The House Judiciary Committee decided to go king cos and release full report of articles of impeachment and big report. Ainsley 658 pages. The that impeachment push not sitting well with all the democrats. Jeff andrew might soon leave the party. Steve not surprising given the statistics in that particular district. Ellison barber joins us live from washington to explain. This is going to be a very big week. Yes, it is. The House Judiciary Committee plurentd that full impeachment report. 658 pages by the way around midnight. The report is broken down into four key parts explaining the committees process for recommending two articles of impeachment against President Trump, discussing the standard for impeachment and the justification for charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress. It also included a dissent. Committee republicans call democrats actions unjustifiable in their dissent adding this quote the facts residence coasted it. Some of these arguments are
Corrupted because of foreign interference elicited by the president which is clearly trying to do. Coercing an ally, betray our National Security and try to to cheat in the next election. If they refuse to discipline him, he will be unbounded and i am greatly concerned about what else he might do between now and the 2020 election. Feeling the wrath of his own party coming after he said he is becoming a republican because of impeachment, watch. What he is reacting to is the public polling that shows he cant get renominated. To turn and go be a republican is kind of strange, i have heard of rats jumping off of the sinking ship. Their lowest thing there is in the congress is someone the Minority Side was a traitor to the majority. Dana Speaker Pelosi was quite reluctant to do impeachment and she could read the political tea leaves and its turning out she was right and her instincts were right but now Chuck Schumer has to deal with this in the senate and he is suggesting that Mitch Mcconne
Strength from the impeachment battle. A slight jump in the president s job approval. He is at 45 for november. That is up 3 points from the previous month. As disapproval of his Job Performance goes down from 57 to 53. Maybe even more important for the president , these new poll numbers also show almost no change in Public Opinion on impeachment since the inquiry began. Currently about 50 of voters say the president should be impeached and removed from office, basically no change in public sentiment despite all hearings, subpoenas and depositions. 4 favor impeachment without removal from office. 41 remain totally opposed to the ongoing proceedings which may explain were there are reports now that one democrat who opposed inquiry, Jeff Van Drew of new jersey is switching parties, officially becoming a republican this week. All this happening at the end of a week where we saw major victories for the president on his agenda, including phase one of the china trade deal. Well get breaking d
We have a team of correspondents and analysts kor icovering this us. Were going to begin with jeff zeleny out here and joining us on democrats and how theyre gearing up. Jeff, i want you to tell us about this move by some democrats to add this conservative congressman as a house manager for the senate trial. First of all, what is it in this position and will he likely get what they want . Well, good afternoon. There were a group of House Democrats who were urging Speaker Pelosi to put justin in the position as one of the impeachment managers. Of course he is a former republican now an independent congressman from michigan. Hes been speaking out against the president more than most any other republican member of congress and they thought it would add credibility to this. Thats essentially one of the prosecutors if you h from the house side when this goes into a trial in the house senate. But im told a few moments ago by someone close to the process here in the house this is unly to happ
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