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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Rep. Chrissy Houlihan

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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0:00.0

Great, I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Prime Time on this eve of the eve of the president's

0:05.1

impending impeachment. We have a house newsmaker with us who just moments ago revealed her upcoming

0:10.4

vote. She'd been on the fence until now. Why? And we have brand new numbers on where we all

0:16.1

stand as a country on impeachment and a tough question for the Republicans. How can you not stand

0:22.4

for a fair trial if you want to prove the president's innocence? Big questions, let's get

0:28.1

effort.

0:34.2

You know the toughest question the toughest situation here for us is the unknown.

0:38.0

Well, we ever hear from the people with the most direct knowledge of this Ukraine, Fiasco,

0:43.6

Movaney, Bolton, a couple others. They should know a lot about why aid to Ukraine was held up.

0:52.3

And they've all been silenced by this president and they may be kept quiet by senate Republicans who

0:58.5

seem intent to hold a trial with no witnesses. Nevertheless, the House Judiciary Committee found

1:05.1

enough to send up two articles of impeachment and in their new 658 page report out just today,

1:11.2

they describe the behavior underlying the alleged abuse of power as part of a criminal plot involving

1:19.2

this president and crimes of bribery and wire fraud. Now, the big vote in the full House on both

1:27.2

articles of impeachment is just days away. And tonight, another moderate Democrat in a swing

1:32.8

district announced what her vote will be. In peach, let's bring in freshman Christy Hula-Han from

1:39.9

Pennsylvania, a foreign affairs committee member. Good to have you.

1:44.1

Nice to be here. Thank you for having me.

1:46.2

So let's check some of the boxes of the obvious. Why declare tonight? Why did it take you so long

1:53.2

to decide? Sure. And it took me a long time to decide because I certainly, and I know a lot of us

1:59.5

here in Congress understand the gravity of this situation and none of us wants to be here

2:03.3

making this decision. For me, I'm a veteran and I'm also an engineer, so I take my oath of office

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