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howie: just as an aside, television is losing interest in the campaign. you re seeing the cable networks giving air time to local murder trials involving people you never heard of. and joe biden will just token oppositions of absolutely no one by winning 96% of the vote in yesterday east south carolina democratic primary. the media had been insisting that president biden take swift action after iranian drone killed three american soldiers and for five days the criticism from commentators only grew louder. and it turns out that looking stern and furring your brow and saying don t into the camera isn t enough to stop iran. if iran wants to continue killing americans or trying to kill americans, should we not at least sync one of their ships? howie: this is a classic dilemma. on friday afternoon, the air strikes began hitting targets in iraq and syria and killing more than 40 people. this administration s idea of deterrence is trying really hard not to kill too many ....
We ll take that live here on cnn. will this be a circus in january, will there be live witnesses. the wish list as you just heard from chuck schumer, those who he believes have the most contact with the president of the united states. who could answer the question, why did he withhold that aid to the ukraine. they being the democrats want the witnesses to testify. mcconnell, the republicans get to call the balls and the strikes, they re the majority party on the senate side. they get to say yes or no. it s a matter of the stakes being so high, and how this will go. is anyone willing to work with one another. that is yet to be determined. abby and john have been listening to this along with me, just for the senate side, for chuck schumer, he wants his four witnesses, including john bolton and mcmulvaney. he did his pr blitz this morning, he was asked including john verman, would you consider ....
Other trump administration officials who have been instructed not to testify about donald trump s scheme to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival in exchange for military aid. those potential witnesses include secretary of state mike pompeo, white house chief of staff mcmulvaney and former national security adviser john bolton. jonathan schaub, a former attorney in the justice department s office of legal counsel told the washington post that this ruling could, quote, provide cover for other witnesses, especially former employees who are inclined to testify but feel compelled by the white house s direction not to. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff said the democrats are moving forward with the impeachment inquiry while leaving the door open for more witnesses to come forward. tonight chairman schiff had this message to others refusing to testify. quote, to all those witnesses who hide behind fallacious claims of absolute immunity, this ruling shows again ....
Here. he is pinning his hopes to a court case. we learned mcmulvaney is doing the same thing, trying to latch himself onto kupperman s case. all part of what michelle is talking about, an effort to cause confusion, slowing things down we are seeing john bolton deciding whether he wants to go down in history as an american patriot who came forward with information about the president who he served or as a gutless wonder. he does not need a subpoena to come to congress and tell the american people the truth about the most consequential thing of a president in our history. so when he says, ohive to wait and see what the judge is going to say, legally that s wrong. it s true that the president has requested that he not testify, but congress has subpoenaed him. before the trump administration subpoenas were not optional. right. if you were subpoenaed you have to come and testify or have ....
Excerpts that have been obtained by msnbc of the book called a warning , of course written by the anonymous person who claims to be a senior trump administration official, paints a picture of a president who poses a danger to the country. of course the administration out overnight calling that book fiction, lies. what will president trump have to say about it? i bet he ll have some strong words. let me go to geoff bennett now, because as the president is talking about impeachment, and we are hearing this from our colleagues, you know from our days at the white house, they re out there and they re going to run this back in. hans is texting and we re getting emails. so far i haven t seen specifically a mention of mcmulvaney, the president s acting chief of staff who is not g going to show up. i want to know what reaction you re hearing from lawmakers, if anything, and looking ahead to the other testimony that may get released today. . reporter: well, the reaction from democrats to ....