Good morning, everybody. It is monday, december 9th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Ayman is wrapping up his time off and will be back tomorrow. We begin this week with fastmoving developments in the impeachment investigation. At 9 00 a. M. Democratic investigators will present the evidence theyve uncovered to the House Judiciary Committee and republicans will have another chance to refute it. Chairman jerry nadler says he expects the committee to introduce articles of impeachment by the end of this week, a track that could have the president impeached by christmas. We have a very solid case. I think the case we have if presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat. While the white house has declined an invitation to participate in the hearing, the president appears consumed by the issue tweeting and retweeting more than 100 times since yesterday, mostly about impeachment, and republican senator ted cruz of texas on, quote, meet the press yesterday advanced the debu
The Ripple Effect that even one good deed can have. Everybody from all over the world should be kind. Such an inspiring group. There you have them. If you want to learn more about the amazing kids you met tonight go to cnnheroes. Com. Were thrilled this years young wonders will be joining us at the 13th annual heroes tribute this saeunday night. Cohosting with my friend kelly ripa, and its going to be a very fun night and very inspiring. I hope you join us. Thanks for watching. Good night. This is scene of the crime. Im don lemon. We have to give the Trump White House an a for consistency. Once again refusing to cooperate with the house impeachment investigation. Tonight was the deadline for President Trump to decide if he and his aids would play a role in the proceedings. Specifically the next House Judiciary Committee hearing. Which is set for monday morning. In a sharply worded two paragraph letter sent this afternoon to judiciary chairman jerry nadler the white House Counsel Pat Ci
Can you believe some of the left are making a big deal about how President Trump has bigger salt and pepper shakers than his guests at the white house . Rich hush limbaugh joins Rush Limbaugh joins me later this hour. The i. G. Report is finally being released tomorrow, so we may have a split screen for some of the coverage because democrats also set to have a big hearing in the House Judiciary Committee presenting the evidence they say they have of the president after the release of a lengthy report. And chairman jerry nadler this morning says hell presume by introduce articles of impeachment later this week. Lawmakers on both sides reacting this morning. We have asked the president , weve invited him to testify, to send witnesses, weve invited him to send his counsel to crossexamine witnesses. Hes declined to do all of this. If he had any exculpatory evidence, they would have brought it forward. Clinton actually committed a crime, nixon committed a crime. Theres been no crime in this
Escalating battle over diversity in the democratic field and the former spokesperson for president obama is going to join me with his take. But first to, the breaking news on the deadly mass shooting at the naval station in pensacola and in fact, any minute now we are expecting a News Conference from the fbi, and they will be updating the investigation and we will bring it to you lye when it is under way. And new word a short time ago secretary of defense mark esper that some Saudi Nationals were contained on the base but he would not confirm in the charge was terrorism. They were detained some of his friends were on the base as i understand it, and i was told that some one or two were filming it, and what is unclear if they were filming it before it began or picked it up when it was folding and this is maybe a distinction with or without the difference, but that is why we will let the investigation play out. The shooter is a Saudi National training on the base opening up fire on a cla
About yesterdays deadly shooting at a naval base in florida. We know the city of pensacola is still shaken from that killing, three people at the hands of an air force lieutenant from saudi arabia. His exact motivations are still not clear. He is also dead so investigators cant get anything directly from him, but details have emerged in just the past few hours that appear to throw new light on the shooters attitude toward the United States and his possible desire to hurt and kill people. The president telling reporters a few minutes ago he spoke personally to the king of saudi arabia. I spoke with the king of saudi arabia. They are devastated in saudi arabia. Were finding out what took place. Whether its one person or a number of people. The king will be involved in taking care of families and loved ones. He feels very strongly. He is very, very devastated by what happened, what took place. Likewise the crown prince. They are devastated by what took place in pensacola and i think theyr