blue very patriotic. if you are around town. make sure you stop on by and check it out. rob: very cool. merry christmas, i'm glad we don't have to watch any hearings today on capitol hill. "fox & friends" starts now. jillian: have a good day. ♪ i got that sunshine in my pocket ♪ got that god sole in my feet ♪ drop ♪ brian: justin timberlake singing. steve: live from new york city december 7th, 6:00 in the morning. emily today. elm imgood morning, guys. thanks so much for having me. brian: are you ready? emily: more than ready. steve: we are so lucky to have a lawyer on the couch because yesterday it was all about the law at the judiciary committee. our lead story this morning democrats say they are all in on impeachment of the president following another 8 and a half hours of testimony on capitol hill. brian: got four scholars. they go head-to-head in a

way over what constitutes removing a president from the oval office. three agreed with each other and one didn't but they all agreed on one thing they didn't vote for donald trump. emily: typical attorneys, right? our own griff jenkins joins us live fro with the highlightsm that heated hearing. good morning. griff: good morning. the committee tasked with writing articles of impeachment heard from three constitutional scholars invited by democrats making a forceful case to impeach the president. >> 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. >> president trump invited, indeed demanded, foreign involvement in our upcoming elections. he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge of allegiance. >> if we what we are talking about is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable. griff: but the fourth invited by republicans was gravely warning against it.

>> if you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. it's your abuse of power. you're doing precisely what you are criticizing the president for doing. griff: when the gavel finally fell the chairman jerry nadler declared the evidence overwhelming citing. doug collins cautioned him of being on the wrong side of history. the white house responded by the way. calling it a good day for the president. and bad day for democrats. are we any closer to a vote on impeachment? well, behind closed doors speaker pelosi asked mexico last night are you ready? saying now is the time to speak up if you have a problem. she will be making a statement we just learned on the status of the impeachment inquiry at 9:00 this morning. outside the speaker's balcony hallway. guys? brian: that's the big question, griff. no one clear on what is next. that's how the ranking member collins. by the way, what do i do i

need to plan my weekend? nobody knows. griff: we have no idea what's next. hopefully we find out at 9:00. certainly the judiciary committee write these articles of impeachment before the house can vote on it. we will see what happens. brian: you will eventually tell us, griff, right? steve: we will see it live. it is expected there will be three hearings. there could be one more hearing next week. nancy pelosi in that closed door, members only, put your phones at the door meeting, said are you ready? there was overwhelming response, according to to somebody who was authorized to leak to the press. she said okay weir going to take this one step at a time. the question is what is the next step. yesterday you had -- when we started the show yesterday it was okay, it's going to be one republican witness against three democrat witnesses. and we thought oh, too bad for jonathan turley. jonathan turley actually got more time than everybody because he -- every time there was a republican they would ask him about the law.

emily: what struck me yesterday how seemingly disconnected the question was and is to the average voter. that existential entire philosophical discussion about the framers is really difficult to follow when voters at home care about their president, the work he's doing and what things affect them. the second and final thing is how neutral jonathan turley presented himself and how not neutral the other three. steve: he said he didn't vote for donald trump. brian: definitely definitive how he felt. yeah, i don't love the phone call. it's not perfect but it's not impeachable. with historical president why it's not impeachable and how dangerous it would be to be impeached. the other thing that struck me how i thought i was looking at three people cable pundits debating issue. all had points of view totally exposed by matt gaetz for past donations and past actions which diminished any type of intellectual approach towards. this for example, the low point and there was a lot of them from pamela karlan who

must be an embarrassment to her profession. she just came off as somebody just had an agenda to get across and her background reveals it. listen to what she said and look at the smirk she had after she said it. >> so kings could do no wrong because the king's word were law. and contrary to what president trump has said. article 2 does not give him the power to do anything he wants. i will just give you one example that shows 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 barron, he can't make him a barron. steve: there she was talking about the president's power under article 2 of the constitution. she thought it was a funny line. but then the first lady weighed in and she has had to walk it back. the first lady said a minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. pamela karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering. and using a child to do it.

she, karlan, is regarded as on the short list for the democrats for the u.s. supreme court. emily: it speaks volumes. measured statements with anything. that was pretty emphatic. steve: don't pick on my kid. it spoke volumes of you who she feels and felt in that moment after professor karlan made that frankly inappropriate comment. steve: professor karlan had to apologize. she said she was wrong to mention the president's son. brian: she couldn't do that purely. yeah i think the president should apologize for what he has said. where does that come out of left field? steve: also you had professor noah feldman. he said yesterday he was an impeachment skeptic until he heard the transcript of that phone call. but apparently he forgot that shortly after the impeachment in 2017 he said the president should be impeached for treating that obama wiretapped him and colluded with russia. violated foreign emoluments

clause. he wrote in the pages of bloomberg, he should be impeached for pardoning sheriff arpaio. light bulb goes off first time ever thought about it. he thought about it for a while. brian: karlan on camera saying wouldn't walk by what once was the post office and now the trump hotel. i came from the airport, i dulles i walked up what used to be the old post office and now the trump hotel. i had to walk across the street. i can't wait to hear intellectual. she woke up every day knowing the president should be impeached. ranking member doug collins said i think i know the overall objective of this entire. >> the chairman said it just a second ago. because we are scared of the elections next year. we're scared of the elections that we will lose again. so we have got to do this now. the clock and the calendar is what's driving

impeachment. not the facts. this is not an impeachment. this is a simple railroad job. and today's is a waste of time. because this is where we are at. so i close today with this. it didn't start with mueller, it didn't start with a phone call. do you know where this started? it started with tears in brooklyn in november 2016. steve: tears in brooklyn where hillary clinton's campaign headquarters was. emily: another thing that came out of this yesterday. viewers watching this and trying to decipher credibility and neutral approach, they are sifting through what are the facts i need to know? what do i believe? what is credible? is the point that professor turley made essentially saying if we are to argue that obstruction is simple exercise of basically the privilege, he was saying so when we go to court and we say look, we would like the judges to decide whether something is privileged, professor turley pointed out, why should that be impeachable, if anything, that's the judges deciding whether that privilege

applies, isn't that what our defense, what our given right is in this country to defend yourself to exercise all defense options? steve: when they are going to go to court. brian brine you want articles of impeachment be on destruction because a president once used executive privilege and have the courts decide? that is called the way we do it. there is three branches of government. newt gingrich knows a lot about impeachment. and the risk of impeachment politically an says i'm looking at this case. i've got an opinion. >> the fact is that this entire case is about hatred and pathology and emotions that are so deep and you saw it with the three democratic witnesses. let's see if we could find three left-wing college professors that hate trump and bring them in to pretend they are experts. i think they destroyed themselves by the very hatred, the depth of their hostility to president trump. but that's what we are up against. the left wing of the democratic party would not

tolerate nancy pelosi not moving forward on impeachment. and that's why she moved. the pressure from her left was so horrendous she had to cave. steve: that is why nancy pelosi behind closed doors yesterday said are we ready and they said yes so they're moving forward. yesterday as well the president's attorney pat sip lone went up on capitol hill. he was talking to a bunch of senators about the strategy going forward. strategy is according to "the washington post" the president wants a trial in the senate. they want joe biden there they would like hunter biden. they would like a camera operator number two right there. we just got one. that's exactly the way it's going to go. they are all in because the president feels he can get a fair shake in the senate and at the same time he will be exonerated. brian: i would like to add this before we go to hillary

clinton on howard stern. read "the washington post," i don't often say that and if you are a democrat, henry olsen writes a column how democrats may be losing the house and talks about the risks and the poll numbers and what they are saying about the impeachment process. next. steve: hold on just a second. in the pages of the "new york post" on the op-ed page it talks about how, you know, by the time the election rolls around next year, nobody is really going to care about impeachment. brian: steve, you texted my something also important in the "new york post." steve: i did. that apparently the mets are going to get sold. brian: that's true. keep your fingers crossed. meanwhile, hillary clinton. steve: is running. brian: yes. howard stern supported her during the race and always talked about how disappointed he was she never came to visit. yesterday she went across the street and visited howard stern. steve: for the first time ever. he made it clear why didn't you go on my show in 2016. i helped donald trump because he came on the show and he was a sell. had you been that person, come on my show a couple of

years ago, you might have done better. emily: we have a shot here of her response to that take a listen. >> and i have watched presidential debates, and you can see moments when oh my gosh, the audience goes. can you just tell. i thought okay, he won't be prepared. he won't know. he will just stick with the same schtick. >> you are almost too nice. >> i was certainly, you know, very careful. i grew up at a time when if you were going to get through a door as a woman, you did not react to anything. part of it was that training. like, okay. you are a woman, trying to do something that not many other women or any women have ever done, you have got to stay focused. >> dug down. >> rench to eve refer religion to even this guy loom. >> i turned around and said back up, you creep. you are not going to intimidate me it. would have worked against me. well, she can't take donald trump.

how is she going to take vladimir putin. i'm not unaware of this. steve: there she is talking about remember reaction to him -- him, donald trump, being behind her during one of the debates. emily: her tour continues unfortunately. fortunately we have jillian mele here. steve: she is looming. jillian: we start with this. the search for a motive after a sailor opens fire at pearl harbor killing two ship yard workers and injuring another. the shooter an active duty u.s. petty officer also killed himself. witnesses describe the moments the base went on lockdown. >> very scary. you don't know. you are very in the dark and hope to god everything is going to be okay. jillian: not clear if that sailor knew his victims. happening just days before the nation owns the 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. the man facing charges in his wife's disappearance sends her a bizarre message. listen to this. >> all i want to say is i

wish jennifer and her family happy holidays and i just pray that they give my kids my love and my best wishes. jillian: that's float tuesday dflotus dulos.he says ie is entitled to more money from his in-law's to pay off the home that he once shared with jennifer dulos. now he faces separate charges in connection with to jennifer's disappearance. she went missing in may and hasn't been seen since. that's a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. steve: that is something. brian: that is audacity. steve: 6:15 in new york city. president trump firing back at justin trudeau in canada at the nato summit. you saw this live yesterday. >> well, he is two-faced. the truth is that i called him out on the fact that he is not paying 2%. steve: so if every uncountry isn't paying their fair share of 2%. is nato still worth the trouble?

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honestly with trudeau, he is a nice guy. i find him to be a very nice guy. the truth is that i called him out on the fact that he is not paying 2%. and i guess he is not very happy about it. >> same thing second time he did it to the president. say one thing to his face and then turn around at a press conference or caught on a hot mic in this case. are there two throw do yous? what's that mean for nato? harry, 70 years young is nato. how would you characterize this coming together of 29 nations? >> well, brian, you know, i think it's truly sad when you have this historic event, celebrating what really is the ultimate military alliance. we have to keep in mind. this is the alliance that stared down the soviet union and then saw the soviet union fall. and when you think about all of these leaders getting together and having a gossip party, essentially making fun of president trump, i think about it this way, brian. these leaders would be the ones to have to call president trump if there

ever was a crisis with russia, with isis. its brave american women who would die for that alliance if something were to happen. i think it's really sad what happened at this event to be very honest with you. brian: president could recite real progress. leaders of it. not doing enough to think about our strategy. look what he has done in terms of percentage of those paying into the general fund and paying for their defense. america pays 3.4. bulgaria 3.2. greece 2.3. u.k. has made it. he is stonia, poland, latvia lithuania and romania. put personal insults aside, who cares if your objective gets to you. >> that's the whole thing. the president has made big progress. think about this. nato is actually going to spend up to $400 billion more going into 2024. that is an accomplishment for president trump. that is an accomplishment

for president trump's foreign policy. this is why the american people support this president. because he doesn't look at foreign policy like the elites. he is willing to ask tough questions. and he is willing to ask questions like what is the purpose of nato? why does it exist? and i think that's the smart way to go. brian: i have no problem with some of the objections macron had. when you push someone to get better a lot of times have you got to go directly at them. find out what our strategy is in syria. are we going to do anything in iraq? how are we going to get together on iran. he also wrangled in turkey turkey no longer pushing back against our push into eastern europe to stop any russian expansion. so, turkey got on on the same hymn sheet yesterday. >> turkey is actually looking to go to russia and maybe buy stealth aircraft. they already bought the air defense system. that's a huge problem. something we have to look at. brian: absolutely. harry, thanks so much. >> thanks, brian.

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brian: got here just in time. the starbucks manager fired after a police officer was handed a cup with pig on it. she might sue. says it was another barista and starbucks fired her for the thanksgiving day incident in a.o.c. she confronted the barista right away and apologized to the police department. on another note colin kaepernick workout leads to another. one of the wide receivers who georgia just signed to the washington redskins practice squad. george breezy has now spent parts of the last two years with six different teams got a job. emily, steve? emily: president trump has been pushing to lower the number of people on food stamps since the beginning of his administration. take a look. >> 45 million americans are living right now on food stamps. hard to believe this is our country. >> nearly 7 million people have been lifted off, very importantly, food stamps. 7 million people off of food stamps. and we are getting americans off of welfare and back into

the workforce. emily: his administration is announcing now new regulations to make it harder for able-bodied people without jobs to get benefits. the crackdown is expected to impact about 688,000 people, saving the government more than $5 billion over five years. steve: that's substantial. here with reaction is the founder and president of the center for urban renewal and education and author of pretty new book it's called "necessary noise" how donald trump inflames the culture war and why this is good for america. star parker joins us today from l.a. good morning to you. >> good morning, good morning. steve: what do you make of the president tightening these work rules? apparently they do not affect children and their parents. those over 50, those with a disability or pregnant women. but, otherwise, it if you are able-bodied you might have to get a job or you are not going to get the food stamps. >> i think that president trump and his administration are doing an incredible job

making america great again. this is fantastic news. that they are now acknowledging those that are sitting on their couch. they have gotten very comfortable on the couch to say our national food stamp program is for those that are in need, desperate need. they fix the economy and now they are asking those that are not participating to participate. they are encouraging them to say we see the potential in you. so we are going to change a few rules to encourage to you encourage your own life to get involved in what is happening and making america great again. emily: and, star, that's the wowrnt argument to those that say look, you are kicking off almost 600,000 people from food stamps. it's a dire situation. what's the response to that? >> well, the people that want the big welfare state have a vested interest. most americans don't understand or don't realize that we are spending about hundred billion dollarspend900 . we have invested trillion

dollars in this war on poverty. and less than 20 cents on a dollar actually reaches the household. there is a lot of bureaucracy going on and a lot of swamping going on so of course people are going to say help us, we want to keep the status quo. what the president has done. he is an incredible leader. what he has done is say i see potential in americans and i see potential in all americans. we are going to keep america great by making these little changes. those that are complaining that it came before christmas. it did not come before christmas. not only have we been working on these changes for years, but, yet, they are not implemented until next airplane. april. this is not a christmas surprise. steve: here is the thing, star. it was a campaign promise. executive branch has a broad discretion what to do with food stamps. >> that's right. emily: he said it's a little change but it's a large investment. it's an investment into the potential of those able-bodied workers. >> this really is this is telling the states to stop wavering. this is tell the states to see their people as human

beings that have potential and capacity. steve: a hand up rather than a hand. emily: right. >> that's right. steve: star park earthquake, thanparker, thankyou for joinin. emily: he says is he worried about the impeachment. >> i'm concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a pose city of evidence and abundance of anger. steve: he is right in the judge knows professor turley well and the judge is next on "fox & friends" for this thursday. ♪ ♪ us lives here. where we can be surprised by others.

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you're doing precisely what you are criticizing the president for doing. >> there are you got jonathan turley yesterday who was the republicans' lone witness with the academics on the stage essentially we brought in judge andrew napolitano. fox news senior judicial analyst. host of the liberty file on fox nation. jonathan turley did a great job making the production' case at the same time he said i didn't vote for donald trump i voted for hillary clinton. he is not a republican. >> he is very credible. i know all four of them. constitutional law community of which i am a very small part is a very small group. karlan and again heart for all of their wrote the text. professor feldman one of the smartest one in the country. professor turley used to be here now at cbs as well as george washington law school made a very credible case. look, i disagree with everywhere of what trump did. i didn't vote for him. i'm not here to carry

political baggage. here is where i agree with doug collins. nothing. the democrats got a legal basis, emily, for whatever they want to do. the republicans got a legal basis for whatever they want to do. for those of us in this field of constitutional law it was fascinating. i think most americans probably turned off on it. steve: good point. >> we learned a couple of new things. congressman schiff and his committee did not say a peep about anything nut mueller report. it appears now that the democrats in the house judiciary committee are going to craft obstruction of justice articles or one obstruction of justice article based on the allegations and findings in the mueller report. that's new. the schiff committee did nothing on bribery. it appears that the democrats are going to argue that by asking for a personal favor and not performing a legal duty attorney the personal favor came. it's their definition of

bribery. acceptable definition of bribery. as i was coming up here. who knows more than this than anybody chad pergram. ms. pelosi has a major announcement at 9:00 this morning. we don't know what it is. brian: we imagine if the reports are true it's we're going ahead with impeachment. steve: i think she is going to add one step at a time. >> i don't know if one step at a time is before christmas or after. chris wallace says if they go home for christmas they will lose steam. if they go for for christmas without voting. brian: i'm afraid to take another breath judge judge i'm sorry. brian: so much to say. judge: so happy about buying the mets. steve: don't derail him. brian: when john turley said if you told george washington that you can be impeached over a conversation this powder wig would go on fire. i thought that is basically he is a constitutional scholar and he boils it down to that. >> can i tell you why i'm smiling? i thought of you when he said that all of this time we spent together in radio

days. i know how you love history and i know you are a fan of george washington that is a brian kilmeade line. did turley get that line from kilmeade? brian: he didn't. but do you know what i liked about it, judge. he did everything in perspective. how this is like johnson. how this is like nixon. do you agree with that statement? >> yes. i do agree with it. i agree a lot of with what professor turley said. here is where i disagree. professor turley argued when the president or his people, secretary pompeo, john bolton, other people in the white house received subpoenas, the president can tell them to disregard a subpoena and throw it. steve: separation of powers. >> he can't. that's what bill clinton was charged with. that's what richard nixon was charged with and andrew johnson was charged with the failure to respond to a subpoena. you don't have to comply with it. you have to challenge or comply with it. ignoring it is obstruction of congress. and the judiciary has nothing to do with that the congress doesn't need the court's permission to serve a subpoena and it doesn't need the court's help in

enforcing the subpoena. the courts have nothing to do with it. congress makes the determination. we gave you the subpoena, you are resisting us. that's impeachable offense. the house has voted that three times. brian: he is judge andrew napolitano, we will find out the next steps. >> i think we will find out something at 9:00 this morning. i'm still a yankee fan. i would love the great competition in the city. brian: it would be great to see the mets fend again. steve: we have news. judge: where is jillian? jillian: right behind you. judge: i came up the steps. jillian: good morning, everyone. get you cottrell up on news you are following. we begin here, a voluntary evacuation overnight one week after a chemical plant explodes in texas. warned of elevated lone wolves of chemicals in the air. officials say it did not pose a serious health risk. some people could feel side effect like ann arbor, headaches and dizziness. three people were hurt in last week's explosion. it took days to put out the

fire. deadly defect launches a new wave of takata airbag recalls. 1.4 million calls are being affected including models from bmw, toyota and honda. the propellant used to blow up the airbags can deteriorate over time putting drivers at risk of explosions. at least one people was killed by the faulty inflaters. this defect is different to the one that led to 24 deaths and hundreds of injuries worldwide. two first responders make a heroic rescue rest could i diving into a canal to save a woman from her sinking car in a canal. she tried to avoid a hog that ran in front of her. hero first responders navigated through dark murky waters and punched out a window to make that rescue. they weren't done. jumping back in to save the woman's dogs. wow, incredible story. forget about the grinch. elementary school principal is stealing christmas cheer this year. jonathan mason a principal in england is banning his

students from handing out christmas cards to save the environment. mason says the holiday gifts are contributing to, quote. evergrowing carbon emissions. he suggested kids really you want to send a card, they can send one to the entire class. a look at your headlines. steve: ba humbug. i wonder how they feel about valentines? right? you can't just give one valentine to the whole class. just saying. brian: i wonder how janice feels about anything januaryian that's a gentlemen general toss. i love everything. i love this crowd this morning at 6:30. [cheers] janice: we have a birthday here. how are you? what's your name? >> mimi. >> are you having a good birthday so far. >> i am. janice: anniversary what's your name. >> pamela and patrick. janice: how many years. >> 30 years. janice: what's the secret. >> do everything she wants me too. janice: how many years? >> 25 years.

janice: fantastic. what's the secret? >> staying in love and loving jesus. janice: good answer. quickly, take a look at the maps. you know a quieter forecast. it is cold in new york city. see the potential for lake-effect snow and clipper system. not a big deal here. it is december. it is expected and then we have another system that's going to move across the west coast. and that's going to bring the potential for heavy rain and mountain snow. otherwise, i'm so happy you are all here today. [cheers] janice: say hello to emily and brian and steve. [cheers] emily: good morning, guys. steve: they lit the big christmas tree in rockefeller center last night. brian: a lot of people sixth avenue and fifth i should say. i'm making my only new jersey experience soccer tournament. sam alamo ridgewood, new jersey 6:00. be done by 8:00 and back home and hopefully sleeping. i hope to see everyone there wake forest on saturday. i have never been there in north carolina at heritage high school. i will be able to talk for about an hour. if you can take that and then i will be signing everybody's book. i promise.

then to raleigh at 8:00. that sold out. a little bit later in the afternoon i will be in rich and, georgia barnes & noble at 1:30. birthplace of washington 6:00. that will be barnes & noble there. and on sunday, mcclain at noon. steve: in virginia. brian: in mclean, virginia. thanks to everyone for supporting the book. steve: if you need more information go to brian kilmeade.com. we saw that image of our next guest. a new plan to help americans retire their student loan debt. emily: senator rand paul wrote the bill. he said it's a better option than the government getting involved. he joining us next. - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker,

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honey, can you get the snacks? (laughter) (cat meows) (dark barks) ♪ guess who's early? (cat meows) good thing walgreens is right around the corner with last minute holiday supplies. get in. get out. get jolly. steve: student loan debt in the united states has hit a record high reaching more

than $1.6 trillion. last year the average college student owed nearly 30,000 bucks after they graduated. and that is something. a staggering financial burden. the next guest has a plan to relieve it by proposing a bill that allows people to dip into their 401(k)s to pay off college debt. how would that work? let's talk to the bill's author republican senator from the great state of kentucky rand paul. senator, good morning to you. >> good morning. we have all got kids. i have three kids. two of them out of college now. one is still in college. but the thing is what this would allow for is not only that you could use money that's already in your ira, it allows to you specifically put money in there. so let's say you are already paying your student loans off or paying them with after tax dollars. this would allow you to take that money, put it in the 401(k) and pay with pretax dollars. also if you are saving. if your kid is getting ready to go to school. let's each parent put $5,000 in and the child put 5,000 in for about $15,000 every

year that's tax-free. so essentially, college is going to become tax-free. which depending on your tax bracket is about a 20 to 30% reduction in the price of college. this would be the most dramatic thing to happen to college tuition and helping students pay for it really in the history of government involvement at all. steve: sure. you touched on it there at the end. speaking of government involvement. this doesn't cost the government anything, does it? >> no. that's why it's much more practical. several of the democrats on the presidential stage have offered free, which alarm bells should go off when somebody offers you something for free because there is no free lunch. really their programs would have to be paid for with massive taxes on the working class and middle class. ours doesn't require that ours simply says if you will save, we will not tax you on that money, and you can pay for college. everybody is trying to pay for college now but they are doing it with after tax dollars. we would let you do it with pretax dollars. like i say it's a 20 to 30%

reduction in the cost of education for everybody. steve: what about support on capitol hill for getting something done because i don't know if you have seen the papers but apparently there is some impeachment thing going on there. >> there is a little bit of acrimony. i have several republicans that have signed up for the bill. we don't have the names to release this morning. but we have several republicans. we are trying to get democrats and we are going to try to get a republican and a democrat to introduce this on the house side. i think it has a chance of passing. free college education which isn't really free has no chance on capitol hill. this uses a standard form of retirement income. iras, everybody know what is they're, 401(k)s, and uses that vehicle and says, you know what? you can pay for college out of that. not just draining it. it means you can add more money to it that's all tax-free, basically. steve: senator, before you go, of course, yesterday, there was the impeachment inquiry in the judiciary committee, it looks like nancy pelosi is all. in she said are we ready? and they said yes, they are.

next stop after impeachment is the senate and the white house has made it clear they would like a live senate trial with live witnesses as well. so you have got to imagine they would call joe biden and hunter biden, people like that. as a republican senator, what do you think about that? >> you know, i think it's still up in the air whether it comes over here. i think the case they presented is so bad that i can't imagine democrats in any kind of marginal districts thinking it's going to be a good idea to vote for this. i think democrats who vote for this in these marginal districts that just won last time in all likelihood will be defeated for voting for something that i think appears to be frivolous and partisan. if it does come to us, i think it's going to be along party lines again. i think what they are trying to do is impeach the president because they don't like him. they don't like his temperament. that's not really a reason for impeachment. and i'm alarmed at the abuse of power by adam schiff. did you see yesterday it was released that he is actually spying on other members of congress and journalists by using his subpoena power to get their phone calls.

this is abhorrent. this is exactly what he is accusing the president of. using the power of government to go after political opponents. this should never happen. and i'm going to work hard to make sure that i in the futue people bike adam schiff do not have the power to abuse government to go after their political rivals. steve: rand paul joining us from capitol hill. thank you. >> thank you. steve: 10 minutes before the top of the hour. christmas is less than three weeks away. still need a gift the kids are going to love that will get to your house in time? how about light-up party hats for nearly 80% off. mega morning deals just for christmas coming up. ♪ first comes the stocking ♪ oh dear santa ♪ give her a dolly that laughs and cries ♪ one that will open and shut her eyes we're carvana, the company who invented

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pelosi posted telling question, perhaps, to her members asking them, quote: are you ready? if you have a problem, now is the time to speak up. this after the committee tasked with writing these articles of impeachment if they are coming heard who are 8 hours from three constitutional scholars invited by democrats making a forceful case to impeach donald trump. >> 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. >> president trump invited, indeed demanded foreign involvement in our upcoming election. he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge apledge of allegiance. >> if what we are talking about is not impeachable. then nothing is impeachable. >> but the fourth scholar invited by republicans was gravely warning against it. >> if you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts,

it is an abuse of power. it is your abuse of power. you are doing precisely what you are criticizing the president for doing. >> when the gavel fell, the chairman jerry nadler declared the evidence overwhelming while the ranking member doug collins cautioned him of being on the wrong side of history. the white house responded late calling it a good day for the president and bad day for democrats saying that only thing that three scholars proved was their bias. we shall find out what happens with that big announcement in less than two hours, guys it. will be interesting to see, too, whether the speaker addresses the fact that they will have to pass the continuing resolution to keep the government open as well. because that government money runs out on december 20th. will. steve: that's exactly right that could be the only thing they pass before christmas. griff, thank you so much. apparently nancy pelosi's statement at 9:00. which you will see live here on fox is, part of a busy day by democrats trying to make the case for impeachment. apparently in addition to that statement, she is going

to have a press conference later this morning and plans to appear tonight at a cnn town hall where she is expected to answer questions from people about impeachment. brian: one of the things you want to ask nancy pelosi i thought you said if it's going to be a partisan affair we shouldn't do impeachment. i don't know one republican that is even on the fence in the house. steve: but there are democrats. bipartisan in opposition. brian: other congressman in minnesota at least have made it clear they are not going to do it. if you read "the washington post" numbers are staggering battle ground state. the sense is no and so sure are republicans that this is an issue for them put between 5 and $6.5 million in the battle ground states embracing the impeachment message as if to say see what you have done by putting these people in trump-won districts. emily: hopefully she will also answer questions about the agenda so we know the house has extended their

calendar by four extra days. is t. remains to be seen though what they are going to be accomplishing in those extra days because on their docket or on their desks is lobbying bill, usmca, in addition to funding the government. in addition to their elephant which is impeachment. there is a lot more things on their desk that voters care about and citizens care about than impeachment at this point. steve: well, yesterday, if you watched it, they really didn't uncover much new ground. what they did was they had four experts in constitutional law talk about it as we predicted. it was three who said yep, he should be impeached. and then you had jonathan turley closer to the camera right there, who said they did not make the case. it's interesting, the guy in the far left is noah feldman, he said yesterday that he was a skeptic about impeachment until he heard the phone call, but that is not exactly true because it was after shortly after the inauguration that he said the president should be impeached for tweeting out

that obama wiretapped him. he colluded with russia. he violated the foreign emoluments clause and then he wrote in bloomberg that president trump should be impeached because he is going to pardon joe arpaio, the sheriff down in maricopa county. brian: how ridiculous was it that jerry nadler picked these three. i don't care what their incident electric or resume says blatantly anti-trumpers vested in seeing him ousted and can't believe that he won. steve, you pointed out about feldman. okay. gotcha. gerhart's credit he was somewhat measured in his tone but definitely direct in saying the president should be impeached. the one that looked the most partisan and unhinged is this pamela karlan of stanford. if you want to know how she really feels separate from the ukraine phone call, go back to june 2017. listen to her talk about her hatred of all things trump. listen. >> got off the bus from dulles down at the plaza and i walked up to the hotel and as i was walking past what

used to be the old post office building and is now the trump hotel, i had to cross the street, of course. [laughter] but,. >> are you staying there. >> god no. steve: i guess she is not a fan. emily: the disdain is so evident and it kind of recalls back to the 2016 election which is why voters didn't feel hurt. why they resonated with president trump. there is that elitist disdainful reproachment coming from the far left and especially in academia that makes people feel disconnected and undercut. why everything about her exuded that she was better and smarter than anyone watching. and that's so off-putting. brian: in with her before she took the microphone and this is what jonathan turley said. all four did not vote for donald trump. including jonathan turley. he is a constitutional attorney. and that's what he -- get this: that's the way he approached it. he put politics aside and said, guys, not impeach being. i will go back and i will

cite history from madison to andrew johnson to prove it's not impeachable. steve: carley got in trouble for mentioning the president's son. melania trump took her to task and she did apologize later mark levin had this observation during 8 and a half hours of testimony. >> three of the witnesses who have been consistently hostile to president trump and are progressives, left wing progressives. progressives are at war with our constitutional order. they are at war with the declaration of independence and principles that undergird it. they reject them it. is precious indeed to watch these radical progressive law professors, three of them, tell us what the framers intended when they read madison's notes or the federalist papers. steve: okay. so, next steps, according to the wapo washington post. apparently the president's

attorney went up to capitol hill and talked to republican senators yesterday they started strategizing saying essentially. there is going to be impeachment vote ultimately in the house and then it moves to the senate where we feel we have a fair shake. we are going to have a live trial. live guests people like joe biden, hunter biden. will they show? don't know about that. they feel that they have the best shot at being completely exonerated by the senate. votes simply aren't there. brian: we will see if it gets to that place. we will know a lot at 9:00 and throughout the day from nancy pelosi. meanwhile, let's talk about 2020 politics. in case you did not know because of the swamp of information from nato and london and as well as what's happened on capitol hill. kamala harris sent shock waives through the democratic side when her wind sucking campaign finally just deflated. she left the arena. steve: she ran out of money. brian: she ran out of money and no momentum. very little support including some staffers leave with some negative things to say about the way she was leading the charge. what i found fascinating is

what happened since, since that time people like kenosha and others saying look at this party. not conversation. all white people there others taking their aims at billionaires saying it's all about money. these billionaires are trying to buy the nomination. especially elizabeth warren. listen to this. >> we have got a country that is working great for those at the top and economy working great for those at the top. and democracy working great for those at the top. it's just thought working for much of anyone else. and that's why i'm so concerned about michael bloomberg jumping into this race. dropping $37 million in one week on ad buys? i don't think as a democratic party that we should say that the only way you are going to get elected, the only way you are going to be our nominee is either if you are a billionaire or if you are sucking up to billionaires. steve: keep in mind, she knows the power of the money

that people like steyer and bloomberg have. bloomberg, i think, has so far spent $60 million on tv campaign ads. which is extraordinary. he essentially debuted at 6% in the polls. brian: what poll was that? steve: the hill poll that they do with harvard. bloomberg is doing okay. but what's interesting this morning is, you know, pete buttigieg, who had surged nationally over the last couple of weeks, their campaign has announced they have suddenly gotten endorsement from a bunch of obama people like reggie love, former special senator to president obama. as you austan goolsbee and linda douglas the former director of communications for the white house office of health reform rather than throw their weight behind joe biden who was the vice president during the obama years, they are looking to pete buttigieg. emily: which is fascinating.

if i can make the point to elizabeth warren and the billionaire comment. she would love to have kamala harris be her vp and open to it. look who were the largest endorsements of kamala harris. the silicon valley and wall street billionaires. it's interesting for her to, you know, talk out of both sides of her mouth. steve: she is not going to mention that part when she cashes the check. emily: it's not convenient. brian: when you drop out don't blame the fact that you don't have money or other people or lack of diversity. you had had a chance. you had a great rollout. you had a lot of hollywood support, silicon valley and you fell on your face because had you no position on major issues. you changed like the wind. you had no message. you can't run your own campaign. that's what happens. maybe you get a radio could rado like in john mccain's case. i have never seen people fail and blame other people. blame themselves for the lack of diversity. democrats aren't choosing -- dee choosing their candidates

nobody else. steve: kamala harris second debate took joe biden to task regarding busing and also how he worked with some segregationists when he was a young 12345er9. shsenator.she shot up in the po. suddenly out of nowhere she was number two behind biden. there simply was no follow-up. and ultimately that's what her campaign staff said to the "new york times" is look, we were completely disorganized. we didn't know how to win. emily: interestingly, it's joe biden that continues to maintain the african-american voting lead. not kamala harris. steve: look at the polls and joe biden is way out ahead. brian: talk about way out. way out to my left is jillian mele. jillian: you got into position. you always move your arm over. brian: i gave away the signal. you are stealing my sign. jillian: likes a astros. brian: houston? jillian: story we have been following. a search for motive after a sailor opens fire at pearl harbor killing two ship yard workers and injuring another. the shooter an active duty

u.s. navy petty officer also killed himself. witnesses describe the moments the base went on lockdown. >> it was very scary. you don't know. you are very in the dark. and just hope to god that everything is going to be okay. jillian: at this point it's not clear if that sailor knew his victims. this happening just days before the nation observed the 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. a black lives matter activist ignites a brawl for 2020 candidate pete buttigieg. [shouting] >> black leaders. who organized this? why are we talking about pete buttigieg? what kind of [inaudible] >> take a closer look, the activist almost hit with a woman's cane in pete buttigieg's hometown of south bend, indiana, the event was an opportunity for black leaders to voice

support for the candidate as he struggles to win over black voters. you was secretary of state mike pompeo met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. vowing to boost defense efforts against iran. >> iran is increasing its aggression as we speak. they are trying to staging grounds against us and the region. we are actively engaged in countering that aggression. and i think that the israeli-american cooperation is key to that effort. jillian: netanyahu praised president trump for increasing pressure and putting tough sanctions on iran. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: busy busy day. thank you. brian: many in the media say democrats are full steam ahead on the impeachment process. but is president trump using this as leverage? to get his trade deal passed? joe concha on that next. steve: and willie nelson said he is done smoking marijuana but he is not leaving the high road just

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brian: all right. some in the media claiming democrats are full steam ahead on impeachment. is president trump leveraging their push to get a trade deal done for the american people? >> looking at the big deal is the usmca canada, mexico. and nancy pelosi has to get that approved. she has to put it out for a vote. she doesn't have to talk to anybody. she doesn't have to talk to any of her democrats because they will approve it. and their constituents want it approved very badly. brian: react the hill media reporter and wor radio talk show host joe con challenge. what's going on here. the president feels even though he is being impeached he has leverage. >> absolutely he does. the democrats have gotten nothing done since the 2018 midterms. brian: they say they passed a bunch of bills the senate won't take them up. >> i don't hear much about those. the big dils, opioid crisis, border crisis. brian: prescription drugs. >> those are the big four if they want to win in 2020 those are the type of things that they could work with republicans in the senate

and the president to get done. they won't do that because it would give the president victory particularly during impeachment ain't good for business. brian: what is good for business for the president is battle ground states. is it because the marquette poll is out today in wisconsin he has a 1 point advantage but 13 point advantage which it comes to impeachment. by 13 points wisconsin residents don't want him kicked out of office. big state one that hillary clinton didn't win. ignore national polls. ignore them from now on comes down to 6 or 7 states. arizona, florida, michigan, pennsylvania, nevada, new hampshire, north carolina, wisconsin. in those states, axios poll 51% oppose impeachment. that's 7 points above those who support it. it's a loser for democrats, brian. brian: how does that play into a possible trade deal getting passed? >> how does it work into it? i think nancy pelosi has a press conference at 9:00 today, right? does she then say okay,

we're going to move ahead with this? i don't think so. i haven't seen that yet from her in terms of getting things done. but she has to get those things done in those states. but i think then ultimately the president owns it anyway because he ran on trade in 2016. and think about the optics with impeachment for a second, brian. here we have that show about nothing. the seinfeld of impeachments yesterday with those constitutional scholars. three quarters of them clinton donors. those who worked in the obama administration. one woman who said she couldn't walk by a trump hotel even if she had to. that was bad optics. right? compare that to the president over in london talking about how more countries are now going to be donating 2% to defense spending. he is getting things done over there while we see the show over here. and this show isn't just a seinfeld of impeachment about nothing. it's also like titanic. because we know how it's going to end. it goes to the senate that goes poorly for democrats and the president is acquitted. brian: we will see if nancy pelosi wants to take

ownership of th and announced i. joe, thanks so much. >> thanks, brian. brian: wanted to the save their community from too much government. get rid of it and it's working. the man behind the no government movement next. ♪

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jillian: good morning to you welcome back. time for news by the numbers. first $11.75 million. that's how much former president barack obama spent on a nearly 7,000 square foot home on martha's vineyard. it sits on 30 acres. next, 100 acres. that's the size of a butterfly sanctuary a judge is protecting by temporarily halting construction on a privately funded border wall. the judge says the project could cause irreparable harm to the national butterfly center in texas. finally $185,000. that's salary government job snagged by australian woman who faked her rest a missile. prosecutors say she made up references and used a picture of model kate upton for her linked in profile photo. she landed the job but will spend 25 months in jail. steve. steve: okay. thanks, jillian. meanwhile some ohio residents wanted to save their community so they got rid of their local government. it all started last year when the village of amelia

passed a 1% income tax on all residents and workers. residents say they found out about the tax change from a letter in the mail after the decision was already made. amelia residents then took matters into their own hands with a vote to dissolve the village just last week. ed mccoy is the founder of the free amelia political action committee. he joins us right now from cincinnati. ed, good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for inviting me on. steve: it's great to have you. why were the folks so unhappy with that tax? >> well, the reason they are unhappy is they kind of passed in the dead of night. they did it in a special meeting in a special meeting you can't -- there ♪ public input. nobody even showed up at the meeting. nobody knew about it. most people didn't find out until the middle of june when they received a letter in the mail. some people to this day never did receive the letter. there is people out there that don't even realize that

they are being taxed 1% of their income. steve: that's right. and so at what point did people like you get together and say, you know what? this is ridiculous. let's just get rid of this. >> well, it is kind of bizarre. but so when i got this letter, residents got together. there was a group called wake up emile i can't. they got a petition together. we got 147 signatures on it to dissolve the village. we tried to the leader of that group renee gerber she tried to turn that petition in and they found out about it. they had a special meeting at 4:00 on june 26th. these residents tried to turn in those petitions during business hours before that special meeting. they refused the petitions. and then when they had the special meeting they changed the charter to where instead of 30% of the voters from the last municipal election had it to be 40% and two thirds of council had to

approve this going on the ballot. they pretty much just changed the law. what they did was illegal. steve: sure. they didn't want to see that vote. because they didn't want to see those jobs go away. so how many jobs, ed, will be l.s.u. witwill be lost with ? >> there were seven police officers. the mayor, slither part time sos tore and couple of maintenance people. maybe 14 people maybe. steve: all right. so those salaries no longer will be paid; however, you will still have fire protection and police protection. how is that going to work? >> so, the police went away and here's the bizarre thing about this whole thing. this has never happened in ohio like this. for one thing, a village only dissolved this makes 15 times. two in one night in clermont county. but in this particular

incident what's bizarre is 5,000 residents. usually when a village does dissolve it's usually 200 to 400 people. this is not only 5,000 people, it's also dissolved between two townships. so if you take the state route down through the village of amelia, one side is one township and the other side is the other township. so on the south side, the police and fire will be covered by pierce township. on the north side the police will be covered by the sheriff because they have a contract with the sheriff and the firehouse right down the road. steve: all right. good enough. it all stuarted with that tax passed in the dead of night. now the city of amelia, the township, the village is no longer. ed mccoy, founder of free amelia political action committee, ed, thank you very much for joining us today from cincinnati. >> you are welcome. steve: all right. meanwhile, still ahead, rudolph the red nosed reindeer is a christmas classic. goes like this. >> from now on, gang, we

won't let rudolph join in any reindeer games, right? >> right. steve: apparently some p.c. police are now reigning on rudolph's parade and crying he is bully. lawrence jones and michael loftus will sound off on this christmas classic coming up ♪ run, run rudolph ♪ santa's got to make it to town ♪ he can take the freeway down ♪ run, run rudolph ♪ going anytime. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com.

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contributor. fox nation host and michael loftus comedian and founder of the loftus party. today they are a tag team to talk politics. brian: how long have you guys been together? >> it's an early relationship. brian: i have never seen very interesting. >> we had a roadshow we did in texas. [laughter] >> bringing it home to broadway. brian: all right. let's talk if we can about a major story that doesn't get much play. that is it turns out kamala harris is dropping out of the race. let's listen. >> what are you gonna say to black voters and they look at that stage and nobody like them is there? >> a sea of only white faces on that stage. >> a bunch of white people on the stage. >> a white debate stage. >> we started with one of the most diverse fields in our history. giving people pride. and it's a damn shame now that the only african-american woman in this race, who has been speaking to issues that need to be brought up is now no

longer in it. steve: okay. topic a. >> everybody is saying what are you going to tell black voters? black voters rejected her. she threw their daddy's in jail. what do you expect? they were going to support you after had you just a short memory? look, this is identity politics as usual. but this is the first time you actually have voting records. polling numbers to show black voters didn't really like kamala harris. >> i like the power passive aggressive move by cory booker. boy, want to color left. no one of color. who could you possibly get of color who is, you know, wants to be in the game? it's insane. kamala tapped out fast. brian: she had a chance to go out there. voters voted so they are morning the voters. >> mocking the voter. she kept changing her policy position. she threw the daddy's in jail. she didn't really have a strategy. the campaign was in disarray. they didn't have organization within the campaign. and you see.

the proof is in the pudding. she got out. they ran out of money. steve: meanwhile, less than three weeks away from christmas, and the holiday clanks are oclassics are on teln including rudolph the red nosed reindeer taking flack because apparently rudolph inappropriate. watch a clip where rudolph bullies. [laughter] >> hey. look at the beak. >> fire. >> stop calling me names. >> rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. >> donner, you should be ashame of yourself. what a pity. he had a nice takeoff. brian brian bully inappropriate. >> that's the story of rudolph the red nosed reindeer. if you start looking at rudolph and taking it seriously your brain will melt. have you santa claus, flying

reindeer and talking reindeer. it's the kid with the red nose the one he can't handle. this is the bridge too far. get him out of our society. >> i think my generation is pretty much destroying everything. we won't have any more movies. [laughter] brian no more comedians. >> going to be the boring time in the next century. brian: could yodo you worry kids will think it's okay to bully. >> no kid identifies with the bully. you identify with rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. you look at that dentist kid with the yellow, the blond hair? right? that's the trump hairdo. [laughter] >> not only do they save christmas. they saved america. make the north pole great again. emily: another social target. chris pratt single use water bottle gave some heat. jason aqua man calling him out in instagram comment

said bro, i love you, the water bottle no single use plastic. council on. pratt apologized saying aqua man you are completely right. i always carry my big gallon size reusable water jug too. i even had it that day. >> it's hard cleaning those water bottles. getting it extra clean. they want to. 10 water bottles a day. i don't care. i really don't. i dispose of them properly. and i believe in being good stewards of our earth. it's unsanitary for me. that's me personally. brian: what's your water policy? >> right out of the tap, baby. old school. i will go garden hosing. the lead gives me strength. it tastes weird and spit it out and start over. brian: football with your friends. >> yes, i will. i like how jason got a quick lesson on how holiday works. chris pratt is like hey, aqua man, dude, i'm in guardian of the galaxiy,

jurassic world. he flexed. hollywood flex lighten up aqua man did you one movie. steve: when is the last time you used a single use plastic straw? >> i have them smuggled. in friends at the california border they pass them through the slat wall. >> the metal ones are dangerous. people have got their eyes poked out of them. every invention they get is unsanitary or dangerous. emily: catch more of lawrence on man on the street and "keeping up with jones" on fox nation and get 35% off all yearly subscriptions. use promo code celebrate now through christmas. brian: going to be at the garden together? >> we got the garden. and legit. my standup special for fox nation. we finished filming that we are editing it now. brian: is that true? >> that is completely true. brian: did we approve that. >> i hope you did. we can edit this part out. emily: all right, guys. thank you so much. now turn to headlines. jillian what's going on in the world?

jillian: good morning. let's talk about this story. the case of president trump's tax returns heads to the supreme court today. his lawyers will ask the justices appeal a lower court ruling that 8 years of documents must be turned over to a house committee. lawmakers are looking into possible illegal conduct or conflicts of interest. the fight over the president's tax returns has been going on for years. well, kamala harris could be jumping back into the 2020 race. the white house hopeful joe biden and elizabeth warren say they would consider the senator as a running mate. >> kamala harris could be on any democrat's short list. she's smart. she is confident. she has this terrific voice. >> would you consider senator harris as a running mate? >> of course i would. look, senator harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be. >> harris dropped out of the 2020 white house race earlier this week. and we telling you about this yesterday. the world's most famous pot head giving up pot.

♪ i got $100 bill to keep your pills because it's all over thgoing to pot. jillian: as it turns out he isn't actually givings it up. just taking a break. a rep for the country star tells fox news he doesn't smoke it right now because he wants to take better care of his lungs. a source adding that the 86-year-old has turned to vaping and marijuana edibles instead. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. emily: he must be doing something right up until now. steve: for instant analysis. we have michael loftus and lawrence jones still on the couch. what do you make of this now he is going edible. emily: and vaping. >> that's a good call. i have no microphone shakespeare voice. brian: can you talk? >> i gotcha? >> now it's a ventriloquist act. good for willie, he is hanging in there. doing the edibles living and dying by the swoshed. >> medical use to it. i don't believe we should be putting people behind bars because of it. i think he is a smart guy.

>> do you think that every country music star in their 80's should transition? to vaping? >> yes. absolutely. i think the government should come in and make dolly harr ton ea parton eat a . steve: michael lofton and lawrence. on the road again. steve: janice dean is out with the folks. [cheers] janice: we have a little bit of leeivelgt snow across the northeast and storm across the west. hello, ladies, where are you from? > north carolina, concord. janice: love your hat. >> we are from illinois. jab january i love that amazing. look from wisconsin and look at mr. and mrs. claus over here. hi. we love you, thank you, guys. more "fox & friends" coming up. [cheers] janice: thank you for coming. oh my gosh, you guys.

>> morrow bos morrow boss coulde making their way. emily: could this bring any positive changes to american workers. brian: here the host of making business charles payne. are you disturbed by. this i am disturbed by it. this isn't new. you had a famous piece from oxford university said 45% of our workforce could lose their jobs. another from bain capital said 25%. particularly lower income jobs. i'm something of a loud ite. i really am. i embrace technology. i really worry. this is what we call the fourth industrial revolution. i will say first three all created better, not only better societies, but also jobs and prosperity. so, historians are saying why are we so afraid of this one but how rapidly it's happening this effect because i look now even at business models, for instance, i took lyft in

here. they don't know when they're going to make money. uber doesn't know when he they're going to make money. grub hub the stock is down. the point i'm making in modern society a lot of these businesses the hot businesses that make our lives easier they can't really make any money until they get rid of human beings and replace them with robots or artificial intelligence. steve: i read a great book last year called rise of the robots how people are being replaced by o. automation in a lot of different industries, any job where there is reputation a robot can do it. it then made the case for a universal basic income. all these people's jobs are going to be replaced by automation we have got to pay them some money. >> you are absolutely right. if the worse case scenario comes about. you will see dramatic changes in governments where the people who do have work will be taxed 70%, 80% sort of an elizabeth warren dream. the word robot comes from a play it's it's a word from 1920. universal robots. the way the play went is

these robots started to do all the work to human beings where we became so idol women forgot how to bear children. eventually the robots got so concerned no one could fix them they learned how to procreate and they no longer needed mankind. first time robot introduced and theme of every movie ever since. brian: what are you talking about women forget how to procreate. >> that was the plot of the play. bottom line the idleness of mankind is it a good thing or bad thing. arthur c. clark his thought was this was a good thing that we could actually pursue greater things like using more of our brain and better for us if robot and machines did all the work. brian: work out more too. >> you could do a whole lot of things. what's the purpose of mankind? and more importantly, can these jobs be filled quick enough, you know, because the economic impact is going to be harsh. brian: will the robots come to the christmas party? >> the point is 100 years

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conference on thursday 10:45, still on schedule, not been canceled. one thing on interview cnn tonight speaker pelosi will tell us what's going to happen next and remember by the way, at least 4 things have to happen, judiciary commit will have to write markup articles of impeachment and vote on it and rules committee and ultimately to the house for a full vote, you will have to learn from the speaker what happens next. all this coming after yesterday's caucus meeting where speaker pelosi perhaps telling questions, remembers asking them are you ready, if you have a problem the time to speak up is now. comes after marathon testimony from the four constitutional scholars, 3 invited by democrats making a forceful case to impeach president trump, listen. >> if we cannot impeach a

president who abuses office for personal advantage we no longertive in a democracy. >> president trump invited, indeed, demanded foreign involvement in upcoming election. >> if what we are talking about is not impeachable, than nothing is impeachable. >> the fourth scholar invited by republicans was warning against it. >> if you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts it is an abuse of power, it's your abuse of power. you're doing precisely what you're criticizing the president for doing. >> at the end when the gavel fell the chairman jerry nadler saying that there was overwhelming evidence the ranking member doug collins saying that nadler is simply on the wrong side of history, appears that we are no where different than where we began, the white house responding by the way as well, guys, calling it a good day for president trump and a bad day for the

democrats. emily, brian, steve. >> thank you very much for the live report, says a lot, griff, last time nancy pelosi set up teleprompter in the hall with the flags behind her was when she announced impeachment inquiry and that was, of course, the day before the president released the transcript. brien: does anyone believe she's going to push forward with impeachment when you see them high-fiving behind closed doors an putting partisan professors, let's bring in kelly ann conway, what do you think nancy pelosi is going to be doing in about 57 minutes? >> very little, reminding people that the reflexive sound bite we haven't made decision on impeachment. yesterday literally reflexively with the sound bite, oh, no, we haven't decided on it yet, i still have my mind open. that's not true, everybody would

respect them much more that impeachment is a means to the end and the end is to get rid of donald trump because they have no idea how to defeat him in 2020, no more than they did in 2016. i want to say a couple of things i haven't heard say, number 1, as of august 1st, you had a majority of democrats in the house already public i will saying they were in favor of impeachment inquiry, that was august 1st, folks; long before all this broke, by september 22nd, you had the first democrat, angie craig, congresswoman of minnesota say for the first time that she was voting for impeachment inquiry because of the call with ukraine, september 22nd, she was number 138th, the fix has been in for a long time. there was a tally going on, let's stop pretending it has a damn thing to do with the 15 witnesses over 2 committees the democrats have called over the last couple of weeks, one, one

out of those 15 witnesses has said that he or she has ever talked to the president, has ever talked to the president about ukraine. and i have one more thing to say, i want to get out today, if you, ladies and gentlemen, if you went to work today to manicure your nails, manicure lawn, if you went to work with jackhammer, carpentry belt, that woman yesterday looked her nose down at you, she thinks you're less than her, you know why the man ran and why i'm still at the white house, for you, for people who are looking down upon by people with 3 yale law degrees had the audacity to say that liberals like to cost together and live together while conservatives can't stand be together that's why they are carried. >> that was pamela. >> she's the star witness, she spent her life lecturing people,

the next generation of lawyers. six figures worth of student loans to put myself through law school and -- and college with my single mother working her tail off to supplement that,i recent one like that looking down and she sounds like hillary clinton with deplorable and we are sick of it and people are watching, you want to get the president, look down on him and you look down on the people. steve: kelly ann, nancy pelosi will make a statement in less than an hour. we know they're going to vote for impeachment ultimately. >> yes. just say that. >> maybe they will in an hour, washington post item up right now, it says white house gears up for aggressive effort to defend trump and senate as house moves toward impeachment vote. it says that the president wants to make his case with live witnesses in the senate where he

feels he can get a fair shake. now, if he was going to have live witnesses you have to figure they would invite hunter biden; maybe joe biden, in fact, peter doocy crossed trails in iowa with joe biden and asked him if he's going to show up. here is his answer. >> the white house is now saying that if there's a senate impeachment trial they might like to call you as a witness, is that something you would appear voluntarily? >> no, i will not let them take their eye off the ball. the president is the one who committed impeachable crimes i'm not going to let them divert from that or let anybody divert from that, you heard me say a lot of times, he's worried about corruption, 21 years of tax returns, let them release his. steve: joe biden was senator for years, he knows how it works, if he's called he should go. >> he should go, by the way, they are investigating corruption, if you go back and look at the original transcripts, the president is asking them to investigate

corruption and make good on the campaign promise that was successful for president zelen zelensky of ukraine, very decisive on corruption agenda, the ukrainian people agree with president trump that we have to root out corruption in ukraine, he only wanted to make -- if you're investigating barisla and it takes a couple of board members died, if you're investigating corruption in ukraine and takes to you anybody named biden, we are not starting with bidens, i disagree completely that the facts are undisputed. the entire point of trial and senate to get to the facts, the democrats missed a huge opportunity to build the case, they didn't present fact witnesses. steve: they only brought witnesses from one side. >> spend their lives and careers lectures; that's fine, that's their right, they try to lecture us, they would have done better having trial attorneys, building

a case, i wanted to say this, we don't choose -- president trump me, any of us haven't chosen the board members of barisma anymore than we chose who is run for president in 2020, we take them as they come, as you investigate barisma, one of the more corrupt companies in ukraine and if you investigate what happened with the prosecutor where joe biden insisted be fired because prosecutor was investigating barisma, that takes you to anybody named biden, that's where the evidence takes you, the professor yesterday talking about how the president demanded that a foreign government interfere in our election, i've got the transcript right here, i don't see 2020 right here, i don't see president trump referring to joe biden as political opponent, he doesn't need the ukraine to help him beat joe biden than anymore than we beat what's her name on radio show yesterday. [laughter] brian: nato has to get on same

page on many issues, what's going on with turkey, the big story to some was open-mic situation when justin trudeau after meeting with the president, i'm late because the president had a press conference of 40 minutes and my -- you have to see staff, their jaw dropped, he came back at him when asked about that and essentially said, well, justin trudeau was two-faced. what can you tell us, where is this relationship going with the canadian leader? >> i imagine the relationship will be the same because at least president trump is honest when he's calling out a foreign leader and the way he feels about them not paying their defense dues to nato which has been a problem with canada and other allies, not being on the right side of reciprocal trade deal with this country and i thought it was a very childish exchange, but they were hardly denouncing the president's policies, they were hardly denouncing him, people looked at

this as they usually do in social media without attention, look, what they are doing, what was it really about, it was about the fact that president trump commands the room and makes people jealous, what were they really attacking, policy, they are waiting on nancy pelosi to pass usmca. by the way, i thought it was embarrassing to the people in the circle, all whom i've met, have excellent relationships with our leader and with this country, so we will continue to deal with our allies, i thought president trump said it best, i think he's two-faced in that, here is somebody who is kind to me and kind to my face, working together, having bilateral meetings and then when he thinks he can get a couple of high-fives, i will say it again childish and thrillish, and speaking of the usmca, you know, president trump; he did what he

needed to do on that a year ago, we are waiting for the congress for pelosi, she has a press conference, somebody ought to ask her about usmca, the same people who would benefit, the farmers, auto workers, the people who benefit are the same people, professor what's her name are looking down on and insulting, nancy pelosi should think about that. brian: right. >> 31 democrats, 21 are freshmen, they need usmca passed, their workers in their district certainly need it. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. thank you. >> take care. >> now it's time for headlines, we have jillian mele telling us about it. >> good morning to you, let's start with this story, the search for a motive is on after sailer opens fire in pearl harbor killing two shipyard workers, 22-year-old active duty navy petty officer, he used two different weapons to shoot the workers and then himself,

witnesses described when the base went on lockdown. >> you don't know, hope to god that everything will be okay. jillian: one shipyard worker is in critical condition, it's not clear if the gunman knew his victims, days before the nation observes 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. deadly defect launches new wave of tekata air bags, bmw; toyota and honda, propellent that's used to blow up air bags can deteriorate over time putting drivers at risk of explosions, at least one person was killed by the faulty inflaters, the defect is different from one that led to at least 24 deaths and hundreds of injuries worldwide. and now to this, live look in paris where protestors are filling the streets, thousands of people around france striking today over the country's plan to overhaul pension system, government workers fear it will

force them to work longer, schools subways and even the eiffel tower closed, there's also major train and airport interruptions, this is expected to be the buggist public sector strike in france in more than 20 years. steve: keep their week. brian: take off all summer, wonder why you don't have a productive economy? steve: other violence erupts at rally for mayor pete, what do people in his hometown, in indiana think of political

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>> all eyes on pete buttigieg, the 2020 hopeful suddenly becoming the man to beat as he rises in some polls especially the early ones. >> critics say the millennial is too inexperienced. >> well, he's the mayor of south bend indiana and that's where mike, our reporter is this morning. he's been out and about talking to the folks, hey, michael. >> good morning, steve, good morning, emily and good morning, brian, the trend that we have been seeing in south bend, when he holds public forums to connect pete buttigieg with the

african-american community turns into big meltdowns. we saw that at youth center, african-american leaders who support pete buttigieg wanted to counter information that he lacks black vote. the same thing happened last summit after white police officer shot a black man who refuse today drop a knife, what we have found in south bend, there's two sets of opinion of mayor pete buttigieg, one opinion in downtown where the mayor has pushed $33 million in development. >> he's got my vote. >> i like what pete has done for the city. >> there's another set of opinions in the poor minority parts of town. >> pete buttigieg is the type of person that's all about him. >> before he was mayor south bend was a better place to be. >> last night in south carolina mayor pete said that they have cut the poverty rate amongst african americans in half but we checked out here in south bend is that the poverty rate among african americans here remains

double the national average, in south carolina recent quinnipiac university poll shows that pete buttigieg with zero support from african american community. steve: mike, thank you. brian: he's going to get off to a roaring start, right now leading in iowa and new hampshire. steve: meanwhile nancy pelosi is expected to big a big announcement 9:00 o'clock eastern after the house judiciary's first impeachment hearing, what could this mean exactly? brian: congressman john ratcliffe had great questions yesterday, joins us with what he can expect and what he thinks. (alarm beeping) welcome to our busy world.

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you came back! >> quick headlines for you, starbucks manager who was fired in oklahoma after police officer was handed cup with word pig on it says she might sue starbucks. lola rose insist it was another

barista and starbucks fired her for the incident in oklahoma, rose claims she confronted and apologized to the police department. colin kaepernick workout has led to an nfl deal but not for him, one of the wide receivers who joined kaepernick last month in georgia was sign today washington redskins practice squad, parts of the last 2 years with 6 different teams and now looks like he's going washington. all right, brian. brian: fox news alert, all eyes on capitol hill, less than an hour speaker nancy pelosi to deliver statement on the status of impeachment inquiry, so far we do not know what she's going to say this comes after another marathon day of testimonies in front of the house judiciary committee, joining us now no coincidence texas congressman john ratcliffe, member of the committee and had great questions yesterday, congressman, looks like a disastrous day for democrats when i saw the 3 partisan

professors come out, all four didn't vote for trump, did it surprise you? >> it pleased me, i mean, as you said, brian, when one of your star witnesses has to apologize on national tv, you know, the talk before this was 3 witnesses against one wouldn't be fair, turns out it wasn't fair, democrats needed more witnesses, they needed better witnesses, i think all 3 of their witnesses came across as partisan if not hyperpartisan. broken brian had to apologize to baron trump and the whole trump family, it was embarrassing to the country. she's going to call for impeachment vote before christmas, what's your reaction to that? >> i have mixed feelings about that as american, i think it's terrible, i think it's -- this is a process that we shouldn't be involved in, you heard a democrat, jonathan turley, constitutional law expert say this is the thinnest, fastest,

weakest impeachment in history, there's no bribery, no extortion, no obstruction of justice, no abuse of power, so they shouldn't be doing this, but as a republican i have to tell you, it's good for us, it'll give me a chance to be one of the first people to congratulate president trump on reelection and maybe congratulate kevin mccarthy on being speaker of the house. brian: henry wrote in the parent owes how the democrats could lose the house with this vote so worth a read, something else according to report in the washington post, john durham told the inspector general that he cannot back the right-wing theory about the russia case was basically a u.s. intelligence setup, so you know a lot about papadopoulos, you know a lot about carter page, you know a lot about professor, how were they linked with american move or is he a russian agent as mueller said? what is your reaction to this story? >> it's fun to watch the liberal media try and recast and respin

things, no one ever said that he was a u.s. asset, there was talk that he was a western intelligence asset, i think that's still the case, look, the inspector general report is going to come out, they are trying to characterize it as going to be something less than we all expect, i'm not backing off from my opinion because i've seen all of the underlying documents, the ig report is going to be an indictment of the steele dossier and everyone that relied upon it i know that because it has to be, i've seen all of the underlying documents, same thing with regard to papadopoulos, there was exculpatory information, what conclusions horowitz makes from that, i don't know, i haven't seen the report but, again, i'm very confident that when jim comey said fisa abuse was a bunch of nonsense last december that it wasn't and the inspector general's report is going to say that. brian: right, whether there was

a predicate to launch the investigation we are all wait to go see, the only person who has seen the whole report is attorney general barr and still in draft form, congressman john john ratcliffe, thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you. brian: democrat impeachment witness under fire for her joke about the president's son. >> well, the president can name his son baron, he can't make him a baron. brian: she sat there, dana loesch isn't laughing, she sounds off next.

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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. >> well, you know, she thought that was could be cute sound bite going in but she has had to apologize for that, dana loesch, radio host of the dana show joins us from down in texas, what did you make of the professor bringing up the president's son? >> well, i thought it was tacky and classless, i was told by -- good morning, by the way, to everyone, i was told by democrats that we were going to be amazed by the display of -- of academia and intellectualism from their picks to testify here at this inquiry and instead we just basically got a grown woman who is acting like a twitter troll, i thought it was incredible by unbecoming, i wouldn't go as far as to classify as attack, i cannot stand the characterization particularly when it's assigned to a simple disagreement, but

she did make fun of his name, there's no way that you can spin it otherwise and it's just -- that's the last refuge for people who either lack the capacity intellectually to make a good argument or they simply just can't make a good argument no matter what they have before them and it just -- it ended up overshadowing everything that democrats were trying to do that day and became the top headline of the day, it was a tactic that completely backfired and maybe, you know, maybe list not go after kids, i never like going after a politician's kid period, i didn't like it when it was the obama girls and chelsea clinton and i were the same age, i was wondering why people were doing it. this -- this is the same thing, unless they are adult kids and 50-year-old children like the media likes to characterize hunter biden and benefiting from their father's influence as vp and getting on energy boards when they have no energy experience, boards of energy companies, then, you know, let's maybe not talk about kids

especially minors. >> a minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics, pamela, you should be ashamed of angry and obviously bias pandering and using the child to do it. >> yeah. i completely -- i agree with the first lady on that. i think that she was absolutely right on that and i will tell you, how i look at this, my oldest kid is a freshman in college and i was as i was watching these law professors, these constitutional scholars, i was afraid because my son is going into constitutional law, that's what he would like to go into and i texted him yesterday and i want you to watch just amazing example of appeal to authority, you have democrats trotting out individuals, lined up on authority and all of the people are doing, all they are doing is reacting to third-hand information of which there is nothing to substantiate.

there's a great lesson for you. brian: history front and center. i love to talk about michael bloomberg, seems like democrats are angrier than anybody else. first town hall will be on gun control, what is mike bloomberg's message on guns? >> i don't know, i wonder if he's going to actually genuinely apologize for the racial remark that he made at the as spent -- aspen where he blamed all black young men in america and the best way to throw them up against the wall and frisk and daily caller ran a story at the time, i don't think that anything that he has proposed thus far has worked. i think that he has fueled a lot of division in the country, he's the head of the gun control lobby, he funds every town,

mayors against gun control, if you remember used to be pretty much -- that used to be pretty big name in gun control, a lot of the mayors started getting involved in criminal activities and so he kind of rolled that into every town. gun control isn't actually his strong suit, there was an interview that he gave recently where he couldn't even define difference between a fully automatic and semiautomatic firearm, these are basic things that we need to acknowledge if we will have to debate respectfully and wording is important because words define what law comes into effect depending on the type of firearm used and i think he's also pushed a lot of propaganda and misinformation and deliberately led, misled americans, so the fact that he's using gun control as launch pad i'm not surprised but i don't think he will be able to buy favorability so i'm not -- i guess he will have to go back into funding advocacy after this is done because he won't get higher than 1 or 2% that he has right now.

>> first town hall and being in aurora, colorado, site of terrible shooting a few years ago, dana, thank you very much for joining us on this busy thursday. >> thank you. brian: dana loesch. >> one thing quick to add, if he's going to talk about gun control, he can talk about gun save lives. brian: we will see if he factors that in, thanks, dana. let's go over to jillian, you have something for us. jillian: good morning to you, we are following a number of stories, we begin with this, the president cracking down on food stamps, the administration announcing new rule that would formalize work requirements earlier star parker from the center for urban renewal and education said the change will help people. >> they're encouraging them to say we see the potential in you, so we will change a few rules to encourage you to encourage your own life to get involved in what is happening and making america great again. jillian: rule expected to go in effect in april.

senator rand paul has a new plan to help tackle student loan debt, republican from kentucky introducing legislation for people to predip into pretax retirement savings to pay off college debt. >> promoting free college education which believe it or not is extraordinarily expensive so this one doesn't cost the government anything, just means that people have to save more but allows college education to come down approximately 20 to 30% in price. >> under the plan people could put more than 5 grand each year toward their debt. a seasonal ups worker accused of dealing the package he was supposed to deliver, more than one, police surveillance video the teen unloading a truck in miami business and picking up boxes and hiding under dumpsters, he tried to do it again the next day but caught by manager, ups says he no longer works for the company. and then there's this, the giant police officer might be too tall

to patrol his city, look at this, he can't fit in the cruiser, check out officer trying to squeeze his 6'8 frame into the driver seat, the san diego officer says he pushed the seat back as far as it would go but still don't have any wiggle room for his head and legs, the department joked online saying they might need an offer height limit. [laughter] jillian: or a bigger vehicle, my goodness. >> suv, take the front seat out and sit in the backseat. >> where do you put people in the backseat? >> didn't that come in the academy? couldn't they have handled this before it got to jillian? jillian: i think we solved it, suv is the way to go. you're welcome. steve: janice dean out on fox square, there are a lot of folks. >> there are a lot of folks, hi, you guys, ainsley is not here today, who is jodie? >> assistant principal and coached with her daughter at

college and he used to baby sit ainsley. janice: i know she's watching so she would be able to say hi. what's your name? >> i'm robin from south carolina. >> what's your name? >> michelle. >> where you're from? >> north carolina. >> cheryl, north carolina. >> i love it. what are your names? >> aileen. >> you have anniversary? >> 50 years, what's the secret? >> loving each other. >> supporting. >> thank you for your service, my friend. >> my honor. >> it's a great crowd in new york city, temperatures are cold but you know what no snow yet, we do have the potential for a little bit of lake effect snow and system that will move in on friday, but north of new york and not a lot of snow, it's december, we expect it right, so the temperatures as we go through time and then that system that dives in on friday,

little bit of rain across the carolinas my girlfriends, and we will see potential rain and mountain snow, say hi to emily and steve and brian, my friends. steve: merry christmas. all right, meanwhile new york city has a homeless problem but as it turns out that problem is now spilling over state lines, a new jersey is suing mayor bill de blasio ahead of housing and urban development for the region gets to the heart of the problem, up next - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the best of pressure cooking and air frying

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relocation program. steve: new jersey major wants de blasio to end one-time policy that moves homeless people to other cities and then pays for a year of rent. joining us right now lynn, department of housing urban administrator for new york and new jersey. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. steve: sounds like here in new york where there's a terrible homeless problem, the mayor rather than address the issue of what's causing the homelessness is shipping people off to newark and other places. >> that's right, and, look, the president doesn't want homeless moved, he wants homelessness resolved and that's why they have given record levels of fund to go homeless grants over the last 2 years, almost 15% more than the last administration. i know both of these mayors, just last week i worked with the mayor of newark to help house 55

families during thanksgiving, look, you know, i'm quite frankly more mayors aren't suing de blasio, it's ridiculous and helps people one time, taking people who have been in the shelter for more than 09 -- 90 days and relocating where the rent is cheaper, let the apartment grow into distress. steve: money up front. >> why maintain the upkeep of the apartment, plus it doesn't give the homeless recipient the incentive to better themselves, to be self-sufficient. i'm set for a year, why do i have to work for? when the homeless persons can't pay for the rent going forward or 50% of it are back on the street and what have you really accomplished? nothing but giving the person

false hope, false opportunity and now there may be 100 miles away in new york city where they once were and becomes the burden of the new city to house them again. >> lynn, we love your reaction, what we have here is de blasio response to lawsuit and living conditions, take a look. >> i thought we were all trying to work towards common solutions and i still want to work towards common solutions; it's been always a challenge to make sure what you're getting for rental vouchers and we want that and that's something that we would want to work with newark on, the point is human need is human need. >> well, look, clearly this isn't the first harebrain idea that the mayor has had with respect to homelessness, comptroller discovered that he had spent almost $200 million of taxpayer money to purchase a bunch of delap at atated buildis

that his own city appraised at $50 million, you know, that's what this administration is trying to avoid. steve: well, we saw the story and wanted to have you come in and comment on it. >> thank you so much. steve: meanwhile 11 minutes before the top of the hour, in 11 minutes nancy pelosi apparently will have an announcement regarding the house impeachment inquiry, we are live on capitol hill coming up next. >> but first let's check in with sandra smith with what's coming up at the top of the hour, good morning. >> good morning, everybody, all eyes on capitol hill as we speak, anymore moment now nancy pelosi is expected to make a public announcement on the status of the democrats push for impeachment, we will carry that live for you right here in america's news room after the dramatic day on capitol hill yesterday as the house judiciary committee held first impeachment

hearing, republican reaction from that committee andy biggs joining us top of the hour and reaction from democrats, join bill and me live at 9:00 a.m. as we take you through the next 3 hours, lots of breaking news, stay with us

steve: fox news alert, 10 minutes from now speaker pelosi will give update on house impeachment inquiry effort. brian: a lot of speculation of what she might say and might not say after marathon hearing 8 and a half hours. >> griff jenkins live on capitol hill as we await word from the speaker of the house, good morning, griff. griff, can you hear us? griff, it's emily. brian: right, we will get audio up in a second. >> in the last 50 minutes the president of the united states sent this out and essentially what he said was, they are going to impeach me, fine, do it fast, the do-nothing democrats had historically bad day in the house, no impeachment case but nothing matters to them, they have gone crazy, therefore i say if you're going to impeach me do it now fast so we can have a fair trial follow the senate and so our country can get back to

business. we will have schiff and the bidens, pelosi and many more testify and we will reveal for the first time how corrupt our system really is, i was elected to clean the swamp and that's what i'm doing. brian: yeah, a couple of things are happening, keep in mind through all impeachment talk and the president coming back from nato, what looms, horowitz, inspector general report, what happens a week from yesterday, comes the hearings with lindsey graham and the senate in charge of asking most of the questions and that'll help round out the entire story, let's bring somebody in, federal prosecutor. >> good morning to you. >> governing, everybody. >> so what are your thoughts now, we have pelosi schedule today make a large announcement in 5 minutes, we are not quite sure about what, tell us your thoughts on the president's tweet now collective messaging, reminding everyone exactly why he was elected especially going into pelosi's announcement? >> well, you know, emily, i

think the president makes a great point, this process thus far has been as far from fundamental fairness and the notion of due process that is a very bedrock principle of the founding of this country that he is eager to see a senate trial where he can call witnesses or he can have his attorneys present and they can cross examine the witnesses that the democrats call and i think nancy pelosi is likely to talk today about how the democratic witnesses said that the president is damaging our democracy and i think she may very well call for a swift and to the process in the house and pushing it to the senate, now, jonathan turley who is a lot smarter than i am says there's no constitutional grounds for impeachment and i think he's absolutely right, we haven't heard anything that represents an established crime for which the founders intended impeachment to be used. brian: the other thing is there's no momentum to flip

republicans, when this process started it was about flipping republicans, now it's about holding democrats, they are still going to go through with it? >> well, you know, brian, i think that's what's so disturbing about this, the last impeachments that we've had in modern age t last two had -- the last two had bipartisan consensus, agreed that a crime had likely been committed and that impeachment was warranted, here it's the exact opposite, this is the very definition of partisanship and it is something the founders clearly did not want. i also found that really ironic the democrats were quoting the racist, jefferson and hamilton founders were racist and yet they were being quoted all over television yesterday on the house and i agree with the founders, it's supposed to be a very grave thing to impeach a president and it doesn't seem to be so far. steve: in a couple of minutes

nancy pelosi has tale prompter set up in front of flags and if it's the same as last time, apparently they had a members only meeting yesterday, no staff, no phones and she said are you ready and the answer was, yes, there was overwhelming support, but then when you look at what the president has tweeted where it's like, okay, just impeach me fast, let's move to the senate where i can call witnesses; you know, the message there is, hey, democrats be careful what you ask for because right now joe biden is leading the pack to be president in 2020 and he's going to be my first witness, peter doocy asked him whether or not he would voluntarily show up and former vice president said, no, but nonetheless, the senate asked for it and the president feels that it's fairer than the house. >> well, steve that's a great point, he's the president exactly right, i don't think democrats seem prepare for the fact that a senate trial like any trial is a very adversarial

process, we've not had an adversarial process yet, that's a founding bedrock principle of the constitution and criminal justice system and they are trying to impeach the president, they are going to discover that the adversarial process by the attorneys in particular but also the defenders in the senate is going to really point out some of the deficiencies, the massive deficiencies in this impeachment process thus far. brian: can't thank you enough, former prosecutor, legal insight is invaluable

>> bill: i'm bill hemmer live in new york city on thursday. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. the speaker is set to make a statement any moment following a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill yesterday. the house judiciary committee holding its first hearing in the impeachment process. questioning multiple law