Impeachment, breaking news followed by analysis you will get nowhere else. Welcome to fox news at night. Lets go straight to late breaking news on impeachment. Articles remain in the house but congress is in recess for a few weeks so nothing would happen at the capital anyway but there is genuine concern from republicans that nancy pelosi might not in the articles to the senate. Republicans and some democrats want a trial as soon as possible. We wish everyone a joyous and merry christmas. Is 2019 comes to a close dont expect the truce between donald trump and nancy pelosi anytime soon. On Christmas Morning the white house put out the following from the president , quote, together we must strive to foster a culture of deeper understanding and respect, traits that examine divided teaching of christ. Hours later he tweeted why should nancy pelosi just because she has a slight majority in the house be allowed to impeach the president of the United States but it is pelosi who holds the ball
Justin amash is the only republican in the house to call for the president s impeachment. A republican senator said its not time to talk impeachment on his side of capitol hill. My own view is that justin amash has reached a different conclusion than i have, i respect him. I believe that to make a case for obstruction of justice you just dont have the elements that are evidenced in this document. And i also believe that an impeachment call is not only something that relates to the law, but also considers practicality and politics. And the American People just arent there, and those that are considering impeachment have to look at the jury, which would be the senate. The senate is certainly not there either. Everyone reaches their own conclusion, as i read the report, i was troubled by it. Was very disappointing for a number of reasons. It did not suggest to me it was time to call for impeachment. The House Intelligence Committee chairman sees this call for impeachment only starting to
Witnesses. Heres a quick fact check for you on all of that. Absolutely not true. Trump was invited to come testify in his defense, and trumps tirade comes as some possible cracks are forming on the republican side with one gop senator now saying she is, quote, disturbed with Mitch Mcconnell openly saying he will be in total coordination with the white house on the impeachment trial. Trump is backing that up. And its up to Mitch Mcconnell. And we have the majority, and now they want mcconnell to do wonderful things for them. Hes going to do what he wants to do. Very smart guy. Very good guy. Been a very fair guy. But republican senator Lisa Murkowski disagrees with that. I think it is fair to say that right now there is so much uncertainty. And in fairness, when i heard that i was disturbed. To me, it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. And so i i heard what leader mcconnell had said. I happen to think that that has further confused the p
Will one of them blink . Were hearing about a list from the white house of potential contenders to be the next secretary of state. Is mike pompeo leaving . Home alone, President Trump saying he was edited out of the movie. Was he serious or joking when he tried to blame the canadian prime minister. Wolf blitzer is off today. Youre in the situation room. Tempers are flaring as impeachment trial talks are stuck in limbo. President trump and House Speaker nancy pelosi are taking shots at one another on twitter but no substantive discussion to break the stalemate over the trial. Needling the president is actually part of the democratic strategy as they Pressure Senate republican leader to subpoena witnesses. The white house is working on a list of potential replacements for mike pompeo if he were to leave as secretary of state. I will be talking to mike squiggly, on the House Intelligence Committee and democrats and analysts are standing by. First, were joined by cnn congressional correspo
Heest dan, what do we know . Reporter hi, rob. I can tell you the owner of the helicopter tour Company Called the coast guard when the chopper did not return back to its base at 5 20 p. M. Thursday night in hawaii. At this point we know the search and rescue crews are out there. They are hampered by the weather at this point. They have not seen any remnants of the helicopter. One pilot, six passengers. Two passengers are believed to be minors. As far as the helicopter is concerned, it did have an electronic locator on it. At this point no signals have been detected. This of course being a very busy time for touring companies. At this point we dont know who may have been on board that aircraft, just that there were a total of seven, two of them are minors. Thank you for that update. We appreciate it. Also breaking overnight, at least 12 people dead, several others injured after a plane with nearly 100 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff in kazakhstan. The countrys president sa