nadler. mr. nadler: thank you, very much. no person, republican or democrat, president or anyone else should be permitted to jeopardize america's security and reputation for self-serving political purposes. no president, no official can demand that an ally of the united states do anything in particular to help his or her political ambitions as a condition of receiving help from our country. if after a fair and thorough inquiry, the allegations against president trump are found to be true, it would represent a profound offense against the constitution and against the people of this country. it is the duty of the house to vindicate the constitution and to make it crystal clear to future presidents that this kind of conduct if proven is an afront of the great public that placed their trust in him or her. this resolution that we passed today lays the groundwork for open hearings in both the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee. the house and the american public must see all the evidence for themselves. the resolutio

what nadler does time and time again and they did in kavanaugh situation. i wanted to get ben rhodes to talk about iran deal. they said there's a separation of powers issue and i dropped it. i didn't issue a subpoena, the difference is cummings and nadler will issue a subpoena, see, they don't comply. they don't care because court date will come after, they will create a narrative, you will hear nadler and cummings, we issued 250 subpoenas, they never responded. most of them are wholly bogus and the court would laugh them out of there, the reason nadler became chairman of judiciary committee he went before his colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle and said i'm better suited to pursue impeachment. come with me i will do impeachment and that's how he beat out bill and became chairman of the committee and that's what he's doing, abusing power. >> one last question for me and we will shift, we will end on a positive note like you do in the book, what looking forward to rei, in this in. >> i want to lay out all of the bad, you come and listened to the m

chair nadler: without objection. mr. gaetz: i seek unanimous consent to enter into the ecord a "new york times" article, disclosure caused meddling in u.s. election. chair nadler: without objection. mr. gaetz: finally, also from sirm 2018, from the kiev post, update publish days of manafort payments violated law interfered in u.s. election. chair nadler: without objection. mr. gaetz: what's happening is that the d.n.c. pays a law firm to hire fusion g.p.s. which hires nellie orr. send an email to her husband about issues with manafort and the ukraine. that then works its way into the u.s. election dynamic. and a court in kiev ruled that the activities to disclose the manafort activities in the united states proximate to the 2016 election constituted election interference and was illegal under ukrainian law. is there anyone on the panel who has a reason to disagree with the conclusion of the ukrainian court that that constituted election meddling? no one has reacted any basis to disagree with the ukrainian court and the r

but today, you saw both schiff and nadler hit the panic button. they really understand this is bad for them and their case they are trying to impeach a president based on false

nadler: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays have been requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed. proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. votes will be taken in the follow order -- following order. ordering the previous question on house resolution 650, and adoption of house resolution 650, if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution 650, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 49. house resolution 650. resolut

you saw both schiff and nadler hit the panic button.hey really understand this is bad for them and their case where they are trying to impeach a president based on false information and innuendo in secret behind closed doors and in fact what you look at, both what horwitz is doing and what durham is doing, they've actually been looking at facts, talking to real people, giving things that they've risen to the level of criminal probe. it's a really big deal, bad news for those people who try to undermine the trump campaign illegally using their positions in the fbi and other agencies. >> jason: andy biggs, when you see chairman nadler, chairman schiff use their chairman schiffs to belittle, badger, anm politics on attorney general bad mr. horwitz, who by the way unanimously confirmed as an obama appointee by the united states senate, when you see these people's apology is names disparaged and they try to take them down and put a political spin on it, how do you react to that? >> jason, good to be with you and steve too. my first thought i

he made a comment today that basically contradicts the provision that jerry nadler made. let's watch. >> there is going to be due process, it's going to be fair. there will be a form in which the president is given the opportunity to call witnesses, to cross-examine, to have his representatives present, and i am surprised that the republicans say they are not going to vote for a resolution that, in effect, gives them what they asked for. >> laura: but the resolutions as the president can't ask questions, or may be denied the ability to ask questions if certain documents aren't turned out over to the committee. what's the truth here? >> it's going to be a total sh show. it doesn't guarantee the minority par party can call mis, doesn't guarantee the transcripts will be released via the president can't have council president to present evidence, to be able to cross-examine witnesses. this is going to be another missed opportunity for an illegitimate charade, a circus that lacks credibility, fairness, transparency. so illicit. you're losing the process argument. you want a su

jackson joined senator chuck schumer and congressman jerry nadler and governor cuomo and mayor de blasio in celebrating some of my life's work. and it was heartening to me as we have many nights that we don't have to celebrate. and in the middle of it, we had a surprise video from former president barack obama that someone in the crowd taped and put on social media. but he stayed on message about fighting for the right to vote and go forward. >> the truth is there's a reason everybody wants to bend his ear including me. he's been one of our country's most urgent voices for progress and justice.

they want to create a narrative, i guarantee you will hear nadler and cummings and the others say weey never responded. most of them are wholly bogus and a court would last them out of there. the reason jerry nadler became the chairman of the judiciary committee is because he went before his colleagues in the democratic side of the aisle and said i'm better suited to pursue impeachment. come with me. i'm given to impeachment. that's how he beat out phil loughran and became the chairman of the committee. ..... who and later historian mark lee gardner talk but he theodore roosevelt's rough riders.

nadler: that is -- coverage disabilities. that is borne out by cases, but certainly as the law as it exists. rep. foxx: from the very beginning, i believe that all members of congress, democrats and republicans, want to see all workers protected from any harm that could occur to them, and especially pregnant women, and i think our record proves that. applies to known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions for workers. your testimony notes that the term known limitation is not defined. in contrast, a detailed definition of disability in the ada. 2694 is enacted, will the courts have to define known limitations? would dare me more certainty for workers and employers if congress defined this key term in the bill? >> it would certainly be more beneficial for congress to define known limitations so that, moving forward, as both the employers and employees know their rights and obligations under this law, they know what that term means. while there is a provision in the bill that talks about within

jerry nadler getting up there, how dare you impeach, you are trying to overturn the will of the voters. and now he's trying to overthrow the will of the voters. they are so full of crap. trish: i think your father has done some remarkable things for the economy. i think we are in a better spot economically. i understand the political aspect of this. but at the same time, they are saying why does he have to go down this particular path, the g7 thing being one? i hear what you are saying. the left is looking. >> the guy is also a fighter. one thing the country was missing was a great fighter. there was no one fighting for the u.s. or to stop manufacturing from

there is executive privilege a president has with his seniormost advisors with jerry nadler does timeime again and they did it in part of the kavanaugh situation is they ask for information that the president has executive privilege on, it's the same claim that barack obama claimed, believe me, i wanted to get ben rhodes before the committee to talk about the iran deal. i invited ben rhodes to come testify before the oversight committee. he was in the new yorker, he was doing public speeches, certainly he has time to do all the media and public speeches he can come talk to congress about it. added an issue subpoena, the difference now is cummings and nadler will issue subpoenas saying, they don't comply. but they know if it goes to court they will never win because they don't care because the court date is going to come after the next election. they want to create a narrative, i guarantee you will hear nadler and cummings saying we issued 250 subpoenas they never responded. most of them are wholly bogus. " would left them out. the reason jerry nadler became the chairman of the judicia

jerry nadler was really the face of impeachment. the person who was put in charge of that committee because someone who knows the law, knows the president, he is ar arguably the best one to bring him down, but he had so many missteps, now adam schiff is the grown up in the room? even though he is an emotional child. and we're hearing that the whistle-blower contacted schiff's staff before h he he or she file. >> we know. little adam schiff already knew about whistleblower complaint, and rules had changed in august of this year. which said, you no longer have to have first hand knowledge of what is going on, that tells me, maybe the whistleblower is close to john brennan. what we know is that president has gone -- john brennan hates the president. >> of course he does. we know that whistleblower is a former cia agent, detail to nfc, who probably back at the cia who hates this president more than they love the country, they never had first hand account. kennedy: corey. >> yes. >> did you have merlot with dinner? >> no, should i have?

for coming on the show how can you possibly beat the chair of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler he's the man who's going to be part of all the impeachment proceedings maybe. well baykeeper outing me. and the reason i'm running is the fact that in new york's 10th district which is the west side of manhattan and south brooklyn one in 6 folks can't meet their basic needs and one in 5 of our store fronts are closing because of the commerce so it's just an emblem of the fact that we're going through this fundamental economic and technological shift and i'm running on a set of policies that will help move in new york and help move the country forward so that's the main focus and the way will bring campaign across the finish line you have you know on the doorstep if joe biden or i don't know maybe kemal heiresses your presidential candidate how you get here on how you going to run against don't trump who is now declaring as you know his intention to end u.s. involvement in wars ending endless wars you are basically a war candidate in brooklyn. well so so i i spent you know really much

to your party i know you probably have about as much money campaign money as your opponent jerry nadler who got money for walt disney and scandal hit bill lloyd which is just being fined here or millions for order to well so you raise a really important point which is across party lines and this really is. a reality in american politics is the outsized role big money in the political system and so $1.00 of the key policies of the campaign is democracy dollars which is a campaign finance reform system to ensure. that people's voices are actually represented in the in the halls of congress and in the highest levels of government and so what this would do would put $100.00. as a voucher directly into the hands of american citizens so they can determine and we can align. the incentives of the financial capital with those people and so to your point that is not the system we have right now and it's a coming upon us as as challengers to. lead our campaigns aligned with the vision values. that type of policy speak to an act and that is with people powered political movements and money over her

congressman nadler is the chairman of house committee on the judiciary. for more than 30 years, chairman nadler has been on the front lines in the fight for civil rights and he has been a relentless defender of our country's fundamental promise of equality for all. congressman nadler has played a role in the fight for women's rights serving as a central figure in the reauthorization of the violence against women act and he's the author of the pregnant workers fairness act. we appreciate the witness for being here today and look forward to your testimony. let me remind the witness we have read your written statement and it will appear in full in the record pursuant to committee rules 7d. before you begin your testimony, remember to press the button on the microphone in front of you. we know you know this. the light in front of you will turn green and after four minutes it will be yellow to signal you have one minute remaining. when it turns read your five minutes have expired. i now recognize chairman jerry nadler for your testimony. >> thank you for holdi

we're not sure who is the minion costume, say hi to jim acosta and jerry nadler.candy bar on his head, so does melania. >> trick-or-treat when michelle obama was giving out fruit, heaven forbid joe biden gets elected and starts giving out rolls of pennies, you know back in my day. it would work just as well as bernie sanders but he is so cranky he would not answer the door and then yell at you. president made up for it, he offered the kid free airfare, there you go. in once you came. >> viking guy, this would never happen in philly, they don't throw paper planes off upper deck they slow people. >> topic 4. let's head to california. they work on their tackling. yep. this woman was allegedly shoplifting, and store like all people have nothing to hide she ran for it the second the cops walked in, the law manilas owed her in the cop who trackeled had a 14 yard penalty, she is off to jail, and cop to miami he has just been signed by dolphins. not most exciting video in world, it nice to see a woman getting taken down in call beside kamala harris, she will turn it aroun

they want to create a narrative i guarantee you will hear nadler say 250 subpoenas were issued and they never responded. most of those are wholly bogus and a court would laugh them out the reason jerry now there became the chairman of the judiciary committee as he went before his colleagues on the democratic side and said i'm better suited to pursue impeachment. come with me and that's how he beat out others and became chairman of the committee so that's what he is doing and yielding his power. >> what's the path forward to rain this and? >> i did this in deep state and empower grab not just all the bad. you come and listen. it's not the feel-good meeting of the year. but this is the greatest country on the face of the planet some how some way they figure this out with the authenticity, they understand these issues but we have to be aware. the fact that people want to dive deeper but i also think it's incumbent so so much of this shouldn't be done at all we have to neuter the power of the federal government and get them out so much of this business. and a lot of those answers with state

bonamici: thank you, chairman nadler. thank you for taking time to testify before the committee today. your testimony is a valuable piece of legislative record. we will now seat the second panel. thank you. thank you to the witnesses and the committee staff for that smooth transition. i will introduce our witnesses for the second panel. ms. kimberly michelle durham is from alabama. ms. durham made the trip to washington, d.c. to share her story. formerly an emergency medical technician in alabama, ms. durham was forced off the job when she became pregnant. next, ms. iris wilbur joined greater louisville inc., the metro chamber of commerce, in 2016. she serves as vice president of government affairs and public policy. she works on policy and legislation at the local, state , and federal levels to help advocate for the region's business community. mclaughlin is a partner in the chicago office and a former chair of the labor and employment law department. she is engaged in a broad-based employment law practice specializing i

jerry nadler and adam schiff are not happy this evening. trish: first i'm probing sort of what this -- what this is. why did general bar make the decision to make this a criminal probe? one of the things that has been discussed at length on this show and others is exactly why there was a fisa warrants on an innocent american, to spy on an innocents american, carter page. they were using some rather shoddy intelligence, if you ask me. if you can calm it intelligence. don't forget the steele dossier that was bought and paid for by the opposition in this case, hillary clinton. so you had christopher steele former british spy calling all his buddies in russia. you have to look at the information gathered overseas on this round. and putting together a so-called dossier. it seems the fbi thought was credible enough to actually spy on members of the campaign. and that's hugely troubling in so many ways. and for the governments we are in the democracy and the system we are. >> that's exactly right. it would appear that some at the top of the fbi co

and jerry nadler, where did he go. >> speaker pelosi seems to have appointed adam schiff to lead thehange. kennedy: do you think that adam and nancy are corrupt california politicians? >> i don't know they get along, a year ago ed that lir nadler sr for impeachment is high, for democrats to go ahead, evidence needs to be so overwhelming, proof so convincing that even donald trump voters would say, this is right thing to do, we're not near, that polls show, they have shown increase in support for amendmen much -- impeachmen. >> for democrats. >> we're nowhere near ed that larrnadlerstandard. kennedy: we're not and impeachment is not a majority thing, i would say you have to have the same percentage of important people that you do in the senate to over throw the president. which is you know, more than 2/3. kennedy: >> i think as chairman nadler said, if it won't chair the tear the nation apart and have one party say you stole the election from us, it has to be seen as fair, i don't think the way that mrs. pelosi is providing -- >> i think they know that, they know they are not overturn

>> i think it was brilliant he quoted nadler for another reaso reason. what he wrote was a traditional american liberalism, when i was a young person, liberals believed you have to defend the civil rights for the communists and the nazis -- all of a sudden this congress has run roughshod over the right to call witnesses, the right to confront witnesses against you. if the right of counsel. if they are threatening to imprison attorney general barr and impeach me, that is his government lawyer. i've never seen a subpoena like this. >> laura: are going to get to the attorney-client privilege issue in a moment. the house's failure to provide coequal subpoena power in this case assured that any inquiry will be nothing more than a one-sided effort by house democrats to gather information favorable to their views and selectively release it -- you warned about this, the drip drip drip of the leaks coming out of the democrat offices they are conspiring with. what about this? >> what you are seeing is regicide by another name, fake impeachment. the democrats in th

she did not really trust jerry nadler. he had hearings that were a little less organized, more partisan. adam schiff is a very talented prosecutor and good at his job. usually when the party goes after someone, it is because they think he is a threat. she was you think that waiting to give that to him, with his dealing with international issues and intelligence issues? before, pelosi was satisfied to let the various committees do the room business, but now that the stakes are so --h higher, both for pelosi and substantively, it was clear that pelosi wanted adam schiff to be the face and the leader. terry in dixon, illinois. go ahead. democrats' line. caller: congress is looking into impeachment of the president. but the process ron. just like the call of the republicans. but there's one other thing i wish this speaker would consider. we know that vice president pence was also involved. i would like to know what did the president know? if the vice president was involved in this, maybe we impeach him, to you will. we are tir

congressman jerry nadler represents the tenth congressional district. congressman nadler is the chairman of the house committee on the judiciary. for more than 30 years chairman nadler has been on the frontlines to fight for civil rights and he has been a relentless defender of our country's fundamental promise of equality for all. congressman nadler praises a different t role in women's rigs serving as aam central figure in the rasterization of the violence against women act and the author of the pregnant women's fairness act. we appreciate the witness for being here today and look forward to your testimony but let me remind the witness if you statement thaten bothan appear in the record pursuant tot rule deanmack. before your begin your testimony please remember to press theou button on the microphone in front of you and as you begin to speak the light in front of you will turn green and after four minutes it will be yellow and when it turns red your five minutes havee expired. i now recognize chairman jerry nadler. >> thank you chair bonamici and ran

jerry nadler at the end will be very important. articles of impeachment have to be written by the house judiciary committee. nancy pelosi clearly made a decision that she wanted adam schiff and the house intelligence committee running this operation. when we get these must-see public hearings which will be a big deal when they finally happen sometime in november it will be schiff and his committee that handles this, not nadler and his committee. one reason i think is the intelligence committee is smaller, it tends to be a little bit less partisan, you get a lot of people on the extremes in the judiciary committee. and i think she just thinks it -- >> bill: you could also make the case the last few public hearings did not go quite a way democrats had hoped. >> exactly in the judiciary committee. you had some of the intelligence committee. let's hope adam schiff doesn't make up testimony like from the president or anybody else. i think clearly she trusts adam schiff to run the tv show more than she trusts jerry nadler. >> julie: i wa

gives them to nadler the guy made up my phone call. in the united states congress, he made up my phone call. i have had people who have said i did not like the way you talked to the ukrainian president, i said, did you read my speech? , a lot of people saw that. frankly, i don't know if anybody would have even noticed. congenial andlly gentle words and made me sound like a tyrant. it's a terrible thing. he defrauded the american public. it is all a big con. have had the transcript, you would not have had a whistleblower. all you have to do is read transcript. what's even more important than transcript, though i think it is the most important, these are crooked people. lawyer it'sdemocrat a con job. this is a con being perpetrated by united states public and even the world. a poll just came out today, very small people want to see something. that's the way it is. i say this. all you have to do is read the transcript. you know what is almost as good as the transcript? sayingainian president he did not even know what they were talking abo

nadler, is recognized. mr. nadler: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of h.r. 2426, the copyright alternative and small claims enforcement act of 2019, or the case act. this important bipartisan legislation would establish a voluntary small claims court within the copyright office to hear copyright suits seeking $30,000 or less in total damages. today many small creators, especially digital artists, are unable to protect their rights, because the cost of pursuing infringement claim in federal court is far greater, as much as 10 times or more than the damages they could ever hope to receive. few attorneys would take a case with such limited damages, because they would not likely recoup their costs. it is a fundamental principle of the american legal system that a right must have a remedy. but if it costs $250,000 to recover a few thousand dollars from someone who has infringed your copyright, then what remedy do you really have? the case act would provide important protections for the many independent creators who are cu

liz: the judiciary chair jerry nadler in adam schiff say the probe of the russia probe is now politicalge and critics are reportedly saying they politicize the probe and tried to downplay the appropriat pro. >> your reaction to all of the. >> i think again this should be a deep breath and let's wait for the result in the outcome of the investigation. we have investigations to find of crimes were committed. i think the argument right off the bat that this is politically motivated falls short that the person who has it is specially designated by the attorney general to provide independent and the person leading is occurring u.s. attorney in the district of connecticut who enjoys a bipartisan reputation as a career prosecutor who precisely what it is during nadler in adam schiff are complaining about and that is for an investigation to be politically motivated. i'm absolutely confident based on past history that the end of the investigation doesn't believe crimes were committed he will walk away in the same token if he investigates and it looks like it'll reach into the fbi, intelligence c

the difference now is cummings and nadler will issue subpoenas and say, see? they don't comply. but they know if it goes to court, they will never win but they don't care because that court date's going to come after the next election. they want to create a narrative -- i guarantee you're going to hear them say we issued 250 subpoenas, they never responded. most of them are wholly bogus and a court which laughs them out of there. the reason jerry madler -- nadler became the chairman of the judiciary committee is because he went to his colleagues and said i'm better suited to do impeachment. come with me, i'm going to do impeachment. and that's how he beat out zoe lofgren, and he became a chair of the committee x. this is what he's doing, he's abusing his power. >> one last question from me, and then we'll shift. we'll end on a positive note like you do in your book. >> yeah. >> what's the path forward, what should conservatives be looking toward to kind of rein this? >> i don't want to just lay out all the bad, right? you come and listen to the meeting, and you're bummed out. it

chairman nadler and adam schiff are responding to this statement. they say these reports are true it is profoundly concerning, the part of justice under william barr lost its independence and become a vehicle for donald trump's political revenge. if there's a part of justice uses a tool of political retribution or to help the president with a political narrative for the next election the rule of law will suffer new and irreparable damage. new tonight the inspector general of the justice department, michael horwitz, says he is finalizing his report on fisa abuses ahead of the 2016 presidential election. the letter obtained by fox news he tells everyone his report will have limited redaction. the goal from my standpoint is to make as much of this report public as possible. i do not now anticipate a need to issue separate classified and public versions of the report. both these breaking developments are adding fuel to the republicans already raging fire, new ammo to push back on the democrats impeachment inquiry. >> this is a hatchet job against the pr

my self would have subpoena power in the judiciary committee just like chairman nadler would. the chairman could weigh in to say that i should be recused. isn't that a unique concept? in america, we believe that people have due process rights. but this speaker is running roughshod over the house and it's got to stop. this is a travesty and it's affecting the institution of the house. >> laura: it's affecting how people laid out in the angle, congressman, how people view our democratic republic, people view the press, how people view the entire concept of fairness. the president being hamstrung in his ability to conduct foreign policy. i'm sorry, but that china, north korea, the way they look at this -- they don't care one whit about how this affects our economy or anything else. it's about tearing down this president, ripping them out of office by any means necessary. i've got to ask you. nancy pelosi gave an interview on abc where i think she revealed unwittingly what's really going on. watch. >> the real thing is donald trump would donald trump do irreparable damage in the u

jerry nadler is famous for saying we better make sure parapa paraphrasing, we have everything togetherto skeptical public, that was months ago. how do you think things have advanced since then? >> i don't think things have advanced much at all. there is a reason in every other presidential impeachment, there has been formal and open process. that is because that was the right thing to do and what speaker albert and radeno and the chairman concluded at the start of the clinton impeachment. >> neil: sam, if resolution calls for deposition by the intel committee for transcripts of those depositions to be made publicly available, how far would that advance the fairness argument that this isn't sort of like a loaded cabol against the president and republicans? ? >> it is interesting, i don't think it advances it at all, that part of the resolution actually decreases fairness, under the existing deposition rule, chairman schiff has authority to release the transcripts, but needs concurrence of the ranking member to do so and if the ranking member doesn't concur, it goes to a public vote. the

if chairman nadler and adam schiff are now responding with the statement. they say "these reports are true" and under attorney general william barr, they've become a vehicle for president trump's political revenge. of that use the tool of political retribution, or to her the election, it will do new and irreparable damage." also, the department of justice, he's finally his report on abuses ahead of the 2016 presidential election. in a letter obtained by fox news, he tells everyone has limited at to reduction. the goal for mice to point us make as much of this report public. i do not know need to know the separate versions of the report. both these breaking developments are adding fuel to the republicans already raging prior and new ammo to push back on the democratic impeachment inquiry. speak out this is just a hatcheb against the president. if they need to get it out in public for everybody to see. >> it's un-american, what is going on, it's a runaround the impeachment process. it's creating a secret proceeding behind closed doors that fundamentally, and

jerrold nadler and adam schiff in a statement saying "these reports raise profound new concerns thathe department of justice department of justice under attorney general william barr has lost its independence, and to become a vehicle for president trump's political revenge." as houtz impeachment investigators prepared to assume interviews tomorrow, president trump today defended the use of the word "lynching" to describe the process. >> it's a word that many democrats have used over the years, it's a word that has been used many times. >> and the president warned if democrats succeed in removing him from office which would require the defection of at least 20 republican senators, the economy would plunge off a cliff. >> i really believe that you would have a recession-depression, the likes of which this country has never seen. if anything happened to president trump, you would see repercussions in the market like you haven't seen before. >> there was a double whammy at federal district court in washington, d.c., the chief judge ruling that the department of justice has to turn over t

a process as a public process of impeachment that was overwhelmingly voted on we heard from jerry nadler the chairman of the judiciary committee saying no president can ask an ally to help him against a political foe and that was a a sentiment that was repeated again and again by a number of members of the house of representatives and heads of committees that were speaking moments ago there let's go over now to our white house correspondent kimberly how she joins us live from washington is it fair to say that we've got quite an emboldened tone coming from house democrats. yeah that would be fair to say and i want to tell you that well there was a democratic press conference going on quite fitting for washington there was a republican press conference of similar nature going on and it struck me that this is a prime example of washington i was watching her in a split screen at the white house everybody's talking nobody's listening divided down the middle that would really be washington most of america and so well democrats perhaps have been emboldened republicans have been trying to counte

then suddenly nancy pelosi and adam schiff, jerry nadler and the whole gang say it must be abuse of powererm found nowhere in the constitution. and that's what the framers feared. they feared people of an opposing party would drive a president from office. lou: nearly everyone out there irrespective of their ideology, they know it's nonsense. the other half is rejecting it. it is. this is not the american way. >> it's sad and tragic. this president has been under siege since he got sworn in. the "new york times" ran a story the day he moved into the white house that said the impeachment of the president is under way. lou: greatest book. gregg jarrett. we rep it highly. i want to give you one other thought. how do we get out of this mess? >> well, if the lawyers -- re-elect the president is one way to do it. but for the next term they will try another witch hunt. lou: i will give you my thoughts. i believe the american people are so disgusted with these radical dimms that he will win by a huge margin. i don't think they will find a place in government. >> look at those districts, nancy pel

i think nancy pelosi has been the chairman of the board, she made her choice of schiff over jerry nadleru: i wonder why she did that. >> look at some of the hearings nadler had, the corey lewandowski hearing, the robert mueller sharing. lou: schiff lied for two years. he's doing it in secret and leaking things out. all the news follows all everything he says so it looks like there is a terrible damning process going on. in the mediate's been damaging to him. but we don't have the substance. people say the republicans are arcing about process. they are arguing about substance. they want the public to see what the witnesses have said. lou: we are not going to until the end, if we do then. >> this is where the adam schiff empowerment act comes in. it gives the chairman to do anything. it gives devin nunes the authority to ask adam schiff. lou: it gives the republicans nothing. except a slap across their face. >> they have the authority to ask if chairman schiff will do something. on the question of transcripts, all the interviews that have been done so far. it's not answered in the resoluti