President s friend of three decades, roger stone, wants to take the fifth before a senate committee. He says hes not talking but is he trying to send a message . Against all of that, donald trump will be just one of five president s as washington comes together to bid farewell to 41 who, even in passing, has brought a rare moment of peace to our politics. As the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. Good evening from the nations capitol tonight. Thats a live picture, under guard the casket of george h. W. Bush inside the Capitol Rotunda as ordinary americans continue filing past, thousands of them yet in line on a bitter, cold night. The state funeral for the former president will be tomorrow morning. To the business of this presidency, now day 684 of the Trump Administration, and special Counsel Robert Mueller is tonight recommending little or no prison time for former Trump National security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty one year ago to lying to the fbi to cover
To decide whether the house can compel former White House Council don mcgahn to testify about his former boss, President Trump. What does that mean for officials such as john bolton, who have refused to go in front of the impeachment inquiry. Lawmakers are home for thanksgiving, but impeachment wheels still churning on capitol hill. Have you heard of a vote mid december possible on impeaching the president . Reporter lawmakers are back in their districts this week, but staff very much at work, working through that report, the House Intelligence Committee is planning to produce, to send over to the Judiciary Committee to kickstart the actual impeachment and articles of impeachment process into gear. Adam schiff over the weekend on state of the union with jake tapper did note that other hearings, evidence or witnesses could come to the forefront. As it currently stands, that is not the plan. There are no future House Intelligence Committee hearings scheduled at this point in time. The fo
Monday. Im erica hill in for jake. And we begin with the politics lead. New details about the time and democrats next month in the impeachment inquiry. In a letter to colleagues, adam schiff said a report laying out the case against the president will come soon after thanksgiving. This is as a white house review of the president s decision to withhold Critical Military aid to ukraine shows a coordinated effort to come up with a just fiblgation for the hold after the fact. According to the Washington Post, some of the documents containing, quote, unflattering exchanges that could look bad for President Trump. Despite the Trump Administration insisting everything was done on the up and up. As sara murray reports that internal review is raising serious questions. It raises profound constitutional questions. Reporter House Democrats seizing today on a report that the white house went searching for a legal explanation to justify President Trumps decision to freeze nearly 400 million in aid
we re not giving ukraine anything they can use to invade russia. we re giving them the systems they need to attack russians who are invading them. i think we re in the right place. okay. so, in my house, if it were the thermostat, not the rheostat, i d be the one turning it on and my wife would come along and completely shut it off. has vladimir putin completely shut it off? in other words, have you considered that he has, through backchannel communications served notice, if you transfer those mig fighters, that s it, it s game on with nato? i doubt it, for a couple of reasons. first of all, he would not want to lay out a bold red line like that. and nor should we, by the way. i think we should stop saying we ll never do this, we ll never do that. we should say things like at this time, we re not going to, et cetera, point two would be here he doesn t want to take on a conventional fight with nato.
. coming out of the house committee forum to investigate the january 6 riots, the panel is meeting behind closed doors on capitol hill at this hour. cnn wants to interview clarence thomas over other reported backchannel communications before and after the attack. this discussion comes just moments after the committee voted to recommend criminal contempt charges for two formal advisers danny covito and navarro. betty thompson is expected to recommend that the city seek the cooperation of ginny thomas into the investigation of january 6. sources tell kcnn ginny thomas has been a topic of conversation for quite some time because she