Democrats battle to take back the white house . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We are following major breaking news. House democrats drop the hammer, launching a formal Impeachment Inquiry as the outrage over the president s ukraine phone call reaches critical mass. Nancy pelosi making the announcement awhile ago, accusing President Trump of betraying the nation by asking ukraine to help them hurt his potential 2020 opponent, joe biden. Tonight, the president is firing back in familiar fashion, calling the impeachment probe a witch hunt. He failed trying to calm the controversy by releasing transcripts of a phone call tomorrow. All this as the person behind the whistleblower complaint that
set the scandal in motion wants to speak directly with congress. The House Intelligence Committee chairman says that could happen as soon as this week. Our correspondents, analysts, guests are standing biy as w
is difficult and we made our way through, and we may, we may, we are a strong country, we have a strong military, we may have got off to a very bad start this week, we may get most of our people out, get most of the afghans out, get all of our people out, get most of the afghans out and breathe a sigh of relief but there are s-an awful long way to go there and things could go wrong and the taliban could have consequences of afghanistan and consequences in, jetting a jump start once again into the most radical forms of jihadism, so no, i m not one of those who thinks people are overreacts, i m sort of a lindsey graham on the substance of this most of the way but it is so discreditable to play that impeachment card the way he did and i think you played it earlier, some of the most criticisms, soundest constructive criticisms of joe biden come from democrat congressman. a lot of them younger post-9/11
so i m not one of those who think thinks that people are overreacting. i m sort of with lindsey graham on the substance of this. but it s so discreditable to play that impeachment card the way he did. and i think you played seth molten earlier. some of the best criticisms sound tough but measured some of the best criticisms have come from democratic congressman, a lot of the younger veterans, like seth molten. but jason crow and several others, a obama state department official. there is a decent level of discourse in washington except lindsey graham, who knows a lot about foreign policy, and who i tend to agree with on some issues, who just can t really resist this ridiculous mentioning impeachment and turning it both of these gentlemen have agreed to stay with us. coming up on the other side of this break, when our
planned, it was rehearsed, it was choreographed. she knew she was among friends, she knew she was going to get laughter. by the way, these hearings now are trump rallies for the media because they can t fill arenas but they can fill those hearings with so-called experts. this is their way and we get played by their the networks get played and we assault our viewers with this. on back to greg s point, the democrats can t compete with prompt, so they have to produce this theater, impeachment is the only thing that can technically compete with donald trump. so they can t beat him, they can t cooperate with him because i don t want to, so they have to play the impeachment card and i don t think it s working, i think it s completely backfirin backfiring. juan: didn t greg just say it is a preordained reality? they are going to impeach him. wasn t that interesting. greg s argument is that it was boring to hear witnesses and expert so it is not completing with trump the showman, i don t thi
leadership in your school, to say we are not going to lean on parents or teachers or anyone else to organize this. we are going to take initiative. heather: the time is 10 minutes after the top of the hour. now that nancy pelosi has played the impeachment card, what happens next for the democrats? harmeet dhillon said they destroyed any chance of winning back the white house and she is live. drone drug drop contraband into the air, awaiting inmates, the shocking video from inside the prison yard. why can t we be friends a long long time