accident. welcome back to early start, everybody. i m dave briggs. i m alison kosik. it s 30 minutes past the hour here in new york. i would say, brace for a historic, possibly decisive week on capitol hill. the impeachment inquiry now moves into the public eye with televised hearings. democrats are trying to stay narrowly focused, keeping the story simple. they ll try to turn the public against president trump drawn from diplomatic and military service. the president s allies are peddling a smokescreen of distractions, hoping to sew confusion. and the weekend offering a preview of how the two sides will fight for a political edge. cnn s white house correspondent, jeremy diamond, has more. reporter: good morning dave and alison. this impeachment inquiry is moving into its public phase. on wednesday, we ll see the first witnesses called forward to publicly testify about the
morales stepping down after losing the military s support. this changes the balance of power in latin america. after 14 years in power, it s unclear who will succeed morales. patrick oppman has the latest from mexico city. reporter: a political earthquake is rocking bolivia, after the country s longstanding leftist president, evo morales, has stepped down. it s been weeks of violent protests and allegations that morales had stolen the election to become president for a fourth term. morales denied that and said he was facing a coup. but after support for that, morales offered to hold new elections. the offer came too late for the opposition and the military, who many of them had risen up against morales. the head of the military said on
forthcoming book, that trump officials were planning to resign as a group last year, to sound an alarm about president trump. bolivia s president, evo morales, resigns over mass protest. he is stepping down after losing the support of bolivia s military. the country has been wracked with protests after last month s election. the resignation of morales, a vocal supporter of the regimes in venezuela and cuba, changes the balance of power in latin america. after nearly 14 years of power, it is unclear who will succeed morales. the next three officials in line also resigned. patrick oppman has the latest from mexico city. reporter: a political earthquake is rocking in
reporter: republicans on the house side have sent a list of witnesses they would like to see come forward in public phase of this impeachment inquiry, sending this list to house democrats that would have approve the witnesses to come forward. among the individuals, are hunter biden, joe biden s son, as well as the whistleblower, the anonymous intelligence official whose complaints about trump s call sparked the impeachment inquiry. but democrats don t seem inclined to accept those requests. the president will have an opportunity to shift the narrative on wednesday, as the first witnesses come forward. the president has a scheduled joint news conference at the white house with the turkish president. dave? alison? jeremy diamond, thank you. new allegations connecting president trump to threats of ukraine. rudy giuliani s associate lev parnas says giuliani told him to give an ultimatum to the new
white house with the turkish president. dave? alison? jeremy, thank you. new allegations connecting president trump to threats of ukraine. rudy giuliani s associate lev parnas says giuliani told him to give the ultimatum to the new president of ukraine, investigate joe biden or risk hundreds of thousands of military aid. parnas says he believed giuliani was acting with the president s authorization. in the end, vice president pence said he would not attend zelensky s inauguration. he said he believed giuliani was acting with president trump s authorization. in the end, pence did not attend zelensky s inauguration, a move the whistleblower s account says came at the president s direction. this will be a critical week for the joe biden campaign. he and other democrats are facing a potential new challenge from moderate michael bloomberg, who will be focusing on states