senate impeachment trial. everything i do during this, i m coordinating with the white house counsel. reporter: maine senator susan collins calling mcconnell s approach inappropriate. it is inappropriate, in my judgment, for senators on either side of the aisle to prejudge the evidence before they have heard what is presented to us. reporter: her comments echoing alaska gop senator lisa murkowski, also critical of mcconnell s pledge. well, in fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. reporter: democrats want key white house insiders to testify as witnesses about withholding aid to ukraine. if democrats can convince four republicans and win 51 senate votes, they get to set the parameters and call those witnesses before a trial starts democrats looking to pressure vulnerable gop senators like collins who faces a tough reelection i am open to witnesses. i think it s premature to decide who should
i ll pick up from you after that. exactly. by the time i look forward to it. hello, everyone, it s tuesday, december 24th, christmas eve. coming up, house judiciary members float the idea of another impeachment if they get key testimony. who they want to talk to and how the president is reacting. amazon taking heat, accused of ignoring safety concerns. we re going to look at the invisible price paid when you get fast delivery and our year in climate. the 2019 awakening to unone of e greatest challenges facing our future. how far come but how far we have to go. new details as the house judiciary committee floats the idea they could take up additional articles of impeachment against president trump. the committee s lawyers urging former white house counsel don mcgahn to testify in the
people remember they treated us very up fairly. didn t give us due process. didn t give us a lawyer, didn t give us anything. now they come to the senate. they want everything. sir, what did putin say to you convinced you that ukraine interfered? the election? what? you re putting words in somebody s mouth. who are you referring to? me? i never said a thing about it. i want to bring in halle jackson who joins us from west palm beach, florida. what a treat to see you, my friend. what coydo you make of this? back at you. what do you make of the comments the president made earlier today? i make of it that the president was standing in frnt of reporters for the first time in a couple of days, since we saw a lot of the back and forth between mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi earlier in the week and want ed the get his point o view out and frankly, give that very public vote of confidence to mcconnell, which i think is notable here. you played it, ali.
we heard it clearly. the president calling mcconnell a smart guy, a fair guy, saying the ball is in his court and not reserving the right the say but i want to have my say as well. we know there are back channels discussions happening between both offices because mitch mcconnell himself has said that s the case, but i think this was the president looking to get out there and make sure his point of view is well represented, not just on twitter, but on camera as well. what he said substantively was not that new. we had seen a lot of this in tweet form before. so this is the spoken word version of the president s twitter account here. specifically his attacks against house speaker nancy pelosi, his sort of airing of the grievances against the way when he describes a partisan impeachment process has unfolded, but the president clearly believes and said it very clearly that he thinks republicans are actually in a better position. democrats will disagree with that and i ve heard some strateg
mueller report, on the obstruction or even on the payoff of the porn stars, so there are a lot of options that may float up the long er this takes and as time goes by. and in addition to the discussion with don mcgahn and things that might relate to the mueller investigation, there are these new e-mails given up by the white house between the white house and the pentagon. roughly starting one of them was 90 pins after the president s phone call on july 25th with zelensky of ukraine talking about holding up money. this is information we all sort of new and understood and there was closed door testimony about this, but now that these e-mails are out there, does this add to the case that the house is making? is. i think the e-mail does because it bolsters the theory that this was a quid pro quo.