in the story. >> sandra: meeting at the white house happening today. lindsey graham was on his way over and we just learned -- >> bill: we believe the newest republican will be there as well. former democratic congressman from new jersey. >> sandra: the news continues. we'll see you tomorrow morning. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> we've got a busy hour. fox news alert on this new fallout over how democrats historical vote to impeach president trump at the house and senate now seem to be in a collision course of the process. nancy pelosi has suggested democrats may wait to send their articles of impeachment to the senate over concerns of a republican led upper table is incapable of holding a fair trial. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says democrats are afraid to send impeachment articles to the senate because their case is so weak. >> looked like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. in front of the entire country. second guessing whether they even want to go to trial.

they said impeachment was so urgent it could not wait for due process but now they are content to sit on their hands. this is really comical. >> however, pelosi just a short time ago had back at the senate majority leader. watch. >> i saw some come i didn't see it but i heard some of what mitch mcconnell said today. it reminded me that our founders, when they wrote the constitution, they suspected that there could be a role of president. i didn't think they suggested we would have a rogue president and a rogue leader of the sun at the same time. >> all of this as fox news has also learned that the speaker is set to meet soon with tops unmet democrat chuck schumer to discuss this in a trial. you're watching "outnumbered" come i'm harris faulkner. here today melissa francis, dagen mcdowell, fox news contributor jessica karloff, and in the center seat, tom

depree. former deputy assistant attorney general under president george w. bush. he's outnumbered and right on time for today's discussion. more from everybody sitting here on the couch. first let's go to fox news senior capitol hill producer at chad pergram live with the latest. part two today. >> today is almost a busier day because were not focused on one story today. nancy pelosi, this is a real curveball that they might not send those articles of impeachment over to the senate. impeachment right now and the possibility of a senate trial is in limbo. the house speaker was very defensive this morning explaining why she might not sin those articles across to the senate. listen. >> that is where you put the manager. i have not prepared to put the managers in that build yet because we don't know the arena that we are in. frankly, i don't care that there's a republican senate. >> for his part the senate majority leader mitch

mcconnell says that democrats may house of representatives are trying to influence the trial. >> only one outcome will preserve presidents rather than smash them into bits and the fit of partisan rage because one party still cannot accept the american people's choice in 2016. >> mitch mcconnell talk to reporters just off the senate floor a little bit ago and he said the following, it's beyond me how the speaker and democratic leader in the senate think withholding the articles of impeachment gives them leverage. frankly i'm not anxious to have a trial if she thinks her case is so weak she doesn't want to send it over and throw me into that briar patch. here's what's really going on. some people think house speaker nancy pelosi might be pulling the handbrake on impeachment. in other words we've gone so far with this, a senate trial could really be bad potentially for democrats. witnesses, may be the bidens, may be adam schiff the chair of the intelligence committee. maybe you pull that handbrake right now and cut it off.

here's the other interesting thing, the house can sit on these articles of impeachment indefinitely. a lot of issues die at the end of the congress, that's not going to happen until january 3rd 2021. remember, they move the articles of impeachment in 1998-1998 over between two congresses. she could conceivably sit on this ad nauseam men up there's never a senate trial, president trump never has the opportunity to say he was exonerated in the senate. >> that's the point. he has been impeached so then what you get is a really prolonged status quo for the president of the united states. at the same time senate majority leader mitch mcconnell couldn't say why even bother to meet with schumer and come up with parameters for the sort of thing if you're not going to pass on the articles of impeachment. >> exactly. that's the issues. nancy pelosi has ball control. democrats in both the house and senate think the republicans in the senate, especially mitch mcconnell, have tilted the playing field and this would be

a trial that would favor the president. they might say wait a minute we don't think that's fair. were going to continue holding on. why would mitch mcconnell have any reason to talk to chuck schumer to set up a deal like they dated 1999 if he doesn't have the articles. as elder points that i think is very important. when you look at having these articles of impeachment and you don't move them over and you continued to sit in this limbo. this gives democrats the opportunity is he going to the 2020 elections and talk about how unfair they think that senate republicans are, especially mitch mcconnell who they call the grim reaper. this is a pretty interesting situation. the other thing is that in the constitution it says article one section three, that the sun as the sole power of impeachment. you can't have a senate trial if you don't have the papers. >> chad pergram on the hill, thank you very much. we thought we were going from a-b and now we are are at w. for what? what is going on?

>> that's a great question. the fact is in my judgment at least it is inconsistent with the structure of the constitution for a speaker to hold onto the articles of impeachment. the constitution does not give the speaker of the house the right to veto an impeachment resolution that's been passed by the house. the framers enacted a two-step process. step one come impeachment by the house. step two, trial and the senate. as we know it's speaker pelosi were to hold his articles indefinitely, never transmit them to the senate, then the president would be deprived of his constitutional right to defend himself and the potentially to obtain an acquittal. >> if you want to talk about of what looks fair and what doesn't, jessica, how does that square? this potentially could backfire and democrats. >> i'm interested in how long this goes on. it's only been about 15 hours. >> you heard the house minority leader, kevin carthy, saying he's not sure how it plays in the constitutional roles. this is a confrontation that's

going on. >> pelosi is in control of this and mccarthy is the minority leader right now so i'm listening to her because she's the one with the reins of control. i do not believe she's going to hold the articles of impeachment back for any serious amount of time. i think it will go through the christmas holiday and that -- >> why? >> what is unprecedented about this situation is having the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, on television with sean hannity and other outlets as well is lindsey graham on his twitter account and on fox news saying they have no interest in a fair trial. they've made that perfectly clear. lindsey graham tweeted last night the house is now impeach the president come i want to make this as fast as possible. we already know the president was going to be convicted. republicans are lockstep with him. i don't think there will be amid romney section here. the idea that we are said thing articles of impeachment to the senate so they can rubber-stamp the president's claim that this is a witch hunt is not something that we need to be doing. >> all of the conversation about

fairness because when chuck schumer came out and he said that they only want witnesses who are first-hand witnesses to this case who have firsthand knowledge, who are fact witnesses. i almost threw up. appeared on like that is the opposite of what happened in the house. that was the complaint from the republicans that you had all of these people testifying hearsay and now just as one example, democrats say they want opposite treatment over in the senate. what it proves to me is that it is all political and everyone is biased. none of it is straightforward. what's good for the goose is good for the gander. republicans were treated poorly not democrats are going to be treated poorly beer the whole thing -- >> does the argument about fairness from democrats about high comedy. it's nauseating. the republicans in terms of fairness, intelligence committee refused g.o.p. witnesses would not let the g.o.p. have their

one day of hearings. if you wanted to hear from those witnesses say a john bolton or an mick mulvaney, the democrats in the house should've gone to the court, because one of the articles isn't fairness to donald trump and the american people and the people who voted him. it's a rush of judgment because she was worried about the vulnerable democrats getting into the half house before that -- >> nothing unfair has happened to donald trump. republicans were equally represented in the intel committee hearings and they pretended they weren't allowed in and they pulled the stunned. jonathan turley sitting up there with the legal experts that thought that impeachment should move forward. first-hand witnesses, gordon sondland. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. >> here's what happened, the deplorable's who cling to their guns and their bible just got told by nancy pelosi and her ilk that their votes don't matter.

every single republican did not vote for impeachment, even the 20th republicans were not running for reelection. >> including sycophants. >> how about all of the never trumpers out there? there are so many republicans who want to get rid of president trump, isn't this their opportunity? it's a decent question. why isn't mitt romney standing up and clamoring to get rid of trump? >> i'm wondering could come and this is what i meant by wanting come i'm curious to know our democrats via the speaker of the house cutting their nose to spite their face. you do have republicans out there like senator lindsey graham calling for witnesses that they might agree on. like rudy giuliani. you laugh at that come up but don't you want to hear from everybody? >> i wasn't laughing at that, i was laughing i'd rudy giuliani generally. and how embarrassing would he have been doing going to ukraine

in the midst of this. >> jessica, the point is you don't get to hear from those witnesses if the game of the day is i'm going to block for as long as i can. talk to me about what she can and cannot do. >> i think at this point she is duty bound in our constitution to transmit the articles. does it have to be this afternoon? no. >> can she wait until 2020? >> in my judgment now. they can go on recess but three or four weeks, a month or two and she hasn't transferred them then i think of the constitutional issue. the fact is that when this reseeding is in the house, the constitution give the house the right to set the rules bear the democrats of the rules and a lot of republicans didn't like the rules. the constitution let the democrats were the rules. an hour in stage two and the senate gets to write the rules. in my judgment at least the constitution doesn't give the speaker of the house the power to try to leverage this transmittal power to pressure the senate to change the rules.

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>> why would all of these people, four times over the space of half a year, deliberately mislead a federal court? >> we don't make a conclusion as to the intent here. i want to be clear about that. that was precisely the concern we had. there are so many errors, we couldn't reach a conclusion or make a determination on what motivated those failures other than we did not credit what we lay out here with the explanations we can't. >> doj inspector general michael horowitz they are. i was yesterday in the hill where he had told lawmakers he has not cleared the fbi's top brass of wrongdoing for the slew of errors in the agency's russia

probe. his remarks coming on the heels of a rare public rebuke from the secretive fisa court. the chief judge they're saying the fbi must fix the problems the horowitz report identified and directed the bureau to respond with how it will ensure accuracy of future applications. to the heightened duty of cand candor. that's where the buck stops. this is the court saying, you lied to his community to be more candid. >> this is an extraordinary order from a new cord. you can't walk into a fisa court work and see what's going on. the step out of the shadows and

say going forward we need to correct this process and make sure this is fair, honest, reliable and we have to correct this thing going forward. it's interesting to see whether one of the long-term ramifications of the whole remote 2016 campaign is going to be fundamental reforms in how we conduct surveillance warrants. the spotlight has now been put on the secret court in a way that's never happened before. >> what would be an appropriate fix? what they did was line. when they falsified records and said he was not working for the cia when he was in fact working for the cia, carter page. they look through and cheese saying don't mind it wants. that doesn't seem like that's a rule change, much like a morality change. >> that there is a few things you could do. one possibility is you could build my safeguards into the process. either additional levels of review within the government so if an agent is preparing a report you would have three or four other people look at it

before get signed off on. you can also try and bring public transparency to allow the public to serve as a watchdog for what's going on this card. just given the nature of that court, that's a difficult thing to do. >> i think there is 30 initiatives he has already put out. he's obviously very troubled by the information that came out of the horowitz report and is moving quite quickly to make sure we do have reforms in the process. you obviously know about this a lot more than i do but i was surprised to see this public rebuke from the secretive court than the big most americans don't even think about or know about. the civil libertarians that were concerned from day one that there might have been improper for surveillance of american citizens and then whatever was going on with the trump campaign and the russians. we certainly have our answer about that sloppiness and

intentional doctoring of documents. >> to your point, it was deception, that's what the pfizer court judge said the court was deceived by the fbi and ultimately i believe people will be held accountable. not just the fbi and the aged to doctor the email, but from the top down and that's why we have a john durham investigation. >> real quickly. it feels like we're taking a look behind the curtain here. do you suspect this is not the only time in history that this has happened with these courts? we don't know because we can't see them. >> and it's really a danger of any process that's been shrouded in secrecy like this. i got to tell you. sunlight is the best disinfectant. we knew have public court filings that the public can read and that do to get for themselves and think about, there's a tendency to play it by the books. if not you will be publicly called out. this is what happens when you have a secret court. >> the whole country is at risk if the individuals demand these

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she's afraid." the do-nothing's are so bad for our country. the thinking is that pelosi is hanging onto the articles to use as leverage in the senate. this morning pam says pelosi has no leverage. listen here. >> she has no leverage. she is not a senator, this is between leader mcconnell and chuck schumer. they're going to work it out and we know they are going to work it out. she is not a senator. she thinks she has, she can play this political game and try to hold back these articles so she can say the president is under impeachment a bit longer, it's going to fail miserably and this is just more evidence of the game she is playing. >> this morning south carolina senator lindsey graham spoke with the president about the coming process and the senate and the fact that the speaker is not something the articles over to the upper house. >> i just told the president,

this is a very dangerous moment here in american history for the house to even contemplate refusing to ascend to the articles to the senate for disposition by the senate. i think the institution of the presidency is to do a lot of damage. >> coming to the white house this afternoon as we understand well representative jeff van drew become a democrat he was, and a raucous rally in michigan last night. the president rolling out how he will use the impeachment issue in the coming political campaign. listen here. >> crazy nancy pelosi's house democrats. [boos] i have branded themselves with an internal mark of shame. it really is commits a disgrace. democrat lawmakers do not believe you have a right to select your own president. they think the washington swamp should be able to veto the results of an election. that's what they think. >> the president was thrilled with the fact that not a single republican defected to the side.

they were all names. nancy pelosi said earlier this year that there needed to be bipartisan support. the only bipartisan support was on the nay side. including van drew. three of them voted nay on the second article. tulsi gabbard abstained from voting on both articles. a little bit of bipartisanship, not the way nancy pelosi had envisioned. >> sean roberts thank you very much. and just the last few minutes we have learned that after 40 minutes of meetings, the senate minority leader chuck schumer has met with the speaker of the house. he says that they agree, we are in the same page. we want a fair trial. when asked when he thought they would send the articles, we are in the same page and what speaker pelosi said of the press conference characterizes my view. in other words, they are not coming the second. >> it does sound that that is

exactly what speaker pelosi's strategy is. she realizes she has some amount of leverage. it only gets a lot but maybe a little about when she transmits of these. right now she's going to try and play the power for all it's worth to work with chuck schumer. >> if you are mitch mcconnell cool why would you do the deal? you have no incentive to do it. i don't think senator mcconnell so is this thing has to start within the next week and i think is happy to let nancy pelosi do this and meet with chuck schumer because senator mcconnell's gonna do with senator mcconnell's going to do. >> the longer she holds it up, will it a reverse merrick garland, maybe it's payback rolling up the supreme court nomination. the longer the nancy pelosi holds these articles of impeachment, the more it sticks it to the democratic presidential candidate. if you're going to have a trial even for a few days, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar command cory booker going to be locked up six days a week all day long and not able to speak and certainly not able to campaign. how does not stack the deck

against them in favor of joe biden or pete buttigieg? i'd be on the phone immediately if i was one of those democratic senators. >> it does give you the national spotlight if you're having this drive is on the senate does give them the chance to stand before the whole country and to make their case against president trump. maybe elizabeth warren is thinking she would make the most of that time and i would be a bigger audience than at one of her places. >> whenever you get politicians able to make their case and sell themselves to the american people it often backfires. if i were the democrats in the synod i wouldn't necessarily view this is the opportunity to achieve national glory. >> you listed the four senders come i'm looking at that big board and we can take a shot of it, you've got joe biden up there and if he gets called along with adam schiff of intel, house intel come as a witness. it could another one thrown into the mix commit starts to feel they see. >> going to be time consuming. all the people running for

president has at least backed impeachment inquiries. it will be interesting to see how it plays out when the articles do get transferred. i imagine this will be very early in the new year and that it will go quickly as mitch mcconnell and send her lindsey graham have promised. what i would say the hill is watching president trump's rally i was on kennedy's show and we come obviously spent some time on impeachment. also dedicated some time to desecrating the memory of congressman john dingell's who passed away in the past year. a duck godfather democratic party quoting issues like medicare for all. debbie dingell was on "america's newsroom" and was the epitome of grace. i think in taking the impulse that president trump a lot better you would have a public and congress. it's her first holiday is a widow. you have seen two republican

congressman from michigan asked the president to apologize to debbie dingell. he is in a swing state. he needed to win in 2016. he needs to be smart about this and i'm not saying that impeachment is not going to be a winning issue, but there is a strategy to those like there was for bill clinton bill clinton. insulting john dingell is not it. >> it was appalling and repugnant. it was wrong and small. the white house has come out with a statement to the what is press security that the president is the counterpuncher. >> indeed. he needs to not make mistakes. that's what jessica is saying. this is his to lose and this is how you lose it. you start losing start losing state by state. you can lose much again. if you attack the longest serving member of congress, he was beloved in that state. again, don't make mistakes. >> mccarthy spoke kindly of him to. >> i think you should apologize

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>> 2020 democrats are preparing to take the stage at their next debate, where impeachment could be a big focus. some of the candidates winning in calling it a sad day for the country. to blend into eating president trump abused his power, violated his oath all the bosses come and betray their nation. this is a solemn moment for our country.

nobody is above the law could not even the president. this is the new emerson college poll shows top 2020 democratic defenders narrowly beating or tied with the president and the general matchup. the trends in the polling is definitely going in president trump's favor. when this all started every democrat was beating him from 5-10 points. joe biden got up to the 14. do you think the economy is driving this change? why do you think it's getting so much closer? to speak of the economy is driving it and people see the fact that the two articles of impeachment didn't have any criminal acts on them. >> and even though it doesn't have to. >> doesn't have to but still what is the bar for impeaching and removing a president from office? people are dissatisfied with that. trump's approval rating is now up to 45% according to gallup, that's higher than president obama's by a few percentage points. at this time in office. at the same time going into the vote do you had support for

impeachment that was upside down. more people opposed it then supported it. i don't know, the democrats needed to get off impeachment because it alienated enough voters that they're not going to be able to pull over the independence which they need going into november. >> melissa clement degen is correct over all under. how much time do you think the candidates will want to spend on impeachment tonight? moderators have a role to play. >> it's interesting. i think they feel very comfortable in that territory because it looks like you take a breather in that moment because nobody else on the stage is going to attack you. you not going to make a mistake. if you're positive on impeachment, that's pretty within the democratic party, you're pretty safe. i think in that sense it's almost like a rest break is it going along as opposed to when

they get together and attack each other and that has backfired on some of the candidates like kamala harris. >> i want to get in some sound from cory booker right now who said that 2020 campaign to play no role in how the impeachment trial proceeds in the senate. speak of the 2020 campaign should play no consideration whatsoever, and should be done in a nonpolitical way and a nonpartisan way. we should do what is necessary to uphold the ideals of our public. >> you believe the fight against president trump just got harder? >> i don't know. >> tom, cory booker won't be onstage tonight. he didn't qualify for this debate. what do you think of his comments? >> the campaign shouldn't play a role in impeachment but it's hard to disentangle the tube. my goodness, were going to have a trial of a sitting president unfold in the united states senate the first year that president that's up for reelection. it's very difficult for senators, let alone the american people to draw a dividing line. candidates as jurors, who knows? it's crazy. from the democrats perspective

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union'u.s.-mexico trade agreeme. i hear my colleagues in the first thing if we were doing this we could to mexico, well we are doing mexico. >> house speaker on democrats tackling the massive u.s. canada trade deal. i had have been expected about this afternoon. the bill is expected to gain bipartisan support giving both president trump and house democrats something to try and touted as a legislative win heading into 2020. policy and members of her caucused is that the holding news conference of the top of the hour to talk about their accomplishments this year. the president's economic approval rating surges to its highest level in a year. melissa, president trump campaigned on ripping up snapped on renegotiating it. how is that suddenly something the democrats can take credit for? >> i don't know. i guess because they stopped stopping it.

they held up for you that .01% of the bill and whether it's an improvement or not depends on how you look at it. i do think it's nice that there is something that is a win for everybody. couldn't there be more things like that? it's a win for everybody because it's a win for the american people. you go home and you can all take credit for it. in no way, there are a bunch of other things. i can think of this film fixes to health care that could be a win for everybody. this is really what the price of all of this fighting has been, that this deal has been done for a long time. yes there are things people wanted to tinker around the edges about it, we could have more stuff like this if we were stopped being at each other's throats. the economy is surging with such opportunity right now. it's actually all of our lawmakers in washington that are stopping it from happening on both sides. >> there is a thought bubble, dialog bubble that has nancy pelosi talking about how she's going to hang onto the articles of impeachment to keep

a trial from starting the senate. which delays and delays the process and all of this and keeps us in that stock mode. >> the thing that jumps out at me, i've got to say it seems so unlikely that the very week they impeach the president would be one of the most productive legislative weeks we've had in ages. actual legislative action. just so happens that you got the democrats who clearly want. they can legislate. obviously it's a big legislative success for the president, this has been one of his singular issues. >> the opposite of my point. the fight is bringing them altogether. i'll take it, whatever will make them do the work of the people. i would be on board with. >> the constitution gives them the assignment. >> i was watching senator sharon brown from ohio. who is an original economic populist. he was talking about he has never signed on to a trade deal

before this. this was not a nafta guy, they felt they have not been strung up on the side of u.s. rights. he sees usmca better than nafta. they often work together. i think it is going to be very important, and it is nice to see that it's possible. even with a little tinkering that really benefits. >> this bill is so pro union come union's leadership. this goes right to wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan. in those stains, that is the reason why president trump was elected. and took the electoral college. this new trade deal goes right to that. we'll see who wins the messaging for the impeachment of the president, controversial enough.

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>> "the washington post" under fire after one of its reporters tweeted mary impeachmass while out having drinks with colleagues. trump campaign trump campaign manager unloading on twitter tweeting, ladies and gentlemen near press corps in action what a joke. media needs to stop acting like they are impartial. this from fellow member of the media, so much somber going on here, where do i even start? they later remove the tweet saying it was misinterpreted. she and her colleagues were merely glad you're getting a break from the holidays after a long three months.

what do you think? >> is a general rule, and i'm not implying anything about those reporters, don't drink and tweet ever. even if it's one tweet. it's a bad idea. first and foremost. foremost. secondly, i want to do the nancy pelosi look at that she shot when they voted on the articles of impeachment, the look when it looked like some of her caucus was going to start clapping she just went, she did make a noise but she had that look that a mom, that i got as a child from my mother. i will give that the nancy pelosi. >> i'm going to be honest. that's my whole theory and the media come everybody has an opinion. if you don't have an opinion you are not being honest or you shouldn't be covering it. you're only covering things are interested in are passionate about. be honest about where you're coming from and let the readers decide from there if they think you are being fair come if they think you're worth watching. if they think you're worth listening to. we rip the plastic off this idea that reporters are impartial

because they just aren't. >> part of the problem also is not just that it feeds into the narrative and stereotypes and concerns people have about the media. it was kind of a tone-deaf tweet. i think would happen is that people saw it and set even if they don't like the president or they disagree with the president and had that opinion commit seemed like it was treating it like something very light and humorous, they were making fun of what really as honestly one of the most serious things you can do under our constitution. i can see why a lot of people had that negative reaction come although my heart does go out to the post reporters in the sense that i'm sure this was the end of a three month of working around the clock on this. who can blame them for having the blow off steam? just before his point, if you're in a bar don't start firing of f twitter. >> it was obviously a mistake. she's a fantastic reporter, i've met her in person in the d.c. bureau. i don't know what her politics is. this didn't happen to some of

the people generally agree is a hack. rachel bait is wonderful. i think it was in the end of a longer night. it does speak to the larger issue about how we are going to trade one of the very solemn and serious things. three people, introduction, bill clinton come and help donald trump. that is not a huge club to be a part of. it's very serious. were going to go to a trial here come a potential from offense. >> it doesn't feel serious. it feels like something the other side who hated him set out to do from the beginning and now could be applied to every single president from here on out. that's what it feels like. >> i will just say this really quickly, somebody call me a hand for being upset about the john dingell comment. and debbie dingell being hurt by it. to call me a hen come i hope that individual doesn't have any daughters. >> that's not a very happy note. >> you tweet that stuff about

me, i wear a microphone all day. how about that? >> how about we just get off twitter. we are back you're at noon eastern tomorrow, now here is "outnumbered overtime" with harris. >> "the washington post" is under fire after one of its reporters, forgive us actually becomes that does not belong at this point. this happen sometimes, to show switch together. i want to get to impeachment, so let's get to that. speaker nancy pelosi and house democrats up to tout their legislative accomplishment just hours after impeaching president trump as the battles reached a whole new level. were watching this life now this hour on overtime. i'm harris faulkner. speaker pelosi is refusing to commit to sending the articles of impeachment to the senate, at least not for now. she says house democrats want to know the parameters of the senate trial and whether or not it will be fair. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell unleashe