mollie hemingway, former advisor to richard goodstein and more.ut we start tonight with correspondent kristin fisher with all of the details from tonight's historic vote. good evening, kristin. >> good evening, shannon. follow the history made today, there were a few surprises during the hours of debate on the house floor and those debates tonight. there were moments, and one moment in particular that really stood out, was the moment that house speaker nancy pelosi announced that the first article of impeachment had passed. >> the and the as are 230, the names are 197, the present 1. article one is adopted. >> watch here as speaker pelosi tries to quiet cheers from house democrats. she wanted them to be solemn, sad, and serious, as they voted to impeach, and here's how those two historic both broke down, almost exactly along party lines. on abuse of power, two democrats defected, as expected. jeff van drew from new jersey, who was already said he is switching parties, and collin peterson from minnesota. zero republicans broke rank. on obstruction

mollie hemingway and more straight ahead. the most accurate a .. what are you doing back there, junior? since we're obviously lost, i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. ah, relax. i got this. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. he knows exactly where we're going. my whole body is a compass. oh boy... the my account app makes today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. not my thing. >> shannon: house speaker nancy pelosi not setting a time frame tonight for actually naming impeachment managers or for sending the senate the actual articles of impeachment. the house voting along party lines impeaching president trump on two articles. article one, abuse of power, passing 230-197. article two, obstruction of congress, 228-191. not a single republican crossed over to vote yes. president trump becomes the third president to be impeached adoption of the constitution in 1788. two years ago, the late and revered charles krauthammer issue

mollie hemingway and john solomon react. but first, see nancy fade. that's the focus of tonight's angle. after democrats recapture the house majority in 2018, nancy pelosi became the most powerful woman in washington. some said that she was too old, the party needed to trade up for a newer model. but she sure showed them. at 79 years of age, she remains the only woman to ever hold the position of speaker of the house, let alone hold it two separate times. >> she is the glue keeping the whole washington scene together. >> laura: that was a few months back. do you think that still holds? a year ago she seemed unstoppable. a group of new female lawmakers who are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. >> and then they became fed up with it. and then they fight crime, they right wrong, they wear white but they are not all white. we love them. the women of congress! featuring maximum clap back nancy pelosi. >> laura: she's so woke, she can close her eyes? i had to have water for that. all week long, she's been a woman on a very difficult mission. res

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the fellow risk," great to be with you tonight.cause the president to go after christopher wray in a tweet on that, and some of the things that bill barr had to say tonight. >> christopher wray's problem is that he does not seem like he is that upset about what happened. he has some words he is saying. he is very upset with all that happen in the abuses and civil liberties pretty is so calm about it. saying, well, i've instituted some reforms, so that should take care of it, people are looking for someone who is extremely serious about this and understands the significance and takes it like this serious thing that it is. he does not quite give that impression. attorney general william barr seems to have confidence in him. and that is saying something, because william barr does not seem like somebody who has confidence -- >> martha: it will ultimately be the actions and what takes place in terms of reform and phis and all of that, so that remains to be seen regardless of demeanor, the actions will be the most important thing. we wil

howie: joining us to analyze mollie hemingway, susan frerechio, washington examiner and clarence page for the chicago tribune, mollie are the media sympathetic for documents and witnesses which he says are needed for a fair trial? >> i think they are, they have been pushing impeachment for a long time, this is the impeachment battle, one i don't think they are doing particularly job of explaining the situation, senator mcconnell's plan is to do it as they did it for previous impeachment, you hear the case being made and you hear response and you figure out what to do about it. >> might be there there needs to be more evidence, this is as weak as we thought it was and dismisses on. howie: clarence, the media is saying that he will work closely on white house strategy, doesn't he have a point when he schumere just as partisan as he is? >> pretty effective right now because the public is perceiving this as a political exercise, there's not been the and wrong n here, partly because the democrats are under a time clock problem that got to -- next election campaign. howie: do you think that

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and joining us now to analyze the coverage mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist and fox contributor, griff jenkins, fox house correspondent and fox news contributor who runs georgetown's university institute for politics. mollie, i saw a lot of headlines, what's your reaction the way the media covered the hearing that night as we just showed in generally? >> in general an issue where the media seemed to be the biggest proponents of impeachment even though that democrats themselves, it's fine to cover all of the democratic witness that is were there but suggesting that there's this -- there's this truth in the fact that 3 witnesses supported impeachment and one didn't that that ratio is significant, the only thing that's significant is democrats picked 3 witnesses and the republicans had an opportunity for a single witness, even the way that they covered the witnesses when the one witness made unfunny joke about the president's son, you saw a lot of people on the media praising and she had to come back and apologize for it. they are not showing the type of skepticism or c

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fox news contributor mollie hemingway and andy mccarthy, great to have all of you with us tonight. >> here. speak a good evening, shannon. >> shannon: mollie, i will start with you. we immediately have the op-ed from mr. comey in "the washington post" saying the facts are all out, this is the truth, the fbi got it right. there were so many lies about us, and he is vindicated. >> yeah, that is typical behavior for comey. i think he also did something similar, literally, when he was referred for terminal prosecution from he demanded apologies. he has an amazing pride in his behavior, given the bad things that came out about it. this couldn't have been more definitive, with this inspector general came out and said, that no one was vindicated who had anything to do with this. he laid out so many problems with this fisa process, not just the 17 errors on the warrant to spy on carter page, but everything else to do with the process. one of the things that is most scandalous i think is learning the fbi knew that the dossier was complete and utter rubbish, by january 2017. yet they continue t

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joining me tonight to discuss is a federal senior editor fox contributor molly hemingway. y merry christmas. >> merry christmas it's great to be here. >> so help me here, i'm puzzled. i hear the argument on some on the left that nancy has the right to do this because she can exert some leverage over senate republicans to somehow move the rules in a way that is more okay, more acceptable for the democratic party. but i'm struggling, and mystified to understand what that leverage is and how that would work? >> in order to have leverage you have to be getting -- mitch mcconnell does not need to run impeachment trial. she if she never sends the articles over, he will just chew gum and confirm judges and keep doing what is doing. >> and he would love to do that. >> and he loved to do. those unclear with the leverages. but also i think there's a basic ignorance about what is going on in impeachment trial. the constitution does give the senate to hold the trial. and mitch mcconnell's plan was to do exactly what was done during the clinton impeachment which was let the house manage

editor mollie hemingway. as someone who followed this from day one from orchard takeaway?> there is no question the ig found rampant abuse of the fisa process, the fbi engaging in bad behavior as it sought to spy on a member of the trump campaign. the spin that you showed from other people, even worse than what you were talking about, which is at one case you had the fbi lawyer dr. evidence to make it seem like a different federal agency had something opposite of what you said, the other federal agency said that carter page was a helpful asset to them. he doctored that evidence to make it seem like the opposite was the case. >> tucker: let me ask you to pause there and asked the obvious, why is not that fbi lawyer in prison? >> that fbi lawyer was one of the only people who was ever referred to any kind of accountability. that's one of the things that's frustrating. this ig outlines hundreds of example of bad behavior from people who are engaged in this campaign to target the trump campaign. not many people will be held accountable by the inspector general. it's interestin

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, and charles lane opinion writer for "the washington post." of news today regarding the attack on the embassy in iraq. we heard secretary pompeo earlier in the show. >> this is a reminder that iraq is still highly unstable and being tugged between two outside forces -- the united states and iran who in different ways help prop up the government in baghdad but her obviously enemies themselves. an inherently unstable situation arises an incident where i think there is broad agreement where the united states have some basis for attacking this militia and this militia which is basically an offshoot of the iranian revolutionary guard decided to send a message to the u.s. by attacking this embassy. i think we are going to learn whether this is intended to be a shove back by this group or the prelude to something more sustained. >> michael: let's play some sound and reaction of today. [chanting] >> what you saw was on a rainy backed terrorist group, many individuals who have been designated as terrorists -- we will continue to watch and monitor. it's

steve hayes, editor of the dispatch but mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. a lot of editors on the panel tonight. mollie, let me start with you and we will start with this barr interview. a couple of them today. pretty striking if you look at what he said and laying it out and how washington perceived, at least, that ig report initially. >> sometimes it feels like attorney general william barr is one of very few of those who are in washington, d.c. i think that he laid out a case in multiple interviews today looking at the actual facts in this inspector general report, looking at the dozens upon dozens of errors that all happened to be in the same direction, harmful to the trump campaign, talking about this in such a systematic way. this is not about the frankly narrow thing the inspector general looked at, the violation of civil liberties for carter page and other things attendant with the surveillance of the trump campaign. the whole scheme of operations. one of the most interesting things of the inspector general report is that the fbi department of justic

we'll get the real from molly hemingway. so much we don't know, molly.you hearing on this? >> it's important to remember what inspector generals do. this is a report that he's been working on for an incredibly long time. if it follows how his other reports will go, it would probably include a lot of damaging information about what the fbi and other parts of the department of justice were doing, but probably won't come down very hard on the people doing it. there's good reason for that. i.g.s are limited. they can only interview people that work for the agency that they serve. this is only about fisa abuse. it's not about the entire russia probe. and then also, you know, for better or worse, the fbi and other parts of the department of justice have wide latitude what they can do. so finding out that someone has done something wrong or engaged in criminal wrong doing, that is a pretty high standard. that's question a lot of people i think are thinking that the other investigation that is going on done by durham is more interesting. that person can intervie

howard: joining us now to analyze, mollie hemingway, fox news contributor, susan ferrechio, chief congressionalrespondent for the washington examiner and jessica tarlov, a fox news contributor and "outnumbered" panelist. how are the media covering the party-line vote to impeach president trump, and do you see some spike of the political football. >> well, this was technically a vote done by democrats, but really always it was a media-led impeachment. within hours of president trump's inauguration, you have "the washington post" beginning the drum beat saying now the march to impeachment begins. and the idea was clearly to use the russia collusion narrative as a means to impeach, and when that fell apart, everyone quickly rolled into this ukraine situation. even though it was only democrats voting, it really was a media-led effort -- u. howard: why does the democratic party do whatever the media wants? >> you have to be joked that the media were the pr arm of the democratic party, and i think some people would say the media leads that party more than anything. they did feel they had no other cho

free beacon," alexander traffic, national political reporter from the associated press, and mollie hemingwayalist" paddle, welcome, good to have you all. your thoughts on the war on the legislative and the executive branch. >> was interesting, nobody agrees about the facts and she also says that president trump tried to cover up and it's interesting because it's true. i don't think i can really disagree about the facts and plate and what the degree about is about the defense, the beachs not done a good job with the people outside the carcass. she's doing her best not to take what she has an leverage into more, but i'm not sure how well, it's working. i'm not claiming that president trump covered up particularly the best argument given that whatever else you want to say about what he's doing, he released all the information immediately before it even began. it's not an argument that probably a lot of americans will find compelling. >> it seems though that nancy pelosi is in the position to hold impeachment articles is getting to donald trump's head to some extent, this means he can't get acqu

mollie hemingway, editor at "the federalist." what about this effort?ing the best hand he can. he's looking at these letters that might conceivably fall away from the republican party vote. the problem is with the houston already. when they had a chance to do this in a fair manner, in a way people would think of as legitimate they chose not to do that. it's very hard to now ask the senate to go out of their way to be helpful to the democrats if they try to have some chance at this impeachment when they didn't do that when they were in control. >> bret: here is chuck schume chuck schumer. >> i haven't seen a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn't testify. will these documents be produced? unless the president has something to hide. trials have witnesses! that is what trials are all about! and documents. >> bret: here is who they are trying to get, mick mulvaney, john bolton, senior advisors to mulvaney and associate director for national security. chris, chuck schumer spent some time explaining why he said exactly the opposite in 1998.

investigation, regarding the fisa court abuse, the mainstream media was writing off kimberly strassel, mollie hemingwayheorists who are a danger to our country for putting forth their theories that the so-called deep state is abusing their fisa power in opening this investigation into trump campaign officials. then on the other hand, you have the mainstream media, giving each other awards for pedaling a different so-called conspiracy theory that president trump colluded with russia to win the 2016 election. these were two sort of working theories, yet the mainstream media smeared one of them as a conspiracy theory and handed each other out awards for the other one. what at the end of the day are we finding out? we're finding out kimberly strassel at "the wall street journal" was write, the writers at "the federalist" were right and the mainstream media will not apologize. liz: critics are saying this is media scandal. here is the media claiming authority live for years that the dossier was correct. >> the dossier corroborated by intelligence community. >> the dossier is far from bogus. >> increasing it

let's get the read from the federalist mollie hemingway. what do you think?> i think there are lessons for both parties here. we can see that this is this right wing populism has growing appeal for other countries as well and there are challenges when you have a left-wing ideologue who is beholden to party politics. while each country is different and we don't want to take too much of out of a given election, the same significant in the same way that that initial brexit vote in 2016 seems significant going into our following presidential campaign. >> neil: i was wondering knowing that i would be talking to you that a lot of people back in this country might say especially in the democratic party, maybe we shouldn't showcase extreme liberals whose positions might be deemed out of touch with the main american electorate. this could be seen as an opportunity for democrats to recalibrate and look for a more moderate nominee. definitely not elizabeth warren or bernie sanders. that might be a leap, but what do you think? >> i don't know. i think it's absolutely tru

let's bring in the panel, fellow at the institution the institution mollie hemingway sr. editor and jonathan swan, national political reporter. mollie, your thoughts on the day come again, eight hours, 25 minutes. >> mollie: i think it is a good reminder what we heard about nancy pelosi not wanting jerry nadler to have too much of a role in impeachment. for some reason handling public hearings they don't go well. and we saw that dramatically with the mueller hearings. you look at what happened today, the witnesses similarly, poorly chosen. you have three witnesses per democrats, elizabeth warren donor and upset about hatred for donald trump that she says she can't walk on the sidewalk in front of a trump property. you had someone who said they didn't need evidence of crime for impeachment which is technically true but not the best talking point. and then you had a guy, brett kavanaugh and dianne feinstein. these are not the type of witnesses you selective trying to convince people that you are operating in a nonpartisan evenhanded manner and as the day wore on, look like h

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ed: mollie hemingway does this tweet as she does so well, call it out.egan with editorial board support. it did not build to it t was almost like a narrative. they wanted it to happen as you referred to a moment ago. pete: what is it like to tweet? i don't really know. ed: you're not on there? pete: i'm not on there. kellyanne conway was on our network raised a great point. was this about ukraine or phone call or about impeachment all along? watch. >> go back to august 1st. why is that date important? the media did a good thing, keeping tabs how many democrats committed to impeachment inquiry by august first one-half of all the democrats had committed. august first, six weeks before the so-called whistleblower complaint. it is so nobody even knew about that. and they had already committed to impeachment. let's stop pretending this has to do with ukrainian call. pete: that is what the american people have seen through. that is the frustration. is the mueller report now has been fully discredited especially after horowitz the dossier what we learned there.

there is a disconnect according to mollie hemingway. watch this. >> there is this huge disconnect between the impeachment messaging that remove this president immediately because is he such a threat and gave him such a win. also an issue clearly impeachment is happening not because it's genuinely popular because the base demands it. do this impeachment completely impotent because it's going nowhere in the senate and handing donald trump village tries and don't have any legislative accomplishments of their own, that might upset people to say we sent to you washington for reason and you are not accomplishing anything we sent to you accomplish. brian: china deal and south korean deal and move the japanese deal forward. have you got to wonder if britain gets their brexit do you immediately get a trade deal there this is exactly what the president said he wanted to pull off a reconfiguration, a reorganization of our trade relationships. steve: right. once again, it's a win for donald trump. why nancy pelosi would do those two things the same

no, not with a phone call in july but with a phone call in november when molly hemingway overheard incoming chairman nadler talking to constituents on the telephone and said that impeachment of the president was going to be of the highest order so although there's not a transcript of that call, it was well documented in social media and that seems to be one of the things that we can now use as evidence that can be introduced. mr. collins, correct me if i'm wrong, but it does seem like this is an exercise -- i think this is reflected in your dissenting views you submitted, this seems like impeachment first, build a case second. >> it does. >> and there's an inherent problem with that, of course, in that the old saying goes when your only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail, and you've already alluded to the clock and calendar, and i would also submit that this does seem like we are -- we are busily trying to find the data that would actually define the crimes that we can then proce prosecute the crime. the difficulty, and, again, this is reflected in your minority views, the

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no, not with a phone call in july but with a phone call in november when molly hemingway overheard incoming chairman nadler talking to constituents on the telephone and said that impeachment of the president was going to be of the highest order so although there's not a transcript of that call, it was well documented in social media and that seems to be one of the things that we can now use as evidence that can be introduced. mr. collins, correct me if i'm wrong, but it does seem like this is an exercise -- i think this is reflected in your dissenting views you submitted, this seems like impeachment first, build a case second. >> it does. >> and there's an inherent problem with that, of course, in that the old saying goes when your only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail, and you've already alluded to the clock and calendar, and i would also submit that this does seem like we are -- we are busily trying to find the data that would actually define the crimes that we can then proce prosecute the crime. the difficulty, and, again, this is reflected in your minority views, the