And the impeaching of donald trump is working. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you. We are just days away from learning if President Trump will be impeached, but, today, we do have some information from one democratic congressman where he is expected to vote against impeachment and switch to the republican party. Sources tell cnn Jeff Van Drew of new jersey will announce that move this week. While the defection may give a symbolic victory for President Trump but not change the Impeachment Vote on wednesday. Several democrats say he simply is trying to save his own congressional seat by switching parties. We want to go to Kristen Holmes in washington. We he no the Top Republicans welcoming van drew to the party but we understand he that met with President Trump on wednesday. What do we know about that meeting . Reporter good morning. It appears President Trump and the white house is welcoming van drew with open arms and unsurprising this would be a welcome distraction for republicans and for the white house. As you said, they did meet van drew and the president and it appears there is an ongoing conversation about when exactly this announcement would happen and whether or not the white house wants van drew to wait to vote against impeachment as a democrat and then announce that he would be a republican. So something we will be watching closely there now. President trump has been on twitter praising van drew, retweeting stories about him. One he said thank you for your honesty, jeff, all of the democrats know you are right but unlike you dont have the guts to say so. Another tweet about a meeting with trump says, wow, that would be big. Always heard jeff is very smart. That was about a story about President Trump meeting with van drew. It is not just the white house. Top republicans are all supporting this idea. Take a listen to Kevin Mccarthy last night. I want to tell Jeff Van Drew that he is welcome in the republican party. Not but by me but by our conference and we would support him and welcome him to join. Reporter two big takeaways. One an attempt for van drew to save his political career. Internal polling showed that democrats were moving away from this new jersey congressman and switching parties might be an attempt so save his seat and he wouldnt have to go up against another democratic in a primary for 2020. A larger picture is two. The enormous consequences of the vote next week on impeachment. We know moderate democrats are having a hard time with this vote and many come forward and said they would support it. Van drew won in a district that trump won in 2016 and a large swath of them. Even though some of them are supporting them, others are struggling with this decision that will likely have a big impact on the outcome of their 2020 elections. We heard from mccarthy there and from the president and democrats even in new jersey, how are they reacting to the switch. Reporter they are not embracing it as much as republicans are. We heard had phil murphy, the new jersey governor, who said van drew is enabling donald trump to salvage his own election. So some pretty stong words thro there from democrats in new jersey. Lets talk about cnn political analyst julian zeleny, a historian professor at princeton. Lauren, let me start with you. Three weeks ago, this was during a twohour call with constituents about the possibility he would leave the Democratic Party. This is what congressman van drew said. Quote. Lets put it up on the screen. That is according to his hometown paper. He is not the only democrat who did not vote for the rules. He will not be the only one who votes against impeachment but he is leaving the party. What has changed . I think youre starting to see the pressure really mount on these front line moderate democrats now that there are two articles of impeachment that they will have to vote on. This isnt a vote with about process and rules and how this is shaped but this is do you you support articles of impeachment for president of the United States . More than 30 democrats who won they are called the majority makers and won in districts that donald trump won in or are conservative leaning. This is going to be a difficult decision politically. Democrats are not saying this is about your duty, your oath of office but no many of these democrats, this is going to be this could have, you know, an impact on whether they are reelected. Yeah. Julian, 538 blog keeps what they call the trump rating of how observe members vote with the president s position. Kurnl currently, the House Republican who votes least office with the president is brian fitzpatrick, pennsylvania is first. 66 of the time. Jeff van drew votes with the president 7 of the time. Two Impeachment Votes, a funding bill, and holding a commerce secretary and attorney general in contempt of congress. Four votes out of 57 and man without a party and his votes are firmly in opposition of the the president. From a historians perspective will this in the context of impeachment be seen as something significant . It will be in that republicans will make a lot out of this, meaning the vote wont matter for the final Impeachment Vote. It doesnt necessarily reflect a tidal wave that is about to happen within the Democratic Party of people flipping but its a story that republicans can use about democrats being uneasy with what they are about to do. Its unclear if his career is going to survive after this and i think the major motivation was his standings among democrats was weak but it matters as a story. You already are hearing it this morning in what republicans are talking about. Lets go now to senator Lindsey Graham and his discussion with cnn becky anderson. I want to hear about his impartiality. Im trying to giving a clear signal ive made up my mine. I wasnt in any doubt. Was not intending to be a fair juror here. Reconcile that here with what he is expected to be, what the Founding Fathers expected the senate, the role to play in an impeachment trial. You cant reconcile the two. He is not going to be impartial. Republicans including graham and mcconnell are making it clear they will defend the president. They already agree with the president s position. And that is the story of 219. It is republican loyalty to the president and republicans protecting him and that is what happens in the signal trial. Dont expect a cliff hanger on the vote, at least on the republican side. Lets put up a full screen. Here is the oath they have to take. That is the oath you heard from senator graham. Lauren, let me come back to you and senator angus king, he tweeted the American People need to see impartial justice. History will record this as not only a trial in the senate. It is a trial of the senate. We heard from leader mcconnell. What is his relationship with Democrat Chuck schumer . Mitch mcconnell has made it clear he is working hand in glove with the white house and seem to make it difficult to work with the democratic minority leader would be different from that of the white house. So we are seeing with mcconnells posture, i think we are seeing something that, you know, the Senate Majority and minority leader during the bill clinton impeachment trials are saying is pretty extraordinary. You know . They said they have come out and said, you know, we tried to do our best to put together a very forward trial and we at least wanted the American People to come away from this trial thinking, they did their best. They are saying by declaring so early on that you are not only working with the white house, but that, you know, you want this to come to a swift end and youre already telling us the outcome, that that will be really hard then to turn around and make the case to the American People that this was handled in a fair and, you know, just manner. Yeah. Full vote is expected on wednesday in the house. We will see what happens with congressman van drew and what happens is in the senate. Thank you both. Thank you. China says it will not put additional tariffs on us goods set to kick in today. This comes after both countries announced they had reach an interim trade deal. The u. S. Is also putting a hold on tariffs on chinese goods that were set to go in effect as well. We know at least one person is dead after a powerful 6. 8 magnitude earthquake rocked the southern philippines. The New York Times says the victim is a 6yearold girl who was killed by a collapsing wall. This all happened on the Southern Island of mindanao. They say there is no chance of a tsunami. This was captured when the earthquake here. Here are customers leaving a restaurant to get to safety and get away from structures. The situation is very much active and search and rescue operation is under way. We got this moments ago of rescuers pulling someone from a partly collapsed building. Look at this. You can hear cheering there as they got somebody out. We will continue to monitor this throughout the morning and bring you any updates as soon as we get them. An Administration Official says President Trump plans to withdraw troops from afghanistan as early as next week. This morning, taliban is weighing in on that anticipated announcement. We at all with a retired u. S. Colonel next. The u. S. Says it uncovered new evidence possibly connected to the shooting in new jersey. 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Forces but they want to make sure they can safeguard a taliban government and cannot have that if there is a u. S. Presence in that country. Colonel, a couple of weeks ago, the president at bagram in afghanistan said we are going to stay until such time we have a deal or we have total victory and they want, speaking of the taliban, want to make a deal very badly. Nbc news, which was first to report this, also reports that the president tells advisers that he wants a full withdrawal by the 2020 election. That is time line realistic considering what we have seen up to this point . Victor i its not realistic if we want to make sure that afghanistan doesnt fall into the hands of the taliban but im not sure that is u. S. Policy now. It seems to me the political calendar is going to dictate exactly what happens in afghanistan and i think what that will mean is that we may see a precipitous withdraw of u. S. Troops without any concurrent effort by the taliban to make any concessions whether a power sharing concession with the existing Afghan Government or some other concessions that be would part of this time of an arrangeme arrangement, so what we are at risk here of doing is withdrawing without any real gains for the basically 18 years of effort that we have put into afghanistan. Right. I think a lot of people are sitting at home watching this thinking, what does this mean for u. S. National security if these troops are pulled out . What is your concern, colonel . Well, first of all, the reason that we put troops in afghanistan was to prevent afghanistan from becoming another jumping off point for a terrorist group like al qaeda. We all know al qaeda used afghanistan as their staging base for the 9 11 attacks in 2010. Ofg wou so today it may not be al qaeda, it might be some kind of remnant of isis that might do it or another group we dont know about yet so all pobleddpossibi. The other concern we leave afghanistan and leave pakistan on one side and they may have proxy wars without going to war with each other so that is a possibility. Plus on the western side of afghanistan you have iran and iran is also very interested in what is going on in afghanistan and they will seek to influence things there as well and if we are not there, we lose all influence. The Washington Post published afghanistan papers, thousands of these documents and memos through interviews just a couple of days ago showing that the Obama Administration and Bush Administration were not fairly candid with afghanistan and not telling the clear truth. With that reporting does it become harder to justify the troop levels knowing that some believe at several points in the afghan war that it was just unwinnable . Right. And i think the afghanistan papers that hit the host publish are key. That is a real significant concern. Politically, im sure there will be a lot of support probably on both sides of the aisle where drawing down our troops and, you know, operationally it also makes sense to draw down troops in many respects. The problem is diplomatically we get into trouble potentially at least. So from the standpoint of the afghanistan papers, its very clear that there were a lot of mistakes made in afghanistan enthe shame of it all is that lies were told to perpetuate to this deployment and that is something that you just dont do to the american taxpayer or the american public. Colonel Cedric Leighton we are so grateful for your perspective and your time this morning and for you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Its great to be with you guys. The fbi this morning, says it has recovered a white van possibly connected to a shooting in new jersey city last week. They plan to examine it for any evidence. 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