>> reporter: as house democrats filtered very quickly into this meeting behind me, this closed door meeting that they will have with speaker of the house nancy pelosi where, as we know, she will announce that she is launching a formal impeachment inquiry. top on minds is what is the next step? what does this next phase look like? who will be investigating? we got a hint of that from chairman richard neal who said moments ago he believes that the directive from nancy pelosi and he did just huddle with her, the six committees that are already investigating president trump, they will continue to investigate president trump. of course those issues likely what house democrats now are sorting through trying to get briefed from nancy pelosi what exactly the next steps look like and then after this caucus meeting she will emerge and make a public statement from the speaker's balcony, certainly a location significant of the gravity of the moment and signifies her authority where she will have something she has been so reluctant to announce for so long. jake? >> all right, sunlen serfaty on capitol h

house. democrats control the house. if democrats were to stay united, obviously they would have the votes to impeach the president in the house. that would kick things over to the senate. you need a 2/3 super majority there. the senate would conduct the trial. the senate obviously run by republicans, run by mitch mcconnell. interestingly you say in your article, i'd like you to explain this, the senate it's not clear would have to conduct a trial? >> well, clearly the writers of the constitution envisioned that the next step would be the senate would conduct a trial, but there's no enforcement mechanism. there's no court that can order them to do it if they refuse to. and it raises the question of what happens if mitch mcconnell garlands this. remember in 2016 he refused to even hold a hearing or a vote on president trump's judicial supreme court nominee, merrick garland. what if he does that here? or what if they simply gavel the thing closed without hearing any evidence right away? it could be done. it's not clear what

. >> on wednesday, texas republican senator john cornyn chastised house democrats for their pursuit of impeachment inquiry against president trump. >> mr. president, our friends in the house, led by speaker pelosi, have adopted a new strategy for handling allegations of wrongdoing. it's a dangerous approach, one in which opinions count for more than the facts and politics trumps everything else including the law. yesterday evening speaker pelosi announced the house is now moving full steam toward impeaching president trump. when the announcement was made, the only information they had at their-- in their hands was press reports. no report of the transcript, no facts, no evidence, no nothing. and that's really all they needed. any hook, any angle, any straw they might be able to grasp in order to justify this unju unjustifable action. and press reports. and impeaching the president and 0 so-called whistleblower complaint that they hadn't read which detailed a call they hadn't seen the transcript of. meanwhile, we know the media eagerly reported that the quote whistleblower didn't even h

will we see house democrats step forward and grab this -- this flag that is falling toward a muddied white house floor. >> yeah. >> and say we are going to grab that flag and secure it and protect it for the guardians of democracy that will come after us. so that our nation is stronger, not weaker, based upon what the house democrats decide to do in this meeting right now. >> so i feel like here we have high -- >> the ghost of steve schmidt. >> the body of david jolly. good to see you there, steve. >> the high/low. i mean, can we also break it down, donald trump tried to abuse his power, a lot of other times. that's basically the thread that runs through his entire presidency. we know from the mueller report don mcgahn stopped him from prosecuting or investigating hillary clinton and james comey. it would seem that someone like mick mulvaney who the "washington post" report last night, which i assume your reporting is in line with what jonathan and heidi suggests that the sort of crush of reporting from the "post" and other outlets really did put nancy pelosi in the position she finds

the question when i talk to democratic voters, they asked winner house democrats going to take action on impeachment and you see house democrats struggling as they move forward slowly on impeachment. they are investigating across the board, the trump administration. , covertident's finances -- corruption within his cabinet, the president's conduct. a wide range of issues democrats are pursuing in the house. speaker pelosi is aware she won the house by winning over suburban voters who like the democrats message on health care and the economy. when you watch that most recent democratic debate, they were not asked once about impeachment. sameof them are on the page and believe president trump should be impeached or removed from office after further investigation or should at least be brought under more of a hotspot light but the impeachment issue is not exactly the galvanizing issue right now for democrats because they believe they want to make a wholesale case against president trump and the republicans as they headed to 2020. in the wake of the mullah report and the russia issue being

that has been on the minds and well in the dreams of the democrats and the anti trump crowd in general for years and the word is impeachment the house democrat leader nancy pelosi is saying that they are starting the needed procedures adding that no one is above the law this week the president has admitted to asking the president to crane to take actions which would benefit him politically the action of the trial the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and while this once again is underlining the growing political divide between the elites between the democrats and between the republicans i believe that impeachment at this juncture would be terribly divisive for the country at a time when we are already extremely divided the republicans at the same time i just brushing everything aside and the brushing it away palming it off saying that this is nothing that this is nothing ne

chris: we'll discuss how democrats are pursuing the case for impeachment with the chair of the house cratic caucus, joaquin jeffries. hakim jeff e reese. plus, highlights from my interview with the iranian president. there are many regions that say an iranian peace plan is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. we'll is ask our sunday panel where relations stand between the u.s. and iran, all right now on "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. as house democrats pursue the possible impeachment of president trump, we have new information to report. fox news has learned the president's private attorney, rudy giuliani, was not acting alone in trying to get dirt from ukrainian officials on on to --n 2020 rival joe biden. joe digenova, who's been a fierce critic, and his wife, vic torian tensing, were working to get oppo research on biden. according to a u.s. official, all three were working off the book, apart from the administration. the only person in government who knows what they were doing is president trump. fox news has also learned the

rid of donald trump >> on january 20th, 2021, we're going to have a democratic president, a democratic housend a democratic senate. there will be life after donald trump. >> all right nbc's tracie potts has more frump washington so voters saw a lot of fireworks last night >> reporter: and that was the point, right because democrats need to begin to distinguish between these candidates for the first time all fit on the same stage. elizabeth warren and joe biden and besides president trump there were big issues like the big one in washington right now gun control. >> yes we're going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. year not going to allow it to be used against our fellow americans anymore. >> kri'm the only one up here that's ever beat the nra nationally >> we will create a office in the white to deal with white supremacy and hate crimes. >> the best way to not be caught up in endless wars is to avoid starting one in the first place and so when i am presiden authorization for the use of military force will have a built-in three-year sunset >> this is the existential crisis of our time you know

democrats on the house judiciary committee take a critical first step toward removing president trump from office by impeachment, approving a resolution defining the rules for the investigation. >>> to late night, as the impeachment heats up, ten democratic hopefuls take the stage tonight in an effort to remove president trump by election. with the top tier of candidates facing off each other for the first time. >>> cell phone spying, israel denies a report claiming it planted cell phones near the white house and other locations in washington. was israel trying to spy on president trump and his top aides? >>> and incredible potential. the president gushs about what could lie in store for north korea, as he tries to sweet-talk kim jong-un giving. his nuclear weapons. does the future the president is touting actually pose a threat to kim? >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> with a party line vote, the house judiciary committee has now laid the ground rules for an impeachment inquiry into president trump, even as divided democrats struggle to clarify their strategy

think what we've seen here it's a 4 is democrats experimenting with calling things impeachment related without really meaning it and certainly the leadership of the house democrats any hoyer and others were not genuinely in support of impeachment and so the media was covering impeachment inquiry more about democrats being in disarray and disagreeing with each other and this is really not a legitimate and meaningful hearing as opposed to taking it seriously you've seen dozens of new democrats come out in favor of pursuing impeachment and i think all of the actions going forward in the next coming weeks are going to be radically different in intent and in impact in america than the ones that have gone before i think we're in a very different moment now than we were a day ago. french president obama micro and his pushing for a meeting between iran see their house and rouhani add president donald trump on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. he believes it. was president again one of. the only if you got this is a look at the. relations between the u.s. and iran became even more tense following attacks on 2 major oil facilities in saudi arabia this

leadership, republicans and democrats in the house and senate? that trump administration wanted it voted in done in the summer. that did not happen. over august recess, staff were exchanging some kind of negotiations. it did not go quite as expected, it was much slower than it had been hoped. there are four main issues, labor, environment, enforcement divisions and drug patent protection. those are outstanding and richard neal told house democrats that he is waiting to see bob lighthizer, the u.s. trade representative come back with a full written counterproposals for the democratic demand. that may be delivered in the coming day by lighthizer who is scheduled to meet with the house working group on trade. if that does happen, that could accelerate the time for a vote this fall. and a member of that house working group told reporters in connecticut that it could seep into next year. >> in terms of senate and house floor action when they come back, the senate will resume deliberations on nominations, we expect the house to be working on bills bann

we may very well have crossed the rubicon here. >> the number of house democrats who publicly favor anmpeachment inquiry has grown throughout the day. this evening representative rosa deloro from connecticut a long-time white house speaker colleague, wrote, an impeachment inquiry may be the only recourse congress has if the president is enlisting foreign assistance in the 2020 election. congress must meet this pivotal moment in our nation's history with decisive action. the full democratic caucus is scheduled to meet tomorrow afternoon to discuss this. politico adds this important detail. quote, nancy pelosi is expected to meet with the six committee chairmen investigating trump to discuss democrats' next steps and may even issue a forceful statement endorsing the impeachment investigation. this time it goes beyond trump's dealings with a foreign nation as a candidate. now there are serious questions about possible attempts as president to pressure a foreign government to target a political opponent. speaker pelosi has already called it, quote, a grave new chapter of lawlessness. with

the resolution that the committee claims authorized this suit, the speaker told a reporter the house democratic caucus was not even close to an impeachment inquiry. that was back in june. >> the house democratic caucus doesn't do an impeachment inquiry. second of all, the speaker has been very supportive of every step we've taken in initiating this impeachment investigation. every court filing, every statement, official statement in the committee was okayed by her at the time. the house counsel who prepares, makes all the legal filings on behalf of the judiciary committee reports to the speaker, not to the chairman of the judiciary committee. she's been fully supportive of every statement we have made and of the initiation. and continuation of the steps we're taking for the investigation. even the procedures that the committee voted, which included in the preamble a history of how this investigation started, and of the resolution passed by the house back in june authorizing certain subpoenas and other things, and the accompanying report which says, among other things, in order to determine whet

this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone breaking this evening, house democrats tonight are taking the first formal step that could potentially lead to the impeachment of president trump. house speaker nancy pelosi just a short while ago announcing an official impeachment inquiry has begun, saying no one is above the law a controversial phone call between the president and the leader of ukraine and their discussion about trump rival joe biden proving to be the tipping point for many democrats on the impeachment question, and tonight president trump feeling the pressure, has okayed the release of a transcript from that call there is a lot t get to with our team let's begin with peter alexander. >> reporter: tonight after a high stakes closed door meeting with house democrats, speaker nancy pelosi announcing a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump >> the president must be held accountable. no one is above the law. >> reporter: pelosi, who for months had resisted those impeachment calls, making the dramatic move after more than 75% of house democrats deman

again so 1st to washington where democratic house speaker nancy pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry against president donald trump. the president has admitted to asking the president ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically the action of the truck the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and the trail of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry at issue here is a phone call donald trump made in july the ukrainian president vladimir is a lens whistleblower allege that president trump pressured the a korean leader to investigate corruption allegations against former vice president joe biden and his son hunter shortly before the war did advisors to freeze millions in military aid for kiev drawing accusations that he used it as leverage to force ukraine to dig dirt on his likely election rival though trump promises to release the transcript today democrats

umbrella which is the impeachment inquiry now that certainly sounds like the democrats have a lot of power they control the house of course but that doesn't make impeachment any easy task so tell us a bit about the challenges that they're facing and going down this road. right you mentioned the democrats control the house and this is 3 basically a very feasible step that they will have to take moving forward to your the house of representatives will then vote on the findings of this inquiry and there is just a simple majority needed and the democrats control the house so this will be feasible to democrats uniting behind this idea of impeachment right now later the final verdict has to be spoken by the senate and this is where 2 thirds of senators would have to vote for impeaching trump and that senate is controlled by republicans this is very highly unlikely because simply half of the republican senators would have to change sides here and if you consider the partisan politics that we're witnessing here in the united states at this point this is all just a very big leap into the unknown for the democratic party

doesn't seem much has changed since democrats took the house. why is it taking nearly a year for democrats to start talking about impeachment and going forth with inquiries? the issues have been relevant and public for a long time. have you thought forward about legislation that could be enacted in order to push back against the executive power that president trump has grabbed during his tenure here. have you thought what will we do in order to push back? >> we certainly need to be pushing back on this president. this president is in a very bold way defying everything that we in this country have held on to for decades, centuries for that matter. he seems to not care what the constitution says. he seems to be interested in what will benefit him and his family. we need to really push back on that. that's why i have been very reluctant about going head long into impeachment inquiries. there are so many other things here that this president is vulnerable on that we ought to keep the attention on him and not a proceeding because impeachment gets peop

that this time it isn't enough for an impeachable offense it will have to move forward to democrat controlled house of representatives and democrats are known for supporting any impeachment afeard they are strongly in favor of it but still $190.00 out of $218.00 votes will be needed to make it pass through which is not easy but even if it happens it will still have to pass through a republican controlled senate and 2 thirds majority is required there and of course people who are supporting unlikely to go against him in that vote so all in all it is unlikely to happen honestly speaking but again too early to say will bricked on what this case is about that well the case is in fact about donald trump allegedly doing some shady stuff with a leader of another country there is a classified complaint from an intelligence community whistleblower we don't know who is he or she. but it's about a phone call had with the criminal leader in july and allegedly during that phone conversation donald trump pushed more than one slide to ms lewinsky to start an investigation. into against. the former vice president

some of that other breaking news tonight that there are seven freshmen members of the house, seven democratic freshmen members of the house all with national security backgrounds endorsing the idea of impeachment. they say if these allegations are true here, if these suggestions are true about what the president was up to in his dealings with the president of ukraine, but all of them endorsing impeachment under those circumstances. it does -- we say there are differences here between the russia investigation, the mueller investigation, and what's now potentially being discussed. one is that you clearly see here from a democrat standpoint a national security -- an urgent national security justification that they are prepared to use here in this situation, it seems. >> yeah, and i think it's not just the democrats in congress. you just used two important words that the inspector general for the united states intelligence community used when this whistle-blower complaint was brought to him. he saw this, evaluated it, and judged it to be an urgent, credible national security issue that needed to

i said he spoke to house democrats. that would be interesting. in reality, he spoke to house republicans. we heard the usual attacks on the usual suspects among the democrats. annie, when you talk to people in this west wing, anyone connected to the campaign, when they're being honest, he's got to have an opponent at some point. is there one they fear more? >> i mean, it hasn't changed along with his status. biden is still among the people i talked to that are connected to the campaign seen as the most difficult challenge for them to take on. it would be the candidate who is the hardest to make the socialist argument against, and they think that is a good and winning message for them. it's a candidate who could eat at trump's numbers with white working class voters in the midwest and the rust belt and states he has to win and states he won in 2016. that being said, they still feel confident about him and think he's a good candidate. if they're being honest, looking at the field, they think elizabeth warren is the strongest natural talent on that s

house democrats launch an impeachment inquiry against president donald trump he calls it a witch hunt. hello and welcome i'm david paul and you're watching us is there live from doha also coming up. the french president urges donald trump better odds than your island to hold talks saying conditions are in place for that to happen. shock and chaos in pakistan as an earthquake hits the north east at least 25 people have been killed hundreds more injured. flying high china opens a massive multi-billion dollar airport expected to become one of the busiest in the world. so u.s. democrats have ended months of restraint in their opening a formal impeachment inquiry into the president's donald trump is accused of seeking help from ukraine damage the reputation of a political rival trump has described the move as garbage and says he will release the transcript of that phone call with his ukrainian counterpart she had her tonsils more details from washington d.c. . it's been long reporter the democratic house majority leader nancy pelosi has been against impeachment proceedings against donald t

what does this filing -- what does this dustup with justice mean for those house democrats? >> right. so this is exactly what house democrats have told me all week that they feared, the idea that essentially the inconsistent impeachment messaging could undermine their central claim to the grand jury information that was gathered as part of the mueller investigation. what the white house and the justice department have been able to do as a result of this filing is to take advantage of the fact that house democrats have not, you know, identified a unified front on this issue, saying, no, they aren't engaged in a formal impeachment inquiry. therefore, they do not have a right to this mueller grand jury information. earlier this the week it was more of a political misfire. now it has the potential to become a tactical misfire in that it could actually hurt them in court. >> annie, loved reading your contributions by the way on the live blog last night during the debate. really enjoyed it around here. on tonight's topic, the president seems to think that impeachment is a clear and

like fools and if they can't pass a good resolution they're going to look like fools of democrats control the house of representatives and this is a president who ought to be impeached by both democrats and republicans in the house and ought to be convicted in the senate based on what we publicly know all and if we don't have a democratically controlled house of representatives willing to vote out articles of impeachment donald trump is going to get up on that debates they had a 22 out and crow about it say i've been exonerated by nancy pelosi and the democrats and the house and they never impeached bay i didn't commit any high crimes and misdemeanors and he's going to ridicule his opponent when re-election so that would be a disaster for the democrats and what do you think the likelihood is that there's going to be republican support or any republican support along the way. we'll see what the evidence is at the beginning of the next and basement inquiry there is very very little republican support and by the time the facts gave out the republicans figured out they'd be better off asking him to ste

maybe this is the moment for me to step up as well. >> and bill raises the idea if democrats unanimously in the house to impeach, they would have the votes to do so. loufr they would n however they would not have the votes for convict in the senate. if democrats are making a decision to go forward with impeachment given those political realities, is there a case there to narrow the scope of this? you've already got the judiciary committee pursuing some kind of impeachment inquiry, we're not sure what is going on there, talking about a lot of matters in the mueller report, some other things that have come up. is there a case strategically here for democrats to say, no, if we go forward, it is about this ukraine business, make it narrow and focused on that? >> i think there is a case certainly. i think one of the things that the democrats have to be somewhat concerned with is if they have substantial evidence from the mueller report that donald trump isas a sitting president took steps toapparent obstruct justice, what might he do here. and they probably would have to do work to remind the american pub

h.q. 1st and out of washington where democratic house speaker nancy pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry this came in overnight to us into president trump's alleged abuse of power during a phone call with the leader of ukraine democrats claim trump threatened to freeze military aid to ukraine to pressure the country's leader into taking the dirt on trump's likely election rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. the actions of the trump presidency reveal it dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his illicit botha's betrayal of our national security and the trail of the integrity of our election look it's just a continuation of the witch oh it's the worst which showed in all history if she does that they all say that's a positive but really from the election how can you do this if you haven't even seen the whistleblower of late. to read here. so these new allegations will be added to what 6 committees are already investigating about trump if it does move forward as an impeachable offense then a vote will be held in the democratic controlled house of repr

and they're essentially kind of relying on this talking point that democrats in congress, especially the houses health care, the economy, and other every day issues. they're trying to paint democrats as out of touch with the american people, they're relying on previous polling data that says that americans aren't as in favor of impeachment. so you're going to see more talking points really form going forward and you're going to see more strategies come out. but right now, going into 2020, there's certainly partnering with the trump campaign. >> julia manchester live in dc for us, thanks. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, president trump meets with number ra chief wayne la pierre as lawmakers push for new legislation on gun laws. the pushback the organization is giving over what the two men reportedly talked about. >> details on that. plus another check on the forecast, following a weekend of wild weather across the country. the first look at "morning joe," back in a moment. ok i'll admit. i didn't keep my place as clean as i would like 'cuz i'm way too busy. who's got the time to chase around dow

coming up friday morning will discuss the house democrats impeachment inquiry. with house oversight and reform committee members kentucky congressman james, california democratic congresswoman ted lu. be sure to watch cspan2 his washington journal. live at seven eastern, friday morning. during the discussion. here's a look at our live coverage friday. on cspan2 the house returns at 9:00 a.m. eastern to continue work on the senate passed resolution determinate the president his emergency declaration for portable funding. later at 330, former national security advisor susan rice, will be speaking at the texas festival in austin. on cspan2 the president of columbia will discuss its future. relations with the u.s. that's at 8:30 a.m. cspan2 three, and look at efforts to take the 2020 election from interference. astrid tishri gary gets underway like an 9:00 a.m. eastern. next a joint hearing on president trump his travel ban. some committees from the house foreign affairs and judiciary are from homeland security and border protection officials. topics included a revie

as house democrats build their case for impeachment. the letter says in part, it has become clear that multiple state department officials have direct knowledge of the subject matters of the house's impeachment inquiry. the subpoena was signed by the chairman of three powerful house committees. many republicans say they don't see the president's july 25t 25h call to his ukrainian counter part as an impeachable offense or a quid pro quo. democrats say the opposite. >> for me, it's the appearance. whether it's guilty of something, what we have in front of us is a transcript of something that i think is very damning. and that's -- for me, that's what we need to focus on. these other things will be part of the discussion i'm sure. >> reporter: many republicans are defending the president. >> they're claiming a coverup. this is the world's worst coverup ever. for heaven's sake they released the transcript. they did so very quickly. they released the whistleblower complaint. they did so very quick. >> reporter: members of the house intel commi

democrats are in favor of an impeachment probe. during a flight from new york to washington, nancy pelosi read an op- op-ed. >> the speaker sharpened her rhetoric over the weekend. she is checking with house democrats whether to impeach the president. pelosi left little doubt, that the whistleblower complaint has escalated the standoff. he said, we will have no chase. >>. >>> at the white house, they are thinking of releasing a call. he is being urged not to, because of the precedent it would set. >>> president trump's ukraine whistleblower scandal is shadowing the general assembly today. he said he would talk about iran and the economy. trump has stuck to the teleprompter and drew laughter last year by praising his own administration. >>> iran's foreign minister would not meet trump on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly. fred is in new york right now. >> this is one of the reasons whey the tensions are so high at this point in time. why those two countries have been on the brink of war for this period of time. and why the session at the unga is going to be important. germany, france and the u.k. say they believe that iran was responsible for the attacks on the two saudi oil facil

live direct from our studios and international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you. 3 democratic led house committees have subpoenaed the u.s. secretary of state might go seeking to compel him to hand over documents concerning contact with the ukrainian government that says democratic party leaders claim that the us president has betrayed his country and is no longer fit for a circus. this occupant occupant of the oval office poses a clear and present danger to our future to our democracy he's in danger to us all by putting his personal and political interests ahead of the interests of the american people place that i hoped we would never be and never thought we would see a president take the actions that he has it's not about politics it's not about partisanship it's about patriotism on tuesday house democrats in the house of representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into donald trump came after a whistleblower claimed wrongdoing during a phone call between the president and his ukrainian counterpart vladimir is alinsky that is the latest in a slew of impeachment threats trump

democrats. does it affect them at all? >>> house democrats subpoena the secretary of state to get documents tied to ukraine. is rudy giuliani next. >>> first, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. john bolton is talking and the white house is worried. than fou. it's my after-work decompression zone. so when my windshield broke... >> woman: what?! >> vo: ...i searched for someone who really knew my car. i found the experts at safelite autoglass. >> woman: hi! >> vo: with their exclusive technology, they fixed my windshield... then recalibrated the camera attached to my glass so my safety systems still work. who knew that was a thing?! >> woman: safelite has service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >>> john bolton will not go quietly into that good night. president trump's former national security adviser has already publicly criticized mr. trump's foreign policy. so, is his call with ukraine next? joining me, two of the reporters behind this story nbc news white house correspondent kristen we

be injected into the democratic campaign and probably for a nominee. >> the speaker has made clear this will move expeditiously. she indicated that in her conversations with houseemocrats. she indicated that publicly. she's also made clear that we are going to follow the facts, be guided by the law, and informed by a constitutional responsibility. we will do it comfortably. we will do it fairly. we will do it expeditiously. >> [inaudible] >> the expectation is that we will do it fairly, copper handsomely, and expeditiously. >> the timeline has been set forth by the whistleblower. that is, urgent. that's what they said. urgent and credible. that will be our timeline. >> this bigger talked about letting the facts we this investigation. she has also said that public sentiment -- do you feel the public has come around on impeachment now? more than two thirds of your caucuses and support. how will this impact your prospects in 2020? >> we need to present the truth to the american people without fear of favor. this has nothing to do with the political implications. we have a constitutional responsibility to deal with a matter of urgent national security concern. we n

democrats. tonight 163 house democrats now back pelosi's impeachment proceedings, a number that rose through the day including democrats from districts that trump won who have resisted calls for his impeachment until now. and tonight, trump responding in part by saying that he authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcribed phone conversation with president zelensky of the ukraine. we don't know if there is an exact transcript of every word that was said in that call, and of course, trump wants to make this about one phone call. it is about more than that. the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani met with the ukraine's president's team to discuss investigating joe biden and remember, according to another source, the whistleblower's complaint referenced a, quote, sequence of events and all of this adds to this, trump directed his chief of staff mick mull vaughny to withhold aid to ukraine and he did not withhold and so here we are tonight at a moment in american history when the democrats formally began the move to impeach donald trump. sunlen

in moscow 1st and out of washington none see see the democratic house speaker has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump's alleged abuse of power during a phone call with the leader of ukraine democrats claim trump threatened to freeze military aid to ukraine to pressure the country's leader into digging the trumps likely election rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. president has admitted to asking the president ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically the action of the truck the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and the trail of the integrity of our elections therefore today and announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry they're going to lose the election lose we get this is the thing to do is they're out but we really election i mean if she does that they all say that's a positive but really from the election with these new allegations will be added to what 6 commit

certainly glad you're with us let's 1st go to our continuing breaking story out of washington where democratic house speaker nancy pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry against president correspondent has more. ansible o.c. the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives has come forward to announce the formation of a formal impeachment inquiry into donald trump nancy pelosi argues that donald trump has seriously violated the u.s. constitution this relates to a phone call and which donald trump was speaking to the ukrainian president and in the conversation he threatened to withhold over $400000000.00 of military aid from ukraine and he urged the ukrainian leader to launch an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter biden in their business dealings in the country this is nancy pelosi announcing the launching of a formal inquiry of impeachment into donald trump this week the president has admitted to asking the president ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically the action of the trial the actions of the trump presidency revealing dishonorable fact of the preside

it may come as a shock to many americans that democrats and republicans do get along in the house. o. you just don't read about it in the headlines, because it's hard to sell ads when the headline is democrats and republicans are getting along this week. maria: i understand but he just said the judiciary committee has become an arm of the democratic party. and not the judiciary committee. >> yeah, look. the democratic caucus is a big tent as you know, maria. we have voices giving opinions, a wide range of ideas and thoughts, the judiciary committee is no exception. here is my approach. first of all you referred to our six darn week recess it's as if we weren't working in that time, almost all members of congress do work during their recess and what we do is we get around our district and we have town halls and we have coffee with your congressman and i do that a lot because that's why we call it the people's house maria because we listen to the people at home and what i'm hearing is that people care about the kitchen table issues. the things that matter to your family. maria: such a

the post also reports that many house democrats, many feel increasingly helpless in fighting the white's obstruction. in a letter on sunday to house democrats pelosi did not mention the word impeachment, but hinted at the possibility saying quote, if the administration persists in blocking this whistleblower from disclosing to congress a serious possible breach of constitutional duties by the president, they will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness, which will take us into a whole new stage of investigation. >> as kelly o'donnell mentioned before, the united nations general assembly set to begin this week here in new york city. it is u.n. ambassador kelly craft's first u.n. ga. the situation with iran is set to be front and center. it also comes days after the trump administration announced it is deploying military forces to the middle east, specifically saudi arabia, after recent taeks on that country's oil sites and facilities, which the u.s. has blamed on iran declaring it an act of war. the white house says it will be, quote a modest deployment, not thousands of troops,

welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks for having me, chris. >> chris: let's start with the house democratic subpoenas of the state department of a massive set of documents as well as five witnesses for this week. it will president trump comply with the house subpoena? >> to >> stephen: that's going to be between the president's attorneys, white house counsel's office and the house committee. i have no news unfortunately to make on that issue but what i do want to say is that i think it's unfortunate that the media continues to describe this individual is a whistle-blower and honorific that this individual most certainly does not deserve. a partisan hit job does not make you a whistle-blower just because you go through the whistle-blower protection act. >> chris: well, first of all, how do you know that this is a partisan hit job, and how do you know that this is not a whistle-blower in fact under dni, the department of national intelligence rules -- well, you know what, let's go back to this, and we're going to jump around a little bit because i didn't know you were going to go here. here i

impeachment against president trump, i look forward to president trump's lawyers bringing in house democrats in house senator and senate democrats who are colluding with his gang to try to take them out before he was elected president. lou: it is outrageous, it becomes more outrageous with every document and e-mail, text that we see amongst this group. >> and we got it without the ig. lou.despite the salute to get te information. why are we waiting to take action. the ig cannot be the end-all and be-all. we need the justice department to speed up the pursuit of justice. lou: i cannot agree more. let's turn to speaking of justice, bipartisan justice, something to me, i cannot recall a time when all 50 state attorney general's went after an antitrust target, but here we are, google in the crosshairs. >> i'm suspicious when both republicans and democrats agree and usually go after one company. i would focus if i were them, i would focus on google's impact on our elections, the suppression of conservatives, there violation of the law that protects them from being sued, they pretend to be a neutr