Despite all of the Great Success over the last three years, mha much more difficult to deal with foreign leaders whi am constantly having to defend myself against the donothing democrats and their impeachment scandal. In west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending the holidays. Hi, rich. Good afternoon, julie, after mostly taking a break from tweeting about christmas break from tweeting about impeachment, the president is back at it, tweeting this morning why should crazy nancy pelosi just because she has a a slight majority in the house to be able to impeach the president of the United States. His ear republican votes. There was no crime. The call with ukraine was perfect. No pressure. Nancy pelosi has a 36 seat majority, holding the articles of impeachment from the senate to delay a trial. Democrats want to force Senate Republicans to agree to an impeachment trial that includes witnesses. One republican senator is expressing those concerns, that is Lisa Murkowski telling the alaska television station that she was disturbed with Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell saying that sh she was coordinating wih the white house, and now House Democrats jumping on that. Mitch mcconnell should not be coordinating and fully responding to the white house when it comes to how he determines the conduction of the trial. He has a responsibility, whether he has made his mind up or not. He has a responsibility to conduct the trial in a way that allows effects to be heard and lets others make up their own minds, even if his is closed. Congress is out until januare continues. There is also the possibility of more articles of impeachment coming. House democrats this week in a federal court filing say that they may pursue additional charges of impeachment against the president , even though it was only last week that they approve two of them. Julie. Julie rich hudson, thank you very much. For more lets bring in tony kass, radio host, and back from outnumbered couch, capri cafaro. Capri, i will start with you. I was starting to see a crack in the g. O. P. Unity . I dont necessarily, we will not know until the vote actually occurs. These are a number of obscenitiesenatorsthat have exp, whether it is Lisa Murkowski, or met romney. I think that this is par for the course up until this point, and we will only know what happens when we see the vote. And actually we talked about on the couch, there is a difference between needing a simple majority to get some additional witnesses in versus the actual 67 senators that you need of people to get them. Julie tony, i should ask you. Should mcconnell be coordinating with the white house . Lisa murkowski does not think that should happen. Or will all lies beyond the the moderates, murkowski, mitt romney, collins . None of it matters until nancy pelosi sends the articles. And to the report from rich, they will put forward more articles and vote on more . If i Mitch Mcconnell i would get myself a nice chase lounge, cigar, and grab some bourbon if you drink and wait for them to do their job and then decide what you are going to do. Julie okay, so should they sit back and have their bourbon . I dont know. It sounds like a good idea to me. But i am not elected to anything. Lisa murkowski obviously, capri, concerned about total cooperation between the senate and the white house, as she should be. Because this should be a political divide here. Capri chambers and branches of government. Julie but here is Debbie Dingell on whether the senate trial could turn into a political crisis. I will have you react. I would hope that the whole country does not want a circus. The senate certainly can be more sometimes i think that there too rigid, and whatever, but i dont think the senate will want a circus. And i think senator mcconnell and what i do know of him, and is that he is not going to once a circus in the United States senate. Julie i think it is a little bit too late for that, capri. I think what has happened honestly at this point is that the American Public really has a bit of investigation fatigue and impeachment fatigue, and i would hope that we would see a level of restraint and putting the constitution and the institution over politics and political allegiance. We have not seen it up to this point, frankly, either from democrats or republicans, why should be expected to start now . Julie tony, nancy pelosi, we talked about this last hour. She has every right to delay the articles of impeachment for moving onto the senate. But at the same time, is the president , yes, there was a vote to impeach in the house, but at this point it is at a standstill. Is he technically still impeach . Some would say, if this does not go to the senate trial, it is really not. In the president seems to be riding high off of this and his supporters, in fact, coming out in droves. Its on us like a good thing for the president. Thats the objects at the white house is trying to get out there. Yes, it is the old line, if the impeachment falls in the forest and no one can have a trial, did it happen . That is what we are dealing with, and i think capri is right, there is impeachment fatigue without question out there. The fact that nancy pelosi is within her right, there may be something listed that so she could hold back the article, but thats not how america sees it. Passing in the house, they voted to impeach the president , yes, i would argue that he is impeach. But if they dont send it to the senate, they are proving that this is all political as we have all been saying all along. And that works out very poorly for them going into 2020. This is not about a phone call. This is not about whether the phone call was perfect, it is in about a conversation with a foreign leader. This is not about foreign aid or any dealmaking. This is about hating trump. And she makes that argument better than President Trump ever could. Julie i will move on to karl rove, because he is coming out. I dont know if you heard, slamming Speaker Pelosis decision to withhold these two articles of impeachment while they are contemplating coming up with a third and not handing it off to the senate. He writes in the wall street journal oped, americans deserve a dignified conclusion to impeachment, as the senate gave them to mr. Clinton in 1999. Impeachment always inflicts trauma on the nation. We can accept that. What the country should not accept is a continuation of this democrat led circus. Capri, karl rove, is he right or wrong . He is right in the sense that impeachment always has a negative effect on the soul of the country. I think that it will really be up to the American People how they feel about this and that will be seen at the ballot box. I would say the President Trump and the white house has a way to two to go in this. Because as people are aggravated about nancy pelosi holding onto the articles of impeachment, there is a feeling that if the call was so perfect as President Trump claims, why not have all of the witnesses . Why not release him from executive privilege . Get out there, tell your story and defend yourself, because transparency if innocent, will really help. Julie i want to talk about that phone call, the president has called it perfect. We have seen a memo, it was not the transcript. The exact verbatim word for word, why is that . That would answer a lot of questions and perhaps have the president would call it perfect, it would shut the democrats up if you actually gave them a verbatim transcript of exactly what was said that proves there is no quid pro quo. I think that there are a couple of things in that. First of all, we have seen the transcript, the. And things not inaudible, or misunderstood. Jim jordan has commented many times that Lieutenant ColonelAlexander Vindman said that the transcript was just fine. But i am actually with you, if im the president , i dont call the phone call perfect. Let the American People decide, you know, i did not like the phone call, but it is not impeachable. That is an acceptable place to be. The conversation here is whether or not a conversation with a foreign leader is an impeachable offense, and we are having these democrats clutching their pearls and saying, how dare the president not give Volodymyr Zelensky his Oval Office Meeting. Well, the Oval Office Meeting by be a condition on something. I think rational people understand that. And they are aware. Thats how Foreign Policy works. And there is a deal here, a deal they are, some to put their hand out, does not mean that they get money in their hands. Spend rational people, we are talking politics. Tony katz, thank you very much. Capri cafaro. You guys will be coming back, so sit tight. Experts are calling it a travel nightmare. Why drivers may face double, or even triple the number of delays than usual amid the postchristmas rush. Just stay home, dont ever go back to work. Maybe not. A live report coming up next read and President Trump threatening federal intervention to fix californias homeless crisis. Along his feud of who is to blame. What is behind the growing crisis . Next. Frustrated that clean clothes you want to wear always seem to need an iron . Next time try bounce wrinkle guard dryer sheets. Just toss it in the dryer to bounce out wrinkles. We dried these shorts with bounce wrinkle guard, and a pair without. The bounce wrinkle guard shorts have fewer wrinkles and static, and more softness. 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Your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. Upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. Tell your doctor about your medicines and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Ready to treat differently with a pill . Otezla. Show more of you. At chwere a festive family. Were a fourlegged family. Were a getupandgo family. Were a ski family. Were all part of the chevy family. And as we kick off the new year, wed like you to be a part of ours. Because our chevy employee discount is Still Available to everyone. The chevy price you pay is what we pay. Not a cent more. So happy new year, and welcome to the family. The chevy family the chevy employee discount for everyone ends soon. Julie President Trump warning californias governor to fix the homeless crisis or else, as images of homeless camps in cities like San Francisco and los angeles have now become commonplace. President trump tweeting governor gavin and has done a terrible job on taking care of the Homeless Population in california. If you cant fix a problem, the federal government will get involved. Christina coleman is live in los angeles with this one. Hi, chris enough. Hi, julie, President Trump is saying enough is enough when it comes to the chronic homelessness crisis in the state. He also blasted House Speaker nancy pelosi over this tweeting Nancy Pelosis district in california has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the u. S. When it comes to the homeless and crime. It has gotten so bad so fast, she has lost total control and along with her equally incompetent governor gavin newsom, it is a very sad size. Trumps warning comes on the hills of a blustery department of housing and urban to report that shows the nations recent overall 2. 7 rise in homelessness was caused by a 16. 4 increase in californias Homeless Population. The latest report analyzes data from 2018. California leads the nation and the number of Homeless People with an estimated total of over 129,000 in january of 2018. And according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services authority, nearly 59,000 people are homeless in l. A. County alone. That is a 12 increase to last year. Governor gavin newsom has been saying that the Trump Administration is playing politics. He says that the state is doing evermore to tackle the chronic homelessness. Investing 1 billion to help the Community Fight this problem. What he says the federal government needs to step up and do more. I imagine if you are the president of the United States, any leader like myself feels a deep sense of responsibility to address some of the vexing issues in the country. We have asked the Trump Administration for the one thing that he can do, specifically, and that is address the Fair Market Rent issue and help us support Additional Resources so that we can get people housed. The president can do a of a lot more. Yesterday trump did specify how the feds might get involved in the homelessness crisis, and he has not addressed the warning, but we reached out to the Governors Office for a response, so we are waiting to hear back. Julie. Julie christina coleman, thank you very much. Her back with us now, tony katz, capri cafaro. The homeless crisis in california, so bad, that more tax residents are moving out then Homeless People are moving in. Should the federal government to step in . If not, when would be the time to do so . Speak of the problem is, i dont know what the federal government does if it does step in. In the state of texas, austin was a ridiculous mess with homelessness. It was Governor Greg Abbott who stepped in. With gavin newsom, he led the mess that was San Francisco, the aiding and abetting of homelessness. You have to break it down, there are people that can get help. You have people that are dealing with addiction issues, and then you have the people who have Mental Health issues. You have to attack leasing separately. This is not a partisan problem. This is our problem. California does exacerbate it because of the real estate costs, but my beloved indianapolis can go down that same road and start to touch on it here and there, and it has to do with leadership that does not accept the status quo. There is no accepting of homelessness. That has to be the baseline from which Everything Else grows. Julie capri, what is the problem . And what is the solution . And are liberals at all to blame for contributing to the problem . I think that leaders, no matter where they are are going to be contributing to the problem, because i can contribute to the solution paid whether youre a democrat or a republican, a liberal or conservative, if youre not focusing on how you can combat that problem, and often times it is a state local, and federal government partnership. If you are putting partisanship ahead of that, your contribute into the problem. That being said, i agree with my colleague. We are in a situation where homelessness does not have one underlying contributive factor. We have significant income and economy, very high cost of living and housing costs in the state of california, and then you have the individuals that really are not in a position to be employed, even if you put a roof over their head, you try to give them job training or even addiction support, and recovery support, but what they really need is permanent support of for the severely and persistently mentally ill. These are people that need help and they are not just going to be able to get a hand up. They need a system around them to be able to make them independent and contributing to the system if possible. Julie i will move on. Some 2020 democrats are putting a greater focus on their faith ahead of the primaries. Pete buttigieg is among them with senator cory booker who tweeted this before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people before you tell me how much you love god, show me how much you love all his children. Andrew yang also speaking out. Watch. My boys are in sunday school, being brought up question, and i am thrilled with that. Julie will these appeals to faith resignation with democratic voters, do you think . I dont think that it has for Pete Buttigieg, who is really first at this. And also did it with a mix of something that i referred to as penitents. Thats what he has done out of indiana, it has been utilized, and then attacking my faith with his faith. That is not worked at all. But other things have worked. For cory booker, i think so much of this is too late. He simply does not have the polling to get them through. He is desperate for fifth place in iowa which would be a miracle in order f