Special Edition: Big week in inquiry: report, vote & first judiciary hearing; Trump: won't send lawyers to participate in "sham" hearing; Trump heads to NATO meeting as impeachment inquiry ramps up; GOP report on Ukraine probe rejects dems allegations

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

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Nadler: WH should stop blocking witnesses, provide any "exculpatory" evidence; Trump lawyer on participating in hearing: we have no info on dates, witnesses, or rules; Soon: House intel committee members to review impeachment report; House judiciary holds first impeachment hearing Wednesday; WH faces Friday deadline to decide if it will participate in future impeachment hearings; Ukraine's president on aid: "We're at war. If you're our strategic partner, then you can't go blocking anything"; Top judiciary republican calls on Schiff to testify; Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page responds to Trump attacks; How chief justice John Roberts might oversee impeachment trial; CNN poll: half of Americans say Trump should be impeached and removed from office; Trump praises GOP Sen. Kennedy for pushing debunked claims that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in 2016 election; GOP report: Dems didn't show proof of Trump bribery, extortion; Prosecutors "likely" to file additional charges against Giuliani associates; House judiciary announces witnesses for Wednesday's hearing; Trump heads to NATO, calls on allies to pay more; Trump has no planned meeting with British PM Boris Johnson; Source: NATO not called a "summit" this year to avoid a need for formal joint statement; Supreme court hearing first gun case in nearly ten years; Biden's "no malarkey" tour kicks into gear as Buttigieg surges; CNN poll: Biden leads nationally as Buttigieg rises; Sestak and Bullock drop out of 2020 race; Klobuchar lining up surrogates if there's impeachment trial; Iran facing deadliest political clashes in 40 years; More than 200 killed during Iran anti-govt protestsTo 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	Welcome back to politics lead. He is someone who strives to be above politics but
0:04.8	could be thrown right into the middle of the biggest political fight of our time.
0:09.4	I'm talking of course about John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States and he would
0:14.5	preside over an impeachment trial in the Senate just as his predecessor did in 1999.
0:20.0	You're looking right there at Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the signature gold stripes on his
0:25.2	robe, I think inspired by Gilbert and Sullivan, about the only pieces of flare we saw from
0:30.8	Rancquist then after the trial, Rancuis said I did nothing in
0:33.6	particular and I did it very well unquote John Roberts biographer and
0:37.8	CNN legal analyst Joan Biscupic joins me now and Joan Roberts cler clerked for Ranquist.
0:42.6	Can we expect more of the same kind of subdued approach, maybe even without the stripes?
0:47.6	Yes, that would be the goal.
0:50.0	And I'm glad you brought up the Gilbert and Sullivan reference.
0:52.3	You know that line about doing nothing in particular?
0:54.6	That also came from Gilbert and Sullivan,
0:57.4	Ilanthy, the comic opera to be specific.
1:00.0	So I don't think we're going to see that kind of levity
1:02.1	with this chief justice.
1:03.3	We won't see Stripes and we will probably see a much more reserved manner.
1:07.8	Now he'll take his lead from Rehnquist, but it doesn't have to be that way.
1:11.8	Now Bill Rehnquist, when he was presiding over the Clinton impeachment trial
1:15.8	deliberately minimized his role
1:18.0	But under the power a chief has through the Constitution and also through Senate rules he could wield much greater
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