expansive voting bill, an effort lacking the support to pass. manchin has released a memo outlining a potential compromise, the he response from republicans. totally inappropriate. all republicans i think will oppose that as well. reporter: if democrats want to pass a voting bill they may have to make major changes to senate rules. do away with the filibuster and that 60 vote threshold. chris. chris: rich edson reporting from delaware, rich, thank you. and joining us now from south carolina, gop senator lindsey graham who is working with democrats in at least one area. senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. thank you. chris: you re a member of the so-called bipartisan group of 21 which is ten democratic senators and 11 republican senators who have come up with roughly $1
impeachment is a political charade. are not 2/3 of senators to convict and remove the president. we all know how it is. reporter: senator lisa merck kusky told a local tv station that she was disturbed to hear senator mitch mcconnell was closely coordinating with the white house on a trial strategy. senate republicans are pushing for a quick trial. president wants a trial to examine joe biden s son hunter s ties to ukraine. biden is now clarifying saying that he would honor any legitimate request from congress, though he says subpoenas should go to those responsible for shaking down ukraine. he says that is the trump white house. mike? mike: rich edson reporting live from mar-a-lago. thank you. joining me from louisiana, congressman steve scalise, the house minority whip. welcome back to fox news sunday. good to be back with you, mike. mike: congressman, we want to begin with breaking news.
lash out at impeachment proceedings calling democrats liars and hypocrites. while he spent the holidays in south florida. house speaker nancy pelosi is still withholding articles of impeachment from the senate as a her fellow democrats push for witnesses and evidence to ensure a fair trial. president trump accusing them of trying to run the controlled senate. senator lisa murkowski of alaska says she s disturbed that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he would coordinate with the white house on how to run the trial. rich edson reporting live from palm beach not too far from the presidents resort. president trump is up back at mar-a-lago having spent a few hours at the trump international wall golf course. twitter has been fairly active, do nothing democrats that they wanted to rush everything
slamming the sal a stalled proceedings and house speaker nancy pelosi. president trump: she s doing a tremendous disservice to the country. she s not doing a good job and some people think that she doesn t know what she s doing. they treated us very unfairly. they didn t give us to process, they didn t give us a lawyer or anything. now, they come to the senate and they want everything. mike: she says she wants to know how they will run the impeachment trial before she sends over the articles. chuck schumer says witnesses must testify in the trump administration needs to turn over emails and other crucial evidence to ensure a fair senate trial. president trump insists senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has the right to do whatever he wants. meanwhile the house judiciary committee signals there could be even more coming as they fight in court to get grand jury materials from special counsel robert mueller s russian investigation. rich edson reporting live from west palm beach,
settlements are not consistent with international law. the move will likely anger palestinians and put the united states at odds with other nations working to end the conflict. rich edson reporting live from the statement this afternoon. rich. thank you, john, and from the secretary of state is the reversal of the obama administration and secretary of state, then secretary of state john kerry s interpretation when he said back in december of 2016 that the settlements were a flagrant violation of international law. the secretary of state says that this is now a legal opinion from the united states, from the trump administration that those israeli settlements do not per se violate international law. he also said that israel had the legal system to deal with this and that the united states in this decision is not judging what the status of the west bank is, that they very much is up to the israelis and the palestinians, when asked if there was concern from the international community an