enjoy freedom we will continue our conversation but just want to remind our viewers that every year jim lee celebrates the day of german unification an official set of minis are underway and you can see that on your monitor there is a tribune squire thinking of right now and as soon as american the german chancellor makes a keynote address we'll go live to that and bring it to you then returning now to peter and listening to his memories of germany unification to how much has changed between the 2 between 990 when german unification officially took and now a fantastic lot has changed the instant germany has begun to catch up finally i think in some very significant ways the the 990 s. right through into the decade that followed on that right through to 2005 also there were intensely painful years people lost their jobs they lost their livelihoods we talked about this already. i think know what has happened is that in terms of infrastructure much has been achieved in eastern germany but far too many people have had traumatic experiences their lives have been traumatic and that hasn't been re

enjoy freedom we will continue our conversation but just want to remind our viewers that every year jim lee celebrates the day of german unification an official set of minis are underway and you can see that on your monitor there there's a tribune's choir singing a right now and as soon as american the german chancellor makes a keynote address we'll go live to that and bring it to you then returning now to peter and listening to his memories of when germany unification took place so how much has changed between the 2 between 9091.

jim jordan, mark meadows, lee zeldon has adopted this role of aggressive defender of the president. it has been those three and a couple of others that have been there. someone will accuse me of not being honest of that. run any clip of these, and these are the most fervent of the president's defenders, they have been in the room. >> rodney in brooklyn, independent. >> okay. good morning. you spoke about subpoenas just a little while ago, and my understanding is those subpoenas are issued by the democrats. my question is representative himes said the republicans in the committee have the right to issue subpoenas but they have to be granted through the majority or the democrats, so the question is are the democrats granting subpoenas submitted by the republicans because according to jim jordan and others, thaey're not being granted anything. they're being shunned out. can you clear that up for me. >> i can clear that up, and let me start with the larger point, which is it's kind of sad that we're at a point where the subpoenas are necessary, and they have become necessary because the

. >> john: congressman jim jordan and lee zeldin talking about what they heard from kurt volker, theative, special envoy to the ukraine. we are back with our panel. a.b., you are saying that the president has put republicans in a difficult spot but there is two republicans coming out soon, what we are hearing from volker -- >> two republicans -- >> john: its blowing holes and that the democrats'. >> the reporting out of "the washington post" from the ongoing testimony is that he told rudy giuliani, do not trust your sources in ukraine and that he told president zelensky after his phone call with trump, do not get involved with u.s. politics. you are vulnerable, you need this aid, don't get into a situation where it looks like you are taking the side of one of the political parties. you need bipartisan support for an independent and strong ukraine. this is a bad means to your end. i don't know what the end result of this testimony is going to be. i think that the fact that the reporting out today shows that he told giuliani he intervened to stop what giuliani was doing -- >> john: he

hill believes that nine of the republicans who stormed the gates yesterday, lawmakers like jim jordan and lee zeldin are included. >> this is a process lacking legitimacy, credibility and fairness. >> why don't we know who the person is who started this whole charade that had dam shiv adam doing? we need it done in the open so the american people can see. >> the "washington post" note that the although the republicans were upset about the process, none who spoke outside the scif defended donald trump on the central allegation that he pushed ukraine to investigate democrats while blocking military aid. the show delayed cooper's testimony five hours. lawmakers were looking for the pentagon's perspective on what happened as the $400 million in uhe krachb aid was delayed. and evenhey were considering making the investigation public next month. joining me, phil rucker, jonathan lemire, both msnbc political analysts. and also with me, former republican pennsylvania congressman ryan costello. and former bush administration house intel majority staff director michael allen. everybody, welcome. jonath

hill believes that nine of the republicans who stormed the gates yesterday, lawmakers like jim jordan and lee zeldin are included. >> this is a process lacking legitimacy, credibility and fairness. >> why don't we know who the person is who started this whole charade that had dam shiv adam doing? we need it done in the open so the american people can

republicans are saying this and they had said this long before he had concluded and here is jim jordan and lee zeldin. >> not one thing he said comports with the narrative. >> the administration is in an each stronger place as a product of ambassador volker coming to testify. >> did you hear anything -- did you hear what they heard? you guys were all in the same room. >>. >> i can only say the power of rationalization and the power of delusion to hold sway here in washington in certain quarters. i don't think any rational person listening to that testimony today could remotely come to the conclusion those two gentlemen came to. >> before we go, one last question, trump publicly asked the chinese president with whom he is engaged in a massive trade war to investigate joe biden today. we have now learned that in a phone call in june with president xi the president raised joe biden although we do not understand with a direction request for an investigation. that call was also housed on the same top secret server that the ukraine call was housed on. what do you make of that? >> i think this is fur

here is jim jordan -- mark meadows and lees eldin. >> i think some of these things are indeed damning. however i want to make sure we get through this entire investigation before coming to some kind of conclusion. >> what we do know is there was definitely no quid pro quo. it came out over and over. it was asked probably 20 different times. >> ambassador volker blew a hole in that argument that president trump, that the argument that president trump was trying to get president zelensky to manufacture dirt on the bidens. ambassador volker blew a massive hole in that argument. after many questions asked as it relates to the allegations of quid pro quo. it is crystal clear, talking about hours upon hours of answering question from every single angle on this possible that there was no quid pro quo as relates to that call from july 25th. >> will hurd there at the top. jake sherman, their answers seem to fly in the face of what we saw in those text messages. >> republicans are focusing var narrowly on this fact, was there an explicit ask -- was there a specific quid pro quo. did the preside

jim jordan, mark meadows, matt zeldin.cott perry, lee the president tweeting about this within the pastur. here is what he wrote. " i would love to send to testifysondland but unfortunately he would be testifying before a compromised kangaroo court where republicans right have been taken away and true facts are not allowed for the public to see. his tweet which she reports stated " i believe you are incorrect about no quid prots -- quo anytime, that says it all." a few calls and your reaction before we end washington journal. from san jose, california, democrats. caller: these guys have no shame. my wife and i were watching a movie and at the end of the movie where he was on the stand he is donald trump. the similarities are frightening. the writers of the supreme plaisted their homework. -- the republicans care about everyone else except for about trump's mental stability. watch the movie and watch the end when he is on the stand when humphrey bogart is on the stand. host: joanne in milford, ohio. republican, good morning. caller: good morning. i am here. host: what was your reaction?

i'm joined by republican congressman lee zeldin and congressman jim himes. congressman himes, let's start with you. we heard from ambassador marie yovanovitch, somebody who testified to your committee. despite the fact that the white house ordered her not to do so, tell us how important is she to this inquiry. >> she's very important to one of the parts of the inquiry. apart from the president holding up aid to ukraine, expecting to get a commitment that there would be an investigation of his political opponent, the moving of that transcript to the secret server, the third piece that's deeply concerning is a united states ambassador who mere aske her tour for a year, is then summarily told to get on the next plane to washington to be removed from her post for what f appears to be giuliani's effort with his various minions to achieve whatever aims giuliani was trying to achieve in ukraine. this has nothing to do with the united states foreign policy interests, but the president's personal interests and rudy giuliani's interests. she's very important. she's an

sides are ramping up and flashing ever more hostilely. >> sandra: jim jordan and other republicans, they stepped up to the microphone, leeothers stepped up to a microphone for that meeting began this morning fired up. jim jordan said this. >> chairman schiff subpoenaed dr. hill. she had agreed to come voluntarily. he is going to subpoena here i believe so he can ask certain questions and keep those secret except for the certain things that he wants to leak. the cherry picked information he wants to leak to the american people. >> sandra: their take this morning. meanwhile the president is warning democrats they will lose house seats over impeachment. hugo, fine at thoughts on that. >> look, it wasn't the loud resistance, the impeach or bust people who gave pelosi the majority in the 2018 congressional mid-terms. it was centrists in places that trump won in 2016, kansas, wisconsin, rural parts of illinois and pennsylvania. she has always known there is a danger in impeachment that it will turn voters off and that those voters will then return a republican majority. so there has always been this tension before those who wa

those who have are people like jim jordan, people like mark meadows, lee zeldin.hey're there and they're free to ask all the questions they want. one more point itf i may. ask yourself why no facts favorable to the president have leaked from the republican side. it's not because they don't leak. it's because there aren't any. it's because a guy like bill taylor is unassailable because he knows what he's talking about. he took good notes and remembers it. he's been doing this for 50 years. >> and the information we have got from the different witnesses seems to be mutually kraub rafb. >> maybe the strongest evidence came out first, the president's own words, the call memorandum, the whistle-blower complaint which by the way is an extraordinary document in retrospect because it seems to be right in every respect that i know of. it's been corroborated by every piece of evidence we've seen come out since. and so, yes, that is reinforcing a central substantive conclusion. so what do they do? they engage in cheap character assassination of a really good man and a good c

and some of the president's most loyal defenders take this mark meadows and jim jordan and lee zeldinthe room. you have the president's side at least being represented in the room for this evidence-gathering portion of the investigation here. >> all right. "politico's" andrew, thank you very much for being on this morning. >> thank you '. >> and michael, we've been talking about how politicians, some republican politicians, most republican politicians have been hiding their head in shame and won't actually call what is right right and what is wrong wrong. but isn't it fascinating that we have had state department officials, career diplomats, people who have worked for both republicans and democrats alike who have dedicated their entire life to being diplomats and spreading the good news about the united states of america across the globe, they are the ones at this critical time in history who have stepped up and been counted? >> that's right. and if you had to think of a believable witness, it's hard to think of someone who would fit that bill even more. and, you know, that scene yest

lee zeldin has been doing a great job with jim jordan getting the facts out there. don't do this cherry picking stuff. you wonder why some of these transcripts -- by the way, when the president's actual to a foreign leader, the idea that partisans, people who, as we know and reports right now, the so-called whistle-blower had a natural partisan leaning and a tie to a democratic candidate for president of the united states. you wonder why they move this stuff to a classified server. the president is trying and if you look at the transcript which i've done and they have done, the president is trying to root out corruption relating to the 2016 election which obama was the president when the russians tried to interview. trump is trying to route it out or doesn't happen again. pelosi is the one trying to make it about -- >> laura: hold on. sorry to interrupt. i have to get to congressman selden. do you think adam schiff will be censured? yes or no? >> no, i think the democrats are going to cover for them. we are seeing the entire house democratic conference ripping the c

lee. >>and we continue to do very well with the miracle. >>jim acosta reporting there who has the president has been telling his allies he does not believe he's doing anything wrong. in seeking for help for his reelection bid next year. and a source close to the white house who has spoken with mister trump said, he's been bragging about his performance all week the president this or says is quote going for broke. we're now learning that democratic presidential candidate, bernie sanders had a heart attack he is now. >>a lot of the hospital. the vermont senator's campaign says he walked out of las vegas hospital feeling great, i'm looking forward to getting back to work. sanders had 2 stents placed in a blocked artery. doctors say is sanders made good expected progress and that all this other arteries were normal. the 78 year-old was hospitalized after experiencing chest discomfort on tuesday. >>still to come former napa valley venture has been sentenced in federal prison for his role in a widespread scam what he admitted to doing for his daughter.

cnn political reporter mj lee is in durham, mj, what does this tell us? >> reporter: well, jimwing the top two progressive democrats are fighting for the top spot here in new hampshire with bernie sanders with 21% support and elizabeth warren not far behind that 18% support and if we dive in a little bit more into the poll, we see that former vice president joe biden, his support has fallen 9 percentage points since this poll was conducted in july. his support falling to 15%. the only other candidate in the field with double digit support in new hampshire is pete bute greg with 10% support. everybody else with 5% or lower including kamela harris with 3% support. just a reminder of how fluid things a things are three-and-a-half months out from the primary. those polls are firmly divided on who they will support. >> you spend a long time on the campaign trail and often that energy in the room at these events can be indicative. what itself the mood like in new hampshire as warren has been campaigning there last fight? >> reporter: well, last night at this elizabeth warren event, d

the oversight committee who are among the republican flame throwers, jim jordan and mark meadows are kept out of the process this way. lee kept out of the process this way. it's another way in which they're trying to keep this from becoming a circus. lastly, it really appears that they've learned from the mueller hearing and that the five-minute rule everybody asks a question for five minutes and you move on, really doesn't give you great hearing. so in the intelligence committee, and, by the way, adam schiff is the king of the hill in this process the way this rule is written because all of the hearings go through him. in intelligence committee there will be a "block of 90 minutes each and they can delegate that to a committee staff member. so you can have a consistent line of inquiry and not have it all caught up the way it has -- was so often in the mueller era. >> we're going to be seeing more of barry burke, the counsel who asked questions of that committee before because this rule allows the committee counsel to be asking the questions for 45 minutes at a time. but i want to get your reaction to what control you th

as jim jordan pointed out, guess what ukraine had to do in order to get -- >> harris: representative leen now taking down his reasons for why impeachment of president trump is not real, in his estimation. an hour, up until this point, it's been based on things that were factually incorrect. both from the media and what he says there, democratic sources. what are your thoughts on this, jason? >> jason: i think democrats don't micro republicans point back to july 2017. there was a headline about impeachment proceedings having begun. the democrats have always presuppose the outcome. i think they thought mueller was going to deliver the goods. he didn't. i think they panicked. i don't see the evidence here. when donald trump released the transcript of the call, i don't think there is every utterance of there. my best evidence of that is that adam schiff had the lion make it up in the committee. i also think the horowitz and durum reports are coming out. the show vote out there, it's because they know that the horowitz report could be released at any time. that durham is on the tail of the or

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jim mattis resigned in protest over disagreement on the same issue. with bipartisan pressure on the president tonight, pulling back troops in syria let's turn to mike lee, great to have you with us. let's talk about what your gop colleagues have to say. i want to cite a couple of them, lindsey graham, by abandoning the most dangerous signals america is an unreliable ally and just a matter of time before china, russia, iran and north korea act in a dangerous way. they have been warriors and brothers who battled along the way, potus is right to end the endless wars, turks wiping out the kurds, not an acceptable outcome for that. that said you support the president's decision. >> i support the decision, he did the right thing. should not be difficult to take us out of a war zone. what we have to be thanking him for doing this, some of my colleagues in the senate, republicans or democrats over disagreement with that they should bring forward a proposal to declare war, we've been there without a declaration of military force. we shouldn't do this without buy-in from the american people following the prescribed constitutional for, donald trump recognizes the

jim himes sits on the house intelligence committee. you heard what lee to be about substance. is he right. >> he is dead wrong about that. of course, what you have seen in the last couple weeks republicans talking exliewsklexclusively about the process. the reason they are talking about process they don't want to defend the substance of the president of the united states squeezing a foreign ruler to investigate his political. brian: that's what you think. >> that's not what i think. that's what's happening. the funny thing about this, of course, is the republicans have said you need a vote. you need to make the rules really clear. and you need to give the president rights in this process to have the president's lawyer present ands, guess what, what's being voted on today is a vote on the house of representatives. it describes the rules. and it gives all kinds of rights to the president's lawyers. and of course surprise, surprise, the republicans are saying well, that's just not good enough. even though this is exactly what they have been asking for for t

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lee, thank you join us tomorrow what is "squawk on the street" is next. ♪ >>> good wednesday morning welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jimramer, david faber at the new york stock exchange. futures have flipped between red and green this morning amid some reports of a hiccup in brexit talks, more bank earnings and the worst retail sales print in seven months more data is on the way today. europe has mild gains. the ten year yield hit 175 before that retail sales miss. road map begins with china trade concerns, retail's biggest sales decline in seven months, corporate earnings in focus. b of a rallying on a beat, futures point to a muted open. >> capitalism under fire a bit democratic presidential hopefuls square off and taking aim at big business and personal wealth. >> and billionaire marc benioff will join us at post nine. we'll talk tech regulation, capitalism, ipos and who he is eyeing in the 2020 race. stocks are on track for a modest open a day after the dow close the above 27 k for the first time in almost a month s&p finished shy of 3,000. b of a beats the street with quarterly results. on the economic front, reta

lee, thank you join us tomorrow what is "squawk on the street" is next. ♪ >>> good wednesday morning welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jime flipped between red and green this morning amid some reports of a hiccup in brexit talks, more bank earnings and the worst retail sales print in seven months more data is on the way today. europe has mild gains. the ten year yield hit