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inflation as bizarre. this as the dow takes another plunge. we have fox team coverage. susan li in new york tells us whats going on with the markets. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, mike. in the presidents first interview of any kind with a reporter since february and first print interview since may of last year, he says he thinks the reason that people are upset from this country right now is the pandemic and he...

Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not ille...

Violent attack. the "washington post" reported that a pence aide while in hiding in the capitol basement with the vice president was told pences action was to blame for the violence under way. and this resurfaced audio from steve bannons podcast four days before january 6th, eastman claiming pences courage and spine could get in the way of their plans to overturn a fair election. >> are we to assume this is going to be a cli maam particular battle thats going the take place this week about the v...

Impeach the president. now that the russian collusion allegations did not work out, democrats have settled on the ukraine phone call, eight lines the president utderred on july 25th with ukrainian president zelensky. but the foreign affairs committee, the committee on jurisdiction wasnt the committee leading the impeachment inquiry or holding the hearings. never was the oversight committee. the houses chief investigative entity. the judiciary committee was only recently brought back into the mix...

House floor, and they cut off his mic. this is without precedent. this is without minority rights. and i have said the democrats should be providing republicans and presidents -- and the president the same exact rights that they would be demanding if the roles were reversed. unfortunately, where we are today is that we finished up another week are a i have spent the entire week with adam schiff in his bunker in the capitol basement whereas michael mccaul just said in that clip that you just play...

House parliamentarian on the house floor, and they cut off his mic. this is without precedent. this is without minority rights. and i have said the democrats should be providing republicans and presidents -- and the president the same exact rights that they would be demanding if the roles were reversed. unfortunately, where we are today is that we finished up another week are a i have spent the entire week with adam schiff in his bunker in the capitol basement whereas michael mccaul just said in...

But they want to try to inject these kind of, what democrats consider to be tangential arguments into this because in their, in democrats view, they believe they are trying to object advice kate whats going on. and i think its important to note. and its very telling that theyve been in this hearing which they expect it to last three or four hours now for quite as long in the capitol basement with the inspector general who arguably started this whole impeachment process. >> well, because you brou...

Remarkable picture. look at that. of lisa murkowski, senator murkowski on the right and senator diane feinstein on the left, having what one reporter described as an intense conversation. yeah, no kidding, in the capitol basement. these two senators reportedly hugged before diane feinstein waved everybody else away and the two began whispering out of earshot of reporters. we just heard senator chris coons say hes having multiple conversations with republican senators across the aisle. he said ma...

This afternoon, we also got this remarkable picture. look at that. of lisa murkowski, senator lisa murkowski on the right and senator diane fine stain on the left, having what one reporter described as an intense conversation. yeah, no kidding, in the capitol basement. these two senators reportedly hugged before diane feinstein waved everybody else away and the two began whispering out of earshot of nearby reporters. we just heard senator chris coons say hes having multiple conversations not onl...

Are corrupt. and they note that the president believes that to an extent. and so theyre not really willing to have this huge intraparty fight at this time. but theyre very concerned and they keep telling us the red line is firing mueller. everything else they hope will just pass like a storm. >> bob, can i ask quickly, one quick follow up and to you, susan, bob, theres no doubt that when were trying to figure out why paul ryan is doing what hes doing and why these members are doing what theyre d...