Votes on whether or not the president should be impeached. Democrats have set a deadline to get that vote done by Christmas Day. One republican on the Judiciary Committee believe that is the president should not only take advantage of this chance to respond to the impeachment accusations but also allow his top aides to testify. I think it would be to the president s advantage to have his attorneys there. That is his right. Absolutely. And in fact, yeah, i think it would be to the president s advantage to have him testify now. Of course, he has to weigh that against the enormous catastrophic damage that would do to the doctrine of executive privilege. Cnns Sarah Westwood joins me from the white house. We are just 1 1 2 minutes past that 6 00 p. M. Deadline. Reporter the white house is being tightlipped about how they are going to respond to this overture from chairman nadler. Weve been checking in with officials at the white house. They havent said whether they are going to respond by t
We have cnn correspondents all over the world and all over this right now. Nick robertson is in riyadh. Natasha chen is standing by and admiral john kirby. Let me start with you. This has become a global investigation. Tell us what more we know about the shooter, what this Intelligence Group has found. Reporter well, this intelligence seems to indicate, if correct, that he tweeted out what is effectively a will in about the 15 minutes or so before he went on this shooting rampage. So what it seems to indicate, and i say seems because weve really dont have all of this confirmed yet, although we know that these will be angles that the fbi are looking into, he appears to quote both bin laden and anwar al locky, before he was killed in a drone strike, this seems to indicate that in the frame of mind that this shooter had was antiamerican, antiisraeli, sort of lines he was saying were, you know, america wont get peace until it gets out of our lands. This was the sort of line that he was goi
To the u. S. And well get more on that story when we get more information and bring it to you. Kiley atwood will be joining us later on. The shooting now state side at the Pensacola Air base in florida. Were learning more about the gunman, mohammed al shamrani, a saudi national. His uncle telling cnn exclusively that al shamrani showed nothing suspicious before he moved to the u. S. In 2017 to begin training at the base. The gunman opened fire at the base friday, killing three people before being killed by police. Weve got full coverage of this story for you with natasha chen following developments out of florida, admiral john kirby in washington and cnns Nic Robertson in saudi arabia. Lets go to natasha first. Tell us more about what the uncle is saying. Reporter yeah, an uncle of the suspected shooter told cnn, again, that he did not see anything suspicious about his nephew that would indicate he might attack people like this. He described his nephew as 21 years old. He said he was l
Youre a liarman. And Pete Buttigieg has the pressure. With primaries right around the corner, who cannel earth from the freeforall . Hello, im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington. Where the state of the union is crossing a threshold. Those are the words of House Speaker nancy pelosi whose team of Top Democrats is working all weekend on articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first votes on those articles could come this week. It is now also certain that Donald J Trump will be the third u. S. President to be impeached by the house of representatives and the president s legal team will not participate in the process which he called a continuation of a threeyear witch hunt. Instead the team is looking ahead to a trial in the Republicancontrolled Senate but the action is in the house where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are preparing. Yesterday democrats released a report outlining the historical arguments for impeachment and this week theyre holding mock hearings
Killed in the attack is not yet being named. Good morning. We are so grateful to have you with us here. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Breaking overnight. Nine people are dead after a plane went down in chamberlain, south dakota. Three other passengers on board were survived but we are still waiting to hear news of their condition. It crashed in blizzardlike conditions after it took off and en route to idaho falls. The area was pummeled by a snowstorm at the time of the crash. Visibility under less than a mile. Snow falling at inch an hour according to National Weather service. The states Attorney Says there is a two children and the pilot are among the victims. She also praised First Responders there thanking their efforts which was heroic as she calls this extreme weather conditions. We will update you with more as we get more details. The storm in the south dakota is moving to the northeast right now. Its part of a same or the same system that is on its