defense. the president may have a number of attorneys helping him. as the president senate allies advocate for a short trial without calling the bidens to testify. i want to end it. i hate what they re doing. graham is open to hearing directly from rudy giuliani. who met with the president after returning from ukraine. but outside the impeachment process. rudy, if you want to tell us what you found, i d be glad to talk to you. each if some of his congressional allies question his trump. i didn t know why rudy was in the ukraine. nbc s hans nichols reporting. thanks, hans. joining me now is scott wong, a senior staff writer covering house leadership for the hill. scott, the full house is set to vote wednesday on the two articles of impeachment, likely sending them to a senate trial. what should we be looking for, how will that look and should we expect surprises? i think it s interesting that
now to day three of the impeachment inquiry. after the judiciary committee approved two articles of impeachment against president trump, the vote came after 14 hours of at times contentious debate. now there s a snapshot in american political history. now we take a look at the past week s drama on capitol hill. for only the third time in the country s history, the u.s. house is set to vote on the impeachment of an american president. washington is bracing for what will be a historic impeachment vote. the judiciary committee announcing two articles of impeachment against president trump on tuesday. abuse of power and obstruction of congress. the articles are what they are. they re very powerful. they re very strong.
biden at times beating trump by a point or two here and there. but it s well within most margins of error in these kinds of polls. i think they want to project a confident front. you know, i think it definitely remains to be seen. i think a lot of this rhetoric sort of going if you remember, he jokingly said a while back, he would take trump out back if they were back in high school and fight him. retracter tracted that a retracted that a little bit. hanna, let s talk about cory booker. one of the candidate that did not qualify. he wants the dnc to change that. alternative debate qualification standards for the january and february national committee debate in nevada they said they won t be making those changes. what do you make of this, hanna? he s not alone in saying that. he sends a letter which almost
take a listen. they know if they stayed and stood up to him, they would be viciously punished. we see what he does to people with whom he disagrees. we ve heard from some republicans how concerned they are about the president s behavior. we ll see how they vote. the president really is very thuggish when it comes to republicans or anyone who disagrees with him. what s your reaction to that? well, privately i think there is a lot of heartburn on the part of republicans. publicly, he can t show any daylight twine them and president trump. they will face retribution from the president. what kevin mccarthy and steve scalise, they whipped the vote a few days ago and are expecting zero dee fek shons from republicans. this is president trump s party and it looks like everybody will be lining up behind the
still almost a dozen candidates. jill biden is making a general election campaign argument directly against trump as they have consistently for months now. joe biden, in making this argument, he s doubling down on this. he s let other 2020 primary rivals duke it out as the process continues and as we inch towards iowa and new hampshire. he s zooming in like a laser on donald trump saying that he s scared of him, that he s going to beat him like a drum. i don t know if this is totally new rhetoric from the biden camp. i wonder if jill biden s appearance, what it states about confidence of the campaign and the primary? i think they re appearing confident. again, to that general election argument, i think they have a little bit of cause to worry because polls narrowly show