and the whistleblower whose complaint launched it and accused schiff who is chairman of the intelligence committee of writing the complaint. schiff's office has confirm the the whistle-blower sought guidance from a committee aide on filing the complaint but denies schiff saw it an advance. >>> and up on capitol hill, what was deemed an urgent closed-door briefing by lawmakers by the inspector general has just finished. we're learning new information about the ukraine-related documents he revealed. we'll talk about all of the breaking news with two key lawmakers, jamie raskin in the briefing with the state department inspector general and congressman andre carson of the intelligence committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first to the white house at the scene of the off the rails news conference by president trump a little while ago. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is on the scene. jim, the president is clearlyin fury ated by this impeachment probe. >> reporter: it looks like a meltdown in realtime as president trump denied any wrongdoing during his phone call

the intelligence committee needs to do its work. needs to do work related to intelligence. and national security. but we passed with impeachment today. surely, the majority would agree that the resolution about which they are proud, the resolution that is to provide that transparency and openness in this process cannot include a definition of success that is a single open hearing in which the american people can participate. reads in itse 15 mandate to the intelligence committee, the chair of the committee shall designate an open hearing or hearings pursuant to this section. the openness resolution to of-aside by a single ray sunshine in the intelligence committee, that is unbecoming of this institution. i believe my friends in the majority will agree. i yield back. >> let me first of all thank you for pointing out the fact there would be an open hearing. -- i opposed the amendment but -- i think that is the expectation. . i opposed the amendment, but we are moving toward an open process where we will have open hearings, so the concern about it behind closed doors will go a

host: behind closed doors it's the house oversight committee, the house intelligence committee the foreign affairs committee that will be meeting in these closed-door testimonies. if likely to go past this week. how long is this aspect of the impeachment process going to last? i spoke alayna: with a lot of members on the hill last week -- speaker pelosi has been saying she wants to get this wrapped up as efficiently as possible but no one is putting a distinct timeline on it. willsay they are -- they see as many people as they need to to get a good sense of if they move forward with they will write in the articles of impeachment senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said and he spoke with -- he's hoping that the house will vote on impeachment by thanksgiving so that they can have a senate trial wrapped up by the end of ae year that is not definitive timeline. i spoke with mcconnell's team as well. he has not even spoken with speaker pelosi or senate minority leader chuck schumer yet so everyone is putting some sort of timeline on this it's not fully baked in just yet. host: connecticu

does he have it in the intelligence committee? >> as the majority has drafted the resolution, the president has no ability. >> does he have it in any other of the committees pursuing impeachment inquiry? >> they as h res 660 is drafted, mentioning financial services, foreign affairs, judiciary, oversight reform, ways and means and intelligence, the president has no ability to participate in anyway in any of those commitments. >> to my friends' best recollection or knowledge, was that the case where president clinton or president nixon? i mean, were they represented in the committee of jurisdictions, where the hearings were taking place? >> again, the majority can draft it as they see fit. but your vision is mine, h res 581 as passed by the republican house in 1998 only creates to name one committee of jurisdiction. in that one committee gave the president and his counsel full ability to participate. in fact. as i recall there were four hearings held, three were held at the house's request. one at president clinton's request, callin

he's head of the intelligence committee. lou: i was talking about the whistleblower. >> i am going back to schiff. the point is, it shows the impropriety and unprecedented aspects of this impeachment inquiry. the head of the intelligence committee in the ordinary course would never be involved. this would be an unprecedented application of impeachment going through someone like schiff who is compromised because of his contacts with these problematic witnesses, to put it charitably, on the outside. this president is right to say i am not going to cooperate with this faux impeachment. and i use this word quite seriously. there is nothing constitutional about this. when you are abusing power to take out a president, you are in a coup territory. every time your listeners hear impeachment, they should substitute the word coup. that's how serious this is. lou: we use the word overthrow. i'm hesitant to go to the french for communication architecture. it's you straightforward. corrupt, and without any moral or legal basis to charge

this resolution that we passed today lays the groundwork for open hearings in both the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee. the house and the american public must see all the evidence for themselves. the resolution makes clear the a.m. will safeguards in the process that will be given and that will be adhered to. the resolution is necessary to ensure that our constitutional rder remains intact for future generations. what we have seen are allegations of conduct at many levels, that if proven to be true are a challenges to the democratic order and norms that we all depend. we must hand this country to our children with its democracy in as good a shape as it was handed to us. we simply have no choice because no one can be above the law and we must enforce that. i now yield to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, mr. engel. mr. engel: thank you. i'm elliott engel chairman of the foreign affairs committee. last month we have been working lockstep on this impeachment inquiry. so far we have seen damning evidence that the president abused his power and jeopardized our natio

based on your experienceof the house intelligence committee and there's a lead committee on this impeachment inquiry, what national security concerns do you hear coming out of that one piece of evidence, that memorandum on the phone call ? >> guest: obviously the phone call is concerning . if the president is making commitments are asking for things from foreign leaders that don't go to the national interest , that go to his personal interest, that could be a concern to the committees in the house not just the intelligence committee but the judiciary committee which will vote on impeachment and send them to the floor. the house as you point out is doing all the investigation. when i served under chairman mike rogers, it was a bipartisan committee. they spent time figuring out a way to work together and create common cause to support the national security . as we seen in recent months and on the past two years, the committee has become partisan on both sides and we can blame the former chairman, the current chairman but it's become a partisan committee unfortunately and that maybe partly the

open and transparent investigative proceedings by the permanent select committee on intelligence for the purpose of continuing the investigation described in the first section of this resolution, the permanent select committee on intelligence referred to in this resolution as the permanent select committee is authorized to conduct proceedings pursuant to this resolution as follows. one, the chair of the permanent select committee shall designate and open hearing or hearings pursuant to this section. two, notwithstanding clause 2-j-2 of rule 11 of the rules of the house of representatives, upon recognition by the chair for such purpose during any hearing pursuant to paragraph 1, the chair and ranking minority member of the permanent select committee shall be permitted to question witnesses for equal specified periods of longer than five minutes as determined by the chair. the time available for each period of questioning under this paragraph shall be equal for the chair and ranking minority member. the chair maconner if recognition for multiple periods of such question bug each such pe

i get that the white house doesn't like adam schiff, the chairman of house intelligence committee and they don't like the impeachment inquiry and on and on and i get that committee has not been the same since you left the helm but he is still the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> right. and i can only underline what chairman rodgers had just said about the current environment under normal conventional rules, proto cal and interesting to know if they were notified and the chairman is a republican. >> and when president obama announced the obl raid, that was announced on a sunday night after 11:00. i remember i was -- i was a white house correspondent and i got the alert around 9:30 on a sunday night and we had to run in and he gave us the news as soon as he could give us the news, the country the news. this information happened, this happened last night. and there is no reason to announce it at 9:00 a.m. and to delay the announcement that we're now almost 20 minutes into the 9:00 a.m. hour and we were told this would start at 9:00 a.m. unless, of course, the president is

again, this is coming from -- i sit on the intelligence committee. strongly believe that every member of congress should have access to every single because the question begs, how are these members talking about this in their district? the democratssure impeachment? i also believe that every transcript should be released to public.ican we continue to see press reports of cherry-picked of excerpts or transcripts. that's breaking the rules, but i believe this should be transparent. it's not a political game. is a very, very serious process. chair the hiff is intelligence committee, and these are many of the process reasons why. 'll turn it over to my colleague, mike turner. mr. turner: thank you, elise. more extreme or a greater threat to democracy than when congress undertakes an process.nt it is absolutely essential that preserve democracy that we have an impeachment process that transparent, where the american public can see what's occurring. here today we have an mpeachment process that's occurring in secret, without any real action that has happen

the democratic congressman andre carson of indiana is joining us, a member of the intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. and let's start with your fellow democrats who were accusing secretary of state mike pompeo of shielding officials at the state department from depositions, from testimony. can your committee get the information you're looking for without secretary pompeo's cooperation? >> i think so. i think secretary pompeo, i've traveled with him, i served with him on the intelligence committee. he is someone who i believe in my heart is a patriot. however, i do think that he is being misled right now and he's proven himself to be a bit naive with regards to president trump. i think if he is a true patriot he should be concerned about the preservation of our republic and it is not doing it now. >> and despite the pressure from secretary pompeo, the former special envoy to ukraine kurt

what did the intelligence committee folks do? they did not assist in writing the complaint. uggested that he follow procedure and go to the inspector general of the intelligence community. they didn't do what i imagine donald trump might have done had he come into possession of derogatory information of a political rival and that is hand it to rudy giuliani and have him go on fox news and wave it around. this person seems to have done everything appropriately. the fact that there was some vague heads up during the time that the white house learned about it and there was a concern nothing was going to happen about it and after which he went to the i.g., there's nothing to see here. >> earlier today the president repeated his accusation that the chairman of the intelligence committee, adam schiff, should be investigated for treason. he used the word "treason." how discerning concerning is th? >> hugely. hugely concerning. i once went on a television show, a late-night talk show where the host tried to get me to use the word "treason" and "traitor" with respect to the president

she's a member of the senate intelligence committee and senate judiciary committee.enator harris, i have to ask you, is it possible that your letter to the inspector general is what triggered some kind of inquiry by him that has him rushing to congress tomorrow for a closed door briefing? >> i'm sure it's possible, lawrence, but as claire mccaskill said earlier, the inspectors general who have been carryovers from a previous administration i think know that fundamentally their duty is to ensure the integrity of the agencies that they serve. and on this issue, the state department and mike pompeo at the very head of it really have a lot of questions to answer about what they did to facilitate rudy giuliani's engagement with ukrainian officials and what resources and taxpayer dollars were used to facilitate basically the request of political favors from are a foreign head of government by donald trump. >> mike pompeo's letter today to the chairman in the house refusing to comply with their request to depose state department witnesses complained of bullying in their tac

the catch is that those provisions don't kick in until the case has been referred from the intelligence committee to the judiciary committee. so that means that the intelligence committee will conduct another full round of investigation before the president is allowed to be involved. the resolution also gives authority over which witnesses can be called or at least approval authority to the chairman. so it is possible that even though it would involve at least in principle, the president's ability to participate might be limited here. >> chris: what are we hearing from republicans on capitol hill? >> very much the same as we're hearing from the white house. they're reminding in march, nancy pelosi said in order for an impeachment inquiry to go forward, there would have to be bipartisan by-in. listen to what kevin mccarthy said about bipartisan buy-in a little while ago. >> today the country just witnessed the only bipartisan vote on that floor was against. the question to the speaker of the same questions i provided in a letter about the unfair process that we had. what has changed since march? >

last week, i sent letters to the chairs of the house intelligence committee, the committee on oversight and reform, and the committee on foreign affairs, to inform them of my intent as an elected member of the 116th congress to review documents and records in possession of their committees. mr. joyce: we must be allowed to do our jobs. the fair choice is clear. we cannot allow house democrats to continue issuing political attacks behind the safety of clandestine closed doors. madam speaker, i stand for transparency, and i stand for accountability. i stand for fairness. it's time nor body to restore its integrity. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker this cloak and dagger impeachment process is unprecedented, uncalled for, and unfair to the american people. when i, a member of congress, am turned away from

this is coming from the intelligence committee. i certainly believe that every member of congress should have access to every transcript because the question that's how are they talking about this in their district? how early so sure of support when they don't have access to the evidence in this proposed process and i also believe every transcript should be released to the public. we continue to see press reports of cherry picked from transcripts, not breaking the rules and i believe this should betransparent . not a political game. this is a serious process and chairman schiff is unfit to chair the intelligence committee. i'll turn it over to my colleague mike turner. >> thank you elyse, there is nothing more extreme or a greater threat to democracy and when congress undertake an impeachment process. it is absolutely essential that to preserve democracy that we have an impeachment process that is open and transparent or the american public and see what is occurring in here today we have an impeachment process occurring in secret w

this resolution that we pass today lays the groundwork for the open hearings in the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee, and the house and the public must see all of the evidence for themselves. the resolution makes clear the ample safeguards in the process that will be given and that will be adhered to. the resolution is necessary to ensure that the constitutional order remains intact for future generations. what we have seen allegations of conduct on many levels if proven to be true are a challenge to the democratic order to democratic norms that we depend, we must hand this country to our children with its democracy in as good of shape as when it was handed to us. we simply have no choice, because no one can be above the law, and we must enforce that. i will now yield to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee mr. engle. >> thank you. i'm chairman engle of the foreign affairs committee. we have been working on the impeachment inquiry, and so far we have been seeing damning evidence that the president abused the power and jeopardized our national security to help his

been quite surprising to hearings, and we know that they are not so sensitive that only the intelligence committee could hear them because they lumped in two other committee, foreign affairs and oversight, so it's not about just keeping it confined to intelligence. but i specifically heard the speaker say that six committees would be investigating and i'm on one of those and yet they send, i go into the skiff, into the hallway out the secure area and i'm not allowed to go in, i want to know who gave the order. and the democratic staff said well, you know that is the order. who gave the order? well, our boss told us. so an unelected staffer tells two other staffers that you are to prevent a duly elected member of congress from doing their job. i want to know who gave that order. is it in writing somewhere? who gave that order? who is it that is undermining the election of over half of the members of congress to prevent them from being table do their job? who gave that order? they couldn't say. they send out more staff. not a member of congress. it seemed a little cowardly to me. nobody would come o

session and then move to the house judiciary committee which could collect the evidence the intelligence committee is conducting now behind closed doors and when it moves into open session in the house judiciary committee the white house would have an -- would have an opportunity to proceed and they could be removed by jerry nadler if they don't comply with the request for information and so far the white house has not done that and still requests for witness interviews to come in privately. including brian mccormick, we're learning that this office of management and budget official at the white house has been requested for an interview. this individual served as the chief of staff at the department of energy and the energy department has been in the thick of this investigation because rick perry the energy secretary had been involved in some of the discussions with the president of ukraine, zelensky, and involved in discussion at the white house about why ukrainian aid had been withheld and also about a meeting that the ukrainian officials sought in washington at a time when the president himself

she's a member of the senate intelligence committee and senate judiciary committee.ator harris, i have to ask you, isn't it possible that your letter to the inspector general is what triggered some kind of inquiry by him that has him rushing to congress tomorrow for a closed door briefing? >> i'm sure it's possible, lawrence, but as claire mccaskill said earlier, the inspector general as carryover from a previous administration knows that fundamentally their duty is to incrementally share the issues. they had a question to answer with rudy giuliani's engagement with officials, and what resources or tax dollars were used to facilitate basically the request of political favors from a foreign head of government by donald trump. >> mike pompeo's letter today to the chairman in the house refusing to comply with their request to depose state department witnesses complained of bullying in their tactics because in their notices of the request for these depositions, they reminded the secretary of state what the law is and what they would interpret as obstruction of their acti

frankly i have been rather shocked by the house no senate intelligence committee have gone to battle stations over that because it's that kind of illegal domestic surveillance of house and senate intelligence committees were created over 40 years ago to prevent. this has this is not been a topf conversation for censorship or senator burr, chairman of the senate intelligence. >> host: president trump tweeted a couple days ago about the whistleblower, the so-called whistleblower before knowing i i was going to release the exact transcript stated michael what you couldn't present was crazy, frightening and completely lacking in substance related to national security. this is a very big lie. read the transcript. >> guest: i don't recall the whistleblower using that phraseology. what we do know so far on the basis of the testimony that has so far been given in the snippets of testimony we have so far from state department and other officials involved, is that the substance of the allegations were valid. that's what mr. maguire of of te intelligence committee inspector general currently fo

but we are very proud of the work of our chairman of the intelligence committee. we take this to be a very sad time for the american people, for our country. impeaching a president or having the investigation to impeach a president is not anything to be joyful about. i do not know that anybody is joyful. but it is a sad time. as you have heard me say over and over again, "the dark days of the revolution," thomas payne said, "the times have found us." we think they have found us now. not that we place ourselves in the category of greatness of our founders, but we place ourselves in a time of urgency on the threat to the constitution, a system of checks and balances that is being made. they fought for independence, they declared independence, and they fought and won, and they established a democracy. thank god they made the constitutional amendable, so we could be expanding freedom. and we see the actions of this president being an assault on the constitution once we had his even admission to that, we had no choice but to go forward. it is hard. we want to weigh the

they're going to try to widen conditions among us.have i think the senate intelligence committee hasor other concluded russia was successful in that. >> 2016 couldn't have been the first year that russia or otherm tried to tangle and mess with our elections nationwide. how did it become such a turning point? >> this comes from largely what the senate intelligence committee and mural report and others have concluded, it's likely they dipped their toes in the waters before, but of course we're at 2016 whee're at the hi point of social media use. people were siloing their news consumption with people they ssa agreed with.gn and we were really ripe for the divisiveness that russia pushed in 2016. there's also substantial evidence that russia specifically wanted to help donald trump's campaign and hurt secretary clinton's cane, and that cameme from the senate intelligence committee report. >> is among your concerns that just the mere threat or presence of tampering with elections is keepsex voter turnout, would ke it down?ant >> that's a hugeci concern. dem i think there's good evidence tha

senate intelligence committee has found that russia was behind a social media does information campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to sow division and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected well u.s. intelligence chiefs trace the accounts to the internet research agency that's a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin it echoes filings of the mother report which led to the indictment of twal russian nationals linked to the internet research agency roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . the report from the senate intelligence committee is part 2 of its investigation into illegal foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election as many people already know it was the internet research agency run by a man with very close ties to the kremlin that was behind the massive social media manipulation that was designed one to destroy political support for hillary clinton the democratic nominee to to build political support for donald trump the repub

committee chairman. this is what he said before the whistle-blower complaint came out. >> the director of national intelligenceprecedented decision to not share the complaint with congress and i want to think inspector general with his actions to come to the committee. we might not have even known there was a whistle-blower complaint. >> bret: he did know though. official word from the spokes linen, the whistle-blower contacted committee for guidance and how to report possible wrongdoing in the jurisdiction of intelligence community. consistent with the long-standing procedure, committee staff advised the whistle-blower to contact inspector general to seek legal counsel. at no point did the committee review or receive a complaint in advance. that is the statement from schiff 'staff. obviously, this is raising eyebrows in washington. tom, cofounder and president, tm bevan, susan ferrechio and charles lane of "the washington post." susan, when this head, the president jumped on it right away. and he was asked about it and said, he probably helped write the complaint and that is denied by schiff but it does reach

, i think, questionable that from what we know there was a blur as relationships, without intelligence committee. that is a very polarized committee that is not following the process, as my understanding of the process. but it certainly was not a wise thing to do on the part of it was a ploy, and and a politicid visit. if there was a blur, whoever he or she is, had said "i don't think i'm having a fair hearing or getting a full hearing from inspector general," there is no suggestion that i know of. at a minimum, why not go to the senate intelligence committee, which has a far different reputation? in terms of fair rent dominic fair mindedness reasonableness. >> harris: i'm wondering if people know that or if you don't just go wherever you go. >> excuse me for interrupting. whistle-blowers for the process. they know, you know as a federal employee we right side. you are advised of those rights, and you can read about those rights. this is not hidden. this is absolutely clear, that there is a very specific process that you go through that will protect you, but also to help ensure honest government

it provides no ability to participate in the ongoing intelligence committee investigation. if we presume that the procedurs the rule committees have dictated to us on high allow the presint's counsel to participate in judiciary committee proceedings at all, they'll only have access to documents transmitted to the judiciary committee and not all the material obtained in the course of the intelligence committee's hearings. i just hapn to have house resolution 803 from 1974 that involved, well it was from chairman, democratic chairman, radino, from the committee on the judiciary. see that's the way it's supposed to be done. that way it's been done in the past. 1974. 1998. and under the rules that the democrats passed earlier this year in january, the rules say if a rule is not specific about a matter theprecedent is the rule. that's the rule. and it's been ignored repeatedly. so we vote today basically rubber stamping the secret starr chamber hearings, the one-sided questioning of the witnesses, oh, we did hear today, republicans have equal time to the democrats. 's just that d

senate intelligence committee has found russia was behind a social media distance from ation campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to so division and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected u.s. intelligence chiefs trace the accounts to the internet research agency a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin it echoes findings in the miller report which led to the indictment of 12 russian nationals linked to the ira. still to come on al-jazeera the promise of jobs to stop widespread protests now iraqis are demanding the government follows through with its plan. freshman not in jail and straight back to the streets we speak to one u.k. climate activist undeterred by the police response to extinction rebellion. still got some rather lively showers around central parts of the mediterranean sea this area cloud here just pushing across greece heading across see a channel that will help help to make its way a little further east which as we go on through the

and to allow the president and his counsel in proceedings on the intelligence committee, oversight committee, and foreign affairs committee. this right was granted to president clinton in 1998, yet it's not present here. the majority, again, rejected the amendment. i think the difference is clear. today's resolution fails to give the minority the same rights as were present during the clinton impeachment, and it fails to offer the same due process protections that were given to presidents nixon and clinton. and in the latter case, i note those rights were given by a republican house to a democratic president.

open and transparent investigative proceedings by the permanent select committee on intelligence for the purpose of continuing the investigation described in the first section of this resolution, the permanent select committee on intelligence referred to in this resolution as the permanent select committee is authorized to conduct proceedings pursuant to this resolution as follows. one, the chair of the permanent

the intelligence committee, the smallest of those three. mbers of all three of those committees have access to these hearings, these depositions, and the ability to see what has been said at those hearings. that universe of members larger than just the eight or nine you just mentioned, but thanks for bringing it up. ted in north carolina, republican. caller: good morning. i am wholeheartedly in support of donald trump. he has done nothing wrong. put inve him, he was there for a purpose. ,or the democrats to remove him they will seal the fate once they do that. be in hell ifably they take trenton out of office. host: what is god's purpose for president trump? caller: he is for the united states. read the bible. there is the trump of god. the pictures tell about that. edward, baltimore, maryland, democrat. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: listen, my comment is very simple and straightforward. the office of the presidency of the united states is an honorable office. the senators in congress, they are supposed to be honorable. t

it teed president trump up to make the claim that adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee had some hand in writing it, which is completely false according to the reporting and according to the statement from the committee. hopefully that clears some of that up. >> as this fight plays out, the state department has gone to the inspector general is on capitol hill at this hour to brief lawmakers about what has been described as an urgent matter related to the state department and ukraine. what do we know about what is going on? why is the state department inspector general on capitol hill talking to lawmakers? >> reporter: a couple of things. i can tell you that the state department ig steve linick is here, we can't have cameras over there, other sidewise i would br there talking to you. we don't know what the substance of this urgent matter is. we know that it came directly after secretary of state mike pompeo pushed back on house democrats' demands to depose those five current and former state department officials as part of its ongoing impeachment inquiry. there is some ou

representative adam schiff and i'm wondering, you think it's possible knowing the results of the intelligence committee to work in a bipartisan way west and mark. >> i hope that the intel committee will continue to work in a bipartisan way. but you can't take the things the house republicans are doing as it relates to adam schiff seriously. there's no more respected member, no more qualified member, no more dignified, cerebral, curious number on the hill and chairman adam schiff and think about this area devon nunez was a living, breathing, walking embarrassments to the institution of the house of representatives and you heard crickets from them. in the lastcongress . that resolution was fully fake and fraudulent and the only reason it came a is because house republicans cannot defend the presidents betrayal of his oath of office, his abuse of power and the undermining of our nationalsecurity . let's hear a substantive defense. we are waiting for exculpatory evidence to be presented. it has not. going to continue to undertake this proceeding in a serious and solemn way consistent with our constitutiona

of what has transpired really just within the last week last thursday the intelligence committee held an open hearing with the acting director of national intelligence. the following day chairman angle issued a subpoena to the state department in close consultation with myself and chairman cummings. we are deeply concerned about secretary pump ayos effort now to. potentially interfere with witnesses who whose testimony is needed before a committee many of whom are mentioned in the whistleblower complaint. and we want to make it abundantly clear that any effort by the secretary by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congress's ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress and more than that will allow a an adverse inference to be drawn as to the underlying facts that if they are going to prevent witnesses from coming forward to testify on the allegations in the whistleblower complaint that will create an adverse inference that those allegations are in fact correct. on monday. i issued a subp

this isn't really nice, but we don't think it's impeachable. >> shifting this in the house intelligence committee benefits both parties. some of the best questioners on the republican side is on that committee. john radcliffe, for example, i think is better in intelligence than judiciary. we heard the poison tree argument from republicans in the past week that this can't be fixed. they're going to stay on that, but now they'll get an opportunity to actually cross examine these witnesses. it's one thing to say, you couldn't have possibly known that for the following reasons. i think both sides are getting a fair amount of what they want. >> i was covering the white house. 31 democrats broke from hillary clinton, if you will, and voted to at least endorse the inquiry. the key to richard nixon's impeachment is when republicans started to crack. nancy pelosi able to hold her members except for two. 17 republicans are retiring in the house. if there were going to be breaks, she thought it would be there. didn't happen. we begin this next chapter in partisan polarized corners. >> yes, and at some point

as the senate intelligence committee noted in a press released to, this happens all the time. staffer do? they said you need to submit a complaint through the whistle-blower process. it's called the intelligence community whistle-blower protection act. you should probably get an attorney to help you. they did not identify an attorney for the whistle-blower. the whistle-blower found the initial attorney on this, andrew bakaj on his or her own because mr. bakaj has his own expertise and is very experienced on these matters. >> bradley moss, thank you very much for joining us tonight and clarifying that. really appreciate it. >> absolutely, any time. >> and when we come back, it was bound to come to this. pence versus trump. that's next. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. it's how we care for our cancer patients- like job. when he was diagnosed with cancer, his team at ctca created a personalized care plan to treat his cancer and side effects. so job could continue to work and stay strong for his family. this is how

the intelligence committees of his parliament to answer questions about what he and the italian government and italian intelligence service had been talking about with attorney general bill barr who has twice visited italy over the past several months. the italian prime minister was summoned to parliament to explain what those conversations were about. he later told reporters that what barr had asked him, what barr had asked italian authorities to do was, quote, verify the operations of american agents. that is, barres question was to try to verify what the american intelligence did. in other words, america's top law enforcement official has been traveling around the world going to other countries asking if those other countries can provide him dirt on u.s. intelligence officials. because that will somehow help his boss, the president, undermine his own intelligence agencies, which of course are unanimous in their view that actually it was russia that interfered in the 2016 election. i should mention also in terms of the italy stuff in particular, which we have the most recent information

last week, i sent letters to the chairs of the house intelligence committee, the committee on oversight and reform, and the committee on foreign affairs, to inform them of my intent as an elected member of the 116th congress to review documents and records in possession of their committees. mr. joyce: we must be allowed to do our jobs. the fair choice is clear. we cannot allow house democrats to continue issuing political attacks behind the safety of clandestine closed doors. madam speaker, i stand for transparency, and i stand for accountability. i stand for fairness. it's time nor body to restore its integrity. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker this cloak and dagger impeachment process is unprecedented, uncalled for, and unfair to the american people. when i, a member of congress, am turned away from

intelligence committee report contradicts the findings of the mole a probe into alleged collusion between donald trump and the kremlin by claiming moscow did help him in 26 states. hello there is a day here in moscow you watching international thousands are protesting against the stairs seen ecuador's capital for a 6th consecutive day the government in kiev relocated to the country's 2nd city it made arrest and violent clashes. was. was. the protests were triggered by the removal of fuel subsidies as part of a loan deal with the international monetary fund many of the demonstrators come from poor and indigenous communities from all across ecuador with more reporting now from keith is nicholas donovan. yet another day of violent clashes between protesters and police forces here in ecuador what we've seen today is the indigenous communities thousands and thousands of people that came from different parts of ecuador here to the capital to protest there was a moment of tension when they stormed the national assembly the 1st few moments after that they were dispersed and we saw massive clashes

it doesn't belong with the inspector general or intelligence committee. there is a dangerous precedent. we don't want to tell the agency critiquing or trying to knock down policy. they have poor policy, they don't make it. lou: we don't want another cia officer playing the role of whistleblower for a contrived plot. nancy pelosi claiming adam schiff's interpretation of the phone call to the leader of ukraine was true, not parody. >> was it right for adam schiff to with the interpretation. >> it's fair, it's sad. it's using the president's own word. >> those weren't the president's word. it was an interpretation of the president's word. >> he did not make it up. lou: yes, he did. pelosi con fra extra detectiving -- contradicting him. >> i have a favor i want from you, though. and i will say this only seven times so you better listen good. i want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it. on this and on that. i will put you in touch with people. not just any people. i will put you in touch with the attorney general of the united s

lou: intelligence ask committee, when you served in 2011. what would have happened if anyone has suggested such a path as being pursued now by the radical dimms? >> it's so bad that when schiff was in the minority, they were going to build a wall in the intelligence committee staff to separate the republican and democratic staff. documents are shared as a courtesy. lou: a literal barrier? >> a barrier. we sat in one giant space in the basement. but things were so bad they were going to build a wall. apparently the management of the house wouldn't allow that. boehner, pelosi decided they wouldn't allow this wall to be built. it may have been -- lou: so why is there no outrage here until just these last few days? because everyone can see what's happening. schiff and pelosi have gone mad with partisan fervor, and their greed for power. >> we have to make the point to the american people that you have to have a fair process. if something can be common in the senate, the senate intelligence committee has to take this up, subpoena people, and they

as the senate intelligence committee noted in a press released to, this happens all the time.house intelligence staffer do? they said you need to submit a complaint through the whistle-blower process. it's called the intelligence community whistle-blower protection act. you should probably get an attorney to help you. they did not identify an attorney for the whistle-blower. the whistle-blower found the initial attorney on this, andrew bakaj on his or her own because mr. bakaj has his own expertise and is very experienced on these matters. >> bradley moss, thank you very much for joining us tonight and clarifying that. really appreciate it. >> absolutely, any time. >> and when we come back, it was bound to come to this. pence versus trump. that's next. i can't believe it. what? that our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost? hey jill! hey kurt! movies? i'll get snacks! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our car insurance with geico. i got snacks! ohhh, i got popcorn, i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. am i chewing too loud? belie

joining us now from florida, congresswoman val demings, a democrat on the house intelligence committeed the former orlando police chief, congresswoman, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> representative demings: good morning, chris, it's great to be here. >> chris: based on the witness is that the committee heard from this week, based on the documents that you have received, do believe that there is no hard evidence that president trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, and do you believe that the house will now vote to impeach him? >> representative demings: welcome chris, let me begin here, as you've already indicated, i served a lot of years in law enforcement. i had the honor of serving in every rank at my department. i even was appointed to chief of police. i took that job very seriously as i take this job. when i made the decision to run for congress, i said that the safety and security of our nation is my number one priority, as it should be, because that is the foundation i believe that we build the american dream upon. i believe, if you look at the evidence over the past ab

that witness is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. how would that work? is why republicans have been contesting this process. if you look closely at the resolution, gives a lot of latitude to the intelligence community. but it's not clear whether the judiciary committee would have open hearings at that point presents a problem. the judiciary committee ultimately would write articles of impeachment, that is pretty clear. but what they do any open hearings? if you use the model that they used in 1998 with president clinton, but they finally did -- and this is where democrats are saying there's not a special counsel, there is not an independent prosecutor. with the judiciary committee did in 1998 as they took cannot stars work and incorporated that into their work in the judiciary committee. there was an open hearing on november 19th, 1998, where ken starr came and testified before the judiciary committee. he was essentially the accuser. this is what republicans are saying. that adam schiff is the accuser, or maybe the whistleblower. and that david kendall,

got a direct accusation from the president of the united states to the chair up the house intelligence committee say that he probably helped write this complaint a few sentences later he said he did write this complaint now this is an absolutely astounding accusation made by a sitting president so you can see once again this is an indication of trump's absolute fury on going fury at this particular process another note to mention as. well is president trump posed in this news conference and earlier when he was speaking to the finnish president use the term started off repeatedly he used the term stron script of his conversation with the ukrainian president the white house made very clear there is no transcript there is no. statement written by word for word it was essentially a memorandum containing the sense of a conversation not the detailed conversation ok m i can i thank you for that from washington d.c. so just a reminder over the past few hours we've heard increasingly sharp words being exchanged between donald trump and democrats nancy pelosi as well as adam schiff just a few hours ago pe