Sunday morning futures. Maria so the week has arrived the senate trial will begin this tuesday. How long will this impeachment trial last . Here is Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham on this program two weeks ago. Well i hope to have the trial over by the end of january. We used the clinton model, where you take the record established in the house, let the house managers appointed by pelosi make the argument. Let the president make his arguments why the two articles are flawed. Then well decide whether or not we want witnesses but this should be done in a couple weeks. Maria joining me right now in exclusive interview senator ted cruz of texas, member of the Senate Judiciary committee. Chairman of the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution. Senator, always a pleasure to see you. Thanks so much for being here. Thank you, maria, good morn. Maria this is the first time we hear from the president. The president and white house coming out with a Statement Last night ahead of the trial. Would you agree this could be as shore as two weeks . What is your expectation . I think it is certainly possible this trial could last one to two weeks. On the other hand if the senate makes decision to go town to additional witnesses that could extend it six or eight weeks, even longer. There are two paths here. What you noted this week will be the first time in a year that the president had the opportunity to defend himself, to lay out the facts, to lay out the law, to lay out the actual substance. Weve seen months and months and months of a onesided show trial from House Democrats where they didnt want to hear from the defense. They shut out the white house. They shut out the minority. The good news in the senate what im confident well have a fair trial. Well not give into the kind of games House Democrats have played. Instead well give both sides a full and fair opportunity to present their case. The house managers will have every opportunity to stand up, present their arguments, put forth whatever evidence they have, but for the first time the president , White House Defense team is going to be able to walk through the facts and substance. I think that is a very, very important development. Maria talk about your reciprocity resolution. If you were were to to down the road of witnesses, you want it to be reciprocal. Tell us about that. That is right. Kind of strange how we got here. Democrats have been having hearings, being doing impeachment for months in the house. Brought in all sorts of witnesses. They blocked the minority from having any witnesses. Soon as we get to the senate, the democratic talking point is, we want more witnesses. Never mind all the witnesses they called before they want yet more. Theyre trying to delay this. Theyre trying to drag this out. They want this trial to go on forever they have a political objective attacking the president. What i have said, what i have urged the conference, listen if we go down the road of witnesses well not do what the house did. Well not have a onesided kangaroo court. Instead well respect reciprocity. What does that mean . If the prosecution gets a witness, the defense gets a witness. If the prosecution gets two, the defense gets two. If the prosecution gets to call john bolton, the president gets to call hunter biden. The democrats are terrified seeing a witness like hunter biden testify. They dont want to hear evidence of actual corruption, corruption potentially of joe biden, corruption that occurred during the obama administration. They blocked all the witnesses in the house. They will not succeed blocking them in the senate. If they want to go down the witnesses that means the president enjoys the rights to due process. That means he can call witnesses to lay out a defense. Maria would that open up a whole another can of worms, obviously the whole focus on president impeachment trial put hunter bide own and joe biden on the back seat. Nobody talks what went wrong, leadership of Foreign Countries while his father was sitting Vice President . Maria, youre right. The democrats desperately want to keep the topic off the news. Sadly awful lot of folks in the media are compliant with that. The president having opportunity to defend himself is so important. Because i think one of the fundamental defenses i expect to hear from the white house this week is that the president has inherent tort, in fact a responsibility to investigate corruption. And when you look at what happened with joe biden and hunter biden, there is at a minimum prima facie evidence of corruption. You have got hunter biden, getting paid 83,000 a month, by burisma, the Largest National gas company in ukraine, 83,000 a month, is a Million Dollars a year. Hunter biden had zero experience in oil and gas. Not like he was geologist or physicist, he was getting that money, the obvious inference is because his daddy was Vice President. The joe biden on video in front of the council of Foreign Relations he blocked a billion dollars of foreign loans, in ukraine, until they fired the prosecutor who was potentially investigating burisma, the company on which hunter biden sat on the board. If the biden family is profiting to the tune of millions of dollars, the president is entirely justified saying, lets investigate and find out what happened. That is why hunter biden is such such an important witness. Why the democrats dont want to focus on evidence of actual corruption. I expect to hear a lot from the White House Defense team this week. Maria you have a 51 vote threshold in terms of getting that vote to hear witnesses. Do you want to hear from witnesses . Then i want your take on the white house letter sent last night, basically calling the articles of impeachment violations of the constitution . Well, starting with the second part first, i do think what weve seen, coming out of the house is an abuse of the constitution. The reason is, that theyre using this for political purposes. This is the first time in history any president has alleged, has been impeached without the articles alleging any criminal conduct at all, without alleging any federal crime was violated. They dont allege any federal law was violated. They dont allege as much as the president has a speeding ticket. That has never happened in our countrys history. To use impeachment like the House Democrats are doing, to express their political disagreement with the president , to try to overturn an election theyre unhappy with, that is an abuse of the constitution. Now the first question you asked about process and witnesses, let me tell you what we can expect to see in the next week or two Going Forward. On tuesday, when we come back the senate will convene at one p. M. Well start with pretrial motions. Well start with probably battling motions. What i expect the senate to do is adopt a scheduling order laying out the next couple of weeks. That scheduling order is modeled after the scheduling order for the bill clinton impeachment. It is very, very similar. So it provides that we start with the house managers, getting 24 hours spread over two days to present their case. They can argue evidence. They can argue law. They can argue whatever they want. After that the president and white house, they get 24 hours spread over two days to present their case. Then we shift to questions from senators. Senators get 16 hours. Our questions have to be in writing. The chief justice asking them for us. All of that us i anticipate take as week, to week 1 2. At that point the scheduling order provides the senate will vote whether or not additional witnesses are necessary. That is 51vote threshold. I dont know how the vote will come out. I think all 47 democrats will vote yes. The open question is, whether there will be four republicans to join with those 47 democrats. Look, i think some of that depends what happens in the first week 1 2. What arguments the house managers put forward. The white house puts forward. What questions comes out. I hope at the end of the week 1 2 where republican senators are, is weve heard enough. The evidence they put forward doesnt satisfy the constitutional standards. The constitution says impeachment lies for high crimes and misdemeanors. Maria right. This was not a high crime or misdemeanor. They didnt allege any crime at all. I hope at the end of this process well get at least 51 votes to say, lets move to final judgment. When we move to final judgment, the outcome of this will be the president will be acquitted. The senate will vote not guilty and reason i can say that with confidence because on their face the articles of impeachment, they dont allege high crimes and misdemeanors. They fail on their face. I hope we get 51 votes in week 1 2 to say this is over. If not, if not, if there are at least four republicans democrat for witnesses were looking at a trial will probably last six or eight weeks or longer. Because you have to assume there will be litigation over the witnesses, there will be delay. If we go down the road of witnesses all the democrats envisioning only prosecution witnesses and no defense witnesses theyre in fantasyland. The senate will not do like the house, play political games. Well be fair. Well give the president pull opportunity to defend himself. Maria how likely we see a motion to dismiss in the, after the first 48 hours, after you actually look at those articles . You know, i dont think it is that likely. The reason is i think dismissing this case is a much less attractive option than rendering final judgment and acquitting the president. Maria sure. The reason is twofold. Number one if you do a dismissal, the additional doesnt reach the merits. On acquittal a verdict of not guilty, that verdict stands for all time. Nancy pelosi is going out on tv crowing that the president has been impeached forever. Maria right. When we get to final judgment, the president will have been acquitted forever of the boeing bus impeachment charges. That is much better outcome for the president and country. Secondly, if we dismiss at the outset the president would never get a chance to defend himself. The president , the white house lawyers would never get the opportunity to put on the affirmative case. Maria thats true. Think about it in the months and months of house hearings, what i said about hunter biden you didnt hear witnesses say that because the House Democrats didnt want those facts in evidence. They didnt want to explore the evidence of corruption. The president is entitled to have his case, laid out, laid out persuasively to point out as the brief president filed this weaken points out, these House Democrats have wanted to impeach the president since november of 2016. Maria thats right. Election day, they have been saying were going to impeach the president. This has nothing to do with ukraine. It was long before anything had happened with ukraine. This is before the president had been sworn in House Democrats were saying they wanted to impeach him. This is pure politics. It is abusing the constitution. Right. What a week this will be. Take a break. When we come back, there are some areas where you agree with your colleagues on the left. 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Well, look, there is no doubt joe biden served with an awful lot of senators. A number of senators consider him a personal friend. Im hopeful, i believe senators will do their constitutional duty. Which of means they will not decide this case based on friendship, but rather, there was a reason that the framers of the constitution gave the responsibility of conducting an impeachment trial to the senate. They debated quite a bit where to do the impeachment, particularly after president. One of the options they considered was the u. S. Supreme court. They also considered the senate. They considered a third option, combination of the two, combining two. That is sort of what they did by bringing the chief justice of the United States in to preside over the senate but if you look at the federalist papers, Alexander Hamilton explains the reason they chose the senate was two things. Number one, they wanted the institution with the credibility to resolve issues. Impeachment of the president is a big deal. They knew it would be politically contentious. They wanted a institution that could have credibility with the American People to be fair. Secondly they wanted an institution that could withstand buffeting of politics. Wouldnt be like the house. The house is designed to respond to momentary political surges. Senate is designed to be stable, consistent. That is why the framers gave it to the senate. Im holeful that my colleagues will fulfill that responsibility. Maria let me let you listen to this from robert ray and how it relates to google and big tech. In 2020 if all these companies are supporting the same candidate, there are 15 million votes on the line can be shifted without peoples none, without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace. Maria 15 million votes. To back for us. What happened in 2016 . Are you worried that big tech wants to put its finger on the scale in upcoming 2020 election . So im very worried, that many you just showed is dr. Robert epstein, a very respected academic, he is a school exist. Used to be editor of psychology today. He did a empirical study on Google Search results and results that came back. He was astonished by the results. By manipulating search out comes, google in 2016 shifted 2. 6 million votes towards Hillary Clinton. Now here is the interesting thing, maria. Dr. Epstein is not a republican. He is a liberal democrat. He voted for Hillary Clinton. So politically he was happy to see more votes for hillary but he was horrified to see big tech have that kind of power. He went on to testify what you just played, if they do the same thing in 2020, which all indications are they are going to, they could shift up to 15 million votes. It is terrifying that a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires that now control over 5 trillion of the American Economy have no accountability and the ability to censor, to deceive and manipulate votes. I think that is threat to democracy we need to take very seriously. Maria lets not forget being Michael Bloomberg running for president is willing to spend up to billion dollars even if he is not the nominee. He already spent 117 million. Bloomberg has already spent more than every other candidate combined. It is striking, with all the rhetoric, fairly interesting that the two top spenders on the democratic side, are two gazillionaires, billionaires, writing massive checks. That is often the case when you see people with socialist rhetoric, they often are doing so from position of great wealth themselves and so theyre happy to redistribute other peoples wealth, not so much themselves. Maria wow. I think we ought to be the sort of economy where everyone has a fair opportunity. Where people, people like my dad when he came from cuba in 57 with nothing, washing dishes have an opportunity to achieve the american dream. 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On a personal note, thank you very much for all the appearances going back now many, many months. But for you i dont know that i would have come to the president s attention. Thank you very much appreciate good thank you. Congratulations. This is a big deal. Of course it is. Maria tell me what the defense sis. I think the president s principle defense, you saw it in the answer interposed over the weekend is very simple, this is an entirely partisan and therefore illegitimate effort by House Democrats to remove a president from office and the remedy for that is the United States senate as envisioned by the framers of the constitution. In order to overturn the will of the electorate in the 2016 election, and particularly given the fact were now in the middle of a president ial campus pape for 2020, ultimately that will can only be overturned with a bipartisan effort and, overwhelming bipartisan support in the senate with a 2 3 majority in order to remove a president , to overturn the will of that electorate. Very simple. Maria do you expect any republicans to vote for impeachment . I dont, no. Maria lets look at the letter the white house, your team sent last night because the conclusion of that letter from the white house says, the articles of impeachment violate the constitution. They are defective in their entirety. Theyre product of invalid proceedings flagrantly denied the president any due process. Ted cruz said the first 48 hours will determine a lot. What are you expecting . I think he is right about that. You also saw from Speaker Pelosi essentially celebrating the notion that the stain of impeachment exists and exists forever. The only rejoinder to that, the rejoinder my job, with the rest of the defense team to place before the United States senate their consideration is the question about rejoinder being that there will be acquittal forever as well. That is what we expect. That is the task ahead during the next several weeks. Maria do you think, do you think you would like to see witnesses . Witnesses can go either way, i know that they also can open up the can of worms around hunter biden which seems to have been forgotten at this point. That is a relevant issue to consider. If you get into the question, the democrats alleged having to do with the bidens, completely in their words a sham, obviously views about that are affected whether or not you think there is merit to a biden investigation. Before we ever get to that, the core issue, senator cruz alluded to this, wellfounded, i said this many times, many times on your show, wellfounded articles of impeachment both allege that crimes were committed and that those are the type of crimes that constitute abuse of the public trust. Abuse of power alone and history has shown this, similar to also obstruction of congress, those types of articles of impeachment have been tried on for size before, but they have not fared well. The core of the impeachment parameters allege crimes have been mitted, treason, bribery, things like that, in other words, high crimes and misdemeanors. Maria unbelievable. Thank you very much. Thanks very limu emu doug [ siren ] give me your hand i can save you. Lots of money with liberty mutual. We customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need [ grunting ] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. I think it is going to be a great team. You have people that have experience. Weve seen this is onesided sham from moment number one. So, i guess a lot of it depend on what happens from this point on, right . I would like to personally hear from everyone. I would like to hear from hunter biden. I would like to hear from joe biden because frank think these are the reasons were even having this conversation right now. Maria would you rather see the senate, you know, file a motion to dismiss right away which is what Lindsey Graham came on the program said he would do a couple weeks ago or do you want to hear from these people . If were hearing from all the witnesses i sort the want to hear it. Having watched this thing transpire over the last few years, nonsense perpetuate itself i definitely want to hear from the other side. If republicans, some of them, call it weaker republicans, i sort of like the rand paul model, make a vote on it. If some of those guys dont want to hear from the witnesses that we would want to hear from, but well hear from the others, i want to know about it because they dont deserve to be in office. It really depends. We have to play the game the way democrats played the game. We have to play hard but fair, hearing from everyone is totally fair. That is not what weve seen so far while the democrats controlled the process t has not been fair in any way, shape or form. Maria we should have expected nancy pelosi wanted the president out just from the state of the union last year. Of course. Impeachment started november 9th, 2016. Okay . That is what it has been going on. The Washington Post wrote the case for impeachment 20 minutes after the inauguration. This has been an on going saga forever. The other thing i think nancy is trying to do with delay, prevent other people like bernie from being on the campaign trail. Maria once again colluding they collude against themselves in this way because the last time they colluded to rig the democrat primary it worked out perfectly for us because we got hillary. That was a godsend. Maria it is pretty unbelievable. You mentioned hunter biden. When your father became president you and your Trump Organization stopped doing International Deals. We said we would not do International DealsGoing Forward. Im so involved in politics because thats what i did, our International Deals. Unlike hunter biden we were International Business people before daddy got into politics. Hunter biden magically becomes International Business second his father is pulling the pure strings. People dont want to talk about that. Maria to china, took that trip imagine donald trump, jr. Took one 1 2 dollars after traveling on air force one with his dad, imagine i took 1 1 2 dollars. There would be outrage. Maria he took 50 or 60,000 a month. 83,000 a month from burisma. More from ukraine. Maria let me ask you about the lev parnas news. Obviously this guy is indicted. Releasing a trove of documents in house intel committee. Your name comes up in one of the Text Messages exchange between parnas and a gop fundraiser. How well do you know parnas . There are pictures of lev parnas with the president . I met him at fundraiser events. He was donor at superpac, shows up things like anything else. I didnt realize he was ukrainian. I thought he was israeli. The reality you dont know how them that well. That is the problem how this works worth. You take a couple pictures. If they are a donor. Stand in line with 50 people. That is how it works. Media, says theyre buddies. I guarranty you he couldnt pick out the guy in line up in. You do average of 200 times an evening you do that a couple times a week. This is how the game works. Media pretends they dont know how the game works. Maria i was reading posts and tweets. You accused yovanovitch monitoring you. Tell me what happened . They assigned people in the Ukrainian Embassy to monitor myself, other conservative figures. Sean hannity, dan bongino. Numerous others. Now she is accusing people of doing the same to her because that is what happens. Old liberal, democrat politics accuse them of doing all the things that youre doing. So a year later they come back to try to accuse us of it. Maria throughout 2016 and 2017 we saw this hysteria in terms of collusion, yet they continue to look for more things to try to attack your father. They will double down. Any opportunity to hurt trump that is the reality. I said it over and over. Democrats and media hate trump much more than they love america because you cant dispute the numbers. You cant dispute alltime low unemployment for every group in this country, every demographic. You cant maria 50year low in unemployment. We have a consumer obviously the sentiment and send something very strong. Economic growth has moved. Correct. Maria talking about close to 3 expectations in 2020. Not by magic. He is implemented policies that have allowed the markets to work. That have allowed Small Business to thrive. Allowed people to actually invest in themselves. That is lifted everyone. That affect as lot of people. Maria you make a good point. Looks like income inequality is narrowing. When you look at bottom earners, their wages gone up 4 1 2 . Correct. Isnt that a statistic we want . Isnt that the way we want to lift rising tide that lifts all ships . That is what we want to do. That is what he said he was going to do and he has done it. Maria lets go to 2020 and the election. Who will be the nominee . Media has it in doing full press to make sure biden is the guy which is great in a way. I sort of like to see trump go oneonone with biden. When i see biden talking to group of 20 people with teleprompter, theyre afraid he will say that tells me all you know. You can hide some of that get him on the trail, five or six months oneonone with donald trump, it will be awesome. Maria what about the bloomberg factor . He will spend money one way or the other. He doesnt have the personality for this. He cant relate to people. He probably inherently dislikes people. So he just doesnt have the retail side of it which is a big part of it. You cant, he doesnt have a stage presence. He doesnt have the personality. He will spend a lot of money, what will he spend it against . Maria he gave democrats 100 million plus at end of last year, that in fact that was effective . I think for the house. He doesnt have what it takes to be a politician. Maria let me ask but the president and how he is doing here in the face of all these attacks, getting ready for impeachment. Honestly he is doing fine. You can see that through his actions. He is used to taking punches, and getting hit. He will keep working. More of a game time player than anything. 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They have a great group of folks that we put together over next couple weeks. Maria you made four points in terms of going back to the basic facts here. This has to do obviously with the transcript with the president released right after this began . No, look, they never expected him to do that. One of the great moves the president made, released the call of the transcript. The transcript says no quid quote pro. President trump and zelensky repeatedly said there is no pressure, linkage, any type of investigation to the Security Assistance dollars. Third point, the ukrainians didnt even know at the time of the call the aid was on hold. They didnt learn until a month later from the politico article. This is most important fact, the one democrats can never get past, important fact, ukrainians took no action. No promise to start. No investigation, to start, no announcement of doing investigation into bidens or burisma to get the aid released. The aid was released, over 55 days the aid was paused the president became convinced he is lens ski was genuine reformer and he decided to release hardearned tax dollars of the American People to ukraine. I want to switch gears. Ask you what is taking place at the fbi investigation. You have done incredible amount of work in terms of exposing the wrongdoing in 2016 and possibly early 2015 actually. We know now that general Michael Flynn is going to be reversing his plea. Yeah. Maria Sidney Powell says his lawyer says prosecutors knew they pressed him to lie. Listen sound bite of jim comey on another network, talking about the way he decided to send a few fbi agents over to the white house to question general Michael Flynn. I thought it is early enough. Lets just send a couple guys over. We place ad call to flynn. Hey, were sending a couple guys over. Hope you will talk to them. He said sure. Nobody else was there. They interviewed him in a Conference Room in the white house situation room and he lied to them. Yeah. Maria Sidney Powell says this is strong inference that the prosecutors themselves conspired to cause mr. Flynn to make false statements. Basically encouraging him not to have a lawyer present. Well send a few guys over as if it is a casual meeting. One of them, one of the fbi said they didnt think he was lying at time. But they later said that he did. They tried to set him up. They did set him up. This is not unusual, it should be unusual, but the fbi did it another time as well. They did it on january 6th at trump tower when president elect trump, they went up there and briefed president elect trump on the dossier. The dossier they already knew was false. They went to brief the president , leak it to the press and press could write about it. And tried to set up the president elect of United States in the same manner. This is who they operate, they to the caught. You think of what mr. Horowitz told us last month, maria, the fbi went when they went to get the carter page want to spy on the Trump Campaign they lied to the court 17 times, in the initial application and three renewals. 17 times they lied to the court. Now what is interesting, lisa page, peter strzok, two individuals if charge of the investigation, got in a little fat with Rod Rosenstein who was also involved. I find it kind of information, the people running this all are fighting amongst themselves. Maria they got caught. Will they face accountability, congressman . You mentioned Rod Rosenstein, the story going viral, that rosanna said he authorized the rosenstein, authorized release of pagestrzok techs. The audience knows there would be insurance policy she would be the next president. Tone you take with her. She wrote might be next president. Wrote lisa page. Now the pressure really starts to finish the investigation into Hillary Clinton. They were out to get the president. You had, on donald trump, jr. , i thought it was great interview. He said impeachment started on election day. I think it started earlier, started on a july 31st, 2016 when they opened the trump russia investigation. Spied on four american citizens involved with the Trump Campaign. Who was heading investigation, peter strzok. Peter strzok, said in one of the Text Messages, i went to the southern virginia walmart, i want smell the trump support. The disdain they have for the president and more importantly the disdain they have for folks like you and my, voted for president. That is so wrong. They get caught with the Text Messages and now they will sue. That is ridiculous. It was great the Text Messages were released, American People can see the bias, animus, these folks ran two biggest visions of our lifetime, clinton email investigation, trump russia investigation they can see the bias and animus they had against president donald trump. Maria important to bring it up in terms of what took place in six teen. Were on the doorstep of impeachment trial President Trump. There was collusion on democratic side. Hillary clinton paying for the dossier. The dossier came from russia and came from ukraine. If that is not collusion with the russians what is . There is obstruction they also said the president did. Yet Hillary Clinton destroyed documents, emails. She used a hammer and bleach to destroy her devices. Yeah. Maria it is just extraordinary to me that this continues, and goes unchecked. Best evidence there was bias is look at the names they gave the two investigations . The clinton investigation, code name they gave it, the midyear exam. When it came to the trump russia investigation the fbi came up with crossfire hurricane. You could almost see them pounding their chest like tarzan. Well get the president. Well go after donald trump. That is exactly what they did. Never forget what bill barr said. Bill barr said there was crisis of leadership at Upper Echelon off the fbi. That is biggest understatement ever. Of course that was. Comey was fired. Mccabe was fired. Lied three times under oath. Jim baker lead counsel resigned. Lisa page had to step down, resigned as well. Peter strzok kicked off the mueller team and fired. Five key people ran the investigations. I never seen an agency where that happened before. Maria absolutely extraordinary the way nancy pelosi talks about the attorney general by the way, ag barr. She talks about him as if you know, he is not the leading legal person of the country and, she says he is, just fighting for donald trump. I mean it is quite extraordinary. So you have to bring this up because they dont, they want to take donald trump out. They dont want another word about this fbi investigation. They dont want any, you know, accountability for what took place. Yeah. Remember, bill barr said not only there was failure of leadership at Upper Echelon of the fbi, he used the word drove the left crazy, defendant the democrats crazy, there was spying took place. There was a basis for my concern about spying that happened. Third or fourth i should say he used a term that should scare us all, he used term political surveillance testifying in front of the Senate Finance committee. That is scary. The fact he is doing good job getting bottom of this, that is what scares them. I look forward to the Durham Report when it comes out later this year. Maria thank you very much. Congressman jim jordan. Thank you. Maria Jeff Van Drew breaking news on impeachment trial and release of inmates under prison reform. Wait until you hear that. Were looking what a time to be alive. The world is customized to you. Built for you. So why isnt it all about you, when it comes to your money . So. Whats on your mind . We are edward jones, a 97yearold firm built for right now. With one Financial Advisor per office, were all about knowing whats important to you the one who matters. Edward jones. Its time for investing to feel individual. Maria was here a minute ago. This is live television. Im eric shawn filling in for maria rest of the program. There is the flu going around. She has got it. Testament to the dedication and personalism of Maria Bartiromo. She said with the program until now. You know. This is what happens sometimes in life. Television news. Our best to maria. I will take it for the rest of the program. We have newly minted republican congressman from new jersey, Jeff Van Drew, he switched parties after the house passed articles of impeachment against the president. He voted no. Growing frustration with moderate democrats in trump districts. He joins us with very latest. What do you expect happens this week . You voted no, yet it is Going Forward . You sympathy nancy pelosi will try to subpoena witnesses after the impeachment trial is over . Well, first of all, let me just say i i want to wish maria the best wishes. That she gets better really quickly. That flu is going around everywhere. She doesnt deserve it. She is too good a lady. I want her to know were all thinking about her. Secondly to answer your question, look the house had its time. They have spent months and months and months of reports, of investigations, millions of upon millions of dollars and we finally the house came up with two articles of impeachment both of which are very weak. I will say this, i will say it over and over again because i think people must understand how important it is, impeachment is a tool that is not meant to be used anywhere near a regular basis. Our Founding Fathers almost disliked it. It was said even by the de tocqueville a famous french man who loved america, when impeachment was used to often, it was sign of degeneration of the break down and, which cant have political impeachments. Quickly, we have 30 or 40 seconds left. The president is coming to your district. What is reaction in the garden state once you switched . Im proud to say for his event, all the events he had done all over the country, we had the most ticket requests. He is coming to support me and my reelection. He is coming to support about his issues. We are really proud to have him. There will be thousands upon thousands. Last i heard there is 100,000 ticket requests for the president. Were proud to have him. Were proud to have the president. Shows he cares about big towns, big cities, and cares about the little places. Congressman, Jeff Van Drew. Thank you so much. We wish maria the very best. Send her flowers. Send Maria Bartiromo at Fisher Investments, we do things differently and other Money Managers dont understand why. Because our way works great for us but not for your clients. Thats why were a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. So, what do you provide . Cookie cutter portfolios . Nope. 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