As well as the vice president. We can see why secretary pompeo and President Trump have made such a concerted and across the board effort to obstruct this investigation and this impeachment inquiry. I will just say this, they do so at their own peril. Kennedy oh, gordo, ranking republican devin nunes had a different strategy, it was bizarre. Instead of going after democrats, he went after ambassador sondland, who as i mentioned is the republicans witness. You can see the confusion in sonsondland sons, face. You are here today to be smeared. You will make it through it. And i appreciate your service to this country, i am sorry you have had to go through this. Kennedy oh, finally sondland himself got to speak, he is the guy who supposed to support the president s claim of no quid pro quo. Instead he aid this what a day. I know that members of this committee frame these complicated issues in form of a simple question. Was there a quid pro quo. As i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. No. There it is, quid pro quo. The democrats hol holy grail, os it. According to president , nope. Just a quick comment on what is going on in terms of testimony with ambassador sondland. And i just noticed one thing i would say, that means all over. I want nothing. I said it twice. Kennedy nothing so. Here we are again, another day of testimony, democrat, saying will sink Trump Presidency and republicans claim will exxon 8 him. Exonerate him, so what in the wide world of sports is going on,. We bring in party panel but first live to capital of the great nation, with new york congressman, lee zeldin, welcome back, sir. God tgood to be back. Kennedy what did you make of ambassador son sop sondland a. Probably with using words like presumption or resume or assume or guess, as ambassador sondland said he was guessing there was a quid pro quo linking aid to ukraine with investigations, that well ask followup questions. Now i would encourage your viewer check out congressman turners questions of ambassador sondland. Ambassador sondland, as you pointed out had a conversation directly with the president , president pointed out in the clip. The president told ambassador sondland no quid pro quo, he does not want anything from ukraine. Yet, ambassador sondland comes here to capitol hill tod today and said he guesses that there was a link between aid and investigations. So we ask him followup question, he admits that there is snow on there is no one on ts planet, not President Trump or rudy guliani or toi toil him ths a told him there was a link, he could from the produce any evidence to support that presumption. Kennedy he is a fan of the president , you are a fan of the president 4678 yo. You are both fans, but it feels like a lot of republicans turned to ambassador today. When will did that happen . Just a matter of getting out facts, when they ambassador sondland gave his deposition, he did not mention this after reviewing his transcript, and time went by he submitted an in his testimony he said he presumed there was a link. Then today, he stated that it it was a link, he said he was guessing there was a link, for a republicans it is not about smearing ambassador sondland, it is about figuring out. Kennedy devin nunes said that. Tell me about. The goal was to get out facts. And congressman turner is one of many who got out the rest of the story which was a main goal with regards to that one point. Kennedy there were a lot of points made. Problem is that republicans and democrats are playing two different games. So, the democrats are playing volleyball, and republicans playing baseball. And you cant keep score for seemtai for both. It is difficult. As a person who consumes politics as entertainment, i was impressed by your colleague from the empire state, tell me about her . Alise has been putting a ton of prep to 5 minute rounds of questioning, hearing after hearing. She has shown up ready to make the most of that time that she has. If he had her way, she would have had additional time. But way schiff has structured it is word, the first 45 minute round, nunes can yield to a staffer but not a member of congress, that is a little bit bizarre, we would like to see alise and other members have an opportunity to participate in larger 45 minute round of questioning, but she has been a fantastic job, getting important facts out, it is good. She is getting beaten up. Back home, i think she has a bigger target on her back because she is a strong woman in the republican water, there are a lot of people. That makes her more interesting. Enough you you old white guys. She is not deterred by it have a backbone. She is dedicated a ton of time toward trying to recruit more women, republicans, more veterans more minorities,. Kennedy lovely. A great thing for people. Kennedy really so really, quickly who do you think has been more effective, lease or jordan . Dont make me pick. Pick. They are two different styles, they have been great. You know really they had moments up and down the committee roster, to get important fact, but you know elise and jim have been fantastic. Kennedy which one did better. We have baseball and volleyball, neither of us give us opportunity to judge them. Kennedy all right, someone z has to be tom brady here, congressman zeldin thank you. Two tom bradies doing fantastic. Kennedy no gisele, sad. Rudy guliani was busy defending himself from accusations he was a ring leader, starred when republican appointed council caster who was questioning sondlanding is suggested that guliani had his own. We walk through your communication with rudy guliani, they are not a lot, are in guliani had business interest in ukraine. Now i know he did. Messrs. Parnas and brew man. A lot of new names i have learned. So many new names, who knew being an ambassador would mean taking notes and remembering things. Afterward rudy guliani hit back saying dont hold your breath rude i. Sosondland said, pence and pompo and mulvaney, were all well aware of president s push to get ukraine to announce an investigation into the bidens. When are we going to hear from these officials this would be interesting, lets meet our party panel, finally. We have attorney, republican strategist alexander wilkes, and juan williams, and host of the part of the problem podcast. Dave smith. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Kennedy about what is up with sondland, he isism came imf imf implicating in people you like. I think rudy guliani has complicated matters with his involvement in the testimony that has been put out, that said, i think that short of this reaching the president in a direct way, in a smoking gun kind of way, this is just not going to be what the democrats hope for. Impeachment is a political process, if you go after the president of the united states, you need to have him dead on with no other you know complications, i think that these other characters add some complexity to it, making this more difficult to know. Kennedy was sondland more problematic for republicans than other witnesses who testified. I dont think there is a question, he a republican, not an ordinary republican, he gave a mill you millennium bucks. Kennedy i wish i had that mon money. Me got an ambassadorship, that is pretty good. Kennedy Caroline Kennedy business right there. I think it was hard, you think about him. This is a guy who you cant qualify, you cant categorize as a nevertrumper. Nevertrumper, nobody has been talking about direct conversations with the president , and he said yeah, i talked to president like 20 times about this. Kennedy but he could not remember that, i guess it was 20, i dont know. I took away from this, what you were picking up, i start to see that there now separation on the republican side, people may be willing to throw rudy guliani under the bus. Kennedy absolutely, no doubt that rudy has the biggest target on his back after this week. And that was clear from the conservative counselor was who questioning sondland, does this matter. In bigger picture. Kennedy grand scheme. That is we never in history of country impeached and removed a president. Idea they say well impeach and remove donald trump, this unprecedented act, when the scandal he wanted them to look into biden, it is unclear he ever said you get the meeting if you look into biden or only get foreign aid. At best for democrats this is a wink and a nod, this is what i want, scandal, big picture, obama funded al qaeda and syria, george w. Bush instituted children, and bill clinton starved iraqi children to death. And shipped coke to country. Kennedy who likes to party. While fighting a war drugs. Kennedy a lot of people are conflicted. Im saying to make this a scandal, is absurd. Kennedy looking at Historical Context it not as big as the iran contra affair. Nothing close. Made oliver north a star. Barack obama. This is what about is way worse. Wait. Did you impeach a president for having oral sex in oval office. Yes that was stupid. Im not a republican. Think about what public can absorb. Kennedy while wearing a blue dress have you the last say. Not that blue dress. It is easy to understand sex in oval office and lying under oath, i dont think that this is trickling down in american psyche in the way that democrats were hoping. Kennedy the trickle is problematic for democrats, you have to have a giant boller to take out a boulder to take out a president , they dont atthispoint, in my mind president may have been inappropriate and over stepped boundaries. But it is almost like high is spihe is spitballing. It is an attempted quid pro quo. Kennedy they got the white house meeting. The system works. Kennedy what are we upset about . Abuse of power by president of united states. Kennedy yes, it was inappropriate. It was beyond inappropriate, using your dollars and our foreign aid to get dirt on his political opponent. Kennedy he did not get it. How about a scandal in ukraine sides with neonazis to have an illegal regime change in 2014 that was barack obama, there was a scab da scandal in e why do we care more about this than that. If investigating is interference than Hillary Clinton and dems interfere. Oh, stop. What do you min mean oh, sto. Kennedy if you dont like this, you cant like that. 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Were doing all we can to make moving simple, easy, awesome. Go to xfinity. Com moving to get started. Kennedy well, democrat scream impeach, over president ial abuse of power, hypocrite voted overwhelming 3 on a spending bill with a secret provision to re,00reauthorize the patriot ac. It sprouts new balls and sucks up 4 amendment violating information on innocent americans like you. They have been caught, chatter that program would go away. But cowardly democrats tucked it in a critical spending bill, hoping no one would notice, they did, it is weird, House Freedom caucus, and house progressive caucus are natural enemies. Think dogs and cats in bathes and fighting in same small tub but they are only ones paying attention, fighting to put this one to sleep for good, Edward Snowden would be rolling in his grave but he is giggling, they are too happy to give his Administration Even more abuse able opaque and unrepenting power. Justin amash tweeted when democrat signs i. Trump and g. O. P. Neither party is looking out for you that is why im an independent that is what this country is supposed to be rooted in not hyper partisan hypocrisy. Started out at empathy, if the parties are not looking out for you, why do you still vote for them . Or they are spying on you and stealing your money, what a country, that is the memo. Kennedy it year nsa temporarily suspended this mass Data Collected program, they dont know how to operate it without violating americas rights, why the hell does Congress Want them to restart it, here with me now, Kentucky Republican congressman, thomas is back. You are real whistleblower here, i have not seen anything in news report this yet. You are the first. I have been trying to blow the whistle thiso this democrat have been complaining abuse of power. They just gave the president power to spy on every american without a warrant in a bill that funds everything from president is doing. Like the cr does not cut any of money from the executive branch. That is weird. You know they are so opposed to every program. And you know this president i know there are parts you like about him, but he is a big government, big spending president. And that means whatever this bill has in it they will spend if on president s program. They have authorized and funded everything he is doing,. They have these hearings, simultaneously complaining about what he is doing, this is ridiculous. The other thing less then 24 hours to read this, because they didnt want you to report on it until it was passed. They snuck it through, pelosi has a 72 hour rule but she got 230 democrats to suspend that 72 hour rule. All of the ruling to rush it cr through. This continuing resolution. Kennedy how is it going to do in senate. Well, it will probably being through the senate and president will sign it but this is not a solution, here is what it does. I have seen this play call 4 times. They punted ball until december 20. What they do then is they come in in a closed room with us, say, okay, now we have the really big omnibus, if you vote for this you can go home for christmas, if you dont, and it fails well make you stay here are in christmas and new years, i have been in a closed room they start chanting vote, vote, and people runup and vote for something they have not read. Kennedy that sno that is no wao legislate, that is like a bon bondage chamber i think. Like a stockholm syndrome, with hostages are excite the to vote for their own doom, or doom for american people, they set up a christmas crisis, december 20, wait for it, it is coming but they will have an omnibus, who knows what they hide in, that my staff helped me find patriot act in this bill, on page 25. Kennedy it was buried, you had if on twitter and instragram you highlight the portion. This st what you people do, you hate freedom so much you are willing to recompromise americans basic 40mm rights. And democrats have been complaining about this. Whole time that republicans were in the majority. This is another thing they did, that i want to put it in a spending bill, no democrat ever apologized for spending too much, democrat can go home say look to spend the money keep government from shutting down i had to vote to you know they wont say it, i have to vote to violate your 4 amendment right. Kennedy they dont care, you only person in congress to vote against this prevision. That provision that told people of hong kong, we got your back, were not going to advance any military campaign against Mainland China but we feel you. It passed you are such a contrarian. About 420 to 1 that bill, thathats had shan i santion onu dont mul pull a gun unless youe ready to shoot, when you start escalating things with china, do you, in this case sanctions, i have never voted for a sanction. In so, i was not about to start here, this is fake. 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