the more of that in washington times this morning. carolyn, california, hello. caller: hi. host: go ahead. caller: i am pessimistic about the future of our country. our president has a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with the american people. personal gain. as far as democrats, you don't have anyone who will beat donald trump in the next election. nobody is talking about what they are going to do to fix the situation or anything else, ok? they are talking about trump. whatever. ok. the point then is like, [indiscernible] -- i read somewhere that guatemala, like $200 million per year from our government -- [indiscernible] [indiscernible] they are coming here. ok. host: what should the democratic candidates be talking about? caller: what they will do to fix the situation. the people coming from any country -- [indiscernible] becauseare coming here of corruption. fromcan use that money them to take care of them, the housing, clothing, whatever. --t: sherry, fort smith portsmouth, virginia. caller: good morning. folks --ed by the there is a game called twister that was pop

it made the washington post look better than it was at that time. host: i don't see that as censorship, you may have read it from another newspaper. don't tell you people what's being said. scully corrects people all the time, but when you tell people that donald trump is a raft dodger because he had bones spurs, you don't tell them that joe biden was also a draft "childhooduse of asthma. these are different little facts that aren't being told and are just being shown the bias over and over again. again, i'm going to argue against that. i guess you can hold to that, you're citing examples that i don't understand how they connect. david, connecticut, hello. good morning, happy new year to you. host: thank you. you are on. go ahead. caller: as long as you have trump in office, it's a big mistake. everything's a big mistake. host: specifically why? he won't release the tax returns. he's a con artist. that's a given. what kind of guy is he? host: i'm curious, why are the tax returns important. caller: be like every other president and keep it real. that

two paragraphs in the washington times, when president obama ordered the u.s. to provide air cover as part of the international operation that acid -- ousted qaddafi, republicans attempted to block him but failed, the later deployment to syria as an escalation to the war on terrorism drew more complaints but no resolution. mr. trump faced an attempt to limit his commitment of u.s. assistance to the saudi backed war effort in yemen. a war powers resolution restraining the president actually passed both chambers of congress for the first time ever , but mr. trump vetoed it and it was easily sustained, leaving him a free hand to it aid to the saudi effort. tost: there has been efforts implement and try to restrain the president through the war powers resolution. oftentimes, the presidents have not allowed the constitutionality of the war powers and often say like the libya example, the obama administration said those circumstances don't apply. but lawmakers can say it applies and that's what you see in these episodes. one thing to keep in mind, when the law was wr

this is the washington times headline about the president's claim. trump falsely claims he saved part of obamacare. guest: every time the president talks about health care, the first thing he says is he will always protect pre-existing conditions. i believe him that he will. as a member of the legislative body, the signal the president is sending to me is that he will not sign anything we send him that does not protect pre-existing conditions. host: what about the lawsuit underway? explain what the lawsuit is and where it is because people point to that -- democrats point to that and say republicans want to do away with health care and pre-existing conditions, they support this lawsuit. guest: it is not the president's lawsuit, it is brought by state attorneys general and it is to answer a fundamental legal question. in 2012 -- was.aw could stay as it justice roberts went a little further. do not look to the courts to do things you should be doing legislatively. is last thing i want to do predict what the supreme court will do, but the same five justi

that gave washington time to escape from manhattan and to fight another day. fast-forward to washington's this section of pennsylvania around the 22nd of december. glover marches into this area and he camps up the hill near where washington's headquarters were. and washington calls him to his headquarters and tells him what he wants to do, cross 800 feet of a rocky, ice strewn river under the cover of darkness. and by the, way the barometer is and by the way, the barometer is falling and we could be looking at some weather, and glover goes to washington and says, your excellency, it is impossible. washington says to glover, colonel glover, i did not ask you to assess possibilities, i asked you if you could do it. colonel glover thinks for a second and says, general washington my marbleheaders can , do it. the legend is not written anywhere, but legend tells us that is when washington made the final decision to go ahead with this bold stroke, which truly did save the american revolution. you can point to maybe a dozen events that truly changed the course of wor

thee days later writes "washington times" parts of the nu script were leaked to the "new york times."r. bolton submitted the manuscript on december 30th as required for a prepublication review. lines on the independent -- ken is on the independent line. caller: i'm calling regarding the impeachment. i was disappointed with the republicans. i have been watching pretty i watched when the house interviewed and asked questions. adam schiff had a lot of witnesses. the republicans could not even have one. adam schiff said don't answer that. now he wants witnesses? tim is next on the democrats line in florida. caller: good morning. is to say i'm calling the main question to me seems to a king or have democratic democracy? authord to have a great to lead a panel discussion on this issues. he wrote a book "american fundamentalism." , john mcardle mentioned that first question coming from senators murkowski, collins, ann romney -- and romney. >> all elected officials to some how theire in mind conduct, how their decisions will affect the next election. there is always some personal interest in

reporting that from washington times public and joe johns who i'm going to marco has welcomed iran's admission that it was indeed responsible for the downing of that plane had comments came off to a meeting with russian president that he needed putin in moscow on saturday and the crash was just one all the many items on their agenda. bungle americal on her way to a quick meeting with vladimir putin the list of international crises as long you run syria ukraine libya germany wants to mediate proposing a peace conference in berlin to end the civil war in libya. it's about non interference about sovereignty and that's why the parties currently engaged in a military confrontation in libya re presented by mysticism raj and mr have to should naturally be tightly involved to to influence the. different groups have been fighting for power in libya since 2011 russia supports general khalifa haftar are against the un recognized government in tripoli but putin says he will encourage the german initiative. this conflict not only undermine stability in the region it also has negative effects on e

you can read more up to the washington times.ome reaction from legislators, including steve scully's -- sc alise. pelosi still making excuses for not sending to the senate. democrats know their case will be exposed and they are trying to avoid a national embarrassment. mark meadows saying we have reached the point where democrats are calling on pelosi to transmit the impeachment articles and minutes later say never mind. they cannot even decide what to do with their own articles, you cannot make that up. marsha blackburn saying democrats are right to be concerned about the delay sending articles to the senate. it obstructs the duty to hold the trial and proves impeachment is a sham. democrats also giving thought this morning. tom saying we need a fair impeachment trial which calls for witnesses and brings forth documents to get the truth. nothing more than a cover-up. that followed up this morning cohen.twitter by steve so far, she is doing pretty good. senators need to hear the truth and the facts need impartial jurors and that

well, it sounds like the swamp won't ever be as expensive or as dismal as it was during washington's time not the point, is it? no, we are never going to restore the swamp to what it was. what we're trying to do, with managing the swamp is to bring back some of those past characteristics that are beneficial to promote resiliency going into the future. if you're planning a trip to virginia in the near future, here are some things we think you should look out for: where most people start is the state capital of richmond. 0ur tip is to head to the new neighbourhood of scott's addition, an old industrial zone that has been regenerated. in particular, it has become a focus for the city's huge craft beer scene. download a walking tour and enjoy a day of brewery hopping. there's more than 30 to choose from so just make sure to take it easy. for the great outdoors, head for the blue ridge mountains and in particular shenandoah national park. there are 500 miles of trails to explore and five campsites to stay on. wild camping in the back country is also possible but check out shenandoah‘s website

jackie's work has been on the today show, nuke times magazine come yesterday and the "washington times." she's appeared at abc "good morning america", cnn campbell brown, the 700 club, ox news channel, "fox and friends", sean hannity show, the strategy group and the list goes on and on and on. not least of which this past week where she's been doing numerous interviews for her book where you might have caught her on tucker carlson. any tucker carlson fans? [applause] jackie's nonprofit activities include serving on the georgia advisory counsel for the trusted publicly. she serves on the advisory board of genesis a new life. she's not a chairman of the board of learning makes a difference foundation. she works with american solutions back a company dedicated to issues in american politics. she lived in atlanta with her husband and their children. let's give a warm welcome to jackie gingrich cushman. [applause] >> okay. well, thank you, and i'm thrilled to be here today. i'm going to step back a little bit and kind of give you what i wrote this book. i started this book "our broken ameri

nice stop it sounds like the swamp will never be as expensive or as dismal as during washington's time, we want to restore the swamp to what it was but what we're trying to do is bring back some of those past characteristics that are beneficial to promote resiliency going into the future. if you are planning a trip to virginia in the nearfuture, here are some things you should look out for... when most people start is the state capital of richmond. 0ur tip is to head to scots addition, an old industrial zone that has been regenerated. in particular it has become a focus of the huge craft beer scene. enjoy a day of brewery hopping. more than 30 to choose from so hopping. more than 30 to choose from so make sure to take it easy. from the great outdoors, head for the blue ridge mountains and in particular shenandoah national park. 500 miles to explore and five campsites to stay on. check out the websites for some rules and restrictions first. this part of the world is also nascar central. good stockcar races in richmond but the bigger one isjust over stockcar races in richmond but the big

international waters to ensure as lieutenant commander chris o'neil a coast guard spokesperson told the washington times that no one tried to enter the united states illegally by sea so here they are in a disaster and the like don't try to come to america we're here to stop that meanwhile the department of defense flew one of its cargo planes over haiti 5 days after the quake broadcasting allowed pre recorded announcement in creole if you think you'll reach the u.s. and all the doors will be open to you that's not at all the case they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from so this is the message for people where 220000 people had been killed millions made homeless their homes everything a disaster and were flying over them telling them using the money from international aid to tell them to stay there and don't. i had to escape all the add insult to injury they let shawn tell him. to run operations if you recall so he was the point guy for the soul. it was actually mostly hillary clinton and the clinton foundation and all the stuff. sean penn went on and on his o

washington times opening editor charlie on the politics swap and institute gordon chang on china. kong and of course taiwan and into important election. award-winning journalist solomon on spy gate on all that is learned and investigated. we could pray over all those souls in the deep state. that's tonight at the top of the hour. >> i always learn something. thank you. we'll see you at the top. so the holdup, nancy pelosi has finally said she will send the articles of impeachment against trump to the senate next week. it's highly unlikely the that two thirds of the gop -controlled senate will vote to convict and remove resident trump from office. the senate report and said they are supporting impeaching president trump. his all for show? is a waste of americans time? fox news contributor bill. happy friday. finally, it looks like speaker pelosi is sending the articles of impeachment but only after mitch mcconnell. >> only after waiting through the christmas holiday. it was supposed to be so important. i think the pressures mcconnell had all the cars. he didn't really want impeachm

impeachment of proceedings will go ahead they're going to start later today in washington 1 pm washington time that's even in time here in europe there are going to be $100.00 senators who will be going into the chamber they have to hand over their mobile phones they could vote to kick the media out and it's going to be a very long process is going to be 4 days of 12 hours of opening statements followed by 16 more hours of debate and 4 hours and they could even extend it so that we're in for a long run here what's interesting though is that the accused himself mr donald j. trump doesn't have to appear and in fact economists here we know that he's in what is in switzerland today he's going to be back in washington tomorrow but there's no indication that he's going to show up for his own trial. expecting any surprises in this trial a would it be over fairly predictable there are a few surprises that could occur and most of them come down to witnesses the democrats want to call for key people to appear and give evidence they include the john bolton the former national security advisor the secreta

--t: washington at the time george washington was probably the most famous living american at the time, he and ben franklin. was she ever? in any danger during the revolution you would think -- what she ever in any danger during the revolution? you would think the british might collect his mother. guest: they didn't engage in things like that. i'm not sure how well known that she was not a supporter of the revolution. obviously he knew, but he was preoccupied with this ragtag -- britishg to victory after british victory, and that is washington's genius, he kept the army together going from battle to battle. losing many and winning a few, but winning a few important ones. guest: was there contact -- host: was there contact between then general washington and his mother during the revolution? guest: no. he wrote many letters to martha and she wrote many letters to him, but virtually no communication between george and mary during the seven years of the american revolution. host: why do you think that was? is it simply because he was too busy? guest: i don't think there was anything -- ho

aides are getting together some sort of speech or announcement that could come out this evening washington time from the president of course as soon as we hear any more on that will bring that to you your good work deborah you start across developments then of course we'll come back to you as you get more information to hand if anyone was in any doubt about the significance of custom so the money will of course he was one of the most personal confidence of the supreme leader of iran of the let's learn more about him and the official response from iran from al-jazeera stores to bari who joins us now live from tehran are we hearing anything at all officially out of iran at this point also. yes we have heard from the former head of the revolutionary guard wilson reza he has tweeted that the money is death will eventually and also we've heard from the supreme national security council in the country that they we need to later on today to the scots what to do next in their reaction to the response that they will have to the assassination of a possum salomone now this body is a very important body it

given that he has managed to go to sleep since the attack which happened sort of early evening washington time he has information that not many if any american soldiers has been killed in this attack it could be linked to the leaked memo from yesterday about the americans withdrawing from bases in iraq but having said so i think history for example on targeting cultural sites in iran what was very concerning and that kind of attitude brings in a really deep rooted hatred of the culture in the region and somehow build this impression that the whole region has been taken through a genocide cultural genocide over the last few years which plays into the hands of certain elements including israeli prime minister netanyahu and his position really he's trying to make sure that he gains as much as possible out of the you mention the israelis the whole time so let's talk about the other regional players the saudis immoralities the israelis you just mentioned them the iranians have threatened to hit dubai and also haifa should there be a broader escalation but surely those countries don't want to get ca

process is that are taking place right now the proceedings the proceedings will kick off at 1 pm washington time which is evening in europe and 1st of all the 100 senators are going to file in they don't have to hand over their mobile phones they're not going to be allowed to make any noise in the chamber and they may vote to exclude the media so what's going to happen next 4 days of opening arguments running for 12 hours each day following that another 16 hours of questioning and 4 more hours of debate now that might sound like a long time but the trial of bill clinton it lasted for over a month and a half so this one is actually quite short now also interestingly enough is that the accused donald j. trump doesn't have to be in the room in fact he's in davos as we know so he won't be there for the opening and it's very unlikely he's going to attend any of the other days of the hearing as well a stark contrast of course with bill clinton who had to be there and we all watched him testify right we saw a very different type of trial for bill clinton now there do we expect any surprises because you

tell us more about how the impeachment hearings we proceed today is going to kick off at 1 pm washington time which is in the evening in europe $100.00 senators are going to file into the chamber they have to hand over their mobile phones they may elect to kick the media out now also they're going to be if that's going to be followed by 4 days of opening arguments which competes last 12 hours each then there are going to be another couple of days of questionings and debates so that might seem like a really long time but what you have to remember is that bill clinton's impeachment trial lasted for over a month and a half so this one could be comparatively short interestingly the accused himself mr donald j. trump doesn't have to appear and he can't appear today because he's in davos he may be back in washington tomorrow but nobody's expecting him to show up he's being represented by lawyers and until any surprises expected in this trial is it going to be fairly predictable the surprises may come from the witnesses the democrats want to call a specific list of people to give testimony they incl

washington. so by the time i got to washington and my father came and picked me up at the airport it was all over. i have since been able to hear the oral arguments and they're quite interesting, if anyone in the audience would be interested to hear those arguments, they are available online. >> and they're available on the c-span webite as we carry oral arguments in the archival arguments at c-span.org. you can also go to landmark cases for our 90-minute program on this case. greg from holy oak, massachusetts. thank you for waiting. good morning. >> good morning. i'd like to ask mr. tinker what his views are on kids not being able to wear their maga hats and shirts to school? >> thank you. >> my personal belief is that we should permit all forms of the schools, especially ones that have political components. there was a case in california where students have wanted to wear american flag shirts to school on cinco de mayo, which was a mexican holiday. my sister and i, mary beth and i did write an amicus brief on behalf of those students that wanted to wear the american flag. i would support the we

base in anbar province and so far we've heard from president trump on this is a tweet yesterday washington time just after the attacks in iraq saying that all is well so we have president trump entering the room along with some of his. senior. cabinet ministers the vice president and secretary of state filing into the room we await the president trump who is about to appear at any moment. he does like to keep people waiting in the name. it's just remind you that iran's strikes. overnight. middle east time were in retaliation for the killing of iran's top military commander general sum of money in a u.s. airstrike last friday so the money was buried in his hometown come on just hours off of those strikes by iran wednesday and. a real sense of fear to hear president trump entering the room let's listen in. as long as i'm president of the united states iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon good morning i'm pleased to inform you the american people. should be extremely grateful and happy no americans were harmed in last night's attack by the iranian regime. we suffered no casualties a

yeah president donald trump did tweet about 10 pm local time in washington on tuesday evening this was a tweet was the only official statement that we have heard from donald trump or any of his cabinet members for that matter on the strikes tuesday evening the tweet was very very simple and it was simply said all is well part of it also said so far so good 'd and he said that the u.s. is still assessing the damage that was done at the bases and that was it after that they literally shut off the lights in the white house and we haven't heard from anyone since then although we expect that to change soon it's a little after 5 am here local time in washington and as people start to wake up here we are told that donald trump will be making a statement on wednesday morning so we can expect that probably in the next couple hours or so. donald trump is really in some ways the ball is in his court now he's a little bit backed into a corner because he said previously that if iran struck at any u.s. interests the u.s. would strike back at iran well now we don't know that iran has struck us intere

next and how do we know that from his twitter feed it was just a little after midnight here in washington time that trump set out even more threats towards iran this just came out in the last hour or 2 it said and i were a report of it says the united states just spent 2 trillion dollars on military equipment we are the biggest and by far the best in the world if you run a tax an american base or any american we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way and without hesitation again that a tweet from the president a little after midnight and he's really drawing quite frankly dangerous red line there basically escalating the situation even more so basically in that tweet guaranteeing that he will call he will retaliate against iran should iran strike any u.s. interests here this is a little bit surprising because we've been hearing all day on saturday from administration officials who are saying they were trying to deescalate the situation including secretary of state might pump ale who said that was the main priority was to deescalate meanwhile you have these series o

this came to my attention because the story wrote in the washington times, you talk about the fact thathael atkinson who is the ig for the intel community had a conversation on the hill at some point. from your report, representative adam schiff and other impeachment managers talk about 17 witnesses interviewed during the deposition but don't mention the eighteenth, michael atkinson. what did you find out about why it hasn't been released and what it may contain? >> i interviewed congressman john radcliffe and he told me the house managers keep referring to witnesses but there were 18. the actual interview behind closed doors was in early october after the impeachment inquiry had been launched and it was conducted in the same manner as the other senate team that was released and included in-house record for this trial. this one is classified and i can't learn the contents of all of it but i was told it would go to the credibility of the whistleblower and undermine adam schiff's case so it is something that if you are a lawyer and looking at representing the president you might want to g

washington... seven o'clock at night. it is still prime time, so they could still try to do it.d trump, he wants to have people watching. let us go to the border between northern ireland and the republic. it is one that now separates the uk from the eu. the source of so much tension between the brexit negotiations. nationalist communities never wanted to leave the block while unionists objected to boris johnson's deal. the block while unionists objected to borisjohnson's deal. emma vardy has been there for us this evening. emma, you are the person who can walk from the uk into the european union across the border? yes. just a few steps over the bridge behind me. it is invisible in other parts of the border it isjust a bump in the tarmac. for something so we knock in a —— innocuous it has caused a row over the past three and a half years. that is what the border symbolises, keeping it visible and open has been part of the peace process in northern ireland. a cornerstone of process in northern ireland. a cornerstone of an process in northern ireland. a cornerstone of an agreement

criminal defense attorney bob bianchi, washington times of affairs reporter at attorney alex swoyer.e interesting cases tonight. exhibit a, this is for you, alex, defendant excludes the death and hard of hearing, this porn service from the full and equal participation on their websites, and thereby ended conjunction with the physical location, in violation of plaintiff's rights under the ada, the americans with disabilities act, they say there aren't closed captioning on all of the videos. alex? >> of the ada was passed in '91d toward physical spaces, and that offers goods and services. courts have been really split about how to apply that now to the virtual space. the supreme court has recently as last year decided not to take a case on this. the doj has given guidance that government websites do need to be ada compliant, but for the rest, it's kind of bend, you know, different. h&r block was one the doj got involved with and said there is a service offered, so they do need to meet some of the guidelines. i would argue that pornhub does not have a good or service, more entertainment

it's unclear exactly when they arrived but they said that it was yesterday which means thursday washington time roughly it's unclear if these paratroopers are the 750 that the pentagon announced a couple days ago or a day ago i should say they were being deployed to the region immediately or if this is a new troop deployment but clearly we do know that the 82nd airborne one of the strongest armies fighting forces is definitely on standby for deployment if they haven't deployed already sometimes these deployments happen very secretly in the middle of the night we simply don't know yet we expect to hear more from the pentagon later on friday once washington wakes up again here in the morning hours in washington listen to there with the very latest of that reaction from washington d.c. gabe thank you. well we're hearing from local media and israel the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has cut short his trip to greece to deal with the potential political fallout of all in mon khan joins us now from west jerusalem so he's cut his trip short him bron. what are they going to be thinking that might hap

washington d.c. and for the 1st time since the march began almost 50 years ago the u.s. president has attended our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. down . breaking with tradition again together we boast protect cherish and defend the dignity of the sanctity of every human life donald trump descended of washington's national mall to personally address an anti-abortion rally making him the 1st sitting u.s. president to do so again affirming his support for their cause unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the white house were doing. the march started in response to the landmark 973 supreme court ruling legalizing abortion a divisive issue in the united states troops 2016 promised to appoint supreme court judges who might overturn that ruling help them win the white house with the help of these supporters for many the issue is personal but the unborn do not have a voice and we are their voices we are their voices their be killed by the meeting but the president also has many of these people who consider themselves even jellicoe voters to s

david gibbs, and "washington times" legal affairs reporter and attorney, good to have both of you. this lawsuit is in new york. for the guys in dubai. so he had bought this super rare $60,000, that's the price he negotiated on the pokemon card. the seller from iowa shipped it from the u.s. postal service. had $50,000 insurance on it. it got to the company in queens, new york transporting it from dubai. that's we where we have it. exhibit a, despite the tireless and exhaustive good faith efforts in the last few months to resolve the dispute amicably, he's been confronted with multiple different layers of bureaucracy with the apparent intent to frustrate him and get him to drop the claim, david. >> first of all, that's not entirely true. but you have somebody shipping a $60,000 item and we're like throwing it in the mail. air max has insurance up to $10,000. he's being unreasonable in his demands. he wants emotional damages because he didn't get his pokemon card. >> shannon: $60,000? >> if you're going to buy something for $60,000, isn't there more obligation to be careful how you ge

. >> the caller and the washington times today brings up some of the history here inventory interaction between congress and the limiting more powers. when president obama ordered the u.s. to provide air cover as part of the international operation, republicans in the house attempted to block him but failed. mr. obama's later deployment to syria drew more complaints but no resolution. mr. trump last year, u.s. assistance to saudi backed war effort in yemen, a war power resolution restraining the president actually passed both chambers of congress for the first time ever but mr. trump vetoed it and that left him a free hand to aid the saudi effort. >> there have been efforts for congress by congress, separate chambers, to implement and try to restrain the power via the war powers resolution. often times the presidents haven't utilized that. the obama administration said it doesn't apply. but lawmakers can say it applies and that's what you see in these episodes. one thing to keep in mind, when the law was written in the 19 -- in 1973, there was no requirement that the president sign or v

host: front page of the washington times, warren says democrats need a president to beat trump.ator elizabeth warren called the men in the presidential field losers and said the party needs to turn to a woman to go up against president trump this year. jack in rhode island, a republican. can a woman beat president trump in 2020? see.r: in 2020, we shall if the economy stays strong or slightly stronger, donald trump gets reelected. as far as the 3 million more popular votes for hillary clinton, those were in the states of new york and california in areas that are heavily city oriented. one other final point. sure, a woman can win the presidency, but that depends on the economy. host: because it has nothing to do with gender, is what you are saying? caller: say again? host: because it has nothing to do with gender and has everything to do with policy? caller: yeah, i was a big --porter of this is thatcher mrs. thatcher. this should bother you, the media covers joe biden. that guy stammers and stutters i don't know how many times last night. they cover for him because they want him

at the time, it seemed like trump was asked attacking republican orthodoxy. trump was attacking the consensus of both parties in washington. it's a neoconservative consensus. both parties work together to keep america overextended abroad stuck in quagmires across the world that in reach killing our men.donald trump a s a candidate, said it's time for notsome interest of some backwad petrol state. trump got the nomination and then won. but washington still is not recovered from the shock and rather learn from the result, they double down. they blame the defeat on russian facebook ads that nobody saw. and in response to those ads that nobody saw, the demand america risk war with the world's largest nuclear power. we've mocked adam schiff many times in the show and we hope to in the future. but on this matter, we are deadly serious. if this guy's public statements reflect what he actually believes, he is dangerous to the country for real. francine hakes is a former federal prosecutor. you are an expert on the laws as a former prosecutor. is there -- just checking, somewhere in the u.s. code a law against denying aid to ukrai

death of jamal khashoggi although he was writing critical comments critical columns in the washington post at that time but it's also our own that time that jeff bezos was doing a tour around in the middle east because he was talking about citing a large share of put a farm somewhere in the area and sodium arabia was very keen to land that $1000000000.00 project so there is the real possibility that his phone was hacked because the saudis wanted to get information who else was he talking to what

alex, you wrote a story in the washington "times" and you said there was a conversation on the hill atpoint. it says adam schiff california democrats and other impeachment managers talked about the 17 managers interviewed but don't mention atkinson. what did you find out? >> i interviewed congressman john ratcliffe and they keep referring to 17 witnesses but there were 18. the interview behind closed doors with the inspector general was in early october. it was conducted in the same manner as the other 17 interviews that were released. this one hasn't. it's classified. i can't learn the content of it. i was told it would go to the credibility of the whistleblower and undermine adam schiff's case. if you are the lawyer representing the president it's something you might want to get your hands on. they are classifying it as a briefing so it's not called a deposition which requires the committee to have a vote to release it for it to be reviewed and redactions made like the whistleblower's name. >> shannon: does this cause a problem for democrats? they are pushing for trance pairency and

guest is salena zito she staff reporter and columnist for a number of publications including the washington times and the new york post. her book is "the great revolt: inside the populist coalition reshaping american politics", let's get to your phone call. robert is joining us in atlanta. democrats line, good morning. >> good morning. perhaps, i have read your book and perhaps i misunderstand it 's promise but it seems to me that what has occurred is that particularly through the fluke of the electoral college of vocal minority has taken over on the levers of government. i think it's contrary what's going on is contrary to demographic trends so i don't think this is something that's going to last i would like your observations on that because i'm hoping, frankly, that this is the last gasp of a very conservative 1950s view of the world whose unfortunately latched onto donald trump as standardbearer. >> robert, thank you, we will get a response. >> inks robert, i love atlanta i don't like it's traffic though they been saying the republican party is on its last gas since john mccain lost to barack

washington. it's a neoconservative consensus. both parties work together to keep america overextended abroad stuck in quagmires across the world that killing our men. donald trump a different path as a candidate, said it's timeot some interest of some backward petrol state. trump got the nomination and then won. but washington still is not recovered from the shock and rather learn from the result, they double down. they blame the defeat on russian facebook ads that nobody saw. those adsponse to that nobody saw, the demand america risk war with the world's largest nuclear power. we've mocked adam schiff many times in the show and we hope to in the future. butmo on this matter, we are deadly serious. if this guy's public statements reflect what he actually believes, he is dangerous to the gcountry for real. francine hakes is a former federal prosecutor. what is next in the impeachment trial? you are an expert on the laws as a former prosecutor. is there -- just checking, somewhere in the u.s. code a law ukraine?enying aid to >> hi, tucker. no, there is definitely no law against denying aid to ukraine and in fact the constitution gives the president the sole t authority to conduct foreign policy. >> tucker: tha

. ♪ >> interviewed "the washington times" national security columnist about the threat posed by chinahere's a portion of the program. it's based on what the chinese call asymmetric warfare or assassin-based weapons. that is going back to the states with a weaker power that doesn't try to confront the enemy head on but tries to find its vulnerabilities and develop special abilities. the state warfare is one of those. cyber is another good space warfare is a real born ability for the united states because the united states is so dependent on the multitude of satellite communication, finance, intelligence, military navigation and china has understood that and they developed an array of weapons. this is a nonfiction book that i included a fictional scenario for how china could launch a worldwide kind of pearl harbor missile attack on pearl harbor and in the first phase of that it would be knocking out the key missile warning satellite because the missile operates and we have good eyes in the sky that can pick up heat signatures and through attacking and destroying as many as two dozen sat

. >> our guest is a staff reporter and columnist for a number of publications including the washington times and the new york post and her book "the great revolt, inside the populist coalition, reshaping american politics". let's get to your phone calls. robert is joining us in atlanta, democrats line. good morning. >> good morning. perhaps -- i haven't read your book and perhaps i misunderstand its premise, but it seems to me that what has occurred is that particularly through the fluke of the electoral college, a vocal minority has taken over the levers of government. i think what's going on is contrary to demographic trends, so i don't think this is something that's going to last. i'd like your observations on that because i think that -- i'm hoping frankly that this is the last gasp of very conservative 1950's view of the world, who is unfortunately latched on to donald trump as their standard bearer. >> we will get your response. thank you, robert. >> thanks, robert. i love atlanta but not your traffic. they have been saying the republican party is on its last gasp since john mccain los