First impeachment hearing in Judiciary Cmte set for Dec 4th; CNN Poll: Voters not swayed by public impeachment hearings; New national poll: Biden at 24%, Buttigieg at 16%, Warren at 14%; CNN on the ground in Northern Syria after Trump pulled U.S. troops;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

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Judge: McGhan must comply, no such thing as "absolute immunity"; Trump claims he'd "love" WH Officials to testify but he must protect future presidents; Hold put on Ukraine aid same day as July 25th call with Ukraine; Judiciary Dems invite Trump & WH Counsel to participate in hearing; Pompeo on testifying: "When the time is right all good things happen"; Dems consider adding Mueller findings to Articles of Impeachment; Trump to hold rally tonight in his new home state of Florida; Trump uses Turkey pardon event to joke about impeachment; CNN Poll: 50% want Trump impeached and removed from office, public hearings don't impact number; Swing state democrat clarifies position on impeaching Trump; CNN Poll: 61% women, 40% men want Trump impeached and removed from office; Dems eyeing multiple Articles of Impeachment against Trump; New campaign ads bombard airwaves as Iowa caucus nears; New national poll: Biden takes lead among Dems with 24%; Some Kurds tell CNN Trump betrayed them by pulling U.S. troops; Nearly 200K people flee homes after Turkish offensive; Food and water scarce, no electricity in makeshift camps for the displaced; VP Pence in Iraq reiterated "strong bonds" with Kurds after pulling troops from Syria; Teens arrested for murder on Thanksgiving Day 36 years ago now exonerated as men; Three men released after 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit; Evidence buried in 1983 murder could've cleared teens; Three men maintained their innocence in prison for 36 years;To 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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0:00.0	President Trump gets an invite to his own impeachment hearing.
0:04.0	The lead starts right now.
0:06.0	Breakinging today, the House Judiciary Committee announcing its first impeachment hearing will take place next week,
0:12.0	as President Trump says all the
0:13.7	stonewalling has nothing to do with him.
0:16.1	CNN goes inside northern Syria where US allies abandoned by President Trump's
0:21.4	pull out are now being forced out of their homes and into camps.
0:25.8	Plus they were arrested on Thanksgiving Day 1983.
0:29.9	Now after 36 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit,
0:33.6	free men are finally free.
0:39.6	Welcome to the lead.
0:40.4	I'm Erica Hill.
0:41.2	In for Jake, we begin today with the politics league
0:43.9	Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee scheduling their first
0:46.8	impeachment hearing for next Wednesday focusing on the quote constitutional
0:50.8	grounds to impeach President Trump.
0:53.3	The news comes as the president insists he would love for Secretary of State Pompeo,
0:57.0	Chief of Staff Mulvaney, Energy Secretary Perry,
0:59.5	and other current and former administration officials to testify but says he must
1:04.8	protect the presidency. The impeachment inquiry is of course focused on the
1:08.4	withholding of aid to Ukraine and today we learned the first official action to withhold that aid happened on the very
1:15.3	same day as President Trump's controversial call with the President of Ukraine, as seen
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