WH responds to impeachment inquiry deadline; Dem Rep.: Giuliani is potentially breaking the law; Biden caps off big week with endorsement from John Kerry; Police identify shooter in deadly Navy base attack;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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WH faces 5pm deadline to say if it will participate in hearings; Next public impeachment hearing scheduled for Monday; Democratic leaders prepared for impeachment defections; Minutes way: Deadline for White House to announce if it will participate in impeachment hearings; Giuliani confirms he went to Ukraine to dig or dirt on Bidens; White House spokesman on Giuliani: To my knowledge, Giuliani is still Trump's attorney; White House says it won't participate in impeachment hearing; Biden campaign embraces more aggressive tone as Iowa caucuses gets closer;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	A key deadline for President Trump just minutes away.
0:05.0	The lead starts right now.
0:07.0	Will he or won't he President Trump facing a decision
0:11.0	on whether the White House will take part in any further impeachment proceedings
0:14.9	in the House before House members vote as the White House looks to a Senate trial as an escape
0:20.0	route.
0:21.0	And breaking news, the suspect in today's deadly attack at a naval station in
0:26.5	Florida now described as a Saudi military trainee the latest on his motive and
0:31.4	why he was on the base plus heart-wrenching video
0:35.4	showing the agonizing final moments of a boy's life as he dies inside a
0:40.3	US Border Patrol cell. Why didn't the Trump administration initially give the public
0:46.8	the full story?
0:48.8	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We start today with our politics lead. The
0:56.0	White House has just minutes literally to decide if officials there will
1:00.1	participate in any remaining impeachment proceedings before the final vote.
1:05.7	President Trump facing a 5 p.m. East Coast deadline set by House Democrats.
1:10.8	Also this afternoon the first indication it will not only be Democrats voting to impeach
1:15.0	President Trump with former Republican now independent Congressman Justin Amash from
1:20.0	Michigan telling CNN that he is ready to vote for at least three potential
1:24.2	articles of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, obstruction of justice, and
1:28.7	abuse of power. Right now House Democrats are drafting the articles of impeachment and preparing to debate behind the scenes which ones they will include among the debates
1:37.0	Will the Mueller report be part of the charges against the president as CNN's Phil Mattingly reports, Democrats plan to work
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