President rails against House Speaker Pelosi in twitter rant; Pelosi: President Trump abused power for "personal gain"; 12 killed, dozens injured in Kazakhstan plane crash; Tour helicopter with seven people on board missing in Hawaii;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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McConnell, Schumer talks stall over rules for Senate trial; NYT: Dem officials see Sanders as "underestimated" in Iowa; Biden to visit Iowa in first campaign trip of 2020; Democratic candidates get personal on the campaign trail; Trump jokes movie will "never be the same" after his cameo cut from "Home Alone 2" in Canada; Fox News blames "Trump Derangement Syndrome" for movie edit despite clip being removed in 2014; Source: WH working on list of possible Pompeo replacements;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 removed from a Christmas classic. The lead starts right now.
0:07.0	The president fuming and furiously retweeting as Congress remains locked in a battle over his impeachment trial.
0:14.4	How long this fight could drag into 2020.
0:17.8	edited for TV, President Trump annoyed and the right trigger that Canadian TV cut his cameo from Home Alone too.
0:26.3	Plus the desperate search for a tour helicopter with seven people on board that disappeared
0:31.6	along the cliffs of Hawaii.
0:33.2	Welcome to the lead.
0:37.9	I'm Erica Hill in today for Jake and we begin with the politics lead
0:40.9	President Trump clearly has Nancy Pelosi on the brain. Just moments
0:45.1	ago he continued his Twitter attacks against the House Speaker, insisting Democrats
0:49.6	are stalling because their case against him is weak. The president also targeting the top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, for his attacks on Republican
0:57.9	Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, after McConnell said just days ago he's not an impartial juror.
1:03.6	Yet at the height of the Clinton impeachment saga,
1:05.6	then newly elected Senator Schumer said this on CNN.
1:11.0	This is not a criminal trial, but this is something that the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics.
1:18.5	Also, it's not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us.
1:24.0	You don't have jurors call and lobbied and things like that.
1:27.0	I mean, it's quite different than a jury.
1:30.0	As CNN's film Mattingly reports, both sides are playing politics.
1:34.4	Well, talks for a Senate trial remain at a standstill.
1:37.4	As President Trump continued his holiday Twitter barrage against Democrats on impeachment,
1:45.0	Speaker Nancy Pelosi continuing to press her party's case in her own tweet,
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