>> Sandra: BRAND-NEW REACTION THIS MORNING FROM A BOMBSHELL
NEW "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORT ON
BUT DON’T ACT ON BOLTON’S
UPCOMING BOOK.
UPCOMING BOOK. THE NEWSPAPER REPORTING THE
PRESIDENT TOLD HIS FORMER
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BUT
MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE WAS TIED
TO AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
BIDENS.
BIDENS. LET’S BRING IN DOUG COLLINS, A
TRUMPET IMPEACHMENT TEAM MEMBER.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU, THANK YOU
FOR BEING HERE.
>> GOOD MORNING.
>> Sandra: I WILL ASK YOU THE
SAME QUESTION I JUST USED AT
SOL WISENBERG AT THE TOP OF THE
HOUR.
HOUR. HOW DOES THIS CHANGE THINGS?
>> IT DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING.
THE ISSUE HERE IS, HOW DO WE GO
ABOUT THIS PROCESS?
TAKING AFFECT THE DEMOCRATS
PRESENTED IN THE SENATE.
DO THEY MAKE THEIR CASE OR DID
THEY NOT MAKE?
IT’S AMAZING TO ME, AGAIN, WE
ARE HAVING SELECTIVE LEAKS AT
THIS POINT IN TIME.
IT SHOULD BE INTERESTING TO
ANYONE HOW THIS HAPPEN.
REMEMBER, RIGHT BEFORE THE
ARTICLES WERE VOTED IN THE
HOUSE, WE HAD THE DEMOCRATIC
COLLEAGUES IN THE HOUSE ACTUALLY
TALK ABOUT THE LEV PARNAS ISSUE.
IT’S ALWAYS COMING UP AT A
MOMENT IN WHICH THE CASE OF THE
WEEK IS PRETTY AS THE BOTTOM
LINE, NOTHING IN WHAT WE’VE SEEN
SO FAR, AND IT SIMPLY LEAKED
PARTS OF THE TRANSCRIPT, HAS
CHANGE THE BASE AND FACTS OF
WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT.
THERE WAS NO CONDITIONALITY,
THEY GOT THE AID.
THE DISCUSSIONS INTERNALLY ON
HOW THAT WENT ABOUT DOESN’T
CHANGE ANYTHING EXCEPT IT GOES
BACK TO SHOW THAT IF HE IS SUCH
A RELEVANT WITNESS NOW, WHY WAS
HE NOT SUCH A RELEVANT WITNESS
FOR THE HOUSE, AND WHY DID
ADAM SCHIFF HAVE TO PLEAD TO THE
SENATE TO CALL PEOPLE NOW?
BECAUSE HE’S SCARED OF THEM
GOING TO COURT?
THIS IS WHY THIS PROCESS --
>> Melissa: THEY CLAIM THERE
HAS BEEN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
REVEALED SINCE THAT TIME
I WILL ASK YOU NOW BASED ON THE GROWING CALLS FOR MEMBERS OF
YOUR OWN PARTY IN THE SENATE TO
HEAR FROM ADDITIONAL WITNESSES
AND JOHN BOLTON.
MITT ROMNEY, IT’S VERY LIKELY I
WILL BE IN FAVOR WITNESSES.
DOUG JONES, "THE SENATE NEEDS TO
HEAR FROM JOHN BOLTON."
WE KNOW LISA MURKOWSKI,
SUSAN COLLINS, AND OTHERS HAVE
SAID THEY ARE OPEN TO WITNESSES.
SO DO YOU SEE SOME OF THOSE MORE
MODERATE MEMBERS OF YOUR PARTY
LEANING TOWARD WITNESSES?
>> I THINK YOU SEE MITT ROMNEY
LEANING TOWARD IT, AND
DOUG JONES’ DEMOCRAT.
SO HE WOULDN’T SURPRISE ME.
IT’LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW
DOUG JONES VOTES ON REMOVING
THIS PRESIDENT, AND TELLING THAT
TO THE VOTERS OF ALABAMA.
LOOKING AT THIS GOING FORWARD,
THE QUESTION BECOMES THIS.
AS A NEW INFORMATION?
NOT REALLY.
NOT REALLY. ADAM SCHIFF COULD HAVE
SUBPOENAED JOHN BOLTON, WENT
THROUGH THIS PROCESS IN THE
HOUSE.
HOUSE. HE CHOSE NOT TO.
LET’S REMEMBER THAT THIS IS
BECAUSE THE CALENDAR AND CLOCK
WERE AGAINST THEM.
THE CALENDAR AND CLOCK WANTED TO
DO THIS BEFORE THE END OF THE
YEAR.
YEAR. THEY HAD NO DESIRE AND
ADAM SCHIFF ADMITTED ON THE
FLOOR OF THE SENATE, "WE
COULD’VE DONE THAT BUT WE
WOULD’VE HAD TO GO TO COURT."
THAT’S AMAZING COMING FROM A
LAWYER NOT WANTED TO FOLLOW THE
PROCESSES ALREADY HAVING BEEN
SET.
SET. THERE’S A LOT OF HEADLINES TODAY
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IT
DOESN’T CHANGE THE FACTUAL
PATTERN AND I’M NOT SURE HOW
MUCH IT ACTUALLY CHANGES WITH
THIS GROWING CONCERN.
I’VE HEARD ONE PERSON,
MITT ROMNEY.
MITT ROMNEY. THE OTHERS HAVE ALWAYS SAID, "WE
WILL SEE HOW THE CASE GOES
FORWARD."
FORWARD." >> Sandra: IN THE CASE OF
SUSAN COLLINS, LISA MURKOWSKI,
AND OTHERS, THEY HAVE SAID THEY
WILL LISTEN THROUGHOUT THE TRIAL
AND THEY ARE OPEN TO
WITNESSES FOR REPUBLICANS
WOULD BE NEEDED, OF COURSE, TO JOIN DEMOCRATS IN THE
witnesses for Republicans
SKULL FOR
SKULL FOR would be needed, of course, to
WITNESSES.
WITNESSES. join Democrats in the
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" THIS
MORNING SAYS JOHN ROBERTS CAN
CALL WITNESSES. WILLIE?
WILLIE? IF THIS WERE TO EVENTUALLY
HAPPEN, AND WE DID GO DOWN THE
PATH OF WITNESSES, JOHN ROBERTS
WHO COME INTO PLAY OF THE
PRESIDENT NEEDED EXECUTIVE
PRIVILEGE.
PRIVILEGE. AT WHAT YOU SEE POTENTIAL
HAPPENING THERE, CONGRESSMAN?
>> WHAT WE DISCUSSED ABOUT YOUR
PREVIOUS GUESTS, ONCE THIS GOES
FOR THERE HAS TO BE AREAS IN THE
WHITE HOUSE, ESPECIALLY THE ONES
CLOSEST TO THE PRESIDENT, DOING
WHATEVER OUR PRESIDENT HAS DONE.
THAT’S THE FIGHT FOR THE
INTEGRITY.
INTEGRITY. for Republicans
THEY HAVE AN INHERENT RIGHT TO KEEP THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITHIN
THEMSELVES.
THEMSELVES. REMEMBER, JOHN DEAN WAS A
WITNESS IN OUR JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE SEVERAL MONTHS AGO
WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING MUELLER
AND THE ROLE OF THOSE COMING
FORWARD AND TESTIFYING ABOUT
CONVERSATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT.
JOHN DEAN HAD AN INTERESTING
COMMENT.
COMMENT. HE SAID, "WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL
HOW YOU GO DOWN THIS ROAD.
YOU MAY WANT THIS NOW, BUT ARE
YOU ACTUALLY TAKING AWAY FROM
THE PRESIDENT, THE VERY TOOL HE
NEEDS TO DO THE JOB?
IT WILL SIMPLY NOT SHORTEN IT.