Schiff: Impeachment report coming soon after Thanksgiving; Defense Secretary: Trump ordered me to let Gallagher keep his job; Trump allies push debunked conspiracy theory Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in 2016 election

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

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Wash Post: WH review shows Trump officials wanted justification to withhold Ukraine aid after the fact; Wash Post: WH review of docs on Ukraine could embarrass Trump; Dems reviewing evidence, weighing articles of impeachment; Pentagon chief fires Navy Secretary over SEAL controversy; navy Secretary ousted over handling of SEAL's case; Ousted Navy Secretary: I couldn't obey Trump's orders; Nunes dodges questions on Ukraine meeting for Biden dirt; Attorney for Giuliani associate: client wiling to testify Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official for Biden dirt; Democrats wan investigation into GOP Nunes's reported meetings in Ukraine; Outgoing energy Secretary Perry: Trump the "chosen one"; First major ruling on impeachment witnesses coming soon; Judge will rule on if former WH counsel Don McGahn must testify; Bloomberg drops $37 million in ads as he enters 2020 race; 2020 Dems pile on Bloomberg entering the race; Surveillance video shows thieves break into historic castle, steal jewelry collections; Hunt for thieves who swiped "incalculable" jewels from Germany's historic green vault; Police: appx. 100 pieces stolen from German castle including diamonds, pearls and rubies.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	The Impeacher Report could be here before you finish your leftovers. The lead starts right now.
0:07.0	Follow the emails. A new report claims to show the White House scrambling for damage control after President Trump decided to hold up military aid
0:14.7	to Ukraine. Turmoil at the Pentagon possibly stirred up by the commander-in-chief
0:20.3	himself. The Navy Secretary forced out over a case of military justice
0:24.6	that President Trump just couldn't stay away from. Plus the first security
0:29.0	can video of a castle height, a billion dollars, diamonds,
0:33.2	gemstones, and treasure.
0:35.0	Who is behind the biggest robbery
0:37.2	since the Second World War? Welcome to the lead on this Monday. I'm Erica Hill in for Jake and we begin
0:47.2	today with the Politics League new details this afternoon about the timing and
0:50.9	Democrats next moves in the impeachment inquiry.
0:54.2	In the letter to colleagues, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff says a report laying out the case
0:58.6	against the President will come soon after Thanksgiving. This as a White House review of the President's decision
1:04.9	to withhold critical military aid to Ukraine shows a coordinated effort to come
1:09.7	up with a justification for that hold after the fact.
1:13.8	According to the Washington Post, some of the documents containing quote
1:16.9	unflattering exchanges that could look bad for President Trump.
1:21.0	Despite the Trump administration insisting everything was done on the up and up,
1:24.4	as seen in Sarah Murray reports, that internal review is raising serious questions.
1:29.4	It raises profound constitutional questions.
1:33.2	House Democrats seizing today on a report that the White House went searching for a legal
1:37.2	explanation to justify President Trump's decision to freeze nearly $400 dollars in aid to Ukraine
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