ERIC: GO TO EVERY REPUBLICAN
ASKED THE QUESTION DO YOU
BELIEVE THE TRANSCRIPT IS AN
IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE?
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID ON THE
TRANSCRIPT IS NOT IN THE
TEACHABLE EVENT.
IT'S RIDICULOUS TO SAY THE
PRESIDENT DID SOMETHING WRONG
BASED ON A PHONECALL AND I THINK
EVERYBODY IN THE MEDIA SHOULD GO
TO THE THE DEMOCRATS --
IMPEACHMENT.
ERRED SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM
THIS MORNING TALKING ABOUT THE
HOUSE DEMOCRATS IMPEACHMENT AND
THE REPUBLICANS SAYING THIS IS
THE WHITE HOUSE PREPARES TO SEND
A LETTER TO SPEAKER PELOSI
REFUSING TO OPERATE WITH
DOCUMENT REQUESTS UNTIL SHE
HOLDS A FULL FLOOR VOTE ON THIS
MATTER.
REPUBLICANS CHARGING THEY ARE
BEING DENIED DUE PROCESS.
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RealClearPolitics.
YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT WILL
BEND UNDER WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE?
>> THERE'S A LOT OF STAKE IF SHE
DOES BEND TO THE PRESSURE FIRST
OF ALL IF THERE'S A FULL HOUSE
VOTE LIKE SOMETHING THAT
OCCURRED OR IN THE NIXON
IMPEACHMENT DURING THE
IMPEACHMENT OF HILLARY CLINTON.
THE ISSUE HERE WILL BE REPLACING
FRESHMAN DEMOCRATS GUYS WHO IN
2018 WENT TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS
AND SAID VOTE FOR ME.
WE ARE NOT JUST HERE TO START
THE PRESIDENT DID I CARE ABOUT
THESE KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES AND
IF YOU HOLD THAT VOTE YOU WILL
BE FORCING THOSE FRESHMAN TO
COME DOWN ON THIS ISSUE.
THEY ALSO WILL RAISE THE
QUESTION IF YOU HOLD THAT VOTE
ABOUT WHAT RIGHTS THE MINORITY
PARTY WILL GET.
WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT NOW IS
MINORITY LEADER KEVIN McCARTHY
WANTS SUBPOENA POWER AND WANTS
TO HAVE EVERYTHING AT HIS
DISPOSAL TO FIGHT BACK.
ERIC: REPUBLICANS ARE
CRITICIZING THE DEMOCRATS SAYING
THEY DON'T HAVE SUBPOENA POWER.
THEY SAY IT'S A ONE-SIDED
PROCESS IN THEIR VIEW.
IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THAT?
>> RIGHT NOW THE ARGUMENT COMING
FROM KEVIN McCARTHY AND OTHER
REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AS WELL
AS THE WHITE HOUSE IS NANCY
PELOSI IS THE SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE AND YES SHE HAS THAT
AUTHORITY BUT SHE IS STILL JUST
ONE ELECTED MEMBER OF CONGRESS.
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION REQUIRES
THE ENTIRE BODY TO AGREE TO MOVE
FORWARD AND THAT'S THE DEBATE
RIGHT NOW.
THEY WANT TO RIGHTS THAT WERE
AFFORDED TO PASS MINORITY
PARTIES DURING PAST IMPEACHMENT
AND THIS IS A SORT OF TECHNICAL
THING.
THIS IS THE NITTY-GRITTY THAT
THE VOTER CAN SAY WAIT A MINUTE
I'M ALL FOR OVERSIGHT BUT
THERE'S SOMETHING TO DUE PROCESS
AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE POLITICAL
FIGHT NOT ONE THAT IS BASED ON
HOLDING THE PRESIDENCY
STANDARDS.
ERIC: YOU TALK ABOUT DUE
PROCESS.
DEMOCRATS CALLING ON AMBASSADORS
TO THE QUESTIONS BEHIND CLOSED
DOORS.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THEY WOULD
SUBPOENA JOE BIDEN HIMSELF AND
HUNTER BIDEN AND ASK THEM THESE
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UKRAINIAN
CONTEXT?
>> THIS IS A CAN OF WORMS THAT
WE ARE GETTING OURSELVES INTO
BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO THIS
EXPERIMENT IN SELF-GOVERNMENT
IT'S ALMOST LIMITLESS ABOUT WHAT
POWERS CAN DO WITHOUT VIOLATING
NORMS AND WITHOUT VIOLATING
STANDARDS THAT ARE PUT IN THE
U.S. CONSTITUTION.
LOVE REPUBLICANS AT THIS POINT
DON'T JUST WANT TO SEE A TEXT
MESSAGE HERE OR TEXT MESSAGE
THEIR PEER THEY WANT TO SEE THE
ENTIRE EVIDENCE THAN THAT IS
CHAIRMAN SCHIFF WANT TO SEE THE
ENTIRE BODY OF EVIDENCE AND THEY
SAY HE YOU SHOULD TAKE A PLAY
OUT OF THE PLAYBOOK OF THE
PRESIDENT TO RELEASE THE ENTIRE
CONTEXT.
ERRED THE BIDEN FAMILY WAS PAID
OFF.
THERE'S NO WAY IN THESE
TRANSACTIONS USES SLEEPY JOE
WON'T GET INTO THE STARTING GATE
AND IS FAMILY PROBABLY EXTORTED.
YOU WOULD THINK THE REPUBLICANS
WOULD RAISE THIS ISSUE.
HERE IS RUDY GIULIANI TALKING
ABOUT THIS EARLIER TODAY.
FIRST OF ALL EVEN IF IT IS
UKRAINE ITS DIFFERENT ONE BIDEN
DID.
THE PURPOSE OF QUESTIONING IS TO
GET A CRIMINAL DESICCATION ABOUT
A THE SCANDAL AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL OF OUR GOVERNMENT
UNCOVERED THAT THE WASHINGTON
PRESS HAD BEEN COVERING FOR
THREE YEARS DELIBERATELY AND
ABOUT WHICH THEY ARE NOW GOING
AFTER ME PERSONALLY.
THEY WANT TO GET ME, THE
MESSENGER SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO
DEAL WITH THEIR HONEY BOY BIDEN
HAS BEEN A CROOK OR 30 YEARS.
SORRY I'M A LOT TOUGHER THAN
HIM.
ERRED THAT'S PRETTY STRONG AND
PRETTY POWERFUL.
BOTTOM LINE IF THAT'S WHAT THE
REPUBLICAN WANTS HIS THAT WHAT
THEY ARE GOING TO GET?
AND THE PRESIDENT PERSONAL
LAWYER IS IN THE BUNKER AT THIS
POINT.
I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT HUNTER
BIDEN BUSINESS IN UKRAINE AND
CHINA BEFORE IMPEACHMENT AND
ERISA COVERED BY MANY MEDIA IN
WASHINGTON D.C..
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS RIGHT NOW
THERE'S A QUESTION OF WHETHER OR
NOT WHAT HUNTER BIDEN DID WAS
ILLEGAL AT THIS POINT.
THERE'S SOME AS A NO IT WASN'T
THAT THE SAME TIME IT IS
UNSEEMLY.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE
TO SEE CHILDREN OF PRESIDENTS OR
VICE PRESIDENTS TRADING OFF OF
THEIR PARENTS NAME.
MIGHT NOT BE ILLEGAL BUT IT'S A
STORY OF CRONY CAPITALISM AND
AGAIN AND AGAIN IT SHOWS VOTERS
JUST DON'T LIKE IT YOU.
THIS IS CERTAINLY LIABILITY FOR
THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN AND I IMAGINE
WE WILL SEE THE WHITE HOUSE
CONTINUED TO TALK ABOUT
CORRUPTION EVEN IF THERE'S NO
ILLEGALITY FOUND.
I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A SLOW
BURN.
NANCY PELOSI HAS BEEN DOING
EVERYTHING SHE CAN TO HOLD BACK
HER CAUCUS FOR JUST LONG ENOUGH
THAT WE SAW WITH THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION, THERE WERE SOME
THINGS THAT WERE HIM SEEMLY BUT
THERE IS NO THERE THERE TO FORCE
THEM PEACH MINT ISSUE.
WITH UKRAINE WITH THE TRANSCRIPT
WE JUST SAW IS MUCH MORE SIMPLE.
BOTH ARGUMENTS, BOTH SIDES HAVE
GOOD ARGUMENTS TO BUTTRESS THEIR
POSITION BUT I THINK EVENTUALLY
WHAT WE WILL SEE HAPPEN IS NANCY
PELOSI IS GOING TO MOVE FORWARD
WITH IMPEACHMENT AND MITCH
McCONNELL IS GOING TO HOLD UP
HIS END OF THE BARGAIN.
IF LOOKING AT THIS PURELY
THROUGH PARTISAN STANDPOINT IT