Aid from ukraine. What that means for the president s impeachment trial. But first the last weekend of 2019 ends in violence and bloodshed as people at worship are attacked in new york and texas, less than 24 hours apart, in what are being described as acts of pure evil and downright hate. In new york were following breaking news. They have filed hate charges against a man for stabbing five people that were at a hanukkah celebration inside a rabbis house. There were antisemitic statements inside the antisemitics home. I grabbed the coffee table on the floor, hit him in the face, and thats when he came back outside after me. He told me, hey, you, ill get you. And he started walking towards me, and i was going before him like a few feet screaming, hes coming, hes coming. Then in texas, a gunman opens fire at the west Freeway Church of christ, killing two parisioners as they prayed. However, police say it reallyul. A congregant who was carrying a gunshot the perpetrator just six seconds i
Knife. I dont know what it was. And thats when i started to run out through a side door, together with all the people in the dining room. I came back in, grabbed the coffee table that was on the floor, hit him in his faith, and thats when he came back outside after me. He told me, hey, yao, ill get you. Were covering both of these horrific attacks. Cnns Brynn Gingras is in muncie, new york, and lucy kafanov is outside the church just west of ft. Worth, texas. Lucy, walk us through exactly what happened during the shooting. Ryan, it happened so quickly, less than 24 hours ago, the gunman dressed in dark clothing walked into the church, he sat down in a back pew, he then gets up and appears to have an interaction with one of the Church Members before pulling out a long gun and opening fire. Two armed volunteers respond swiftly, taking him down. The whole thing captured on camera, because those services were live streamed. And i should warn our viewers, the footage is incredibly disturbin
Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
Militia. Tonight russia is pushing back American Contractor last week. Calling the vikes unacceptable. Today what we did was take a and Deadly Church shooting. Decisive response that makes chilling new details of an clear what President Trump has attack inside of a texas church said for months and months and that killed two people as we months, which is that we will learn the identity of the not stand for the Islamic Security volunteer who took out the gunman in a matter of republic of iran to take actions to put american men and women in seconds. Wolf blitzer is off today. Jeopardy. Reporter pompeo andes per im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. Joins by mark millie stopping in palm beach for roughly three hours on sunday briefing trump and reporters on the attacks and vowing to continue exerting tonight the man accused of using a machete to attack five people at a hanukkah celebration maximum pressure on ukrainian, in new york city in a suburb of reviving concerns about whe
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