowa aksney all say they are a yes. Leadership has not pressured them to go along. We are not whipping the vote as it relates to impeachment and every Single Member is going to have to make that decision as they have been doing anchored in principle. Reporter at last count, there were at least 218 votes to impeach. Democrats appear to have the votes they need in order to impeach the 45th president of the United States. The most unusual one, jared golden of maine who is a yes on abuse of power, but a no on obstruction of congress. Well see what his constituents think of that. Bret government funding due to expire late friday night. Whats the latest on the efforts to pass the funding in the middle of all of this. Reporter the house is moving forward with impeachment tomorrow, they passed two massive funding bills today. 1. 4 trillion in spending. Both bills passed. They will be sent onto the senate where we expect that will pass there and be sent onto the president for his signature with 1. 4 trillion in spending to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, through the end of september. Its like a gigantic christmas tree. Theres something under it for everyone. Almost every lawmaker can say their funding requests are being met. Bret the impeachment process is likely to head to the u. S. Senate. Theres work being done on capitol hill. Joining me from capitol hill to talk about it all New Hampshire democratic senator jean shaheen. Thanks for being here. I want to talk about impeachment. Sure. Bret republicans have criticized the house impeachment process as really nothing more than a part san exercise. Do you have any expectation that something is going to be different on the senate side just with the roles reversed . Well, we dont know yet what the process is going to look like on the senate side. But i do believe that the American People want to see a process that they dont believe is partisan. They want to see us get to the truth, try and get the information to say whether the president did use his office of the presidency for his own personal gain. Thats what this impeachment seems to be about. And so i think its important for us to hear from people who can shed some light on that, the people who were actually in the room, the documents that could tell us definitively what was said about withholding aid for ukraine. And im disappointed that the president hasnt made those folks available to congress to let us know what the documents have not been forthcoming. Bret the senator Mitch Mcconnell said today it is not the job of the senate to present the case. It is the job of the senate to be the jury. He said the house has to make the case. Whats your response to that . Well, clearly the way the process is set out, the trial is held in the senate. And so we will, to some extent, be like jurors in a trial. And the house will present the case. But, again, i think it would be helpful for us to be able to hear from some of those people who were who were close to the president who could say what exchange happened around aid to ukraine, why it was withheld, the president said what mulvaney said. Thats what i think would really be helpful. And to the public. The American Public wants to know what the truth is here as well. Bret senator, weve seen a lot of these hearings. Weve carried them live, almost gavel to gavel, as the House Democrats have laid out their case. The polls continue to go in the other direction, opposing impeachment and removal. If you look at swing state polls, its even greater that disparity. Why do you think thats happening . You know, i dont know. But i think, again, the American People want to see a process that they dont view as partisan. For me, as a senator, i need to be responsible to the oath of office that ive taken. And one of the most serious things we can do is to impeach the president. Next to declaring war, the most serious decision that we will make. I believe the framers of the constitution were very concerned about whether a president would use the office for their personal gain. And thats why they put in the impeachment clause. What im going to do is listen to the case thats presented to the senate. Im going to consider very carefully the facts that have been presented. And then im going to try and make the best decision i can based on the evidence thats been presented to us. Bret senator, when you were governor of New Hampshire and another impeachment, president clintons impeachment happened in 1998, you said this. For too long the impeachment process has distracted congress from addressing many important issues of the nation. Its time to get on with the business of the people. Do you have a different sense now . No, i actually dont believe the impeachment is whats holding up a lot of decisions on legislation. Unfortunately, its senator Mitch Mcconnell who has kept bipartisan legislation, not just from the house thats come over, but from the senate from coming to the floor. Weve seen a real burst of activity in the last couple of weeks. We passed the defense bill that has a number of provisions in it that are really important. A 3 pay raise for men and women in the military. Parental leave, 12 weeks of parental leave for those people who work for the federal government. Its got a provision to help the spouses of members of the military, something i worked on very closely with tom cotton and karen pence, the second lady, to try and cut bureaucratic red tape for military spouses who often bear the brunt when their spouse is transferred from station to station and they have to pick up the family, they have to pack, they have to often change, if they are teachers or nurses, they have to change where their licenses are from state to state. This is an effort to try and reduce that bureaucratic burden. Bret so you dont think the people at home are saying the impeachment is taking away from the ability of capitol hill to get things done. I want to ask you how long do you think a senate trial should be . Oh, i dont have any idea. I think that will be determined as the result of discussions around the process. I hope it will be long enough to get information out that can help us determine what happens with this situation in aid to ukraine and what role the president played. Bret so you dont think, senator, that the case has been made yet by House Democrats . The case bret against needs to be made in the senate. I think the articles of impeachment raise very serious concerns about what the president did, and that part of what we want to try to determine in the senate and what my responsibility is to look at that information and make a determination about whether i think bret yeah. Because, you know, democrats are in the house are saying its an open and shut case. You need more and that its not complete. So the house as a prosecutor has not well, no, im saying i need to see the information. The way that the process works, the house decides whether they are going to develop articles of impeachment and whether the situation is serious enough. And then they send that information to us in the senate. And we make a determination about whether we think it is true or not. And we havent gotten to that part of the process yet. Thats what im waiting. I think its incumbent on me as a potential juror and all my colleagues in the senate to take that responsibility very seriously and to try and do the very best i can to look at the information that is sent to us and then make a decision. Bret i do of the National Defense authorization act. As you mention, it was bipartisan. And your work with senator tom cotton, 3. 1 pay raise for military members, 12 weeks paid parental leave for federal employees and the creation of the space force, which is a big deal. It is a big deal. Bret is there anyone up on capitol hill anymore who is concerned about the deficit or the National Debt . Sure, i think we should be concerned about it. You know, i didnt the tax bill that was passed in 2017 increased the National Debt significa significantly, over a trillion dollars. Much more. 3 trillion in the long term. I have voted for a number of provisions to try and reduce that. I supported the simpsonbolles recommendation. Its something that we need to begin to see how we can address. Weve got to fund this government. Address the priorities of the American People. As you point out, the space force is significant because, as we look at the future, the next area of combat between us and the other great powers china and russia is going to be in space. As we look at technology and the innovation thats occurring, thats happening in space. So making sure we can compete is very important. Bret last thing, in New Hampshire, the Unemployment Rate down to 2. 6 . Employment is up overall. The annual gdp is almost double what it was in 2017. Does that, the economic success of your state, make it tough or tougher to say to voters in New Hampshire we need to remove the president of the United States . Well, i think the having a Strong Economy is very important. But we need to make sure that economy works for everyone, not just people in cities. Not just people who are in highend jobs, but people in rural areas, farmers, people who are in wage jobs and thats what im interested in. I hope were all going to Work Together to do that. Bret we appreciate your time. Thanks very much. Bret up next, the democrats running for president can officially book travel to the west coast. Well explain. First, from some of our fox affiliates around the country. One person was killed in louisiana, one in kentucky, two more killed in alabama. South georgia and north florida remain under tornado watch tonight. Officials are warning of dangerous freezing temperatures after the storms leave those damaged areas. 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Still less popular than capitalism. It costs a hell of a lot less money to send that kid to the university of california than put that kid in jail. Reporter sanders is now the only 70something that hasnt shared a medical history yet. Joe biden finally sent out a summary of his, which does not include assessment of bidens cognitive abilitieabilities, bu says he hasnt dealt with the effects of brain aneurysms since the late 80s. He has melt with melanoma, he doesnt drink or smoke, but he does exercise five times a week. The doctor concludes biden is a healthy, vigorous 77yearold male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency. A few weeks ago, there were doubts about it. He decided to run against him. Thats proven to be tough. Hes still the frontrunner and you have not yet been able to make the debate stage. Hows it going . Its going great. First of all, if youre asking about the polls, i dont think polls at this stage mean much except name recognition. He does have that. Reporter when patrick walked into a tiny cafe to greet voters about 15 minutes away from the vegas strip, there was already a really famous former nfl player having a quiet lunch inside. But somehow patrick never managed to shake hands or even interact with a man who played for the new England Patriots while he was the governor of massachusett massachusetts. Bret anything in the casino going on there . Theyre all candidate casinos. Bret got you. Peter ducey live in vegas. Thanks. Another day of record highs on wall street. The dow rising 31. The nasdaq finished ahead nine. Again, records all. Up next, the growing and dangerous trend of one black market vaping product. Well explain. First, beyond our borders, pope francis abolishes the use of the vaticans highest level of secrecy in clergy sexual abuse cases. Cases will not become public, but any excuse to not cooperate with legitimate legal requests from prosecutor, police, or other civil authorities. 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We know therefore it will take place again and again. The whole impeachment thing is a hoax. We look forward to getting onto the senate. Were not entitled to lawyers. Were not entitled to witnesses. Were not entitled to anything in the house. Bret the House Rules Committee is in the process of setting up the rule for the debate on the house floor tomorrow. Meantime, democrats one by one are putting out statements, especially in trump contradicts 31 of them of how theyll vote. 28 of them so far have said they are going to vote to impeach President Trump, including jared golden, democrat from maine. He has said hes voting yes to impeach on article i, but voting no on article two, obstruction of congress. Dont know if thats to deal with his district or how he thinks about the case. Lets bring in our panel. Okay. Mara, its a foregone conclusion, this will go to the house and be debated tomorrow. Likely along party lines. Yep. We expect no republicans to vote yes and some democrats to vote no. Like jared golden, there might be some that split their vote, feel that obstruction of Congress Really wasnt proved. The house did not go to court to enforce those subpoenas in a lot of cases. Bret do we see political repercussions, can we see the crystal ball yet . We havent seen a big ground swell for impeachment and we havent seen a big backlash to impeachment. Even though big majorities thought what the president did was wrong, the question whether he should be impeached and removed because of it is evenly split. Now were seeing a little change, no impeachment numbers going up. We know that trumps base has become more energized and upset about impeachment, but i dont think theres been a big move in Public Opinion yet. Bret matthew, the focus now goes to the senate. Mcconnell and schumer battling over whether witnesses should be called in this case in the senate. This is a political process. Theres not anything judicial about it. Impeachment is a political decision. I would ask every one of our republican colleagues, do you want someone who proudly says they are not impartial to be on a jury judging high crimes and misdemeanors, serious charges . Leader mcconnell, im asking you, come to this microphone and give an explicit reason why mulvaney or bolton or blare or griffin shouldnt testify. One explicit reason. Bret on the senate floor, he says its the houses job to put forth the prosecution, according to the constitution, the senates job to be the jury. Schumer felt differently in 1999. Theyre certainly not twothirds for impeachment. What we ought to be doing instead of this is doing what the American People want us to do, which is make the schools better and preserve Social Security and rein in the hmos. Bret you could play tapes on republicans and democrats back in different positions. I like Chuck Schumers agenda back then. That would be nice if thats what congress was up to. What the Senate Minority leader clearly wants is a doover. He acknowledged in his letter to mcconnell that the house case is unpersuasive. It hasnt affected Public Opinion definitively for impeachment. In fact, we see some movement against impeachment in the polling numbers. What is schumers strategy . Reopen the case by getting as few as three republican senators to flip over on questions of rules. And then reopen the case by introducing witnesses, new evidence that might come to light. The danger for mcconnell, this possibility of republican defection. Mcconnell has little room for error. So far, i think hes managing the process well. Bret the president , while he said its all a hoax, he was very explicit to a letter inHouse Speaker pelosi which she said was ridiculous. He said our Founding Fathers feared the tribalization of partisan politics. Youre bringing their worst fears to life. He goes onto say that he has a problem with that the speaker is saying she prays for the president when you know that statement is not true unless its meant in a negative sense. Its a terrible thing that youre doing, but youll have to live with it, not i. Its a letter that seemed like it was very likely dictated by the president. I appreciated the salem witch trials reference on page 5. I think that he got a parenthetical in of bret this wasnt pat. No, no. Could have used more exclamation points though. I think there were six of them. More is better. The over and understood for me was 12. It was a bit of an upset. As soon as nancy pelosi came out weeks ago and said were moving forward with the impeachment inquiry and then the articles, she had the votes. I know theres a lot of breathlessness in the media tonight, we now believe weve done our bean counting. Of course they have the votes. Whats interesting in, the two sides as we saw from 20 years ago and today are switching sides. Just over the last week, the House Republicans were talking about fairness and process to no avail. Now Senate Democrats are going to be harping on fairness and process. Bret whats not being covered is this order and statement from the fisa court which is pretty rare ill just say very rare to ever hear from the fisascrew ed up. There has to be an overhaul of the process. Thats what came out of the igs report at the same time he said the investigation into the trump context with russians was legitimately started, but still there were tremendous problems with the way the fbi goes about doing this. I do think the report is affecting the impeachment debate. It undermines the credibility of figures like schiff and nadler who spent two years pushing the russian narrative, but also going after carter page and looking at the fisa abuse. Makes a lot of voters wonder whats going on now. Bret and you dont think that james comey will ever come back in the studio. James comey sat just about here on sunday morning and tried to claim again that the ig report was vindication. He was shredded by chris wallace. This statement from the fisa report further undermines that assertion. Bret i will do a quick update of the state of the democratic race. Create your own ultimate feast is back at red lobster. With new creations to choose from; like rich, butterpoached Maine Lobster and crispy crabstuffed shrimp rangoon. How will you pick just 4 of 10 . It wont be easy. Better hurry in. Most people think as a reliable phone company. But to businesses, were a reliable partner. We Keep Companies ready for whats next. man we weave security into their business. second man virtualize their operations. woman and build ai customer experiences. second woman we also keep them ready for the next big opportunity. Like 5g. Almost all of the fortune 500 partner with us. woman when it comes to digital transformation. Verizon keeps business ready. 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The idea of doing something that continravenes the rights o working people is not something im willing to compromise. We believe in the trade Union Movement and the rights of workers to join unions. The workers of unite here get in the fight and they will. [ cheers and applause ] bret okay. So the debate after all that controversy is on. The union has solved their issues there. And the debate, seven candidates have qualified for that debate out in california. Meantime the real clear politics average National IowaNew Hampshire hasnt changed much. Biden, buttigieg in iowa and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. State of the democratic field, guy, Bernie Sanders is surging in a number of different places. The guy has a heart attack and just keeps on ticking. He in california, hes leading big. Theres been a comeback from Bernie Sanders. Warren and a few others have slipped. Bernie has a very stable base of support. Some people may be saying, okay, hes in his late 70s, he had a heart attack, and hes right back out there like nothing happened. Hes moving up. The story of the race for me is joe biden just plunking along every single day. People come up, come down, oh, hes a little shaky, hes not great on the stump. People think he can beat trump. Thats his top message and its so far working. Bret Elizabeth Warren is fighting a twofront war against Bernie Sanders and joe biden. And bleeding votes to pete buttigieg. Shes in a very complicated position. She had to keep bernie no daylight between her and bernie. Thats one of the reasons she came out for mandatory medicare for all. The votes she lost have not gone to bernie. A lot of them have gone to pete buttigieg. Those are the reform minded progressive democrats. I think anything that hurts warren helps biden. Bret at this time before christmas in president ial years past, weve kind of have a little bit of a blueprint how it was going to shape out. I dont know, do you . Not this time at all. Theres a possibility that you could have four candidates, each win one of the first four contests. You have Mike Bloomberg there, like a low pressure system waiting for super tuesday. His money is already beginning to have an effect. This year has shown that issue positions and perceptions of electability count for everything. More than debates. More than whether we fit into a particular lane. If it comes down to issue positions and electability, joe biden has the advantage. Bret and the president is touting the usa today poll that has him leading these candidates. Thats the first across the board poll weve seen across the nation. Hes still in the mid40s, which is not terrific for an incumbent, however, hes leading every single one of those people headtohead and up eight, nine, ten points against warren and buttigieg and others. Its a good poll for President Trump smack dab in the middle of impeachment. 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Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. The story hosted by Martha Mccallum starts right now. We have a big day tomorrow with all the goings on on capitol hill once again. Martha indeed we do. Thank you, bret. Breaking tonight, take a look. There is a live shot the House Rules Committee still at it tonight. That vote could approve the guidelines and it could come at any moment now. So we are watching that. House is readying to impeach President Trump. He sent Speaker Pelosi late today a blistering letter expressing his, quote strongest and most powerful protest against this move. Says its unlawful and that it is a partisan crusade by democrats. Also, another big story breaking tonight. The fisa court slapping back at the fbi. Good evening, everybody, from new york. Im Martha Mccallum and this is the story. The country remains d