And a very good day to you. Im Kristin Welker in new york. While impeachment is on pause today, the standoff between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is heating up. Pelosi insisting that the democrats need to know what sort of trial the senate will conduct before moving forward. This morning senator mcconnell criticizing the speaker for not yet transmitting the articles of impeachment. Are you surprised you havent been handed the two impeachment articles from the speaker . Yeah. I mean, the papers have to be physically brought over to the senate and we cant go forward until the speaker does that. Shes apparently trying to tell us how to run the trial. You know, im not anxious to have this trial so if she wants to hold onto the papers, go right ahead. This happening as newly released emails show that a request to withhold aid to ukraine came from the office of the white House Management and budget less than two hours after the controversial call with ukraines president in july. Hans, so lets just start with everything youre hearing at the white house. The president s on vacation. Hes clearly thinking about impeachment. Hes tweeting about impeachment this morning. Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the u. S. Congress and now she is crying for fairness in the senate and breaking all the rules while doing so. She lost congress once, she will lose it again. Reporter when you pair that tweet with what he said saturday night where he thinks its a good thing the house hasnt agreed to send over those articles of impeachment in the senate, you get a sense that he likes his position over this holiday break. That is that they can continue to talk about fairness and process on the trial and not engage in the substance. Officials give you very little indication that theyd be having to produce the kind of documents that Chuck Schumer is asking for. We have a standoff, we have a stalemate and i think one peril for the white house in all of this and i think we see this in the emails, but the longer this goes on, theres a chance the dynamic of this entire process now that the president has been impeached is altered. Theres an internal discussion inside the white house on whether you want a short trial or a long trial. The longer this goes on, the more risk there is for the white house. The forces and the folks that are pushing for a short trial, they may have gotten a little bit of an advantage by the release of these documents because its just more information that casts the white house in a less than flattering light. Let me just get your reaction to the fact that as hans is reporting, this stalemate is deepening. Here we are, everyone is taking holiday and yet there are no signs that theyre any closer to getting on the same page. Do you think theres going to be a senate trial . Oh i absolutely do think theres still going to be a senate trial. I could be surprised, i suppose. But whats striking about this is that hans mentions risk. Theres risk for both sides. The more unflattering or worrisome emails could come out, more reporting could divulge something about some of these key witnesses that havent testified yet and have resisted subpoenas. More information could be damaging to the democrats politically, because obviously there are all sorts of republican allies of the president who are saying that this impeachment effort is a dance, that its an effort to damage the president , to undo this 2016 election. So both sides are in a little bit of drama and danger. Thats right. Leader mcconnell has said he hasnt ruled out calling witnesses. Mark short, the Vice President s chief of staff, was on meet the press on sunday. Take a listen. Does it make sense then to have Mick Mulvaney and his deputies testify, though, and give some clarity to this . You know, i think its kind of ironic to say that we have an airtight case. Nancy pelosi said we have an airtight case. Yet she now says we demand more witnesses. How do you reconcile those two statemen statements . We want to see a trial in the senate because we want to see that the president gets exonerated. One of the questions swirling around this trial, if there is one, is will mcconnell and the white house be on the same page . President trump said he wants the whistleblower to come forward. He wants to hear from joe biden. Do you think theyre on the same page . I think its so important that we remember that theres like the show in front of our eyes about what certain leaders say and then theres the behind the scenes. The show in front of us is essentially im tough, this case doesnt touch me, im not worried about anything, whatever pelosi does, it doesnt hurt me. But behind the scenes the president has been saying a lot of things that dont necessarily comport with what his aides and white House Counsel are telling the senate. For example, the request for the whistleblower, behind the scenes i dont think the white house is eager to have the whistleblower come and testify. Theres a little bit of bra vad douvado in the show in front of us and something more tempered behind the scenes. These newly revealed emails, conversations between the white house omb and the pentagon regarding aid to ukraine, what can you tell us about that . Reporter this is what the back end of bureaucracy looks like. And the most troubling aspect for the white house is that one of the emails by Michael Duffey was directed to other omb officials and pentagon officials telling them to withhold the aid. The timing is troublesome because it came 90 minutes after President Trumps phone call with zelensky. Omb officials are saying its irresponsible to draw a conclusion between that email and the phone call and that really the decision was made a couple of weeks earlier, about ten days earlier when they made the call to withhold the aid. But its also the tone of the email. The tone of the email is lets not disseminate this widely, this will be on a need to know basis. We should know that theyre heavily redacted. This isnt a complete picture but its an indication of how much more out there potentially through reporting could be revealed. Just real quickly on the timing, mcconnell just spoke moments ago. Mcconnell seemed to say there wouldnt be a resolution on this until the senate goes back into session. He said look back at my fox comments but hes got nothing further to add. We could be in a stalemate throughout this entire break. Senate comes back into session january 6th, i believe. That is a long time to be staring across and not talking to each other. Certainly is. A stalemate that is intensifying. Joining me now democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of maryland. Tho thank you for joining me. Let me have you pick up where hans left off. You are asking the Government Accountability office essentially for an opinion on the legality of President Trumps decision to hold up aid on ukraine. What are you hoping to achieve . Have you heard back from them . I have not heard back yet. They are going to do this legal analysis. I hope to ref it as soon ceive possible. We know that the president abused his power by withholding this essential funding to ukraine in order to extract these personal political promises to interfere in the election. But it seems also clear that he violated the control act withholding those funds. That would be true even if you accepted the president s cover story, that they were somehow engaged in a policy review. So thats why were asking gao to look into this and get back to us. We know that Chuck Schumer is pushing for the department of state omb, the white house to release those documents related to the decision to hold up the aid to ukraine. Do you anticipate theyll be any more successful than the house, because the house tried to get those same documents as well . I think americans regardless of where they stand on impeachment overwhelmingly understand that in order to have a fair trial in the United States senate you get to call the relevant fact witnesses and you get to look at the relevant documents. Thats what this is all object. We just highlighted the importance of that issue with the document you mentioned already from Michael Duffey whos a political appointee at the white house in the office of management and budget directing the pentagon to hold the military assistance to ukraine 90 minutes after the president s call and clearly indicated in that email that they recognize it was inappropriate in many ways, not wanting other people to see this document. So this is all the more reason that the public deserves to see the documents and that we get to call fact witnesses. The president keeps saying he wants a trial with witnesses and then they are saying well we dont want these key witnesses to testify. What do they have to hide . Let me follow up with you on that point. As you note, those emails transpired 90 minutes after the president s july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. Yet omb says this is something that had been discussed. These are emails taken out of context. Do they have a point . No. The fact that they may have been in the works before the phone call with zelensky simply adds to the story line. The reality is they were in this period of time when the president was going to be calling zelensky. Clearly the president wanted zelensky to interfere in the u. S. 2020 president ial election by launching this ridiculous investigation. So this was clearly on the president s mind both before the phone call, but it was right after the phone call that they put this into action with the official withholding documents. So the fact that they were already discussing this before the phone call seems to me just adds to the narrative that this was part of the president s plan to abuse the office of the presidency to extract this political favor from ukraine. Again, if thats not true and if the white house says theres nothing to this, why not give the congress the documents . Thats the basic question. What are you trying to hide . Senator, a lot of people are watching this back and forth and theyre wondering if there will in fact be a trial. Do you expect there to be a senate trial . Do you think house Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an obviously fact to turn over the articles of impeachment as quickly as possible . There will be a senate trial. I have no doubt what Speaker Pelosi is doing and rightfully is shining a public spotlight on the need to have a fair trial. Could this backfire on her if she holds the articles too long . Does it look like a political move . This is designed to get a fair trial. What shes saying is shell send this over tomorrow if Mitch Mcconnell and the republicans will allow for a fair trial. 70 of the American People including a majority of republicans recognize that that includes witnesses. We all know what a trial looks like, right . That means you get to put on your case. The house has already presented overwhelming evidence but the president keeps claiming that hes innocent. He also keeps claiming he wants this to have witnesses. Lets just do this. If the president wants to have any pretense of a claim of exoneration in the senate, they cant totally rig the trial which is exactly what theyre doing. Mitch mcconnell has already said he will not be impartial. Were just about out of time. He has said hes not going to be an impartial juror but he also made the case today on fox news senator Elizabeth Warren is not going to be impartial, Chuck Schumer is not going to be impartial. Does he have a point there . Speaking for myself and i think others as well that we will wait until we see all the evidence before reaching a final verdict. Thats what you should do. But it is important for the m k public and the senators to be able to see all the evidence. These are witnesses who the president blocked from testifying in the house of representatives even though theyre fact witnesses, theyre people with personal knowledge of what happened around the president , former president s like richard mix nixon and othe have allowed these individuals to testify in prior impeachment proceedings. So thats what were asking for. As long as were very focused on that being the issue, that the public should see the documents and we just saw one that was forced out of the white house and what it said. It was incriminating. The people deserve to have witnesses. Thats what a fair trial is all about. Thank you for joining us on this Christmas Eve eve. Happy holidays to you, and to you too. Coming up, going ballistic. New evidence shows north korea expanding its production of long range Nuclear Missiles that could threaten the United States. And as the decade comes to a close, we want to know what you think the biggest story of the past decade was. 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Using commercial satellite images from planet labs, what he and his team found was that the North Koreans have made pruch improvements to this factory. Whats significant is that they found that kim jongun visited this factory in june and the work appeared to start right after that. The reason thats important is that kim jongun happened to watch preparations at this very factory for a december 2017 test of a long range Nuclear Capable missile. If this test goes forward, it would really spell a breakdown in diplomatic talks and its a real blow to the Trump Administration, because the only thing trump has been able to show is the suspension of these long range missile tests that threaten the United States. If the north resumes the tests, its really bad news. John, let me turn to you because the president s former National Security advisor john bolton is out with some mu criticinew criticism of his former boss. He said, quote, that the president is bluffing about stopping north Koreas Nuclear ambitions. He also adds, the idea that we are somehow exerting maximum pressure on north korea is just unfortunately not true. What do you make of that assessment . If were looking at the history of north korea, the only thing more consistent than their efforts to get a Nuclear Weapon is john boltons hawkishness on it. In 2006 after he left the bush administration, he criticized the president he served for being soft on north korea. Its no surprise hes doing it again. Go ahead. I think its doubtful his words are going to do much. We have to see whether this christmas surprise and north koreas actions can change Donald Trumps mind on diplomacy with north korea. Do you think the president s strategy in north korea is working . Hes held these talks with kim jongun, really the first lead tore leader to do this. Is it working . s very clear that his diplomacy isnt bearing fruit. The challenge thats being called a christmas surprise by the North Koreans is also in many ways a 2020 surprise. At the moment Donald Trumps policy win that hes going to claim credit for is sort of some success or diplomatic efforts with north korea. The fact is that they have now set off into 2020 and said you know what it didnt work. Hes going to have to sort of face the voters and face the consequences of these changes as democrats start opposing him. Let me switch gears now and ask you about this news out of saudi arabia. A Court Sentenced five people to death today for, quote, committing and directly participating in the murder of Jamal Kashoggi in a saudi consulate in istanbul last year. The cia assesses that the crown prince likely ordered the killing and two of the top officials suspected in the killing were not convicted. How is this trial being perceived . The u. N. Investigator who conducted a widespread investigation of this matter is calling this trial a mockery, because she had concluded that it was complicity for this murder at the highest levels of the saudi government and this was a premeditated act. What this trial found is they didnt intend to kill him. They went over to negotiate with him and things went badly. Only the lower level people have been convicted. The deputy intelligence chief was acquitted. The man they believe planned this operation has never even been charged. So youre seeing human Rights Groups really denounce this result, but the Trump Administration is not doing that. They have issued a statement calling this an important step in holding those responsible for this terrible crime accountable and we encourage saudi arabia to continue with a fair and transparent judicial process. Thats from the white house. John, your take . I think this is about the bare minimum that the saudis could get away with in terms of keeping the Trump Administration going. Heading into an Election Year when democrats are going to be opposing the president s policies, its a question whether that fig leaf is going to be enough to keep them at bay. A major shakeup at boeing today to tell you about. Ceo Dennis Mullenberg has been fired a week after the Company Plans to suspend production of the 737 max. The airplanes were grounded last year after two crashes killed 346 people. Thank you so much for joining me. He has been under fire for quite some time. Why is he getting fired now . Its been one thing after the next for Dennis Mullenberg. He and the rest of boeing have painted a rosy picture that the 737 that the mcast the automated Flight Control system thats at the center of the investigation of those crashes would be fixed and that the 737 would be fixed and return to service. Earnings call month after month, week after week, that just hasnt happened. The latest being as you mentioned last week with the stopping the production of the max, costing boeing billions of dollars, costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars. And when it will fly again is still unclear. Were still waiting on boeing and the faa to present a path forward. Boeing has painted a rosy picture throughout this. A lot of people wondering when it will be put back into rotation. This move seems aimed at restoring some confidence in the company overall. Who takes its place and what are you expecting moving forward . Dennis calhoun who replaced mellenberg in october as chairman, he now becomes the ceo. Heres the big thing. Mullenberg was an engineer and he tried throughout the entire process to address the issues with the max as an engineer would, with facts and figures. The one criticism that happened throughout the whole process was he lacked empathy. Expect to get more empathy from boeing and calhoun moving forward in the coming months as the 737 max is hopefully recertified to fly again. Coming up, rudy time. The president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani pushing forward with fresh accusations against joe biden and the former ambassador to ukraine. So whats his end game . Game when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. So you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. For small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. Shop everything home at wayfair. Com the holidays are here and so is tmobiles newest, most powerful signal. And we want to keep you connected with the new iphone 11. So tmobile is giving you an iphone 11 on us for each new line of unlimited. For yourself, your family or your small business. Keep everyone connected and hurry into tmobile today, to get up to 4 iphone 11s on us. Only at tmobile. Republican South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham is blasting Speaker Pelosi and the democrats handling of the impeachment process. This morning graham wrote on twitter, this constitutional outrage by Speaker Pelosi needs to end. She is trying to run the senate and deny President Trump his day in court after the houses sham impeachment process. It comes as the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani presses on with allegations against former Vice President joe biden and former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. Thanks to all of you for being here. Josh, i do want to start with you because you have this great new reporting on Rudy Giuliani and what specifically he was drilling down on in ukraine. What can you tell us . Reporter Rudy Giuliani has been pretty vague and actually somewhat cryptic in describing what these new allegations hes uncovered during his recent investigative trip to europe playing out while the president has been impeached. So what weve done is dug through everything that Rudy Giuliani has said publicly about this in tweets, in interviews to try to figure out everything we can about what exactly hes alleging and what are the facts behind it. It essentially falls into two buckets of allegations. The first is that marie yovanovitch, that ousted former ambassador to ukraine, tried to prevent four ukrainians who would essentially be whistleblowers, who wanted to come to the u. S. To talk about what they say is corruption, that she prevented them from getting visas. The second bucket of allegations has to two with two multibillion dollar corruption and Money Laundering schemes that Rudy Giuliani says hes uncovered and wanted to testify about. We can say that no evidence yet has been publicly presented that corroborates any of this. As far as those two Money Laundering corruption schemes, those have both been debunked. I want to talk about the legality of this. On the one hand you have senator Lindsey Graham saying, yes, i want to hear from Rudy Giuliani about these findings. On the other hand, you have democrats saying, look, they want to hear from mulvaney fr, m bolton, from firsthand witnesses and the republicans blocking that. What do you make of that contrast . I think theyre all bluffing because they all know if they open the door to this kind of testimony were going to hear from other witnesses. Republicans have to be careful about who they demand to hear from at an impeachment trial because if they do open that door, i think it will be very difficult for them to close the door to people like mulvaney and bolton. They have the votes to do it and they could, but i think politically it looks terrible and i think at the end of the day we will hear only from the witnesses that weve already heard from. Legally what are the potential ramifications for giuliani . Its believed hes already under investigation. He seems to be sort of doubling down. The idea if he goes quite net n it will demonstrate that hes guilty. But if there was real crime here, this would be investigated through official channels. We have fbi legal attaches in every country in the world that is an ally. We dont need personal lawyers to be the one going out and investigating. We have formal procedures for that. It triggers the use of mutual assistance treaties. I think this is all an effort to create just enough information to use as talking points in a Smear Campaign as opposed to any case that will every see a courtroom. Its hard to understate the extent to which a number of the president s allies believe that Rudy Giuliani is responsible for his impeachment and they are very uncomfortable with the role he continues to play. What are you hearing . This is something thats generate add ld a lot of frustr pointing to these controversial outside advisors or former government officials as being responsible for many of the mishaps and problems that have plagued the Trump Presidency from very early on. Administration officials were pointing to some of trumps personal lawyers during the mueller probe, blaming them for the complications and issues that arose in the first few months after Michael Flynn left the white house and ended his time there as National Security advisor, there were efforts within the white house to sort of blame him for the russia problems that had emerged. Now of course theres lots of concern about rudy, not just in the white house but also among in of the former and Current Trump political appointees. Gordon sondland and kurt volker both communicated to congress under oath that they had concerned about the way rudy was involving himself in many of these ukraine related conversations and that they just had to deal with him only because the president directed that they play ball. Really good point there. Josh, one more quick one to you. President trump has said that Rudy Giulianis going to present his findings to doj. Again, Lindsey Graham has said hes interesting in hearing from Ruth Bader GinsberRudy Giuliani. Reporter we know that senator graham and some of his fellow republican chairmen in the senate are not only hearing they from giuliani but many of the specific witnesses giuliani wants to come forward with information. Whats so interesting about that is that these are the very same things that President Trump was impeached for, trying to get ukraine to investigate 2016 and the bidens. Giuliani moving forward on those unabated. Coming up, wine cave. 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Mayor Pete Buttigieg tops the average of polling for iowa while Elizabeth Warren has dropped to fourth. Some say that led to the gloves coming off at last thursdays president ial debate when warren hit at buttigieg about a fundraiser at a luxury wine cave. We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smokefilled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States. Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States. Mr. Mayor, your response. According to forbes magazine, im literally the only person on this stage whos not a millionaire or a billionaire. This is important. This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. Joining me now heidi przybyla, steve israel. Congressman, i have to start with you. That Heated Exchange that was the viral moment of last weeks democratic president ial debate, what do you make of it . How does it resonate with iowa voters . And does Pete Buttigieg have a point about purity tests . I think theres several things. Number one, when you are perceived to be ahead in the polls, then you have the biggest target on your back. Elizabeth warren clearly believes that buttigieg is pilfering from her vote share and going after them. Most democrats arent debating the fine points of Campaign Finance reform and theyre not making a judgment on who should be the nominee based on those positions. Theyre making a judgment on who should be the nominee based on the persons ability to defeat donald trump. So that was a viral moment, but it does not reflect the major concern that most democratic voters have in this priority and that is a streak of magmatism in nominating somebody who could defeat this president. When you see those types of intramural disputes, do you think it helps republicans in the general but doesnt do a whole lot for democratic primary voters . I dont know that it helps republicans, that particular exchange. Certainly i think the conventional wisdom that the longer this race goes, the better it is for President Trump. I think its true as long as you have democrats sniping at each other, arguing with one another over who is more pure in terms of not being associated with millionaires or billionaires, that in the long run is to the benefit of President Trump. Buttigiegs response was quite insightful. I think he did a good job of parrying that. Ultimately i think that helps to explain why hes been so successful in early state polling. Pete buttigieg looking more and more like a front runner. Let me read you something from usa today. More than 200 Foreign Policy and National Security professionals are endorsing democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg for president. Now the text of their letter obviously targets President Trump but the subtext is aimed at former Vice President biden. Thats of course his big talking point but he has more Foreign Policy experience. It cant help, especially coming out this early because it is early. We havent gotten even close to the major contests yesterday. If we learned anything from the past election is that ea endorsements dont really weigh that much. In 2016, 50 gop National Security experts said do not vote for donald trump. He not only won the nomination, he won the presidency. The bigger threat to joe biden is overall this arc of momentum that buttigieg is experiencing in iowa because joe bidens plan is to win iowa because if he doesnt win iowa, hes probably going to have a really hard time winning new hampshire. Youve got some neighboring senators who are quite popular there. Then you roll into South Carolina where a lot of the africanamerican voters there who he is relying on will look at that and make an assessment. We dont know what they will make of that since the central argument of joe bidens candidacy is his electability. It is. Its the big central argument that he has. I want to turn to senator Elizabeth Warren. Again, she has been slipping in the polls. The hill reports today that behind the scenes in recent months former president obama has gone to bat for warren when speaking to donors reluctant to support her given her knocks on wall street and the wealthy. If warren becomes the nominee, obama has said they must throw the entirety of their support behind her. What is your take on that and how much does that help warren and what does the Biden Campaign make of that . President obamas position has consistently been that democrats must throw the entirety of the weight of their support behind whoever emerges from this process. I was not at any of those meetings so i cant comment on what the president may or may not have said. I just want to pick up on heidis point about wbuttigieg momentum. I would just caution people to be very, very careful in looking at polls in iowa at this point months before. I have to tell you that in 2011 just a few months before the iowa caucus every poll said that herman cane was going to win. It ends up being Rick Santorum and romney is the nominee. The nominee ends up being john mccain. These iowa polls are all over the map. At this point before the actual caucus they are pretty consistently unreliable. Thank you very much. Just seek weix weeks away, the caucus. We are watching it closely. Coming up, return to abaco. Well take you back to the island in the bahamas where residents are still uncertain about their future. Residents are still uncertain about their future at fidelity, we help you prepare for the unexpected with Retirement Planning and advice for what you need today and tomorrow. Because when youre with fidelity, theres nothing to stop you from moving forward. Billions of problems. Morning breath . Garlic breath . Stinky breath . Theres a therabreath for you. 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Reporter after the hurricane i reported from this spot, a neighborhood known as the mud. The damage is nearly impossible to describe. I hope i dont see anything worse than this because it is such devastation. We have come upon in this bohemian heat, bodies who are exposed. Those who survive the hurricane here and still on great aboutac are living the desperate of lives. Water mission turns salt water to Drinking Water without a cost. We are running 700 a gallon. Reporter global and Empowerment Mission have been here too as they were for fires and california. The destruction of the amazon. Disasters tied to Global Climate change. They are consistently described as the worse ever. The world is changing. We got to get ready. Reporter for the williams with a baby boy due in just weeks, the future is unknown. But all the joy of a boy whos coming, you are living in a tent. Yeah. Reporter great abaco only 145 miles from florida. For the foreseeable future, a world away. 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