american people to decide yourself. there wasn t anything in the transcript that was impeachable. i don t see what s transpired to this point, antics of impeachment that it s going to rise to an impeachable expect. neil: and i ve been talking with republicans about the quid pro quo, whether he ll get the information he sought on joe biden and son hunter biden, whether that would be impeachable offense. no, it would not, the pivot on quid pro quo and to the next level, even if there was, no big deal. and to the prosecutor katie. what do you think, settle this for me if you can legally. is that an impeachable offense? sure, well, the offense is impeachable only if it s criminal. the question is not whether there s a quid pro quo, but whether there was an unlawful quid pro quo. the president is perfectly
the media likes to complain about it, but the facts are the different style is working. we have seen $100 billion increase in european spending on defense since donald trump started pushing, since 2016. that success you cannot argue with and just yesterday we had the defense minister of germany commit to getting to the 2% by 2031. that is a bold step. it is not fast enough. the deadline has been 2024, but the germans, the largest economy, are trying to do something like that and we will complement them. neil: thank you very much. thank you for your service to this country. republicans on the house intelligence committee revealing their witness wish list ahead of next week s
neil: it looks worrisome for democrats. there is a limit to how much they can see beyond this, looking like a political witchhunt. some have raised eyebrows about the call but it is not moving republicans or budging democrats, republicans overwhelmingly not. it is moving the needle here. if you look at polls on this the needle has moved some on this. for they are focusing on their jobs and licenses and day today. and these are televised, people mart might start - worst-case, worst case,
which is key because this is simply a request, adam schiff has to approve which witnesses will testify. this week several witnesses are scheduled to testify in public on wednesday. we will hear from ambassador william taylor and george kent and on thursday we will hear from former ukrainian ambassador marie yavanovitch. all testify behind closed doors, selections of their transcript have been released but we have all of the last few days and we are told democrats have been selectively releasing these transcripts one by one to lay the groundwork for the public hearings, which they are hoping will build public support for their impeachment inquiry going forward. neil: a lot of republicans get their list of witnesses approved or not and they can
republicans want to turn the attention of the hearings to the biden family and alleged efforts by democrats in 2016 to dig up dirt on candidate trump via ukraine. and the biggest you mentioned, emerging as a central figure due to business dealings. and the ukrainian american who served the dnc and another familiar name, nelly ohr who worked on the opposition fusion gps which produce the trump dossier. republicans are requesting several officials who were questions behind closed doors including tim morrison, former ukraine envoy kurt voelker and state department official david hail. and the whistleblower along with anonymous sources referenced in their complaint also on that witness wish list