ukraine and interference in the 2016 election and an investigation into the bidens. it said in the report the summary of the july 25th, 2019 telephone conversation shows no quid pro quo or indication of conditionality or threats or pressure much less evidence of bribery or extortion. it reflects laster and presence and cordiality. president zelensky has said publicly and repeatedly that he has no appreciate and the president said he exerted no pressure. so you see the dividing lines rather stark here on capitol hill after two-month investigations, republicans siding with the president offering the rebuttal, the republicans on this committee plan to vote into move forward with this report that will essentially be the minority view of the report. democrats say this conduct is unaccept sabl and we ll see that playable this weekend in what is a moment us month here in the house. historic indeed. manu raju, thank you very much.
jordan and andy bigs the freedom caucus chairman. these are some of the president s staunchest and most vocal defenders, some of them who served on the intelligence committee that we saw earlier. right. so the president will have representation through at least through the congressional allies on capitol hill if not through his counsel who will be sitting in on some of these hearings. but, scott, the president has clamored that it s been unfair, they haven t been involved in this process. does the fact that the intel committee and judiciary committee, we ve got this report, judiciary now saying, hey, you can be involved. does that blunt his argument that he has been excluded from things and that it s all not fair? i mean, does he have to participate in order to get rid of that defense? well, what the president has said is he thinks this is an entirely unfair process and a sham impeachment investigation to begin with, so i think there s thought from some republican circles that
just on the ukrainian scandal. i think you re probably going to see a little bit of both when we end up reading the articles of impeachment. katie, if you were to pick just one, would it be abuse of power since doesn t that have a fairly wide umbrella to it? it s very appealing and that s a great question, alex, because abuse of power is so general it can include several subset examples. we have a very tough time with people being really tight on the critical language of bribery and extortion so i think abuse of power will be a great catchall for exactly the reason. glenn, katie thought you would agree with her. do you? i do, alex. it will be interesting to see once this report is delivered to the judiciary committee it s going to be interesting to see the next phase of this process because we know we re going to hear from a bunch of academic witnesses, people who will come in and give the american people a little bit of a history lesson, a little bit of a civics lesson and a l
would like to call any of his own witnesses. at the same time we have heard from house republicans on that committee and one thing they are asking for is an expansion of the witnesses on wednesday, asking for more witnesses who would be academics who would be talking about the grounds for constitutional determinations about impeachment. overnight the house intelligent committee announcing it will vote tuesday on chairman adam schiff s impeachment report which will make a case for the removal of president trump. intel committee members will be able to see a draft of that report as soon as monday. from the impeachment inquiry to the nation s first big blast of wintry weather, we will cover it all for you this hour with our team of reporters and analysts. let s begin with the latest on the impeachment process. the house intelligence committee set to vote tuesday on chairman schiff s impeachment report which lays the case for the congressional removal of president trump. that vote ha
process runs along right now but ultimately we will have a trial in the senate, there won t be a motion to dismiss the articles of impeachment, it won t happen, it would never survive. so you re going to have a trial and just like any trial civil or criminal you re going to have a theme that people understand and that people find to be compelling and if that s what it s going to take to get trump out of office that s what you re going to have to do. i need to see what the intelligence committee report says and i ultimately need to see what the articles end up being. once you know what those actual and we will call them charges now, when you look at the articles and see what those are then i will have a better idea of what your theme should be, but that s how you win this in the senate. there is no applicable standard, alex. glenn and i have talked about this a lot. the bottom line is there is no burden of proof to be able to impeach, it s ultimately what each senator feels in his or he