Trump and Pelosi trade jabs over impeachment; 2020 Democrats resume campaigning with just over five weeks until Iowa Caucuses; Radio talk show host Don Imus dead at 79

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Trump and Pelosi trade jabs over impeachment; Sources: No conversations between Senators McConnell & Schumer; None likely before January; Navy Seals call ex-platoon chief absolved by Trump "Evil" & "Toxic" in videos obtained by New York Times; Sources: Democratic strategy is to get under Trump's skin and put pressure on Senate GOP leader; Schumer changes story on impeachment; 2020 Democrats resume campaigning with just over five weeks until Iowa Caucuses; Biden says he won't testify at impeachment trial, it would take the focus off of Trump; Democrats Strategy; Radio talk show host Don Imus dead at 79; Source: White house developing list of potential replacements for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Schumer in 1999: Senate not like Jury Box and "Susceptible to the whims of politics"; Sources: Rocket attack in Iraq kills U.S. Contractor; New book examines cost of chaos in the White House; Wreckage of tourist helicopter located; Police stepping up presence in parts of New York after string of suspected Anti-Semitic hate crimesTo 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	Happening now impeachment plan as questions swirl about what
0:04.9	President Trump's upcoming trial will look like we are learning new details
0:08.4	about the Democrats strategy.
0:10.3	Increased pressure on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and get under the
0:14.4	president's skin. But is it working? Leaked videos, statements by members of a Navy SEAL
0:20.3	team obtained by the New York Times shed light on an alleged war crimes
0:24.2	case that drew the attention of President Trump. A former Navy SEAL platoon leader
0:28.2	was acquitted of murder, will this change anything? And back on the trail, the leading Democratic presidential candidates,
0:35.4	including Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren
0:38.9	are back on the campaign trail today.
0:41.4	Are Democratic voters ready to put the holidays behind
0:44.4	them and focus on picking a nominee? And hate crimes probes. The New York
0:49.5	police just confirmed new anti-Semitic incidents across the city possibly
0:53.8	raising the total to seven in just one week.
0:57.2	Wolf-Blitzer is off today. I'm Brianna Heeler. You're in the situation room. Both President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to Twitter today to make their cases for and against impeachment.
1:14.8	Pelosi's tweet accuses the president of abusing power for his own political gain.
1:19.3	And the president just complained Pelosi presided over the most unfair hearing in the history of
1:24.8	Congress. Sources tell CNN that the top two Senate leaders Republican Mitch
1:28.8	McConnell and Democrat Chuck Schumer have not had any conversations about impeachment and are not likely to before January.
1:37.7	We're told that Democrats want to keep pressuring McConnell while they try to get under the
1:42.4	President's skin.
1:43.8	We have Democratic Congressman John Garramendi standing by
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