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Qureshi made the remarks while speaking to Geo News after the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announced to intensify its anti-government campaign and again asked the Prime Minister to step down before the January 31 deadline.

Electio elections. and he doesnt have a right to use hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds as leverage to get political dirt on an american citizen who happens to be his political opponent. but if you remain unsure about all of this, who better to ask than mr. blair or mr. duffey. they oversaw and executed the process of withholding the aid. they can tell us exactly how unrelated to business as usual this whole shakedown scheme was when it was underway. they can testify about why the...

Feared. >> they feared that a president would subvert our democracy by abusing the awesome power of his office for his own personal or political gain. >> reporter: democrats say the president withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to serve his own political needs. >> the president used the hold on military aid as leverage to pressure ukraine to announce these investigations that he hoped would help his re-election campaign. >> reporter: the president, it appears, was watching from air forc...

Learned in 2018 that voters want to hear about issues that affect their lives and that has been a somewhat effective attack by the republicans on the impeachment process is to say, look, they are distracted with this process that has nothing to do with you. so i think by the time the election rolls around, we are not going to hear much about impeachment from either party assuming that it is wrapped up by then and that nancy pelosi has not held on to the articles of impeachment for 11 months. can...

Doesnt know what shes doing. a lot of people think that, a lot of people have said it. were in a very good position. ultimately that decision is going to be made by mitch mcconnell and he will make it. hes going to do what he wants to do. very smart guy, very good guy and a very fair guy. >> now, the president is absolutely right about at least one thing he said, that mitch mcconnell is probably going to do what he wants to do. and his strategy for the moment, shrug off or maybe laugh off, is a ...

Underestimated as a political strategist. there is discussion of her holding back the articles before transmitting them to the senate and there is no leverage here. it is not leverage over mcconnell. it is the space in between senator mcconnell and the president. president wants the circus. he benefited in the circus in the last six to eight weeks in the polling. his polls were going down and they went up once it turned into a zoo. and mcconnell wants it over fast because his 2020 candidates wil...

We had a unanimity with respect holding back the articles before to clinton procedure. transmitting them to the senate and there is no leverage here. it is not leverage over but, look, there are no rules mcconnell. it is the space in between here. senator mcconnell and the president. for example, what is an impeachable offense? the president wants the circus. he benefited in the circus in the last six to eight weeks in the polling. i think the precedent shows that his polls were going down and n...

>> that itself seems -- answer seems to be no and thats disturbing. >> speaker pelosi had another reason here beyond putting leverage on majority leader mcconnell and driving donald trump and every day goes by we have more incriminating and damaging information. >> democrats have been fantasizing about impeachment. they are holding back. howie: military to aid was frozen after president trumps call between president zelensky and mitch mcconnell with media flak refusing to budge. >> its going to ...

♪. unprecedented if we didnt because in other impeachment trials we did get them. charles: standoff over the senate impeachment trial secondly it, would, if, as we overlap? does it overlap? extending into the new year. have heard, they could be seems to me like e was were still waiting to see when wanting to negotiate with the speaker nancy pelosi will send two articles to the upper senate, that is very unusual. doing. maria: i think you will agree chamber. some republicans argue the we negoti...

This to go on? >> we have to make it very clear trial? it would, how would it benefit to beijing and moskow well for democrats to conduct a defend allies and defend efficient solemn proceedings. countries associated with us, the house was farce shifting like taiwan because that is another flashpoint. definitions of high crimes. we had the policy of strategic what is, what are the ambiguity. that gives bad actors the republicans going to do? are you just going to sit back feeling they might be ab...