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>> bret: this is a process issue, they are motioning to table the one motion. they want to hear from the whistle-blower. we saw the back-and-forth, not going to get the whistle-blower in this discussion. adam schiff shutting it down. also saying that he does not know who it is which is kind of surprising. someone on the house intelligence committee on the majority knows who it is because they dealt with him beforehand, him or her, i should say. before all of this starts. lets bring in andy mccar...

Is going to prove to be difficult for them so they want to try the to change the subject to a process issue or argue as happened with the russian investigation that well maybe the president propose some things that might be improper but if they were never done then maybe no harm, no foul. that seems to be the republican strategy but still a bit unfocused and as i said a little bit inconsistent with what the white house is putting out. >> certainly inconsistent. thats the right word here. preside...

The democrats burst the dam. the water is overflowing. nothing will stop the water. the american people look at this process they know things have been unfair. the question is if you were subject to the same process would you think you were getting fair treatment? in the resolution theyll vote on so fundamentally unfair all up to the democrat chairman of the committees to decide the rules. there are no rules. the rules can be vetoed or waived by the chairman about the resolution thats about to p...

Televised trial, in terms of the presidents behavior and theyre not going to be able to hide behind these questions about when does the house have a vote, public hearing, private hearings, that process issue will be resolved at some point politically, so at some point theyre going to have to confront the substance and the substance of this is a president who has abused his power and sold out the country. >> david, really quickly, im curious to get your thoughts on the politics of the timing of t...

Investigation public within weeks? ed: look, the bottom line is we were talking about this on the couch yesterday. its been-out narrative has been bad for democrats on the whole process issue. adam schiff having this behind closed doors. thats why you saw this sit in from republicans. the more this is about process and adam schiff, the better it is for president trump. on the other hand, if you have actually followed the facts in this case, the more it becomes about the actual testimony, there c...

Few weeks when nancy pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry. i mean, that say real thing. and i think, like jennifer was saying, we have -- were not even in the public hearing stage. were just getting information that is being leaked out of these hearings. and my question to you, jennifer, have you been in conversation with any of these republican congressional members, you yourself being a conservative and having -- know a lot of these people, do they say anything about whats going on that cou...

Chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the scoo scoop. >> behind closed doors, sources close to the matter told fox news that intelligence community watchdog michael atkinson pulled lawmakers all he knew about the whistle-blowers contact was democratic chairman adam schiff came through the media. atkinson did not know how many times the whistle-blower contacted schiffs committee between the presidents july 25th phone call with the ukrainian leader and august 12th, when the compl...

Withheld from the inspector general filed in the complaint. scoop. >> behind closed doors, sources close to the matter told fox news that intelligence community watchdog michael atkinson pulled lawmakers all he knew about the whistle-blowers contact was >> the whistleblowerss contacts with adam schiff came through the media. atkinson did not know how many times was a blower contacted schiffs committee between the presidents july 25th phone call and august 12th when the complaint was filed. repub...

Purposes, you could say its an abuse of power. >> all the headlines in the morning newspaper this morning, everything was about trying to characterize all of this in terms of how this came out, which is a process issue, as concealment suggesting that the white house did something wrong. >> it does look like that, though. thats why they have to explain it. they have to explain why it okay. >> i dont have any problems with explanations or hearings in order to understand exactly what happened, but ...

Password protection. thats the issue. well see how it plays out. >> just so its clear for the viewers, what youre talking about, were not talking about okay. what were talking about is did that constitute to a rise to the level of obstruction of justice? just because things are shielded from access or public view -- >> why cant it just be an abuse of power? >> thats not tantamount to obstruction of justice or abuse of power. >> i didnt say it was. i dont know about the abuse of power. if you did...