Good morning, everybody. It is monday, december 9th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Ayman is wrapping up his time off and will be back tomorrow. We begin this week with fastmoving developments in the impeachment investigation. At 9 00 a. M. Democratic investigators will present the evidence theyve uncovered to the House Judiciary Committee and republicans will have another chance to refute it. Chairman jerry nadler says he expects the committee to introduce articles of impeachment by the end of this week, a track that could have the president impeached by christmas. We have a very solid case. I think the case we have if presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat. While the white house has declined an invitation to participate in the hearing, the president appears consumed by the issue tweeting and retweeting more than 100 times since yesterday, mostly about impeachment, and republican senator ted cruz of texas on, quote, meet the press yesterday advanced the debu
Question their witnesses. If you would like to participate in the hearing, please provide the committee with notice as soon as possible but no later than december 1st. The judiciary picking up be baton for the next phase of the house impeachment inquiry as public support for Donald Trumps impeachment tops 50 . As a federal judge delivers a blow to Donald Trumps claim of asbestbsolute immunity writing ruling indead asbestos luts testimonial immunity for senior level white house aids appears to be a fiction. President s are not kings. They do not have subjects bound by loyalty or blood whose destiny they are entitled to control. That case resolvovled around th lawyer for don mcgahn. The lawyer out with a statement. Don mcgahn will comply with judge jacksons opinion unless its stayed pending appeal. The Justice Department is already appealing the decision but it guts the legal justi justification thats being deployed by the white house to justify stone walling congress. If the judge in th
Thats cool. Welcome to the viewers here in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im Miguel Marquez keeping dave briggs seat warm. Im christine romans. Breaking overnight, an ominous election as reliably republican seats go to democrats. In ruby red kentucky, andy beshear claiming victory in the governors race. He leads matt bevin by several,000 votes with 99,000 votes, bevin refusing to admit defeat. Our elections dont have to be about right versus left. They are still veabout right versus wrong. I havent had an opportunity to speak to governor bevin, but my expectation is he will honor the election that was helped tonight. Would bit a bevin race if it wasnt a squeaker . Come on. Really and truly. This is a close, close race. Were not conceding this race by any stretch. So its too early to tell whether the democrats voted over impeachme impeachmented on teachers. One veteran republican telling cnn we found that being an ahole is slightly worse than being a libera
Zelensky to investigate burisma and interference in the 2016 election. Burisma is the Ukrainian Company on which joe bidens son hunter served on the board. He testified, that is my understanding. Security assistance money would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation question. So if they dont do this, they wont get that. Was your understanding . Taylor, yes, sir. Question. Are you aware that quid pro quo means this for that. I am. And he describes an odd shi a odd situation by stating that something is not a quid pro quo, this for that, that that negates it being one. President trump was adam ant that president zelensky has h to clear things up and in public and President Trump said it was not a quid and sondland said if this is not a quid pro quo and if he didnt clear things up in public, we would be at a stalemate. And i understand a stalemate to mean ukraine would not receive the muchneeded military assistance. To state the obvious, declaring so
The Research Includes early august email exchanges between acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney and white house budge et cetera officials for withholding the funds after the president ordered a hold in midjuly on the merely 400 million in security assistance. Brand new emails thrust mike pompeo ever closer to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani is known to burnto und investigation by the south korean district of new york. From the new york time, quote, the emails kaindicate that mr. Pompeo spoke twice by telephone with mr. Giuliani in march as mr. Giuliani was urging ukraine to investigate mr. Trumps rivals and trying to oust a respected American Ambassador to ukraine who had been promotie i anticorruption efforts. Mr. Pompeo ordered her removal the next month. One call between giuliani and pompeo was arranged with guidance from mr. Trumps person assistant the document suggests. As we come on the air were watsing for news in the case that could move don mcgahn closer to cooperating with congress a