Doubted whether she was the right person to lead the house are now singing her praises. Were going to look at how she trump trumped coming up. And psychiatrist warns impeachment is making donald trump worse, but says delaying sending the articles of impeachment is an important step. Were going to talk about that with a long time trump observer in tonights last word, but we want to begin this hour with the one thing that has been dominating Donald Trumps mind other than impeachment, House Speaker nancy pelosi. Now with the uncertainty of his Senate Impeachment trial looming over his holiday vacation, donald trump has spent every day of the last seven days blastic democrats and impeachment in dozens of angry and misleading tweets. This morning for example Speaker Pelosi reminded americans that, quote, the facts are clear and every witness told the same story despite the president s attempts to cover it up. President trump abused his power for his own personal gain. Trump escalated his at
House. Dems want to run majority republican senate. Hypocrites. That is House Speaker pelosi he is speaking to, second in line to the president or crazy nancy as the president often calls her. And while Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell would likely not call her that, in every other respect he has made it clear he is all in with the president. Everything i do doing this im coordinating with white house counsel. There will be no difference between the president s position and our position as to how to handle this. So heres, though, where that hint of a possibility i mentioned, a hint of a possibility of something comes. In republican senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska weighing in yesterday on what you just heard. In fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. To mean it means 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 process. Murkowski went on to say
And while Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell would likely not call her that, in every other respect he has made it clear he is all in with the president. Everything i do doing this im coordinating with white house counsel. There will be no difference between the president s position and our position as to how to handle this. So heres, though, where that hint of a possibility i mentioned, a hint of a possibility of something comes. In republican senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska weighing in yesterday on what you just heard. In fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. To mean it means 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 process. Murkowski went on to say she would abide by the oath that all senators must swear to be impartial, something leader mcconnell has repeatedly said on camera he would note be. She also said the house should have gone to
Insurance on the president if ukraine and when he finally agreed to actually release it. Things actually do go south. It includes new details of joel rubin and eleanor clift, shocked aides trying to piece thank you both. Coming up, im going to together a legal justification break down a crucial powerful for withholding that money. Impeachment tactic that has not cabinet secretaries trying to been unleashed yet. Doors, change trumps mind and early warnings of how damaging the plot could be. We dont see who youre against, or for, one aid writing in june that congress would, quote, become whether tomorrow will be light or dark, unhinged if they learned about all we see in you, that scheme. The times also revealing white is a spark house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney would leave the room we see your kindness and humanity. Whenever trump talked to rudy the strength of each community. Giuliani, raising questions about whether he himself had the more we look the more we find, doubts about giul
Buildings just inside the walls of the compound. Secretary of state mike pompeo is now postponing his trip to ukraine and his visit with president zelensky. A visit they were depending on to focus on developments in iraq. Lets goet to arwa damon live o the ground in iraq. Are these protests done for now . Well, theyve moved, jim, but theyre not done. What they did is reestablish themselves across the tigris river from the u. S. Embassy. And, remember, they are calling this just the first step. Kataib hezbollah, the group targeted by the u. S. In the air strikes on sunday, their spokesperson told us that they decided to move away from the u. S. Embassy because they believe that they had delivered their message to america. But the group is also saying that their expectation right now, their understanding is that the Iraqi Parliament within a week should begin associating, drafting a bill specifically to address americas troop presence. Their ultimate goal, they say, is to basically kick