We have said lets handle the case just like we did with president clinton. Fair is fair. Julie the white house has pelosis Actions Prove democrats have no case. They impeach the president who did nothing wrong and they dont have the guts to see it through and send it to the senate. Its unfortunate because the president deserves due process and to be acquitted in the country deserves to know their president did nothing wrong. Julie democrats are saying the delay is justified and they suggest mcconnell cant be trusted since hes been coordinating with the white house. Watch. Speaker pelosi doing the right thing. She is focusing a spotlight on the need to have a fair trial in the United States senate. Its especially necessary when you have Mitch Mcconnell, senator mcconnell you quoted earlier saying publicly hes not going to be an impartial juror even though thats what the oath will require. Julie lets bring Matthew Continetti into talk about it, Founding Editor of the washington frethe washington F Nancy Pelosi is on twitter. At least shes getting something done. She says she cannot move forward which she was supposed to the day they voted to impeach the president. She is waiting until democrats know what the trial will look like. That seems like not enough information. Why is she delaying . What is the trial going to look like . How is she to know that is the senates responsibility, thats the trial. What pelosi is trying to do is delegitimize the coming trial in the eyes of democratic voters. We basically know in washington that the trial will result in President Trumps acquittal. I think pelosi wants to make the case to the voters in her base in particular that the acquittal came through a corrupt process. Doesnt seem like its working. As Mitch Mcconnell said, there is no cost to him in delaying a senate trial. He doesnt want to hold one and if it were up to him, i think he would be ready to move to dismiss the charges at the earliest point. Julie how is it going to play out . Do you think nancy pelosi will deliver their articles . Does she have to . Eventually she will have to send the articles of impeachment to the senate mainly because shes going to come under a lot of pressure from democrats. If you look at people like senator klobuchar and booker who were on the sunday shows, they were say we want to trial and we must come to a deal. Not incidentally, they are both running for president. Lets remember the longer this trial goes, the last time the senators running for president will have to spend in iowa and New Hampshire. Theres different interests at work. If pelosi doesnt send the articles, looks like a fake impeachment. Technically some legal scholars say the president isnt even impeached until the articles are sent to the senate. Julie dick durbin calls out Senate Colleagues saint trump should be removed before hearing trial evidence. I think theyve gone too far. How can they hold their hands up and say i swear impartial justice and i would like to sit at the managers table with the president s team. You cant do that. Telling which way they are leaning or how they feel in terms of probability but when it comes to saying ive made up my mind and thats all over, for goodness sakes, thats not what the constitution envisioned. Julie would you not agree most democrats and republicans if not all have made up their mind when it comes to the senate . This is no surprise its going to be a party line vote. If they dont throw it out. I think its a noble sentiment from senator durbin but very unrealistic and lets not forget democrats, many of them had their minds up to impeach trump the day he was inaugurated. In terms of an impartial jury, we are long, long way away. Julie as far as nancy pelosi holding the impeachment articles to be sent off to the senate, the delay tactic. There were a lot of delay tactics on behalf of republicans the day they went to vote and now the democrats are doing it. Is it going to work . Will it bend to mcconnells well . It wont. Schumer is playing the media game, leaking letters to the media. At the end of the day, mcconnell runs the senate. He knows the rules better than anyone. I dont hes going to give into nancy pelosi. Julie what happens come 2020 . All of these senators, the congressmen and women are waiting to see what happens when it comes to 2020 and a lot of them have reelections coming up. Here is Mitch Mcconnell on the impeachment impact on 2020. The American People, they think its a significant episode, can take it into account. Most people that i run into whether they are fans of the president or not say why dont you just let us decide . We are in the middle of the election. Julie how do you think voters are going to decide if lets say now democrats have voted to impeach the president. How do you think voters are going to decide . I think impeachment will be the distance when people go to vote in november. If you really care about impeachment, its going to affect your vote but most voters dont really care about impeachment. Its low on the list of priorities. People arent really paying attention. The number of people paying attention is falling and the poles have always been divided another kind of leaning against. I dont think this is a winning issue for the democrats. Lets not forget elections are decided on the state of the economy and right now the trump economy is booming and that helps him. Julie yeah. Will we see a similar trial to clintons 1998 or will it backfire and on whom . The dems or the president . I think that process to date has hurt the democrats more than its worth the president. If you think about his approval ratings, they have been unchanged. They have even gone up a bit as the process has unfolded. Its definitely hurt the democrats so far and i dont see anything emerging from the trial that would hurt the president more. I think thats one reason why schumer wants to reopen the case and what hes demanding is the calling of live witnesses. His latest demand is more document to be submitted to the senate. I think they want to reopen the case in the hopes that some new incriminating evidence might emerge. Julie even with a Senate Acquittal hypothetically, will it give enough voters pause . I think peoples minds are already made up about donald j. Trump, love him or hate him. Impeachment will rank pretty low on the list of grievances that they go to vote in november. Julie Matthew Continetti, thank you for taking time. Merry christmas to you. Merry christmas. Julie the threat from north korea that has the u. S. 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Julie fox news alert. U. S. On high alert after north korea warned of a possible christmas gift. State news agency reporting kim jong un held a meeting with top official, military officials as satellite images show construction of the site linked to longrange missiles. This is john bolton, President Trumps former National Security advisor, criticized his former boss in an interview with axios. He said the idea that we are somehow exerting maximum pressure on north korea is just unfortunately not true. Defense secretary mark esper defending the administrations diplomatic approach with the rogue regime. Watch. Clearly rethink the political solution is the best way forward to denuclearize the peninsula and to address north koreas programs. We remain hopeful we could get the process started again and remain on the diplomatic pass. Julie greg palkot has more from london. Hi, greg. Hi, julie. North korea could be whipping up more trouble just in time for the holidays. New satellite imagery that has come out in the past day or so indicates possible expanded activity at a plant come at a factory associated with some of the norths most dangerous intercontinental ballistic missiles. Those are the ones capable of course of hitting the United States. They havent launched any of those since 2017 and they have put in place a selfimposed moratorium all the talks went on with the u. S. Now that a negotiatio negotiatie stalled, they have threatened what you mentioned, a christmas gift, if the u. S. Does not deliver. Over the weekend, kim jong un did meet with top military officials. He is quoted as saying in state media that north korea needs to bolster the military, the armed forces in this crucial and turbulent time. South of the dmz, a bit of propagation from the u. S. South korean side. Images published of a special forces exercise conducted about a month ago. Looking a bit like whats been called decapitation drills. They are the ones aimed at potentially taking out north koreas leadership. South korean president moon was in beijing today needing with chinese president xi. Both sides promising to maintain momentum. Beijing has proposed some sanctions be eased on north korea, something the u. S. Does not approve of. President trump, north Korean Leader kim jong un met twice this year but talks are going nowhere. The last tweet we have heard from President Trump was saying kim is too smart, too much to lose to act in a hostile way. Julie, the next couple days might indicate whether in fact kim jong un is smart or not. Back to you. Julie okay. Greg palkot, thank you. I am now joined by retired Army Lieutenant general, director of the Heritage Foundations Center for national defense. This is not the first time north korea has come out and bragged about something they have planned on one of our american holidays. Fourth of july, numerous missiles fired back in the day now christmas surprise. Why is north korea doing this now . North korea does not see a way for success in the current path until they are trying to spark disruption in order to get the United States to lessen the comprehensive economic sanctions the u. S. And the rest of the world have put on north korea. They are is suffering and kim would like to find some way to create division among the allies and get the economy going. Julie its not going to work. Its not going to happen. Its not been done just during this initiation but administrations in the past. When north korea tries to one of the United States on the western world that they want these sanctions to be lifted by testifying missiles, what do they get . More sanctions. We know where the president is going with this. My question is john boltons remarks about how weve not been tough enough on this rogue regime, in particular the president was hoping diplomacy would work and hes learned the hard way diplomacy doesnt seem to be working. Has the president played into north koreas hands or was he right to talk with kim jong un . I think it was the right course of action or talk to kim. This was the right path. Ambassador boltons right as well, though. The sanctions we have applied are not the maximum sanctions. Plenty of people are cheating, china among them. Dodging the sanctions. We can be tougher and the world can be tougher on north korea. I dont think also we have suspended military exercises. I think its probably time to restart the military exercises. Julie should we add more troops to south korea . There was a poll out. Kim jong un has said two things need to happen in order for them to stop test firing missiles. That means lift sanctions and pull u. S. Troops out of south korea. Neither of which are going to happen. I think youre right. Congress just put in law the fact that we cant reduce the number of troops in south korea without the secretary of defense testifying that its in the best interests of the United States. Weve got about 20,000 troops in south korea now. Thats fine. The South Koreans are very capable. We dont need more troops and we ought not to take away from what we have there. Julie what is kims calculus . Is there a political solution . Where does china and japan come in . It is football season and he is throwing a hail mary. He is tryin trying to upset thi. Firing a missile, testing a nuclear weapon, none of those things are going to work in his favor. Its going to solidify the coalition is already fairly stupefied. Steven Lieutenant General tom spoehr, thank you. We have the highest stock market in the history of our country by far. 135 times. They are stockmarket record and that is not a stockmarket record. So the record for 401 k s, people owning stock. Its a record of jobs, jobs, jobs. What impeachment . President trump counting the roaring economy. U. S. Stock markets on pace for another historic year. The dow closing at a record high 19 times so far in 2019. I made an Unemployment Rate not seen for 50 years. The president winning bipartisan house passage of the signature trade deal with canada and mexico. A piece in politico is warning the president may want to be cautious saying if he really hopes to a romp over the eventual democratic nominee, he will probably need markets to keep hopping and growth to bubble higher, especially in the industrial midwest and it is far from obvious how the United States can get there from here. Coastal joining me now, fox business david asman. The markets are on fire. The economy is on fire and there was just an impeachment for the third time in history and you would never know it. The bottom line is the comment that you just played from politico is what you were hearing last year. Last year at this time the market was down quite a bit. We were down 6,000 points lower than what we are now. Because of what the Federal Reserve was doing. They were raising rates. They turned her other policy and it showed this economy is Strong Enough even to withstand bad moves by the Federal Reserve because we bounced right back. This is the 32nd record high of the s p 500 which is another industry. You see whats happening with the dow jones industrial. We are roaring great guns. 6,000 points from where we were at this point last christmas is just tremendous. Its not just the stock market. You mention jobs. Its also wages. Wages are doing very well. The income level not just for the wealthy, as warren would tell you, but for the lowest sector of america, the lowest 10 of american workers, their salaries jumped 7 since the election. The growth rate for those without a High School Diploma was 9 . The wage growth rate. Its focused more and you would never hear this from liz warren or Bernie Sanders but its focused more on the lower levels of our economy than on the highest levels. Julie there are millions of people that dont have enough money to invest in the stock market when they are just trying to put food on the table. Lets talk about those people and those voters. Unemployment is a huge factor in electing, reelecting this president. The president told us that the tax cuts on the dring shortcuts were going to lead to a jobs boom. A lot of naysayers not only among the Democratic Left but among wall street said no, thats wishing too much. Companies are just going to do stock buybacks. The Congressional Budget Office in january 2017 right after the president took office said we will probably have 2 million more jobs by now. In fact, we have 7 million jobs. 7 million new jobs created since the election in 2016. This is an enormous job growth and what it does is not only its a good number but it means that the folks out there have bargaining position. You can trade up. If you dont like your job, you can probably be pretty sure you can get a comparable or better job if you happen to quit. Julie years ago you didnt have that kind of option. You dont leave that job. You are seeing a turn around also are people looking for jobs. There were a lot of people that were so discouraged by the job situation during the Obama Administration, they just got out of the job market entirely and that people are getting back into it. Julie we have to look forward to the summer and the election and the question is can the markets keep up this pace through the summer and more importantly to the election . The president needs that. The great thing thats happening right now for the president is lease trade deals hes been working on for two or three years are finally coming through. We are finally getting a phase one in the china deal. Usmca ironically i think usmca passed last week because of the impeachment. Nancy pelosi had to show the voters out there julie there they were doing something aside from impeaching the president. The impeachment helped the president with one of his trade deals. Thats one reason why pelosi was so reluctant to do it in the first place. You have the united kingdom. Boris johnson had a tremendous victory as Prime Minister last week in the u. K. And thats going to form a nice relation with the u. S. Trade deal there. Julie all right. A lot of christmas cheer. Julie you have brought so much happiness to this otherwise really gloomy news cycle we have been going through. Theres a lot to be h