Functions of congress, they coequal branch of government. You think about what the democrats are trying to do, impeach the president of the United States, 13 months prior to an election based on an anonymous whistleblower who has a bias against the president. The guy running the process, chairman schiff, didnt even tell us he met with the whistleblower prior to the whistleblower filing the complaint. Dana a couple hours ago, democratic head of the three house committees put out statement saying they would issue a subpoena for the ambassador and whatever documents he has. Get to our political panel, matt and michael meehan, president and c. E. O. Of sq communications. Good to have you both here. I want to read a tweet, President Trump wrote this. I would love to send ambassador sondland to testify, but unfortunately, he would be testifying before a compromised Kangaroo Court where republicans rights have been taken aa way and true facts are not allowed out for the public. Matt, ambassador sondland said, i wish i could testify, i will try here, but the house, the white house is basically playing the cards its been dealt and saying this one well put a stop to. Yes, when you go through impeachment process, starts with vote on the house floor to move toward a formal impeachment process and nancy pelosi is refusing to allow that vote to happen for two reasons, number one, protecting democrats who won in trump districts last cycle, doesnt want them to make that vote f. They move to have impeachment process, it gives minority republican subpoena power and ability to make contrary claim to the idea that donald trump committed some crime. Reasons why they are not moving toward impeachment. This whole thing is not impeachment, it is foe impeachment, they have been trying to impeach since day one. This is about russia and children in cages and the 2016 election and so clear reason why the white house should not go along with this really nonimpeachment impeachment process. Dana they will try to force a vote and she is resisting that. Listen to adam schiff and lee, one responding from the republican side about what happened this morning, listen. The American People have the right to know if the president is acting in their interest, in the nations interest, with eye toward National Security and not in his narrow, personal, political interest. They have a right to know indeed the American People have a need to know and through this impeachment inquiry, we are determined to find the answers. We sound like were pissed as we stand here, we are. The American People are getting screwed by activist base demanding impeach ments, they dont care what the crime is, what the facts are or what the evidence is. Dana michael, how do they see this playing out right now . You can look at both sides claim they have the upper hand here. Michael nothing in the constitution requires house of representatives to vivote, to look into whether the president , who says publicly hes asked for other foreign governments to interfere in our election. Hes said that, no secret tapes like richard nixon, he said it in congress. The coequal branch of government is allowed to protect election and defend National Security and what the three committees are doing in looking into that. The ambassador wants to come tell his side. If the president says it is within his purview to interfere in the election, let the ambassador explain his role in the process, it is not that hard. Dana there will be a subpoena, well see about that. Matt, presumably, sondland communication with the president would be protected under executive privilege, you would have to invoke that, that is possibility, right . But you dont get to, when you have a privilege, you dont get to dance around when you use it or not use it in a public testimony. It would be kind of charade for somebody who advises the president and helps implement Foreign Policy to constantly be telling democrats that they cant comment on this or that and bottom line, michael is wrong, the only way you can have impeachment process the way we had in the past is if the minority also has right to have subpoena power and make their case. You have to have a crime. There is no crime. The president didnt ask for a foreign intervention into the election, that is actually what the Obama Administration did. The president said is that you have corruption overseas in the name of hunter biden, who nobody can find. How come hunter biden has not answered questions about potential allegations . He is in hiding and the American Media is allowing the Biden Campaign to get away with that. To me, that shows, if he had nothing to hide, hunter biden would come out and have a press conference. Michael the president says do me a favor, his direct words. About the 2016 election, lets be clear. Michael do me a favor, though. They are equal branch of government, let them do their job, they dont need a vote, matt, to investigate abuse of power. You have to have a vote. The michael you dont, they have authority to look into things, to impeach is a vote, but not to start the investigation. Dana to matts point, subpoena power to make it fair and equal, that would be something that would require a vote. Well see if they allow that to happen. Got to let you go, work it out in the green room. See you later. Thank you. House democrats are considering extreme measures to hide the identity of the first whistleblower, even from the republican colleagues, their impeachment push picks up. Why the rush to get this done in an Election Year . My next guest explain necessary be the push for impeachment, reflect lack of democratic confidence to persuade voters who went for mr. Trump last time to give them margin they need in the vote 2020. Of course, hes a fox news contributor. This just in from nancy pelosi about the whistleblower. Basically saying how essential the whistleblower is. Take a listen. House Speaker Pelosi intelligence community, role of whistleblower, we all do in congress. Protecting the whistleblower is absolutely essential so there is no retribution or anything. Dana it is hard to hear that. Basically her bottom line, it should be essential there is no retrib ugz or anything for speaking the truth. She basically said in that same clip that nobody knows the identity of the whistleblower, but should they, bill . I think they should. In the rules, i believe the Inspector General can release the name, if he wants. The whistleblower protection are to make sure you dont get fired, protect your job. Not about keeping you anonymous. I think it would be odd to remove a president and overturn the results of the last election based on ana anonymous complaint. I agree with congressman schiff, the American People deserve answers and the more we do in public and more we do with established procedure, better off well be. Dana the other thing that happened and Washington Post basically saying about the whistleblower arrangement that the highly unusual arrangement for the whistleblower, underscores toxicity between democrats and republicans. One familiar with the discussion said this is first time the panel had to take such extraordinary measures to protect a witness, including from g. O. P. Colleagues and talked about possibility of having the testimony off site. Bill this is insane. Go back to process, your previous conversation was whether the house need to vote. The constitution doesnt require that. The question is, whether mrs. Pelosi can change the rules arbitrarily the way they did. A court could say, you can change rules, but there are procedures for that, the reason that is important, which there is impeachment hearing, the committee has a lot more powers, entitled to more documents. Dana jerry nadler wanted it all along. Right. Than regular oversight. The white house is frustrating this, going to go to the court and delay further. Then you add to this, democrats saying we want to vote by christmas, by december. Wouldnt better thing to say, well get to the bottom of this dana rather than a time limit . Right. Dana bigger point of your column, the 20between the 2020, the real target. We have an election in a year, if donald trump is wicked and awful and horrible as democrats say, he should be easy to beat next november, right . Especially since last time out he didnt win the National Vote and won some battleground states by thin margins. I think some of this reflects a lack of confidence among democrats. Some are worried about joe biden not being up to the job and worried about Elizabeth Warren too far left and bernie seems to have Health Issues now. I also think they are litigating 2016. Dana you might punish trump voters. Dana we are reliving that vote over and over again. Were going to have more about biden and warren coming up, we have bret baier coming up. Bill mcgurn, we love having you here. President trump defending his thoughts on syria. We have that up next. Near record lows. Rates havo refi now at newday usa with no income verification, no appraisal, and no points. X . O ozempic® oh oh announcer people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7 and maintained it. Oh under 7 . announcer and you may lose weight. In the same oneyear study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. 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We interject ourselves into wars, tribal wars and revolutions and all these things that are very they are not the kind of thing you settle the way wed like to see it settled. Dana critics warn the move could result in resurgence of isis, here is some of that. If i didnt see Donald Trumps name on the tweet, i thought it would be obamas rationale for getting out of iraq. Here is what is going to happen. This is going to lead to isis reemergence, Nothing Better for isis than create conflict between the kurds and turkey. Kurds will align with assad, they have nobody to count on because we abandoned them. Big win for assad and isis. Made very clear what the [[inaudible]] republicans and separating themselves from this action. Dana joining me is fox news contrib autoor joni jones. Joey, to you first. A veteran, you served our country in war and sacrificed for that. Your thoughts about the kurds and the kind of fighters they have been alongside the United States . Yeah, it is important to point out, when i was in afghanistan, we did not want to go to sleep with the Afghan National army on our base. That time in 2010, we had military Service Members getting shot in the chest and back from Afghan National army that were insurgents themselves. I have two group texts right now, one full of Army Operators and Marine Special operators, not one bad thing was side about the kurds when we were with them. One guy said, hes only alive today because they were willing to lay their lives down for them. I think that has been the narrative across the board among military Service Members who served with the kurds. That is important that when a large part of the country is saying bring our troops home on behalf of our military, our military in return is saying, we should support these guys and try to do something, even if it is a drawdown that ensures their survival and safety. I think that is the problem we have now. President trump is very consistent and very good about Campaign Promises and going the extra mile, even when it is not politically profitable to fulfill those promises, it is part of his doctrine, you would say. The same time, it comes to Defense Strategy might transcend multiple presidency, kurds deserve more than to allow turkey an opportunity. Dana rebecca, talk about turkey. Erdogan has not been the greatest nato ally, should they be in nato at all . That is the question of the day, dana. This is something, plenty of problems existed before President Trump with nato, one of the major problems turkey has been creeping to the corner of russia. Asked for 100 air defense systems. It is a problem. President trump appears to be threading this needle, put turkey back away from russia. President trump has multiple conflicting promises he needs to make good on. One, keep the country safe and keep isis defeated. Truth of the matter is, we would not have been able to successfully defeat isis without the kurds. The kurds have lost over 11,000 men and it is because of them weve been successful. Dana as this develops well keep you in mind, joey jones and rebecca heinrich, thank you. The Supreme Court divided over lgbtq rights. The justice is hearing arguments over whether Civil Rights Act protects from job discrimination and conservative majority seems skeptical it does. Kristin fisher is live from the Supreme Court with more. Kristin. The central question, is it legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender . The 1964 Civil Rights Act prevents discrimination based on race, religion and sex. The justices have to decide if those protections also extend to the lgbtq community. The justices appeared divided along ideological lines, hundreds of protesters on both sides outside the court today asa the justices inside heard arguments in two cases. One involving two gay men who say they were fired for sexual orientation, the other involving a transgender woman. After the argument, there were two hours long, attorneys came outside to make their case to the media. Justices across the bench were troubled by the fact that the aclus argument would eliminate all sex specific policies in the workplace, whether be sexspecific showers, dress codes, restrooms, sports team, every single thing would have to go. My response to the bathrooms and societal upheaval. There will not be societal upheaval. Transgender people live among us, 1. 5 billion Transgender Americans in this world. Dana it was justice neil gorsich. He also asked questions of both sides and said sex did seem to be at least a contributing cause, so he could prove to be pivotal in this decision, expected to come down several months from now likely in june, just months before the president ial election. The dana great to have you, kristin fisher, thank you. The n. B. A. 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