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Call, there's something else that other people can counter that with, and they haven't been allowed to come forward. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi says president trump has the right to make his case before the committee and defend his actions if he wanted to. pelosi was also asked about the timing of all this, ed, and she says she has no idea how much longer the inquiry may last. ed: let's keep it rolling. president trump complaining about a lack of due process in the public impeachment inquiry so far, so let's continue our team coverage. down on pennsylvania avenue -- or up, i suppo...

Ed: christina coleman, thanks. in the meantime, new violence in hong kong. we've got live pictures there. the police and protesters are going at it, live pictures on the left side of your screen. it's a stand avenue right now in the middle of the night between the two sides. police have water tankers, which they fired earlier. officers also firing tear gas at pro-democracy demonstrators barricaded inside the university. police say one officer was hit in the leg with an arrow and now reported will hi they're threatening to use live bullets if the protesters keep using lethal weapons. police s...

I mean, let's hold her to her word. the democrats don't seem to want to keep their word on a lot of things. but this is is so important, ed. we were talking about china a minute or so ago. usmca is actually twice the volume of trade, five times the exports for american exporters. so so this deal in the scream of thing -- scheme of things is much bigger than china. it would be a shame if nancy pelosi were to continue fiddling while the usmca was in the deep freeze on the, on capitol hill. ed: i've got -- >> let's get it done. ed: your message is very clear that you think she's wasting time on i...

As president trump said, let's see what happens. ed: well, you're saying a couple things there. i mean, let's see what happens, that keeps the door open this may drag on, as you know. and you used that grade glide path, so i know you don't want to be completely pinned down here, but are we talking about a deal by the end of the year? >> i think the important thing here, and i've said this many times on the air, is that let's let robert lighthizer and the president do their thing. they're the best negotiators in the world. the worst thing that can happen is for this deal to be negotiated in pub...

Week? >> again, ooh i'm going to -- i'm going to disagree because yo van slip was asked directly, are you talking about impeachment? she's like that's not my job, i'm a diplomat. that's a political decision, that's not one i would make. so i don't think that that's what they were doing. they were just talking about what it is that they know, what it is they heard first and secondhand. and i think they were very convincing. we've never seen someone get up and get a standing ovation from the people who were present. because -- ed: well, that may have just been democrats in the room who were hear...