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Commonplace contribution in foreign aid to a country that is showing democratic principles. >> the chairman of your intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, now says impeachment in his words may be the only remedy that is co-equal to president trumps conduct. youve been supportive of opening an impeachment inquiry, but do you now believe the sefd the -- evidence is there to go ahead and actually impeach? >> i want to see the complaint, i want to see the transcript. i believe that the dir...

Frustration, anger really among a lot of democrats that he wasnt held in contempt right then and there when he was not answering questions, never mind not treating the members of congress with the respect they felt that they deserved. but then of course this. the whole question of ukraine and the idea that the acting dni is not urn thing over the whistle-blower complaint. the fact that adam schiff who has not been in the impeached proud, hes been cautious. hes been in lock step with members of t...

But because of my conservative and support donald trump and because they didnt want to hear there was no collusion, mo obstruction, they decide today talk over me. >> finally, during the break in the hearing, you put a website, lets urge corey to run for senate in new hampshire, looks to me like youre running, you think the hearing helped you in your potential run but i dont know whether a contempt of congress citation might hurt you. >> you know, howie,i cant control if congress will hold me in...

Cannot control what the democrat judiciary committee is going to do to me. i answered every question that i was allowed to, the only time i didnt answer a question if it related to a private conversation between the president and myself or a senior member of his team and myself and thats because i have -- i dont hold the executive privilege, the president is the only one who can waive that privilege and the advice of the white house council they asked me to preserve the privilege, if they want t...

See. the american people arent going to have trust in these intelligence agencies until someone is put in jail. i just came back -- i did an event out in missouri for congresswoman billy long, the question that i get, im going through airports at events, speaking publicly, everybody wants to know the same thing, when is somebody going to pay the price, are you really going to have a fisa court that operates like this, i dont think so. look, the fisa court has a responsibility too, so i hope that...

Andy mccabe who we know by inspector general horowitz lied at least 3 times under oath, has criminal referral pending against him and waiting for the grand jury in washington, d.c. to indict him and they dont disclose the information before he come on television, so as a guest on a television show they are trying to hold me to a different standard to own employees and i think theres a shame of it and thats why they didnt want to talk about it. >> i work with allison when she was here at fox, i d...

Was there an effort by the president to have the president of the ukraine do an investigation to benefit the presidents re-election? that would be a gift from a foreign national which is against the election codes in this country, as well. we need the facts, though. we need to see the documentation. thats why i for one believe that contempt is the step to take next if the director of national intelligence does not make that available to us, the complaint, available to us on thursday. >> whats th...

How does that affect the public? how do they feel about congress? how do they feel about democrats? how do they feel about republicans? what does it mean for 2020 >> . >> i dont think there would be anybody happy about that circumstance except for donald trump, who would be thrilled by that circumstance. unless we think about what happened in 2018. first off, lets stipulate nancy pelosi has already said -- and leadership of the house democrats have already said this is something different and we...

Judiciary committee has one one person says hold that person in contempt, and nadler does not. when we have subpoena powers when we could go into court and ask for expedited schedules we dont. we could have had a select committee, sure it takes time, but we havent done that. >> on the select committee front, it is harder for current officials up and down the bureaucracy to resist congressional subpoenas. >> right. >> than former officials. >> yes. >> and administrative officials who have never w...

Contempt or their subpoenas. they now marked the house. corey lewandowski spit in the face of the house and there is nothing to happen to him. if you read the right wing media, he was a hero. they want to do that to the press. if they can do that to the press and mock us to the point that people dont take us seriously and we dont back up our effort, if we dont show integrity, if we dont have some teeth in our reporting they will do it. and, brian, we will the last best hope between trump and an ...