Harold ford jr. Thanks for having me on. Bret House Republicans work on articles of impeachment against President Biden over his threat to stop sending weapons to israel. Protest organizers may have ulterior motives with some students. We will bring you to that investigation, Border Patrol agents under fire from mexico. We will take you there. First, attorneys in the criminal trial of donald trump will have the weekend to prepare for the most crucial witness in the c case, former trump lawyer and selfdescribed fixer, Michael Cohen. Today wrapped up the third week of testimony in that case. This is covered outside the new York Supreme Court tonight. Good evening. Michael cohen is one of two witnesses remaining before prosecutors rested their case. He paid Stormy Daniels 130,000 to suppress her story about an alleged affair with donal donald trump, leading up to the 2016 president ial election. On monday, he will answer questions about what trump knew during that time. There is no gag or
Senator dianne feinstein. So we will see what happens next. Abbey, always a pleasure to sit next to you. Good to see you, my friend. Thanks for watching. Our coverage does continue. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states, around the world, and streaming on cnn max. Im rosemary church. Just ahead, republicans in chaos. U. S. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is ousted in an historic vote. Former President Trump says he will be back for day three of his fraud trial as the judge rebukes him for attacking a clerk on social media. And President Bidens Son Hunter Pleads not guilty to three federal gun charges. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. Good to have you with us. We begin in washington where the gears of government have essentially ground to a halt after the unprecedented ousting of u. S. Republican House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Tuesdays extraordinary vote pushed by hardline conservatives makes Mccarthy The First House Speaker vo
All right tonight, there is new reaction from to Top Democrats to House Republicans impeachment inquiries. The inquiry that was launched, with no formal vote, no outstanding evidence of wrongdoing. And, no hope of being taken seriously by the American People. Here is former House Speaker nancy clark pelosi, on msnbc earlier. Impeachment is deadly serious. This is a remedy that our founders put in the constitution, to for a rogue official. They could foresee would have a rogue president of the United States they, couldnt foresee that we would have a rogue president , and a rogue senate, a rogue congress. But nonetheless, for them to use this in a frivolous way and that they are, its really a disservice to our country, into our constitution. All right, lets recall what that robe president was, was actually doing back in 2019. Donald trump, using American Taxpayer funded military aid, as leverage, tried to get the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, to dig up dirt on his opponent,
lawyers who led that case were in d.c. for a meet and greet with their client. before they walked into the oval office, they were told do not give him false hope, do not indulge the conspiracies about the election. some of them listened, some of them didn t. here is a clip from ken chesebro what the lead attorney in wisconsin told donald trump. it is clear that troops personally told the president there was zero hope in wisconsin. as part of this message, i think trying to get him to concede, give up this long shot challenge. so there was a conscious effort to deflect him from a sense of any possibility that he could pull out the election. zero hope. that s what he said. so, look, some people around trump told him that he couldn t win and he tried ty eied to ovee election any way. that s a part of the criminal case. that indictment is filled to the brim with examples of trump being told that he lost. this oval office meeting was not in the indictment, so it builds on the
as the weather system unleashes fury on the northeast. this is after spawning deadly tornadoes in the south. tennessee was hit especially too hard. thousands are assessing the devastating damage just weeks before christmas. we have been on the ground and we have seen firsthand neighbors helping neighbors. we ve heard stories of combat medics getting out with bags to help people in the middle of the night in the tornado. i ve never been so proud to be mayor as i am right now. a hard time there. all of that plus a vote expected this week in the house to move forward on a baseless impeachment inquiry of the president. i think it s easy to sort of sit and laugh and chuckle at this bungling exercised by house republicans trying to impeach the president based on nothing. there is something more sinister at play here. this impeachment is political retribution. it is political revenge on behalf of president trump. coming up, i m going to speak to judiciary committee member