For impeachment. It comes as members of the House Intelligence Committee will review their impeachment reports ahead of a key vote tomorrow. All this happening as President Trump attends the nato summit. Lets begin our coverage with Miguel Marquez in albany, new york, where things are not looking so great. Tell us what youre seeing up there. Reporter well, lots and lots of snow, jim. Its about a foot here in albany. I want to show you how much snow theyve moved overnight here. This is what the treat streets are looking like. Several feet of snow theyve moved up into drifts along the streets. The streets are not looking bad given how much snow theyve had in this area overnight. State police here saying they have already responded to 550 road related incidents. Treacherous weather from coast to coast installing millions of travelers trying to return home. The holiday storm system charging east with snow and freezing rain. Causing thousands of flight delays across the country. The storm hammering the northeast. We got to put the snow shovel by the front door now because were going to have to get a path to the car made. Winter is officially here. Reporter upstate new yorkers blinded by whiteouts creating hazardous driving conditions. We have 18 snowplows, 13 major snow routes. And well keep going until it stops snowing. Reporter the icy conditions leading this delta flight to skid off a taxiway runway in buffalo. The weather and the icing is an issue for the airfield. Its one of the bigger challenges they have. Reporter and in maryland, heavy fog being blamed for this 25car pileup. The Great Lakes Region dumped with heavy snow all weekend. And on saturday a plane crashed in south dakota during a storm shortly after takeoff killing nine people including two children. In arizona a frantic search still underway to find a 6yearold girl who was in a car swept away in floodwaters on friday. The bodies of two other children missing from the same vehicle were found on saturday. Were going to have helicopters in the air. Just really hitting it hard today to find this little girl. We need to get this girl home today. Reporter now, here in the east, it has just been a brutal 24 hours. What started off as rain and then sleet turned to snow very heavily, and its not over yet. Weve got a break for about an hour this morning. And now it is back. This is sleet and looks like its going to turn to snow here shortly. We know youll be hon it, miguel. Thanks very much. How long will the storm last . Meteorologist chad myers has the forecast. Is this going to be with us for awhile . Probably 24 hours before it finally pulls out of boston, i think, for sure. But upstate new york, all of new england going to get pounded by snow today. And weve already seen all that snow thats been on the ground slow things down. For awhile yesterday, i was checking google traffic. There wasnt one interstate moving more than 35 miles per hour. And many of the airports were backed up between one and three hours. And when that happens, you dont make connections. So im assuming there are some people watching from the airport this morning. Itll be 37 in new york city today. It gets colder tonight and it does begin to snow. We will get 2 to 3 inches of snow even in manhattan. Especially up towards the northern sections into brooklyn an the bronx. But the big story is how much snow will fall eventually in boston. Already a lot of snow on worcester across the berkshires. Quite a bit of snow to shovel out. Its not really shoveling this morning. Its getting to somewhere. Its going to be a long couple of hours. Were going to see another 6 to 10 inches of snow depending where you are. Especially the kal daynies and the green and White Mountains and into maine. It does warm up. But over the next couple of hours, its going to be quite slick. Alisyn . Yeah. When you say eventually, i think you mean, like, may, june. It is winter for the next few months. Or thursday. Okay. Thank you very much. So the Trump Administration signaling that they will continue to take a defiant approach to the impeachment proceedings ahead of a critical week. Their plan next. Hi, im dave. I supply 100 farmfresh milk for lactaid. Its real milk, just without the lactose, so you can enjoy it even if youre sensitive. Delicious. Now, ive heard people say lactaid isnt real milk. Ok, well, if it isnt real then, i guess those things over there cant actually be cows. Must be some kind of really big dogs, then. Sit bad dog. Can you tell me the story again . Every family has their own unique story. Give your family the chance to discover theirs this holiday season, with ancestry. This holiday season, were proving the new keurig kduo brewer makes any occasion the perfect coffee occasion. 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Now, the House Intelligence Committee is expected to give members the chance to review the impeachment report this evening. Joining us now to talk about whats ahead, we have commentator joe lockhart. He was president clintons press secretary and cnn legal analyst elie honig. Trumps lawyers announced they will not participate this wednesday. It sounds like their beef, elie, is that the witness list hasnt been released yet. They say they dont know what theyre going into. That fair . It is actually i think a fair complaint. I dont think its a fair reason to sit it out all together. Theyve been complaining for weeks now, unfair process, we dont get a voice. Then shocker, they decide to sit it out and play the victim rather than engage on the merits. That said, unforced error by jerry nadler. If you look at the letter from the republicans, the main complaint is you havent told us who the witnesses are for wednesday. Three days away from yesterday when the deadline was. Why wouldnt nadler its just three constitutional scholars. Give them the names. Take that argument away. And i am a little concerned on behalf of house democrats, is nadler up to this . I think he really fumbled in the aftermath of mueller. I think adam schiff did a much stronger job. Now its back to nadler. Unforced errors like this dont do any favors to democrats. Republicans would face risk if they showed up, would they not . Repeatedly claiming the executive privilege. Having to defend some areas where the answers from republican witnesses just dont ad up. Listen, i dont think wednesdays hearing is that big a deal because its constitutional scholars. I think what the white house has become expert at is making excuses. Then forgetting they made the previous excuse and the previous excuse before that. But they do face risks when they get into any of the evidence. Because its okay for a member of congress to ask a misleading question. Or to use a false premise in asking a question. Its not okay for anyone under oath to give a false and misleading answer. And the one thing the white house has avoided doing completely from the beginning is addressing the evidence in this case. Its all been peripheral issues, things like we want the hearings to be open. We want them to be closed. We want them to move fast. We want them to move slowly. Whatever the democrats are doing, theyre against. All in a method to just not address the evidence. Yeah, the timing argument i find a little bit confusing. Do we want things to go fast or do we not . Republicans were saying we cant get it into an election year. That would eclipse some of the race. So lets do this fast. Now they were all saying yesterday one of the talking points was democrats are speeding this through. Democrats are racing to the finish line. Arent we supposed to race to the finish line here in. That was a strange argument. I think they understand its in democrats interest to move fast here. Weve seen the republican defenses have been whack a mole down. As soon as one pops up, it gets smacked down. Last week we saw, i think, the death of i want nothing, right . That was the big one for a couple days. I want nothing. Thats what i said to Gordon Sondland. It was after the whistleblower complaint had come out. This whole thing underscores the extent to which republicans are unwilling to engage on the merits a enthe facts. Better to boycott it and claim to be victims than engage. Is sondland in danger of having misled the committee . This phone call he claims to have with the president , whether it happened here. He was in danger in his first deposition which is why he had to file an addendum and correct it kbagain. But democrats treated him with kid gloves because they needed his testimony. I think now hes in serious jeopardy. That he may have made this call up. To say the president i want nothing, i want nothing. That is the kind of thing we may see in the intel report. That we may have an opinion on things like that. Tell us more about that. From the time bill taylor expressed concern about the quid pro quo and when Gordon Sondland got back to him. There are real questions about whether that call happened. He was specific. It happened in between those two tects. One after midnight and one at 5 00 a. M. Which is strange to think about it. Hes calling the president at 1 00 a. M. . 2 00 a. M. . The testimony of two other witnesses was different about that call. They say it happened three days earlier. He told us about it. We have contemporaneous notes about when he told us about it. What was stated was much worse for donald trump. It was no quid pro quo but he needs to get zelensky needs to get to a microphone. Thats, i believe, what really happened. And i think sondlands engaged in some fudging here. Its a tricky scenario for democrats. Even though he fudged in trumps favor, hes still helpful to their case. Im looking for that report to see how they cast him. Before we leave, the other question is do democrats expand this beyond the ukraine issue, right . The instances of alleged obstruction found in the mueller report, one do you think its likely, two, do you think its smart . I think it is. Its smart to establish a pattern of obstruction. This isnt about just one phone call. Its a massive conspiracy that started, you know, a year before. I think they also may go back and look at his written answers and put a perjury charge in there. And because i think theres some symmetry to the fact that in 19 e9, it was good on just perjury and obstruction. There didnt have to be crime. I dont think they should go any broader than that. I think theyd be smart to do it. Bring an opportunity to bring a lot of those quotes from 20 years ago from the Lindsey Grahams of the world saying lying by itself to the american people, impeachable. Changed their tune in the meantime. Really . 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If any of that confused you, it may be because this is not the first time senator kennedy has muddied the waters of the 2016 election interference. Here he is denying russias hacking of the dnc on fox news then walking back the same comment here on cnn the next day. Was it russia or yukraine . I dont know. Nor do you. Nor do any of us. The entire Intelligence Committee said it was russia. Right. But it could also be ukraine. I was wrong. The only evidence i have and i think its overwhelming is that it was russia who tried to hack the dnc computer. So why are these statements from senator kennedy, a sitting member of the Senate Judiciary committee, so misleading . I laid out the facts. Russia interfered in the 2016 election to a degree no other country ever has. Their effort tur bo charged. That assessment is backed up by intelligence and the senate Intelligence Committee. This is a fact, not an opinion. Also a fact, u. S. Intel agencies are aware of a years Long Campaign by russia to shift blame away from themselves and onto ukraine. Thats what russia expert fiona hill said in public testimony. According to our reporting, senators were even briefed on russias campaign to blame ukraine for meddling in 2016 just this fall. Senator kennedy says he did not attend that briefing. Now, how can we be sure about russia interference . Well, two of the russian hacking groups dubbed cozy bear and fancy bear were already well known to u. S. Intelligence agencies. They had already hacked the state Department Email system in 2014 and 2015. They used similar patterns in 2016 when a former nsa Deputy Director told me they didnt even bother to hide. We also know that russias intent was to hurt clintons bid for the white house and help the trump campaign. The key judgments in a 2017 dni assessment, it says, quote, we also assessed putin and the russian government looked to help trumps election chances when possible by discredited secretary clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. The infamous access hollywood tape, thats when russia began leaking the first emails of Clinton Campaign manager john podesta. Within the hour. Now, the president has claimed falsely that ukraine may have taken the dnc server. No one, not u. S. Intelligence, not the Senate Intel Committee or private security firms believes this. And by the way, that server, it still sits in the basement of dnc headquarters. Yet it is conspiracy theories like this that the president and the Top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee continue to peddle. Gop lawmakers like senator kennedy are attempting now to launder those lies by claiming that things such as a 2016 oped written by a ukrainian official critical of President Trump are the evidence of ukrainian election interference. That is simply not comparable to russia intentionally meddling in our election. So where does that leave us . Where does that leave our country . Russia you should know is already interfaring in the 2020 election by among many other things, amplifying comments of republican lawmakers like kennedy pushing claims of ukrainian interference. Why should this trouble all of us . I spoke to Law Enforcement officials, intelligence officials, welles lawmakers in both parties. I asked if the election is saf