new england in 1970. martha maccallum. you would have known that, right? that's your team. >> who doesn't know knowing when patriots. it's not like they haven't won many super bowls or anything. who know they are? i just talked to the bosses. they are going to shrink us to a an 11 hour a day work week. >> dana: i will take it! have a great show. >> thanks, hello, everybody. we begin with the big story this afternoon that's about to happen on capitol hill. the battle against impeachment coming any moment now. how live statement by the chairman of the judiciary committee. lindsey graham about to announce a resolution condemning the inquiry into president trump. the south carolina senator says house democrats are pursuing an "closed-door illegitimate impeachment inquiry." house lawmakers have interviewed key witnesses involved or who knew about the president's july

phone call with the ukrainian president. yesterday house republicans stormed into a secure facility. they might say they walked in there. they were protesting that only lawmakers on the committees were conducting these investigations were allowed inside hearings and depositions. worth noting committee members from both parties, democratic and republican, are present at those interviews and have equal time to ask questions. they are not allowed to take any of the paperwork out or review the transcripts unless i go back into the closed-door situation. house intelligence committee chairman mckay adam schiff says the interviews are all being transcribed and that his committee will release those transcripts later on. democrats point out the closed hearings are hardly unusual. former republican covers men trey gowdy did defend that holding private hearings on the consulate attack in benghazi was also protocol. he said the privacy made the investigation more efficient and

more effective. the final benghazi report notes that political posturing, self-serving speeches, and theatrics served no purpose in a closed interview. as a result, the questioning in interviews tends to be far more effective at discovering information. it notes that nearly all executive branch investigations are conducted in private with c. we wait for senator graham to start speaking, we go to chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel who reports live for us at this moment. hello, mike emanuel. >> hey, martha. senator lindsey graham is making the case he doesn't want to judge the impeachment inquiry based on an opening statement from a ten hour hearing that was handed to reporters. >> 15 page statement he did nothing wrong. would you want to know more? would you accept that statement? i have nothing against bill

taylor. it's the process. you're asking me do i believe something based on the statement that hasn't been tested. i cannot tell you how disgusted i am with this process. >> democrats say there will be more public face to all of it including a trial should he go to the senate. >> chief justice roberts will provide over the trial. senator mcconnell will be in charge of much of the procedural, although this up in court, justice roberts will be in charge of running the child in america, as you pointed out, we get the chance to call witnesses, present evidence, cross-examine the people asserting wrongdoing. >> it's clearly significant steps from now. >> martha: there is still plenty of tension obviously between the two parties at this stage. bickering over the process to a great extent. >> no doubt, you get a sense fuses are getting short.

jim jordan is furious that a senior state bartman official is being brought up for a deposition on a saturday. that's typically when lawmakers are in their home districts. state department official is philip rieger and jordan raised the weekend meeting will mean fewer republicans are able to attend and purchase bait. lawmakers on other committees are frustrated they are shut out. >> i like to see the witnesses, it helps me know whether they are telling the truth. helps me understand where they are, with their credibility is. if you think that's not right, look at the mueller testimony. when you saw a robert mueller testify like we did, like all of america did, you understood some things about robert mueller and his team that put back together. >> democrats a storming the secure facility yesterday was nothing more than the republican political stunt. >> i've been engaged in political theater at various times in my life.

usually when you have no substantive argument to make, you try to get a headline. getting attention. what happened yesterday has not moved us forward in the pursuit of truth. >> democrat notes that republicans event in the room for the deficiency. republicans from the three relevant committees. martha. >> martha: thank you very much. mike emanuel on capitol hill. fox urgent. the kurdish allies in syria say turkey is still attacking them. even after president trump announced turkey had committed to a permanent cease-fire. u.s. officials telling fox news the pentagon is now looking at sending tanks and more troops into syria to field. trump suggesting that's where the courage should go if they want protection. president trump's special envoy to syria painted a grim picture of the situation on the ground. he says turkish back fighters been committing war crimes. 100 isis prisoners have escaped.

he says the united states does not know where they are. we are also seeing a newly released video of u.s. officials assuring our kurdish allies in america would keep them safe from the forces coming from turkey. just two weeks before president trump ordered our troops to pull back and turkey launched its bloodied invasion. >> we will with this agreement be present and accompany turkish military if they are brought in in any way. the agreement doesn't allow for turkey to come into this area on their own. >> president trump has had we will not abandon our allies. >> martha: we know a lot of that changed after the phone call between president erdogan and president trump. the kurds then tore down their

own fortifications under supposed peace agreement not realizing they were about to face turkey's military on our own. benjamin hall reporting live on the very latest for us today from northern syria. benjamin. >> good evening, martha. we've also been hearing today i'm sporadic cease-fire violations along turkish border. a few hours west of here predominately, it's been gunfire, mortar shells, drone strikes on stf emplacements. the fact of the people we speak to say they do not trust the turks to keep the cease-fire and so the kurds are looking elsewhere for some protection. now we see them looking very much towards russia. russia, the country that seems to have filled the void left by the u.s. really russia are the ones who are speaking to the parties involved now on the ground. they are speaking to the syrian government, speaking to the iranians, speaking to the turks and they are also speaking to the kurds. as if to prove that point today, the critters military commander

mazloum abdi spoke via skype to the russian defense minister telling him "i appreciate specifically president putin's efforts in protecting our people and stopping the military operations. there really is a sense of chaos. no one knows what comes next. as for the suggestion of sending u.s. tanks and troops to guard the oil fields and the kurds to go to the oilfield as well, no one is sure what to make of it but some people feeling it might be too little, too late and that the u.s. may have already lost its foothold here. >> martha: water hearing from turkey? -- what are we hearing from turkey? >> ever since turkey came into northeast syria they have been talking about slaughtering the kurds and they said it today. president erdogan singh if they don't leave the buffer zone in five days that's when the next deadline ends, that's what they will do. they will come in and crush them. tricky by the way is capable of doing that. they have used these proxy forces, jihadi forces, one group

is seeking an islamic state based on sharia law. they are not far removed from isis. they are working with turkey. they are accused of torture and war crimes. we are seeing shops empty. over 100,000 people have been displaced and the kurds just don't trust turkey to maintain the cease-fire. they continue to do whatever they can to find more protecti protection. when the isis caliphate fell, there was a sense of optimism. liberty and democracy. that hope is gone and nobody knows what takes its place, what comes next. the next five days are going to be very, very tense. >> martha: absolutely, no doubt. benjamin hall, thank you so much. great reporting from there. good to see you tonight. this as the united states troops pull back from syria and turkish forces moved in against the kurds, retired general jack keane warned about

the consequences. he and senator lindsey graham wrote up a column for foxnews.com noting the turkish invasion could left the islamic state make comeback. general keane joins me now. fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. we wait to hear from senator lindsey graham who i know you have worked closely with and cowrote the editorial. what's your assessment of where things stand today? the president seemed very optimistic that the cease-fire is a victory in that it's to hold. >> a cease-fire certainly is a major accomplishment. we've got to give the president credit for that, but as noted, there is some sporadic violations of it which is sort of indicative of every syrian cease-fire that we've dealt with over the last eight to ten years. so that's not surprising. the real issue is will the

syrian kurds actually be forced to displace hundreds of thousands of people to a part of syria where they don't have homes, they don't have jobs. the syrian kurdish leader mazloum abdi is not entertaining that thought. i believe the president is right that we should bring in internatioere to establish the safe zone. certainly not fall back on . there's a way to negotiate this and make it work for both people in terms of turkey's ends the syrian kurds. that is challenge number one. the second thing is in eastern syria, it's a work in progress. the introduction, we were talking about possibly the introduction of some more u.s. forces there to help with the defense of the oilfields. i believe with the pentagon is thinking about is establishing a

security zone in eastern syria from the iraqi border to a town as it snakes north to the turkey and syrian border which should be a security zone less than what was seen in the past. probably 60% of what we did in the past. that would do two things. one is contain isis from reemerging and to protect the oilfields in three, make certain iran doesn't take over eastern syria. that i think is a work in progress. decisions that the president has yet to make and we will see what takes place. >> martha: you heard the president yesterday i'm sure, general. he said let someone else fight over it. the long, bloodstained sand. we'll get your thought on this because we are watching is lindsey graham comes in. let's listen. >> the purpose of the resolution

is to let the house now that the process you're engaging in regarding the attempted impeachment of president trump is out-of-bounds, inconsistent with due process as we know it. it's a substantial deviation from what the house has done in the past regarding impeachment of other presidents. when i can speak up firmly is the impeachment of president clinton. i want to highlight here. 2019 congressman al green wanted to open up and impeachment inquiry which is the right way to do it, by the way. 137 democrats voted with the g.o.p. against impeaching president trump. not one republican for an inquiry. what's happened is that the attempt to open up an inquiry of impeachment against president trump failed miserably, so they created a new

process that i think is very dangerous for the country. instead of the judiciary looking at a potential impeachable offense, they've created a process in the intel community that's behind closed doors, doesn't provide access to the president accuser. shuts republicans out for all practical purposes, and is not where they substitute for the way you need to do it. it did in the past. let's go to '98. in 1998 in october, we had an impeachment inquiry vote on the floor of the house. i was there. 31 democrats voted to open up impeachment inquiry. after that inquiry... these were the rights given to president clinton, his team, and members of the minority.

none of this exists today. what's going on is a runaround the impeachment process creating a secret proceeding behind closed doors that fundamentally is in my view, denies new process. when you're talking about removing the president of the united states, seems to me you'd want have a process that's consistent with who we are as americans and consistent with what bill clinton was allowed to do, richard nixon was allowed to do, and the process in the house today i think is a danger to the future of the presidency. if you couldn't drive down a president's poll numbers by having proceedings where you selectively leak information where the president who is the subject of all of this is pretty much shut out, god help future presidents. i've got 41 cosponsors on the republican side and climbing. here's the request. if you believe you have a case

against the president, vote to open up an inquiry, allow republicans to have a say, make sure the president is allowed to participate in a meaningful manner like we did in the past. that's the way to do it. what you're doing today in my view is unfair to the president and it's dangerous to the presidency and i think 41 republican senators and growing is a strong signal to our house colleagues that you are off script. there is a way to do it, a right way and a wrong way. you've chosen the wrong way. >> reporter: your committee interviewed half a dozen people behind closed doors in the russia investigation. donald trump jr., glenn simpson, and then you release the transcripts at the end. >> i didn't interview any of these witnesses. that was pretty much intel. i'm saying we are looking at the

russian investigation, miller testified. this was all about mueller. here's what happened. ken starr spent almost five years looking at clinton. he came before the committee. we had an impeachment inquiry vote. ken starr put forth to the senate judiciary committee the 11 allegations against president clinton. we passed four articles of impeachment based on the starr report that was transparent, subject to cross-examination. it was a public hearing. two of those articles past the house. what mueller did was investigate the president for two years, spent $25 million, and did not recommend any action. that's the difference. >> reporter: when it comes to impeachment, it seems like the white house was changed course multiple times. >> have you noticed? >> at this point are you

confident that you are on the same page? >> i talked to chief of staff mulvaney. i think they are working on getting a messaging team together. you know, i was involved in impeachment of president clint president clinton. i know this sounds weird. but clinton. [laughs] look what did. what he'd did his he had a team that was organized, had legal minds that understand was being said versus the legal proceedings in question and they were on message every day. president clinton defended himself but he never stopped being president. one of the reasons that he survived is that the public may not have light with the president had done but believed he was still able to do his job. as he governed during impeachment, think that was probably the single best thing he did quite frankly.

i'm hoping that will become the model. >> reporter: robert miller's investigation, ken starr's investigation. there is no prosecutor looking into the allegations... which you ever have conducted investigation in which your witnesses were allowed to speak in public and give other witnesses the opportunity -- >> that's a very good point. during the whole mueller investigation, i backed off calling a lot of key witnesses because i didn't want to get in his lane. i am being asked by republicans, folks in the republican world, why don't you call adam schiff? i think that would do a lot of damage to the country for a senator to call member of the house.

you have a speech and debate problem. but if you think adam schiff is a fact witness, wise and donald trump of fact witness? the point is it's not a process that i think will withstand scrutiny. durham is looking at potential misconduct. >> reporter: this is about what the president has been doing, his personal lawyer. the justice department declined to investigate. there is no prosecutor looking into it. so the house has to do the job. >> are you suggesting there needs to be a special counsel for ukraine? i have been trying to get a special counsel to look at all things 2016 from our side. mueller gave the trump campaign a pretty good -- it is to me. here's the process. why did i support mueller? to me there was a conflict at

the justice department. why do i introduce legislation that you can only fire mueller for cause? because i thought it was important for the country for somebody outside politics to look at it. i think somebody outside politics should look at the things that i'm concerned about in 2016. i think the fisa warrant application could be considered a fraud on the court. we will see from horwitz. i'm not a prosecutor. when it comes to whether or not somebody other than the house should look at ukraine, i want to look at all things. >> reporter: you said it's a secret and legitimate process. >> that's my view. >> reporter: what you say to the argument that 27 of your republican house colleagues who serve on these committees, they have the right to be in there. >> i would say that if we pulled a stunt. let me finish. how many people have asked me

about bill taylor's opening statement? all i can say is if we had rudy giuliani's opening statement and he said i did nothing wrong, i doubt if you would accept it. 47 republican house members feel like it's not working for them. they feel like that volker's testimony has been selectively released. the people that you just named are as upset as i am and here's what i would say, there's a way to do it. give president trump these rights that every other president -- nixon, clinton -- ipad and take a vote to allow the house to be on record authorizing this. this is a rolled action by a single committee of the house that's never done impeachment inquiries before. i think it's dangerous to the president. those 47 don't agree.

>> reporter: in the case of richard nixon, the house began its impeachment inquiry behind closed doors in october of 1973. >> did they have a vote of inquiry? >> reporter: they didn't have an impeachment resolution until months later. it's similar to this. >> here's what i'm saying. nixon eventually resigned. peter rodino designed the process. i remember the watergate hearings very well. jim rogan who was an impeachment manager with me during the clinton impeachment went to meet with peter rodino to find out how they did it. i think the american people were not with us on substance when it came to clinton but i do believe what we did very much mirrored the watergate way of doing business. i remember the watergate hearings. i don't remember any hearings in public about whether or not donald trump did something wrong in the ukraine.

here's -- this is why republicans are so frustrated. if we had done this to a democrat, you'd be eating us alive. if we took an opening statement of witness and said does that look bad? you'd want to know. did anybody question the witness? how did cross-examination go? we believe that a lot of people want to get trump and they don't give a damn about how to get him. i'm not telling you what he did or didn't do. i'm telling you what they are doing the houses dangerous for the country. >> reporter: what can you tell us about your lunch today with the president? >> it was good. we had a situation room briefing about developments in syria. there were eight or ten senator ernst. there is a plan coming together from the joint chiefs. i think it may work, it may give us what we need to prevent isis from coming back, iran taken the oil, ice us from taking the oil. i am somewhat encouraged that a

plan is coming about that will meet our objectives in syria. as to the lunch, he felt like from the time he's become president, he's been hounded about things he didn't do. he feels like that it never ends, that when it comes to donald trump, he doesn't really -- nobody cares if he has a fair day in court. i don't want to tell him other than i told him every time he said mueller was a witch hunt, which was like every day, i said -- i know mueller and when i introduce the resolution making sure mueller cannot be fired unless there was cost, he didn't like that. i said mr. president, i know you're frustrated. there's nothing worse than being accused of something you didn't do, it eats away your soul. we made it through mueller. we didn't do any real damage to the idea of nobody is above the law.

i think mueller had a really good opportunity to look at all things russia anti-trump. now here we are again with ukraine. i have told you what i think about the phone call. to me it's not an impeachable offense. i've got no problem with the phone call. you have other people coming forward coming of the president of ukraine say no, there was no quid pro quo. all i'm saying is that you tried an impeachment inquiry vote and you failed and now you're creating a process in the intel community that i think is star chamber like. >> how does the vote on something like this not taint the jury pool? >> if you think impeachment is a nonpolitical event, you're wrong. there are court hearings in south carolina. let me tell you about the first one i ever had. i represented a guy for speedi speeding. we went to the magistrate and had a trial. the magistrate was the highway

patrol officer's uncle. it didn't go well. what i am trying to say is that at the end of the day, the senate should be letting the house know that if you're going to continue this kind of process anand the resulting articles of impeachment, we do not consider it in my view -- i consider to be out-of-bounds of what we've done in the past, void of basic due process. we are not telling the house you can't impeach the president. what we are telling the house, 41 of us, there is a right way to do it and a long way to do it and let me tell you about being a juror. i sat there for five weeks in the senate and a juror made a motion to dismiss. in a court of law, juries can't get up and say i want to dismiss the case. this is one part legal and two parts politics, and what i am trying to tell republicans out

there, it's okay for the republican party to insist donald trump be treated fairly. a lot of senators are going to tell you, since i may be a juror, i don't want to comment on substance but i'm hoping we can get most republicans comment on the idea that the impeachment proceedings as currently constituted in the house are unfair and dangerous. >> reporter: didn't house republicans use closed-door depositions prior to public hearings during the clinton impeachment? why was it okay then? >> in october of 1998, we authorized impeachment as a body with 31 members saying do an inquiry. somewhere behind closed doors. the inquiry itself became very public. we had the hearing to start it off. the president participated in the very meaningful way. what's missing is the house

authorizing this inquiry. what's missing here is the 47 republicans you've talked about that are participating feel like it's not a fair process. they can't participate in a way that's meaningful. >> reporter: if someone had tried to interfere with the house impeachment process back in the '90s under clinton, how would you have reacted? >> i think if republican were doing to democrat what we are doing, you would be all over me and i think it says a lot about people in your business, with all due respect. i'm confident that if we had an intel committee inquiry involving a democratic president where we selectively leak stuff, you would be calling us every kind of bad name and we would deserve it. what i'm saying is there's a right way to do it at a wrong way to do it and this is a dangerous way to do it. one more question. >> reporter: follow-up. >> reporter: you are focusing a lot on the process.

democrats have made clear they want to release the transcripts. >> here's what i'm saying. what they are doing selectively leaking information to drive the president's poll numbers down and don't drive the momentum for impeachment up. everything coming out of this star chamber process is being leaked by democrats. they said, you heard bill taylor. i was breathless. well, the point is we don't know what bill taylor was asked. we don't know who was cross-examined and what unfolded. what you have here is a hearing, a process that is, to me, not sufficient for due process. it's being used in a politically dangerous fashion. if you open up one of these things the future against the democrat and we selectively leak things and shut out the democratic president from having a chance to participate, please use my words against us. >> reporter: i wanted to

follow up a little bit more on the lunch and in general the reaction from the white house and the president himself. can you tell us a little bit more? what he would like you to do. ac supportive of this effort. as he talked about being more aggressive on his behalf? have you heard from him over the last ten days or so that the witnesses have been coming out about his frustration. >> he was in a good mood. he appreciated the lunch. he would like the process to be exposed for being basically unfair. he keeps telling us he did nothing wrong. he keeps telling me that the phone call was perfect. i'm saying mr. president, the phone call was okay with me. he feels like it never stops, that he's been in office three years now and every time he turns around, there's another reason that his family, his friends. he's got to pay legal bills. he feels like he doesn't have a

real fair chance of being president of the united states. he thought it would be over with mueller. here's what i would say. i don't know what's going to happen in terms of ukraine. i've gotten my own view about the letter. i'm not here to tell you that donald trump has done nothing wrong. i'm not here to tell you anything other than the way they are going about it is really dangerous for the country and we need to change course while we can in the house because what's happening in the house in my view and the view of at least 41 republicans is not acceptable. thank you. >> martha: there you have it, senator lindsey graham lashing out about the process by which democrats are moving forward with the impeachment positions. a little bit of salty language tossed in there. we apologize if anyone was offended by that. obviously there's a lot of passion and tension surrounding the issue.

it's a monumental event to undertake the potential impeachment of a president of the united states. lindsey graham characterizing his lunch with the president, talking about the president's frustration about how all of it has gone them he feels clearly under seat based on what was just shared with us by senator graham. he also did talk a little bit about the syria process and we are going to get back to general keane in a moment to get more feedback from him on what was said about that but first let's go to mike emanuel live on capitol hill, as we continue to cover. it's an explosive story, mike. the tensions are clearly running high. there's sort of alcohol i think from lindsey graham to sort of give it a pause in a moment to make sure that this process going forward in a way that's going to be understandable and transparent for the country. >> no doubt, martha. what you've heard is graham and others making the case that democrats in the house should give president trump the same rights president clinton and president nixon have had, to be able to have their counsel in

the room to hear the depositions, to take notes and get the transcripts and be part of the process. democrats would say all of it is coming. they intend to release transcripts in the coming weeks. they intend to do public hearings in the coming weeks, but there's a great deal of anxiety. look at the calendar. we are about a year out from the next election. the entire house of representatives is all about it, a third of the senate is on the ballot. the president is on the ballot. there is also that combustible aspect mixed in with all of it. making a lot of people very uneasy. house members are saying we may be asked to vote on impeachment before thanksgiving or before christmas and we haven't seen much other than a 15 page opening statement from a ten hour hearing. >> martha: he made some interesting points, as you pointed out, the president's council not being permitted to be present during these hearings ended when people come out, your hearing, because they are selectively leaking, republicans feel like they can't say

anything about what happened. democrats seem to be more open about what they want to share. the suggested by senator graham and whether or not it's true remains to be seen is that the jury pool is being poisoned. the jury pool being the american public. he hasn't like the way everyone's getting information. he feels like it's unfair to the process. >> you may see poll numbers by our people and others, saying that support for impeachment is going up based on selective leaks. graham says it's unfair and it's time to change the process. >> martha: democrats say as they move forward it's going to be very transparent. public hearings on the transcripts will be released so that their side of the story. good to see you. an international watchdog moving forward with the story will been discussing is investigating if turkey used illegal chemical weapons in the attack on the kurds in syria. we have seen images of people,

including young children, with severe burns covering much of their bodies very many of those pictures are too disturbing to show you. this is a video of a kurdish boy traveling to france to get treatment for his burns. the boys father's told a kurdish news agency that his son was about to start fifth grade. he called for the fighting to stop saying i don't want anyone else to suffer the same agony as my son. turkey denied using chemical weapons in the military assault but the doctor at the facility treating the boy said some victims appear to be hurt by "internationally prohibited weapons." general keane joins me once again. fox news senior strategic analyst and former u.s. army vice chief of staff. good to have you with us. you were listening as we spoke to senator graham. he talked about the lunch he just attended with president trump and the discussion with the chairman of the joint chiefs, general milley, on syria he said there's a plan from the joint

chiefs coming and that he's optimistic that it will provide some stability shall we say in the safe haven. what are your thoughts and what do you know about that? >> that's what i was talking about. this is a plan that would probably establish a security zone within eastern syria and it would probably take into consideration about 60% in terms of securing it compared to what we have done in the past. that would mean less of our forces there but no change in the syrian democratic forces. we are largely focused on the kurds here these last number of days for obvious reasons. part of the syrian democratic forests, tens of thousands of arabs and part of the contested area in central and southern syria in the eastern part of syria is actually arab land in that green area up there that's on the map. in the central park, the southern part, that's where isis

is. that is all arab land and they are very important and also containing isis. i think the pentagon is trying to come back with a plan, a modification of what the president has announced, to be sure. it puts the decision back in his hands and for his consideration. i'm hoping he approves what general milley is proposing to him because it will accomplish, help accomplish our core objectives switches contain isis from your merging, make certain the iranians don't run the table, take over eastern syria. leading to encroachment on israel's security and if we are able to have some semblance of control in eastern syria, airspace control as part of it. it gives us a seat at the table when the final political outcome is being decided on syria. obviously the russians, the iranians have a seat at that table big way. assad will have a seat at that

table. opposition forces but also the united states. that's what we are driving towards pittsfield quickly if you can, your reaction to the chemical weapon story. do you believe the turks when they say they're not using them? >> they have used chlorine gas, not sayer in gas, routinely. tragically. i believe in this operation, i can't speak for the chlorine gas but they use white phosphorus artillery rounds which when they make contact with the human, burns into their skin. it significant damage. it's not as lethal in a sense of a major piece of steel hitting a body but it's terrorizing weapons and its use for that purpose. not just on people but also the effect on other people who see it happening. >> martha: absolutely. general keane, thank you. good to talk to you, sir. thank you. he retired u.s. marine accused of spying on moscow facing at

least another two months behind bars. a judge in russia ordering paul whelan to stay in prison until december 29. that's more than a year after the russians arrested and charged him with espionage. they say they caught him carrying a flash drive loaded with state secrets. he says they planted it on him. he was in russian court to fight those charges. images of him holding up a piece of paper with regard to his case. he was kept inside a box. >> convicted of a crime that never happened. russia said they caught james bond on the spy mission. in reality, they abducted mr. being on holiday. >> martha: he says a prison guard threatened him with a gun. jon huntsman, who fought for his release, says moscow has not shown any evidence that backs up their claims against mr. whelen. a few days ago the house of representatives passed a resolution demanding evidence from russia for his release. today is his 300 stay in prison.

his twin brother david joins me now. good to see you today, david. we are very sorry for your family and your brother is going through. what the latest that you've heard from him on his condition and on the case? >> as you say, it's the 300th day he's been in russian prison. he was arrested on charges that haven't been able to be substantiated and we continue to wait while the russian government decides what to do with paul. he will be in jail until after christmas and that's very unfortunate. we were hoping to have them home so that our elderly parents would be able to see him. >> martha: of course. tell me about the circumstances of what he was there and how he ended up in jail. >> he'd gone to visit moscow with a former marine who was having a wedding there. he was going to help the wedding party. he was also meeting up with russian friends. one of them entrapped and by placing a usb key in his hotel room without him being aware of it and then the russian police

came in and arrested him. >> martha: what's your understanding of what's going on here and how much help are you getting from the u.s. government and how frustrated are you about their ability to be able to help release him. he's been there, as we say, 300 days. a very, very long time. >> we are very frustrated. lindsey graham, senator graham just said no one likes to be accusedth spying. we are in a position where we really appreciate president trump directing secretary pompeo and ambassador o'brien to take action to bring paul home through diplomatic means. it's wrong for an american citizen, a former marine, to be left on the geopolitical battlefield like this without any recourse to a proper legal system without proper comfort in that sort of situation. >> martha: i can only imagine how hard this is for your family. we are thinking about you and we hope you get more answers and we hope you get them soon.

thank you very much, david. good to see you today. some shocking new pictures emerging. you may have heard about the story of congresswoman katie hill. you're going to hear what they show and what we know. moments ago we learned that another lawmaker is under investigation from the journalists at fox news, this is "fox news reporting." you know it's an suv! i know for fact your suv does not suck. why is that? it ain't got that vacuum in the back! we got to go. ♪ vacuum in the back, hallelujah! ♪

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>> martha: house ethics committee investigating a freshman congresswoman after report accused her of having an affair with one of her congressional staffers. that's not allowed under house rules put in place last year. the lawmaker under scrutiny as democratic katie hill from california. she's considered a rising star in the party. she denies the accusation but in doing so admits she had a previous relationship with the different campaign staffer. ellison barber reporting live from our washington newsroom on this very interesting story. lots of developments. >> house ethics committee said they've begun an investigation, will gather additional information regarding some of the allegations against representative katie hill. they are careful to say investigating it doesn't indicate any violation has occurred. the california democrat denies having an affair with her

congressional staffer. that's the allegation that triggered the ethics probe and if true, would violate house rules. she did however admit to having a relationship with a subordinate on her campaign. in the letter sent to constituents obtained by fox news, hill says "during the final tumultuous years of my abusive marriage i began a relationship with someone in my campaign. even a consensual relationship with the subordinate is an appropriate but i allowed it to happen despite my better judgment. for that i apologize." she said "i'm going through divorce from an abusive husband determined to try to humiliate me. i'm disgusted my opponents would seek to exploit such a private matter for political gain. this coordinate it effort to try to destroy me and the people close to me is despicable and will not succeed." hill says she's cooperating with the ethics committee and that she's reached out to law enforcement. the allegations published. a nude photo was also published.

we've tried to speak with her. we know she voted last night but our team has not been able to find her roaming the halls of capital health today. >> martha: tough situation all around. is she getting any defenders among her colleagues on capitol hill? >> she is and it's not who you would expect rubri. republican matt gaetz coming to her defense. the florida republican called the investigation absurd adding "who among us would look perfect if every ex leaked a photo or text. hill identifies as bisexual. we've seen allegations come out in the last hour but so far fox news has not been able to independently verify. >> martha: thank you very muc much. this just coming in, house ethics committee has opened an investigation into yet another representative, this one from the u.s. territory guam.

according to the committee, the accusations include that he may have engaged in a relationship with an individual on his congressional staff. michael sam nicholas, freshman member and nonvoting delegate. saying he converted campaign funds for personal use. wildfire alert. california's wine country up in flames. fire is spreading quickly and forcing an entire town to evacuate. folks in geiser veil in sonoma county woke up to a mandatory orders getting them t. the fire broke out around 9:30 last night and scorched 10,000 acres by this morning. this video from earlier this morning, the national weather service reporting 70-mile-an-hour wind gusts. category one hurricane has sustained winds of around that

speed. a lot of wind funneling through that valley in the vineyard area. fire officials give an update. they said they've contained 0% of the flames thus far. it's the same area slammed by deadly wildfires in 2017. a woman who lives there said it feels like a weird dream. >> it is surreal. it's hard because you can't see the flames. you can file. the error feels like it did. and doesn't look like it's on fire. it doesn't feel like it's on fire. he feels like the fires over but i know on the other side of the smoke it's raging. >> martha: the states power companies begin new preventative outages to lower the risks of the fire spreading. this map shows areas already affected by the blackouts in yellow. the governors has 170,000 customers are in those zones and warned more outages are likely on the way. you've heard of nine to five

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>> martha: what would he give up to get a five hour workday? i manage m&a testing the idea on his employees but there are some restrictions which make up for the lost time, including a down on social media, workers also can't check their cell phones, are discouraged from making small talk during business hours, but those rules and at 1:00, when there were did us. let's bring it to ceo who put this plan into place. he joins me from germany. good to see you. this idea started when you were to your previous company it sounds like and you asked them if you could take two afternoons a week off to be with your kids. how did that work out? >> that's right. actually they were irritated but i talked to that person and they

offered me a reduction of my payment or my wages which i accepted for the first couple of weeks and then realized when being in the office, i was very focused and i organize myself pretty strictly so i realized that my productivity didn't decrease, and i was wondering, why is that? i looked into it and i researched and wrote a lot of books about it and then after quitting my former job and selling, i decided to work with this new company which i bought in 2013. >> martha: what's the response been like? you had this in place for two years i believe and i guess one of the biggest questions people have is, how do you separate everyone from the five-minute check of facebook or the look at their phones to catch and on twitter or instagram? how do you regulate all of that? >> we actually discussed it o on -- routine and we discussed rules

that you want to follow and -- we have rules in place and these rules make it possible that people leave at 1:00 and we also have to keep productivity so we are strict on planning so everyone knows what to do every day and they reach their targets or reach their daily goal and then they can leave it alone. that happens every now and then come of course, because we have bad days and goodness, but still, we have some rules and they have to look after them because i know that if they check facebook all the time, they will not be finished by 1:00. >> martha: right. i guess one of my questions is, if somebody wants to stand out and i want to work more hours, or they want to have greater productivity, or they want to work when their home in the afternoon, does it -- has not happened and with the impact on the whole experiment? >> the thing is, we don't work

and repetitive jobs anymore. the work has changed, quite a lot has changed. we are always solution oriented. we need our brains heavily every day and euro times shows that this can actually work for eight to ten hours under pressure heavily. so of course sometimes you have a great day, you feel very healthy and energized and you can do eight hour days or ten hour days, maybe even 14 hour days. but that can't be the rule because as you can see with the traps of mental health issues, and germany, i don't know about the states but in germany, they been increasing heavily and all of those things and it just doesn't make sense and i think of course you can have a day where you are very into your job but that should be the rule and i encourage people to take time off, meditate, do mindful things >> martha: how is business? >> business is okay. i mean, we are still working.

we were positive in 2018, the first year. i've also been productive this year and productivity has to say the same otherwise we've lost experiment. >> martha: thank you very much. get back to work for good talk to you. very interesting stuff. >> the process you are engaging in regarding and the incentive impeachment of president trump is out-of-bounds, it is inconsistent with the due process, we know it. >> a day after the sitting, republicans have gone all into open a door for the democrats impeachment probe. hello everyone, i'm charles filling in for neil because udo and this is "your world." the republican senator lindsey graham is fed up with the house democrats and closed-door sessions just borrowing up a resolution condemning the whole thing. let's get right to mike emanuel on capitol hill with the very latest but my? >> lindsey graham, a veteran of the bill clinton impeachment says house democrats are doing it wrong. >> what you are doing