Good morning from the studio 57 news roochl at cbs news im annemarie green. Four weeks after the house of representatives impeached President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of congress, it will take a vote today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce prosecutors in the trial and send the articles of impeachment against the president. Majority leader mitch mcconn iden trumps impeachment trial to start next tuesday, this as new evidence emerges over the trump campaigns efforts to solicit information on joe biden from ukraine. Nancy cordes reports from capitol hill. A 28day delay comes to an end when house nancy Pelosi Releases the articles of impeachment without securing the assurances her party sought. Were in better shape than we were a few weeks ago, but theres no certainties at all. Democrats have been pushing for new testimony in i would have wanted to have a clear indication that there will be witnesses, especially with people like john bolton saying he would testify.
Number of Hillary Clinton e mails being investigate when he testified last week before congress. In his testimony comey said hundreds of thousands of e mails with classified date tad been deliberately sent from clintons assistant uma aberdeen to her husbands computer. Sources say the number of e mails were far fear than what comey had described. Comey was also investigating potential ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. The president wrote, while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. He went on to say it is essential that we find new leadership for the fbi that restores public trust and confidence in its vital mission. Coming up we are going to sit down with Professor James taylor to talk more about this big story, the firing of the fbi director. Now to the south bay and an emotional day for the family of sierra
Yes. Her incredible escape from her 25 minutes of torment. The family of four stranded for days when their van gets stuck surviving on halloween candy. But no cell phone to call for help. How they were finally found. Good morning, america. Happy friday. Were less than a wee thanksgiving and so all eyes on the weather and that first snowfall of the season for millions. Yep, the snowfall in the middle of the country, seeing major weather whiplash. A 60degree swing. Some guys golfing, that to this weather which makes you want to curl up under the sheets and ginger will have more on that. It could affect a lot of thanksgiving travel. A lot of work for donald trump holed up in trump tower. Officials confirmed former president elects National Security adviser. That is a key position for a general with a long career in military intelligence. A general who is also courted controversy inside the government and on the campaign trail. Were set to learn that he met with mitt romney. We have the la
Lets start with nbcs Gabe Gutierrez in new york city with more on the Supreme Court decision. Gabe, what is the reaction to this overnight injunction and how could it impact the restrictions that were put in place . Reporter happy thanksgiving, yes, it was a rare late night injunction, blocking as you mentioned Governor Cuomo from enforcing those 10 and 25person limits on religious institutions. Lawsuit was brought by catholic churches and jewish synagogues in brooklyn, but the immediate Practical Impact of it is that it wont make much difference because those restrictions, the more strict restrictions were not in place, those areas were under yellow sections, so to speak, here in new york city. So not the most restrictive places where they were trying to limit covid19, but, chris, what does do it is it highlights the impact of Justice Amy Coney barrett on this, she sided with her more conservative colleagues on the court, it was a 54 decision, and in the unsigned majority opinion the
trump wanted throughout the summer which was to use the insurrection act in some form against deploying active military on the streets of the u.s. to try to tamp down protests. they were all three of them very concerned about this. so this went on for a very long time. and then one by one you had esper and barr disappear. esper got fired, barr could not take it anymore and resigned. and i think had told associates that trump seemed different and acted as if he had nothing to lose. the backdrop for that was that plus the fact there was this meeting i reported on in realtime on december 18th in the oval office where former lieutenant general flynn and former national security flynn was presenting this notion to the president in the oval office about possibly using the apparatus of government to rerun an election. so milley had reasons to be afraid and suddenly after milley was alone. i think it s not just the context of january 6th and the retrospective, there were a lot