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House Judiciary Panel Begins Critical Hearings; Trump Calls Trudeau Two-faced After Video Surfaces; NATO Gathering Marked By Testy Exchanges; Trump Meets Erdogan, Praises Turkey; More Than 100 Graves Defaced In Jewish Cemetery; Authorities Warn Of Rise In Hate Crimes Against Jews; The Climate Crisis; Kerry Launches World War Zero to Spur Action; British Voters Head to the Polls in One Week. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired December 05, 2019 - 01:00   ET

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NICK WATT, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Nick Watt and you are watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, three constitutional lawyers testify that Donald Trump should be impeached as Republicans tried just about anything they can to slow the process down.

Plus, Trump slams two face Justin Trudeau after Canada's Prime Minister is caught apparently dissing the U.S. President behind his back. And who's who, politicians and movie stars team up to fight climate change but can they succeed where so many others have failed?

The impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump is one big step closer to reality but still many miles to go. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has now taken over the historic process and began on Wednesday with a public lesson on constitutional law, what are impeachable crimes and did President Trump commit any? The news isn't good for the president. CNN's Sara Murray has more.

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MICHAEL GERHARDT, PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW: If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Three legal scholars invited by Democrats told lawmakers today the President's conduct is worthy of impeachment.

NORM EISEN, DEMOCRATIC COUNSEL: Did President Trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power based on that evidence and those findings?

NOAH FELDMAN, PROFESSOR OF LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: Based on that evidence in those findings, the President did commit an impeachable abuse of office. EISEN: Professor Karlan, same question.

PAMELA KARLAN, PROFESSOR OF LAW, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL: Same answer.

EISEN: And Professor Gearhart, did President Trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power?

GERHARDT: We three are unanimous, yes.

MURRAY: The hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the legal foundation for impeachment kicks off the next phase of the investigation into President Trump which largely focuses on Trump's push for Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and the 2016 elections in exchange for a White House meeting and military aid.

While Republicans took shots at the Democrat's witnesses --

REP. DOUG COLLINS (R-GA): Unless you're really good on T.V. and watching the hearings the last couple of weeks, you couldn't have possibly actually digested the Adam Schiff report from yesterday or the Republican response in any real way.

KARLAN: Mr. Collins, I would like to say to you, sir, that I read transcripts of every one of the witnesses so I'm insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor, I don't care about those facts.

MURRAY: Democrats sounded the alarm ahead of the 2020 election.

REP. JERRY NADLER (D-NY): If we do not act to hold him in check now, President Trump will almost certainly try again to solicit interference in the election for his personal political gain.

MURRAY: The scholars express the importance of holding presidents to account.

FELDMAN: If we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy. We live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. That's why the Framers created the possibility of impeachment.

KARLAN: I'll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king, which is the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility. So while the President can name his son, Baron, he can't make him a Baron.

MURRAY: Later, she apologized for her comment about the president's son.

The Democratic witnesses laid out their legal reasoning for why they believed President Trump abused his power, obstructed Congress, and may have even committed bribery. The lone witness for Republicans argued today that Democrats were rushing the process.

JONATHAN TURLEY, PROFESSOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: I'm concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. MURRAY: Claiming there is insufficient evidence to impeach Trump for

bribery or any other misdeed.

TURLEY: This isn't improvisational jazz. Close enough is not good enough. If you're going to accuse a president of bribery, you need to make it stick by.

MURRAY: He advocated for letting court sort of challenges over whether witnesses must testify or the administration must hand over documents, and encouraged lawmakers to gather more evidence before moving forward.

TURLEY: This isn't an impulse buy item. You're trying to remove a duly elected President of the United States, and that takes time and it takes work.

MURRAY: But Democrats are pressing on preparing for a possible impeachment vote on the House floor by the end of the year.

NADLER: The hearing is adjourned.

MURRAY: Sara Murray, CNN Washington.

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WATT: Former U.S. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Katz joins us now. David, It was pretty remarkable. Even the Republican witness called today said that President Trump's phone call with President Zelensky of Ukraine was not appropriate. And his sort of defense, I suppose, seems to be let's just slow it all down.

Listen, I was expecting perhaps a bit of a yawn, fester, dry, dusty day with constitutional experts, but holy moly, it was anything but that.

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DAVID KATZ, ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY: It wasn't dusty and dull. It was really interesting. They brought the constitution to life. These professors show that this is not a coup, this is a key part of our Constitution. The way we elect presidents is one way and the way that we remove them is another way by the impeachment.

And so what Adam Schiff's committee did and what Nadler did today is to follow down that path, which is exactly what's prescribed by the law of the land. And regarding the Republican law professor, I think he had to concede that the facts are terrible for Trump.

I mean, one thing that the Republican senators seem not to be willing to come out and say is that the facts are terrible. This is not a perfect call. This was an awful call. It was hidden on a secret server so nobody would find it, Nick. It was only on account of the whistleblower and his courage that we found out about it.

And then there's been all this spin and hiding ever since. And Nadler is right. There have been tampering with witnesses. There has been obstruction of justice. You know, the other presidents who've come under impeachment inquiries have actually cooperated with the investigation. Only Trump has stonewalled, told his officers, cabinet officers, and other employees not to testify.

And as Nadler also said, there has been the creation of false records. That's what happened with McGahn. They still are going to try to get to McGahn perhaps down the road. But for now, we have this conspiracy, this plotting to do this quid pro quo with a Ukrainian incoming president, we have the obstruction of Congress, and we have the obstruction of justice along the lines Nadler has pointed out.

WATT: But David, I mean, it almost seemed today that the Framers of the Constitution had Donald Trump in mind when they wrote about high crimes and misdemeanors, and bribery, and their concerns about influence from a foreign power. I mean, I'm sure that they did not imagine the President would be a reality T.V. star or that foreign power would be Ukraine. But I mean, it almost seems tailor-made for this situation and this president.

KATZ: Well, yes, they were very worried that in replacing a king and the king's absolute powers, they just end up with a president who would aggregate to himself those powers. Of course, they thought of a man at that time. And they wanted to make sure that Congress had a way to remove a someone who acted unlawfully who is abused his power, because history had another way to remove autocrats and tyrants, and they didn't want to go the way of a Caesar and Brutus, right? And so they set up this impeachment.

But as I say, it's not a coup, it's the means that are set forth. And even the Republican law professor got dressed down for the fact that he thought there was a strong case against Clinton. He testified to that effect. He also represented a judge, and he made a bunch of specious arguments, and none of the senators accepted the arguments on behalf of the judge.

So he had his own problems, the Republican law professor. The other three professors were I thought dynamic, and as one of them said, if this does not warrant impeachment, what does. It's exactly what the framers had in mind. Although, as you say, they probably thought it would be England or France who would give a bribe of some sort to a weak American president, it wouldn't be Ukraine. But the world turns and we have Trump in Ukraine, and we have this I'll do you a favor.

Now, he's trying to gloss that now, but it was very clear from the context and the follow up that Trump wanted a personal political favor for himself, not something for the entire nation.

WATT: Well, that's right. David, David, David, let's just talk about this because the president just tweeted in the past hour or so trying -- it seems like a pretty new defense with this call which -- remember, the transcript came out two months ago. The President now in a tweet saying, "When I said in my phone call to the president of the Ukraine, I would like you to do us a favor, with the word us, I am referring to the United States, our country." So it seems like he's trying to rebut this idea that this was bribery, but two months later this comes up? KATZ: Well, yes, it's certainly after the fact that reminds me I'm a criminal defense attorney now of something which is not good for criminal defendant where suddenly after all these things come out, there's a big explanation and a lot of times once you really vet what's going on, you have to tell a client, you know, you really have to plead guilty in this case before you make it even worse.

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Of course, the President doesn't plan to plead guilty. He plans to have the senators go to bat for him. And he's betting that they can't get 20 Republican senators no matter what the evidence is to vote to remove him from office.

But I don't buy this explanation for several reasons. First of all, there is this thing known as the kingly we, you know, do something for us. And I don't think he meant the kingly we, meaning us the country. I think what he meant is do something for me personally. And if he ever use the word us, it refers to me and my team.

Because it's so easy, Nick, to always say, well, of course, I thought I'd be a better president. I thought Biden would not be a good president. Yes, I wanted to hurt my main rival. But that wasn't for my political advantage, it was because I'm so good for the country. It's so good for the country, if Ukraine gins up a case out of nowhere on this man and his son because that would help me get reelected. Boy, that's good for all of us. I don't buy it. I think this is a very late in the day 11th-hour spin.

WATT: But David, as you say the Democrats would need 20 Republican senators to join them in order to remove Trump from office. David Katz, thanks as always for joining us.

KATZ: Pleasure to be with you.

WATT: As the drums of impeachment get louder, President Trump is back at the White House from the NATO Summit in London. The trip was filled with testy exchanges, that very public disagreement with French President Emmanuel Macron, an unscheduled one on one with President Erdogan of Turkey amidst NATO Turkey tensions.

But the low light of Mr. Trump's trip was at Buckingham Palace where world leaders were caught on camera apparently joking about the U.S. President. CNN's Paula Newton has the details.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Sipping a cold beer, Justin Trudeau was burned by a hot mic. He was seen and heard at a royal reception laughing it up with Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, and others seemingly at Donald Trump's expense.

BORIS JOHNSON, PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM: Is that why you were late?

JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA: He was late because he takes a 40 minutes press conference off the top every time. Oh yes, yes, yes, 40 minutes. He announced. I just watched. I watches his team's jaws just drop to the floor.

NEWTON: Trudeau tried to explain but did not apologize.

TRUDEAU: Last night, I made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with President Trump and I was happy to take part of it. but it was certainly notable.

NEWTON: Trump's comeback.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, he's two-faced.

NEWTON: And so, when Canadians woke up --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Donald Trump fires back at Justin Trudeau --

NEWTON: They were catching up on the latest petty skirmish between the world's greatest neighbors.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The prime minister is downplaying a diplomatic gap.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trudeau is trending right now on Twitter.

NEWTON: On the streets of Ottawa --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trump is going to -- is going to make you know, a hash out of everything and any little slate, he's going to -- he's going to go at them.

NEWTON: To the online conversation on the West Coast, in one tweet, the U.S. President shredded the Canadian Prime Minister.

And so Canadians here are bracing themselves for the political fallout. Now, no matter what they thought of the incident, many agreed that it would have been better had Trudeau shown just a little bit more discretion.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) is it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, it isn't.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I used to be in the military. I served overseas with American soldiers and they've always had our back and we'll always have their back in spite of our politicians.

NEWTON: Keyword, in spite of. The truth is this isn't idle cocktail party chatter, but unsettling insight into how the strongest of historical bonds are framed. Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa.

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WATT: Joining me now from watching this is David Sanger. He's a CNN Political and National Security Analyst as well as the National Security Correspondent for The New York Times. David, let's start with that hot mic video captured by the pool cameraman, my friend, Andy Lawrence.

I mean, there is little that would annoy President Trump more than that, than the cool kids mocking him behind his back. But will there be any serious repercussions?

DAVID SANGER, CNN POLITICAL AND NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: You know, Donald Trump is not somebody who lets up on a grudge early on. And when he said that he thought that Prime Minister Trudeau was being two-face which I think is what he said to reporters before he left somewhat abruptly, it was clear that it got under his skin.

I mean, he likes to be the one who not only dominates the conversation and does the disruption himself, but who others feel as if they have to fall in line behind him. And a few years ago, that's what exactly what happened at these -- at these summits.

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But now basically the other leaders are on to him and I think that they understand what -- how they're going to manage him. And, you know, you notice that Prime Minister Trudeau was not exactly full of apologies for anything that he said today. I think he sort of felt like he had been caught uttering the truth in private.

WATT: And putting that aside, I mean, listen, NATO is now 70 years old, founded pretty much to keep Stalin out of Europe. I mean, Stalin's successor, Putin, must be enjoying just -- not just that, but the general level of disunity that there appears to be within NATO right now.

SANGER: You know, in some ways, they almost would have been better off not holding the 70th anniversary. First of all, if you're going to hold it, you would have expected to hold it in Washington, because that's where the treaty was signed. But having decided to hold it but not in Washington, at least what you wanted to do was come out with a common understanding of mission and separate and apart from the issues with President Trump. They were incapable of doing that.

Is the mission at this point to contain and pushback at a revanchist Russia that is once again trying to flex its muscles? Is it to deal with a rising China, as many suggested was a new task? Was it to finally build up some offensive cyber capability, so that they can push back at the one kind of attack that all the member countries are receiving each and every day, much of it from Russia? Is the real goal out here to operate out of area as President Trump seemed to suggest? I'm not sure that President Trump recognized it in Afghanistan and the Balkans. NATO already has operated out of area, but he looked to be moving toward any other purpose for NATO other than trying to contain Russia.

WATT: And what about Erdogan? I mean, they did manage to bring him slightly more back into the fold this time.

SANGER: Well, slightly, and then he dropped his objections to some of the activities that NATO was going to take in the Eastern Europe and so forth. But on the fundamental issue, which is that President Erdogan is getting ready to deploy a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system that is designed to shoot down the aircraft he is buying from the west, and will probably help the Russians understand a little more about the patterns of those air -- of those aircraft. That issue was completely unresolved, or if it got resolved in some way in the private meeting between President Erdogan and President Trump, we certainly didn't hear about it.

So, you've got one truly outlier nation within NATO that is flaunting the rules, that is buying their equipment from significant adversary, and they don't have a mechanism for dealing with this. There's no way to throw out a NATO member, they wouldn't even if there was such a mechanism. And that was sort of the elephant in the room that nobody wanted to debate about.

WATT: I mean, I have to say, watching this summit and just the general diplomatic shenanigans that have been going on recently, I am not -- I'm no longer convinced that if one member of NATO was attacked, the others would be certain to rally around. Am I -- am I wrong in that?

SANGER: No, you're not wrong in that. And that is the essence of what President Macron was saying when he declared that NATO was brain dead. He wasn't saying the organization itself was incapable of coming up with strategy, although, I think they've not been fabulous with that. What he was saying was they could no longer trust that the United States would be there to defend them. And in the one area where we've all seen the most form of attacks in the past three or four years, which is cyberspace, it is certainly not clear that they have agreed on a collective form of action to go deal with that issue. And I can't think of any more urgent short of war issue that could bring together the members of NATO, and yet, they don't seem to be seriously grappling with it.

WATT: David Sanger in Washington, thanks very much.

SANGER: Always great to be with you.

WATT: Next, a cemetery in Eastern France, Jewish gravestones defaced with swastikas. How authorities are pledging to respond, that's ahead.

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WATT: A massive nationwide strike is on the horizon in France, potentially paralyzing the country for days. Paris preparing for gridlock. Trade unions will take to the streets, rallying against the pension system. Thousands of workers are expected to take part in what could be the biggest strike in the country since 1995 when France was brought to a standstill after the government tried to overhaul the Retirement System.

Meanwhile, in Eastern France, police are investigating what's being called a heinous act of anti- Semitism. More than 100 graves in the Jewish cemetery were spray painted with graffiti. It's the latest in a growing number of acts of hatred towards France's large Jewish population. CNN's Matthew Chance has more.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: These are the shocking scenes at a Jewish cemetery in Eastern France. More than 100 graves defaced with graffiti, including Nazi swastikas scrawled on the tombstones. It's an act of anti-Semitic vandalism that shocked the country. French officials branding it a hate crime, which will be punished.

CHRISTOPHE CASTANER, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR OF FRANCE (through translator): I want to say to those who think they can come here in the middle of the night and tarnish the memory of those who are buried here, tarnish the memory of our French Republic. I want to tell them that we will not leave them alone.

CHANCE: It is not the only cemetery that's been targeted in the region which is close to the German border. Hours before, anti- Semitic graffiti was found in a village nearby in a country with the world's biggest Jewish population outside of Israel and the United States, there were calls for the authorities to do more.

But France has, for years, been wracked by anti-Semitic crime. Back in 2015, an attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris left four people dead.

Earlier this year, thousands of people marched through Paris to protest after another Jewish cemetery was vandalized. French authorities say hate crimes against the country's Jewish community have increased 74 percent in the 12 months from 2017 to 2018.

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CASTANER (through translator): We must guarantee the right to believe. Whether we are Christian, Jewish, Protestants, or Muslim, we must make sure that the National Accord doesn't accept what has happened here in this little cemetery.

CHANCE: French officials are now promising to open a national office to combat hate crimes, acknowledgement that this growing and deep- seated problem needs to be urgently addressed. Matthew Chance, CNN, London.

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WATT: Next, a carbon dioxide emissions warning sets the tone. The U.N. Climate Conference is underway. And what young activists are planning, that's ahead.

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WATT: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Nick Watt. The headlines this hour: the U.S. House committee that will likely draw articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump began their solemn process on Wednesday, eight plus hours of hearings with four constitutional scholars. Three of the four agreed without reservation that Mr. Trump has committed impeachable offenses. The fourth said, well, let's just all slow down a little.

The President is back in Washington after a NATO meeting in the U.K. filled with drama and confrontation with a video surfacing of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders gossiping about him, apparently, mocking him behind his back. President Trump responded by calling Mr. Trudeau two-faced, and abruptly canceled a press conference. He came home early. Huawei says it's suing the U.S. government over new restrictions that further limit its business in the United States.

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The Chinese company says the Federal Communications Commission's decision that prohibits American carriers form using subsidies to buy Huawei equipment is unlawful. Huawei is under pressure over concerns of U.S. national security threat which it denies.

A new study predicts carbon dioxide emissions will reach another record high this year as scientists warn the world is running out of time to take action to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Jim Bittermann reports from the U.N. conference on climate change going on right now in Madrid.

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JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Carbon dioxide was the main subject at today's Top 25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid where the report by climate scientists from around the world who study the matter are saying that in fact there'll be 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere this year.

And while that number sounds high, and it is, in fact it is somewhat lower than previous years. The increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been decreased somewhat and that is due perhaps to the decrease in the use of coal fired, electrical generating plants.

Nonetheless, the climate scientists and the climate activists from around the world who were gathered in Madrid are fearful that the world will not ever meet the kind of goals that have been set here in Paris back four years ago in 2015 at Top 21.

Also today in Madrid, the delegates heard from the low lying Pacific Island countries who are facing existential threat of being submerged. Their islands and homes being submerged by rising waters because of climate change.

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist who arrived in Europe yesterday is taking a couple days off after her three-week trip across the Atlantic Ocean. She will be appearing however on Friday to lead a march by young people who are interested in galvanizing the world into action. Jim Bittermann, CNN -- Paris.

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WATT: Meanwhile, a former U.S. Secretary of State is forming a bipartisan group of world leaders, military officials and celebrities to push for action on climate change. John Kerry's coalition is named World War Zero. He says there is not a single country right now taking enough action on climate change.

He hopes World War Zero will spur a response similar to the international mobilization to beat the Nazis and win World War II. Members plan to hold town hall meetings across the United States beginning in January.

Joining us now from Washington is Katie Eder, she's executive director of the Future Coalition and a member of World War Zero. Katie -- World War Zero is going to try and galvanize us. Where -- how do you think you are going to succeed where so many others have tried and failed in the past?

KATIE EDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE FUTURE COALITION: I think that there, right now, is a new energy around climate change across the world and certainly across the United States. And I think there is a new want and a new drive for people at all different levels to do something to address this crisis.

And I think that, you know, for us -- for the youth movement, we are really kind of pushing the more radical, the more bold and of the spectrum in demanding the most that we possibly can. And I think what World War Zero is doing is expanding the table and trying to bring together people who haven't traditionally been advocates for climate justice and climate action to really make sure that, you know, when we say we want climate solutions that we are bringing everyone along with us when making that change.

WATT: But what are you actually going to do? What is this going to look like?

EDER: You know, I think that it's taking shape in many ways. And I think what it really is going to be is people from various sides of the aisle coming together and working together to figure out -- you know, to find common ground when it comes to the climate crisis.

And to find a path forward that, you know, we can all get behind. And everyone no matter what they have thought about the climate crisis in the past can get behind. And really create something that is universal and that is, you know, driving people in the United States and across the world to come together across barriers and across boundaries to address the crisis.

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WATT: Yes, I mean you kind of touched on this here. I mean even people within World War Zero are not all on exactly the same page. But you are trying to say that they need to put some of their differences aside just for the common good and singular goal?

EDER: Exactly. You know, climate change is not a Democratic issue. It is not a Republican issue. This is a human issue.

And you know, for the youth movement we are pushing the boundaries of what many people thought was ever possible. But the truth is that if we are going to address this existential threat as quickly and as rapidly as we need to we are going to need everyone which means we are going to have to come together, we're going to have to collaborate with people that we may not fundamentally agree with.

And that's ok. But that doesn't mean that we can't fit it across the table from each other and collaborate and try to put our heads together to create a better future.

WATT: But the issue is people from your generation need to convince people of my age and older that we need to care about this as much as you do.

EDER: Exactly. I think that, you know, we -- the youth right now, the message that we're are sending and we're going to continue to send, no matter what people -- what adults say or do is that this is our future, and we have the moral authority when it comes to this issue. This is disproportionately going to affect us as a generation and affect all of the generations that come after us.

And so, you know, our ask of adults and older generations is to join us, is to stand with us, just to stand beside us and advocate and fight for our future. And we are ready and willing to take any avenue that we have to in order to make that happen.

WATT: But a couple of issues you've got -- China, India, and Donald Trump. I mean no matter how much talking you do. No matter how much advocacy you do. Those are three massive roadblocks for you.

I mean how could you possibly surmount those obstacles?

EDER: It really is building up the people power. You know, people power is stronger than the people in power. And that is true across the board. And so in the United States, we are striking. We are mobilizing young people and adults across this country and across the world to come together and demand climate action.

And in the U.S. it is focused on the elections of 2020 and making sure that we are electing people into office who understand the scale of the climate crisis and are ready to take the bold action necessary to address it.

And so we know that, you know, this is a marathon it's not a sprint. The clock is ticking. We're running out of time but we recognize that this isn't about one strike or one mobilization or one moment. This is a movement. And that's the only thing that's going to save us at this point. It's a social movement to the scale and size that we have never seen before.

WATT: And you're in D.C. right now for a strike coming up Friday -- is that right?

EDER: Correct -- December 6 is a strike across the United States. There are over 280 strikes planned. And young people will be escalating their actions to say, you know, we have gotten out into the streets and now we are turning up the heat because our demands have not been met.

WATT: Katie Eder -- I hope you can right the many wrongs that we did and be a bit more responsible than our generation. Thanks for coming on the show.

EDER: Thank you so much.

U.K. voters had to the polls in just one week in a potentially seismic election. Next, we will look at some of the standout moments from the campaign trail so far.

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WATT: In just one week, voters across the United Kingdom will head to the polls in one of the most consequential elections for decades.

The main issue, of course, Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pushing for it, the Liberal Democrats would cancel it, and Labour's Jeremy Corbyn is somewhere in between. He'd hold another referendum over it.

Here are some of the standout campaign moments so far in here and who knows what the next week will bring.

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BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Get Brexit done.

JEREMY CORBYN, LABOUR PARTY LEADER: We've now got evidence that under Boris Johnson, the NHS is on the table and will be up for sale.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are under a lot of pressure.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, if you want to stop Boris Johnson and stop Brexit, vote Liberal Democrat.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A Prime Minister in Boris Johnson is dangerous and unfit.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Joining me on the line from Washington, is Donald J. Trump.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Corbyn would be so bad for your country. He would be so bad, he'd take you in such a bad way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wouldn't you like to apologize to the British Jewish community for what has happened? CORBYN: What I will say to you is this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, no apology.

CORBYN: Against the abuse and --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Try one more, no apology.

COBYN: No, hang on a minute. Andrew -- can I explain what we're trying to do?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Does the truth matter in this election?

JOHNSON: I think it does. And I think it's very important.

CORBYN: We will have a referendum --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You pledge to improve politics.

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WATT: That election just one week away. Right, now the Conservative Party is leading in the polls with the Labour Party in a distant second.

Thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Nick Watt.

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