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>> i think house democrats would have you believe that somehow this impeachment effort is the author was of organic activity from the president when the reality is they have intended to impeach this president from the very beginning. it was actually the chairman when campaigning to be the head of the judiciary committee who said that hed be best on the impeachment issue. this is a "new york times" article in december 18th 2017. it says it is our constitutional effort and with his demonstrated le...

>> yield to mr. gaetz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think house democrats would have you believe that somehow this impeachment effort is the outgrowth of organic activity from the president when the reality is they have intended to impeach this president from the very beginning, and it was actually the chairman when campaigning to be the head of the judiciary committee who said that hed be best on the impeachment issue. this is the "new york times" article december 18th, 2017. and it says as ou...

This. remember, he sees this as a way to energize his base even though he doesnt like being impeached. >> so so many things coming together. the new trade deal is exactly what the white house wanted. they face one more day of the threat of shutting down the government. in talking to democrats and some senators as well, theyre concerned that the president is not going to compromise on the budget and thats a december 20th deadline. and he would welcome shutting down the government. im not sure wha...

Bloomberg rolling into the super tuesday states to compete with them and you have a presidential debate in two weeks. this impeachment is beginning to overwhelm the real politics the democrats should be interested in, trying to get themselves a presidential nominee. >> sandra: dan henninger from the washington journal. thank you. >> bill: a ton more reaction coming into us. democratic congressman from michigan dan kildee is live in a moment and white house live for reaction, a white house adviso...

So there are people on the bubble and then those voters out there in the country who are on the bubble. we heard so much about people going home over thanksgiving and hearing not a heck of a lot about the impeachment issue. were inside of one year to a presidential election and i think youll hear from jonathan turley the argument that we cannot find ourselves in a place where we use impeachment as a political tool to remove a president and that is a dangerous place to be potentially. look for so...

Lets get to know you and what makes you tick. so thats a very relevant factor. but lets get to the merits of what they have to say and deal with the merits and i think they will be some real issues there. the republicans will, i hope, inquire into very vigously. >> bill: jonathan turley in his opening statement will argue we dont know what the impeachment issue is just yet. you are asking us to comment on that prior to when we have that information. and then he will point out that is entirely co...

>> it doesnt break any new ground or reveal any details we didnt have yet, but it does show the extent to which house republicans are making sure theres really no daylight between where theyre at on the impeachment issue and the white house. they point to the presidents unfounded allegations about ukraine allegedly interfering in the united states 2016 election and say these are concerns they believe warrant attention and potentially warrant investigation. meanwhile, of course, its been widely r...

There are always strategies going in. what are you hearing now? >> we dont know publicly who the witnesses are. we know there is going to be about four mostly law professors laying out the constitutional and academic argument on the impeachment issue. thats really allowed the president, the white house and republicans to see that process. they pointed out a comparable hearing. they had 19 witnesses totaled and they had two and a half weeks advance to prepare for these meetings. the timeline is c...

Think its appropriate to impeach the president under these circumstances. everybody knows how they are going to vote. they know what the vote will be in the intelligence committee. they know what the vote is going to be in the judiciary committee. theyll send this over to the senate. and thats where the senate is going to look at this and take up the impeachment issue with a lot more seriousness. >> bill: can they do all this in three weeks on the house side, guy? >> no. it is never going to hap...

Hand for american and for our friends, they just thought that he was going in the wrong direction, so when they sat me down that day, they were attempting to tell me that if i would work with them, they were trying to save america and keep people from dying, but we saw when the embassy moved from tel aviv to jerusalem, the sky is still up there. it didnt fall and we didnt see casualties. what we saw was a courageous moment by the president that many presidents have tried before that was very suc...