stations signs climb higher by the day. it could plunge the u.s. into a deep recession. sandra: first america reports with five states holding primary elections today as voters choose their party s nominees, in critical midterm races and the results could say a lot about president trump s influence over the republican party in 2022 and 2024. hello, i m sandra smith on this tuesday in new york. john: john roberts in washington. voting underway in alabama, arkansas, georgia, minnesota and texas. several races could give us clues about trump s grip on the republican party and whether the progressives are gaining control of the democratic party. sandra: georgia gubernatorial race, david kemp is facing david perdue, and who will face stacey abrams in november. john: rick scott, chairman of the republican senate committee standing by. sandra: our team on the ground, aishah hasnie, but mark, what is the latest on the governor s race? hello. hey, sandra, good afternoon.
testimony in the impeachment trial. that is the point i was making yesterday and i reiterate this impeachment is about trump s conduct and not about mine. the subpoena should go to witnesses with testimony shaking down the ukraine government. they should go to the white house. mayor pete buttigieg slammed vice president biden for his judgment on the iraq war. he criticized biden for the october 2002 vote when he represents delaware in the senate. watch this. well, i certainly respect the vice president but this is an example of why years in washington is not always the same thing. he supported the worst foreign policy decision made by the united states in my lifetime which was the decision to invade iraq. buttigieg doubled down yesterday during a campaign stop in iowa. anybody that s qualified to
here? i mean i m talking like into february. over the weekend president trump reupped his attacks on speaker pelosi. he tweeted she should spend more time in her decaying city and less time on the impeachment hoax and president trump blasted to his 68 million twitter followers the name of the alleged twitter follower that lead to his impeachment. last thursday the president tweeted an article that contained the whistleblower s name and then on friday he retweeted a post that placed the name prominently in his time line and in all of his followers feeds. and it s no longer visible to some users making it appear as if the post was actually deleted. they said it was a technical glitch and it was not deleted.
good monday morning, everybody. it s december 30th. aman is off this morning. we begin with new information at the heart of the impeachment investigation into president trump. it s part of an extensive piece by the new york times on the nearly $400 million in military aid that was withheld from ukraine. as democrats push for witnesses at the senate trial, the times reports that during an oval office meeting in late august, secretary of state mike pompeo, defense secretary and then national security adviser john bolton tried but failed to convince the president to release this aid. the times cites in part this, interviews with dozens and current and former administration officials, congressional aids and others as well as previously undisclosed e-mails and documents. the report also lays out the
she has a duty to send over articles of impeachment. they re going to be sent over but it might not be until february. watch this. it s our duty to turn it over. it s not like a mechanism that she can control. the house passed it. they shouldn t have. do you believe she is overreaching by trying to influence a senate trial. she could run for the senate if she wants to be a senator but the house has a role. the senate has a role. it s time for the senate to do their job. for months she s saying how important it is they have to remove this president immediately. a threat to their whole way of life and then once she passed the impeachment she doesn t want the senate to start the trial. they can t have it both ways. i think people see through the charade. how long is too long to wait