this occurring going forward. in which case, you are right in the middle of a presidential election. none of us have been through that before. bret: juan, there is a sense on the left side of the party, the progressive side of the party, that this is it. they finally have their teeth in this and they are not letting g go. juan: i think that what they are seeing here is a hunger for those specifics. you have not only the director of national intelligence coming up, but you have the inspector general coming up to capitol hill. it s not just at the transcript or the phone call that the democrats are seeking. they would also like to see the complaint from the whistle-blower. the whistle-blower, apparently is also coming up to capitol hill. there are a lot of blanks to be filled in here. what you ve seen, though, and i ll give you the contrary position to dane s, which is look at the division amongst the
long time. a very well could. but at the same time, if you go back and you look at 1998, it was almost exactly this time of year. late september, where they green lit the impeachment process. it snowballed very quickly. by december, they were launching the full-blown, even though there was an election in between. it s entirely possible that this keeps accelerating. i have a lot of disagreements with what steve said about the whistle-blower. right now, we do not know what the whistle-blower s motives are as reported. i think it s really important to point out that the whistle-blower actually went through the proper channels and did this the proper way. to say that they are a leaker, and it finds the report credible, it does a disservice for future whistle-blowers. i think the most important thing tomorrow is that this is going to be a transcript, which could
attention has been swept away by the extraordinary developments today. i think that what andy mccarthy says really stands, that when you look at it, yes, it was pretty dramatic to hear nancy pelosi for the first time talk about a formal impeachment inquiry. but in the end, what does that mean? it means that all the committees that were investigating the president are going to continue to investigate the president. and really, what we have to wait for, and much more important are tomorrow when the transcript is released. we note the president, he has set himself that he talked to the president-elect of ukraine about a biden. let s out how many times he pressed him to investigate joe biden. how much pressure was put on him. we also, obviously, are waiting to hear from the director of national intelligence and the inspector general. they are going to testify on thursday before congress.
fire. fire, potentially in all of thi this. it s possible that when the transcript comes out and whatever else information comes out, it will appear to be much to do about not very much. if i mentioned to you earlier, i can t imagine the president being able to put this out if it were incriminating. people look at this and say, these people can t stop trying to impeach. they wanted to impeach the president over russian collusion. now, they want to impeach brett kavanaugh. now, they are trying to impeach the president over something else that turns out to be not very much. this is kind of the scenario that nancy pelosi has been worried about all along. the pressure within her caucus became so great, that she couldn t hold it back anymore.
it takes longer than an american idol contestant reveal as to who is the winner. i think that right now, you will have congressman scalise and. they are going to try to find a way to get republicans to unify behind this. look, president trump has already said that he is going to release a transcript. why do we have to go down this road? they want to figure out a way to just keep drawing this out. wall-to-wall coverage. every time they take a half baby step towards impeachment means that they are not able to talk about anything either. i think about how nancy pelosi wants to tap the brakes on this for months. she does not want to go down this road, because she knows that politics will be very bad for them. but also, bret, this is very interesting part 16 of the 31 congresspeople that won in trump districts, that are democrats t.