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Joe biden, come on over to ukraine its never going to happen spewing all they had to do apparently was announce an investigation. Okay, that is it for us. They hearing is set to resume shortly, but now we have special report up next. Spewing that evening, welcome to washington. I am bret baier. Continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings day 3, nine hours on capitol hill as you look alive at the chairman adam schiff getting ready to gavel into the next round of questions this from the lawmak...

There is a its interesting, theyre talking almost exclusively about the abuse of power, theyre not talking much about the obstruction of congress. But i think this has been a civil he had kageducation here,e can decide whether this has been an Impeachable Offense here, because the issues have been aired out well on both sides. Theyre about to finish the roll call. The republicans will lose the democrats who will win, and then a second one will be introduced. Mr. Richmond, you are not reported. N...

Discussing today which involved an irregular channel which is her request that went against u. S. Policy that would undermine the rule of law and our longstanding policy goals in ukraine as in other countries in the postsoviet space. Policies that were indeed championed by ambassador yovanovitch. You also testified in the deposition about fundamental reforms necessary for ukraine to fight corruption and to transform the country and you cited the importance of reforming certain institutions, nota...

Gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the Rules Committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. When the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. And im not sure how likely ...

Joining us tonight. See you at 00. Tonight, the white house transcript released. The president saying to a foreign leader, id like you to do us a favor. President trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. In that call, urging him to open an investigation connected to his political opponent, joe biden. Noting in the conversation the u. S. Had done a lot for ukraine. And tonight, the timing. The president and the ukrainian leader were set to meet today, even before the headlines broke. And ...

Had already stopped the Trip Planning by that point. And when did that happen . Stopping the Trip Planning . Yeah. On may 13th. Okay. And how did you hear about that . I was called by a colleague in the the Vice President s chief of staffs office and told to stop the Trip Planning. Okay. And as i understand it, it was the assistant to the chief of staff . Thats correct. Okay. And so you didnt hear about it from general kellogg or the chief of staff or the president or the Vice President , you he...

Tonight, the historic showdown on capitol hill. The Impeachment Inquiry takes a dramatic new turn today. The witnesses, constitutional law scholars. Theyre asked, was the president s conduct impeachable . They do not hold back. And the scholar who said the democrats are rushing this. And the moment one witness brings up the president s youngest son. Did she cross the line . Terry moran with the explosive testimony from the hill tonight. President trump on his way back this evening from his trip ...

Unanimous consent to enter my remarks into the record for this sham impeachment . The gentleman is so recognized. Thank you. At this time i yield four minutes to the gentle woman from wyoming, miss cheney. The gentlewoman is recognized for four minutes. Thank you, mr. Collins. Madam speaker, i rise today on the floor of this magnificent chamber, the very heart of our democratic republic, and i would imagine, Madam Speaker that every one of us in this chamber, regardless of party, understands, sh...

Doing their business. This might actually start on time. Mike pompeo doesnt get enough attention. There is two scenarios, he was helping to orchestrate the off book Political Campaign run by donald trump and Rudy Giuliani, or he was oblivious to what was being done to all of his employees. He was asked repeatedly to defend her, and we have on the record in testimony a call from the State Department to yovanovitch at 1 00 in the morning where they say we need to get you out on the next plane. Wha...

Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i m...