And evidence of record changing that looks like malfeasance. There is evidence of both. Liz ig horowitz testifies for the first time that Deputy Attorney general sally yatess staff remember sally yates worked under president barack obama, that the staff knew about fbi abuses with fisa warrant but did not speak up. As the Deputy Attorney general was signing fisa warrants to spy on the Trump Campaign. Deputy attorneys generals office, Deputy Attorney general or right below the Deputy Attorney general, have someone on your staff doing what was going on, and not telling anybody, is highly problematic. As we point out here, the net result of that is the Deputy Attorney general was signing awarrant that did not include Key Information that someone on her staff knew and had told the fbi. Liz that would have undercut what the fbi was doing. Lets get right to it with former congressional investigator sam dewey. Youre reaction to what the i. G. Said today . More ends justifies means kind of thinking happening under james comey, and under the Obama Administration. Good evening. Thank you very much for having me again the i. G. Testimony raises extraordinarily profound issues. What is a very complicated process that is designed to catch these types of errors and issues failed at every level. And you were right to highlight from the testimony today, that it wasnt just at the fbi. But that the Deputy Attorney generals office, which is designed to review as part of an independent safeguard should have caught this issue. It is failure both at the fbi and the doj looking how did this happen . Liz lets do a thought exercise. Swap out the word trump, swap out the words Trump Campaign. Put in words barack obama. Put in the words, obama campaign. Because james comey admitted to fox newss chris wallace, his team did give quote false information to the fisa occur. The doj watchdog found Christopher Steeles antitrump dossier was riddled with problems, even though comey spoke about it as credible. The media reported it as credible. Exaggerated claims about trump. Rumors, speculation, talk, just acquired from friends over beers. Multiple levels of hearsay upon hearsay. Republicans say that is what is happening with impeachment too. Hearsay upon hearsay. Your reaction. I think that is right on the impeachment front that is what argument that has been made, that is being made. I do think in this instance, with the failure, it does raise questions to your point of, this just wasnt anybody who the fisa warrant was for. It was for a wellknown affiliate of the Trump Campaign. This was precisely type of thing as a staffer you would elevate to the principal. Yes the principal is dealing with a lot of different issues. Yes as, director comey said, he is supervising thousands of investigations as director but this really is the type of thing, when youre dealing with a president ial campaign where this is the thing that is elevated and should be looked at given more scrutiny at the higher levels, not less. Liz fisa court judge Rosemary Collier issued a rare public rebuke order yesterday for the fbi for not just giving the court, quote, false information, but also for misleading the National Security division of the justice department. Lets show what the judge collier said. She is the fisa court judge. Heres the issue. So its the doj, Deputy Attorney generals office. It is the National Security division of the doj. Fisa court, it is deeper than just the fbi. I want to turn to what jason chafe get, former House Oversight chair told us. He is arguing it is not a coincidence that basically that impeachment got ratcheted up just as the fbi probe into the fbi fisa abuses ratcheted up too. Lets watch this. We follow the facts. That is what the department of justices doing. I think that is why theyre so worried. Why were seeing escalation right now in the impeachment talk as a bit of a distraction to take their eye off the ball of what horowitz and durham are doing. Liz your reaction . I dont know for sure what is motivating the impeachment timing. I think there are a lot of factors that have led into the must be impeached by christmas mentality, rush to impeach. I certainly think that the argument that mr. Chaffetz laid out is certainly a plausible one that aligns with the facts. Liz what is really interesting . It is really important that the fbi or other officials cannot mislead, cannot lie. They have a sacred duty of candor as some attorneys argued in the fisa court because there is no defense attorney to represent the person being spied on. I want to move on to this. We reported that the doj watchdog said yes, that president barack obama knew about the trump russia probe in 2016. That the Obama Administration did not, twice, did not give the Trump Campaign the heads up about what was going on with the trump russia probe. Decided not to do that. I want to turn to this. That now the dojig report shows a fbi agent used a routine intelligence reefing in involving President Trump and michael flynn, to provide information for the crossfire hurricane probe. Let me ask you this as an investigator. They did it without the knowledge. For fbi agents not to tell the president or flynn anything at that can be used against them and criminal charges that is pretty bad . I think that the whole specter of running this type of counterintelligence probe and not engaging in a defensive briefing, engaging in a fullscale investigation, that it does raise a lot of methodological issues, when you talk to someone, you generally speaking tell them why youre talking to them. If they are a target, theyre someone of interest, this is the context which you are speaking to them. Now there are a few exceptions to that, but those are generally particularly when youre dealing with Something Like this, ones only authorized at highest levels. Liz sam, final question, are you worried about civil issues here and constitutional issues here . So i think that this episode raises a lot of issues regarding controls that, a lot of people including certain extent me thought were sufficient but clearly arent. So yes, i am worried about those issues Going Forward and i do think we need reform but on the flip side of the coin i will say, you know, there are some hardworking people at fbi and the department that were not involved in this, the fisa process does generate valuable intelligence, so i think it is something that needs to be addressed careful. Liz sam, great to see you. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. A new gallup poll shows support for impeachment dropping, opposition growing including among independents. Plus impeachment forever . 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House democrats talking about impeachment 2. 0. Pushing for mueller grand jury materials. Democrats publicly laying foundation to impeach trump before he was even sworn in, according to republicans. Basically what we found too. The Obama Administration used counterintelligence on Trump Campaign. Now this, democrats casting the 2020 election as invalid if trump wins. Pelosi, nadler, schiff, saying impeachment is about stopping trumps reelection. That trump is trying to undermined the 2020 election. Edward lawrence joins us with more from capitol hill. Reporter were into the sixth hour of back and forth of articles of impeachment. More than 175 members of congress spoken so far. Were waiting for vote on articles of impeachment to start. Looks like that could happen in hour an 15 minutes this vote is expected to be down party lines. This impeachment has been led in part by representative jerry nadler who says President Donald Trump is not above the law. President s conduct constituted highest of crimes in the country. Offense does not have to violate be a criminal statute to be impeachable. That cast confirmed in president nix sons case and president clintons. There is no higher crime for the president to use power of office to corrupt our elections. Reporter republicans making the case that nadler and other democrats decided on impeachment the day the president took oath of office. Republicans accuses democrats of weaponizing impeachment. From the beginning this has been a sham. This house has been nothing but a star chamber. The democrat majority literally locked themselves in the basement of this building hiding from the American People. When my colleagues and i refused to stand for it, democrats moved to public hearings but denied us questions, denied us witnesses. Reporter and again the vote, debate expected to finish about an hour 15 minutes. Once the house impeaches president which is expected to happen, the at cycles of impeachment will be delivered to the senate for trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says the trial will happen in early 2020. It is not expected the president will be convicted. Liz ed lawrence, thank you so much. Heres what is going on. To Edward Laurens point, attorney, jonathan turley, he is republican witness at impeachment hearings. This will be the first president ial impeachment to go forward without a recognized proven crime with smoking gun evidence like a document or email. The fastest house impeachment of all time. Just 86 days of hears. With another new poll, this time from gallup, showing more voters opposing impeachment, even after the hearings. Welcome my next guest, congressman greg stuebe, republican member of house judiciary. Good to see you, sir. Good to see you. Liz you were on the floor. What is going on now . We are continuing debate. Weigh go back and forth. Republicans and democrats take turns. Each side got three hours. Total of six hours. We should be debating hour, hour 1 2. Then well take votes. Liz here what else is going on. Senator schumer, he would be a senate juror if it goes to trial, he is slamming the senate trial before it even happens. Democrat Jackie Speier ready to declare a mistrial even before the senate. Your reaction . This is partisan attack from on the president from very beginning. One of my colleagues on demic side asked for impeachment before ukrainian phone call. You will see part line vote on one side. Chairman pelosi and chairman nadler said if it is not bipartisan, compelling overwhelming evidence to the American People shouldnt move forward with impeachment. That is exactly what they did. Liz we have a new gallup poll following on heels of cnn polls. Both polls show support for impeachment dropping. The gallup poll shows impeachment support dropping among independents. Gallup also says trumps approval, rating has increased 6 Percentage Points to 45 since the hearings began. Democrats case, transcript of the july 20 fifth phone call corroborates allegations that trump was pressuring ukraines leader was opening up investigation of the bidens, to get military aid. Democrats own witnesses say they saw no bribery. Watch this. Did either of you have any evidence of quid pro quo, mr. Morrison . No, maam. Ambassador volcker . I did not. Any evidence of bribery . No, maam. No amendment. Not that i can recall. He said i want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. You. You testified you had no direct knowledge of any nefarious motivations to withhold aid to ukraine, correct . Correct. To your knowledge you testified that there were no Strings Attached to the aid, correct . That is page 184 of your deposition. I had no such knowledge. Liz even ukraine leaders, i think there is about a dozen exculpatory comments and statements from leaders of ukraine including the president , they didnt feel there was quid pro quo. They didnt know the aid was on hold. That is not even one of the articles of impeachment they chose to go on. You hear a lot of people talk about bribery. That is a constitutional basis for impeachment. That is not one of the articles they brought because they dont have any evidence of it. Instead they bring broad, overly broad impeachment article abuse of power which is not annotated area under the constitution that you can impeach a president for. Basically now up to an opinion whoever thinks that somebody abused their power can be impeachable offense. Liz democrats rammed up, critics say, ramped up their impeachment after joe biden got caught with a multimilliondollar play payforplay scandal. The washington establishment an accusation is tantamount to conviction. Youre guilty until proven innocent. Democrat Eric Swalwell effectively repealed the fifth amendment on live television. Ness witnesses you continue to block us from hearing unless you send them to us we can only conclude youre guilty, in america innocent men do not hide and conceal evidence. Wolf, they do just the opposite. They are forth come. They want to cooperate. Liz that is elected official, sworn to uphold the constitution. He saying youre guilty as we do as we say. Absolutely amazing to me, being a lawyer, sitting on judiciary committee, he sits on the judiciary committee, to throw out everything goes to our court system and judicial system in the united states, that youre innocent until proven guilty. The fact they would make those statements shows how partisan this is, regardless whatever ever evidence there is that exculpates the president. Liz nancy pelosi admitting that the impeachment push has started 2 1 2 years. Been going at 2 1 2 years since the Mueller Probe. Weve had calls to impeach the president over his comments about the nfl anthem controversy, comments about the squad. Impeachment 2. 0. Your reaction to House Democrats trying to get the mueller grand jury materials in order to start another impeachment . I tell you the American People are not wanting this. Theyre not wanting this to continue. So after this passes, if it doesnt pass the senate, they try defend, i think the American People will hold them accountable in november of 2020. Liz do you really think this will help President Trump get reelected . That is what republicans keep saying. Democrats say no, it will drive his Approval Rating down . I tell you before i came to washington i was having brake fast with my wife at local restaurant. A democrat introduced herself. She introduced herself as democrat. Told me she is sick and tired of impeachment. If democrats in my district are telling me that, that is pretty across the board at least in my district in the state of florida. Liz congressman, thanks for coming back soon. Thanks for having me. More on the president s rally tonight in battle creek, michigan. Fox newss matt finn is there with more. He is ready to go, matt. He is pretty upset. Reporter if you think about, what a historic, unbelievable dynamic, Democrat Congress getting ready to impeach the president. He is flying here to the midwest to stage a rally. This rally does not feel different than any other donald trump rally over last couple years. That is because thousands of his supporters began lining up yesterday. All in all. Thousands are now inside. They are energized and amped to hear directly from president. Supporters from all around the country began lining up in bitter temperatures in western michigan where the president enjoys a lot of support. This arena has capacity of 6,000 people, police and white house predict it will be filled. Tonight the president is holding a Merry Christmas rally one week before the holiday. The president of course campaigned on promise of creating an american environment where people can say Merry Christmas again.