much. the house judiciary committee will begin debating articles of impeachment starting at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. the committee will begin voting at 9:00 a.m. on thursday. follow me on facebook, instagram and twitter at jake tapper and our coverage on cnn continues right now. happening now, breaking news. articles of impeachment. house democrats unveiled two charges against president trump. setting the stage for his impeachment and senate trial. tonight we re learning new details of how and when it will all play out. trump versus the fbi. the president lashes out at the bureau and its director in the wake of a justice department watch dog report while the attorney general doubles down on his efforts to discredit his own inspector general s findings. oval office meeting. the president huddles in the white house with the russia foreign minister after facing impeachment over a country russian continues to battle. and handing trump a victory.
we re back with the politics lead. today house democrats unveiled articles of impeachment and alleged president trump abused his office by pressuring ukraine to investigate conspiracy theories, trump administration officials have called false or debunked and one about the bidenss and the other about ukraine interfering in the 2016 election and not russia. one of the reasons the president is facing impeachment is because of the pred pred liks for conspiracy theories and lies and he is taking issue with the facts asserted by his fbi director christopher wray. i don t know what report christopher wray was reading but it wasn t the one given to me. the president referring to the inspector general report about, in part, the origins of the russia investigation. the report did not support the president s wild conspiracy
process, how come you re thought taking the white house to court to force the subpoenas, to force the testimony. here is the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff earlier today. the argument why don t you just wait amounts to this why don t you just let him cheat in one more election? despite everything we have uncovered the president s misconduct continues to this day. unapologetically and right now. that seems to be the prevailing argument in the democratic caucus. that and as well as pelosi today told politico they have waited. it has been two years and they waited for the mueller report. and then once the ukraine transcript came out they decided to conduct that investigation and that she argued there is some urgency given the 2020 election. so that is why she very much wants them to hold the vote ahead of christmas.
over. why don t you just let him cheat in one more election? why not let him cheat just one more time? why not let him have foreign help just one more time? reporter: now behind the scenes there is a debate for several days about whether or not to add a third article of impeachment on obstruction of justice detailing the allegations in the mueller report that shows the president sought to undercut that investigation. i m told that nadler advocated for article of impeachment on obstruction of justice and others did but there were concerns by going that route they could lose democratic support from freshman members concerned about going that route and wanted to keep it focused instead on the ukraine matter and ultimately nancy pelosi sided with the decision of focusing on the two articles of impeachment and which is why they are moving foerds forward on those and the votes will come in days.
this evan perez and former attorney general elliott williams. evan, fbi director wray is recounting what the fbi found in a factual manner and it is putting him in trouble with president trump. and who has fired an fbi director before. what more are you hearing? right, exactly. and one of the interesting part of the tweet is the word currently , suggesting he may not be. and christopher wray, covering him and knowing him, he jokes sometimes people don t know whether he has a pulse or not and he doesn t get bothered by things like this. but it is true, that look, the fbi director ordered 40 corrective changes as a result of the report but he doesn t shy away the fact that it doesn t support the things that the president wants him to say it does and he s not afraid to do that and in these times it does put you in shaky ground. stating the facts. right. just stating the facts. because that is not what the