The gaets amendment says that president sought to have you publicly announce the investigation es s into the bid and is it your position that the president did not ask for the investigation into bidens . No, the position is what is in the transcript which is undoubtedly very difficult for the democrats to read, but it is Hunter Bidens corruption, and this is the issue that the president has felt all along that the corruption in the ukraine is a problem, and so in the call he is asking for well, it is going back, and it did not say to it is. I did not dispute you there. I said, yes. Okay. Why remove nancy. So, it is still your contention that he did not bring up corruption in ooet of the calls that corruption is what he was focused on and not joe biden . It has been and nothing to change there, because it is the facts. Even in the misquoted transcript which we keep doing all of the time, because they have to make it salacious to believe it is a personal favor and he said us and the coun
President trump has lashed out over his imminent impeachment in a 6 page letter to top democrat nancy pelosi, accusing her of declaring open war on american democracy. On the eve of the crucial vote in the house of representatives, which is dominated by the democrats, hes claimed hes been denied his most fundamental rights even though hes turned down an offer to give evidence himself, and have his legal team question witnesses. In his letter to the House Majority leader mr trump claims the charges he faces are completely disingenuous, meritless, and a baseless invention of your imagination and also claims the impeachment process, which is set out under the Us Constitution, is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. Now the fear that impeachment could backfire, politically, on democrats is in the minds of some members of congress, as our north america editorjon sopel reports. 0h, say does that star spang
To world news today. President trump has urged americans to come together to eradicate anti semitism, after five people were wounded in a knife attack onjews celebrating hanukkah in new york state. The suspected attacker, named as grafton thomas, has appeared in court to be charged with five counts of attempted murder. The mayor of new york, bill de blasio, is set to announce new measures to combat anti semitism following a number of incidents in recent weeks. Chris buckler reports from washington. Members of new yorks largejewish community had gathered to celebrate their religion, only to be attacked because of it. They were at the home of a rabbi here to mark hanukkah, when a man forced his way into the house and started stabbing people, in some cases multiple times. He pulled out a knife and he started running to the left side, and i have thrown tables and chairs and shouted he should get out of here. The injured are still being treated in hospital and this community has been left s
Offense. The counsel will outline the facts and the evidence. Did President Trump abuse his power when he pressured ukraine to investigate joe biden and the democrats . And what about his refusal to cooperate in any way with this impeachment investigation . Mary bruce is there on capitol hill, and after this marathon day of hearings, the democrats will get down to the final drafting of these impeachment articles. Reporter and todays hearing is likely their last chance to try to convince the American Public that the president abused his power and should be impeached before they introduce and vote on those charges. Now democrats have spent the weekend hunkered down here at the capitol preparing for this final push. They will turn this hearing room into a highstakes courtroom. There will be three congressional lawyers and democrats are going to systematically go through their evidence, outlining their case and why they feel the evidence rises to the level of impeachme impeachment. Democra
President has done nothing wrong, nothing impeachable, and House Republicans say the president didnt break the law and had a legitimate interest in investigating corruption inside ukraine. We want to lay out what we will see today. We are moments away from this historic hearing, getting under way. In many ways if you havent been listening so far, you can get a sense of everything, all of the evidence today. Nancy cordes is outside that room there. Were going to hear everything, right, everything thats been investigated, every piece of evidence today . Reporter correct. There will be three witnesses at the witness table today. They are all congressional lawyers who will lay out everything that was learned so far, from those 17 witness interviews that were conducted behind closed doors and then 12 of those individuals came back to testify before the house Intelligence Committee. So these lawyers are going to s present what we know and what we dont know. The democratic lawyers will argue