MARIA: WELCOME BACK. PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM
RESUMES THEIR DEFENSE TOMORROW
IN THE SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
THEY PLAN TO KEEP THINGS SHORTER
AND LESS REPETITIVE THAN HOUSE
DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS DID IN THEIR
CASE.
CASE. LET’S BRING IN A MEMBER ABOUT
THE PRESIDENT’S DEFENSE TEAM,
MARK MEADOWS, SOUTH CAROLINA,
AND FORMER CONGRESSMAN TREY
GOWDY, A FORMER PROSECUTOR AND
NOW A FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
>> GREAT TO BE WITH YOU.
MARIA: CONGRESSMAN MARK MEADOWS,
KICK IT OFF WITH YOU, WHAT CAN
WE EXPECT FROM THE DEFENSE TEAM
TOMORROW MORNING?
TOMORROW MORNING? >> OBVIOUSLY THE TWO HOURS
PRESENTED SATURDAY MORNING WENT
A LONG WAY TO UNDERCUT THE
FOUNDATION WHAT ADAM SCHIFF AND
HIS TEAM LAID OUT ON THREE
PREVIOUS DAYS.
PREVIOUS DAYS. I CAN TELL YOU IT IS MORE ABOUT
WHAT ADAM SCHIFF DIDN’T TELL THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE THAN WHAT HE DID
TELL THEM.
TELL THEM. THEY DID A GREAT JOB LINING OUT
THOSE NINE THINGS.
WHY DIDN’T ADAM SCHIFF TELL YOU
THESE NINE IMPORTANT FACTS?
WHAT WE’LL SEE ON MONDAY, A
STRATEGIC BUILDING UPON THAT
FOUNDATION TO TELL THE REST OF
THE STORY.
THE STORY. TREY GOWDY AND I GOT TO SEE THE
VERY BEGINNINGS OF THE WHOLE
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION AND WE KNEW
ADAM SCHIFF MULTIPLE TIMES WAS,
AT BEST MISCAKIZING THE EVIDENCE
THAT HE HAD BUT WE’RE GOING TO
CONTINUE TO SEE THAT ON MONDAY
AS THE ENTIRE TEAM BUILDS UP
STEP BY STEP, BLOCK BY BLOCK,
THE REASONS WHY THERE IS NOT
ONLY NOT AN IMPEACHABLE CASE BUT
CERTAINLY NOT EVEN ANYTHING THAT
COMES FROM REMOTELY CLOSE TO
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.
MARIA: RIGHT.
MARIA: RIGHT. >> THIS IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS,
MARIA.
MARIA. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
WITNESSES OR ANYTHING ELSE.
IT IS ALL ABOUT POLITICAL,
REALLY A POLITICAL ALLEGATION,
TRYING TO IMPUGN THE PRESIDENT’S
REPUTATION.
REPUTATION. MARIA: TREY GOWDY, IT IS
INTERESTING, BECAUSE THE HOUSE
PROSECUTORS STRATEGY SEEMS TO BE
LET’S SHAME THE SENATORS, SAYING
WELL, I GUESS YOU HAVE TO GO
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP OR YOUR
HEAD WILL BE ON A PIKE OR LOOK,
YOU’RE ALL INVOLVED IN A COVERUP
BUT THE LEGAL TEAM OF THE
PRESIDENT, THAT STRATEGY PARTLY
IS INCLUDING AN INDICTMENT OF
ADAM SCHIFF’S CHARACTER, LOOKING
BACK TO WHAT ADAM SCHIFF SAID
DURING THE RUSSIA COLLUSION
NARRATIVE WHICH OF COURSE WAS
NOT TRUE.
NOT TRUE. AND TO SHOW THAT THERE WERE LIES
THROUGHOUT.
THROUGHOUT. WHAT DO YOU ADVISE THE
PRESIDENT’S TEAM TO TAKE?
TACT TO TAKE?
>> I WOULD LET THEM LET JERRY
NADLER TAKE ALL THE TIME HE WANT
TO TALK.
TO TALK. JERRY NADLER’S TRIAL STRATEGY IS
TO INSULT THE JURY.
I WAS IN A LOT OF COURTROOMS,
MARIA.
MARIA. I NEVER EVER SAW A PROSECUTOR
HAVE AS A STRATEGY LET’S SEE
WHAT WE CAN DO TO INFURIATE,
ALIENATE AND OFFEND THE JURY.
WHAT I WERE DO, PRESIDENT HAS A
GREAT TEAM, MARK IS GREAT,
RATCLIFF, PAT, BUT I WOULD BEGIN
TO ASK QUESTIONS OF SCHIFF.
I WOULD CONNECT THE PROCESS WITH
THE SUBSTANCE.
THE SUBSTANCE. I WOULD GO LINE BY LINE THROUGH
THE PARODY.
THE PARODY. ADAM SCHIFF HAD A CHANCE TO READ
THE ACTUAL TRANSCRIPT.
THE ACTUAL EVIDENCE.
HE OPTED INSTEAD, TO CREATE,
MANUFACTURER A PARODY.
I WOULD GO LINE BY LINE THROUGH
THE PARODY, ASK ADAM SCHIFF WHY
DID YOU SAY THAT?
YOU HAVE THE ACTUALLY TRANSCRIPT
OF THE CALL.
WHY WAS THAT NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR
YOU, ADAM?
YOU, ADAM? WHY DID YOU MAKE UP OUT OF WHOLE
CLOTH?
CLOTH? I WOULD ALSO ASK HIM IS IT NEVER
TO OKAY TO INVESTIGATE SOMEONE
RUNNING FOR OFFICE?
IF JOE BIDEN WERE NOT A
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, JUST
LIKE ME AND YOU, MARIA, A
REGULAR PERSON, CAN YOU
INVESTIGATE HIM THEN?
DOES THIS STATUS AS CANDIDATE
MEAN YOU WERE OFF LIMITS?
THE ONLY THING I WOULD ASK TOOK
A CONVERSATION IN A BAR TO
INVESTIGATE PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THAT IS ALL IT TOOK.
A CONVERSATION IN A BAR TO
INVESTIGATE PRESIDENT TRUMP.
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO
INVESTIGATE JOE AND HUNTER
BIDEN?
BIDEN? MARIA: YEAH.
MARIA: YEAH. >> IF IT IS JUST A CONVERSATION
IN A BAR, IS THAT THE THRESHOLD
TO INVESTIGATE?
TO INVESTIGATE? MARIA: THE OTHER THING IS, YOU
HAVEN’T SEEN THE 18th
TRANSCRIPT, MARK.
TRANSCRIPT, MARK. YOU HAVEN’T, CONGRESSMAN
MEADOWS, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE