Here are the latest developments in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump:
Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the GOP's impeachment rebuttal report was "intended for an audience of one."
“The minority’s rebuttal document, intended for an audience of one, ignores voluminous evidence that the President used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival by withholding military aid and a White House meeting the President of Ukraine desperately sought. In so doing, the President undermined our national security and the integrity of our elections," Schiff said.
Members of the House Intelligence Committee will have 24 hours to review the impeachment report.
“The report is now available for [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] members to review in committee spaces. This commences a 24-hour review period prior to the vote to adopt the report. That business meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, following a regularly scheduled briefing, in committee spaces. Following the vote, the minority has through Thursday to submit their Minority views, before the report and any minority views are transmitted to the House Judiciary Committee," a committee official told CNN.
Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, told reporters that he does believe Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election despite the fact that the intelligence community concluded in early 2017 that Russia interfered in the election to help President Trump.
Kennedy said that he doesn’t think Ukraine is as bad as Russia, but he does think they interfered. He also said that he spoke to Trump this morning. He wouldn’t answer if they talked about Ukraine.
Kennedy flip-flopped recently on whether he believes Ukraine interfered.
He called Putin a Thug and an SOB. He kept saying he didn’t think reports he read from were fake news.
Minutes after Kennedy said that Ukraine did meddle in the 2016 US elections, Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, reiterated the conclusions from the committee’s report that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections.
Warner said in their report they found that Russian agents “appeared to be spreading these fake rumors about Ukraine,” referring to the rumors that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election in support of the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
December marks the potential beginning of the end for the impeachment inquiry.
With a self-imposed deadline looming, Democrats are likely preparing to draft articles of impeachment. Yet the White House is still resistant to participation. And why won't Republicans stop talking about the debunked theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election?
In today's episode of "The Daily DC: Impeachment Watch" podcast, CNN political director David Chalian looks ahead at the inquiry with CNN senior writer and publisher of the Impeachment Watch Tracker Zach Wolf and impeachment expert and national security analyst at The Washington Post, Shane Harris.
"Prior to landing I read the Republicans Report on the Impeachment Hoax. Great job! Radical Left has NO CASE," Trump tweeted.
He also questioned whether the US Supreme Court could halt the inquiry.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will have a mock hearing Tuesday starting mid-morning to prepare for their public hearing Wednesday with four Constitutional law experts.
This comes as Democrats believe they have momentum coming off of a set of explosive House Intelligence Committee hearings. The hope, according to one source familiar with the preparations, is to keep the momentum going.
According to one source familiar with preparations, members have been told to be prepared to stay in Washington between Dec. 3 and 13 including the weekend. The source familiar with preparations said there was no reason to believe there would necessarily be weekend hearings, but the person speculated it may be more that members may need to be in town for discussions about articles of impeachment or other work.
The appeals court placed an administrative stay on McGahn's case "pending further order" of the court. The higher court said it is considering keeping his testimony on pause as well as considering his main arguments.
In her opinion today, Jackson wrote that the White House attempt to stop McGahn from testifying is even weaker than when the Bush administration unsuccessfully tried to stop then-White House counsel Harriet Miers’ testimony.
"The Executive branch’s claim of irreparable harm is substantially weaker in the instant case than it was in Miers, because unlike Harriet Miers, McGahn has already given sworn testimony to the Special Counsel, which makes it difficult to see why the Executive branch would be harmed if McGahn’s testimony proceeds while the appeal is pending," she wrote.
The House Judiciary Committee has announced its list of witnesses for Wednesday’s hearing.
Entitled “The Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment," the hearing will include testimony from law professors from four schools. It starts at 10 a.m. ET.