melanie zanona is back with us tonight with a preview. she is congressional reporter for politico and a returning veteran on this broadcast. so melanie, give folks at minimum a kind of viewer s guide how will these hearings that we ve become used to now in the intel committee, how will it seem different in judiciary? well, this phase is going to look a whole lot different when it shifts to the judiciary committee. the intel hearings were focused on fact witnesses, on gathering the evidence and really just putting it all out on the table. but when the judiciary committee takes over, they are essentially going to be trying to put this into context. the first hearing they re going to try to define what is an impeachable offense. they re going to bring in constitutional and legal experts. and democrats really know this is their last chance to move public support in support of impeachment. so i think both sides are going to be coming in guns a-blazing. you have members on both sides who a
ruckelshaus, and we are almost exactly a year from the one year death of george h.w. bush who belonged to that company of men and women who believed in the system. they believed in the constitution. and they knew that at some point however imperfect they were, however ambitious, however many things they got wrong, they believed at the end of the day that the system, the country, was the thing that had to come first, and their own ambition, however much they worked and driven through the arena with it had to take a second spot. let s fast forward to a week from today, second round of the hearings and a new and different committee for television viewers opens up. tell us what high crimes and misdemeanors may look like in 2019 because the only thing your
at the white house to surprising many people who work there. she s a you know, one of trump s most loyal defenders. and yeah, three nights in a row now she s broadcasting from the white house. i don t know if he has more interviews with her, but she often arrives there unannounced is the truth of the matter. all righty, then. or as we call it, wednesday around here. annie karni, katie benner, jonathan allen. happy thanksgiving to all of you. thank you so much for coming on this thanksgiving eve. coming up for us, the tragedy for trump s legal team seems to be run out the clock. how has that worked for them thus far? a former federal prosecutor is here with us to talk about it. and later, we re one week out from a second round now of public impeachment hearings. how will the democrats tell the story this time around? as the 11th hour is just getting started on this thanksgiving eve. if you have medicare, listen up.
jeff, the timing here has always seemed convenient. and there are always those noting the president released the aid after the white house knew of the whistle-blower report and same thing with the quid pro quo. but now you have a report that says he was specifically told. right. specifically told. why in matters why this matters is that one of the defenses has always been that was raised in the intelligence committee hearings is what s the big deal? they released the aid. and the president of ukraine never did the investigation. how could there be an exchange if the president of ukraine never came through? what this story establishes is the reason he released the aid is he got caught. he got caught in this illegal or improper or wildly inappropriate enterprise of trading taxpayer money for dirt on joe biden. he got caught. that s what the whistle-blower letter says.
right. specifically told. why in matters why this matters is that one of the defenses has always been that was raised in the intelligence committee hearings is what s the big deal? they released the aid. and the president of ukraine never did the investigation. how could there be an exchange if the president of ukraine never came through? what this story establishes is the reason he released the aid is he got caught. he got caught in this illegal or improper or wildly inappropriate enterprise of trading taxpayer money for dirt on joe biden. he got caught. that s what the whistle-blower letter says. and that s why he released the aid because he didn t want to be caught anymore. he wanted an excuse to get right with, you know, a situation where he had been caught. you know, kirsten it s