all right. happening now, the first live pictures of the impeachment inquiry into president biden. this whole thing opened with a debate over whether the hearing is legal at all, and it is taking place for hours as only congress has hours to avoid a government shutdown. speaking of which it could be the first shutdown since 2019. the house and the senate are still at odds, and the situation is especially tense among house republicans. the testy exchange between closed doors of speaker kevin mccarthy and the hard right members. the candidates debated and did anyone win? or short of that, did anyone make dents in the armor of frontrunner donald trump, just as we learn about how donald trump is feeling about attending next republican debate. i m sara sidner, with john b berman and kate bolduan. and the first official impeachment inquiry into president biden. and now, they are questioning experts and professors here, and not fact witnesses, and the house republicans are sayin
good lines. punches that didn t landa. that s is true. and five things to get to september 28th, thursday. chaotic to the debate. appears to have left little change in the republican primary. the candidates sharpening attacks against each other and the front-runner, donald trump, who, again, wasn t there. and taking an former president trump today, president biden calling him a threat to democracy. and the first public hearing in the impeachment hearing of president biden. the clock ticking down to a government shutdown. now just two days away. also breaking this morning, the american soldier who crossed into north korea on purpose is now back on u.s. soil landing near san antonio. an important fyi for starts, dress code officially business casual. the rule after john fetterman s became a bit of a flashpoint in the upper chamber. cnn this morning starts right now. we will get to the debate in a moment. what is business attire these days? i haven t seen my hu
meddling case has issued a ruling. she will not recuse herself despite donald trump s request. what this means for the case going forward. also tonight, seven of trump s republican primary rivals are preparing to debate without him once again. the gop front-runner skipping the race off to focus on the battleground state of michigan and his potential rematch with president biden. and senator bob menendez pleads not guilty to bribery charges as more and more of his fellow democrats are clambering for him to resign. we are tracking the growing legal and political pressure on him right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. and we start with the breaking news. federal judge tanya chutkan, who is overseeing donald trump s federal 2020 election subversion criminal case, will not disqualify herself from the matter, rejecting a long shot bid from the former president
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love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth there s a major disconnect. there was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. another one said 3,000. another five a day. another ten a day. if you sit down with mueller, if they don t have obstruction, we don t know whether they do. he s tweeting. his state of mind is all over the place. he could say he fired comey. if they don t have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, it s conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. so why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when you re going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because that s what this president does, period. harry, so far mueller hasn t moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. this negotiation has been going on since january that
Flying home tonight released from russian detention, a penal colony today in a prisoner swap after being wrongfully held for nearly 300 days. she s expected to arrive soon in san antonio where there s a defense department program known as pisa that stands for post isolation support activities. just think about how she has to reacclimate, how she can reenter after ten months in something like that. this is meant to help americans who have been detained, acclimate somehow back to normal life. of course, she s a celebrity. she can t have i m sure a period of anonymity and be in a sanctuary which is interesting in and of itself. i want to bring in l.a. sparks player and she s a close friend of brittney griner. i m so glad you re here with us today. you must be overjoyed by this news on a personal level and also really, really encouraged by all the work you and your teammates and the players association have really done to