sees announcement about the opening of the teach for against the president. it's about time this impeachment inquiry should have been open a long time ago and this latest instance of abuse of power by president trump is yet one more grounds for a beijing him we already have the obstruction of justice that's outlined in the 2nd part of the bowler report the unconstitutional amalia months foreign and domestic a my he's receiving we already have his being a coconspirator in the campaign finance violations in the southern district of new york the stormy daniels playoff he's individual won the unindicted coconspirator we already have him violating the 1st amendment and threatening the freedom of the press and his contempt of congress refusal to respond us a paid us which is exactly what reza president nixon was impeached for and article 3 of them pietschmann articles against richard nixon and we have course have the

cruel and unusual punishment of children at the border in violation of the 8 the moment the list of. abuses of power by this president is a lengthy one in the ukraine episode as yet one more so it's time to get going with impeachment how do you rank this offense in that long list of offenses is this the worst is this near the worst. we need to find out more we only have the notes about the call phone call we need the full transcript of the phone call and by the way the ukrainian government certainly must have the full transcript of the phone call so we'd better have it somewhere too and that ought to be made public we need to find out a lot more about what's going on but it appears that he's going to do the same thing in 2020 that he didn't do that and 6 day in which is to a list the aid of a foreign power against his political opponent at the time and the phone call 'd i thought it would be joe biden maybe it will be but of his elizabeth warren or

somebody else will do the same thing so. he never got a page what he did in 2006 date or for the obstruction of justice even though the motor report is a very clear road map for a basement and so he designed it was i could do it again i get away with it so this is a very serious situation do you think the house proceedings are going to focus solely on the ukrainian controversy or is that going to include all those other investigations that you think should be happening. well include the other investigations the house judiciary committee has been moving full speed ahead under chairman adler they've already been looking into the obstruction of justice and the other charges that could be brought against the president president has refused to comply with congressional subpoenas that is obstruction of congress as i said next and was a paid for that so they're ready to go on multiple fronts even before the ukraine call became public and so they certainly should be able to fold that and do articles of impeachment but it's important to get this out relatively so do we

could have best to get everything that donald trump has done that's a label and will be well into his 2nd term if we end up the one that the house the some point bought out the articles of impeachment i believe that ought to be in the next few weeks send it over to the senate and the case will be tried the side at the house can continue to investigate until there actually is a trial of the senate the house would prosecute the trial the senate but we need to get going with it do you think it's necessary to prove a quid pro quo as people are talking about currently with regards to this infamous phone call. no this is it it be is about our is that give far later. to enervate out his bath to investigate a political opponent and a political opponent so on. he is seeking to use the power of the president's lee in the flow mostly with foreign powers not to advance the interests of the it out of states but to attack his political opponent joe biden that's what he's asking

for he also asked by the way that they get involved again in the russian investigation he talked about robert muller's and also as a false flags about robert muller and then talked about the role of the ukraine and he's asking the president the ukraine to get all involved in that again which would perpetuate the pot of obstruction of justice set forth the 2nd part of the a report this is a very serious abuse of power by president trump there was a joint appearance with president trump before the media that president zelinsky said that he did not feel pushed by mr trump during the phone call to do anything he didn't want to do does that impact your analysis or this impeachment inquiry no we need the transcript of the telephone call of course he's going to say he wasn't pushed a what is he going to do is he going to undermine president troponin car the wrath of president trump takes one phone call and you know that russian soldiers all over the ukraine you know if putin gets a pass for that i'm sure putin go for it there's

a very very dangerous situation. between russia and the ukraine it's been difficult going back into the obama presidency and donald trump is seeking to exploit it for purposes of attacking his political opponent joe biden rather than try to work a resolution of the tensions between russia and the ukraine that say for both countries and for a world base so to speak or political announcement set the house on a road that's going to inevitably lead to a vote on impeachment or is there going to be some type of off ramp for her. that's up for they later ship to decide but there's no boat automates but i think the democrats are going to look like fools and if they can't pass a good resolution they're going to look like fools of democrats control the house of representatives and this is a president who ought to be impeached by both democrats and republicans in the house and ought to be convicted in the senate based on what we publicly know all

and if we don't have a democratically controlled house of representatives willing to vote out articles of impeachment donald trump is going to get up on that debates they had a 22 out and crow about it say i've been exonerated by nancy pelosi and the democrats and the house and they never impeached bay i didn't commit any high crimes and misdemeanors and he's going to ridicule his opponent when re-election so that would be a disaster for the democrats and what do you think the likelihood is that there's going to be republican support or any republican support along the way. we'll see what the evidence is at the beginning of the next and basement inquiry there is very very little republican support and by the time the facts gave out the republicans figured out they'd be better off asking him to step down and have gerald ford become the next president of the republicans in the senate would make those decisions when there's a trial of the senate or could does a privately discuss with president drop the possibility of resigning and being

replaced by mike pence. of course the republicans of the senate right now are talking as if they're extremely a wall to donald trump but i can't believe that they are very very nervous about this situation and considering other alternatives professor thank you so much for your time today. well thank you now for the political and media analysis of this latest white house controversy and the house impeachment inquiry we return to our political panel they are ilesa crouse journalist and conservative commentator she's also a contributor at the daily wire and michael trujillo democratic political strategist he was also part of the draft bedo effort and they join me in studio welcome to the program thank you thank you so your reaction to richard paid to as commons let's start with you lisa i think that listen this is a very exciting day for democrats i think that they think that they finally have enough but it is teflon don and we call him teflon don for

a reason nothing seems to stick to president donald trump and i don't necessarily think that they're going to be able to win the votes of the american people and these you know specifically the 7 democrats that had the washington post op ed the other day saying this is why we are in purple districts and we're moving forward might end up not not seeing their reelection campaigns go that well i think the democrats are taking a huge risk i don't know it's going to turn out for them interesting michel well i think you know one it's happening and i think that's what every democrat across the country is saying. you know it's been a long time coming regardless if you were for impeachment because of early sort of controversies in the trump and ministration or because of what you thought was collusion with russia or now because of the suit crane thing you know it's sort of a drip drip drip and it has a cumulative effect of every democrats going to find their reason for or against impeachment but there's a lot more reasons and there are against but the question really for democrats too is this is this is

a political play that they are making hoping that it will negatively impact not just donald trump but republicans down ballot in 2020 and recent polling shows that there's a lot of people that are pleased with president trump and once again i just don't know and listen i'm not the biggest fan the guy i'll probably vote for him in 2026 i see no other options but i voted for i wrote an evan mcclellan in 2016 and. you know it was disappointing withdrawn from the very beginning of his campaign so i'm not like. i'm not going to be a trump apologist here today but i really do think that this is a stretch for democrats and they the transcript doesn't show anything that says hey this is a quid pro quo thing i think if you read the transcript and you have the donald trump voice in your head you're like yeah this sounds like something he would do this isn't a surprise to me because he you know talks about dumb stuff all the time and makes promises all the time and attacks people all the time and ask for favors all the time yeah it sounds like donald trump impeach him right but i mean i guess the question is that what you're saying is that this is a political play and do you agree or do you think this is politics or do you think

this is actually clearly a violation of the law i mean is it or is it not against the law to ask a foreign power to essentially interfere or provide aid in an election well look impeachment is a political tool in the tool box that the constitution is laid out this isn't some you know where the house of representatives guss to find some sort of crime that donald trump is committed it is a political you know sort of tool that you use and so in the sense that this is political the answer is yes but you know for a lot of these house democrats you know some may find it because they felt like he broke the law or there's evidence that he broke the law or there's evidence that he's asking a foreign nation for a favor so look up some op research on an opponent you know it's you know when you're donald trump you beat 16 other republicans for the nomination you beat hillary clinton the former secretary of state her husband worst president ukraine in 2016 and tried it an hour and now he's asked to get to that he's asking one of

the smallest least powerful countries in the world for help i mean you know this guy who else is he asked for help i mean if he was so easily you know induced to asking the ukraine steven kull to hold there and i think that that he was started with russia didn't quite work out the way he hoped so he moved to the adjacent territory which is the ukraine and since that's not working out he was going to ask for poland. then he'll be producing beautiful there so let's speak to that for a moment though do you not think that this was a crime to ask a foreign power to intercede in the election i think if there is a quid pro quo it is definitely a crime i think what he did was shady if i were president of the united states no i'm not announcing my race sorry mom. i would not be doing this i would not be speaking that way but if you go back there has been a pattern of if we released all presidential transcripts from all of their phone calls with foreign leaders you would see this love of the communication that happened when you read through the transcript it be interesting if we could get audio released because we all know that tone matters i've been married for almost

10 years tone matters whether you're a politician or sitting next to somebody having a conversation to debate and i think that that would be an interesting thing to see as well and michael lisa stay right there more politicking after the break. aeroflot russian and lights. you know world of big partisan new digs a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's

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back to politicking on mathew cook sitting in for larry king continuing the conversation with the political panel they are krauss conservative commentator and contributor at the daily wire and democratic strategist michael to you they join me in studio so we're talking about whether or not it's clear that donald trump broke the law and do you think michel that it's important to establish the quid pro quo which is what we were just discussing i mean absolutely but you know you have a president has probably had hundreds of conversations with foreign leaders and this is the 1st time we're having a whistleblower complaint filed by a member of the trumpet ministration this is someone that works in the trump white house or in the trump intelligence community and he or she is finding it so you know troubling that he or she filed this whistleblower complaint to the you know to the higher ups at inspector general this is the 1st time this has happened and so that's why we're seeing the transcript that's why you know we're having the national intelligence director come and speak to congress i mean these are

unprecedented things because of an unprecedented complaint for someone that works in the trump white house i would say that one we don't know what department the whistleblower was from and 95 percent of federal employees back in 2016 donated to hillary clinton and we all know because we're in the political realm that there are a lot of bureaucratic and administrative jobs that are held over from one presidential president to the next so this could be somebody and it's interesting that this whistleblower has hired an attorney with ties to chuck schumer and hillary clinton there is a political narrative here i think this is a political game here and i would be fascinated to find out more and i really would warn democrats like don't forget what happened with bill clinton he still insanely popular after republicans impeached him in the ninety's this could end up backfiring on them do you think that the the they are moving that palosi specifically is moving toward impeachment due to pressure from the progressive wing or do you think that this. is actually

a strategic move on her part does she think it can happen or maybe even a 3rd option that she's just that she's doing this because she actually thinks trump violated the law i think that she's hoping that trump violated the law but i think that option and there's probably a combined there she has been getting a lot of pressure and i think when she saw some of those moderates like the after mention 7 that wrote that op ed in the washington post earlier this week saying hey we're from purple districts we have experience with military and. i'm sorry the intelligence community and we think this should move forward that was kind of like a final straw for her but people don't understand under the articles of impeachment a vote actually has to be called for and she hasn't called for a vote at this point so there is like this oh big news nancy pelosi is calling for impeachment but there's no vote on the calendar right it's an inquiry and why do you think she's doing it oh a b. or c. well i think it's an inquiry i think you know the speaker has shown leadership going slow and methodical and uncovering one thing at

a time and in the last $67.00 days we've uncovered this will so blore complaint what else is there to uncover as you have these separate subcommittees or separate committees sort of investigate and that's all we're asking for that's all that she's asking to do and there are folks saying that they're in in favor of the inquiry of impeachment and some are saying they're in favor of appeasement now but what the speaker is doing is just methodical one foot in front of the other and is going to uncover every mosque see and moldy stone that shop has left in his wake and he is ready for it i mean listen the money so he said i think saying this is going to help him i mean look that's that is traditional trump playbook is whatever is happening is yes help him and whatever's happening is a good thing but do you think that all the well whatever has happened whether it was the russian vest a geisha and whether it was sessions or you know being forced out whether it was the meal or stuff every single thing that has come in his wake every stone that has been unturned has actually helped him i think the only thing that has and is there was some a. fact on the midterms but statistically incumbent presidents tend to win and

really this could end up taking out his potential you know opponent in 2020 and i think really if it ends up being elizabeth warren we already know the playbook that he's going to play with him and now he has joe biden potentially out of the way for him he thinks this is a win and for the rest of us we'll just have to sit back and why do you think it's true what do you i think that potentially be a win i said in 2016 i actually think that the democrats should have run joe biden because at the time he would have been a better candidate against donald trump than that hillary clinton do you agree look everything donald trump turns to stone and you know like she said he was out there for claiming that the midterms are going to be fantastic in the number of seats they're going to win and then they lost a special you know with doug jones and so when it comes to you know what's happening with voters and where you know they're the direction that they're going in for democrats to win a midterm in a low turnout sort of midterm race that's that's not the usual way it works and so what we're seeing in 2020 is

a massive number of folks invigorated turned on in the sense that they're going to come out and vote not just in the primaries but in november ultimately and i think i'm going to be a one term president and if impeachment happens so be it but let the process play out because that's why we have these checks and balances in our system do you think that donald trump is a one term president not today like looking at what i say looking at everything is falling today no let's talk about the facts of the case that i mean if i'm confused about a lot of americans are i don't think that should let us off the hook i think that we should actually take a moment and and find out and learn 1st selves what we think actually happened with our president this is what has pushed us over the line whether it's a political action or one that's that's based on integrity where we are officially entering into an impeachment inquiry and the president is saying that that hunter biden and joe biden acting as vice president had a shady conflict of interest with the ukraine. and want an investigation into that

well specifically joe biden had bragged before that he had gotten that prosecutor removed from the ukraine you know from her position over there to joe biden's credit this woman was shady i mean there were other things that she was doing that were incredibly shady the problem and this was there and this wasn't a huge unilateral decision that by obama had made this was something that. they knew to be your idea and even if they all thought this process by initiating agd about and here we have president trump saying this see she seemed like a very fair prosecutor i mean but the problem is is that biden has bragged about making it happen did he make it happen for his son because she was looking into him who knows so they're not budging on those that it's not there's also allegedly millions dollars of u.s. aid that he held over their heads saying you got to get rid of her you're not getting that aid that is quid pro quo. sort of but if we if we get to them if we get into the fact well let's let's talk about that so michael do you want to shirt

take the ball look ok 100 biden hasn't been accused of anything i mean just because the president is saying hey everyone look at the shiny thing and let's put the controversy on their lap doesn't mean he hasn't the f.b.i. isn't looking at 100 biden the f.b.i. isn't looking into vice president joe biden in the f.b.i. looks at things when they're scribble evidence of a crime being committed there is no evidence of a crime being committed whether internationally or here on american soil what we do know is that the i.m.f. the european union everyone wanted this prosecutor gone and the president the only one purpose for what purpose was she wasn't she was she she was shady yeah she was not a legitimate and i was in there was an issue but there she but was she investigating the company that hired hunter biden was a board member so that's this is where you know once again not as a trump apologist this is where there is a gray area is because there had been rumors that she was on her way out the door before biden allegedly pressured the ukrainian government to get rid of her. this

was someone that i would i wouldn't i mean if i would encourage the democrats and definitely but the biden campaign released everything and give us clarity here especially if you think it will help take down trump like wouldn't he want to do that for the good of the nation if the european union wanted her out if the i.m.f. wanted her out if the current president of ukraine wanted her out then she's out i mean just because someone saying something else and just because the president is saying that vice president biden did this with his son doesn't make it so it will take about 5 and i think it's also though he didn't he's except he's bragged numerous times i believe there's a video of him bragging about how he got rid of that prosecutors but not for his son it would it would actually if you believe in the record the facts are that biden was was coming down against this prosecutor wanting this prosecutor removed because the prosecutor was lax in their prosecution of corruption i think they and i think that that company would have been of course one of the companies investigated i think there's

a gray area i think in your dispute that once again i think that if the biden campaign has other information that will help democrats defeat donald trump i would think since he's running for president the united states and thinks that he could do a better job than donald trump he should release that information what do you think then if donald trump was normal going to be in the situation no normal person has been president so let's talk about one of my favorite people rudy giuliani the president's personal attorney what's your assessment of giuliani are you in favor of his behavior as her positions and so forth i have not been a fan of rudy giuliani since he left the mayor office in new york city why is that i think that listen he is i'm a conservative like i'm a constitutional conservative i'm incredibly pro one a 2 way and very pro-life giuliani has never been those giuliani goes i think where the paycheck is and i think that is very clear that his allegiance is to donald trump and the trump family and probably the trump wallet do you agree michel. i

agree this is where united. we found it it's just it's just weird where you have someone who claims to be this close to the president is somehow an attorney and yet he goes on these television shows and gets everyone in more trouble every single time he goes on these controversies are up because of something he said but he's loyal to the president and we all know that donald wants loyalty more than anything else so that's why he can get away with it so do you think that he actually hurts donald trump or does it is this part of the tough long i think that it think that there is always going to be the 2 sides so for the left the people on the left they will take the rudy giuliani sound bites and they will be awful but for the diehard donald trump fans there to take the rudy giuliani soundbites and be like who are ah that's amazing so the question is what are the people middle thinking so what about bill weld and some of the other republicans who are challenging donald trump and want to have a primary system something that donald trump was in favor of in 2016 i don't think

that joe walsh or bill weld are going anywhere. again united wow to think fantastically well and if i won that beautiful note of her many thank you both so much for being here thank you and thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking and also thank you so much to larry king for letting me sit in this chair today remember we love hearing from you so join the conversation on larry's facebook page and as always you can share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting at king's things and using the politicking hash tag i also invite you to subscribe to my channel matthew cook dot com and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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