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The impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is moving to the next phase after defiant testimony from the final public witnesses. Former White House official Fiona Hill and State Department staffer David Holmes recounted specific conversations implicating the president in a scheme to pressure Ukraine to investigate his rivals. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the evidence is clear that the president violated his oath of office, but President Trump says he did nothing wrong. Nancy Cordes reports.

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has announced human rights investigations into the country's police force following an Amnesty International report accusing security forces of deliberately injuring people to deter them from protesting. Also, an outbreak of measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, and the World Health Organization has released a report confirming that children around the world aren't getting enough exercise. CBS News' Rylee Carlson joined "CBSN AM" with more.

Lawmakers have questioned 17 witnesses and looked at more than 3,000 pages of sworn depositions in the Trump impeachment inquiry. House Democrats say they have enough evidence to move forward. President Trump has said there was no quid pro quo and the White House says he is looking forward to laying out his case in a Senate trial, should he be impeached in the House. CBS News legal analysts and constitutional scholars Jonathan Turley and Kim Wehle join “CBS This Morning” to explain where the impeachment inquiry is headed next.

President Trump has pushed back against House Democrats in an interview on "Fox & Friends," maintaining his position that he did nothing wrong concerning Ukraine. This comes after Democrats and Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee made their closing arguments at the end of the second week of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry. CBS News chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang and CBS News legal analyst Kim Wehle joined CBSN to recap the week's hearings.