i think that's a question for adam schiff. thank you all very much. >> follow the house impeachment inquiry and the administration's response on c-span. unfiltered coverage live on tv, our radio app and online. watch primetime reairs on c-span or stream anytime on demand at c-span.org. watch impeachment. >> a look at president trump boarding air force one earlier this evening en route to louisiana for a campaign rally. his visit comes two days before voters head to the poll this is weekend to choose the state's next governor that race is between democratic incumbent john bell edward and republican businessman. we'll have live coverage of the rally from bossier city starting at 8:00 eastern. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, michigan democratic congressman dan kildee discussing the latest on the house democrat's impeachment inquishry and author and syndicated columnist ann coulter talks about daca. impeachment. and campaign 2020. watch c-span'

what role did adam schiff have to the whistleblower? what role did his staff have to the whistleblower. through one man, to turn this country upside down, to have this vote today. our founding fathers warned about this in the federalist papers that a future congress at some point in time would base and impeachment not on guilt or innocence, but rather on partisan politics. sadly, today in this chamber, the worst fears have been realized and with that, i'd like to turn it over to the house foreign affairs committee. >> in a way, you could say congratulations to nancy pelosi. she wanted a bipartisan vote on her inquiry resolution, she got it. it was a bipartisan vote against her inquiry resolution. there are a number of other democrats who chose to vote the wrong way who should have voted here tohey won't be serve with us anymore come when nancy2021 pelosi, as the leader of her congress has chosen to sacrifice a few of her own members. those members are going to lose for all of the right reasons because as we have seen during this past vo

this is what adam schiff does. his opening statement -- he made up a fictitious call transcript of july 25 because the real one does not have the bribery that he wants to allege. just like that make-believe , he asked thedy ambassador to respond. it would have been more responsible that if adam schiff wanted to ask that question, to allow the ambassador to read the entire tweet from a digest it and respond. outwould he cherry picked -- he loves to withhold key facts, he withholds information. he outright lies. and he cherry picks key facts. part ofcase, he took a a tweet. he never asked the ambassador about what president zelinski said about her. that is how he rolls. why is president trump putting out information and writing back -- fighting back? it is because adam schiff wants the american public to only have partial information. we have asked the ambassador about this. or nine hours. president trump is right to want to defend himself and ensure the other 97% of the story gets out there. because adam schiff is o

adam -- guest: adam schiff and devin nunes. adam schiff will control how the hearing goes and he will have to operate within the bounds of the resolution that the house passed last month regarding the procedures. how manylly controls 45 minute rounds that he and devin nunes get, during which they are expected to yield much of their time to staff attorneys who are more effective questioners than lawmakers. host: we have not seen devin nunes come to the cameras while the closed-door depositions have been going on. what role do you think you will play? guest: he has become skeptical of the press. he used to talk to us all the time on the record on background and off the record. awadays, he has gone on certain network and tried to disparage the press and he does not trust us. that is his view. other republicans have filled the void like jim jordan and others eager to defend the president on camera. devin nunes has not been as eager to do that. host: jim jordan is the top republican on the house oversight committee has secured a pos

i think adam schiff has lied numerous times. i do not think adam schiff is fit to be in this position of running the intel committee, and that's only a decision by with one person, who could put them in there. yes, i believe adam schiff has spent his entire time in congress, since the president has been in, trying to impeach him. and i think he's already written the script. he auditioned the individuals in the basement, and he's picking and choosing them to come forward. why don't we take him at his own word? would he have lied when he came to us in america and said he's so concerned that the administration is withholding the whistleblower, that he will fight for this whistleblower to come forward, that they wanted to move legislation on the floor, did he lie to us then? now he doesn't want to bring the whistleblower forward, would that be a lie? i think that's a question for adam schiff. thank you all very much. announcer: live on friday, the house returns for work on the bill to reauthorize the u.s. export import bank for 10 y

the intel committee and change their rules, that members of their own committee cannot ask until adam schiff gets his 45 minutes and then adam he ff can decide whether needs another 45. he was asked at the start, would e decide after the first 45 that the members of the committee could actually have their five members. no. he didn't say it. we'll wait and see. so, yes. i think adam schiff has lied numerous times. do not think adam schiff is fit to be in this position of running the intel committee, and by with ly a decision you person who could put them in there. yes-day believe adam schiff -- believe adam schiff has spent his entire time in congress, since the president as been in, trying to impeach him. i think he's already written the script. he auditioned the individuals in he's picking and and choosing them to come forward. would he have lied when he came and said he's a so concerned the administration is withholding the whistleblower, that he will whistleblower to come forward, that they wanted to move legislation on the lie to us then? now he doesn't want to bring the forward, s blowe

twot now, as we're here, floors below us, in the bunker, adam schiff's bunker in the baseman, adam schiff is tearing up his parody. he's going to have to rewrite it. is that? well, we can't talk about it. they say the substance of the depositions. you, isn't it kind of curious that you don't know what's going on today with tim his deposition? why is it that you don't have the information, the opening statements? was alex vindman's boss. the ukraine aid was not even up by ukraine.d they did not say anything to us until just before it was released. and then it was released. as jim jordan pointed out, guess orderkraine had to do in to get that hold released? nothing. to releasehiff needs all the transcripts right now. crowd member: yes! [applause] ourn behalf of constituents, on behalf of the american public, for everyone misledpissed about being by adam schiff and his cohorts, theng in the bunker of capitol basement, using you to lie to our constituents, release transcripts! let's have a conversation about substance, because i'll tell you what, you lost the conversation process. you're losi

german adam schiff is playing by his rules -- chairman adam schiff is playing by his rules and will not provide the president of fair process. we have not had a witness we requested outside of those that adam schiff has gone through his audition. we do not have a process where the president's own attorney can have a cross-examination. we do not have due process. despite all the advantage to adam schiff, he still cannot come up with a reason to impeach the president. i know it has been his goal and i know he has taken this country through a nightmare and i know he has continued to go -- to care for this so much that he is willing to lie on national television. do we all forget just a few short weeks ago that adam schiff went on national tv repeatedly making the claim that the intelligence committee would hear from the whistleblower, that he would stand up to the president to make sure the whistleblower came forward. we learned later that they met with the whistleblower and adam schiff decides the whistleblower should not come through. he claims not to know who this person is. he will sto

where muzzled adam schiff. -- we are muzzled by adam schiff. when we are talking about impeachment, we are talking about impeachable offenses. you can disagree or agree with the tweet, but as we know, the democrats want to continue making this a political food fight. this is a very serious matter, this is a constitutional matter, not about tweets. reporter: [indiscernible] >> i agree with marie yovanovitch's testimony that she thinks it is good policy that the president of the u.s. can determine who serves as his ambassador. i agree with the president's ability to pick and choose who his ambassadors are and those voted on by the senate. reporter: [indiscernible] >> the president wants diplomatic position. that is the president's call. >> we have a new administration in ukraine that didn't have the same confidence in this ambassador. it was appropriate with all the diplomats we had to put someone in with a new regime in the ukraine that can actually work behalf,resident's the behalf of the american people. she testified a smear campaign against

they made adam schiff not only a fact witness, but he's the judge, the jury, and the prosecutor. that is unheard of. and if you take what nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house said just last march, that impeachment is so divisive to this nation, unless it is more compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, we should not go forward. thursday's vote, the only bipartisan vote was not to move forward. never in our history has we ever proved through such a partisan impeachment movement. this is unheard of, and what they're trying to do, remember, what is today, november 3rd. we are exactly one year away from americans going to the polls to vote for the president. they're trying the change the outcome of 2016 and influence the next one. >> brennan: well, republicans will be able to ask questions of witnesses and call their own. who is it in the public hearings that republicans want the hear from? >> well, margaret, that's not true. if you read what the resolution says, now adam schiff controls the time, and new they have written it -- >> brennan: democrats are in the majority. that's

this is an abject failure for adam schiff. [indiscernible] there was more reaction from members of congress on the sunday news programs. here is a look at some with members of the house intelligence committee and house speaker nancy pelosi. callingyou join me in on the state department to produce the mountain of evidence, notes, calendar entries, our committee has subpoenaed them. when you join me in calling on the state department to produce the evidence? >> you bet i do not think there is going to be anything that implicates the president. if you will join with me in calling to hear from the witness -- from the whistleblower. how can you impeach the president of the united states and never hear from the person who started the process? we know he was deeply involved. how can you say we do not need to hear from him? >>>> let me respond to that. thank you for calling on me to produce the evidence. i hope you will tweet that out so the white house gets the message there is a bipartisan call to stop resisting our subpoena. we hav

adam schiff, you said you want adam schiff to come down and testify under oath.s that mean what we hear from adam schiff needs public hearings he is not under oath he can say whatever he wants? >> yet he is not sworn in as a witness as we preside over these hearings or he presides over these hearings. much of what he he is saying to the american people is not true. i know it's not true and we know it is not true. we would like him to testify, i think congressman collins is going to ask for that when the house intelligence committee sent a report to the judiciary committee and i doubt that chairman nadler is going to allow that. i don't think they will allow that, they should and i think that's unfortunate. it's another reason why this will be dead on arrival in the senate including adam schiff will not be testifying. >> i'm going to speak with doug collins in just a few minutes and ask him about that pre-but it struck me because i guess that's what he can say we have not seen the whistleblower, we don't know who the whistleblower is and then a couple weeks later

this, adam schiff initially in september said he is adamant about hearing from the whistle-blower. and only change when it became clear that there was coordination between democratic staff and the whistle-blower. before the whistle-blower complaint with issues. >> let me say two other quick things, first, i thought we were in the public stage of the so-called impeachment inquiry, but back we are going to the bunker for another deposition that the american people will not get to see. but they also have not seen at our four transcripts of people who have already been deposed. which means under house rules we cannot use that testimony in these proceedings. we would like to use parts of the testimony from mr. morrison as an example in the open hearings, but we are prohibited under house rules from doing that. so great question for you all to ask mr. schiff, when will he release those transcripts so that we can use that informati information? >> reporter: tenant that undercut anything you were trying to do in the hearing today? >> we are not here to talk about tweets. let me answer your

reporter: adam schiff could now be a witness. publicans have questions for him and witnesses who showed up for closed door depositions. but they say schiff blocked them. '. >> once it goes to the jew dish air yea why it's a different stage. it's not -- once it goes to the judiciary it's a different stage. >> i doubt anybody inning this place or anybody you -- more anybody in this place comes to congress to impeach the president of the united states. reporter: to give you an idea of how much power adam schiff has. he's one of the few people who knows the identity of the whistleblower. jerry nadler was asked the timeline and he said you should ask chairman schiff. david: the inquiry will be hand not by the judiciary which is proper, but the intel committee. he got if you are pinocchios from the "washington post" for lying about his staff's contact with the whistleblower. he also lied about having evidence of collusion with russia and the trump campaign. and he made up out of whole cloth, while pretending to read the transcript of th

it's interesting you mention adam schiff conduct it. 's widely reported that adam shift ordered a witness not top answer a republican question. there is no authority for him to do that. david: wouldn't republicans have been within their rights if they had said that and asked the witness anyway and said sir you are forced to answer my question? >> i can't speak to what happened because we don't have the transcript. and in fact the new house resolution gives adam schiff the power use laterally to release edited transcripts on sensitive gnat matter. we won't have the transcript until he releases them rather than following regular order. so weave just don't know. david: it's preposterous if it wasn't so deadly serious. you just have to shake it off. but you can't. this is affecting our republic here. thank you for being sheer. president trump says he's drawing the most of energized support from in his fight against impeachment. we'll have all that and more right after a i've always been fascinated by what's next. and still going for my best,

today, you saw an even bigger hole blown inside of adam schiff's fairytale story. one day it was quid pro quo. then he changed it to the word extortion. then he changed it to bribery. today was a sobering reminder of how this ridiculous this impeachment charade is and how ridiculous the impeachment attack is on the president of the united states. today was a great day for republicans and up terrible day for the democrats and the resistance. tellld love to be able to you every single question that was asked and every answer that was given. if we can get adam schiff to give us permission to tell you that, we can talk about every single last and that happens behind these closed doors. back inare, supposedly the open phase of this hearing yet we are here on a saturday, you all are here on a saturday and it is now very late in the day where we are inside the most secure room of the capital in wheresement unfortunately, all the questions that got asked and all of the answers given you could not watch live. my constituents could not watch live. when you are asking that mo

adam schiff who was a prosecutor.er jail now because of adam schiff, the man who lies the most on capitol hill should have their cases reexamined. he doesn't have to have the president's counsel in chamber when he does these hearings. he does haven't to release all the transcript. this is a show trial. adam schiff is rebuilding socialist show trials here in america. he's championing the anonymity for the faux whistleblower. there is a narrow provision that says the inspector general can release the name or withhold the name. but that applies to nobody else. this is such a myth that he's entitled to anonymity. adam schiff started all of this and he's trying to hide with anonymity, this whistleblower doesn't qualify as a whistleblower to conceal schiff's own machinations in creating all of this. in the end do you think the whistleblower will be forced to testify as a fact witness? >> noting to mention, adam schiff. >> the question is where is lindsey graham. hashtag where's hunter biden. but i want to see the hashtag wh

remember that adam schiff started this all by wanting the whistleblower to testify and now adam schiffs to died who comes forward and now fighting the whistleblower from coming forward, why is he doing that, is it because he found out that the staff met with him and the whistleblower's attorney tweeted that the coup had started, that impeachment will follow ultimately that he predicted attorney, that cnn will play a key role, maria, it is clear now more than ever this is a calculating coup and it is being orchestrated by adam schiff, we are watching him orchestrate a takedown of a president after we just celebrated 30 years of taking down the berlin wall. maria: unbelievable and, you know, congressman, i think one of the reasons that you're seeing them want to go really fast on this is because they want to try to get this done before the americans go to the polls and actually make their choice for the president in 2020. so tell me about the timing here and what you're expecting in terms of next week, this upcoming week's hearings and when this will actually go for a vote to impeach the

i was so appalled when adam schiff said he did not know who this person is. r us to believe that, we have to believe schiff decided to launch an impeachment effort based on someone he knew little about, did not meet with and didn't know the identity of. we also know schiff did not tell the truth about the whistleblower when he said the whistleblower hadn't come to the intelligence committee and he had. lou: he had certain knowledge and evidence that the president had excluded with russians which an exhaustive special counsel investigation for 2 1/2 years revealed had not occurred. so there is no question about his veracity. he has none. >> it's on the internet, it's in the news. schiff obviously knows who this is. >> if a person does not know how who this person is with every outlet seemingly on the web having used it. it would be somewhat surprising. fred, always great to have you with us. we look forward to talking to you again soon. good to see you. turns out it was part of a popular television show on fox called the masked singer, using masked popular cele

that means there was a nation ahead of time and i also highlighted the adam schiff was adamant from hearingthe whistleblower until he came out to the public to know that he according it ahead of time. the american people are smart enough to know this is been partisan and all of a sudden adam schiff wants to refuse to hear from the whistleblower. we need to hear from the whistleblower, he needs to be our witness and of course he should be protected from retaliation or firing but this is what started off the entire appeasement process which is taken up two months of work in the intelligence committee. >> lindsey graham was here couple weeks ago and said this is dead on arrival when it reaches the senate unless he could question the one person who brought the charges forth and that's the whistleblower. walk us through what's taken place the last two weeks, tell us about the case you have made and the democrats have made in terms of the president doing something wrong. >> it's longer than two weeks, prior to this we had two months of closer deposition where there was no press, no public and i r

conversations] >> after the impeachment inquiry house intelligence committee chair representative adam schiff and several gop members, including representative jim jordan, spoke to reporters about the ukrainian ambassador's testimony. rep. schiff: so i just wanted to share a few observations after the testimony today. i think we could all see what an incredible public servant ambassador yovanovitch is to we are so fortunate to have dedicated professionals like her serving around the world, to serve in some of the most dangerous places. so always with great distinction, with great courage come under fire, sometimes quite literally. she showed that same, i think, level of devotion and courage to the country today, so we are grateful to her. we are grateful to the other witnesses that have testified as well, who show the country what public servant, what it means to be a career foreign service officer. we are enormous lee proud of them. endure another attack today even as she was testifying, by the president of the united states is just appalling. but in this administration, it is not the least

adam schiff who was a prosecutor.er jail now because of adam schiff, the man who lies the most on capitol hill should have their cases reexamined. he doesn't have to have the president's counsel in chamber when he does these hearings. he does haven't to release all the transcript. this is a show trial. adam schiff is rebuilding socialist show trials here in america. he's championing the anonymity for the faux whistleblower. there is a narrow provision that says the inspector general can release the name or withhold the name. but that applies to nobody else. this is such a myth that he's entitled to anonymity. adam schiff started all of this and he's trying to hide with anonymity, this whistleblower doesn't qualify as a whistleblower to conceal schiff's own machinations in creating all of this. in the end do you think the whistleblower will be forced to testify as a fact witness? >> noting to mention, adam schiff. >> the question is where is lindsey graham. hashtag where's hunter biden. but i want to see the hashtag wh

adam schiff knows he has nothing at all. that is why he's simply stopping republicans from asking questions like he did congresswoman elise stefanik. >> i know you had a few quick questions for the ambassador. yield to you -- >> the gentlemen woman will suspend. >> what's the interruption for? >> you were not recognized. >> i just recognized. >> you are not allowed to yield time. >> ranking members yield time. >> that is not accurate. >> ambassador yovanovich i want to thank you for being here today. >> you are not recognized. >> this is the fifth time you interrupted duly elected members of congress. lou: schiff having a tough time shutting down his weeks of hearings and demonstrating he has no desire whatsoever to be transparent or fair or in any way approach due process for president trump. the president took notice today. president trump: i have been watching today. for the first time i started watching. it's really sad when you see people not allowed to ask questions. nobody has ever had such horrible due process. there

that's run by adam schiff and the democratic counsel. the minority gets 45 minutes. same amount of time. run by nunes or the republican counsel. under the rules they are not allowed to let any of the other committee members take any time of that 45-minute slot. the other committee members will get five minutes each. they'll get five-minute rounds. that's next after this break. emily, go ahead. caller: well, i definitely think -- i forget which one of the earlier callers, trump seemed frustrated. it seems like they are pushing goal posts back or trying to down play these events that took place. it's definitely called into question the integrity here that trump's had. i think -- that's all i have to say. host: emily, before you go? are you still there? caller: sure. host: how do you respond to republicans pointing to part of the testimony today where gordon sondland is asked, did the president -- did you have a conversation with the president where he said, he conditioned the meeting, the aid on these investigations and gord beyond sondland says no. he did not directly

why would we be surprised biabout adam schiff doing -- about adam schiff doing this?hen he did exactly what he's accusing the president of by collaborating with people from russia that we have posing as ukrainian on a telephone call about dirt and trump. then he comes in fronts of the american people and lies about what the president said on the telephone call. then he says he doesn't know anything about the whistleblower. so of course we expect it from adam schiff, year used to it. he just made things up. lou there are is within this something of an explanation for his conduct. but some context that we should attach here. and that is, the ambassador to the european union, sondland, acknowledging that his family is being threatened, the left is attacking him everywhere it can web's from oregon, his hotel is there apparently being boy cod. demonstrators are trying to intimidate this man. when adam schiff stood there and talked about how he was going to be the great defender of ambassador yovanovich, he didn't say a word about defending sondland at all. even though he i

it's interesting you mention adam schiff conduct it. widely reported that adam shift ordered a witness not top answer a republican question. there is no authority for him to do that. david: wouldn't republicans have been within their rights if they had said that and asked the witness anyway and said sir you are forced to answer my question? >> i can't speak to what happened because we don't have the transcript. and in fact the new house resolution gives adam schiff the power use laterally to release edited transcripts on sensitive gnat matter. we won't have the transcript until he releases them rather than following regular order. so weave just don't know. david: it's preposterous if it wasn't so deadly serious. you just have to shake it off. but you can't. this is affecting our republic here. thank you for being sheer. president trump says he's drawing the most of energized support from in his fight against impeachment. we'll have all that and more right after a sometimes your small screen is your big screen. and with the xfinity strea

adam schiff lied it.t's a two-prong approach by the democrats to hurt the republicans ahead of the election in 2020, and you get ahead of any fallout that comes out of william barr and john durham's investigation. joining me doug collins. glad to have you back. what do you think? what's your synopsis of today? >> it's simple. nothing learned, nothing new. we knew what they wanted to do to start with. if you look at it from the perspective. you never heard anything adam schiff said today. wausau today was a bunch of how many hearsays do i have? what are you talking about? and the president didn't do anything and they got their money? the democrats are grasping at straws. if this is their best attempt, they have a long way to go. trish: adam schiff said he had proof there was collusion with the russians only for everyone to find out there was no such thing. >> you are assuming something have much not in evidence, that's the credibility of adam schiff. that's what we have seen the past three years. when he s

this is just more of the ridiculous abuse of power that we see from adam schiff. one of the most important facts that came across today, and esther jovanovich testified that the president can avoid ambassadors at will. that is important. in the president has a right to pick her investors are in my line of question, i just wanted to highlight the obama state department was so concerned about conflicts of interest in sitting on briefing for that in obama state department. it was the first incident where yellow monument had ever heard the words remembered that's an important fact to note for all of the years there today. continue to ask about hunter biden news brawl on the behalf of millions of americans who want to know the answered that question. and then on the whistleblower, it is important to note that adam schiff and i listed all of the instances of this in adam schiff, initially in september said he was adamant about hearing from the whistleblower and it only change when it became clear there was coordination between democratic staff in the whistleblower. befo

they're crazy, adam schiff is a nutjob. listen to this. adam schiff gets up before congress and he made up my statement. brian: right. >> who made that statement? he made it up. then after he got caught, three days later he started saying parody. the thing i did that was right, brian, the thing i did that was right, i released the transcript of the call immediately. had i not done that, i would have had a big problem. a big problem because they all lied about my call. my call was perfect. if you heard adam schiff's made-up version of my call, i mean it was the worst thing i

adam schiff put a former u.s. attorney and an msnbc contributor daniel goldman in charge of questioning impeachment witnesses. here's just one of his small utterances as a cable news talking head. >> legally we already now know that the president has committed a felony in order to obtain the office of the presidency.el >> laura: that was his first bite of the apple in january 2018. that was all about mueller. this is the kind of guy who is getting to the facts that have already been concluded. >> wow! what is concerning is the american people ought to get i concerned. the democrats are willing to put up people who already made upts their mind in positions where they present themselves as arbiters of truth and fairness and the facts. he already made up his mind.s. the democrats know where they want to be. t they just need to get there. when you getet to this point, te founding fathers warned us about they want the executive fearful of a congress that would take political moves to remove him from office. >> laura: n

>> we can't -- only adam schiff can subpoena adam schiff. but there is precedent for this. >> sean: i forgot, he is judge, jury, and executioner, i forgot. >> but remember, last congress they were hell-bent on making sure that former congressman dana rohrabacher testified. i said i don't think this is a very good idea to have members of congress come and testify and give depositions, so congratulations, democrats that were on the house intelligence committee that has now become the impeachment committee, they have set the precedent for members of congress to give depositions. you heard our minority leader, the republican leader kevin mccarthy say that schiff is our first witness. you've had john ratcliffe, a former u.s. attorney in congress, say adam schiff is our first witness. so yes, he in fact is going to be our first witness that we are going to ask to come and give a deposition. >> sean: congressman, you've been doing amazing work, getting the fisa report, and we will get to the bottom of this too. thank you for all you've done. you ha

they've had more adam schiff in their lives than ever before so they know what he's like. hiff got the call whatever witnesses he wanted to call. could block witnesses that they wanted to call like hunter biden, and they did. schiff could ask any question they want and had the most time to ask any questions of anyone in the room. he was also able, critically, to have the first and last word every day. he used that power to exploit. >> some of the righteous indignation we heard from the committee today when the president question that fundamental conclusion of our intelligence agencies. of course, they were silent. >> tucker: what happened to his sense of humor? actually, schiff at many occasions seemed emotionally during closing remarks, unstable. it seemed like he was going to cry. also sad and dramatic, he told us. >> i would just say to people watching here at home and around the world, in the words of my great colleague, we are better than that. adjourned. >> tucker: spare us. so that was the adam schiff show. according to the press, the same people who told you what a