INTERNET SENSATION. OVER TO YOU, BRIAN.
BRIAN: AINSLEY, AHEAD OF TODAY’S
CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN THE
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IMPEACHMENT
MANAGER ADAM SCHIFF CLAIMS HE
HAS NO REGRETS.
>> THERE’S NOTHING THAT I COULD
SEE THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE
DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE AS THE
SENATORS HAVE ADMITTED, WE HAVE
PROVED OUR CASE.
BRIAN: GOP CONGRESSMAN MARK
MEADOWS AND JIM JORDAN, KNOW
ADAM SCHIFF QUITE WELL, HE SAYS
HE HAS NO REGRETS, WHAT WOULD HE
ACTUALLY SAY, DO YOU THINK HE
BELIEVES IT?
BELIEVES IT? [LAUGHTER]
[LAUGHTER] >> , NO HE DOESN’T BELIEVE IT,
HE’S THE ONE THAT TOLD US THAT
WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM
THE WHISTLEBLOWER, HE’S THE ONE
THAT TOLD US THAT HE HAD NO
CONTACT WITH THE WHISTLEBLOWER,
HOW MANY TIMES HAS ADAM SCHIFF
MISLEAD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT
OUR COUNTRY HAS LIVED THERE, THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE SEE IT FOR WHAT
IT IS.
IT IS. >> CONGRESSMAN, RIGHT NOW, WE
WILL HEAR MORE OF THE SAME
RHETORIC TODAY, WE WILL TAKE A
PAUSE TUESDAY AND THEN WEDNESDAY
YOU’LL HAVE THE EXONERATION BY
ALL ACCOUNTS, WHAT DO YOU THINK
ABOUT THE CHANCES OF DEMOCRATS
FLIPPING OVER FROM JOE MANCHIN
ON DOWN?
ON DOWN? >> WELL, THEY BASE IT ON THE
FACT THAT IT WILL BE MORE THAN
JUST JOE MANCHIN BUT WHEN YOU
HAVE A BIPARTISAN VOTE AGAINST
IMPEACHMENT IN THE HOUSE AND YOU
HAVE A BIPARTISAN ACQUITTAL, IT
SHOWS THAT, INDEED, THERE WAS NO
MERITS TO THIS CASE AND WE’VE
GOT TO STOP THIS FROM EVER BEING
AN IMPACT ON NOT ONLY THIS
PRESIDENT BUT ANY FUTURE
PRESIDENT, BUT I I’M OPTIMISTIC
THAT THEY’LL BE A BIPARTISAN
ACQUITTAL.
ACQUITTAL. >> VERY INTERESTING, WE KNOW
IT’S NOT GETTING CLOSE TO 67, IF
WE GET MANCHIN AND WHO KNOWS WHO
ELSE, A FEW CROSS OVER IN THE
HOUSE.
HOUSE. SPEAKING OF THE HOUSE, ARE WE
GOING TO SEE MORE
INVESTIGATIONS, CAROL MALOENY
SAYING BECAUSE THIS IS OVER THE
INVESTIGATIONS AREN’T GOING TO
STOP, JORDAN?
STOP, JORDAN? >> NO, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO
STOP, REMEMBER THEY STARTED
BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT,
JULY 2016 WHEN IMPEACHMENT
REALLY BEGAN, SO-TRUMP RUSSIA
COLLUSION WHICH WAS A JOKE,
REMEMBER, THEY WENT TO FISA
COURT AND LIED TO THE COURT 17
TIMES, INTERESTING HEARING
COMING UP THIS WEEK WITH THE
IMPEACHMENT IOWA CAUCUS, THERE’S
A HEARING WHERE FBI DIRECTOR
CHRIS WRAY WILL BE TESTIFYING IN
FRONT OF JUDICIARY COMMITTEE,
WHAT’S GOING TO CHANGE WHEN IT
COMES TO FISA COURT OPERATES AN
MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT THE FBI
DOES WHEN THEY GO TO FISA COURT.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT’S
INTERESTING, CAROL IS TALKING
ABOUT ADDITIONAL HEARINGS, ONE
OF THE HEARINGS SHE’S NOT
WILLING TO HAVE INSPECTOR
HOROWITZ TO COME IN AND TALK
ABOUT FISA ABUSE AND WHAT WE
NEED TO DO, WHEN IT COMES TO
GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE
PROBLEM, SHE WANTS THE LOOK THE
OTHER WAY AND THIS IS NO
DIFFERENT.
DIFFERENT. BRIEN: WOULD THE SENATE DO THAT,
CONGRESSMAN JORDAN?
CONGRESSMAN JORDAN? I WANT TO SEE HUNTER BIDEN OR
ARE THEY PLAYING A GAME, PART OF
PLAYING A GAME THAT ONLY
BENEFITS LAWMAKERS AND NOT THE
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. >> WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO HAS DONE A
GREAT JOB HAS PUT JOHN DURHAM IN
LOOKING AT ISSUE AS WELL,
SENATOR JOHNSON ALSO SAID THAT
HE WANTS TO LOOK INTO THE
ISSUES, THE BIDEN ISSUE AS WELL
AS THE WHOLE FISA THING, SO I
THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EXPECT
THAT AND THAT NEEDS TO GET DONE,
IT’S NOT GOING TO GET DONE WITH
JERRY NADLER AND CAROL MALONEY.
BRIAN: YOU’LL HAVE PRESIDENTIAL
RESPECT AND EAR, IF THERE’S
SOMETHING TO BE LEARNED FROM
THIS ENTIRE PROCESS, IF IT WAS
IN FACT, AVOIDABLE, WHAT DO YOU
HOPE THE PRESIDENT TAKES FROM
THEM, THE VULNERABILITY WAS
THERE TO PUT THE HOUSE THROUGH
THE IMPEACHMENT, SO WHAT DO YOU
HOPE HE LEARNS FROM THIS?
>> WELL, I THINK THE BIGGEST
THING IS WE ARE IN A PARTISAN
POLITICAL DIVIDE RIGHT NOW, THAT
IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW PERFECT
ANYTHING IS, YOU HAVE TO BE
PREPARED FOR WHAT THE DEMOCRATS
ARE GOING TO DO.
BUT I THINK FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE THEY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND,
LISTEN, JIM AND I, WE WERE IN
EVERY SINGLE DEPOSITION, IF YOU
LOOKED AT THE FACTS THEY
WOULDN’T HAVE IMPEACHED HIM AT
ALL AND WOULDN’T HAVE GONE TO
THE SENATE, HE NEEDS TO CALL IT
OUT FOR WHAT IT IS, POLITICS,
HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET BACK ON
FOCUSING TO WHAT MATTERS, LET’S
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES
AND GUESS WHAT, HE’S ON THAT.
>> 20 SECOND.
I KNOW YOU HAVE RESPECT FOR
TACTICALLY AND POLITICALLY, HOW
-- WHY DID HE PLAY THE WAY SHE
DID, WHY DO YOU THINK SHE DID
THIS?
THIS? >> YEAH, THEY NEVER EXPECTED
WHAT WAS GOING TO PLAY OUT, YOU
GO BACK TO SEPTEMBER 24TH,
BRIAN, WHEN SHE ANNOUNCED THEY
WILL DO IMPEACHMENT
INVESTIGATION, THEY WOULD HAVE
NEVER PREDICTED THAT EVERY
SINGLE REPUBLICAN IN THE HOUSE
WOULD VOTE AGAINST HIM, AND
FOURTH DEMOCRAT WOULD VOTE WITH
US AND SWITCH PARTIES AND ON
WEDNESDAY WHEN IT’S A BIPARTISAN
MAJORITY FOR THE PRESIDENT, THEY
HAVE NEVER PREDICTED THAT
EITHER, SHE MESSED THIS UP ALL
THE WAY AROUND, BECAUSE AGAIN
THE FACTS WERE ON THE
PRESIDENT’S SIDE.
PRESIDENT’S SIDE. BRIAN: BELIEVE ME I WAS IN
MIAMI, NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT
IMPEACHMENT.
IMPEACHMENT. NO ONE TALKED ABOUT IMPEACHMENT.