his attempt to overturn the election. someone who knew what he was doing. according to congresswoman liz cheney, he had every reason to know that what he was doing was wrong. the argument seems to be the president trump was manipulated by others outside the administration. that he was persuaded to ignore his closest advisors and that he was incapable of telling right from wrong. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. the first time the public were shown testimony from pat cipollone, who spoke to the panel friday. going to start by asking you if you agree with all of the individuals that there is no evidence of no election fraud sufficient to change the outcome ? yes, i believe that. did you believe that the president should concede once you made determination based on the. did you form the believe that the president should see the election loss of a certain point after the election. well, yeah. i w
with me here in washington, cnn s national correspondent and cnn political correspondent. abby phillip and cnn legal analyst who served as special counsel to house democrats during the first trumpet impeachment. jamie, let me ask you, what stood out the most, as most important today to you? once again, the committee has brought trump loyalists. insiders. republicans to really take trump down. in this case, i thought what was extraordinary we could call it a mashup. but the portion of video where you hear about this december 18th, 19th. do i have the date right? there is this december 18th with an extraordinary fight that goes on between the white house counsel who comes running down
That. you think that s true? i think the question surrounding hunter biden are going to come up at some point for the binding campaign and if you think back, it was july that the new yorker magazine, they had this really long feature piece about hunter biden and i didn t get a ton of attention. i read the the whole thing beci learned early on from you you should always read these long magazine pieces to pick up things. this is going to come to it whether it came from president trump or from perhaps one of his rivals on the 2020 scene come on the democratic side, it was definitely coming so they are going out to deal with it sooner or later but there is a beneficiary and it is elizabeth warren o dowd. she had arguably the best summary of all the candidates. she is raising a lot of money. she has now, and my opinion, the de facto leader of the democratic party until something else happens and with impeachment, she could kind of skilled two birds one stone because trumpet impeachment
Alone. leland: 2:00 pm monday former nixon white house counsel and key watergate witness, john dean, some of you remember his name some need to google him. testifies good for the house judiciary committee monday. politico reports some democrats think his mere presence would increase support for president trump s impeachment. he is talking about a possible trumpet impeachment in light of nixon s behavior. the article 3 against richard nixon was really based on his behavior after they started the impeachment proceeding. because he refused to corporate. he refused to supply his states, he could not prevent all of the witnesses. leland: and here is john dean nearly 46 years ago. testifying against then-president and his former boss, richard nixon. i began by telling the
i think the president thinking him being impeached is a benefit to his reelection and a grossman miscalculation. i think impeachment would be bad for this president and it was bad for bill clinton and the democratic party. it led to the election of george w. bush. the republican did not lose to the house of representatives or the senate during that time. there s a lot of talk that this is something that he wants. i will tell you you don t want it in the way to avoid it is to start cooperating with congress on the subpoenas. laura: dan, you d think he had a gun to his head. that s like mob tactics. chris is right, and wrong. impeachment is obviously never a good thing. having said that, the difference between the clinton impeachment and the trumpet impeachment is that clinton actually committed