>> i would not cooperate with adam schiff, i think adam schiff should be removed. if they put a neutral person into let them prejudge the cas., >> you are not going to cooperate? >> i didn't say that. >> i said i would do it. >> i said i would consider it. >> i am a lawyer. it is his privilege and not mine. if he decides that he wants me to testify, of course, i will testify even though i think adam schiff is an illegitimate chairman >> what's the american people? what's the public appetite for thisimpeachment? here is the question. is impeach. inquiry into president trump's conduct necessary? 55% responded this week they say it is. some breaking news, a brand new tweet from the president which reads in part, quote, "in addition i want to meet not only my accuser who presented second and third hand information but also the person who illegally gave this information which was largely incorrect to the whistleblower. was this person spying on the u.s. president? big consequences." i want to bring in mike rogers, a powerful position. what's your reaction to that tweet

i would not cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. they prejudge the case, put someone in who hasn't expressed an opinion yet, so i had a judge in the case and he already announced i am going to impeach, then went ahead and did a whole false episode, would i recuse -- i said i will consider it. [speaking simultaneously] >> you said you would not do it. mr. giuliani: i said i will consider it. i am a lawyer. it is his privilege, not mine. if he decides he wants me to testify, of course i will. i think adam schiff is an illegitimate chairman. he has prejudged the case. if you want fairness, you got to put somebody in charge of that committee who has an open mind, not someone who wants to hang the president and says i have evidence of russian collusion. adam, where is the evidence? [speaking simultaneously] >> i give you plenty of chances to -- mr. giuliani: let's see how the interview goes. >> you seem to think i am the judge and jury here. my role is to do the investigation and make sure the facts come out. if it were to lead to an imp

i think adam schiff should be removed. if they remove adam schiff, if they put a neutral person in who hasn't prejudged the case, a democrat who hasn't expressed an opinion -- >> you're not going to cooperate? >> i said i would consider it. >> you said you would not cooperate with adam schiff. >> i said i will consider it. >> you heard his words. michael warren joins me now, a great piece on hlntv.ccnn.com. rudy giuliani is calling for an impartial, independent chair of the house intel committee. i'm old enough to remember when devin nunes chaired that committee. there's that. let's talk about where this goes. schiff made it clear last night on "60 minutes" they are going to subpoena documents from rudy giuliani within a few weeks. where does this go? >> look, it's a congressional subpoena like any other. it's a committee in the house of representatives have the same sort of powers to subpoena, so there's really nothing for rudy giuliani to stand on when he says or suggests he's not going to comply. he doesn't actually end

adam schiff decided, i can't let this happen. so adam schiff made up a phoney call. he read it to congress. he read it to the people of the united states. and it's a disgrace. this whole thing is a disgrace. there's been tremendous corruption. we're seeking it. it's called drain the swamp. there's been corruption on the other side. there's been corruption like you've never seen. the new president ran on the basis of no corruption. that's how he got elected. i believe that he really means it. but there was a lot of corruption having to do with the 2016 election against us. we want to get to the bottom of it. it's very important that we do. thank you. >> dana: you are looking at the president there. he was in the oval office for a swearing in of eugene scalia. he will be the new secretary of labor. he was confirmed on a party line vote 53-44. he replaces alex acosta. eugene scalia, secretary of labor. president taking a question there about whether he knows who the whistleblower is. i want to bring back charlie hurd, who listened to that with me. one thing interesting

the letter from adam schiff came as president trump escalated his war on the whistleblower and adam schiff. he was pressing president zelensky in an inaccurate and fla fraud way. >> and then, the president went after the person who gave the whistleblower the information. was the person spying on the president of the united states? big consequences. chairman schiff there's a tentative agreement for the whistleblower to testify to his committee. he says the president's threats have heightened security concerns for the whistleblower. >> all that needs to be done at this point is to make sure that the attorneys that represent the whistleblower get the clearances they need to be able to accompany the whistleblower testimony. and we figure out the logistics to figure out that we protect the identity of the whistleblower. >> schiff says he expects the whistleblower to testify soon. >>> meantime, the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, is refusing to commit to a response to a house subpoena. house chairman adam schiff, telling cnn, he plans to subpoena documents and perhaps testimony abo

now nancy pelosi is trying to put adam schiff as the leader. those who defend the president, we are not adam schiff's committee, so we are diminished in our ability to defend the president. meanwhile nancy pelosi gets to slough off the failures of jerry nadler. >> there are some things i think procedurally we can do. we have got to be asking for minority hearings. lou: they are entirely within your power. >> we can bring in witnesses. we don't even have to seena them. these people will come in and we can talk to them. and we can hold people like mr. schiff who said these horrible things on the floor in his committee today. we can do motion to censure. we can do things to hold their feet to the fire and make them explain as matt said. >> the fact that we allowed paul ryan to slow down our momentum to get to the origins of this corrupt investigation has put us in a worst position today than if we had been fighting with all the republican conference helping us out. lou: congressman biggs, congratulations. i have a candidate for 0 your first censur

the president is ramping up his attacks on adam schiff. now questioning if schiff should be arrested for treason. this follows what schiff calls his parody at reading his parody reading at the ukraine call transcript. he did that at the opening meeting. joining me now, he was awarded a bronze star and on the armed service committee. thank you so much for being here. >> glad to be on, poppy. >> thank you for joyour serviceo the country. you wrote the op-ed that turns the tide for our leadership of where we are now. i would like your reaction of the last 24 hours of threatening and arrest adam schiff for what he calls treason and another u.s. official spied on him and calling for the outing of a confidential whistleblower. your reaction this morning. >> well, the president clearly has no more legitimacy in this debate anymore. allegations against him are so shocking and they represent a betrayal of oath in this country and undermining our national security. he threaten u.s. ambassadors and threaten intelligence committee official last week a

adam schiff. congressman adam schiff now wants to look at and listen to president's conversations with others state leaders. listen to this. listen to what he is saying. >> the pair mount need here is to protect the national security of the nine states and see whether in the conversations with other world leaders and in particular with putin that the president was also undermining our security in a way that he thought would personally benefit his campaign. if there's an effort to hide those and cover those up, yes, we are determined to find out. brian: dan, he let one transcript go just to dwight everythinquieteverything down. and now they want to get a call a couple days after this with vladimir putin. say it's part of the investigation. there is going to be absolutely no conversation with our chief executive that is not going to be for public listening. >> brian, it's never going to stop. i mean, the republic is dying a slow death. we are on life is support here. and you can thank the democrats

we'll hear from adam schiff. we'll stay here live. we want to know what you think as well. 202-748-8920 is the number for democrats. republicans use 202-748-8921. for independents that's 202-748-8 202-748-8922. we'll take a look outside the rayburn office building where we expect to hear the chair of the intelligence committee adam schiff to hear about the testimony of joseph maguire who took over as acting director of national intelligence august 16th, just over a month ago one day after dan coates stepped down. president trump announcing that coates would step down from that position. the phone call with the craukra president happening in late july this year and the acting dni taking over on august 16th. the whistleblower complaint was filed in mid august as well on august 12th. we're live here on c-span 3. let's go out live and wait for congressman schiff to come to the cameras. >>> the whistleblower complaint was released this morning just as the committee came into session. so you heard members referring to it and that has been p

adam schiff referred to trump, what about a sitting vice president? >> we can see with our own eyes. the media doesn't cover it, the media doesn't report on it. the whole thing is so hypocritical. >> is not getting done. look what the president is getting done. >> it's going to be hell on earth. >> talking about impeachment before the president was even an office. what if he's impeach? i said do they think they have it, but nancy pelosi did this. she didn't do it with the mother report. she had no documentation. i think she equivocated. >> you know who is in a strong position now? philadelphia eagles. they are looking good. >> they beat the packers, last-minute interception. >> have a good weekend. coming up, classic waters world at the un. t you might remember this but first, big fall out over impeachment. ♪ housing uncalled for impeachment all week long, even after the white house released the transcript.. nothing bad happened. from myy perspective, media bias again. it welcome back to bite these people in the next election. this happened inside,

well the chairman adam schiff the democrat leading the house intelligence committee has feather this very point from the whistleblower would be the road map for continued democratic investigations going forward down this road of the impeachment inquiry and that brings us to the allegations contained in this bombshell report that was released just minutes before the hearing began this morning at least released publicly and they detail that not only was this call of concern to the whistleblower but that in fact the whistleblower heard from multiple senior white house officials that there was a month long grueling effort led by the president's personal attorney re giuliani to be in contact with president alinsky of ukraine as well as other ukrainian leaders to try to get them on board with this idea of investigating joe biden and his son to benefit the president's reelection chances and that part of these involved meetings multiple meetings i have been before and after the call and the day of the call and another potential face to face between the 2 presidents as a prize for ukraine tak

like that adam schiff representative congressman made up what i said he actually took words and made it up the reset is when he saw my call to the president of ukraine it was so good that he could because there was nothing done wrong it was perfect. a perfect phone call list bring in a washington correspondent all over zealous he's on the story for us tonight good evening to you all the birds so we've got the president now we're juicing the chairman of the house intelligence committee mr shift of. congress why is he now focusing on him. well these are essentially attacking everyone that has to do with the impeachment inquiry last week it was the whistleblower himself you called him a or her we don't know the identity yet a spy in a traitor and even alluded to the death penalty when talking about punishing the whistleblower even though he would be protected by federal law now he's focusing on adam schiff who has to be made to the face of the impeachment inquiry of you will by the speaker of the house nancy pelosi in his role as the chairman of the intelligence committee is a vital and

>> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. if they remove adam schiff and put a neutral person in who hasn't judged the case, a democrat who hasn't expressed an opinion -- if i had a judge in the case and announced he was going to impeach, if he did a false episode, wouldn't i move to recuse that judge? >> that's your answer. you're not going to cooperate. >> i didn't say that. i said i would considerate it. >> you said you wouldn't do it. you said you're not going to cooperate. >> i have to be guided by my client. i'm a lawyer. it's his privilege, not mine. if he decides that he wants me to testify, of course i'll testify even though i think adam schiff is an illegitimate chairman. he has already pre-judged the case. if we want fairness, we have to put someone in charge of the committee that has an open mind, not someone who wants to hang the president who says i have evidence of collusion. adam, where's the evidence? ask him to produce the evidence. >> he's coming up right now. >> are you going to interrupt him as often as y

>> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. >> so you won't cooperate -- >> i didn't say that. i said i would consider it. >> you said you wouldn't do it. >> i said i would consider it. i have to be concerned with my client. i'm a lawyer. it's his privilege, not mine. if he decides he wants me to testify, of course i'll testify. >> joseph marino is a former national security and department of justice prosecutor. laura burrow lopez. >> if he doesn't comply with the subpoena, then the democrats go to court. is this whole thing moved along quicker at all because it's an impeachment inquiry? >> i know this is really frustrating to everybody, but the process is slow. congress will get this information from rudy giuliani. i can't imagine -- well, i imagine they'll be successful. at the end of the day, though, being able to say there is impeachment inquiry adds more time. >> it's still unclear whether congressman schiff wants to entirely subpoena giuliani -- whether it's to testify because they d

it shifted to adam schiff's department. adam schiff, i will just say, is a much closer ally to nancy pelosi. they are both california democrats. pelosi appointed him to that position. looking at all these relationships, it is all interesting. nancy pelosi, i believe, has much closer coordination and control over this investigation with adam schiff taking the lead. >> on the timeframe here, as we are looking at other deadlines coming up, government funding deadline, the continuing resolution going until november 21, is there a chance these two things, perhaps articles of impeachment drawn up happening around the same time? >> i do not think november will be a boring month. we can get a situation where there is a government shutdown looming when funding runs out and that is -- once you get past that, you are getting into december. a lot of this will depend on the president and whether or not he wants to make a stand to demand funds for his border wall, which is the reason the government shutdown at the end of last year and th

in particular, adam schiff. who, as you know, conducted the house select intelligence committee hearing headlined by the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire. he was grilled over his decision to not mutely turn over it whistle-blower complaint to the house. as soon as he walked off marine one, the president, of course, just back from the u.n. general assembly. he took aim at schiff and the democrats who he said are hurting the country. >> it's a disgrace. it's a terrible thing for our country. they can't do any work, they are frozen. the democrats are going to lose the election. they know it. that's why they're doing it. >> meanwhile on capitol hill, schiff said their search for the truth will continue. no matter where this leads, he said it would likely end with the impeachment of this president. >> this whistle-blower has already been found to be credible. whether the other obligations that go beyond this specific call will be borne out has yet to be determined, and that will be the subject

do us all a favor and never again use the word adam schiff. [laughter] >> i'm sorry. >> speaking of adam schiff let's talk about the chairman as oxymoron. on march 25 i called for his resignation because he is promised in the days leading up to the mother report that is bigger than watergate, there's evidence of collusion everywhere, it will be huge, we will impeach the president, and that was a big lie. the next day, days later there were nine republicans who serve on the intelligence committee calls for him to step down as chairman because they lost impartiality. so what are they due six month later, he invents a story, a conversation between our president, his president and the ukrainian president and says it on the floor the house, on national tv, his favorite place to be. and now you have republicans saying he should be center because of the dignity of the office. >> you don't have to do that kellyanne. >> the transcript of the actual call, they have to invent a new version of the call. -- >> are americans going to go online and read the

you see that guy there, he's the biggest liar in congress, his name is the cowardly adam schif adam schiff. he made up his own version of the transcript that we all read yesterday, it didn't matter what some nonwhistle-blower whistle-blower said but we had the information yesterday. all of this, we read it yesterday and there was nothing in there at all that they claimed would be in there. he performed a dramatic reading for all of his adoring fans back in california before i show you the clip, i want to make this clear. what we are going to play you is not the transcript between trump and his ukrainian counterparts -- that wouldn't work. that's called truth, objective truth. but he does is pure fiction. this is a fantasy that he decided to share at today's hearing, the guy that was caught on tape literally colluding with someone he thought was a russian to dig up dirt against donald trump. watch the liar in action. >> this is the essence of what the president communicates. we've been very good to your country, very good. no other country does is much as we have. but you know what, i don't

he's taking sharp aim at the whistle-blower and adam schiff. the president tweeted adam schiff illegally made up a fake and terrible statement pretended to be mine as the most part part of my call to the ukrainian president and read it aloud to congress and the american people. arrest for treason. so that is some serious language to accuse the house intelligence committee chairman of, hallie, but it underscores the war of words i think we are going to witness moving forward. this is a president who pays close attention to polls and according to the latest cbc news, an online poll, a majority of americans support opening this impeachment inquiry, but we want to just have a huge caveat with that, which is that these are early polls and this is a developing story. so of course those numbers could shift around quite a bit. >> it's something we're going to be asking a key member of one of the congressional committees coming up later in the show. thank you. let me bring in now the former u.s. ambassador to russia and former u.s. assistant attorney an

adam schiff, representative, congressman, made up what i said. he actually took words and made it up. the reason is when he saw my call to the president of ukraine, it was so good that he couldn't quote from it because there was nothing done wrong. it was perfect. adam schiff decided, i can't let this happen. let me make up. did you ever hear of this one, jean? adam schiff made up a phony call and read it to congress and read it to the people of the united states. and it's a disgrace. this whole thing is a disgrace. there's been tremendous corruption and we're seeking it. there has been corruption on the other side. there's been corruption like you've never seen. now, the new president of ukraine ran on the basis of no corruption. that's how he got elected. and i believe that he really means it. but a lot of corruption having to do with the 2016 election against us. and we want to get to the bottom of it and it's very important that we do. thank you very much. >> the president clearly not happy about the whistle-blower. he wants to know who the w

that was a perfect call, but adam schiff doesn't talk about joe biden, and his son walking away with millions of dollars from ukraine and then millions of dollars from china. walking away in a meeting with walking away from millions of dollars and he doesn't talk about joe biden firing a prosecutor and he's not going give him money from the united states of america. they don't talk about that. my call was perfect. the president yesterday of ukraine said there was no pressure po pressure put on him what is over, none whatsoever and he said it loud and clear from the press. what these guys are doing, democrats are doing to this country is a disgrace and it should be be allowed. there should be a way of stopping it, maybe legally through the court, but they're going tie up our country. we can't talk about gun regulation. we can't talk about anything because frankly, they're so tied up and they're so screwed up except when i do it. i'm using mexico to protect our border because the democrats won't change loopholes and asylum. i want to thank mexico, 27,000 soldiers they have, but think o

adam schiff believes it is going to happen. the attorneys have yet to confirm. expect this investigation to move in and wrapping it up potentially by thanksgiving. >> that would be quick indeed. >> the president threatening the whistleblower and he suggested the country could be add aheaded to civil war? what was that about? >> president trump throwing out a variety of defenses on twitter over the past couple of days as he pushes back this rapidly impeachment inquiry, he continues to attack the whistleblower. he tweeted this morning morning, #fakewhistleblower and quoting a supporter he wrote, "if the democrats are successful in removing the president from office, which will never be. it will cause a civil war like fracture in this nation from our country will never heal." the president does not have that much of a strategy to defend president trump against this impeachment inquiry. they have tried a number of different attacks going after adam schiff to attacking the whistleblower and claiming ukrainian transcript was not valid. president trump was surprised by

i think adam schiff is the least credible member of congress. adam schiff has hadr a bad runs chairman of the house intelligence committee. if you go back to tape, he had evidence, he had 100% proof that donald trump colluded with russia and he never produced it. it was made up. that's a severe loss of credibility to his leadership, as chairman of the intelligence committee. i take what adam schiff says with a grain of salt. >> host: how do you feel about your chairman, elijah cummings? >> guest: elijah cummings is chairman of the oversight committee. i think elijah cummings is a good person. i think that he wants to do the right thing. i think nancy pelosi the band wants to do the right thing. the problem is these new progressives that the democrats have elected our polling them so far to the left that they can't stop them a and the new progressives are getting so much media coverage. they're enjoying so much popularity from the base that they have caused pelosi and coming to do irrational things that if you look at their career, they never wou

take a listen. >> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. if they remove adam schiff and put in a neutral person, a democrat who hasn't expressed an opinion yet, if i had a judge in a case and he had already announced i'm going to impeach, if he went ahead and did a whole false episode wouldn't i move to recuse that judge. >> you're not going to cooperate. >> i didn't say that. i said i would consider it. >> you said you wouldn't cooperate -- >> i said i would consider it. i have to be guided by my client. i'm a lawyer. its his privilege not mine. if he decides he wants me to testify of course i'll testify. >> does he sound like he believes his testimony could potentially be incriminating evidence? >> i think rudy giuliani sounds like he sounded for the last part of this administration, which is someone who the president probably shouldn't be having on tv representing him. but -- >> but he's a former prosecutor also who is -- >> absolutely. >> essentially saying he's not -- without saying it outright he's essentially saying that he's waiting

i have to put up with adam schiff on an absolutely perfect phone call to the new president of ukraine. that was a perfect call. adam schiff doesn't talk about joe biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from ukraine and millions of dollars from china. walking away in a quick meeting. he doesn't talk about joe biden prosecutor, and if that prosecutor is not fired, he's not going to give him money from the u.s. they don't talk about that. perfect.as the president of ukraine yesterday said there was no pressure put on him whatsoever. he said it loud and clear for the press. what the democrats are doing to this country is a disgrace. it shouldn't be allowed. there should be a way of stopping it. may be legally through the courts. they will tie up our country. we can talk about gun regulation, we can't talk about anything, because frankly, they are so screwed up, nothing gets done except for when i do it. i'm using mexico to protect our border, because the democrats won't change loopholes in asylum. i want to thank mexico. 27,000 soldiers they have. think how bad that is. b

do you see mitch mcconnell giving a pat to adam schiff? >> no, not to adam schiff. maybe not even to his democratic friends in the senate. but our constitution is pretty robust, we're following the constitutional processes, and once it's over, actually there will be people in both parties who just want to get back to business. i think we'll get through this. >> we'll survive this, so says doyle mcmanus, great to have you on. >> thank you. >>> the secretary of state has been slapped with a subpoena, is the president's lawyer next? you should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. and you should be mad your smart fridge is unnecessarily complicated. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade which isn't complicated. their tools make trading quicker and simpler. so you can take on the markets with confidence. don't get mad. get e*trade and start trading today. don't get mad. going back to the doctor just for a shot. with neulasta onpro... ...patients get their day back... ...to be with... ... family... ...or just to sleep in. strong chemo can put you at risk

first you have adam schiff saying it's a mob shakedown. then you have blumenthal tweeting that it's a gangster shakedown and then hillary clinton's favorite journalist andrea mitchell saying it reminds me of the godfather. is there an echo in here? how about stephanopoulos? regeorge stephanopoulos breaks n on the press conference ands says to an unrepentant president. maybe because he didn't do anything. then he says, and he's also somewhat untruthful. talk about a guy who should know something about untruthful presidents. bill clinton, he worked for lost his law license, was impeached, lied under oath. this is really ridiculous. and how about ilhan omar and hillary clinton telling us no one is above the law? >> tucker: [laughs] >> i thought their whole career proved they were above the law. >> tucker: we are out of time. we could go on. great to see it.thank you.ck back tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. sean hannity right now. >> sean: great show. howie is a great radio host.kno, boston, the kennedys. great guest. welcome to "hannity."buckle up. once

>> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. if they put a neutral person in, who hasn't pre-judged the case, if they put someone in, a democrat who hasn't expressed an opinion yet. >> so that's your answer, you're not going to cooperate? >> i didn't say that. i said i will consider it. >> you said you wouldn't do it. you won't cooperate with adam schiff. >> i said i will consider it. i have to be guided by my client. >> reporter: a new abc news/ipsos poll suggests that, for now, the public is giving congress the benefit of the doubt. asked how serious a problem is the allegation that trump encouraged the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden and his son in that july phone call, 43% said "very serious." 20% said "somewhat serious." former homeland security adviser tom bossert said he's deeply disturbed by the phone call. >> it's a bad day and a bad week for the president and this country if he's asking for political dirt on an opponent. >> reporter: tonight, house speaker nancy pelosi tells "60 minutes" the call is just p

sir, could i have you listen to adam schiff, chairman of the intelligence committee. he talks about this plan he has. listen. >> i think the complain gives us a pretty good road map of allegations that we need to investigate. we want to know what role rudy giuliani had in this, bill barr had in this. we want to know what ukraine understood, what was expected of them before they even had this july phone call with the president of the united states. we know what we have to do. we'll be guided by the evidence. >> dana: based on your experience, what do you think of his timeline and road map? is it possible, we reported earlier, that mike emanuel told us from capitol hill, that schiff is saying he could have a hearing next week with attorney general barr and rudy giuliani as witnesses. >> you really don't need a road map. there's three issues. did the president use the office for personal or political gain? the handling of the phone call and the after math. and what role did the attorney general and a private citizen, rudy giuliani play? that's the road map. the public he

it was totally misrepresented by adam schiff. the president had a conversation with the president of ukraine. steve: right. >> and they released the transcript. and you know, when you hear it from the democrats, you think something was wrong but they are not representing the facts. there was no quid pro quo. there nothing. steve: but the president did say, essentially, can you look into doing me a favor. can you look into this crazy stuff regarding the bide bidens. >> came 600 words hey can you do us a favor and started talking. that's what the democrats left out the entire context of a conversation between two world leaders. steve: we were just talking about it a moment ago on the tv show. what did you make of adam schiff, the guy who runs that committee where rather than just looking at the facts made up the script and said it was a joke. it's a parody. >> what's a parody? an exaggeration. how dare he do that? when you are a prosecutor, you are arguing to 12 people on a jury. adam schiff is a lawyer. he was arguing to not only

take a listen. >> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. if they remove adam schiff and put in a neutral person, a democrat who hasn't expressed an opinion yet, if i had a judge in a case and he had already announced i'm going impeach, if he already went ahead and did a whole false episode, wouldn't i move to recuse that judge. >> that's your answer you're not going to cooperate. >> i said i would consider it. >> you won't cooperate? >> i will consider it. i have to be guided by my client. it's his privilege not mine. if he decides that he wants me to testify, of course i'll testify. >> so, michael, if giuliani does not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry does that hurt or help the president? >> well it's hard to say whether it hurts or helps the president. i don't think the situation really helps giuliani right now. you heard just in that one interview and he was certainly like this when speaking with me last week can be slippery what exactly what he plans on doing. is he really not going to cooperate if congress asks him or subpoenas h

guest: he mentioned adam schiff. i think adam schiff is the least credible member of congress. he had a bad run as chairman of the house intelligence committee . if you go back, he had evidence -- 100% proof that donald trump colluded with russia and he never produced it. it was made up. that is a severe loss of leadership.to his i take what adam schiff says with a grain of salt. host: how do you feel about your chairman? elijah cummings? guest: i think elijah cummings is a good person. i think you wants to do the right thing. i think nancy pelosi deep down wants to do the right thing. the problem is these new progressives are pulling them so far to the left, they can't stop them and the new progressives are getting so much media coverage, they are enjoying so much popularity from the base that they have caused pelosi and cummings to do irrational things. if you look at their career, they never would have done before. i have never agreed with anything policy wise pelosi has done or elijah cummings has done, but at the end of the day, whatare way over bound in they have a right

schiff has said that hearings will take place next week it's even being said here in the media that could take place next friday now 'd we could most probably be seeing the attorney general william barr and president trump a personal lawyer at the former mayor of new york rudy giuliani appear in front of the. peach mint inquiry and there are 6 committees investigating in total. we do know that democrats are very keen to talk to the actual whistleblower whoever that may be because at the moment despite a lot of media sort of speculating as to who it is claiming that they know who it is we still are not we don't have confirmation with regards to the identity of that person and also what we've been hearing as well is the democrats and particularly the house speaker nancy pelosi is keen to keep this very much focused on this you know phone call with ukraine on the ukraine allegations in general will say and what would happen then is that the judiciary committee will decide on how many articles. of impeachment votes they would then pose to the house who would then vote on whether to you

i think adam schiff should be removed. if they remove adam schiff, if they put a neutral person in, if they put a democrat in who hasn't expressed an opinion -- >> you're not going to cooperate? >> i didn't say that. >> you said you wouldn't do it. >> i said i will consider it. i have to be guided by my client frankly. i'm a lawyer. it's his privilege, not mine. if he decides that he wants me to testify, of course i'll testify even though i think adam schiff is an illegitimate chairman. >> does attorney/client privilege hold up here? >> you're asking me? >> yes. >> no way, no how. here's why. the attorney/client privilege protects obviously confidential communications, but if i am your attorney and you're my client and you ask me to talk to third parties, ie, ukrainian officials, state department officials, bill barr, members of the justice department. if you authorize me as your attorney to talk to other people about what we talked about, there's no privilege. it's called the third party exception. there is no way he can

i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. >> you're not going to cooperate. >> i didn't say that. i said i will consider it. >> you said you will not cooperate with adam schiff. >> i said i will consider it. >> jeff mason and then jeff bennett, the two jeffs, let's talk about this. rudy giuliani and his extraordinary role in all of this, jeff mason? >> it certainly is an extraordinary role. i think it's worth underscoring over and over that he is a private attorney for president trump, so everything that he's done in this role has been with that sort of framework. i mean, that interview was fascinating in that it doesn't sound like he's had direction yet from the president on whether or not he should cooperate. i think he said later to george that he does have a client and if his client directs him to cooperate, then he would. i think that exemplifies a little bit of what's going on at the white house now as well. there is a sense of we don't have a full strategy yet and that means maybe

it's too richard burr in the senate and adam schiff in the house. if the data is correct, that means adam schiff has had this for many weeks. first of all, as a practicing lawyer, ith went through this. i can tell you that a cia agent who is a policy guy for ukraine can't write something like this. this is a legal brief. this was vetted through lawyers, and i want to know who wrote this. i want to know who participated in writing this. w i want to know who this man spoke to, every single one of them. "the new york times" which runs cover for the democrats and attacks the president of the united states, talk about a drug fix, they say this man's lawyer who worked for chuck schumer and clinton doesn't want the identity of this mant known. too bad. if you want to impeach our president using this b.s.? we want to know all about your guy. i love today's hearing where they wrap this guy in the whistle-blower statute. whistle-blower statute?ov this guy could have been a homeless guy coming off the street talking to people, he knew nothing. oh, i heard, he

>> standing with adam schiff. we know he has been lying about most everything from russia to collusion for the last two or three years. this is a ramrod. what i said yesterday, the abuse of power part. they do not want the fairness that is given to someone who is accused. >> there is no way that the democracy can stand if a president can go around the world using the massive power of his office to try to bully foreign nations into destroying his political opponents. >> bill: let's bring in the a-team. a good one now. david avella, mary anne marsh, and liz peake fox news contributor. you've heard a lot of things. where do you think we are or where do you think we're headed? >> every time i see adam schiff on tv -- everything he said was incorrect despite taking the party line. that's what we get out of adam schiff and interesting watching the media coverage this weekend that democratic senators can send a letter to ukraine and say what they said and there is no implication of what they might have said. that somehow

start about adam schiff is about as funny as a toothache. >> we shouldn't be. dinging the constitution paid one of the reasons we had this impeachment provision because we didn't want the united states to become great britain. we rejected a parliamentary system and that system, if the president acts abusively or corruptly or in a way that peope don't like, no vote of confidence and he's out of the office. we rejected that appeared we wanted the president to serve for 40 years and less he committed a serious high crime and what the democrats are now trying to do is use that against them till next time they are in office. they would be using the same presidents that the democrats are using their that's why everybody has to pass the shoe on the other foot tests. if you wouldn't do it to your political friends, don't do it to your political enemies. >> laura: are a gentleman, thank you very much. incredible panel book. you always do great but tonight especially we needed you. the country needed you. coming up, he is been waiting all day for this. a moment, did rudy

on abc, he contradicted himself. >> i won't cooperate with adam schiff. if they put a neutral person in who hasn't prejudged the case, if they put in a democrat, who hasn't expressed an opinion. >> you said you wouldn't do it. >> i said i would consider it. i have to be guided by my client. i'm a lawyer. it's his privilege, not mine. if he decides he wants me to testify, of course, i'll testify. i think adam schiff is an illegitimate chairman. >>> house and senate republicans are rushing to the president's defense. graham said the whistleblower was hearsay, even though everything was confirmed with the transcript of mr. trump's call with the ukrainian president. >> you can't get a parking ticket conviction based on hearsay. the whistleblower didn't hear the phone call. >> jim jordan focused on the alleged corruption by joe biden and his son, hunter, a claim for which there is no evidence. >> then, when the company that's paying him that money is under investigation, guess what? daddy comes running to the rescue. the vice president of the united states. >>

. >> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. if they wutput a neutral person, if i had a judge in a case and he announced i'm going to impeach and went ahead and did a whole false episode, wouldn't i move to recuse that judge? >> republicans, they are hoping that the impeachment push will be unpopular enough to propel donald trump to reelection in 2020. president trump earlier tweeted support for that idea that voters in trump districts will seek to defend him saying he'll win big in 2020. there is evidence that more americans are beginning to warm to the idea of impeachment. according to a new pole, 63% of americans say the allegations that president trump encouraged the ukrainian president to investigate the bideens are quote serious. joining us now to break it all down, david jackson, former republican congressman from florida and david jolly. michelle goldberg also with us. david, what is the latest that we're hearing from adam schiff? we did hear david jackson that schiff does have and has secured that the whistleblower wil

. >> i would not cooperate with adam schiff. i think he should be removed. >> and new poll numbers on impeaching the president. i will talk about this with pramila jayapal. and all of that in a moment as i bid you a good morning, ma'am. and breaking news, the house democrats are confirming that the key witness in their hearing the whistle-blower will testify soon on the complaint that sent this investigation into motion. >> that whistle-blower is going to be coming in, and come in without a minder from the justice department or from the white house to tell the whistle-blower what they can and cannot say. we will get the unfiltered testimony of that whistle-blower, and it is going to depend more on how quickly the director of national intelligence can complete the security clearance process before the whistle-blower's lawyer, but we are ready to hear from the whistle-blower when that is done. >> and this is as they have scheduled five depositions from five state department senior officials, but as they are adding more witnesses,

wolf, adam schiff tells me he's preparing for a busy a couple of weeks. hearings, subpoenas. we'll see what information they ultimately glean. >> manu raju on capitol hill, thank you. >>> president trump has unloading on twitter. let's go to our chief white correspondent jim acosta. the whistle-blower has become one of the president's top targets. >> reporter: that's right, wolf, president trump is continuing to lash out at the whistle-blower complaint that's launched these impeachment proceedings. the president stayed behind closed doors for most of the day as the white house wrestles with whether it's time to start setting up a team to advise him and counsel him on his strategy and so on. they believe the ukrainian investigation is getting worse for the president, more than usual. taking cover in his social media bunker, president trump is painting the mysterious whistle-blower as a turncoat who can't be trusted, tweeting, he hadn't a whistle-blower at all. in addition, secondhand information, there may not have been somebody else, a leaker for spy feeding it to him or her.

committee, that is a gathering for our national security, the same individual congressman adam schiff, who lied to the american public for the last two years, who looked into a camera and said he had proof. beyond circumstantial evidence. you know what? we spent millions of dollars, more than a year. we went around the world with our very best people from the f.b.i. and others and they found that was a lie. but he's still sitting at the helm of a chairmanship dealing with national security. and the same time the speaker sits there, she listened to a vice president in his own words say, that, yes, he did hold up money to ukraine unless they would fire a prosecutor that worked for ukraine that was looking after his son's activities. not one word about that. i think what the speaker did was a dark day not only for this institution, but for the rule of law and she put this country in harm's way when it comes to national security and our view around the world. at the exact same time the leader of our country is sitting in the u.n. meeting with other world leaders, a challenge with iran, a

let's take a look at a few of the president's tweets talking about representative adam schiff who is leading the investigation into him from the house democrats saying that he needs to be investigated for treason is incredibly serious treason can carry the death penalty so that is another norm broken by this president he went on to say that he deserves to face his accuser that's not how this works he's not facing a criminal charge in which case he could and he would be entitled to meet his accuser this is a person who came forward under the whistleblower statute so his identity is supposed to be protected that said he's expected to meet with members of congress behind closed doors and that makes it very likely that his identity is going to come out then the president in tweets tried to frame the whistleblower as being wrong in their complaint that in fact is not true because the white house released its own summary of the call before the whistleblower complaint came out and it said very specifically what the whistleblower said happened actually happened on the call so the president's