Constitutional experts testify Trump abused power as impeachment probe enters new phase; House Judiciary Committee wraps up Trump impeachment hearing; Will hold Second hearing next week with House Intelligence Committee staff; Impeachment witness for Demo

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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3.9 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Legal experts testify Trump should be impeached as House Judiciary prepares to call more hearings; Three legal experts testify Trump has committed impeachable offenses; One expert disagrees; House Judiciary Committee to hold second impeachment hearing next week; Vote on articles of impeachment also possible; House Judiciary Committee to announce next hearing as soon as tonight; House Democrats moving forward with impeachment hearings as GOP legal witness warns Democrats to slow down; Impeachment witness defends donations to Democrats as "constitutional right" after clash with Republican Representative Gaetz; Impeachment witness to Republican Representative Collins: "I'm insulted" you'd suggest I didn't read transcripts before hearing; In fiery impeachment hearing, Republicans use Chairman Nadler's comments from Clinton impeachment against him; Republicans repeatedly interrupts in effort to derail hearing; Giuliani refuses to deny he's back in Ukraine after New York Times says he's there meeting with former prosecutors; Giuliani: "Don't remember calling OMB" after phone logs reveal multiple calls to the budget office; Who is "-1"? Logs show multiple calls between Giuliani and "-1"; Caught on tape: Talking behind Trump's backTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	Out front next, breaking news, the impeachment probe entering a crucial new phase. All but one
0:36.9	witness today saying
0:38.1	it's time to impeach President Donald Trump. Plus Republicans, including the First Lady, taking on
0:42.7	a star witness from today's hearing, that witness is firing back tonight. And is Rudy Giuliani
0:47.6	really back tonight in Ukraine? Let's go out front.
0:56.4	Good evening, I'm Erin Burnett.
0:57.9	Out front tonight, the breaking news.
1:01.4	The House Judiciary Committee has just ended its first impeachment hearing.
1:05.9	It was contentious and highly partisan, aggressive questions and answers.
1:09.2	The committee expected to announce its next hearing at any moment.
1:12.3	And the chairman, Jerry Nadler, is clear on where he stands.
1:16.7	Three of his witnesses, all law professors, said it was clear that President Donald J. Trump should be impeached.
1:19.7	Professor Feldman did President Trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power based on that evidence and those findings.
1:32.0	Based on that evidence and those findings, the president did commit an impeachable abuse of office.
1:36.8	Professor Carlin, same question.
1:39.6	Same answer.
1:41.3	And Professor Gerhardt did President Trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor
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