Relationship with trump. Did this break Campaign Finance laws . Lets go outfront. Good evening. Outfront tonight, shutdown victory. President trump taking a victory lap as more than 30 Democratic Senators join all republicans in a vote to end the threeday shutdown. The house voting moments ago to end the impasse. The deal was done in congress and it was done by senators. Thats who made the deal. The president was silent. Today President Trump only issued a Brief Statement which said in part, quote, i am pleased the democrats in congress have come to their senses and now willing to fund our great military, Border Patrol, First Responders and insurance for Vulnerable Children. The short term spending deal came after mitch mcconnell, declared his quote, intention. Intention to hold a debate on the dreamers in the come weeks. Thats it. Intention to hold a debate in a few weeks. Theres no formal mechanism to
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american history to be impeached. back to you. the groundswell for impeachment is growing in the house. 196 democrats now back an impeachment inquiry. that s 83% of the members, an increase of 50 members in a single day. now, a good number of the holdouts were democrats in swing districts and close allies with speaker pelosi. but for many like civil rights icon john lewis, the ukraine blowout was simply the final straw. i have been patient while we tried every other path and used every other tool. we will never find the truth unless we use the power given to the house of representatives, and the house alone to begin an official investigation. democrats said they hope to have an investigation done by the end of the year. this is the last week in session for the house before a two-week rece recess. obsessed with impeachment, that s how president trump is trying to paint democrats after
immediate aftermatt president will come out and say we re look he gets a call from the nra, he backs away from it this was during the august rece recess, so it was sort of evaporated to some extent. you get back to washington and mitch mcconnell says we don t do anything that the president doesn t tell us to do. congress takes its instructions from the white house, according to mitch mcconnell on this. to mcconnell s point, donald trump is the most popular person in the republican party. many of the members feel like if he can get behind something he will give them covern election that is genuinely important that the president comes out and backs something to give the republicans cover. of course, yes, the nra has conditioned their members and this pro-second amendment crowd that any gun regulation is bad it s a slippery slope that s going to lead to all sorts of, you know, eventually gun confiscation things at the white house are
formal impeachment inquiry. no too long ago only a handful were making that argument. laura fox explains for you. #. reporter: majority of the democratic caucus is supporting moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into president trump and that is significant because nancy pelosi speaker of the house has been trying to hold her caucus back. she released a statement just a short time ago arguing the democrats should stay the course. and now is not necessarily the best time for impeachment. she wrote, quote, democrats in the congress continue to legislate, investigate and litigate. the president will be held accountable. and democrats in the caucus are back in the district for this rece recess, you can expect that they will be hearing from constituents who also might be making the calls to impeach the president. but some may be hearing a different message than those in safe democratic seats who might
of partisan talking points and nothing more than an attempt to distract from the russia probe. obviously this memo release the memo has gotten national attention. what is the latest on the push to relohse it an what s in it? i m told by key republicans they are pushing very hard to release this memo very soon. as soon as next week when the house returns to session after a rece recess. it s taking now a verecess. it alleges the fbi acted improperly by not telling the judge who has overseen the warrant that they are using part of the justification that the trump-russia dossier that included the allegations comp e compiled by the british agent. this is something the fbi has requested to review this memo.