Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. Incensed over the impeachment inquiry, President Trump is digging in and lashing out. Not only is he threatening to sue Democratic Leaders adam schiff and nancy pelosi, he is making a show of his support for Rudy Giuliani who reportedly is the target of a federal probe over his dealings with ukraine. Controversy which sparks this inquiry. A source says the president had lunch with giuliani saturday at the trump golf resort in virginia where he was also seen golfing today. Its an apparent sign of solidarity, and it questions whether trump could be cutting ties with his embattled attorney, and it comes in a major week of interviews. Gordon sondland, who was trumps ambassador to the european union, trump plans to tell them it was sondland who denied to do anything of any kind when they denied pressure they were putting on ukraine. And sondland is expected to say he didnt know if trump was telling the truth
Pause. Can you guarantee that the impeachment articles will be at some point sent to the senate . Can you guarantee that . That would have been our intention, but well see what happens over there. So you may not send them that is not youre asking me are we all going to go out and play in the snow. That has not been part of our conversation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaving open the possibility that she will not send the articles of impeachment, the approved articles of impeachment to the senate for a trial which in theory could keep that trial from even starting. Now, some democrats believe this will put pressure on Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to adopt trial procedures that they consider to be fair. We expect mcconnell to address all of this for the first time a bit later this morning. President trump reacting by saying hateful things about democrats. He also insisted at a rally last night in michigan that he did nothing wrong and that he is, quote, having a good time. But
Tuesday, the house can offer a rebuttal before opening arguments kick off at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Ahead of all of this, the president is dismissing the allegations against him, watch. President trump it is a hoax. It is a hoax, Everybody Knows that. It is a complete hoax. The whole thing with ukraine, you have a fake whistleblower that wrote wrote a report that bore no relationship to what was said. Everything was false, everything was perfect. And they impeach, it is totally partisan. Harris meanwhile, as democrats push for additional witnesses, one liberal pundit says hundred biden should bite the bullet. If you get to call your guys, then we get to call hunter biden. Man, bring it on, you want to trade hunter biden for bolton and mulvaney . Please, i have no problems with hunter biden being forced to testify, hes just going to have to take one for the team. Harris this is heating up, it continues over the weekend, chad program, set us up. What were hearing this afternoon are the face
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