witnesses, state department employees who worked for joe biden in the obama administration said they saw the appearance of a conflict of interest of hunter bidenk at burisma and joe biden overseeing ukraine policy. the state department people saw the same thing i reported a year ago. fiona hill said. and she said the ukrainians were betting on hillary clinton. several key people did try to meddle in the election. you didn't see any of the headlines in the "new york times" but that was some of the most important news that came out of the hearings. adam schiff actually helped donald trump's defense. judge jeanine: let's talk about the fact that as it lead to ukraine, you sued for documents, freedom of information, and you got the documents that gave you some significant information. tell my viewers. >> absolutely. remember, when joe biden started denying everything. the story was i didn't know my son was under investigation. it turns out the investigation was speeding up when done are * and hillary clinton were fighting it out. they had just raided hunter biden's possible's home, the owner of burisma. what my documents show, right after that rad

among the individuals, are hunter biden, joe biden's son, as well as the whistleblower, the anonymousntelligence official whose complaints about trump's call sparked the impeachment inquiry. but democrats don't seem inclined to accept those requests. the president will have an opportunity to shift the narrative on wednesday, as the first witnesses come forward. the president has a scheduled joint news conference at the white house with the turkish president. dave? >> thank you. >>> new allegations protecting president trump to threats of ukraine. rudy giuliani told them to give the ultimatum to the new president of ukraine, investigate joe biden or risk hundreds of thousands of military aid. p p parnas says he believed giuliani was acting with the president's authorization. note that in the end, pence did not attend zell len ski's innothing ration. >>> this will be a critical week for the joe biden campaign. he and other democrats are facing a new challenge from michael bloomberg, who will be focusing on states that hold their primaries later in 2020. while biden is at the top of the

some degree dr whole point it out is that giuliani was urging ukrainians to investigate hunter biden joe biden's son which. both mr holmes and dr hill suggested was done for political reasons this was seen as sort of derailing american foreign policy making better yvon of it was removed it seems at the behest of mr giuliani in part because she was seen as an obstacle to the investigation that giuliani and song one wanted one thing that came out of songlines testimony yesterday that's particularly damning is suggesting that a number of white house staffers knew about this sort of shadow foreign policy effort and were involved in it including. chief of staff more veiny but also secretary of state pompei oh and the vice president and the president himself that's pretty damning it's serious ok so what is spin testify what the testimony that has come out is that there was this quid pro quo multiple witnesses have said this that the president's lunch he would not get a meeting at the white house with president trump and they would not be released if he did not make an announcement not necessarily actu

joe biden talking about lindsey graham's decision to launch an investigation into the former vp and his son hunter biden. joe biden responded to that. >> lindsay is about to go down in a way i think he will regret his whole life. lindsay, i just, i am just embarrassed by what you are doing, for you. kristen: he is fundraising off of this. do you think joe biden's role in the impeachment inquiry will help or hurt him in the 2020 primary? >> from the most corrupt state in the country, illinois. to have his son benefit from a position of his father is unbelievable and for democrats in the senate i'm embarrassed by them. if you are going to have a true and honest impeachment inquiry you need to bring in hunter biden, joe biden, open up, the situation does not seem right for anyone being honest. kristen: do you think this impeachment inquiry hurts biden or help him? does the fundraising help or hurt him? >> it does hurt him to have his name associated with alleged corruption but it is not grounded in evidence. people talking about hunter biden, what about ivanka trump working in the white house talking to he

conditioned on ukraine's announcement of an investigation into 2016 election meddling and into hunter biden joe biden's son and he also pointed to one more effect and i think that this was very important he said to that many information pieces are still missing but that it is the white house and the trump administration that is preventing witnesses from testifying testifying telling them that they should defy subpoena and he said that that could be considered as a novel or impeachable offense as obstruction of congress so a very significant statement here a very significant statement indeed in our understand that while you were porting we're hearing of course from a key witnesses most notably bill taylor can you tell us all a bit more about him who is he. bill taylor is a very respected top diplomat he's served under republican and democratic administrations for 50 years and he's known for his very good memory for it he's taking speaking always very well informed and he has already provided the investigators with the details about administration's effort to get the ukrainian government to investigate t

among the individuals, are hunter biden, joe biden's son, as well as the whistleblower, the anonymous intelligence official whose complaints about trump's call sparked the impeachment inquiry. but democrats don't seem inclined to accept those requests. the president will have an opportunity to shift the narrative on wednesday, as the first witnesses come forward. the president has a scheduled joint news conference at the white house with the turkish president. dave? alison? >> jeremy diamond, thank you. >>> new allegations connecting president trump to threats of ukraine. rudy giuliani's associate lev parnas says giuliani told him to give an ultimatum to the new president of ukraine, investigate joe biden or risk hundreds of thousands of military aid. in the end, vice president pence said he would not attend zelensky's inauguration. parnas said he believed that giuliani was acting with trump's authorization. both giuliani and other members of the meeting deny the accounts to "the times." >>> this will be a critical week for the joe biden campaign. he and other democrats are facing a p

joe biden. people are frustrated. they want to get back at hunter and joe biden. we have a process in the statement. we need to take the john solomon evidence that he disclosed and have a hearing regarding the state department about what role they played in having this prosecutor fired, and see where it goes from there. that's what i think we should do. the whistleblower needs to be named and we need to be able to cross-examine that person for any bias. >> martha: with regard to rudy giuliani's role in this, you have said that you want him to testify. he's one person you think would appropriately be testifying before your committee. are you going to do that? >> i invited him and he hasn't responded. he's the president's lawyer so i doubt we could actually get him to come unless he volunteered to come so what i hope will happen is that we will look at the hunter biden, joe biden connection to firing the prosecutor based on the john solomon discovery about emails between the state department and this company. that's the way to start this thing. as to what's going on in the house, i think it's a politic

trump has accused your son of serve ong a board in the ukraine. >> there's no proof that joe biden or hunter biden did anything wrong. >> president trump's claims are unspan -- unsubstantiated claim. >> there's no evidence of any wrongdoing. in reality, joe biden was the one working to purge corruption from the ukraine. >> an utterless baseless theory. >> there's no evidence nor has there been evidence that he was doing anything other than getting ukraine to crackdown on corruption. >> leave him alone. >> the burisma biden is a bunch of b.s. >> hannity: that's how despicable and corrupt the media and the mob are. there's no evidence. we all looked. if you look and hear joe bragging, you're not getting the billion. he's leveraging the money. if you look closer, watch hunter biden on gma, what did he do? well, i have no experience. well, once i was on board at amtrak. oh, there's a ton of experience. this level of group think is not only despicable, what you just watched is dangerous. they're losing it. now, i say mob and the media for a reason. they are a mob with the mob mentality and a mob mind s

it's deeper than that.op people in ukraine worried about the conflict of interest with hunter biden. after joe bidenas given the ukraine portfolio, hunter biden was hired by burisma from a $50,000 a month for watch? obviously for political influence, but what is an insurance policy to make sure the company would never be investigated. here is what is disturbing about this. the day they announced the raid on the president's home, the investigation of the gas company, hunter biden reaches out to the state department, he used to work for biden come within a ten-day period, joe biden calls a president of the ukraine three times. u he actually goes to the ukraine in march, the prosecutor is fired a week later. it's one thing to say you've got to withhold money because the ukraine is corrupt..hi it's another thing to withhold money unless they fire the prosecutor investigating the company where your son works. that is different and that is what i want to know. i hope there is no there there. we'll look at the transcripts and see what happens. >> sean: okay. we'll hear say our opinion witnesses be allowed

and they also want to hear from hunter biden, joe biden's son. he was a central part of this because president trump was pushing ukraine to investigate the company that joe biden was working with hunter biden's business partner also on that list. and democrats and republicans are at odds about whether the bidens are relevant to these hearings >> if you can't call hunter biden and you can't call the whistle-blower, that's sort of a sham that's not even really a trial >> i don't see any relevance with the bidens. there's no evidence that anything improper has happened >> meantime, a new revelation from the former u.n. ambassador nikki haley. in her memoir she says she was being pushed by then secretary of state rex tillerson and john kelly, then chief of staff, to try to go against president trump. remember at the time there was that "new york times" report from an insider that there were people working on the inside against the president. she said that they tried to recruit her to "save the country" by zrifth the president but he had didn't think t

the whistleblower in material witness because he was for joe biden, he worked for joe biden when joe biden and hunter fire died i didn't work involved in corruption in the ukraine. this person worked on the ukraine desk and traveled the ukraine. this person was involved with aid. so when joe biden says we're going to denied aid to ukraine unless you hire a prosecutor that is looking into my son's company, that is paying hundred buyer did $50000 a month, don't you say we have the right to call these people don't you say that joe biden can up here. don't you say hunter biden should up here. and absolutely the whistleblower should up here because he is in accuser, but also because he's in a material witness to the conflict of interest scandal that involves hunter biden andoe joe biden. fifty republican senators signed onto a resolution that s says te president shouldmy get to face s iq or sit accusers. my bill the whistleblower active 2019, would make that clear. that the sixth amendment has brought superseded by statute and that the president should be afforded the right to understand the nature of the

trump withheld aid to the ukraine, unless the ukrainian government investigator joe biden and hunter biden corruption. the problem with that allegation is it's not true. the aid was delivered to the ukrainian government, and there was no investigation of hunter biden or joe biden. how long does it take to dispose of that? >> sean: let me ask you, because again, the due process -- you were part of impeachment in 1998. this is not your first rodeo, senator. you are aging yourself. i was on the air, too. okay, guilty. every consideration that was given bill clinton, bill clinton's lawyers, the minority party, are all denied here because of the end of the paragraph it says the same thing, it goes, at the discretion of the chairman. he said he wanted the whistle-blower. republicans gave a list -- they said no to every republican witnesses, and a cherry picking the two witnesses they think will be most favorable to them and not the ones that would destroy their narrative. what committee in the senate could call witnesses and investigate hunter and joe, because i identified the laws i believe joe

joe biden. he has an ax to grind against the bidens. victktor shokin is the man who claimed to have dirt on joe and hunter biden. he has claimed to have evidence that ukraine meddled in our election. >> plus new documents released last night by court order reveal the white house helped set up a phone call between rudy giuliani, president trump's personal attorney, and secretary of state mike pompeo. cnn's marshall cohen and kristen holmes on top of all these latest developments. marshall has more on congressman devin nunes' trip to europe. marshall, good morning to you, what are you learning? >> good morning. as you mentioned, cnn reported last night this very critical development that the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, devin nunes, did meet with this former ukraine official, viktor shokin, in vienna last year in search for dirt on the bidens. now that's all according to the attorney for a man named lev parnas, an indicted associate of rudy giuliani. he's a soviet-born american businessman who has been working with guiliani over the past year to use those connections in ukraine to try to get

allegations against burisma and when they do it they invoke the name and help us because hunter biden joe biden there it is is on the board. it is classic xeample. you put hunter biden on board that's why you do it. like a protection keel this was not known before and never discussed and now we know from the memos that you've uncovered this has been documented, that this ukraine company burisma natural gas a lot of corrupt allegations over there. owned by russian, they lobbied the obama administration hard to stop the corruption investigations into them inside ukraine is that what we have? 100%, and they played hunt per biden card and hard to understand what the approach and beginning of the democratic primary clinton and trump set up for the fall election, all of a sudden the ukrainian prosecutor show could raid the home of hunter biden boss, the owner of burisma holdings that just mentioned they raid that home and take possession, goods documents favorite luxury car in early february 16 after two year of quiet there was panic inside bris that hunter biden is not buy protection that we have be

hunter b biden, what else should we add in? >> guest: simply the idea that president trump was not talking about corruption in general, he was talking specifically about joe bidenand hunter biden, joe biden being at that time a person that he perceived as the biggest threat to his reelection. the argument from democrats is that taxpayer money should not be used to try to force a foreign government toul investigate your chief political rival. that's essentially putting their argument in the simplest of terms. at thisre looking through their own lens, whether it was appropriate for hunter biden to be accepting this money. certainly folks inid the press have had concerns about that themselves, but the question remains, if turning back to impeachment and president trump, the question is should the president have been focused so investigating his chief political rival. >> host: my producer tried to find the story you mentioned about biden, the review, abc news from october 15 of this year hunter biden saying, the story noting the c49 has maintained a maintained a low profile in recent months as the president and his allies have targeted hunter biden for his endeavor

corruption allegation as against burisma, an when they do it they invoke hunter biden name and need help to us because -- hunt per biden joeiden son there it is is on the board. it is that's why you put hunter biden on the board. that's why you do it. is like a protection deal. >> letter. so this was not known before. and this was discussed and now we know from the memoses that you've uncover this has been documented that this ukraine company burisma naturally gas a lot of corrupt allegations over there -- owned by russian they lobbied the obama administration hard to stop the corruption investigations into them inside ukraine. is that what we have? >> 100% and they played hunter biden joe biden card doing so and important towns what precipitated this approach. february 2016 beginning of the democratic primary hillary clinton versus donald trump being set up for the fall election. all of a sudden the ukrainian prosecutor show can raid home of hunt per biden boss, owner of burisma holdings a guy that ukrainian you mentioned -- they raid that home and take the man possessions and it is good and documents. his favorite luxury

and that it moved on to and also can you investigate the recent the energy company that hunter biden joe biden's son was mysteriously a member of the board of governors for and allegations that it was the ukrainians who were interfering in the us election and actually that is a picture we get from this testimony don't have to be out of most for ukraine because that loan been broken and various allegations and stories about ukraine have been quite a row in the 26 the election on the side of the democrats some of it ukrainians themselves have confirmed it's quite open you can read it in the f.t. or the politico other allegations haven't yet been proven to trump has always had a problem with the ukrainians it seems and this is what perhaps is driving the animists some don't however it was never clear about why the this is what this was the original testimony someone said he was never clear about why the military aid was being was being withheld although he said rather contradicted it now with this new testament that just came out and suddenly a light bulb went off and something was odd this is all

trying to get the dirt on hunter biden, joe biden son, and then slowdownsons delivery in order to facilitates. >> it is the pressure that would ,ave been put on the ukraine the ukrainian officials to help with that investigation. and part of what was discussed in his testimony was that rudy giuliani, who is the president's personal lawyer, was also actively involved in trying to pressure the ukrainians. was it a quid pro quo? republicans are telling us know. they are saying secondhand information is misleading and they are continuing to call this a which current -- witchhunt, as did president trump. we will see where it goes but there will be more people called and this will go on. haslinda: where does it go? what is next? where is this headed and are we likely to hear from the whistleblower? whistleblower and hunter biden are not on the list of witnesses the democrats want to call. president trump is saying the whistleblower should be seen and heard. he is protected. the people we will be hearing ambassadore former to ukraine, who was ousted in may. she is expected to testify that rudy giul

justice deposit so interested in investigating giuliani and not interested in investigating hunter biden and joe biden because there is nothing to find there with hunter biden and joe biden. but there is plenty of potential criminal evidence with the -- with giuliani and his associates. >> i think we could say this is not the last that we've heard of this. a major court decision we are waiting for it is expected at any minute that could have a serious impact on the impeachment investigation. more on that next. celebrating a successful business trip together is easy, if you're staying at holiday inn. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. hi. maria ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs... prof: maria ramirez mom and dad: maria ramirez!!! to help more employees achieve their dreams. sleep number 360 smart bed. you can adjust your comforthe mom and dad: maria ramirez!!! on both sid

hunter biden as a board member. oh, that's why they paid mr. zero experience, hunter biden, millions of dollars. and then one month later, yep, there he is, joe biden, vice president of the united states in a shakedown quid pro quo joe. fire that prosecutor in six hours, i will give you a billion dollars. you don't fire him, i won't give you a billion dollars. why on earth would a vice president of the united states of america care about a prosecutor in ukraine? the answer is obvious. his son was being investigated. even the "new york times" warned biden his son was being investigated by that prosecutor. by the way, democrats, we found your quid pro quo. quid pro quo joe. a shakedown with taxpayer dollars. and by the way, in spite of what joe biden just said, a serious potential violation of multiple laws, our own gregg jarrett laid it all out. look at your screen, 15 usc 78, it is illegal for a u.s. person to coerce or influence through bribery, a billion dollars, or extortion, a foreign nation into taking action -- oh, yeah, they took action, fire the prosecutor. that might financially benefit the person, his family, hunter, or business. th

biden team. arlette, is the campaign responding as of yet to this republicans' list of witnesses they want to see, and that would include hunter biden, joe biden's son? >> reporter: well, fred, so far the biden campaign is not commenting on this move from house republicans. we've also reached out to a representative from hunter biden but have yet to hear back just yet. but joe biden has really been very vocal throughout this entire process, insistent that neither he nor his son were involved in any wrongdoing when it came to ukraine, despite president trump's insistence that they did. and while this witness list is being developed by house republicans, yesterday joe biden was asked whether he would testify if there was -- were senate hearings into this and he really turned this back around on president trump, saying the focus needs to be on him. take a listen to what he had to say. >> look, number one, this is about donald trump, not about me. there's not a single, solitary thing that anybody has demonstrated that i didn't do my job as representative of the united states of america. the question is, did the president of the united states violate

and it's joe biden and hunter biden. i think donald trump has the right to have his lawyers come in and ask questions -- >> not in this process. here's where we disagree. >> justice demands fairness under law in calall cases. logically, forget about being a lawyer, you could be right about hunter biden. it could be a criminal situation and yet how you did this could still be an abuse of power because you went about it to get maximal political advantage out of it and minimal light. but let's see what the facts bring out this week. i'll have you back for sure. sean duffey, always a pleasure. >> thanks chris, have a good one. >>> all right. so, former ambassador yovanovitch warned you that america's foreign service pros are phasing real harm. why? how does that sit with a friend of hers, a former ambassador herself? how do we make sense of that type of admonition? next. the ninja foodi grill. get the perfectly grilled flavors of an outdoor grill indoors, and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do even more, like transform in

he wants to bring up witnesses like adam schiff, like the whistleblower, like hunter biden. like joe biden. he says if the house moves forward with this sham and they continue to push the fake, illegitimate proceedings on to the american people, he wants it to go to the senate and he wants a trial. >> more from cnn's pamela brown at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. the last two witnesses' testimony wasn't damaging to the president. and they're looking forward to the senate trial. sources at the white house claim that a senate trial could be good for the president as they make their case. as one senior white house official told me, have an opportunity to take down the democrats' weak case, as this official put it. in fact, the white house had several republican lawmakers come over and meet with the white house counsel and game out what a senate trial might look like. i'm told through sources that white house officials have made clear they do not want a long, drawn-out senate trial. at the same time, if it goes there, they want to make sure that the process is

> jessica: an investigation into bre's mama, george kent sar everyone to be talking about hunter biden, joe biden like they are the president of the united states of america. >> lisa: you call it bribery, none of the witnesses called it bribery. the people who thought they were being told to do something even though none of them were told by the president directly to do anything are not the ones saying that it's bribery. none of them are using the same language you are to justify the opinion that he should be removed from office. >> melissa: we are going to have lots more time to talk about this, especially at thanksgiving dinner which we are all having together. in the meantime, the anonymous author of a new anti-trump inside her book now pledging to reveal his or her identity. how will the white house respond? plus, new poll showing a major drop off in support for elizabeth warren but the 2020 democrat doubling down on her liberal message. what it means for the race and who is rising in the crowded field. >> i'm here to talk with people right now in iowa, i keep doing it all across the country

joe and hunter biden a right-wing conspiracy theory. >> the president isn't telling the truth. the allegations against joe bidennd hunter biden that he's repeating. >> his claims against joe biden have not just been debunked, they have been revealed as outright lies. trish: a new report that an investment firm linked to hunter biden received $130 million in bailout loans and shuffled it to the canaan islands while his d cayman islands while his father was very much of the united states. >> i'm tired of free loading billionaires. i think it's time we ask business at the very top to pay more. >> she can call me anything she wants. she's a phoney. she is worth $18 million. but she does nothing to make it. trish: what jobs has elizabeth warren ever created. >> i believe in markets. i believe in markets right down to my toes. of italian design and performance... ...and about 15 minutes for us to paint one neon green and do this. hang on. blends right into the italian architecture. see everything you should never do with an alfa romeo... no, no, no, no, no. now that's driving. ...then experience everything you should

joe biden and then his son was being investigated by the prosecutor in ukraine. that would mean joe, well, he come too, should be subpoenaed, like adam schiff and hunter biden should be subpoenaed like the whistle-blower should be subpoenaed. by the way, what it hunter say to his father? question what did he ask for favors gross margin hunter biden know that paris smoke was paying him billions for no experience and was in fact using his name to get the obama state department to do favors for schiff holdings? the next president would need to go under oath is former vice president, yes, joe biden himself. he should be subpoenaed. what did he really know and when he did he know that his son was being investigated, how many people warn his son was being investigated, what was he aware that the ukrainian prosecutor that he got fired was investigating his son and how many times was he told his son was in fact investigated? what role did his son play in u.s. policy in ukraine, if any? next, hunter's business partner, devin archer, what did he say tt burisma? also nellie ohr needs to be forced to testify under oath in the u.s. senate. she worked for fusion gps. along with

they don't talk about joe biden, they don't talk about burisma which is the company hunter den was on the board of,ut it's important to note joe bidenot yet entered the race. e second thing, the white house put out a readout of the call, a short note, teporters in april and said in that call that president trump and esident of ukraine discussed rooting out corruption, except today the caol memo desn't say anything about corruption. when i pressed the white house on that discrepancy, they said well, actually, the national security council is the one in putting out the readout, so talk to them. that's significant because army lieutenant alexander vindman who said he had an issue and was coerned about the predent bringing up the bidens in the july call is one of the people that wou be involved in getting the readout ready. so you have some people essentially thinking theohite house is blaming someone who had a concern about that july 25th call for not having the first call, the april call, be an accurate portrayal of what was discussed. >> woodruff: so interesting. sa, we talked a moment ago about whatropical storm are trying to accomp

biden break the law? >> oh, there's plenty of presidents here for the department of justice to open an investigation, a criminal into joe biden and hunter biden. they may have actually already done it but principally the foreign corrupt practices act. you can't use extortion and bribery to coerce or influence a foreign government into taking official action that benefits you. that's the quid pro quo and the best evidence of it is the fire prosecutor who said that's exactly what joe biden did, and now these new documents unveiled by john solomon implicate hunter biden in this as well, so there's compelling evidence to justify department of justice investigation. if they don't do it i suggest congress do it, lindsey graham, chairman of the judiciary committee, should open investigation. >> sean: let me put up on the screen, matt gaetz, willie brown, former high-profile official -- i actually like them, i don't agree with the thing but he's a fun guy. sounding the alarm in a piece entitled "impeachment whenever democrats? don't bet on it." he writes this. "of the democrats will spend the next few precious months acting out a pretend cliffhanger

hunter biden was on the board of. >> woodruff: let's talk about hunter biden, joe biden his father. you're telng us george kent very critical of them as well. >> absolutely. this is a point wherer biden was on the board of a company called burisma, a ukrainian oil and gas company notoriously corrupt, both s. and british officials were wanting to investigate brees marks and this was exactly as vice president biden was leading u.s. policy in ukraine and trying to root out corruption. so let's look at what kent said about this. i raise my concerns that i heard hunter biden was on the board of a ukrainian gas compa could create the perception of a conflict of interest. the message that i recall hearing back was that the vice president's son beau was dying of cancer and there wo n further band width to deal with family issues at that time. i talked to a couple ofho officialssed to work for vice president biden at this time and they were unsure whether that particular conversation took place. but to the larger point, they say vice president's sh to tackle corruption would have increased t

joe biden, and his son. >> now, the republicans on the committee have tried to distract from this, saying that they want hunter bidenbiden's son, called in, and other names, and they've even made the unusual adjustment of putting down in the committee jim jordan, for example, who is now all of a sudden going to be put on the committee. do you feel like they're there to really deal with the evidence, deal with the testimonies, or are they there to distract and try in some way to confuse the public that will be watching this, and if so, how will you and other democrats keep this on course? >> well, reverend sharpton, let me say this. as a former law enforcement officer, former police chief, i have been engaged in numerous investigations. i've always been in search of the truth. at the end of the day, it is the truth that leads us to the necessary action. we either press charges, make an arrest, or exonerate. it has been extremely disappointing to me that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to have zero interest in getting to the truth, zero interest in upholding the reputation of these career foreign ser

to look for hunter biden, joe biden, adam schiff, the whistleblower, the schiff team of staff who workedthe whistleblower. look for a redux of colonel vinh men. you've got klapper, you've got a whole series of witnesses that can come in and lindsey graham has t he will bring in these types of witnesses and this will go for quite a length of time and indeed, the primaries are going to turn topsy-turvy for the democrats. this is not the way they want it to go. this is one of the reasons they are looking for an off ramp as well. >> gregg: you are nodding your head over here. >> i think it's possible that if this meltdown continues, this may not even come to the house. nancy pelosi is very smart about counting votes and she sees 16 of these democrats get cold feet, she will find a way to say, merry christmas, come back in january. vote on the trade deal and move on just to get away from this. >> gregg: if the inspector general report comes out and really dirties up obama's fbi justice department, intelligence agencies, that may give nancy pelosi, schiff, and jerry nadler pause in the idea to

republicans want to hear from the whistleblower and hunter biden. joe biden's sun. the fox reporter ray bogan tells us democrats are pushing back against the two request. >> reporter: this week three witnesses and house impeachment inquiry will testify publicly but marks a new stage in investigation the house lawmakers expect more witnesses to come forward. and associate rudy giuliani concern become the next witness to talk with impeachment investigators. fox news confirms he told representative of ukraine's government in may to announce an investigation into the bidens or the united states with brief military aid to the claim ukrainian officials have said publicly underscores witness testimony alleging giuliani was leading the shadow diplomacy. >> this is a real problem because a puts a private attorney of the president directly in the middle of our policy towards one of the most important countries in your. >> reporter: the report comes of the first public it inquiry. republicans with listing nine witnesses they want to appear including hunter biden and the whistl

meddling in 2016 and why hunter biden, joe biden son, was on the board of the ukrainian eneicy companysident of -- biden was leading an investigatn. they willayhat they would pledge to do the investigation before getting what they asked for, a trump in the white house and the beurity assistance released the second testimony today will be similar,ro tomwill be similar to taylor's. the deputyta assistant sec european and eurasian affairs is in charge of ukraine poly for the department of state. he served blmocrat and rean administrations. based on hisio depos he says giuliani led a campaign of lies and he raised concerns about hunter biden with the vice president's office and was rebuffed. judy: there are witnesses but each party has political undertakings and has a message. nick: a radically different interpretation of the same facts. democrats believe the ttimony will prove that president trump pressured ukraine and conditioned assistance, that ukrae would investigate those ings before military aid was released. democrats will argue that is an abuse of power. point number two, presiden

republicans want to hear from hunter biden, joe biden's son, who had business in ukraine. that was part of the conversation president trump was having on the phone with ukraine's leader. democrats say that has nothing to do with whether or not the president traded money, whether it was a quid pro quo, whether he traded u.s. funds for a political favor, and that the theory is that he has been pushing has been debunked so no, they're giving a no to joe biden on this one or to hunter biden on this one, and his business partner. the other person republicans want to hear from is the whistle-blower, democrats say no to that also because more people with firsthand knowledge have now come forward, whereas the whistle-blower did not have firsthand knowledge and that person's identity is protected. so two nos so far on republican requests with the public hearings set to begin on wednesday. >> you were talking about the republicans' wish list. so is there anyone on that list that democrats will allow to testify, tracie? >> so they've asked for eight people, including some unknown lik

among the people on the list is the anonymous whistle-blower, the person we don't know, and hunter biden, joe biden's son. just a reminder to everybody, there's no evidence of wrongdoing by either biden. any response yet to these requests? >> it's so interesting. clearly what republicans are trying to do here is deflect attention from the main allegations that involve the conduct by the president of the united states, instead trying to deflect to this biden issue, to the questions of the whistle-blower and who this individual is. the house chairman, adam schiff, who must agree to actually bring these witnesses forward, he's released a statement saying this inquiry is not and will not serve as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the bidens or 2016 that the president pressed ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit or to facilitate the president's effort to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate against the whistle-blower, who courageously raised the initial alarm. you mentioned that whistle-blower, who republicans are also seeking for testimony. one of the whistle-blower

states particularly hasn't brought the biden type of corruption to the ukraine so if adam schiff is going to sit there and argue that joe biden is above the law, hunter bidenove the law, the bidens have to be called. joe biden is a hand grenade and hunter biden is the pin, and when that pin gets pulled the shrapnel is going to blow back all over the democratic establishment. maria: even more than that we're going to speak with congressman jim jordan coming up and speak with michael flynn's attorney, sidney powell, and lee smith who wrote the book, the plot against the president. we've got a timeline that shows money and ideas came from ukraine to go into that dossier. why is the president not allowed to ask, what went on in the 201? we've got this timeline showing general flynn and george papadopoulos talking about this dossier that came from ukraine so what's wrong with that? >> this is why the president is saying substance, substance, substance and granularity. let's have transparency and get all of the facts on the table. the american people just coming to the story, they've had selective leaks that the have gotten these numbers where they are today and

lou: there are questions about why there has not been an investigation of hunter biden and joe bidenhere you have -- and the president himself has pointed this out. you have video of joe biden bragging about quote ur -- quote-unquote, quid pro quo. and he's the one being attacked to me an absolutely benign phone call with zelensky. >> there is a lot of projection going on when you see democrats criticizing president trump for what their own guy did. when vice president biden intervened it was at at moment when the investigation was accelerating. they were raiding hunter biden boss' home. whether the vice president did it for good or bad reasons, he created the' appearance of a conflict of interest. lou: the suggestion from fiona hill on the witness chair that republicans blamed the ukrainians and not russians. devin nunes had to throw down the report that one doesn't preclude the other. ukrainians along with russians tried to interfere with our elections. that is the false narrative to which she did not refer. >> some of the interesting tactics was to overstate what republicans would

and prepared her by telling her, a question may come up about hunter biden, joe biden, then the vicesident's son, being on the board of burisma. and, you know, here's how you -- you know, telling her, that may come up, be prepared for that question. and she confirmed under oath on friday, yes, that is the case. given that one do you believe there is any reason to call hunter biden as a witness? do you believe there are any questions he should answer? because, of course, he's on the republicans' list of eight witnesses they would like calle called. >> i don't think so. and i think the fact that she talked about that is just indicating that these allegations have been kicking around for years. mainly in right-wing circles and so forth, but the main point -- the main point here was -- >> but it was the obama state department that thought it was worthwhile for her to know that it would potentially come up in a senate confirmation hearing. >> absolutely. because she was obviously going to be questioned by various senators from various parties. so i think that that in and of itself doesn't

today the republicans said that they want to subpoena the whistleblower and they also want hunter biden and joe biden to testify what are your thoughts on that. both that all those are ridiculous i mean then 1st of all the whistleblower has nothing to add he didn't have firsthand knowledge he was told by other people what happened everything that the whistleblower has said is all to now confirm the corroborated by other witnesses who have come forward including most importantly the transcript of the conversation between president trump and president zelinsky so that's just a diversion that dividing and hunter biden and stuff is precisely what trump was trying to do it on this trying to somehow create an inference that they did something wrong when there is absolutely no we have it sounds there that either him did everything wrong i mean again this is a typical trump diversion tactic to try and throw whatever's out there in a different direction on somebody else. you signed an open letter along with other watergate prosecutors recently calling for impeachment proceedings against president dropped if t