Malveaux who joins us on capitol hill. The letter was interesting. No show, probably, right . Probably. It was very interesting this morning how this is all laid out because that was a letter that was actually issued yesterday, but yet not a straight, direct response from the attorney who ive been in touch with, charles cooper, whether or not he is going to come and say i cant help it, i cant cooperate here, or its going to stand as this letter. House democrats have already threatened that they would hold him in contempt. Aides i spoke with this morning had already said that they were preparing the room for a possible show or appearance or testimony, but according to his attorney, he says look, the letter speaks for itself and what hes trying to do is set this up as its not my clients fault. If youre considering holding him in contempt think again, because he is simply just going to punt this, if you will, to the courts. This portion of the letter saying its not dr. Kupperman who conte
Whether more key impeachment witnesses will testify. It will be playing out in two different courtrooms with both judges hearing a similar argument. Can the white house keep don mcgahn and kupperman from testifying. Lets begin with the latest on the vote. Cnn National Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux is live on capitol hill. This is a momentous day. Things are going to proceed very quickly. Walk us through how the next several minutes and hours go. Sure, jim. It is called officially House Resolution 660. Its going before the full house of representatives. And what will happen first, democrats will take five minutes, one minute a piece. Republicans will take five minutes, and then it will be open for full debate for about an hour or so. 30 minutes for the democrats. 30 minutes for the republicans. Then we expect that after that there will be a vote, potentially as early as about 10 15, 10 30 when all house members will have to go on the record in terms of moving the impeachment inquiry fo
Today released the depositions of two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry and provided much more detail about the shadow ukraine policy that is leading to the president s likely impeachment. For his part, President Trump continues to attempt to defend himself, mainly by attacking his accusers and lying about them. For instance, claiming that the whistleblower complaint has been proven false even though it has not. Multiple former and Current Trump Administration Officials who have testified have backed up the whistleblowers allegations that American Foreign policy and taxpayer dollars were being used to force Ukrainian Government officials to investigate former Vice President joe biden and his son. In addition to his attempt to change how Foreign Policy is conducted in the United States, the president has not just challenging the testimony of those who are bringing the facts to the public, hes personally going after them. Pushing false information about them. Calling for journalis
Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children. But what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. Unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s in terms of rock music youre getting a lot of hair bands. Youve got poison, ratt, warrant. Shes my cherry pie cool drink of water, such a Sweet Surprise tastes so good make a grown man sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. Theres a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. Its not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. So thats selling. When i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. They played a kind of music. They were expected to have a certain facade. Mtvs ratings are surprisingly small. But those who do watch, mostly teenagers and young adults,
Im fredricka whitfield. Isis leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi was killed in a raid, u. S. Forces using the cover of night after tracking him down at a secret compound near the border with turkey. The white house issuing this photo showing a moment inside the situation room during the raid. Al baghdadis death is being seen as a deathly blow to isis. The president went into explicit details about abu baghdadis death. He went into the turn whimpering and screaming. He was a sick and depraved man. And now hes gone. Baghdadi was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way as a coward, running and crying. This raid was impeccable and could only have taken place with the acknowledgment and help of certain other nations and people. I want to thank the nations of russia, turkey, syria and iraq, and i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. All right, lets begin with cnn pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, a lot to dig into here.