there is no good time for an impeachment. no. it s wrong because this is not how you impeach an american ng president. as that hearing was getting under way, the republicans in the senate met with the white house legal team, as one does, to discuss the trump defense. and house democratic caucus gathered to block out their next moves in their process. trump is now back at the white house after attending the two-day accelerated nato summite in the uk. earlier today he took time during his meetings to lash out at the democrats. it s a disgrace. you have a loser like a stone cold loser, has been all his life, adam schiff. these people, you almost question whether or not they love our country.le and that s a very, very serious thing. do they in fact love our country? meanwhile, the washington post is reporting that john durham, the prosecutor who was hand-selected by trump s own attorney general to investigate the russia inquiry, has told the
no. it s wrong because this is not how you impeach an american president. as that hearing was getting under way, the republicans in the senate met with the white house legal team, as one does, to discuss the trump defense. and house democratic caucus gathered to block out their next moves in their process. trump is now back at the white house after attending the two-day accelerated nato summit in the uk. earlier today he took time during his meetings to lash out at the democrats. it s a disgrace. you have a loser like a stone cold loser, adam schiff. these people, you almost question whether or not they op love our country. and that s a very, very serious thing. do they in fact love our country. meanwhile, the washington post is reporting that john durham, the prosecutor who was hand-selected by trump s own attorney general to investigate the russia inquiry, has told the
year. phil, the president praised republicans today publicly for taking democrats on the process of this inquiry but he wants them to go much further. listen to this. i d rather go into the detail offense the case rather than process. process is wonderful. process is good, but i think you ought to look at the case. the case is very quick. it s so quick. i had great conversation with the ukrainian president. it was nothing. they tried to take that conversation and make it into a big scandal. what do you think, phil? are the republicans going to start defending the president when it comes to the substance of that phone call with the y ukrainian president? heck no. i smell a rat here. not on substance but the process. every time we take a step here whether it s from the first perfect phone call to when we saw the transcript to when the whistle-blower comes out to when
the dip employlomat who shows u says everything you thought was the republicans don t have chance on substance. the president is lyingocs. i think what will happen thursday, obviously, you re going to get the vote by the democrats. immediately, i think what will happen is the president will do the same thing he did to the russia inquiry. this is clearly a witch hunt. it s only democrats. it s dirty democrats like they did in the russia campaign. no republicans want that. they re going to attack this as a partisan process. they can t stand on the substance. susan, in addition to the full house vote on thursday, the committees are going to hear from a witness with first hand knowledge of that july phone call with the ukrainian president, tim morrison still serving. how important is his first hand account? obviously first hand accounts are really important. we seen this with the testimony of people like bill taylor, gordon sondland. to the extent it matters-on the
democrats want to say essentially trying to call the president s bluff on this and pelosi says we are taking the step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness statements or continue obstructing the house of representatives. in talking to republicans today they are already pushing back on this saying this is not a legitimate vote that would authorize and setting procedures but nevertheless the problem will still continue no matter what. democrats say they don t need to take a vote. they are doing this to set ground rules for the next phase but the fight over exactly what this inquiry is will still come down along party lines and that vote also very likely to come down along party lines. lots going down.