Barrs trip to italy amid the justice departments review of the origins of the russia probe. There is speculation that part of the trib concerned the man who mr. George papadopoulos says told him that russia had Hillary Clintons email as part often trapment. Also, china expert Jonathan Ward is here on how beijing is eying the impeachment inquiry what impact it could have on the upcoming trade talk set to begin on october 10 all that and a lot more here right now on sunday morning futures. And the white house is preparing to send a letter to nancy pelosi tomorrow morning, refusing to cooperate with the house impeachment inquiry, until the speaker holds a floor vote on the matter which is typical for any impeachment. Here is President Trump on friday. President trump well well be issuing a letter, as everybody knows, weve been treated very unfairly, very different from anybody else, if you go over not only history, you go over any aspects of life, youll see how unfarley weve been treated. Everything to me is about corruption. We want to find out what happened with 2016 and as you know, theres a lot of work going on for that. I dont care about bidens campaign, but i do care about corruption. Maria this as pelosi defends her decision to launch the inquiry over a whistleblower complaint on the president s dealings with ukraine. Some people say why are you doing this . Hes not worth it. To divide the country, so he may not be, but our constitution is worth it. Our democracy is worth it. [applause] maria and breaking news this morning, the attorney for the first whistleblower is now confirming that his team represents what hes calling multiple whistleblowers, according to that attorney, at least one of them has firsthand knowledge of the president s july phone call with the president of ukraine. This as we wait to find out when the first whistleblower may testify behind closed doors. Joining me right now is republican senator from South CarolinaLindsey Graham the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. He also sits on the Senate AppropriationsForeign Relations and budget committees mr. Chairman always a pleasure to eso you thanks for joining me thanks for having me. Maria so ive got to get your reaction to this week. It was an incredible week actually. The president is going to send that letter to nancy pelosi tomorrow. Basically saying you need to hold a house floor vote for impeachment. Whats your reaction to all thats taken place so far . Well, nancy pelosi mentioned democracy in the constitution. One of the most democratic things you can do in a democracy is to have the elected representative vote on issues important to the country, so its imperative that democrats vote to open up articles of impeachment inquiry, not just talk about it. Dont hide behind nancy pelosi. Its very important that the house vote on whether or not we should go forward on impeachment thats the democratic way of doing business. Its the most consequential two weeks of the 2020 election. What happened in the last two weeks . Joe biden who was leaking the campaign is just completely imploded. I think hes probably done. Hes the biggest victim of the whistleblower complaint, because now, we know, that his son was receiving 50,000 a month from the ukraine gas company, while joe was in charge of the ukraine portfolio, and 1 billion plus from a subsidiary of a china bank based on qualifications so i think this is a nightmare for the biden campaign. Bernie sanders has a heart attack, um, nancy pelosi is now trapped. She embarked on impeachment inquiry based on a transcript she hadnt read, and here is what i would like fox or somebody to do. Go to every republican and ask the question do you believe the transcript itself is an impeach able offense . What the president said on the transcript is that is impeach able offense . I think history dick you had us to say that the president did something wrong based on the phone call, and i think everybody in the media should go to the democrat and ask them why arent you voting to open up an impeachment inquiry . Its been a hell of a couple of weeks and the biggest beneficiary quite frankly has been Elizabeth Warren and donald trump. Maria and so walk us through the timeline and sort of how this played out. Hypothetically speaking lets say the house does vote to impeach President Trump. Where does the senate fit in and then what happens . Will the senate then take it up, right . Well theres two votes. You need a vote to open up an impeachment inquiry. In 1998 we voted to open up an impeachment inquiry against bill clinton, a month before the election with 31 democrats joining us, joining in. Pelosi is opening up an inquiry by herself. Every democratic member of the house needs to be on record. Do you agree with nancy pelosi that the transcript is enough to impeach President Trump . Remember when pelosi said that the transcript will show a quid pro quo . It does not. Theres nothing wrong with this phone call. It is okay for the president and others to look into corruption in the ukraine. Three Democratic Senators wrote a letter to the ukraine government asking them to cooperate with mueller and if you dont you may lose your aid. Its also okay to look into whether or not there was corruption in the ukraine going the other way. Theres a politico article january 2017, maria, that suggests that the dnc was receiving help from the ukraine. We need a special counsel to look at whether or not the dnc was working with people inside the ukraine, and somebody needs to look at the bidens and whether or not they violated the law outside of politics. Maria yeah is there any appetite for another special counsel here . We just came off of one with the Mueller Probe and you say that it is important to look at whether or not the dnc worked with ukraine against the u. S. Well lets look at it this way. Everybody said mueller would be an independent guy, and i think he was and what happened . He cleared trump. There was no collusion between the Trump Campaign, and the russians and why do we know that because mueller spent two years and 25 million looking at it. Has anybody looked at the dnc ukraine connection . No they have not and i love rudy guiliani. Hes a good lawyer for the president. Hes defending the president s interests, but the Mueller Investigation is over. Its not rudys job to find out if the bidens did something wrong. Id like somebody outside of politics to look at the bidens like mueller looked at the trump s. Remember the trump tower deal with russia . That was looked at by mueller. Somebody needs to look at the bidens regarding the ukraine and china. Maria maybe but thats not happening right now. In fact the president s skeptics are only ramping up. The president just tweeted this morning, about or last night rather about this second whistleblower and he writes this. The first socalled secondhand information whistleblower got my phone conversation almost completely wrong, now word is they are going to bench him and another whistleblower is coming in from the deep state. Also with secondhand, meet with shifty, keep them coming whats your reaction to the idea that there could be another whistleblower out there and the lawyer says no, its not one im receipting many whistleblowers . Are these all whistleblowers about one phone call that he had with the president of ukraine do you think . I dont know but remember kavanaugh . Remember kavanaugh that started with one complaint that wound up being unverifiable, a complaint against judge kavanaugh and a party that took place in high school 30 years ago, without any notice of where it happened and when it happened, and everybody described to be there said it didnt happen, and five more allegations came after that. What did we learn in kavanaugh . That they were coaching witnesses and they were piling on to try to create an impression that judge kavanaugh was a flawed human being. This is kavanaugh all over again the second whistleblower if there is one, are they within the Intel Community and what is it about the Intel Community and trump that is so off base here, and did schiff do with the whistleblower the first one what they did with kavanaugh witnesses coach them up . Maria well i think you make a lot of important points and i have to go back to one or two right now because first of all when you bring up brett kavanaugh, i actually had a similar thought last week when we learned that after adam schiff said he never spoken to the whistleblower, then we learned that no, actually that was not true that in fact the whistleblower contacted his committee first, and his staff or him did in fact meet, so why that . I mean was he coaching the whistleblower the way we learned later that the Intel Committee and adam schiff and the democrat s spent some 30 hours with Christine Ford before she made her accusations against brett kavanaugh. Well you had a witness in denver that they spent 30 hours with. You had a lot of effort by kavanaugh, people who came forward against kavanaugh i think were coached by lawyers who were out to get trump. Maria so is it possible this whistleblower was coached is what im saying senator . I dont know. Thats what im saying. You wont know until you ask schiff. Schiff made himself a witness. If he did in fact interview the whistleblower before the complaint was filed then he becomes the witness and i want to know what was said originally the bottom line here is it does remind me a lot of kavanaugh. The media, she had another accusation that wound up being fixed, two were out and out lies people are being investigated for perjury and one lady said she went to parties on nine or 10 occasions for being drugged and raped by with kavanaugh there i would think one party would probably be enough for most people so this seems like a political setup and it reminds me of kavanaugh. Maria bottom line, you have subpoena power, chairman of judiciary. Are you going to subpoena this whistleblower . Well here is whats going to happen. If the whistleblowers allegations are turned into an impeachment article, its imperative that the whistleblower be interviewed in public under oath and cross examined. Nobody in america goes to jail or has anything done to them without confronting their accuser so here is what im going to insist upon, but the whistleblower one or two, whatever, they come forward, under oath, inform so the public can judge her credibility. If that doesnt happen in the house ill make sure it happens in the senate. Maria okay because thats one other thing being criticized about this whole process. They are doing this behind closed doors. Well speak with John Ratcliffe in a minute and he was in the room, but the American People dont know what happened, even though theres a lot of commentary about it how he completely shot down any issues that the president did something wrong, in that meeting on friday , so you will put a spotlight on it if you see that it is only being done behind closed doors you will subpoena the whistleblower then . Yeah, ill use nancy pelosi s words. This is about the constitution democracy. The sixth amendment allows people to confront witnesses against him. There can be no valid inquiry, unless democrats vote, and once you vote, there can be no valid impeachment process unless the president can confront the witnesses against him, who are these people, where did they come from, are they tied to brennan at all . These are questions id like to know. Maria ive got to ask you that john brennan because he made comments this past week saying hes concerned about a non investigation that william barr is conducting. Well take a short break but when we come back senator you made a promise on this program a long time ago, six or eight months ago saying youre going to do a deep dive into what happened, the origins of the russia probe. I want to know where the subpoenas are at this point well take a break and when we talk about that when we come back and also common John Ratcliffe is here along with George Papadopoulos follow me on twitter at Maria Bartiromo at sunday futures and on instagram stay with us were looking ahead right now on sunday morning futures. No, just a sec. What would it look like if we listened more . Could the right voice, the right set of words, bring us all just a little closer . Get us to open up . Even push us further . It could, if we took the time to listen. The most inspiring minds, the most compelling stories. Download audible and listen for a change. A remember william barr when he was testifying in front of congress, he said he didnt understand the freddie indication of the Counter Intelligence investigation launched into russias interference in the 2016 election. I dont understand this worldwide effort to tray to uncover dirt, either real, or imagined, that would discredit that investigation in 2016 into the russian interference. Given that barr is now accompanying on this teens it really makes me think that the hand of politics and of trump are now being used to massage, so i am concerned. Maria wow that was john brennan the former cia director were back with the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham. Senator that was rich. Your reaction to john brennan right there . Okay, i remember very well when mueller was working with rosenstein he had to report back to the department of justice, but look at all things trump. So the investigation, mr. Brennan, was around whether or not the fisa court was lied to by the department of justice and the fbi, was the dossier credible enough to get a warrant against the american citizens . Has it been verified to this day once the Counter Intelligence investigation opened up against the Trump Campaign, legitimate or was it a way to get around the law to get into the trump world . Now, horowitz, the Inspector General, has been looking at this for months, and hell report back to me, im not going to do anything until he comes before the committee. He will tell us his view of the fisa warrant application, and whether it was off the rails, the Counter Intelligence investigation, whether it was on up and up and what is bar doing, barr is being the attorney general trying to find out how the investigation against the Trump Campaign began, that is the job hes doing exactly what he should be doing, horowitz is looking inside the system to see if it got off the rails and my job is to make sure it never happens again. Maria i understand but were going to be speaking coming up with George Papadopoulos, in a few minutes, and i want to show you weve got this timeline that were going to show on screen later but i will show a little of it to you, this is the entrapment timeline and all these International Diplomats who reached o utility to George Papadopoulos, people like someone from rome, and somebody else from australia, somebody else from ukraine, and so all of these internationals that have reached out to George Papadopoulos en one years timeframe from 20162017, which is why your question a moment ago, why is it always the intel agencies that are coming after trump, and is that something that the cia would put together, gathering all of these International Diplomats to reach out to Trump Campaign people, which was the case in 2016 . Well stay tuned. Thats what horowitz is going to tell us about and ill build on what he tells us. The dossier if you believe foreign interference is wrong in our election then you should be upset by the fact that the Democratic National committee hired a former british to investigate trump by getting dirt on him from russia, the steele dossier is a bunch of political garbage unverified to this day. Why was it included in the intel assessment . Did brennan have anything to do with that because it is selacious garbage. So were going to find out about all of this, and barr should be going to italy and the uk and australia, trying to find out if their Intelligence Services were working with the cia or the fbi, to investigate the Trump Campaign. Im glad hes doing that. He should be doing that. Maria so no wonder the president brings this up to the leaders of these countries to try to find out, you know, how this information started and given that it was the first two and a half years of his presidency that people were up in arms over collusion. Very quickly, sir, my viewers are frustrated. They want some subpoenas. They want to see you do that deep dive into what took place, when can we expect your subpoena in people and who are you going to get to come down and testify . Well im going to tell you ill do it the way i think i need to do it. Im not going to get ahead of horowitz. This man is independent of politics, is appointed by obama. He did a good job in the past. Im going to look at his report and then ill buildout on it and im not out to get anybody. Im trying to find out what happened so im not going to issue subpoenas because people are frustrated. Im going to call horowitz before the committee and he will tell us about the phase a warrant application and Counter Intelligence investigation and ill go wherever the facts take us but i do want every republican to be asked, would you impeach the president , based on this transcript, the phone call between the president of the United States and the ukr