host: that is the reporting of the white house correspondent for the washington examiner. than journalpan's washington live every day with news it policy issues that impact you. discussioning, a about impeachment and the constitution with the university of baltimore law professor kimberly whaley. also, the prospects of impeachment with the phone from editor-in-chief david hawking. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern on monday morning. >> president trump holds a campaign rally monday in lexington, kentucky. live coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. donna brazile, former democratic national committee chair ,shlapp, the campaign from president trump, talk about clinical discourse and civility. >> talking to reporters outside of the white house earlier, president trump was asked about the impeachment inquiry and the 2020 presidential election. pres. trump: would you like to talk to me? i am shocked. yes, go ahead. well, the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report. of theknow, certain media released information a

he also says this in the washington examiner.me point i'm going to sit down perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and i will read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. when you read it, it's a straight call. if you were defending the president, would you advise him to do that? >> no, i certainly wouldn't. because when you read it's an impeachable and removable offense. the president says, look, we do a lot for you, ps, i just withheld $400 million in aid that you need to fight those russian tanks on your eastern front in your hot war, and we could do a lot more for you. and then he says i need a favor, though. that word, though, is a killer. it implies all this good stuff is not going to happen unless he gets the favor, which is digging up dirt on hunter biden. you know, there were two things that the founders were most worried about when they were drafting the impeachment clause. number one was foreign interference in our affairs and number two was corruption of the office, which is use of the offic

president trump did an interview with the "washington examiner."hink we now know what the new chant is going to be. remember build the wall? >> yeah. >> i think it's going to be read the transcript. donald trump in this interview told the "washington examiner" that he has all sorts of plans for surviving this impeachment investigation including t-shirts with the slogan, read the transcript. >> he remembers that when the country read the transcript that's when he started getting impeached right? >> i don't know what he knows. i don't know. i don't know. >> amazing. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks, laurnwrence. >>> on this historic night when the house of representatives voted on the procedures for impeaching the president of the united states, i am very pleased we will be joined once again by ezra klein who first discussed the subject of impeaching donald trump with me on this program two years ago when the trump presidency already had many of us considering the impeachment of donald trump. ezra wrote the most important article of that period about

that's what the president told the washington examiner.e is considering printing t-shirts with the slogan read the transcript. how do you think republican will react to that strategy? >> i'm not sure shathat a drama reenactment is what the republicans are itching for. when they try to defend the president, most don't say there was nothing wrong with the call. they say it's not an impeachable offense. i don't think showing the american public exactly what it sounded like in president's own words and in his own inflection is going to make the contents of that call seem any better than they do right now. >> i think the democratic national committee would pay to have donald trump -- they'd buy the time and have donald trump read. >> it's ready made ad. >> this idea that the transcript is perfect and this phone call was perfect. the only person who is saying that is donald trump. even his most loyal supporters in the republican party are making excuses and it's really not so bad. it's not impeachable. he's the only one who is saying it's perfec

that's according to an interview in "the washington examiner." he says, quote, at some point i'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television and i will read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. when you read it, it is a straight call. okay. that is the same call that led to a momentous day on capitol hill today. for only the third time, think about this, for only the third time in modern american history, congress voting on an impeachment inquiry of this president, president trump, whether they should impeach him. taking the process to the next level and landing this president deep in the next level crisis, really. all but guaranteeing that he will be impeached. the house voted 232-196 for rules to take the impeachment inquiry public giving the president's defenders exactly what they want. that's what they said they wanted. they said they wanted public hearings, yet every single republican along with two democrats from districts trump won in 2016, by the way, voting against the resolution today. just to

. >> i am joined by philip klein, executive editor with the washington examiner, here to talk about hisew book on millennials and what may be ahead both economically and more for that generation. but let's start with the news of the day, with the election, the vote yesterday in the u.s. house to proceed with the impeachment investigation. we read the interview that your the presidentwith late yesterday. what do you think republican strategy, house republicans in particular, their strategy from here will be? guest: i think it is pretty clear they will try to say, look, this is sort of a very partisan driven process. democrats have been out to get trump from day one, and they are going to use whatever they can to try to get at him. first, it was the russia collusion thing, then they moved on to ukraine. it is pretty obvious that is what they wanted to do, and some of our reporters visited with president trump in the white house and he was very defiant. he even talked about how he might want to have a fireside chat where he reads the transcript. it ishe vote yesterday, clear the battle lin

this is something that we have been trying to report at "the washington examiner." there's a difference between knowing something and being able to confirm it. with something like the whistle-blower, you have to be able to confirm it. i don't think the media is laying off this so much. when you look at the only story to have reported this name, there was no confirmation, there's a great story about this individual's career, but no actual recorded confirmation. it was just sort of reported as fact. i don't necessarily doubt that story was wrong. we're actually trying to confirm it. that's something that can be difficult to do, but that's what journalism is. >> "the washington examiner" has the name of the whistle-blower, they're just working to confirm it. >> we're working on the story is all i'll tell you. there's no shying away or covering up. like any media entity in wash, we want to report news, but we have to be able to confirm news. >> meanwhile, chris, nbc news has confirmed that lev parnas is prepared to work with impeachment investigators now, after previous

i wrote a couple of articles in the "washington examiner" that obama's declaration august 2012 for the use of the poison gas was the red line. is some of that excessive reporting that wass done through the new york times and it seems that was not a prepared statement. that they were having the rnc. and president obama clearly didn't expect the syrians to use poison gas which they did. then do we get in or get out? then we decided not to get in but we then had troops there. then-president trump announces on sunday night we are yanking 1000 troops that we have in the zone near the turkish border. that looks to be a little impulsive also. i find that basis they could criticize both the recent democratic and republican president on this issue. >> talking about the wall to say is making a very big difference even democrats in the area are happy. in the topic we are discussing this morning that republicans t succeeded with the nationalist populism in 2016 and may again in 2020. with balanced budgets constitutionally similar to the foreign policy and going forward whether build a wall if it w

>> a defiant president trump signaling he will not cooperate with the inquiry, telling the washington examiner, he wants to do a fireside chat on live television, where he will read the transcript of the call. adding, everybody knows i did nothing wrong. >> i think this is just more, you know, stunt, and showmanship from the president, at a time when i think he and my republican colleagues in congress need to get serious about what is at stake. >> the vote happening at the same time investigators were questioning tim morrison for more than eight hours behind closed doors. president trump's former top adviser on russia. telling lawmakers he was told trump wanted a top ukrainian official to publicly announce investigations that would stand to benefit the president politically. before he would unfreeze nearly $400 million in military aid. morrison corroborating key elements of ambassador bill taylor's testimony. morrison, who listened in on trump's july 25th phone call, said, i want to be clear, i was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed. still, he did have concern, such as a potenti

in an oval office interview with "the washington examiner," the president said, quote, this is over ane call that is a good call. at some point, i'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat, on live television and will read the transcript of the call because people need to hear it. not a single republican voted for the impeachment inquiry. the vote paves the way for a private process to go public in the coming weeks. while that was going on, a top national security council official that was on that call testified to impeachment investigators, told him to stay away from the shadow ukraine foreign policy being pursued by trump attorney rudy giuliani. the nsc official backed up damaging claims about the president. lauren fox reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: well, a huge day on capitol hill yesterday, as lawmakers, republicans and democrats, were on the record when it comes to where they stand on impeachment. the resolution they voted on sets out the rules for the next stage of the impeachment inquiry when these testimonies become public. also yesterday, tim morrison on capito

with that let's bring in our panel, the editor-in-chief of the washington examiner, pollster kristinon and dick clemens, editor at large for the hill. we have a terror attack in london, what certainly sounds like could be a copycat attack or another terror attack in the hague. your thoughts. >> so much we don't know yet but we know this person had been held before for terror related activities, had connections to islamic terror groups and that is disconcerting because we heard the president say isis is beaten, this is a reminder that that kind of terrorism is an idea, there is a vulnerability many societies have, we saw turkey release and allow to escape many isis prisoners that are going to back to european countries, hopefully not the united states. we can't look at this as they are probably not our problem. the issue of domestic terrorism will be out there for a long time. it is impressive to see the heroism of those british citizens who wrestled this person down and the actions they took which were extraordinary and i think britain, the uk -- i worry about the united states and i

we had a political summit, the washington examiner, at the island in georgia ten days ago.elly said there was a little more nuance. kelly said he believed his job was to be the nomad in the room, which people will tell you in a corporation, there is always someone in the room that puts the brakes on big ideas, and that he thought that was his job every day, to advise the president, this is why this thing won't work, or that thing won't work. and he even went on to say that he regretted leaving the white house because he thought that while he was there, he was able to keep the president away from an impeachment process and that he's concerned that there is not a nomad in the room. i didn't get the sense while on the panel with him or talking to him privately that there is animosity. he just thought that was his job, to do the best thing for the office of the presidency, and in his mind, that meant for the greater good of the country. >> so, then, julie, what about for nikki haley? do you see at operations being revealed here by way in which she presents her point of view of

. >> let's bring in breaking news reporter for the washington examiner a fascinating interview that -- rudy giuliani had this today earlier on fox, he says that he is not afraid of being indicted and that he did very good service for his client the president of the united states. what is your take on what rudy had to say? >> is to absolutely thank you for having me, i think first and foremost it is important to note, that the ongoing impeachment investigation is sort of twofold, the first has to do with president's july 25th phone call with ukrainian president zelensky, and as we know in that phone call, democrats al the president abused his power as president of the united states in order to capitalize personally when was calling for investigation into joe biden, hunter biden 2 company hunter biden worked in burisma. >> the second half of impeachment investigation has to do with rudy giuliani the president's he personal attorney in regards to his actions trying to obtain that investigation or trying to create that investigation. we've seen that rudy giuliani has gone to ukraine spent

jon: white house reporter for the "washington examiner." thank you.eachment increase the talk of washington other key issues need to be addressed by lawmakers including the border wall and trade. >> if all you're watching is cable news are certainly something that seems like it's all were doing. impeachment is a popular subject or they could squeeze out other issues and that's why house speaker nancy pelosi. the glee talks about anything but impeachment. >> we have a very great drumbeat for h.r. 3 legislation to bring down the cost. we have been working on the u.s.-mexico-canada trade agreement until the president we are not going away until we get the background checks bill passed. >> the speaker yielded to intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. she sat in the front row with reporters differing to schiff. >> i don't leave members on the democratic side of the house few impeachment inquiry is a type of risk that underlines them and their ability to get things done. the speaker is demonstrated that the house can conduct an inquiry at the same tim

joining us is deputy news editor for the washington examiner. >> good to be here. >> thanks for beingere. >> what do you make of the timing of the release of this second readout of a call between trump and zelensky? >> it's interesting that it came out right before that last hearing was set to begin with ambassador yovanovitch, if i'm saying that correctly there. it was meant to deflect attention from what was going on on capitol hill that day, but it didn't really shed any new light because it didn't really get to the heart of the matter which was president's efforts to lean on the ukraine president to dig up dirt on a political rival. so in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really change the narrative at all. >> well, i have to say it also seems somewhat perplexing to me in that you can very well have one incriminating phone call and have another -- >> totally fine. >> one doesn't exonerate you from the other. >> exactly. >> let's turn for a moment if we can to last friday's testimony of marie yovanovitch. how might president trump's tweets potentially work against him in the i

let's bring in our panel, the chief congressional correspondent of the washington examiner and white reporter for the associated press and democratic strategists leslie marshall. your thoughts on the president turning up in afghanistan today. >> critical moment clearly for the peace deal in afghanistan that is long eluded the united states. the president wants fewer troops, there are 13,000 troops, he wants to down to 18,000 but you can't do that if there is no peace deal and we haven't been able to achieve that. that was called off a couple months ago with the explosion that killed an american soldier, no more talks, now he is saying let's start again, let's start this up but it is still a real long road to get from just talking to american troops leaving and i think the president is becoming aware of the fact that if all the troops leave the terror threat will build again, potentially threatening the united states. seems to me from listening to him today he made a comment about total victory which i don't think anyone thinks is possible right now but he did talk about the idea that

political reporter for "the washington examiner" emily larsen. let's talk a little bit about ron johnson, senator johnson's assessment of the behind the scenes work by president trump's advisers to, quote, convince him to release the aid to ukraine. does this add to the quid pro quo argument? >> well, i think that depends on your perspective. it's certainly not a smoking gun. i think democrats could point to this and say, look, this could be some kind of convincing that the president needed in order to release the aid while republicans say, look, the president said that there was no quid pro quo. ron johnson said in the past, and he reiterated again in that interview, that trump had told him there was no quid pro quo, so while it certainly could be interpreted either way depending on your bias towards it, i guess, it's not a smoking gun, but it is something that i think both sides will point to to say, hey, look, this supports my side. it's really not a huge basis in fact or testimony that i think is going to bolster either side. >> let's turn to

chairwoman ronna mcdaniel told the "washington examiner" this. watch., we are seeing more and more voters shift to supporting the president and recognizing that this is a totally partisan endeavor by democrats." it's politically risky, stock. i know you would agree with that. >> [laughs] all impeachments are risky. nancy pelosi, for several months, tried to protect those democrats in those swing states, in trump jurisdictions. but the reality is this -- for every g.o.p. dollar and for every g.o.p. voter that comes over because they don't like the fact that the president may be removed from office, or the attempts to do so, the democrats are just as energize over this impeachment process and how bad this president is. >> harris: grew debbie on the program. i have so many more questions. scott bolden, i want to bring it back. thank you. house democrats are calling the dv impeachment inquiry vote a solemn one. however, at least one of them -- well, she thought she would dress this way. look, i know it was halloween. republicans, however, are not laughing.

also joining me now, byron new york, "washington examiner" geopolitical correspondent and fox news contributor very good to have you here this evening. i want to hear thoughts tomorrow but i want to ask you first about this report the john durham discussed with alexander downer as part of his investigation, and this was reported in the "washington examiner," whether or not he was part of some plot to take down president trump and always we've seen so far that so far he said no. what do you see in that report so far? >> it's a big deal for people who have been following this because as you know, a lot of republicans have asked about the origin of the whole trump russia investigation. it sounds like another era given we're talking about this impeachment at the moment but it's something that republicans still haven't found out about it in the whole series of events that led george papadopoulos to be the focus of the investigation and for that to be formally started on july 31st 2016 at the height of the presidential campaign, the role of foreign intelligence services like the australians and down

hugo editor and chief of "the washington examiner."soltis anderson and editor-at-large for the hill. so we have a terror attack in london and what certainly sounds like could be either a copycat attack or perhaps another terror attack in the hague. your thoughts, steve? >> there is so much that we don't know yet but what we have heard from the authorities there is that this person had been held before for terror-related activities. had connections to islamic terror groups. that's disconcerting because we have heard the president, the least say that isis beaten that we have rolled them back and they have done this. this is a reminder that that kind of terrorism is an idea. that it exists in people's minds that there is a vulnerability that many societies have in this case at the u.k. but we also saw turkey release and allow to escape many former isis prisoners going back to european countries. hopefully not to the united states but we can't look at this as their problem and not our problem. and so this issue of domestic terror is going

insist there was nothing wrong with this phone call with ukraine's president and told the "washington examiner" he may read it to the american people. he said perhaps i will sit down in a fireside chat on live television, and i will read the transcript of the call. he announced he's giving up his lifelong status as a new yorker to take up residence in florida. he tweeted despite the fact i pay millions in state, and local city taxes, i have been treated very badly. he will trade the 16% inheritance thanks for zero. the president ripped cuomo and bill deglassi d -- and bill deb. david: joining me, kimberley strassel, author of the new book, "how trump haters are breaking america." tim morrison was going to come out and spill the beans. he was actually on the call. he said there was nothing illegal that went on. a total disappointment for the left. so for all the bluster, have we heard of any high crimes and misdemeanors? >> i can't find any evidence, david. you would think given the democrats' strategic leaks and the way they have been leaking the opening statements from people who are clearly

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>> now, in the interview with the washington examiner, the president said quote, this is over a phone call that is a good call. at some point, i'm going to sit down perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and i will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. when you read it, it's a straight call. the white house also put out a statement following the house vote reading speaker pelosi and the democrats have done nothing more than enshrine unacceptable violations of due process into house rules. speaker pelosi, chairman schiff and the democrats conducted in secret, behind closed door meeting, and blocked them from participating and authorized a second round of hearings that fails to provide any due process whatsoever to the administration. the statement goes on to say that democrats want to rend area verdict without giving the administration a chance to mount a defense. that it's unfair, unconstitutional, and fundamentally unamerican. >>> one day after resigning from the national security council, tim morrison yesterday testified before house committee's le

chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner, reporter with the associated press andrategist leslie marshal. susan, your thoughts on the president turning up in afghanistan. >> a critical moment clearly for the peace deal in afghanistan, that's long eluded the united states. they want the troops down to about 8,000 but you can't do that if there is no peace deal and we haven't been able to achieve that that was called off a couple of months ago when there was the explosion in kabul. the president said forget it, no more talks. now he's saying again, let's start it up. it's still a long road to get from just talking to the american troops leaving. i think the president is becoming aware of the fact that if all the troops leave, the terror threat there will build again potentially threatening the united states. it seems to me from listening to him today he did make this comment about total victory which i don't think anyone really thinks it's possible right now but he did talk about the idea of, you know, if we get a deal, fine, if we don't, that's fine. if we don't, th

byron york. >> thank you. >> martha: washington examiner. always good to see you. >> thanks. >> martha: also here, mr. davis hanson from the hoover institution. great to have you back as well. thank you for being here this evening. one of the things that nancy pelosi says pretty much every time she speaks about this issue is she quotes benjamin franklin as he came out of constitution hall and she talks about the beginnings of the constitution of our country and that the people requested what kind of government do we have. is it a monarchy or a republic. he says it's a republic if we can keep it. and i would like to ask you, you know, sort of both sides i think have different perspectives about what we're watching unfold here and whether or not the republic and the democracy and the electoral process in all of that is at stake here in different ways for different sides of this whole big issue. >> yeah, i think what we have to do is look at past protocol and traditions. we've had in my lifetime two impeachment proceedings. one that did not imp

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to his battle against impeachment, he may go from live tweeting to live reading telling the washington examiner at some point i'll sit down perhaps as a fire side chat on television and i will read the call. because people have to hear it. when you read it, it is a straight call. despite the inquiry. democrats say the latest official to testify tim morrison said he was dangling for dollars -- >> you're saying he corroborated the charge there was a quid pro quo? >> yes. and in my mind that is an abuse of power. >> reporter: stephanie grisham who is refusing to hold briefings with reporters told fox news, the counter impeachment stretch is largely set with the president calling the shots. >> he is the war room.ncbetween and nixon which is what people constantly compare us to is pre wrong. so at this time he feels confident with the people that he has in place. we don't feel the need for a war room and we'll see what happens. >> reporter: the latest polls show the public is deeply divided. republicans are staying loyal to the president. to the consternation of house speaker nancy pelosi. >> we too

. >> joining us now from washington political reporter for the washington examiner emily larsen. gnk good morning to you. thanks for joining us on this. let's stick with this for a moment with spencer an esper here. how might president trump's order for the u.s. navy to keep the status of embattled navy seal eddie gallagher, how might it denigrate the military's rank of command going forward? >> this has certainly already become a campaign issue for trump's 2020 re-election bid. with democratic rival pete buttigieg speaking out against this last night, saying that president trump doesn't understand military service, and honor and process, and people buttigieg of course, is himself an afternoon veteran, and so those words might have a little bit more weight coming from him. but the reaction i've seen in reporting from, reactions from navy seals, has been a bit mixed, and i think mostly they're very much just wanting all of this increased attention to kind of go away. they find it distracting and they kind of just want to get back to their jobs. but there are certainly people who a

the president telling the washington examiner, conservative paper, in an 80-minute interview that nixon and clinton, his most recent president e predecessors who have faced impeachment were guilty and he is not and that is part of why he views this differently. one of his ideas from the branding side of president trump's portfolio is thinking about t-shirts that say read the transcript, encouraging people to look at the ukraine call more carefully. even floating the idea, taking it from a democrat, fireside chats going back to fdr where he would address the nation and read the transcript, again, trying to argue that what he said in his phone call with president zelensky is not something that should subject him to what he calls an ugly word, impeachment. he also found positives in the testimony of tim morrison who, of course, democrats also say did support some of the important testimony about a this for that quid pro quo. but, the president is seizing on the fact that morrison said when he listened to the call he was one of the many people on that call, that he found nothing illegal in

meanwhile, president trump said in an interview with the "washington examiner" that he's considering reading the summary transcript of his phone call with the president of ukraine to the american people. his version of a fireside chat but on live television. >> the yeas are 232 -- >> reporter: all but two house democrats voted for a rules package guiding the next steps in the impeachment inquiry. the investigation's hearings will go public possibly weeks of closed door depositions led by t i thihey will see facts about the president abusing the power of his office. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers accuse president trump of asking ukraine's president to investigate the biden family in exchange for military aid during a july phone call. the president has said many times the call was perfect. in a british radio interview yesterday, he bragged about his strong republican support. >> i didn't have one negative republican vote. which is very unusual -- >> yes, but you've been through -- >> not one negative republican vote. >> reporter: on "the latnay pele why considering that for weeks th

>>a defiant president trump signaling he will not cooperate with the inquiry telling the washington examiner, he wants to do a fireside chat on live television where he will read the transcript of the call adding everybody knows i did nothing wrong. i thin- this is just more. stunt. >>and showmanship from the president at a time that i think he him my republican colleagues in congress need to get serious about what's at stake. >>the vote happening at the same time investigators were questioning 2 more sun for more than 8 hours behind closed doors. president trump's former top adviser on russia, telling lawmakers he was told trump wanted a top ukrainian official to publicly announce investigations that would stand to benefit the president politically before he would unfreeze nearly million in military aid. more sun corroborating key elements of the ambassador bill taylor's testimony. more sun who listened in on trump's july 25th phone call said. i want to be clear. i was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed. still he did have concerns such as a potential leak and how it would pla

david drucker's a senior political correspondent for "the washington examiner." he's got new reporting on what that strategy is going to look like. david, thank you for being with us. tell me what the options were to start with and what that strategy could look like. >> well, look, i think we have to understand what's possible technically but what's actually possible politically, right? so, technically, if senate republicans can cobble together 51 votes, they can do almost anything with a senate impeachment trial, as long as they at least call it to order. that would include moving for an early dismissal without much of a trial at all. there are not going to be 51 votes for that, and what the white house was telling some key republicans yesterday from the senate is that they're okay with that, and at the very least, the signal was the president's not going to hammer them over the head for a quick dismissal, that they, in fact, see some benefits to holding a trial where they can lay out some of the facts and have senate republicans who control the chamber help the

. >>> the "washington examiner" says the supreme court set a date to take up a controversial abortion. the high court will hear oral arguments about a louisiana abortion restriction on march 4th. it will re-examine a 2016 supreme court ruling that overturned a texas law requiring doctors providing abortions to have admitting privileges to local hospitals.dee ng, loui passed a similar restriction that was upheld by an appeals court. that means the supreme court will hear the case again, but this time with two new justices nominated by president trump. >>> and "people" says singing legend tina turner celebrated her 80th birthday by posting a video message to her fans on social media. >> i look great. i feel good. i've gone through some very serious sicknesses that i'm overcoming. so it's like having a second chance at life. i'm happy to be an 80-year-old woman. >> love to hear that. in her recent memoir, tina turner revealed that she suffer aid stroke in 2013. she was also diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and received a kidney transplant from her husband the following year. earl

national security, and david truck -- druecker is a senior political correspondent at "the washington examiner." let's start with impeachment. the president has been tweeting quite a lot in the past 36 hours or so about the whistleblower today. right before our panel he said that the whistleblower should be revealed. nancy, what is the strategy here? >> well, the strategy is for republicans to try to focus on this whistleblower, because they believe that there's evidence that he had a political bias, so focusing on him creates the appearance that the entire investigation is somehow tainted, but it's kind of a red herring, because all of these witnesses who have come in and given depositions have essentially backed up what it is that he said initially and given far more detail. so the whistleblower, democrats argue, is kind of irrelevant at this point. everything that he has said for the most part has been checked out, and they say they have got witnesses who are much closer to the action that they're going to rely on, not just in these depositions but in the public hearings to come. >> brennan

insist there was nothing wrong with this phone call with ukraine's president and told the "washington examiner" he may read it to the american people. he said perhaps i will sit down in a fireside chat on live television, and i will read the transcript of the call. he announced he's giving up his lifelong status as a new yorker to take up residence in florida. he tweeted despite the fact i pay millions in state, and local city taxes, i have been treated very badly. he will trade the 16% inheritance thanks for zero. the president ripped cuomo and bill deglassi d -- and bill deb. david: joining me, kimberley strassel, author of the new book, "how trump haters are breaking america." tim morrison was going to come out and spill the beans. he was actually on the call. he said there was nothing illegal that went on. a total disappointment for the left. so for all the bluster, have we heard of any high crimes and misdemeanors? >> i can't find any evidence, david. you would think given the democrats' strategic leaks and the way they have been leaking the opening statements from people who are clearly

join us is the white house correspondent for the washington examiner. what do we expect this week with the house in recess and the president in new york today. he has a campaign event tomorrow in kentucky. as you say, he is up in new york. everything he is doing now, he is gearing up for campaign events. there was supposed to be a criminal justice that. -- event. it was complete with his campaign music. everything is about the fight ahead. host: let me share with you what oncy pelosi said yesterday saturday evening. it's a letter in which she outlines the agenda moving ahead. she double down on the impeachment inquiry. .he said the facts are clear with richard this nixon in 1972 with the break-in of the dnc headquarters. saidobservers have president sins offenses pale in comparison to what president trump has done. can you elaborate on what the white house is responding? one of the things he said about the three previous president to faced impeachment, he said he had done nothing. shifty clear in trying to that. they are going after the process. say the

host: philip klein is our guest, the executive editor of "the washington examiner," here to talk about politics, but mainly here to talk about his new book, "fear the future: how it is stacked against millennials and why socialism would make it worse. " why did you write the book? guest: this is something that i wanted to write for a long time. i think millenials as a generation -- and we are talking about basically people born in the early 1980's to the mid to late 1990's, something like 1981 to 1997. basically, i feel like they often get a raw deal. they have gotten a raw deal because they often get mocked for being whiny or complaining or profligate or eating avocado toast and so forth, and a lot of their economics concerns do not -- they have been sneered at. but when i looked at it, i found that they are basically facing two sets of challenges. one is the unprecedented federal debt. and the other is the economic challenges when it comes to personal finances. massive increases in the costs of college education, housing, health care, child care, that has made it difficult for them t

the president did an interview with the washington examiner where he blasted the vote, suggested he mightanscript of the ukraine colony live televised fireside chat. expect him to be in mississippi today, rallying mississippians ahead of the tough governors race. if we have to watch depositions, half a dozen more witnesses being since to the hill including john bolton whose attorney says he will not voluntarily appear. heather: thank you. house republicans optimistic about the testimony of the key white house advisor tim morrison, european affairs for the national security council. met with lawmakers on capitol hill. mike meadows going so far as to say morrison's closed-door testimony should bring the impeachment inquiry to a screeching halt. jim jordan optimistic. >> i wish we could get into it. see what he had to say. heather: fox news confirmed morrison said he was not concerned about anything illegal being discussed in the ukraine call. as the impeachment resolution moves forward, jason chaffetz claims democrat pushing the inquiry to distract americans and take the focus off the fisa

this as president trump tells the "washington examiner" this over a phone call that's a good call. will sit down for a fireside chat and read the transcript. when you right, it's a straight call. lauren blanchard just reported on this last night. liz cheney from wyoming wrote a letter to the speaker asking for the release of transcripts of depositions that have already taken place behind closed doors. do you think speaker pelosi will comply? if she doesn't, will this diminish the potency and relevancy of the upcoming hearings? >> we heard from house chairman adam schiff that those transcripts could be released as early as next week. i don't know if speaker pelosi will be responding to liz cheney. but they set out to say they would be releasing these transcripts. arthel: the plans in the works is what you are saying. >> yes. arthel: they plan to call back some of the people who test fired in the closed door sessions to testify in the public hearings. do you have think that will quell the arguments that the democrats have been holding hearings in secret? >> i think one of the main co

in history, texas university professor gene allen smith teaches a class about george washington's character. he examines how washington interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how we remember him today. professor smith: today, what we are planning to do is spend a little time talking about george washington and the character he developed over a lifetime. if you think about what we have done for the duration of this course, we brought him into the throughout,ittently whether it is talking about individual bibles or how he organized men or how he recruited men to get them to stay in the service. one of the things i tried to get

whistleblower's are wells and adam schiff's staff have ground to a halt, mark said telling the washington examiner we remain committed to talking with any oaf sight committees as long as it protects and ensures the anonymity of our clients. gregg, is it schiff pushing for the whistleblower not to testify? who says the whistleblower -- i don't necessarily believe it's a whistleblower -- deserves anonymity. that's not what the statute requires. >> anyone can look up the statute. it's easy to understand. the whistleblower is not a whistleblower under the law. you have to have intelligence activity and a member of the intelligence committee and trump isn't and that was a diplomatic conversation not intel discussion. he doesn't qualify for protection under the whistleblower statute but he's being hidden because he would reveal the conversations between himself and schiff and the staff which schiff lied about. >> laura: mercedes, the president tonight said this impeachment march is an attack on democracy itself. i think that's the way to frame this. they're trying to take your vote away next year. they'

addition to that, the president also seems to be taking matters into his own hands, telling the "washington examinerast night that he might consider reading that transcript live on television. he believes it will help the american people see that he did nothing wrong. airds have not provided any detaid details as a serious thing that president trump is willing to take on. in terms of beefing up the strategy here, are they going to add staffers to the legal team? the president said last night he doesn't believe they need anyone because he believes the staffers here are good. ly many. she said she believes the president is going to serve as his own war room. the president said he actually doesn't need a separate team to fight impeachment because he has his whole department behind him. sara glasser is a writer for the new yorker and we have tara sut mire. 47% support impeachment and removal, 47% do not, but look at independents. 47% support impeachment and removal, 59% do not. if there's numbers that the president is courting, what happens here? >> we're going into a phase now where the american people