Worldwide. Ill ask the former cia director leon panetta for his response to this truly stunning allegation. And russian dressing down. The president s nominee for Deputy Attorney general feeling the heat at his confirmation hearing. Did democrats get anywhere in demanding a special prosecutor investigate the Trump Campaigns contacts with moscow . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking fuse. Breaking news this hour. The House Intelligence Committee chairman sets a date for the first public investigation of russias alleged election meddling and potential ties to the Trump Campaign. The chairman, devin nunes, announcing a hearing will be held on march 20th. That will also look into mr. Trumps claim that president obama had his phones tapped during the campaign. Nunes joining other Top Republicans in acknowledging that hes seen no evidence that the wiretaps actually happened. This as the w
Tweet that happened before this gaggle started, is the president concerned that surveillance is being conducted against him at being conducted against him at the white house . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com he did make clear in that tweet that he didnt have any recordings but he raised the prospect that somebody else might have them. Again, i think that its very clear what he meant there, but as far as who else would have it . Surveillance i wouldnt know, jeff. Mike. Two questions. Fist on health care if i can. Since the president wont be weighing in specifically on any of the details of the senate bill, can you help explain what his role will be during the senate phase of the process . Will he be whipping for votes to pass the senate bill even if he doesnt necessarily agree with everything thats in it just to advance the process along. Well keep you updated as his involvement takes place. Right now, i know that hes got a large number of members of his administration that are involv
Busy week. Are these hearings done . Reporter we think so, stephanie. I feel like we should put question marks on all of our graphics and caveats and everything we say about the calendar as we move forward. Here is what we think is going to happen. Hearings appear to be done for now. No more witnesses are scheduled for democrats. The hope is that now staffers on the democratic side can prepare a report, a summation of everything theyve learned, hand it off to the judiciary committee, the committee that has the responsibility for drafting articles of impeachment if, indeed, there are more than one. Judiciary committee will have their own hearings, a markup. Theyll write the actual documents, the charges, articles of impeachment some time in december, we believe, then hand them on to the full house, which will have days of debate on them and vote on them, democrats hope, before the end of the year, kicking things over to the senate, which would have a trial, they think, starting in janua
High drama to say the least. Whats the next step . The house votes as early as next week to impeach President Trump, charging abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Those articles based solely on the ukraine scandal, foregoing an article based on the mueller report, and impeachment isnt the only big story today. The day is young. An extremely rare show of bipartisanship, House Democrats support the trade deal with mexico and canada. A policy win for the president who just welcomed russias foreign minister to the white house, hours before heading to pennsylvania to rally support for his 2020 reelection. But make no mistake about the headline, today is history, setting the stage for 2020 and for president donald j. Trump to become potentially the third president in americas 243 year history to be impeached. I want to bring in Geoff Bennett, and White House Correspondent hallie jackson, live from the white house. Through the process, republicans painted this inquiry as ill legitimate