of california s wine country where firefighters are battling blazes and the worst is yet to come. dire predictions of 80-mile-per-hour wind gusts this evening, this weekend. residents here bracing for impact. and after a huge night in the world series, the houston astros are hoping the team can pull off another win. let s talk about this federal judge who has ruled that the impeachment inquiry is legitimate. this is a major victory for the democrats hurting the president s constant claims that it is a scam, some believe. the same judge also ordered the justice department to give congress grand jury information that had been redacted from the mueller report. she ruled that the information is in the public interest and it should be released. covering this from all angles this morning, we ll go to the white house, and capitol hill. we want to start there. we know you re waiting to see if
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change the speaking points for republicans. they didn t claim that this proceeding was un-constitutional. they just don t believe it s been run fairly. do you think this knocks the wind out of a lot of the arguments that republicans have been making that this is not a legitimate inquiry? martin, i don t think so. look, this was to be expected to be honest. this was an obama appointed judge that made a ruling many people anticipated this was how it was going to come out. it is not going to change the dynamics we re currently facing. democrats will continue to move full speed ahead with their impeachment inquiry and their process and republicans will continue their efforts full speed ahead with trying to slow things back, roll it back. the president as we ve seen through his twitter feed today and the past several weeks will continue to try and delegitimize the process but i think moving forward the republicans would be best to sit back, engage in full transparency, put the information
congress has very broad authority, not unlimited authority, but very broad authority to get information needs from the executive branch. that would be relevant to the ongoing ukraine investigation. two, this will be very important to the ukraine impeachment process because the judge can confirm, no, the white house does not need to take a separate, full vote to have a separate inquiry. and now this is the federal district court, first of three levels, it will almost certainly go up to the court of appeals and potentially up to the u.s. supreme court. an important victory but only round one. i know there are people out there groaning saying oh, no, not the mueller report again. but we should point out these documents have not been seen before, correct? that s right, martin and they involve grand jury information that congress, the democrats may have the ability if it s useful or pertinent to pull into their
this weekend. pg&e said the drastic move may be to prevent, quote, a drastic wildfire. the decision should be made by 8:00 a.m. local time. the houston astros keeping the world series alive. they could tie it up in game four. they will take on the nationals, washington, of course, in d.c. a federal judge has ruled that the impeachment inquiry being held right now in congress is legitimate and this is seen as a major victory for the democrats by a lot of people, significantly undercutting the republican argument that the process is invalid. that same judge also oorded the justice department to give congress grand jury information that was in the mueller report. she said it should be released. he let s go to kristin holmes at