House Intelligence committee about to review impeachment report; Federal prosecutors give new details about evidence in case against Giuliani associate; Key GOP Senators won't disavow Russian-backed conspiracy theory on Ukraine election meddling

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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House GOP report defends Trump against impeachment;Judiciary committee announces witnesses for first impeachment hearing; House Republicans defend Trump's actions in new 123-page report responding to impeachment inquiry; Republican report defends Trump's actions says no quid pro quo, threats or pressure; Trump arrives in London for NATO meeting as Intelligence committee prepares to review impeachment report; Former President Carter back in Hospital; House expected to join Senate in condemning China's brutal treatment of Muslim minority;Former FBI lawyer breaks silence on Trump attacksTo 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	Happening now breaking news reading the reports. Members of the House Intelligence
0:06.4	Committee are about to go behind closed doors to review the report that will be
0:10.4	the basis for articles of impeachment against
0:13.0	President Trump. And now Republicans have just put out their own report
0:17.7	defending the president. Unfortunate, just two days before the first
0:22.1	House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing,
0:24.4	Chairman Jerry Nadler laments the White House decision not to take part as the President and
0:29.2	his lawyer blast the process as unfair and illegitimate.
0:33.0	GOP flip-flop, Republican Senator John Kennedy,
0:36.0	reverses course again
0:38.0	and resumes pushing a Russian-backed conspiracy theory
0:41.0	that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign.
0:45.6	And done being quiet, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page breaks her silence in an explosive new interview
0:52.4	and response to President Trump's repeated Twitter attacks on
0:55.8	her former lover.
0:58.4	I'm Wolf Litzer, you're in the situation room. road. This is CNN breaking news. We're following
1:04.0	this is CNN breaking news.
1:10.0	We're following breaking news.
1:11.0	A key new step toward impeachment. The House Intelligence
1:14.4	Committee is about to conduct a closed-door review of the report on their hearings
1:19.5	which will be the basis of articles of impeachment against President Trump.
1:23.6	But House Republicans have gotten a jump on them
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