A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A stickler for a speedy trial that he often snaps at the mueller team if he thinks they are dragging things out. The mueller team complained about the judge with emotion, protesting a comment that he made yesterday, where he urged the special counsels lawyers not to focus so much on loans that Paul Manafort was denied, he wanted them to focus on loans that he got. The mueller team didnt think it was fair, they wrote in the motion, the courts suggestion that the government was unnecessarily spending time on a loan that manafort did not receive undermines the wellestablished law on conspiracy, undercuts the charge in count 28, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury. The mueller team wants the judge to do the same thing yesterday, explain that he may have made a mistake to the jury. But they wanted to it happen this morning. And it didn
To have very different worlds. We certainly will. This is a moment that a lot of people have been waiting for. Well see what happens. We will have special live coverage throughout the night, of course. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Our special impeachment coverage continues right now with erin burnett out front. This is cnn breaking news. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news, just moments from now, you see the room. The House Judiciary Committee will begin debate on two articles of impeachment against donald j. Trump. This is only the fourth time in American History that a president has faced articles of impeachment and this is live what is happening in that room. Members are getting seated. This is prime time, the first time that any of these hearings have happened during this time. This is the debate and this is how they are choosing to start it. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee jerry nadler is about
well, they kept saying, mr. president, come in. you ve got to testify. we ll be fair with you. come tell us about the crimes, and here s the crimes you ve committed. and where are they now that we have the articles of impeachment? a vague abuse of power, obstruction of congress, the very things the majority has done in preventing us from having the witnesses that could shed light on this, not opinion, but fact witnesses. we needed to hear from those witnesses. people like sean missgo, abigail grace, devin archer, joe biden, ellie ore and alexander chalupa and many others. they don t want fact witnesses. let s hear from professors who hate donald trump and who are willing to sell their education just to make a point against somebody they don t like. this is a dangerous, dangerous time in america. they talk about abuse of power,
about 2016 election meddling by ukraine. but at the same time, certain ukrainians did work against candidate trump. some with the dnc. alexandria chalupa. former dnc official who admitted she provided information to the dnc and hilary clinton. nellie ore from fusion gps to help create the ridiculous steele dossier. and this morning, president trump passed on yet more disinformation on his favorite tv network. you know, it s very interesting. it s very interesting. they have the server, right, from the dnc. democratic national committee. who has the server? the fbi went in and they told him get out of here. we re not giving it to you. they gave the server to crowd strike or whatever it s called, which is a which is a company owned by a very wealthy ukrainian. and i still want to see that server. you know, the fbi s never gotten that server. that s a big part of this whole thing. why did they give it to a
collusion in the clinton campaign we ll break it wide open. truth and justice as we promised is beginning to cascade down. no one in the deep state is safe, they re all in fear, they are facing real legal consequences. we start with another huge discovery from judicial watch, they just be on stained scores of heavily redacted documents featuring communications between bruce ore and his wife, nellie ore. remember, bruce the fourth highest ranking justice department official, nellie working for fusion gps doing often research on donald trump, then candidate. e-mail chain from 2016 shows ore s manning a planning a meeting about russian organized crime with the first secretary friday at the german embassy. in the last message, neilie orr writes thanks, i m now deleting these texts. i wonder if she used bleach bit? why are those e-mails deleted?