democrats on his side he gets things done. when he does not it s all sound and fury. christmas has come and gone and we still haven t received the promised present from north korea. how american forces did something unusual this week just in case the north korean military did anything. this is fox news reporting.
the gentleman shall suspend. the gentleman may resume. it charges the president of the united states with abusing his power by withholding official acts, by withholding a white house meeting that the president of ukraine desperately sought, to establish the support of his most important benefactor, the united states, by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a nation at war in order to get that nation to intervene in our election by smearing his opponent. that is the charge in article one. what is the defense from my colleagues? i have listened carefully to my colleagues for the last eight hours. i have to say, it s been hard for me to follow. but it amounts, i think, when you cut through it all, when you cut through all the sound and
but it amounts, i think, when you cut through it all, when you cut through all the sound and fury signifying nothing, what it really amounts to is this, why should we care? why should we care about what the president did to ukraine? well, first of all, we should care about our allies. you should care about ukraine. we should care about a country struggling to be free in a democracy. we used to care about democracy. we used to care about our allies. we used to stand up to putin and russia. we used to. i know the party of ronald reagan used to. of course it s more than about ukraine. it s about us, our national security. their fight is our fight. their defense is our defense. when russia remakes the map of
attacks on her late husband, congressman john dingell. andrea mitchell reports starts right now. hey, andrea. thank you so much. right now on andrea mitchell reports, what now? following the historic impeachment of donald trump, the speaker of the house engages in political ju-jitsu, withholding the articles of impeachment to delay a senate trial that would almost certainly acquit him. i myself want to say i have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus. trial balloon. mitch mcconnell strikes back at the house speaker, calling the impeachment process rigged and rushed, while accusing democrats of being too afraid to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. it looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country. and sound and fury. as he was being impeached, president trump taking aim at a michigan legend, the late
far. president trump has made full use of the dem gojic playbook. he has refused all cooperation with the house. he lies repeatedly about the facts, holds public rallies to spread these falsehoods. his mode of argument is purely assaultive. this is the crux of the trump defense and not an argument built on facts in support of a constitutional theory of the case. let s talk about all of it tonight with neal katyal, veteran of the justice department, former acting solicitor during the obama administration, a man who has argued 39 cases before the u.s. supreme court and is the author of a new book called impeach: the case against donald trump. counselor, it raises an interesting question. aside from sound and fury and a jacketless jim jordan in the hallway, when will the republicans, when will the