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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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House leaves for holidays without sending articles to Senate; Pelosi invites Trump to deliver State of the Union Feb 4; Can Trump argue he hasn't been impeached if articles not sent?; Wash Post: Trump got Ukraine election conspiracy from Putin; Sources: Trump distressed Senate trial might be delayed; 25 Jewish members of Congress call for Trump adviser Stephen Miller to resign; Vulnerable Senate Dems risk re-election with impeachment vote; Rivals take on Buttigieg in final debate of the year; Biden: I am best to beat Trump and unite country; Trump attacks evangelical magazine after editor says he's "morally lost" & "should be removed"; WA State lawmaker accused of "domestic terrorism" uses Trump impeachment as defense;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	Impeachment has reached an impasse. The lead starts right now. President
0:07.0	Trump wants a trial right away, but Speaker Pelosi wants to make sure it's fair.
0:11.2	Who will blink in the standoff over the Senate impeachment
0:14.7	trial? Piling on Mayor Pete, Democrats clash over a wine cave in the last debate of
0:20.8	the year. What has the candidates seeing red as they approached
0:24.0	the Iowa caucuses? Plus a sitting Republican state rep accused of
0:28.2	domestic terrorism by taking part in free-armed conflicts. There was a time when that kind of thing
0:33.7	would end your political career, but these are not normal ties.
0:39.1	Welcome to the lead. I'm Brianna Keeler and for Jake Tapper and we begin with the politics lead.
0:46.0	You would think it would be a great gift for President Trump.
0:48.7	Speaker Pelosi holding on to the Articles of impeachment instead of sending them over to the Senate to begin the formal
0:54.4	impeachment trial, but not when the President is looking for total exoneration.
0:59.2	As CNN Sarah Murray report, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are now at a stalemate
1:04.4	as Congress goes on a holiday break.
1:08.5	President Trump's impeachment trial may be officially stalled, but behind the scenes, House Democrats are getting ready.
1:15.4	Staff for the key House committees are expected to work over the holiday recess, consulting
1:19.6	with Democratic leadership, and prepping for a trial as early as the week of January 6th.
1:24.8	But that depends on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who says she won't send the articles of impeachment
1:29.3	to the Senate until parameters for a Senate trial are set.
1:32.6	When they wrote the Constitution,
1:34.8	they suspected that there could be a rogue president.
1:38.3	I don't think they suspected that we could have a rogue president
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