>> brennan: yes. this is fine. >> i am from the, i am not from chicago, but illinois. >> brennan: i am sorry. the point that i want to get to today with the testimony that happened behind closed doors with holmes, do you think he is going to sit and answer public questions in front of the cameras? >> it is always a decision i don't get to make. i think it makes sense, i think there is something very compelling about what he had to say. the first is, he accentuated the fact the president was saying he doesn't care about ukraine. he said it in a rather course manner, but i think it is important, and all he was asking about was the investigations. i think that explains why this all happened, why the president was involved with this scheme. >> brennan: this is testimony holmes delivered behind closed doors. >> right. but. >> brennan: not released publicly and implicates gordon sondland someone we will hear from this week, the eu ambassador, is sondland the only witness the democrats have who can directly

again, i don't have -- >> brennan: no timetable for that? >> no. i mean, it is self ever evident that we have open hearings for the next week. i don't know of any beyond that, then we are out for thanksgiving, it doesn't mean depositions couldn't be taken during that time, and then when we come back. >back. >> by then maybe a decision or maybe they have more hearings and then i have six committees who have been working on all of this and those six chairmen have been very involved in what -- how we will proceed. >> brennan: does that mean that will be potentially included in an impeachment that you might broaden this beyond the issue related to the ukraine. >> >> well, that is not up to me, that is what the facts will determine. we are also proceeding in the courts and this week we have another powerful decision by a court now as the president is appealing it to the supreme court that the president should release his financial documents. we have won all of the cases on the court in this. the roger stone, seven counts was it he was found guilty, mana

captioning sponsored by cbs >> it's sunday, november 10, i'm margaret brennan in the nation's capital, and this is "face the nation." >> brennan: president trump and the first lady spent saturday afternoon enjoying one of the favorite past times, a college showdown between alabama and l.s.u. >> u.s.a.! >> brennan: with the first round of open impeachment hearings set to begin on wednesday, house democrats began laying out their case to impeach the president by releasing thousands of pages of behind closed-door testimony detailing his administration's attempts to convince ukraine to investigate the bidens in exchange for military aid. president trump is sticking to his claim he has done nothing wrong. >> president trump: it is all about the transcript. i've never heard of some of these people. i don't know who they are. >> brennan: republicans put out their own wish list, including the whistle-blower and joe biden. >> we have congressman meadows, he is walking by right now, but republicans are really struggling to defend the president. okay, great. so, congressman -- >> the republicans

>> brennan: welcome back to "face the nation." we turn now to north dakota congressman kelly armstrong. he's on the judiciary committee, which is where the impeachment process is headed next. congressman, welcome. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> brennan: as we said, you're on the committee where this process moves to next. do you have any indication on what the time line is and what this is going to look like as articles of impeachment are drafted? >> i don't. i think as we continue to move forward, i think the one thing that is strew the democrats will lose more and more control over. this at some point in time democrats will have to enforce some of the rules they passed in their own legislation, but regardless of how you feel about this, this has been the most narrowly tailored and controlled thing by chairman schiff, both in the depositions which i was a part of and in the intelligence committee. but as it moves over to the judiciary committee, they will lose more and more of that control. >> brennan: meaning

>> brennan: what does that mean? that sounds a lot like what we heard speaker pelosi say, which is pretty vague. you only have eight days before thanksgiving. >> brennan: no, we have -- time is not constraining us. the truth and the facts are constraining us. we are going to move as soon as the facts and the truth dictate that we have, which means that when adam schiff is determined that he is through what he needs to have in terms of testimony and evidence, he will then pursuant to the resolution submitted to the judiciary committee and the judiciary committee will proceed in a manner giving the rights to the president and to the republicans that exceed frankly the rights that were available to the minority in the clinton. we were in the minority. and to the republicans. >> brennan: so do you expect all the public hearings to be wrapped up margaret, you asked a question i don't know the answer to, because i don't know what witnesses are going to come four ward, what they're going to say, what evidence will have to b

>> brennan: welcome back to "face the nation." we go now to a democrat on the house intelligence committee, california congresswoman jackie speier who joins us from palm springs. welcome to "face the nation." >> thank you, margaret. >> brennan: there are just eight working days left before the thanksgiving break. congresswoman, when will these public hearings actually begin? >> i think they will begin very soon. we have one more week of interviews that will take place and then i'm pretty confident we're going the move into a public hearing setting in which the health, the house intelligence committee along with the foreign affairs committee and the oversight committee will start to place in the public's hands the information. i also think the transcripts are going to start to be released next week, and that's going to give the american people an eye on exactly what we have heard, and what we have heard is growing evidence of grounds for impeachment. democrats are going to hold strong in terms of defending the democracy we have, an

♪ >> brennan: welcome back to "face the nation."e continue our conversation with ambassador robert o'brien, national security advisor to president trump. i want to pick up on this idea where we left it with turkey coming, and they are a nato ally, as you emphasized. one of our nato allies, the french president, said this week that nato is suffering a brain death because of lack of american support and resolve. from what he is saying, and from what we're seeing, with turkey causing these cracks in the alliance, you must be very concerned. is that why you brought the nato secretar secretary-genl to the white house as well. >> i think it is going to be a good summit between our nato allies. but i think the cracks that formed in the alliance is because we have members of the alliance that aren't paying their fair share, that aren't spending money on defense. the united states taxpayer, and the taxpayers of eight of the nato countries that are spending their 2% on national defense, we spend over 4%, they're doing the right things. but th

i'm margaret brennan, and this is "face the nation." >> brennan: a whirlwind week of congressional hearings concludes, and both sides dig in for even more political fireworks as debate begins on whether or not to proceed with a vote on articles of impeachment. but what will those articles be if they do? and what's the president's defense? we'll map out what's ahead with councilors to the president kellyanne conway and the number-two democrat on the intelligence committee, connecticut congressman jim himes. republican on the committee that will write those articles, north dakota's kelly armstrong. >> and now he's taking on him. >> brennan: plus former new york mayor michael bloomberg spends at least $34 million on ads in more than two dozen states to announce he's joining the race. >> mike bloomberg intends to make good, jobs creator, leader, problem solver. mike bloomberg for president. >> i'm mike bloomberg and i approved this message. >> brennan: we'll talk with our panel of legal experts, then look at the highs and lows in politics. and the rest of the news this week just ahead on "face

he's the only individual in america -- >> >> brennan: for a public hearing? you want to question the chairman of the house intelligence committee? >> yes, i would, because he's the only person who knows who this whistleblower is. he refers to himself as a ken starr. how many times did he meet with the whistleblower? what did he talk to the whistleblower about? because when the whistleblower even went to the inspector general, he never mentioned that he went with adam schiff. remember what we're talking about today, margaret, the removal of the president of the united states. this should not be taken lightly. we should have all the facts. the public deserves the facts, not something that's leaked. we're three weeks since the very first hearing inside there, the deposition. we still do not have the transcripts. you have members of congress who just voted to justify what has already happened without ever reading one word of what's goine on. that's wrong. we need accountable. >> brennan: for the record, the attorney for the whistleblower says his client has not m

there we're joined now with councilor to the presidentniga brennan: right about michael bloog what do you think this 77-year-old billionaire joining means for the field? >> it means that the democratic field is underwhelming, even to someone like michael bloomberg. there are 18 democrats still running for president of the united states, margaret work probably another 10 or 12 already dropped out of the race, and michael bloomberg is coming in saying, i don't think any of you can beat donald trump. for all the talk about electability, that's a fiction. you don't know if somebody can or can't win until they do or don't. the real way you win is through the electoral college, which we proved in 2016. so i my bloomberg's play is to ignore those early states and focus on super tuesday. that was supposed to be a place for someone like kamala harris to go in and make big gains in california. her candidacy has all but deflated. i will say a couple things about michael bloomberg his new ad that he put millions behind is all unicorns and rainbow, keep your health care if you'd like. to if you do

brennan, mr. klapper recently stated in pursuing his role in investigating a possible , trump-russia connection, he was simply following the orders of his commander-in-chief, suggesting that if he is indicted by mr. trump, he will invoke the nuremberg defense of just following orders. do you consider that a valid defense? >> i am referring to an ethic among analysts to tell the truth. disinformation is a misunderstood concept. to the extent it exists, it exists in the realm of covert action. and i would say even there, when the cia uses a term like propaganda, it has learned that the best propaganda is the truth. cia is the organization that created radio free europe. and it is the organization that managed to get a lot of western literature behind the iron curtain during the cold war. so frankly, disinformation in the classic sense that we see the soviets deploying it years ago, and the russians more recently is not something the , cia does as a matter of practice and routine. what jim klapper wa

it was called coffee with brennan. you go in at 8:30 in the morning, coffee with brennan could last to 1:30 in the afternoon. every time you sat down to write something, you had talked it through with him so much that he was -- you know, you are just holding the pen. and once i was working on an opinion for justice stevens but i was sitting at coffee with brennan. he was writing the other side of that case. and it came up and i said, justice brennan, i should leave the room because i am working on the other side for justice stevens. he said, no, sit down, i want john to know exactly what i think. you know, this was valuable. this also shows the confidence of a justice who has been there a long time. on the other hand, justice stevens once handed me an opinion, a draft, and it was not -- it was an obscure. he said i think this is pretty good but you could work on the footnotes. which i thought was a pretty clear signal. so they were different. but i don't think they were different in how they treated their clerks. i don

john mclaughlin and -- brennan, i called out brennan win was the first one to do it in april of 2018. leave him aside in this discussion. if we are talking about john mclaughlin. what john mclaughlin was doing was being a little bit facetious in his comments. he was saying sat cia we collect intelligence and we make an political judgments to the best of our ability based on that. trish: let me go back to this ukraine transcript. we all read it and granted it's a memo of a transcript. it's not absolutely perfect. vindman was upset because they left out two words. but i don't know if two words will change the entire tenor of the conversation. but vindman's suggested view of the tone and whether or not he was fearful about any of this, how is that relevant? if we can ride the transcript, what do we care about how some intelligence professional felt that day like whatever i was picking up vibes in the room? how is that relevant compared to the actual words themselves? >> he was not in the oval office with the president. he did not participate in a brefght president before that phone call.

[laughter] brennan's. in terms of what is happening now, hillary clinton got a lot of attention in the past week or .alf -- week and a half or so she believed tolson gabbard who was one of the democrats running for the nomination was a russian asset. down on that.le she didn't walk away from the common. do you see what she was talking about there? you can say something is a russian asset even if it is not trying to advance russian interests. not because of what it does or what it says, it is in fact something that is promoting the russian agenda. maybe that is what she meant in terms of the things pulse he gabbard has said. united states should not be allowed -- involved in some of these. candidatehird-party was something specifically that she brought up. russians are very sophisticated observers. at a lot ofoked different countries in terms of how they can influence events. sometimes maybe a third-party candidate pushing money into some of those politicians of parties they favor. inhave seen that being do

brennan at the cia wasn't your mental in that.e've seen fbi director ray agrees that assessments. the cia, they do the foreign intelligence do the work, they are working with their counterparts in other countries. it appears mr. brennan based in some reports took that information and took it across to the fbi and that's how the original counterintelligence investigation was launched. i think this inspector general report is going to be one of the most consequent reports we've had in many areas. i think it's going to demonstrate that people took advantage of a fisa process where there is nobody on the other side to argue in their own interests and it's an ex parte process and we are going to learn not about the carter page fisa but how they do business generally and some americans are going to be troubled by what the inspector general uncovers. >> martha: we remember when attorney general barr said it could be there was spying going on and that he was very concerned about that and wanted to dig into it. he says that he believe this

. >> did you get from cia director john brennan. there was a question. he was already beginning to investigateto trump and any potential ties with russia. he's described in my book is the instigator of the witchhunt. he put together an interagency passport of course that would be the foundation of the russia hopes in the investigation used by the fbi in particular. he was the head of counterintelligence for the fbi. the point person in the witchhunt. and who we don't know whether it was something that came from the rich imagination of hillary clinton or john brennan or both. and james clapper was involved. he turns out tod. be the prodigiously. i explained his leaks in the book. but all came to a head when the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national committee, paid for your russian disinformation. there is composed by next british spy wrist were still in the amazing part and i explained this in witchhunt, is that he puts together his antidrug dossier, lickety-split. within the course of ten days to 14 days. from being hired now that is impos

this individual supports biden and worked for brennan -- we are going to learn a lot about brennan. we are learning a lot about brennan in the days and weeks to come. republicans must demand answers, they must demand to know the extent of this person's contact with schiff's office, they must demand to know if he abused his power, they must demand answers on his relationship with biden, brennan, the dnc and while they are at it, america needs -- we are going to have transcripts released, i want the transcript of every call with sleepy creepy, crazy uncle joe biden. that was the guy who was involved with a real quid pro quo in ukraine. we want every call between barack hussein obama and vladimir putin after obama promised more flexibility after his election. i would also like the transcripts of the calls between obama and iranian leaders leading up to obama making the dumbest deal in the history of mankind giving the radical mullahs of iran the chant "death to america, death to israel" $150 billion. it's time for fairness. we need to demand those transcripts, what's fair is fair, righ

i want to talk about john brennan. president tweets about yovanovich basically saying the reason he let her go. she had a bad report. so nal mall yeah went to hell in a hand basket and ukraine was endemic corruption. john brennan tweets about the president of the united states. your comments reflect the despicable nature of our character. and desperation to protect your corrupt and criminal acts. your efforts to intimidate will fail. may your downfall be swift, your penalty onerous and your legaci' condemned by all. >> he send out these unhinged tweets. it tells you what was the motivation. brennan was involved in pushing president trump. you have the justice department conclude there is evidence, they haven't concluded who is responsible criminally. but there is evidence of criminal misconduct. criminal activity in the origins of the spying on president trump. who was involved in that? obviously brennan, comey, the leadership of the obama administration. that's what they are nervous about. so what are they doing? they

that would be brennan, klapper, comey, and mccabe.f those people are squealing at the most >> sean: david limbaugh, you're a great attorna slam-dunk case. we know they were warned, premeditated, we know the bulk of the information the pfizer application, we know it's the dirty bought and paid for hillary dossier, we know it's unverifiable because the author didn't stand by it himself under oath. how is that not premeditated fraud, why would it take 400 years to get the report? >> i sure hope they are uncovering every stone, there's a common thread with ukraine. both cases are based on fraudulent sketchy evidence, they went after trump not disclosing that this was opposition research paid for by hillary, that michae steele hadn anti-trump agenda, what a fraud. we don't realize how serious a matter this is. the fisa court involves extraordinary circumstances, you have to have strong evidence because of the extraordinary privacy concerns. as you said, the grassley memo shows that most of the warrant application was based on the steele do

brennan, mr. clapper recently stated that it in pursuing his role investigated the possible trump connection he was following the orders of his commander-in-chief suggesting if he is indicted he would invoke the nuremberg defense that he was following orders. do you consider that a ground defense? >> on the issue of speaking the truth, i am referring here to an ethnic among analysts that is their job. this information is a misunderstood concept i think to the extent that exists in the operational realm of covert action. however i would say that even their when the cia uses a term like propaganda, it has learned that the best propaganda is the truth. the cia is the organization that created radio free europe and the organization that managed to get a lot of literature behind the iron curtain during the cold war. so, frankly this information in the classic sense that we see the soviets depleting it years ago and the russians more recently isn't something that the cia does as a matter of practice and

having is people who have held the highest office in the united states you've had cia director john brennan you have 4 star general barry mccaffrey they openly express their design for the president and they openly advocate. the bligh. ignoring of the president's wishes by a permanent bureaucracy and this is indeed quite frightening because you know the only people who are accountable ultimately in a democracy are elected leaders and not the national security up i wrote exactly ben let me go to you in the beautiful city of atlanta watching how the mainstream media and you know who i'm talking about covering all of this here there legitimizing this legitimizing unelected officials determining policy. policy directions and policy outcomes so i have a simple question for you ben then why do we need a president and why do we need elected officials i mean the media carries water for these people and they're going to get their way no matter what so what's the point of having democracy then go had been well i think that's a great point look the bottom line is that exactly what you said in the begi

john mclaughlin and -- brennan, i called out brennan win was the first one to do it in april of 2018.ussion. if we are talking about john mclaughlin. what john mclaughlin was doing was being a little bit facetious in his comments. he was saying sat cia we collect intelligence and we make an political judgments to the best of our ability based on that. trish: let me go back to this ukraine transcript. we all read it and granted it's a memo of a transcript. it's not absolutely perfect. vindman was upset because they left out two words. but i don't know if two words will change the entire tenor of the conversation. but vindman's suggested view of the tone and whether or not he was fearful about any of this, how is that relevant? if we can ride the transcript, what do we care about how some intelligence professional felt that day like whatever i was picking up vibes in the room? how is that relevant compared to the actual words themselves? >> he was not in the oval office with the president. he did not participate in a brefght president before that phone call. he was in the white house si

these are the agencies that just a few years ago saturday part of congress like the cia and john brennan lying about torture to congress you know there was no rep or caution for that absolutely none whatsoever thing with the page same thing you will clapper and same thing mind at the end of that those who are 'd an authority you don't ever change anything because they're not the ones who are actually in power you know christopher one of the things i find most insulting in through all of this here all of us knowing that our viewers know that the deep state has in fact been in existence for a long time and has tried to exert and probably often successfully exerted influence here but christopher what insults me is calling them patriots ok and somehow knowing better than we do that they're somehow morally they have higher moral fiber than we do ok and they also these patriots so-called devalue my vote go ahead christopher. yeah absolutely patriots ha that's a joke if we look at this and i am equally insulted if we look at someone like susan rice or her who goes out there with the whole bengh

brennan and folks in the intelligence community switch then and go on offense. some point in this process. we have to stop him. they take extraordinary measures to try to dig up dirt. overseas. specifically with russia to kind of push it towards the clinton campaign to make the idea of voting for donald trump a repugnant thing for voters. how did that possibly happen? >> there were two parts to the plan. part number one was to exploit. christopher steele. >> the fbi was unable to verify. they tried, but they could not. >> you cannot verify something that does not exist that is a lie. the plan was to leak it to the media. and, they assumed that the media would run crazy with this story. it would damage trump politically and ensure hillary clinton's election in november, 2016. many members of the media did pick up in the story, it did not quite in traction and resonate with american voters when trump was elected. the insurance policy was plan b. the insurance policy famous from the lisa page text message. we have an insurance policy. the insurance policy was the f

by the way, what was the relationship to john brennan? number one trump hater of them all. did anyone from the obama administration encourage him to file this complaint and get involved in these activities, where did he get the thirdhand material? t it's perfectly obvious what is going on here, it's not our first rodeo. russia, russia, russia. the whistle-blower is not some kind of concerned government employee. to me, he looks very partisan, he looks like a hack who hired a hack, partisan democrat hate rage trump attorney with ties to biden and schiff in his office worked for trump hater brennan and other top democrats. it's not hard to figure out. maybe that's why he hired the impeach trump after ten days attorney to be his attorney, maybe that's why he coordinated with the congenital liar, maybe and likely that's why he and schiff desperately don't want him to testify because they would have to answer those questions. the congenital liarse adam schi, three years of lying about trump andr russia. we got all the evidence, all of it! now, he had none of it. he's not on a fa

you should still listen to the brennan center podcast. so, tonight we are hosting a fellow with the liberty national security program where he focuses on law enforcement and intelligence oversight reform. he used to work as a policy council for national security and privacy and before that he served 16 years as an fbi special agent specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations int and today we are discussing his book thinking like a terrorist, sorry, discussing his second book -- first is thinking like a terrorist which you should also agree that we arread that we are new book today disrupt, discredit and divide. in the book he outlines how the fbi has transformed itself for being famous for prosecuting organized crime to becoming a secretive agency. [applause] we are going to start with a question some people here may know the answer to that everybody is probably curious about which is why did you go from being an fbi agent to being a staff attorney at the aclu? >> that's just what everybody does at the fbi. i had a friend fro

. >> brennan: does that mean democrats will provide funding for the border wall? >> no. no. we have well over a trillion-dollar worth of decisions to make. i don't know why we would go to that. the president hasn't built any new wall in the whole term of

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myrna perez, it's so nice to see you from the brennan center.na: thank you so much for having that. >> when we come back, untangling hair bias in the workplace. >> i know the anxiety that people have after getting their hair done, like okay what's going to happen when i go to work. are they going to say anything. >> plus, will impeachment hearings get in the way of a bi-partisan budget deal? soledad: 21. ♪ the right to wear your hair however you like seems like a non- issue. but it can become a big problem for many people of color, mainly black people, especially in the workplace or at school. now, new jersey is set to join new york and california by passing a law banning natural hair discrimination. styles like afros, braids, twists, cornrows, and locs are protected by law. at least four other states, michigan, wisconsin, illinois, kentucky, are working on similar laws. new york city issued its own ban back in february when raelene roberts and other salon employees filed a complaint against their employer, a high-profile salon in manhattan. >>

over the years he worked for both joe biden and disgraced cia director john brennan.s article from 2017 identifies this same man as pro-ukraine and anti-russia. he says he was the subject of bitter complaints from some republicans who knew him. in other words, more than two years ago, conservatives were publicly charging that this man was working from inside the building to undermine the trump administration. according to the real clear investigations piece last night, they were i right. the men worked as a professional left-wing activist, he also held meetings with adam schiff's staff members, several of them wore his former colleagues from the obama white house. and tonight we can tell youm it seems likely that this man, the man in question, was also a source for robert mueller's investigation, his russia investigation. what appears to be the man's name can be found in a footnote in the final report. keep in mind that just a week ago "the new york times" praised the whistle-blower, whoever he is as "a patriotic public servant." his aim, the paper told us, reassured

these other people like the whistleblowers so-called and they internet and working for the deep state brennan and others and so you know the thing's going to

down to morgan brennan in hun s huntsville, alabama. >> reporter: thank you it is 10:00 a.m. in rocket city usa, huntsville, alabama, 11:00 a.m. on wall street. and "squawk alley" is live ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good tuesday morning welcome to "squawk alley." i am carl quintanilla with leslie picker, mike santoli at post nine of the new york stock exchange jon fortt is on assignment, morgan brennan is in huntsville. the resurgence of rocket city, usa. morgan >> reporter: hey, carl, that's right. with a population of fewer than half a million residents in huntsville, alabama, one could be forgiven if they don't realize how significant this area has been to modern american history. before the 1950s, it was watercress capital of the world. the army moved a ballistic missile program here in the 1950s, into the 1960s. nasa was established the marshall space flight center, began to develop rockets for major space programs like apollo, and that legacy has continued all the way into today. there's something like 400 aerospace and defense companies operating in the huntsville, alabama area today

john brennan was at the event praising the concept. bradley mouse, former assistant attorney general john you for more. the new york times talking about this issue of donald trump saying the deep state has emerged from the shadows past and present to block cooperation with house impeachment investigators and provide evidence that largely backs up the still anonymous whistleblower. your reaction? >> there is undeniably a break between the president and intelligence community but i don't think it is because the intelligence community is safeguarding their public from a road president. this break goes back to the beginnings of trump's entry into office when the head of the fbi jim comey tried to provoke the president into taking steps to independent counsel and you have people like brennan and jim clapper, heads of the intelligence committee, to attacking a sitting president, can think of a time that has happened before when they accused him of thinking he was a russian intelligence agent. because of things like that i don't blame donald

john brennan was also there embracing the concept. turn to former deputy assistant attorney john you, for more. "the new york times" talking about this issue of president trump and the deep state says the deep state has emerged from the shadows in the form of real-life governmental officials past and present who have defied an attempt and provided evidence that largely backs up the still anonymous whistle-blower. >> i think there is undeniably a break now between the president and the intelligence community. but i don't think it's because the intelligence community is necessarily safeguarding their public form a rogue president. i think this break goes back to the very beginnings of trumps entry into office where the head of the fbi jim comey deliberately tried to provoke the president into taking steps of the independent counsel. then you have people like brennan and jim klapper going out on television and i can't think of a time where that's happened before. so because of things like that i don't necessarily blame president trump fr

it is really truly amazing ignorance on the part of brennan. unbelievable.mping up a war on christmas. the tech giants touting a new children's book. the first christmas by thomas williams as its number one new release in children's christian holiday fiction. it their rates the birth of jesus christ as it's recounted in the gospels without any i am bell i shallment at all. pastor of the first baptist church in dallas. great american and good friend. good to have you with us. what in the world is amazon doing. >> nobody should be surprised that jeff bezos and his amazon "washington post" empire can't tell the difference between fact and fiction. lou: that's a good line. >> regardless of what amazon has done, the fact is there is a mountain of evidence to prove the birth of jesus is not fake news, it's real news and good news to those who believe. we still divide you history ac and bc on the birth of christ. lou: it's stunning stuff that we would do that. the president conditioning foreign aid on religious freedom. what are your thoughts about the president's

i got a chance to ask face the nation host margaret brennan what bolton's aids are telling the panel. >> ambassador bolton said he wanted to go to the white house lawyers about specifically in regard to work that rudy giuliani and some allies of the president were during to trade a politically focused investigation into biden in exchange for u.s. national security aid. >> you can see more of margaret brennan's insights on the impeachment inquiry on face the nation sunday at 8:30 a.m. here on kpix 5. >>> president trump says his administration is considering raising the minimum age >> shots rang out, and we immediately, you know, ran out to figure out what was going on, if anybody was injured or hurt. >> now 2 soldiers receive one of the army's top honors for their brave actions to help victims. >> a south bay airport at the center of a fight over its future. >> and what happens when a disaster isn't considered big enough? kincade fire evacuees now facing the reality they'll be on the hook for their clean up. >> and from the weather department, what's up with all this haze? no doubt yo

morgan brennan >> yes, one ms. morgan brennan >>> next up -- >> we're still off the rails, right? impossible foods is launching a new funding route. they're seeking a possible valuation of $5 billion. they reached $2 billion back in may. in order to reach that current valuation, impossible sneeze to raise about $400 million for this round the news helping on the rival beyond immediate is the hype as fake as the protein? >> i think it's interesting we saw what impossible did for burger king. a lot of people thought the miss -- and one of the reason they thought it was lower than expected is because they didn't have a plant-based alternative meat it would bless interesting to see, this talks about a -- how it trades in tandem with beyond meat it would be interesting to see if they live up to the right this market is going larger and larger you have to be in the game. >> but they better hurry, has anybody looked at beyond meat lately it was the hottest ipo so far and it's coming back to earth. >> which is still not bad. >> realie is setting in. >> here's the question we don't ask. is