fine with me. some congressional democrats see mcconnell stone walling as a political gift. as the hit reports, quote, democrats will use the two week christmas and new year s break to vilify mcconnell as an extreme partisan in lock step with donald trump who is not interested himself in holding a fair trial. as the senate prepares for a trial, the washington post has new reporting on why the president was so focused on ukraine meddling in the first place. as one official told the paper, the strong belief in the white house was that putin told him. no surprise there. joining me washington post white house correspondent anne gearan. associated press white house reporter, john la mere, and the national security program, mika oyay. i mentioned the one source that told the post that it was their strong belief it was putin, but they talked to multiple sources. there were many people, and all
fact that he is about to be impeeped. it s something he s been dreading for quite some time. so even as he s publicly down playing this, privately he s unhappy about it. even when his political advisors have said you may not like being impeached but this could be beneficial politically. the new york times confirming that staunch defender, allen dershowitz may be joining the impeachment legal team. that s right. alan dershowitz has declined to comment. but what we do know from the it reports is he s being considered to join the legal team. dershowitz is a former havered law professor. a well known can defense attorney and has been accused of sexual abuse by a woman in connection with the jeffrey epstein situation.
seriously but not literally. there s no proof that there was any follow through, people don t listen to him, and here we re seeing in two different instances people do listen to him. and in the course of foreign policy it is in fact changed. the best defense of the president is he s an immensely incompetent weirdo no one pays attention to, but in this case that doesn t work because after that phone call with zelensky two u.s. officials show up with a paper for you to sign. and something quickly about what is happening to ukraine because this is a country that has struggled with corruption, that has waged this revolution and here we have the foreign policy of the united states and the president is ordering them. thank you both for being with me. a lot more. next we learn from one of the men named in the whistle-blower complaint after nine hours of testimony today what we learned. it reports are damning. we ll talk to someone in that
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along with the frigid temperatures comes wind, snow, and ice. senior correspondent mike tobin it reports from a frozen chicago tonight where the cold is definitely taking hold. wisconsin, michigan, and illinois are under states of emergency, giving governors the power to activate the national guard in advance of possibly record-setting cold descending on the north and central united states, with the cities like chicago set to be the epicenter of this life-threatening weather event. the temperatures today, tomorrow, thursday are not to be taken lightly. these are actually a public health risk. a particular risk in this brutal cold is the homeless population. out of tent city just southwest of chicago sloop, governor says he will not take advantage of the warming buses or warming centers the city has made available. he will stay in his tent. it is crowded, most of the time they ve got bugs.