Analyst maggie haberman, White House Correspondent for the New York Times and cnn chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Tonight the House Judiciary Committee takes up these two articles of impeachment. Abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Maggie, Jeffrey Toobin keeps talking about what an historic moment this is. That impeachment has only happened this far in the process three other times in our history. Hell become just the third president ever to be impeached. Its a big deal. Whats going on this morning inside the white house regarding this . The white house is trying to treat this like a small deal. We saw some of this happen yesterday when the president spoke at his rally. Weve heard it from his advisers on television. They are trying to say they thought there would be more articles of impeachment and there was a debate whether there would be additional ones because it would let moderate democrats say they voted against something. Thats not what ended up happening. There was a
Good wednesday morning to you. We have news this hour. Good morning, a very busy morning once again on capitol hill. Democrats just wrapped up a closeddoor meeting after announcing two articles of impeachment against President Trump. We are waiting for details on what was discussed in that meeting. The other breaking news this hour, the Justice Department inspector gem is set to testify in just moments. This follows his report that found no political bias by the fbi when it took up the russia investigation in 2016. Despite that clear conclusion, the president and his allies are still pushing the same conspiracy theory. Lets begin with the latest on impeachment. Manu raju is live on capitol hill. You spoke with congressman adam schiff, of course, the chairman of the intelligence committee, stroll role before the meeting. What did he say . Reporter i was asking him about the decision to come down with two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The issue of u
Today it will hear three cases in which the Manhattan District Attorney and three congressional committees are seeking Financial Information and years of tax returns from the president. The president has been fighting to keep these tax returns private. He lost in Federal District court and lost as well in the second courage circuit. But the Supreme Court will take up this important test of president ial power to refuse the sort of subpoenas. Oral arguments will be in march and we expect a decision in june just as the president or campaign is heating up. This was just the capper to whats been happening in washington all week. This has been a wild week. An understatement given to a president not given to subtlety, but President Trump indicating what happened this week to get wilder in the future. You are trivializing impeachment. I tell you what, some day therell be a democrat president and there will be a republican house, and i suspect they are going to remember it. There is expectatio
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