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We'll see about that when lawmakers return from the thanksgiving break. >> bill: thank you from the hill. >> sandra: let's bring in pam bondi, white house advisor on impeachment. good morning and thank you for being here. >> good morning. >> sandra: how is the white house responding to what was three long days of this impeachment process in those hearings this week? >> it was a bunch of nothing and it was a sham. sandra, we say that but let me explain why. president trump, then candidate trump, has always run on a strong platform of anti-corruption not only domestically but also abroad. we all...

Be impeached but he welcomes a trial in the senate claiming democrats have nothing incriminating after days of public testimony. here is pam bondi from the white house addressing that. >> the president of the united states sets foreign policy, not sondland, not anyone else. the president will continue to fight corruption. this is coming from the president of the united states that he is against corruption domestically and abroad especially if we give $400 million of lethal aid, not blanket aid, lethal aid to the ukraine. we had to make sure president zelensky who proved himself now to be a dar...

Assume. i think. >> sandra: some people hear you answer that he is the president's personal attorney but the question was what was his involvement in u.s./ukraine foreign policy? >> the president of the united states sets foreign policy, not sondland, not anyone else. there are career officials out there who did not like the president's tough stance. the president campaigned on this. the president will continue to fight corruption. this is coming from the president of the united states that he is against corruption, domestically and abroad from candidate trump even before he was elected. if he...

Former independent counsel concluded this from what he has heard so far. >> clearly in his opening statement of quit pro kuo and then he says later well, the president said i don't want anything, right? president zelensky should do the right thing. you cannot convict -- you shouldn't charge but you can't convict a sitting president on the basis of conflicting and ambiguous evidence. >> sandra: there is one republican in the house who was in that room yesterday that perhaps is democrats' best hope at getting to vote yes on impeachment, congressman will hurd. he was not convinced over impeachmen...

>> we all now ukraine had incredible corruption. we get president zelensky elected. he promised he was going to be an anti-corruption president but he was untested. >> bill: christine fisher picks up coverage from the north lawn of the white house. good morning. >> president trump said this morning that despite all of these hearings he does not expect to be impeached. but if he does get impeached by the house, then he wants a trial in the senate. he does not want senate republicans to quickly dismiss any articles of impeachment. the reason why is because in a senate trial republicans would be ...