this is a president that is always anxious to claim victory in some way. not just anxious to. he does it whether there s a victory or not. that s right, even when he doesn t win. now speaker pelosi has thrown this curveball where there s no guarantee there will ever be a trial in the senate if those impeachment matters don t get named. that leaves the question pending and doesn t allow the president to turn the page before the 2020 election which is what he d really like to do. i don t think that s going to happen. the overriding feeling is it s going to happen. the question is when. it s going to happen. i haven t been given the exact timetable, but this is going to be for a limited period of time that she s holding these. she wants to try to use it as leverage to get witnesses. if she can t, at least she s raised public awareness ha the president is blocking all his deputies from testifying. heidi, thank you for that. carlos curbelo, hans nichols, as always down there wit
all i know is my poll numbers are the highest they ve ever been. our fund-raising get in the republican party is the ever been. she hates the republican party. she hates all of the people that voted for me and the republican party. speaker pelosi are withholding the articles of impeachment to compel republicans to allow weakness in the impeachment trial. so we cannot go forward with impeachment matters until we know what kind of trial of the will conduct. what s his excuse now? congress is out for the holidays so this impasse continues. billy and rob? i saw this pop up on twitter yesterday, this advice for dealing with if you are a trump supporter dealing with ever other people and your family. that s right as americans gather around the christmas
good evening, chad. hey, bret. senate impeachment trial rules are vague. they only say that the senate meets six days a week, including saturday, starting at 1:00 and the senate reads aloud the house impeachment articles. the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against william jefferson clinton, president of the united states. and the senate must hear from the house s impeachment matters. we the managers of the house are here to set forth the evidence. after that, almost anything can happen. impeachment trials of the president of the united states are extremely rare. you don t have a lot of precedent on which to rely. the potential is as yet the the lines are not on the field yet. i don t know if it s going to be 100-yard field or a 200-yard field and if you can get a series of first downs and keep
cnn.com/fullcircle and watch live weekdays at 5:00 p.m. eastern. let s hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. welcome to prime time. former new york city mayor and billionaire michael bloomberg taking steps to enter the race. is this playing like a distress call? it certainly has to be a gut check. is this the suggestion that the democratic field is too weak? is bloomberg saying out loud what many wonder about? we re going to show you why bloomberg thinks he can get in, what it could mean for the race as we hear from another democrat who s definitely on the rise, pete buttigieg. he says i m the man for the job and the fight. what do you say? let s get after it. look, impeachment matters. it s somewhat of an x factor. what just happened tonight is
look, impeachment matters. it s somewhat of an x factor in the election. what just happened tonight is not. it matters more. why? bloomberg being expected to file for the alabama presidential primary. why alabama? alabama has an unusually early filing deadline, so this is a sign bloomberg s for real. he wants to get on as many ballots as he can. he s just a couple months out from the first voting. so cnn has learned that bloomberg has been making calls to a handful of connected democrats in the last 36 hours including some in iowa and in south carolina, at least one mayor, where iowa, remember, first casts first votes are cast in february. now is he really getting in? here is this for more proof. follow me to the wall because we ll spell this out for you. from cnn more color from just tonight. mr. bloomberg went to a restaurant in new york city tonight. he was met by big applause. no real surprise. one of the people there reached