adam schiff had been criticized before but seemed to be ramped up. nancy pelosi thought there was not room for impeachment when she saw the rough transcript of his call. that was inaccurate. nancy pelosi said today that the phone call itself rises to the level of impeachable offense. she called it and undermining his oath of office and our constitution. i think speaker offices likely to dispute the president. what we heard is what the president's defense going to be. he did nothing wrong and the motivation of his attackers are partisan corrupt and don't trust what the news media tells you about what's happening. >> and to nick in san francisco. a broad attack in san francisco and pelosi as well. it sounded a little bit like baltimore. >> you know i will tell you, i love san francisco, putting that aside what we just saw was absolutely horrifying. it was the defamation of gaslighting. the president of the united states on a phone call. we have seen the summary, used the awesome power of our foreign policy to withhold resource to an ally that would fur

and maggie smith will play the role of adam schiff. we're kidding. >> laura: they do that with republicans. what's good for the goose is good for the gander. >> i don't think anyone is going to this movie. not to be outdone, film staging of the text messages between lisa page and peter strzok was released this week. it's called "fbi lovebirds." it stars superman's dean cain and buffy the vampire slayer's kristy swanson. >> i just went to a southern virginia walmart and i could smell the trump support. yeah. it's scary real down here. >> vomit. vomit. vomit. vomit. vomit. >> having a really tough time with the election this morning. >> i brought "all the presidents men", figured i needed to brush up on watergate. meanwhile, we have our task at hand. >> our task at hand. it reminds you -- by the way those are verbatim texts from >>these two. >> laura: you need the one where he's talking about obama. he mentions obama. >> it reminds me -- the fbi agents and their devotion to leaking did the press and then say their names appear in the pre

if adam schiff, this would be a good question for the speaker, did the speaker know adam schiff's staff met with the whistleblower? the speaker made a decision to go into impeachment without even knowing what was on the phone call. the adam schiff share that with anybody in the democratic side? when and where did they know this? what did they know? what did they talk about? these are all questions that people should actually have an answer to. the president didn't do anything wrong. to preface this from the same point that adam schiff said before, he had proof, beyond circumstantial evidence, all the f.b.i., all the millions of dollars, you will the countries we had to go to we found out that was a lie. wouldn't you want to know as an american why did we put ourselves through that? that's exactly what the attorney general is doing. reporter: two questions. first, you just mentioned that the mueller investigation, russia investigation began in ukraine. mr. mccarthy: elements. reporter: are you suggesting that paul manafort, who was tried and convicted in an american court was framed? mr.

kennedy: away from adam schiff. >> possible but adam schiff still retains authority to keep it closed, they have a process procedural vote to say, we're open to opening these up, but at the discretion of the chairman, other thing -- >> why does he get to be in charge, does not make sense unless nancy pelosi know its will fail, she despised adam schiff and she wants to hang him out to dry. >> no, i think he probably gave this assignment to him, he may be most willing to continually lie, like he has done for last 3 years, and who knows how much before, that in context of time donald trump has been president, the way you know adam schiff is lying is his mouth moving, you know he is telling some fabricated story to try to make a case against trump, he has been doe going since election night. kennedy: so, republicans have lost faith in the process. what are the adults in the room going to do to bring it to a blighalittle bit more objective providing, that seems to be what we're missing, even with matt gaetz bringing up charges against schiff that will never pass and he knows it. >> it is b

i think the democrat, adam schiff was not kidding. the democrats are worried that this will sort of spiral on and on. they want to do something crisp and quick. that would certainly be in their political interest. >> bret: the longer it goes on and the more that is added, the more confusing it gets. >> and i think really what is going to matter here is less of a procedural all the agree with everything they are saying. once they bring up articles, this is where the rubber meets the road. here is the article vote, let's have it. what will matter is where these poll numbers are on the president's behavior. do people feel like he should be impeached for this? do people feel like he acted in the wrong way? that will dictate what happens on the floor of the house. >> bret: okay, next up the president on immigration, not impeachment, another lette lettm word. restay with us. uce landfill was. that's why bp is partnering with a california company: uce landfill was. fulcrum bioenergy. to turn garbage into jet fuel. because we can't let any go

adam schiff a special counsel? that is his basis for running this unfair and partisan process in the basement of the capital? people can see through that. one thing i know about the american people, they give fairness and instantly know this is not fair. that is what we try to highlight more from today when these guys stormed in the room. >> laura: congressman byrne, today we learned, we don't know what it is yet, but we have learned there is yet another instance of bias, that the whistle-blower harbors politically, apparently, not just having some capacity for buying, not just being registered democrat. apparently, there is another thing, again something else nobody knows and that is why president trump keeps tweeting where is the whistle-blower? why are we calling this a whistle-blower? i don't know this i.d., none of this was important to the inspector general and to vouch for the whistle-blower, but again, this all seems cooked in the biscuits here. >> one of the fundamental things you do as a witness or trying

it shows that adam adam schiff is a fraud. thank you. your response and that adam schiff may have learned what they knew prior. >> i think it is a scandal he knew before. i will go a step further and i will say he probably helped right it. >> there is no evidence the whistle-blower helped right or that adam schiff helped right the whistle-blower's complaint or the staff help right the complaint. the house committee, the house select committee intelligence simply said "the whistle-blower contacted for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community. this is a regular occurrence given the unique oversight role and responsibilities and at no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance." the president was asked about increasingly harsh language about the whistle-blower and whomever at the white house it might have been that deliver the information to the whistle-blower, using the word spy and treason prompting colleagues defamation for reuters to asked the president i

what the problem is, adam schiff didn't read that. he read something -- he made up something, fraudulently made up a conversation and he read it to congress and he head it to the american people and it was horrible. and it was a fraudulent thing out of thin air he made up. it was a terrible thing he was allowed to do. that's where we are right now. very strong action should be taken against this guy. because i never heard of a thing like that. where we upset the apple cart, i released the conversation. you had stenographers. it was a call that was taken very accurately taken. when i released the call, that turned things over. because they start with a perfectly fine call. it was a very standard, very nice call. and that's the way it is, jeanine. it's a fraud that's being perpetrated on the american people by adam schiff and nancy pelosi. she was on george stephanopoulos and she tried to say i made that call the way schiff had it. even stephanopoulos said he didn't say that, that was made up by adam schiff. the whole thing is a hoax it

someone as biased as adam schiff. they've already made a determination and they don't care about the facts and truth and the american people see through it. >> sandra: can the case be made schiff is too biased to lead this impeachment inquiry? >> representative schiff has made his agenda clear. that's to impeach the president. this is the same person who pounded the table that he had beyond circumstantial evidence that the president had colluded with the russians, which we've now seen to be false. so i do think that should be called into question. but i do think his agenda is very clear. meanwhile he is leading an intelligence community -- committee with oversight of intelligence community and we have china stealing our secrets left and right. huge issues we should be dealing with in the intelligence committee and we're not. it has become the impeachment committee. >> sandra: the chairman of the house intel committee. we'll see where it goes. the state department approving a weapons package for ukraine. as someone who

we just heard adam schiff announce something new. talking about the conditional of a meeting with the president. it was so important it rises to the level of a quid pro quo as the rest of his statement. at least the implication of it. this is getting to be thinner and thinner gruel by the day, srnts it? >> it's just like the humaner thing. they keep changing their theory about what it is he did wrong. mueller finally went away, you don't hear them talk about it anymore. lou: especially the democrats. >> then they were saying there was a quid pro quo in the phone conversation. now they know that's not true. so now they are inventing another thing that a meeting was the quid pro quo. god knows what it will be next. but the other thing adam schiff sounds amazing, he was saying how courageous these former staffers were in coming forward. one guy who is not being courageous is the whistleblower. still wants to remain anonymous. the whistleblower started this whole thing. lou: you mean the cia officer who had third party information what t

when adam schiff starts to make up things. and this is being covered, so i'm sure it is being tweeted right now. let me just double down. when adam schiff makes up things, it is time to call him out for making up things and actually make sure he is held accountable. it is time that we hold him accountable. [applause] i was in a transcribed interview the other day, we had ambassador volcker there. they brought him in. the democrats wanted to make sure that we have cash they wanted to change the rules, they said we want to make sure we have an unfair advantage. will that is not changing the rules is it? they wanted to make sure that the democrats staff, the majority staff in the house actually had more people in the room to be able to question the itness and that the republican staff, they did not want the members of congress to ask questions. so they said november, was can ask questions. last time i checked, most of the people of the 435 in the house and 100 and the senate, they are the only ones in washington, d.c., who are ac

adam schiff's staff. the form you are supposed to fill out when you are filing a whistleblower complaints. there is a box to check, did you talk to people on capitol hill. every republican voted the right way tonight on the floor. lou: adam schiff is back channeling with two russian disk jockies i guess is the way to describe them. look for different against the president of the united states. too go back to how this started. there is this call where the president supposed by said i am going to hold up you crane security assistance money. then we gets the transcript and find out that didn't happen. even democrat chairmen, no quid pro quo. then we have the special envoy, ambassador kirk volcker testify, and he says the same thing. they keep doing their investigation down in the basement of the capitol where no one can get in and see, and no one can read the transcripts. they schedule depositions at the same time so you can't be in two places at the same time. the american people see through it. they unders

adam schiff, who has trouble telling the truth, is a very good lyric. let's be honest, he's a good leaker. they took it behind closed doors, heard testimony that i have heard that says these transcripts should be released completely because they defeat the entire narrative. but as long as he can keep it behind closed door, then they leak out only what they want to leak out. and this is why you have seen in the progression. the president has done nothing wrong. he has said -- and, by the i way, just is ask the ukrainian president who said i felt no pressure. this was simply a discussion of what's going on in our two countries. this is a sham, what's going on right now. maria: last week we had on congressman john ratcliffe, and he mentioned three reasons that this seems to be questionable. number one was that, typically in any impeachment, the jurisdiction for impeachment is the judiciary committee. it's not happening in the judiciary committee, which nadler runs, it's actually in the intel committee. number two, it is all happening behind closed doors. w

they will cover for adam schiff's lies time and again. so i don't think there will be a censure because the old house democrats and the majority, they will cover it. >> laura: thank you so much. coming up, it is hillary clinton really going to run again? all you have to tell what she's telling the media about her chances. dan bongino and chris hahn debate, next. >> laura: this impeachment pushes creating some odd moments for the 2020 democrats. first up, biden is trailing for the first time in the real clear politics polling average and he's finally caving on impeachment. >> no president in american history has ever date to engage in such imaginal behavior. in full front of the view of the american people. donald trump has violated his open loft. to violate our constitution, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. >> laura: catching up with the radicals. and second, hillary clinton just can't help yourself, sensing weakness in the 2020 field. >> may be there does need to be every match. obviously i can beat him again. i don't think a

but they heard shifty adam schiff. that is why i call a live, and because of the fact that he is lying about the president of the united states, i watch my words very carefully... wesley's sunshine was a relief for many to all the relief rain we have seen, this is it, high—pressure continuing to build in from the west as we head through this evening and overnight. still and a cold air mass, still pretty cold to start thursday morning. the strong winds which we have had across north—eastern scotland down the east coast of england should tend to ease down along with the showers. meanwhile cloud building up across southern and western areas, more of a breeze from the south—east for cornwall and devon, not quite as cold, nine celsius for plymouth, another chilly one elsewhere, a touch of frost across parts of northern england and into scotland. starting off with high—pressure four thursday, looking to the west to x hurricane lorenzo arriving later on thursday, during friday to bring a spell of wet and windy weather

i want to get your thoughts after you saw the chairman adam schiff adam schiff and house speaker nancy pelosi talking impeachment. >> david: whenever i hear adam schiff talking about dirt on political opponents it is hard not to remember two years ago that phone conversation, the phony phone call that he had from the guy claiming to be a ukrainian saying i have dirt on president trump, oh, he has some, there is some real messaging problems that they have, because of their own past, which mimics in so many ways the things that they are accusing this president and this presidency of. that is the key promise, not just the biden issue with ukraine, after all, the president is looking for the origin of the russian probe, that's why he is interested in getting stuff from ukraine, the 2016 election includes a lot of messy stuff including democrats trying to get dirt on political opponents from people in the ukraine. so when you're shooting out in those bullets have a tendency to ricochet back and hate you, that is a problem. >> harris: jillian, welcome back, it's great to have you back on the

schiff would not let him answer. >> adam schiff trying to run a one sided soviet style process we have never seen before. griff: that move won't slow down democrats. listen. >> this is about the united states constitution. this is about the rule of law. this is about national security. this is about abuse of power. this is about the fact that the president betrayed his oath of office and the american people. griff: , this guys, as democrats put forth the text of an 8-page resolution yesterday laying out the next steps in the impeachment inquiry including public hearings and to vote to approve the procedures. the white house is fighting back saying it does little to provide basic due process issuing this statement the resolution put forward by speaker pelosi confirms that house democrats' impeachment has been illegitimate sham from the start as it lacks any proper authorization by a house vote. it's worth noting here that tomorrow's vote is not a vote on whether or not to impeach the president as republicans have been demanding from the start. but, rather, this is a vote to it will appr

we can't see that because adam schiff won't release the transcript. all the president is doing is highlighting what the american people are wondering. why did the vice presidenton s get that deal with ukraine, the energy company and why did he get that deal? >> your only defense to what the democrats have said is an abuse of power, that the president was joking and we shouldn't believe what we saw with our own eyes? >> i'm talking about common sense. do you think that president trump thinks china is going to investigate? >> i believe he asked them to investigate. >> to highlight and underscore a question on so many people's minds. why did the vice president's son get the deal? >> we've been going ten minutes. you can't say whether it's right or wrong. >> i don't think that's what the president was really saying. >> congressman, thank you for your time. >> you bet. >> round table is up next. we'll be right back. aaddiction. how juuline hooked kids and ignited an public health crisis." other news outlets report- juul took $12.8 billion iendly flavors an

he is particularly scathing about adam schiff. here is part of hat he said. >> adam schiff is a lowlife he should be forced to resign. frankly they should look at him for treason because he is making up the words of the president of the united states. not only words but the meaning and it is a d disgrace it should not be elected happen. > brent: trump is referring a conversation in which democrats say trump was allowed to abuse his office. for more now, let's go to our washington euro cheap. she is standing by at the white house. two days ago, trump called for civil war or predicted it could happen. today, he called the impeachment inquiry a coup. he managed to insult, nancy pelosi, adam schiff as well as the was a blower. it seems we have a president going from one outlandish comment to the next. >> yes, it was a remarkable day here at the white house. the president's men -- his manner seemed to be combated as we can see during the press conference w when he was ranting and raving about the impeachment inquiry and he was attackin

but adam schiff is not a prosecutor. he's not from the executive branch. he is a member of congress. that is a blatant abuse of power. the independent counsel kenneth starr, that was a statute that was passed by congress and signed into law by the president in 1978. it was renewed several times until it expired in 1999. let me ask again. will the speaker provide a fair process, the same used for president nixon and president clinton in this impeachment? her actions indicate she will not. therefore, this inquiry must be suspended. it should be suspended for what is prevented from happening, doing the people's work including funding our troops. as many of you know, the national defense authorization bill is languishing. the department of defense funding is languishing. together these critical bills include troop pay raises, disaster coverage for military bases and increased medical funding for nih. democrats are prioritizing impeachment over our own troops. prioritizing impeachment over transformational trade deal and they are prioritizing impeachment over b

adam schiff, i spoke with jason chaffetz and blackburn just a few days after adam schiff gave his false farcical testimony, and they said, that actually violates the rules of the house. you cannot do that. you cannot falsely represent in the way that he did, and they were surprised that someone did not call for those comments to be stricken in the moment, and adam schiff has a problem, because if he thinks presiding over an actual house gathering is the same thing as having a press conference, there is a gross disconnected that he has to figure out how to bridge. because there is a difference between policy and procedure and politics. and if he has blended the two so much, he cannot be the person in charge. >> lisa: we have seen criticism from people on the right in the left, still sitting information from ukraine are trying to work with foreign officials to get various information. is there a role for congress as a bipartisan nature to strengthen the loss of these things? even something like violation restricting individuals in the country from working on behalf of foreign governments

president trump: i heard adam schiff got four pinocchios. he should have gone the them 2 1/2 years ago. that's a very nice question, let me shake your hand. lou: he doesn't get many of those. you can see he's appreciative. joining us, congressman louie gohmert. congressman, great to have you with us. this is really quite a travesty to see the house intelligence committee led by a man who has lied several times just in the last few weeks about the very issue that he purports to be leading for the democratic conference in the house. >> as you said earlier to my dear friend tom fitton, you are surprised he's still chairman. when pelosi was speaker before, we disagreed on some thing, john dingell from michigan, by never heard that man say a dishonest thing. he was a man of integrity. and she fired him because he as chairman because he refused to say that we need a bill that he knew would devastate the nation's poor, a carbon tax. she fired him because he wouldn't lie by the and push it and put somebody in who would say it would be good for the n

or her complaint and for trump therefore it was clear that adam schiff helped write this complaint he made this accusation without having present it and the and the proof and adam schiff of course did knight this accusation yes that's exactly right the committee also saying that the whistleblower just was seeking guidance as this complaint was being here let's talk about the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh today for the 1st time he admitted that he was on that july 25th phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president. do we know alexander why did come forward a week ago and let the world know that he was on that phone call. well i don't have any other explanation as to say that if you believe that the phone call is perfect it's totally fine then why not admit it and secretary from pale questions about this phone call twice just talking about it's to complain that whistleblowers complain that he is and has not read so far that he doesn't really have any knowledge of so he was dodging this question and now we have to say he has become one of the major witnesses in

>> i can't call adam schiff. we have constitutional separations hear about somebody who is investigating a crime to call adam schiff potentially as a witness -- no member of congress is above the law but congressman can't call senators and senators can call the presidents because of separation of power. in terms of joe biden and hunter biden, i think somebody definitely needs to look into this and it was about foreign aid to the foreign relations committee would have oversight so let me get back to what's going on in the house. and history of the country, we never had the intelligence committee participate in an impeachment inquiry under the resolution that they are going to pass tomorrow. the president's council cannot participate in the intel committee inquiry so the president has denied right to counsel and republicans can't call witnesses without schiff agreeing so this whole thing is a sham. >> sean: do you think -- i believe what i'm holding in my hands, this is a phony resolution. this is fake news. if thi

i know adam schiff wants to create something that's not there. he said somehow that a whistleblower, that there was. we now have the transcript. so we have as much knowledge as verybody else as well. reporter: can i ask you whether you thought mulvaney's performance yesterday helped the president's defense? mr. mccarthy: i thought mick was very clear in cleaning up his statement. that there was no quid pro quo. everybody has been investigated on this. but more importantly, you have the transcript to prove it. i know people today want to say someone's guilty until they're innocent. we know more than the whistleblower. we have the transcripts of the phone call. the american public have seen it and no one believes there's any quid pro quo and there's nothing impeachable on that. reporter: question on turkey. the possibility of bringing sanctions to the floor on the house next week. would you support that? mr. mccarthy: i would support the president and the work he's doing right now. i applaud the ability to get a ceasefire, to save lives. especially

what did adam schiff know and when did he know it? what is he doing conspiring to get the information? why didn't he share it with the other members of his intel committee? he ought to resign the post as the president has said. he doesn't deserve to be where he is. he's a partisan hack against the president. i think it's good for the president. the president has a right to defend himself. and to hear again adam schiff who is a known liar doing what he's doing is unfair. trish: he lied in that media interview on msnbc. he said we haven't had any contact and it turns out the we did have contact. we have got to wonder about the guy. keep in mind, it was one week ago today, adam schiff reading from that transcript. a transscript that was not the actual transcript. a transcript that he just made up that pretend thing between president trump and the ukrainian counterpart. i want to refresh the viewer's memory. >> i hear what you want. i have a favor i want from you though. i will say this only seven times so you better listen good. i want y

>> well, it is what adam schiff said, apparently. the democrats want to play this both ways, on one hand they have house committee rules require when party in power learns sensitive information like this. they are supposed to share with majority party, schiff called nunes out on an alleged violation of those rules, now he is violating those rules. schiff is making things up. and he wants to bake -- make a lot of hay out of these unfounded allegations about some alleged quid pro quo. elizabeth: and being misleading. he was -- that information -- >> a lot going to. elizabeth: sel sylvester you are terrific thank you. >> thank you. elizabeth: coming up elizabeth warren out with her plan too strengthen labor unions, does not mention how it would slam labor unions, causing them to lose their health insurance, next. spokesman: fraudsters - they're out to get your medicare number so they can bill fake claims in your good name. don't give them that chance. fraudster: just calling to confirm your medicare number. do you have your card availab

this is an elected official adam schiff who is not a prosecutor. he is telling himself that way but he is a member of the people's house doing the house business in the house as business should be open to the public. he also well knows that if there is classified information you close that part of the hearing. you don't simply have this entire secret process which i think is very ill-founded and we are headed to a constitutional train wreck. we already hearing warnings from the senate. this would be dead on arrival. >> shannon: i want to put up a timeline that shows impeachment process after the lengths of nixon, clinton and where we are now. the watergate break-in was 599 days until they got to the initial inquiry. with clinton, reports of the affair, 260 days until they got to the inquiry. this time around from the report about the whistle-blower, it's been 11 days since we got to this point. a quick comment from you? >> that is quite quick. my understanding is that adam schiff wants to bring these witnesses forward and have an opening hearing ev

why all of the sudden is adam schiff reversing course? >> i don't know exactly what's going on in representative schiff's mind but i could legitimately argue that the repeated calls for the unveiling of the identity of whistleblower by president trump has heightened the concerns about preserving anonymity of the whistleblower. one. number two, it was the president down there as allies themselves that have made the valid point that the whistleblower himself doesn't have any firsthand knowledge, and was repeating here say. that the need of utility for having the whistleblower testify as opposed to having people with direct firsthand knowledge from testifying. if the need for testimony goes down, the concern about anna to be goes out , maybe that explains the change in calculus. >> julie: i get that part, when the transcript of the phone call was released by the white house or before the release of the transcript, adam schiff was saying, "we need to schedule testify." then it comes out, he still wanted the whistleblower to testify. now he do

schiff -- >> among republicans. >> sean: adam schiff is now compromised. he is now aom fact witness in ts case, because his staff had contact with the nonwhistle-blower. >> right. >> sean: are you able to call adam schiff -- i would also like to be very interested if you could call joe biden and hunter biden. because i happen to believe in my heart -- now maybe it's my wild imagination, but if it was vice president trump, bat, well, used taxpayer money, had quid pro quo, fire him, you get the money. don't fire him, no money. and hunter, with no experience, gets millions. i think if it was vice president trump and don jr., i think the media democrats would be acting differently. can you call them before your committee? >> i can't call adam schiff, i mean, we have constitutional separations here, but somebody who is investigating a crime could call adam schiff, potentially, as a witness. no member of congress is above the law, but congressmen can't call senators, senators can't call the president because of separation of power. in terms of joe biden and hunt

and adam schiff looks good, ni nice. and so really nice looking, he looks like he's trying to silence the whistle-blower, adam schiff. what is the point? a secret agent and the impeachment behind the american, that is what's going on because they don't want the american people to see what they are doing. they don't want republicans to ask, why were you in cahoots with each other you and adam schiff people? why did you why on the floor with no contact with congress. and the "washington examiner," dana. breaking news alerts. points out very interesting things about how all of this happened. adam schiff hired a way to national security council officials from the tromp white house right before the guy blew the whistle. so he steals a way to obama/clinton people for the nsc and the next month, all of a sudden the whistle-blower comes to contact the committee, that he hired those guys from in the whistle was blown. those are the kind of questions he doesn't want answered by republicans. >> greg: dana, people say it is a kook,

is no quid pro much what adam schiff said prior. said he adam schiff did not know where the whistleblower was and we found out later he did. he said there was quid pro quo. we have the phone call. none. is they have put america through a two-year nightmare just because they did not like the outcome of an election. it's time to be different. reporter: a couple republicans mentioned the e ability to call witnesses for the president. republicans call to defend the president? from one hy: i think standpoint you have the transcript. what do you have to defend? there's nothing in that phone that's impeachable. if they want to have a due rocess that we can offer witness, we will offer witnesses. it's too late in the process. 'd leave it up to the committee. reporter: i think you were calling on me. ith respect to the call, the transcript is actually not a complete transcript. it's a summary transcript. verbatim. mr. mccarthy: it's no different than what they do with any other no aspects in it. the -- nskriebd by transscribed by the individ

it's clear that adam schiff is a liar. you can't tamper with a witness before, lie about it, and still be the chairman of the house intel committee. trish: end post would agree with you on that. tonight they have come out with -- four pinocchios. the guy said on national television, we have had no contact with the whistleblower. a day later, two days later his office has to say turns out we did have contact with the whistleblower. come on. >> this is the same guy who said he visibly saw evidence of russian collusion with the president. what did he do, hide that from bob muler? no, he lied. he's a liar. that'sy signed on to the bill censoring him. nancy pelosi need to remove him. the whole thing is a farce. trish: she should take a darn vote. >> that's exactly right. that's what the voice of the american people would be. you can't get one law created by one person. the house works as a body. that's the way the government was set up. we vote, we represent the will of the people. we haven't had a stay in this. we had one pers

adam schiff also said this yesterday. an about-face on what he said was a huge importance of the whistle-blower's testimony. watch this. >> given that we arty have -- we don't have the whistle-blower who was on the call to tell us what was on the call, we have the best evidence of that. >> martha: okay, so that's a little bit of a change of tune. the president tweeted this in response. "the whistle-blower must testify to explain why he got my ukraine conversation so wrong. not even close," so the president. gillian turner, correspondent gillian turner joining us now and capitol hill with more of today's testimony and what we can expect next year. hi, jillian. >> hi, martha, so breaking this evening, fiona hill now entering her tenth hour of deposition behind closed doors. just behind the apparent capitol hill. sources telling fox news she has been praising president trump's former ambassador to ukraine, korea bondage. she offered scathing criticism of the white house right here just three days ago. so far tonight, members

now adam schiff and company have another whistleblower. there was the russia hoax and and year and a half long investigation. the democrats will not quit. tonight they are issuing more subpoenas for the pentagon and white house budget office. how do you go out there and issue subpoenas without having one lousy vote offer this. put your money where your mouth is, right? joining me, indiana congressman jim banks. where's the vote? i want a vote on it. the american people expect their members of congress to vote on it. that's the way the impeachment process is supposed to work. all members of congress should be given an opportunity to vote on impeachment. but speaker pelosi refuses to give any of us the opportunity to take an initial vote on impeachment. twrish * tell me -- trish: why is she not taking the vote? >> at this point it's unclear she has the votes. there are moderate democrats who don't want to vote on impeachment. they know it would be a difficult vote to defend moving into the 2020 election. first and foremost that's a reason th

will trump cold adam schiff a low life and a fruit coating donald trump. schiff hasn't answered in return. which one was already angry because of the growing pressure on him over the impeachment enquiring. this is a hoax is the greatest hoaxes is just a continuation of what's been playing outut jon for the last since my election i would say if you want too probably we'll find out soon but probably even before my election. this is a fraudulent crime on the american people about will work together wewe shift to shiftft and pelosi anad all of them. donald trump speaking a few moments ago chemical just on his of course but in washington shipping to small. donald trump prayer reiteratated his attacks towards three it different and people and nancy pelosi is over when he said that she was handing out subpoenas like cookies. he alsoso attacked once again adam schiff as saying it has to be a criminal act. referring it to how adam schiff that changed his words during at that hearining at the house inintelligence commimittee as he has a previviously called for a shi

house intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. it's the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. also president trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. but he's under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story we're watching is california in flames right now. mandatory evacuation orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, college students as well. we'll go to california in a bit. we start with that breaking news on capitol hill right now. a key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. >> w