discussed dismissing, firing the testimony by three key witnesses starting tomorrow morning. inspector general of the u.s. intelligence community for nancy pelosi is expected to meet this hour with her leadership bringing that whistle-blower complaint to congress. team to finalize their strategy. what is your reaction to that this according to democratic news? well, wolf, if true it is sources. and house republicans are also planning to meet tonight to absolutely outrageous. we need to understand the stakes discuss how to defend the president after holding a mock tomorrow. the rule of law in this country hearing today according to a is at stake. source. we re talk about all of the breaking news and much more with you have the president of the united states not learning any congressman ro khanna of the lesson from the mueller investigation believing he could oversight and armed services fire anyone who calls him into committee and our constituents question. and analysts are also stand
detailed effort yet by of the intelligence committee republicans to counter the adam schiff in his opening statement is going to lay out democrats argument for impeachment hitting on four the scope of this investigation central defenses. to the american public, first, that the july 25th call obviously we re going to be between president trump and president trump zelensky of ukraine shows no conditionality televising it and television cameras in there, what do you or evidence of pressure. think of the strategy. it is a point the president has i have a lot of confidence in repeatedly pushed. chairman schiff but the more we have the witnesses talk and let i have a perfect phone call. them make the case the better we i made a perfect call. are. i don t think the american people want to hear from members reporter: but the rough transcript released by the white of congress or our spin or our house clearly shows zelensky asking for aid and trump interpretation. the facts here are so po
he is doing things like stepping up his aggression in ukraine and syria and he feels pretty safe from american push back. they play around with trump. they make fun of him as being a russian lackey. vladmir putin will try to further manipulate trump. woucone of the core strategif putin has been to divide. the u.s. from its partners and with u.s. within itself. if you re russian leadership reading the transcripts and there s no question they are watching this whole impeachment drama is they see a president who is trying to work on their side. analysts say the transcript illustrate how easy president trump is make it for putin s spies to gather intelligence on
months when it came to the with holding of the u.s. military bullied ukraine s president to aid. also republicans doing their own investigate joe biden for political benefit and withheld preparation. they held a mock hearing earlier aid and i think that case is today, the full conference will going to be made clearly meet and democrats behind closed doors will meet with speaker tomorrow. cnn has obtained this nancy pelosi as part of her internal republican memo that is very detailed laying out their leadership meeting regularly strategy for defending the scheduled but expect that president now that the public impeachment is a key topic they impeachment hearings are hours discuss. meanwhile we re getting more away and we pointed out some of details about exactly what could the major points insisting there happen in that senate trial. was no conditionality or evidence of pressure that we heard richard burr saying that could go on between six and president trump or zelensky said there w
statement during the first public impeachment inquiry to lay out the scope of the investigation. how critical will it be for the chairman to make an impact right there from the very start? very, very important for adam schiff to do that. adam schiff of course is a former prosecutor. he sees opening statements as akin to opening arguments that a prosecutor would lay out before jurors. so that is what he ll do tomorrow. he ll want to focus on the details of the case but put these details in a larger story and paint a bigger narrative about what happened and what he sees as wrong with what happened. and i think the other challenge he has and one of the goals he ll have is to put it in plain, simple to understand language. not sort of inside of the beltway language or legalese and not latin or quid pro quo but something people can easily understand and easily remember and in that way he sort of sets the table for the witnesses and the witnesses of course will do much of the heavy lifting