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Simple, keep it simple. the white house released security assistance to ukraine only after congress started asking questions why. considering that bolton, giuliani, mulvaney and others may have pertinent firsthand testimony, why wont president trump let them testify? and i believe what hes suggesting is that democrats got too bogged down in the actual policy differences about whether security assistance should go to ukraine and this and that, as opposed to just the message of, this was corrupt, ...

As we look at the format that has been worked out for today, who has the advantage? >> you know, i think its pretty equal. i think the advantage in some ways goes to the viewer, right, because youll not have a situation where either side can kind of hijack this hearing with hijinx, filibustering as weve seen in other hearings like this. i think if you are the democrats, you are happy, a, its televised. youre happy youll have lawyers directing the question so you can lay out a real narrative. the...

>> obviously well try to bring all the facts out. thats the purpose of bringing these witnesses in front of the american people so that the american people can hear the evidence for themselves. i think as soon as we got that transcript and then the witnesses who affirmed the fact that the president asked the pr, the president of the united states committed extortion. he was trying to get the ukrainian president to take out a political rival, joe biden, in exchange for military aid and in exchang...

Communications point a tough week ahead. they have to sell this to the american public. they may be convinced behind closed doors of what theyve seen. now they have to do it in public. >> im not sure they have a tougher challenge theyve had so far. number one, the majority of americans are on their side, right? the majority of americans do believe donald trump should be impeached and removed from office. second, we have that finding with the fact that nobody has given a public testimony so far, ...

Enough. they just need to figure out, can we make the public hearings make the case to the public that what the president has done is impeachable? >> keep it simple. >> it starts wednesday. michael warren, have a good weekend. >> thanks. you, too. lets move to the retail sector. two retailers facing tough times. sears announced it will close another 96 stores in the next few months after closing several others in the past year. the 132-year-old company has been closing locations at an accelera...

They fear the american has some sort of post-traumatic stress from the duration of the mueller probe and the 400 page we were asked to read. the web of names or cast of characters from game of thrones. what that persons name again? remind me what that person did to the other one that one time. not that guy. the other one. with the thing. and the thing. by the time the mueller report ends the american people were drained and some out raged by the impression it was all for not. a lesson from the e...

Were asked to read, the cast of characters from "game of thrones" and whats that persons name. not that guy. the other one, the one with the thing and then the thing. by the time the mueller report ends, the american people were drained. and some outraujed by the impression that it was all for not. it seems that congress gleaned a lesson from the era of mueller, keep it simple. there was a phone call. it was with a foreign president. the ukrainians wanted military aid. trump wanted dirt on joe b...

Risponi he is the outsider. >> yes, i know. when they go into politics, when they start cutting down the other person, and then turn around and say oh well, i didnt really mean that i like abraham. he come out front. rob: you think risponi fights too bertie. >> when he changes tune. when he say he made a mistake. rob: in 2020 you are for trump. >> oh, yes. rob: as far as democrats go, do you think anybody has a chance. >> no. rob: fair enough. keep it simple. >> yeah. they -- there is nobody on ...

And thats why i really do believe, chris, we do need to go forward and have the hearings, wrap it up like you said by thanksgiving but still get as many facts out there as you can that the people can read and see. >> i think what we most need is a vote. i think the democratic house has to vote in the next several weeks. i think were going to find out on the weekend. its going to be one article of impeachment, about did the betray this country for his own political purposes. thats the heart of it...

The object lesson here, if you can win that argument, you can win the whole thing politically. >> well, on nixon and clinton, they didnt focus on articles of impeachment. they wanted to give the other party a chance to vote with donald trump on two or three counts, and then vote against him on one. and, mike, it only takes one. >> yeah, look, i agree with john. keep it simple. keep it focused and a story people can understand i think is going to have more corroborating facts and make that the th...