Judiciary Committee To Take Up Impeachment Articles Tomorrow; The Political Calculations Of Impeachment; Lessons Learned; Whose Attorney Is He?; Persistent Echo Chamber
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Any citizen can say the president did something wrong. |
| 0:04.6 | Only 435 elected representatives have the sole right and the awesome responsibility for |
| 0:09.9 | saying the president should be removed from office for it. Today, some of those lawmakers |
| 0:14.4 | spoke. They put it all on paper in formal articles of impeachment for only the fourth |
| 0:18.6 | time ever. Nine pages containing two articles drafted by Democratic members of the House |
| 0:23.6 | Judiciary Committee. They accused President Trump of abusing his power in the language |
| 0:28.0 | of the drafters to corruptfully solicit election help from Ukraine and of obstructing Congress's |
| 0:33.6 | investigation into the affair. Tomorrow evening, the committee, which is utterly divided |
| 0:38.4 | along party lines, will debate. By Thursday, they could be voting, setting the stage for |
| 0:43.1 | the entire House to decide, perhaps by next week, whether to impeach. And even as they |
| 0:48.5 | weigh that next move, the president is lashing out his attorney generals on the attack |
| 0:53.0 | over the Russian investigation. Democrats in red districts are wondering how to proceed. |
| 0:57.9 | And by the way, the Russians also happen to be visiting. It has been a big day. It is |
| 1:02.4 | a big night. I don't want to start at the White House with CNN, Jim Acosta. How is the |
| 1:05.8 | president feeling tonight about all of this? Do we know? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, Anderson, I think we have a sense. He's had a rally right now in Pennsylvania. He said |
| 1:12.5 | that his supporters should not lose sleep over these articles of impeachment. He said that |
| 1:16.7 | these article rules of impeachment are the lightest and the flimsy STs ever seen before. |
| 1:21.4 | And you're essentially getting the same takeaway from people inside the administration, |
| 1:25.6 | inside the White House. Talk to a senior administration official just a short while ago, who said, |
| 1:30.6 | listen, the president was unbothered by this when he was spotted leaving the White House |
| 1:34.5 | just a short while ago, as he was heading out the door to go to this rally in Pennsylvania. |
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