for more we are joined by brian gardner, senior vp and director of washington research at kbw, a division of stifel brian, we thought this was some softball soybean deal. there actually may be more meat under it than we thought. >> i think some of the early indicators are proving to be true, but we still need to see the details on this. i think the big question is what the intellectual property protection look like there have been promises from china in the past on easing back on forced technology transfers and protecting international intellectual property protection and it hasn't followed through i think we've got to see the actual results and how it plays out over time. but i think the deal is a positive for the short term because it does remove some of the tariffs. it increases ag purchases, all good, but longer term none of this is resolved for the longer term so we could be back in a couple of months to more disputes over this i think only time will tell. >> do you think that there will be more disputes or do you think that this phase one deal will open the door to phase two and pha

brian: cory gardner. steve: senate said nope, i don't need witnesses. cory gardner is going to do it. what's fascinating about the 8 hours yesterday and 8 hours today. i was not clear that they could ask themselves questions. first of off, i look great today can you read that out loud. production value to questions use the story further. they used it to pontificate about things they already told us 9,000 times. one of the most intriguing things was when you had mitt romney basically ask when did the president first get concerned about aid to the ukraine? he wanted to find out if it lined up directly with joe biden declaring i'm running for president if there was an overlap there our times had you adam schiff making things up like, for example, bribery. steve: as a charge. brian: it's not even a charge. one time i watched adam schiff say donald trump wanted to do this to please russia so he could build a moscow tower? what are you even talking about. it's farcical. if you don't have anything to say relevant you should be told to sit down. steve: why woul

brian: hogan, this president seems as though senator blunt, susan collins, lisa murkowski and corey gardnerwanted this done, he made that clear yesterday, so with his reaction today if this story is in fact correct, and mitch mcconnell doesn't have the vote. >> well look it's not even over to the senate yet so i hate to talk about hypotheticals but let's be clear the president is not afraid of a fight and if you or anyone within the sound of our voices have been falsely accused of a crime, with no proof, and no evidence, for more than three years, you'd want every witness to come forward too, and say this man did nothing wrong. we are not afraid of a fight. we are prepared and whether this thing goes to a full trial, whether it's modified or whether it's just dismissed out of hand for the sham illegitimate scam it has become, we will be ready. brian: mitt romney wants to see john bolton as a witness. what's your reaction to that? do you also want to see john bolton as a witness? >> doesn't matter necessarily who i want to see as a witness. but i'm saying we don't really care who comes forwa

brian: let's see if they do that. so, let's talk about moderate republicans for a second. it looks as though mit mitt romney, susan collins, senator corey gardnerthey are debating on having witnesses, and senator rand paul is one of the people that said if those moderate republicans are going to vote with democrats for witnesses, we're going to put out hunter biden and put you in a tough spot because then you'll have to vote against hunter biden against your own party twice. do you need that type of leverage over moderate republicans? >> we don't need to go down the track of calling witnesses. as i said our job is to review what the house has sent to us, and we will do that, in a fair and ex peaked yet manner, and do we need to investigate hunter biden? absolutely. and we should be doing that in the judiciary committee and getting to the bottom of that, and of course you've heard from senator cruz who has said look, if you're going to have witnesses, then what we want to do is have hunter biden and whistleblower, however many people whistleblower is, but we don't need witnesses. we need to do this quickly. we need to settle it, we need to get t