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He seems to be trying to self-impeach. i'm so feeble i can't do this by myself. so let me use the levers of state craft to get help from foreign governments? >> yeah, nicole, i think a few things are going on here. first of all this is president trump just coming up with the message on the fly himself. we know that's how the communications operation in the west wing works. it's really driven by the demander in chief. burt it's also a flashback in that moment to the 2016 campaign when addressing our friend katy tur, president trump said, russia, if you're listening and then called on the russia...

These have real consequences because the president may argue, well, he's just arguing on my behalf. but others see him maybe doing state craft which is outside of the line. >> this would be exactly where impeachment is going to be a lot more dangerous for donald trump than the mueller probe. the dualer probe took place behind closed doors. witnesses were rushed in through delivery entrances. no one knew who was coming and going. and impeachment proceeding takes place on roadblock television coverage with witnesses like rudy giuliani who will have to answer questions. when you scream, yeah, i c...

Meetings with the u.s. are expected to take place, eric. eric: covered all week in fox news channel, of course, garrett, thank you. arthel: for more let's bring in bob wells, retired navy campaign and former national security adviser to vice president dick cheney, captain wells, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, arthel. arthel: thank you, before we -- you know, before we get into specifics, how do we make sure that this war of words doesn't escalate into something real? >> i think we do exactly what we are trying to do now and that is to defend saudi arabia. i think these particular attacks...

Intelligence activity covered by the operations of the director of national intelligence. and so it doesn't matter where that person actually lies, whether it's inside or outside the intelligence community. >> ned price, i just want to give you a wide open opportunity here because you just kept throwing things at us last night that i hadn't even thought of in my questioning. so i'm just going to give you the floor. where do you see this on day two? >> well, i think what we've learned tonight, lawrence, is that it has something to do with ukraine. we don't know what precisely. we don't know wha...

Learned tonight, lawrence, is that it has something to do with ukraine. we don't know what precisely. we don't know what this promise may have been.no but i think, lawrence, it raises the prospect even more so that what we're really talking about is a quid pro quo. and now, of course quid pro quos are part of statecraft. they are part of diplomacy. it's what presidents do all the time. president obama sent 4,000 troops to west africa to fight the ebola virus in return for a coalition of countries joining us to counter a collective threat. but in normal quid pro quos the actor in both the quid ...