schiff, you want to be ken starr, be ken starr. be the first witness and take every question that is asked of you starting with your own involvement with the whistleblower. folks, this ain't over. get ready. the cloud that is dropping will be dropping on their heads because process matters and substance will win out in the end and this president hasn't anything to worry about on substance. i yield back. [applause] rep. mccarthy: congress will go back to their districts for a week. tomorrow will be november 1, one year before voters cast a vote, not just for congress, but for president. it is unfortunate in this congress when they go back, they'll run on the re-election having more subpoenas than laws and not trusting the american people to have the choice. the vote today was bipartisan not to move forward. we have a speaker of the house who said that impeachment would drive the country apart, would have to be bipartisan. there was one clear voice on where this congress believes this should go. there is nothing the president did to

adam -- guest: adam schiff and devin nunes. adam schiff will control how the hearing goes and he will have to operate within the bounds of the resolution that the house passed last month regarding the procedures. how manylly controls 45 minute rounds that he and devin nunes get, during which they are expected to yield much of their time to staff attorneys who are more effective questioners than lawmakers. host: we have not seen devin nunes come to the cameras while the closed-door depositions have been going on. what role do you think you will play? guest: he has become skeptical of the press. he used to talk to us all the time on the record on background and off the record. awadays, he has gone on certain network and tried to disparage the press and he does not trust us. that is his view. other republicans have filled the void like jim jordan and others eager to defend the president on camera. devin nunes has not been as eager to do that. host: jim jordan is the top republican on the house oversight committee has secured a pos

i think that's a question for adam schiff. thank you all very much. >> follow the house impeachment inquiry and the administration's response on c-span. unfiltered coverage live on tv, our radio app and online. watch primetime reairs on c-span or stream anytime on demand at c-span.org. watch impeachment. >> a look at president trump boarding air force one earlier this evening en route to louisiana for a campaign rally. his visit comes two days before voters head to the poll this is weekend to choose the state's next governor that race is between democratic incumbent john bell edward and republican businessman. we'll have live coverage of the rally from bossier city starting at 8:00 eastern. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, michigan democratic congressman dan kildee discussing the latest on the house democrat's impeachment inquishry and author and syndicated columnist ann coulter talks about daca. impeachment. and campaign 2020. watch c-span'

if this is schiff's trial run, he's done. the factors of the schiff impeachment turkey keep propping this mess up but they should bring the curtain down on it all. today they trotted out the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovich, but she farred no better than the two that proceed her. how bad is this turkey? none of the diplomatic witnesses have met or talked with president trump. when asked in the hearing room, nobody of the thee could think of a single thing president trump has ever said or done that would justify an impeachment by congress. not one thing. but all three freely shared their feeling and emotions and western perfectly happy to share hearsay. adam schiff knows he has nothing at all. but that is why he's simply stopping republicans from asking questions like he did congresswoman elise stefanik. >> i know you had a few quick questions for the ambassador. yield to you -- >> the gentlemen woman will suspend. >> what's the interruption for? >> you were not recognized. >> i just recognized. >> you are not al

schiff, you want to be ken starr, be ken starr. come to the judiciary committee, be the first witness and take every question that is asked of you, starting with your own involvement with the whistleblower. folks, this ain't over. get ready. the cloud that is dropping will be dropping on their heads because process matters and substance will win out in the end and this president hasn't anything to worry about on substance. i yield back. \[applause] >> congress will go back to their districts for a week and tomorrow will be november 1. before votersr cast a vote not just for congress but for president. it is unfortunate that they will run on a reelection of having more subpoenas than laws and not trusting the american people to not have a choice. the vote today was bipartisan not to move forward. speaker of the house who said that impeachment would drive the country apart, and would have to be impeachment. there is one clear voice on where this congress should go. there is nothing the president did to be impeached. it is simply base

and that is schiff. so far we have heard from, what in two holier than thousand self-important witnesses? their two main witnesses, career bureaucrats? people that never ever ever ever ever had any direct evidence whatsoever. they never have spoken to the president of the united states. or even his closest advisors. their testimony was filled with nothing but never ending hearsay, conjecture, stupid gossip and seeing and interpreting phantom quid pro quos that we now know because we have the transcript, didn't exist. yesterday's sham hearing frankly was a repulsive national embarrassment. allies in the media mob are now dragging our country through hell, ripping all of us apart. they have now done the same thing for three straight years and, for what? why? really? because they lost an election and they can't get over it. one democratic aide telling "the washington post" today, quote: we're screwed, this week's hearings, no bombshells, no revelations. that was the best they got. a total disaster for us. a

get ready for round two of a total schiff show. a schiff show, if you get my drift. we are hours away from a russian conspiracy hoax peddler calling more of

schiff, you want to be ken starr, be ken starr. be the first witness and take every question that is asked of you starting with your own involvement with the whistleblower. folks, this ain't over. get ready. the cloud that is dropping will be dropping on their heads because process matters and substance will win out in the end and this president hasn't anything to worry about on substance. i yield back. [applause] >> congress will go back to their districts for a week. tomorrow will be november 1, one year before voters cast a vote not just for congress but for president. it is unfortunate in this congress when they go back, they'll run on the re-election having more subpoenas than laws and not trusting the american people to have the choice. the vote today was bipartisan not to move forward. we have a speaker of the house who said that impeachment would drive the country apart, would have to be bipartisan. there was one clear voice on where this congress believes this should go. there is nothing the president did to be impeached.

yes-day believe adam schiff -- believe adam schiff has spent his entire time in congress, since the president as been in, trying to impeach him. i think he's already written the script. he auditioned the individuals in he's picking and and choosing them to come forward. would he have lied when he came and said he's a so concerned the administration is withholding the whistleblower, that he will whistleblower to come forward, that they wanted to move legislation on the lie to us then? now he doesn't want to bring the forward, s blower would -- whether to bring the whistleblower forward, i think adam a question for schiff. thank you, all, very much. >> the u.s. house of representatives will be back in noon eastern to start work on legislation extending charterrt-import bank's for 10 years. the bill also renames the bank agency. export finance the rule for debate on the bill include several unrelated measures. allowing the house of representatives to hire private attorneys to work on the impeachment inquiry. allow ther would congresswoman tulsi gabbard to offer a motion to discharge a esolution

twot now, as we're here, floors below us, in the bunker, adam schiff's bunker in the baseman, adam schiff is tearing up his parody. he's going to have to rewrite it. is that? well, we can't talk about it. they say the substance of the depositions. you, isn't it kind of curious that you don't know what's going on today with tim his deposition? why is it that you don't have the information, the opening statements? was alex vindman's boss. the ukraine aid was not even up by ukraine.d they did not say anything to us until just before it was released. and then it was released. as jim jordan pointed out, guess orderkraine had to do in to get that hold released? nothing. to releasehiff needs all the transcripts right now. crowd member: yes! [applause] ourn behalf of constituents, on behalf of the american public, for everyone misledpissed about being by adam schiff and his cohorts, theng in the bunker of capitol basement, using you to lie to our constituents, release transcripts! let's have a conversation about substance, because i'll tell you what, you lost the conversation process. you're losi

i think adam schiff has lied numerous times. i do not think adam schiff is fit to be in this position of running the intel committee, and that's only a decision by with one person, who could put them in there. yes, i believe adam schiff has spent his entire time in congress, since the president has been in, trying to impeach him. and i think he's already written the script. he auditioned the individuals in the basement, and he's picking and choosing them to come forward. why don't we take him at his own word? would he have lied when he came to us in america and said he's so concerned that the administration is withholding the whistleblower, that he will fight for this whistleblower to come forward, that they wanted to move legislation on the floor, did he lie to us then? now he doesn't want to bring the whistleblower forward, would that be a lie? i think that's a question for adam schiff. thank you all very much. announcer: live on friday, the house returns for work on the bill to reauthorize the u.s. export import bank for 10 y

this is what adam schiff does. his opening statement -- he made up a fictitious call transcript of july 25 because the real one does not have the bribery that he wants to allege. just like that make-believe , he asked thedy ambassador to respond. it would have been more responsible that if adam schiff wanted to ask that question, to allow the ambassador to read the entire tweet from a digest it and respond. outwould he cherry picked -- he loves to withhold key facts, he withholds information. he outright lies. and he cherry picks key facts. part ofcase, he took a a tweet. he never asked the ambassador about what president zelinski said about her. that is how he rolls. why is president trump putting out information and writing back -- fighting back? it is because adam schiff wants the american public to only have partial information. we have asked the ambassador about this. or nine hours. president trump is right to want to defend himself and ensure the other 97% of the story gets out there. because adam schiff is o

another disastrous day for the schiff coup attempts. it was even worse, believe it or not, than yesterday. no information surrounding the bidens thanks to a lot of her lindsey graham. we have that letter. we also have a video. you are going to want to hit your record button tonight and look at this for decades to come. first, we start at the washington swamp. more hearsay, more opinion, and more arrogant democrats. are you ready for this? it was not on speaker, contradicting the person that was actually on the private call and the person who was on the other end of the table. this is how bad this show has now become. so bad, he even presented a fact-witnessed today with zero fax. none whatsoever. this was the schiff's grand finale. it was supposed to tie everything together. instead, again, this blew up right in schiff's face and the democrat's face. it was the perfect summary of the noncase of the democratic party against the president of the united states. take a look. >> july 19, he told him about the upcoming zelensky call. july 20t

if adam schiff wants to keep this up. let's let him answer some questions why he misrepresented the truth. let's put him on the stand if he wants to be judge and jury. david: jerry nadler and robert mueller came out with reports that didn't deliver the evidence adam schiff said existed forward whatever case he was making. therefore he wants the secret so he can keep everything from the american public. things might change with these public hearings? >> the problem itch with it is the fact that adam schiff still can dictate who comes on, who testifies, he completely interrupts any question he doesn't ask. there are 435 members of congress, 106 members are on the three committees that have been able to see the testimony. that leaves roughly 232 americans from hearing what they have should be able to hear. they are trying to drum something up that's not there. david: what about the reputation of adam schiff. i mentioned several times the lies he's been caught at. even "the washington post" has given him four pinnochios. won'

if this is schiff's trial run, he's done. the factors of the schiff impeachment turkey keep propping this mess up but they should bring the curtain down on it all. today they trotted out the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovich, but she farred no better than the two that proceed her. how bad is this turkey? none of the diplomatic witnesses have met or talked with president trump. when asked in the hearing room, nobody of the thee could think of a single thing president trump has ever said or done that would justify an impeachment by congress. not one thing. but all three freely shared their feeling and emotions and western perfectly happy to share hearsay. adam schiff knows he has nothing at all. but that is why he's simply stopping republicans from asking questions like he did congresswoman elise stefanik. >> i know you had a few quick questions for the ambassador. yield to you -- >> the gentlemen woman will suspend. >> what's the interruption for? >> you were not recognized. >> i just recognized. >> you are not al

this was a real court of law and not adam schiff's kangaroo court. objections would have been flying from any reasonable attorney. to say hey we've just discovered staffer of mine overheard a conversation the a staffer was having about the president in a restaurant. reporter: democrats as you pointed out remain convinced the president's conduct in that conversation with ukraine's president amounts to high crimes and misdemeanors. so for them it's full steam ahead. tomorrow wee continue with the impeachment inquiry. marie yovanovich will be back on the hill. keep' and watch for volker and sondland. the president's legal team filed a petition with the supreme court seek something overturn a second circuit decision that would allow the new york district attorney to get years of the president's taxes. all this is happening as we get ready for another rally in louisiana. lou: kevin corke from washington. the radical left today trying their dandersest to sell their -- their darnedest to spin yesterday's impeachment' inquiry as a dud. in her news conference

what role did adam schiff have to the whistleblower? what role did his staff have to the whistleblower? for one man to turn this country upside down, to have this vote today. our founding fathers warned about this in the federalist papers that a future congress at some point in time would base an impeachment, not on guilt or innocence, but rather on partisan politics. partisan politics. sadly today, in this chamber, their worst fears have been realized. i turn it over to lee zeldin from the house foreign affairs committee. mr. zeldin: in a way you could say congratulations to nancy pelosi and wanted a bipartisan vote on her impeachment inquiry resolution and got it. it was a bipartisan vote against her inquiry resolution. there are a number of other democrats who chose to vote the wrong way and should have voted no and won't be here to serve with us anymore with us come january 2021. nancy pelosi as the leader, has chosen to sacrifice a few of her own members. those members are going to lose for all of the right reasons. because as we h

this is how bad this schiff show has now become. so bad, he even presented a fact-witnessed today with zero facts. none whatsoever. this was the schiff show grand finale. this was his closing argument. today, the hearing was supposed to tie everything together. instead, again, this blew up right in schiff's face and the democrats' faces. here is what jim jordan said, the perfect summary of the known case of the democratic party against the democratic -- >> july 19, he told him about the upcoming zelensky call. july 20th, sondland told taylor what sondland told taylor to tell trump. july 20th, morrison told taylor what happened on the trump-zelensky called. august 16th, volker tells --lo martha doctor taylor. september 1st, morrison told taylor what someone toldem morrison about what your h,michael's holland september 7th, morrison tells taylor what sondland told trump and september 8th, sondland tells taylor what trump told sondland. >> sean: you follow that? because that is the democrats' case. that is it in a nutshell. that is sup

adam schiff. with the exception of one congressman named collin peterson and jeff van drew, who we told you about last night, every other democrat, take a look at that list. those from swing districts, districts that trump won, they voted to go along with this madness with zero due process, none, a compromised corrupt congenital liar leading the unconstitutional witch hunt. many of the lawmakers on your screen they all ran on a partisan platform, a bipartisan platform. they want to reach across the aisle and work together and focus on fixing and helping the lives of americans. some even said impeachment is a really bad idea but they went along anyway. when push came to shove and their arms were twisted by pelosi and company and the squad, they caved, every one of them -- take a look. >> it's about both sides being willing to actually say we are going to put aside our political labels for a minute and focus on what is best -- we are americans first. >> we need to be looking for solutions, bipartisa

now schiff wants anonymity. nowhere in the whistleblower law is a whistleblower entitled to or guaranteed the right to anonymity. it doesn't exist. >> this individual isn't a whistleblower and this isn't an impeachment. this is an operative placed in the white house by john brennan who voted for the communist party before he joined the characteristics a. he voted for the communist party candidate, gus hall. he worked for susan rice and vice president biden when he was the point man for ukraine. he was fired from the nfc when leaks out of the nfc were simply outrageous. the impeachment isn't an impeachment. after the declaration of war, the second most powerful thing the congress has is to impeach the president. this seven-page resolution doesn't even mention a crime. it gives all the power to the intel committee. there was no intel committee when the founding fathers brought the statute for impeachment. adam schiff who was a prosecutor. never jail now because of adam schiff, the man who lies the most on capitol

remember that adam schiff started this all by wanting the whistleblower to testify and now adam schiff gets to died who comes forward and now fighting the whistleblower from coming forward, why is he doing that, is it because he found out that the staff met with him and the whistleblower's attorney tweeted that the coup had started, that impeachment will follow ultimately that he predicted attorney, that cnn will play a key role, maria, it is clear now more than ever this is a calculating coup and it is being orchestrated by adam schiff, we are watching him orchestrate a takedown of a president after we just celebrated 30 years of taking down the berlin wall. maria: unbelievable and, you know, congressman, i think one of the reasons that you're seeing them want to go really fast on this is because they want to try to get this done before the americans go to the polls and actually make their choice for the president in 2020. so tell me about the timing here and what you're expecting in terms of next week, this upcoming week's hearings and when this will actually go for a vote to impeach

he has been in communication with schiff's office, apparently from the very beginning.ca and schiff lied about that. now, why else would schiff lie about his connection to the non-whistleblower hearsay whistleblower? because, obviously, they were working hand in hand. that's how sick and corrupt all of this is. and this hearsay whistleblower had no firsthand information just like these idiots yesterday. none of them had any information.ay wasn't even on the president's phone call with ukraine. now you would think that they would even be smart enough to at least find a corrupt bureaucrat with less baggage to spread the same baseless rumors and lies. this illegitimate witch-hunt, this, for the sake of our kids and o our grandkids and our country, needs to end.an and lo and behold, the republican-controlled u.s. senate, they will have the power to immediately dismiss any charge against the president if 51 republicans in the senate could actually agree on something. now, let's be honest, realistic, and truthful. unfortunately, we do have a number of weak republicans in the u.s. senate who li

, now they work for schiff and of course schiff doesn't know anything about it. if you want to know why the president of the estates' had trouble getting clearances, now you know why. because it's a rats nest. i think u.s. attorney durum and the attorney general of the united states should have an investigation of these three national security council former staffers, what role do they hav6 matter interfering in the election, what role did they have pushing the russia collusion matter? with a leaker's? i think the criminal investigation -- the hill with schiff -- it ought to get into these three and find out exactly what they did and there may be more of them. then we have lieutenant colonel vindman. you can trash mike flynn, you can trash holly north, you can trash anybody who served in the military but not lieutenant colonel vindman. deep inside that "new york times" piece, it said that colonel vindman had provided advice to the ukrainian government mostly in english -- what the hell does that mean? he's on the national security council he's an active duty lieu

you trust adam schiff, you are a fool. adam schiff is a liar. they will reap what they sow. the republican minority leader in the house kevin mccarthy. by the way, good for you for bringing in jim jordan, great call, he had a great day. i thought the republicans had a great day all the way around. this is actually worse than i thought. i mean, it was so bad, it is all hearsay. there is no first hand any evidence, congressman. >> you have to understand, the viewers, for the very first time, got to see what the democrats have been working on for the last three years, impeachment. they got home court advantage. they changed the intel committee to the impeachment committee. they got to pick the witnesses where they wouldn't pick any republican witnesses. you know what else they got to do? change the process where they controlled it all. at the end of the day, it was clear, all hearsay, no witnesses even knows the president or heard from the president and they continue to change what they are going after. and you are correct. adam schiff started the hearing just like he started i

you know, and what is schiff doing? he's protecting himself because he's been caught up in a scandal. the idea that schiff is still running the intelligence committee is one of the most outrageous issues related to the corrupt coup that's currently happening. schiff should be nowhere near this investigation. he's compromised. ethically, and he should be conflicted out, and under investigation, not conducting an investigation. judge pirro: you know, kevin what's amazing to me, and i agree with tom totally, i think this isn't about protecting the whistleblower. it's about protecting the fact that schiff was part of the game plan here, and now we're hearing about a tweet from 2017, the whistleblower's lawyer mark?-- saying the coup, rebellion impeachment is next this has been, you know, they have been planting the seed for this for a long time. so you've got schiff trying to protect himself. but don't you think that at the end of thebu day, kevin, that americans are saying who really gives a darn about ukraine policy? you

german adam schiff is playing by his rules -- chairman adam schiff is playing by his rules and will not provide the president of fair process. we have not had a witness we requested outside of those that adam schiff has gone through his audition. we do not have a process where the president's own attorney can have a cross-examination. we do not have due process. despite all the advantage to adam schiff, he still cannot come up with a reason to impeach the president. i know it has been his goal and i know he has taken this country through a nightmare and i know he has continued to go -- to care for this so much that he is willing to lie on national television. do we all forget just a few short weeks ago that adam schiff went on national tv repeatedly making the claim that the intelligence committee would hear from the whistleblower, that he would stand up to the president to make sure the whistleblower came forward. we learned later that they met with the whistleblower and adam schiff decides the whistleblower should not come through. he claims not to know who this person is. he will sto

schiff: mr. turner. turner: ambassador, i want to say, i have a great deal of respect for what you do. i serve on the armed services committee, the intelligence committee, i've worked with nato parliamentary assembly, including being its president i know the complexity of what you do. i know you have little access directly to decision-makers, little resources, but have still a great deal of responsibility. it is a complex task and i want to take us from just the concept of one dimensional ukraine to being corrupt to the other issues that you had to deal with as the ukraine ambassador. you had to deal with more than just our bilateral relationship with ukraine. for example, and i'd like confirmation that, i mean obviously i know that you know these, but these were on your portfolio. you had to deal with the issue of the osce and budapest agreement and denuclearization of ukraine and the issues of integrity of the signatories. correct? yovanovitch: could you run that by me again? turner: the osce, the orga

adam schiff, you said you want adam schiff to come down and testify under oath. does that mean what we hear from adam schiff needs public hearings he is not under oath he can say whatever he wants? >> yet he is not sworn in as a witness as we preside over these hearings or he presides over these hearings. much of what he he is saying to the american people is not true. i know it's not true and we know it is not true. we would like him to testify, i think congressman collins is going to ask for that when the house intelligence committee sent a report to the judiciary committee and i doubt that chairman nadler is going to allow that. i don't think they will allow that, they should and i think that's unfortunate. it's another reason why this will be dead on arrival in the senate including adam schiff will not be testifying. >> i'm going to speak with doug collins in just a few minutes and ask him about that pre-but it struck me because i guess that's what he can say we have not seen the whistleblower, we don't know who the whistleblower is and then a couple weeks la

now schiff wants anonymity. nowhere in the whistleblower law is a whistleblower entitled to or guaranteed the right to anonymity. it doesn't exist. >> this individual isn't a whistleblower and this isn't an impeachment. this is an operative placed in the white house by john brennan who voted for the communist party before he joined the characteristics a. he voted for the communist party candidate, gus hall. he worked for susan rice and vice president biden when he was the point man for ukraine. he was fired from the nfc when leaks out of the nfc were simply outrageous. the impeachment isn't an impeachment. after the declaration of war, the second most powerful thing the congress has is to impeach the president. this seven-page resolution doesn't even mention a crime. it gives all the power to the intel committee. there was no intel committee when the founding fathers brought the statute for impeachment. adam schiff who was a prosecutor. never jail now because of adam schiff, the man who lies the most on capitol

this is an abject failure for adam schiff. [indiscernible] there was more reaction from members of congress on the sunday news programs. here is a look at some with members of the house intelligence committee and house speaker nancy pelosi. callingyou join me in on the state department to produce the mountain of evidence, notes, calendar entries, our committee has subpoenaed them. when you join me in calling on the state department to produce the evidence? >> you bet i do not think there is going to be anything that implicates the president. if you will join with me in calling to hear from the witness -- from the whistleblower. how can you impeach the president of the united states and never hear from the person who started the process? we know he was deeply involved. how can you say we do not need to hear from him? >>>> let me respond to that. thank you for calling on me to produce the evidence. i hope you will tweet that out so the white house gets the message there is a bipartisan call to stop resisting our subpoena. we hav

with the schiff team. i guess there is something to hide there. in the meantime the whole thing is a charade. held in the basement of congress, where 75% of congress is blocked from entering, as they plant a new narrative to incriminate the president. it lacks due process or any accept ambulance of justice. but leave it to the dems to make some stuff up. >> any time he block sos one and they doesn't come? we conclude there is a consciousness of guilt. obstruction of congress. judge jeanine: if someone is guf obstruction? in all my years in theat one un. why am i surprised? here is a guy who fought desperately to' president, riding on the russia collusion train and he registered zero in polling on the presidential scale. take a listen to this one. >> it's answer abuse of power to remove an ambassador for political reasons because you don't like what they are doing, period. judge jeanine: swalwell, a primer, you are still polling at zero. another primer, the president of the united states can get rid of an a

schiff's sacristy. he did not let us put forward unanimous consent, he did not let us control our own time. i think i was interrupted about six times throughout the hearing, so this is more of the ridiculous abuse that we have seen from adam schiff. one of the most important things that came across today is ambassador yovanovitch testified today that the president can at will.mbassadors the president have a right to pick who his or her ambassadors are. in my line of questioning, i wanted to highlight the obama state department was so concerned about conflicts of interest with hunter biden sitting on burisma's board that the obama state department, that was the first instance where ambassador yovanovitch had ever heard the word burisma. that is an important facts and overall of the viewers here today, so we will continue ask the about hunter biden role for alloard of burisma, americans and want to know the answer to that question to it all the whistleblower, it is important to know that adam schiffand i

so i have a suggestion for adam schiff. why don't we retroactively, cautiously befriend franklin roosevelt? that would be justice, ladies and gentlemen. yes, that is it. >> sean: and then i released the oh, joe biden/ukraine transcripts. let's see, the flexibility of the tape so the vladimir putin transcripts. the obama/iran transcripts come a lot of transcripts to read. great wind from a great job. new timeslots come every sunday night, new slot at 8:00 p.m. eastern. when we come back, actually they had therapy dogs on capitol hill. i hope people to cope with the stress of impeachment progress. and also he will weigh in on the crazy people showing up on his book tour, lawrence jones on the streets of washington today speaking with people outside of the capital and rush limbaugh his take on the madness of today straight-ahead. ♪ >> sean: all right come a circus, the impeachment saga consumes. and the capital, the less people in the street. if they think the president should be impeached and for what crime? spoiler alert,

adam schiff's cocktail was to cherry pick and outright lie. members of the media gleefully played along with the spin on reality. they weren't able to get the truth. but what happens over the course of the open hearings. even though adam schiff won't bring in all the different republican witnesses who should have been called in. when you hear from people like kurt volker come testify and tim mormorrison come in and testify, and they didn't have to do anything to get the hold on aid lifted. to hear ambassador taylor testify tim morrison told him that sondland told more on that the president told sondland. they didn't realize they were being sold second, third, fourth hand information from adam schiff. i think the american people are smarter than adam schiff gives them credit for. lou: the president, all of those folks, rinos if you will, particularly in the republican party who advise him not to be -- using twitter. the man is talking directly to the american people and amplifying his defense' himself and his direct access to the people. to wat

it's interesting you mention adam schiff conduct it. it's widely reported that adam shift ordered a witness not top answer a republican question. there is no authority for him to do that. david: wouldn't republicans have been within their rights if they had said that and asked the witness anyway and said sir you are forced to answer my question? >> i can't speak to what happened because we don't have the transcript. and in fact the new house resolution gives adam schiff the power use laterally to release edited transcripts on sensitive gnat matter. we won't have the transcript until he releases them rather than following regular order. so weave just don't know. david: it's preposterous if it wasn't so deadly serious. you just have to shake it off. but you can't. this is affecting our republic here. thank you for being sheer. president trump says he's drawing the most of energized support from in his fight against impeachment. we'll have all that and more right after a i've always been fascinated by what's next. and still going for my be

schiff is a ten-term california congressman. he sat down with gloria borger and she asked him what this historic moment feels like. >> well, it feels at times like being in the eye of the hurricane. you can never tell when you're going to step out of the eye into gale force winds. >> adam schiff is at the center of the storm leading an historic public inquiry on impeachment. >> i now recognize myself to give an opening statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald trump, the 45th president of the united states. >> it's of course much more intense now than ever before. >> shifty schiff. >> anyone not living under a rock knows that schiff is one of president trump's favorite targets. >> little pencil neck. >> and he's not subtle about it on camera. >> he should resign from office in disgrace. frankly they should look at him for treason. >> and on twitter. >> i can't even keep up with the president's twitter attacks on me. my staff has stopped sending them to me. they're too numerous. >> you don't follow him on twitter? >> no. i

adam schiff put a former u.s. attorney and an msnbc contributor daniel goldman in charge of questioning impeachment witnesses. here's just one of his small utterances as a cable news talking head. >> legally we already now know that the president has committed a felony in order to obtain the office of the presidency.el >> laura: that was his first bite of the apple in january 2018. that was all about mueller. this is the kind of guy who is getting to the facts that have already been concluded. >> wow! what is concerning is the american people ought to get i concerned. the democrats are willing to put up people who already made upts their mind in positions where they present themselves as arbiters of truth and fairness and the facts. he already made up his mind.s. the democrats know where they want to be. t they just need to get there. when you getet to this point, te founding fathers warned us about they want the executive fearful of a congress that would take political moves to remove him from office. >> laura: n

we have seen a resprons from on adam schiff. he tweeted the inspector general for the intelligence community did what the law demands of him. public servants owe their loyalty to the constitution and the rule of law, not the the president's personal political interests. as an appointee of the president the inspector general can be fired but it would be deeply controversial. >> it would be. alex, thank you very much. joining us now, democratic congressman eric swalwell. he will be taking parts in the hearings. thanks for joining us. let me get your reaction to this new york times report that the president considered firing the infetelligence community inspecr general who alerted congress to the whistle-blower complaint. what's your reaction to that? >> innocent people who are accused of a crime do not fire those investigating them or even threaten to fire those investigating them. we have a lot of evidence of consciousness of guilt like behavior from president trump in the way he intimidates witnesses and the way he refuses to co

they made adam schiff not only a fact witness, but he's the judge, the jury, and the prosecutor. that is unheard of. and if you take what nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house said just last march, that impeachment is so divisive to this nation, unless it is more compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, we should not go forward. thursday's vote, the only bipartisan vote was not to move forward. never in our history has we ever proved through such a partisan impeachment movement. this is unheard of, and what they're trying to do, remember, what is today, november 3rd. we are exactly one year away from americans going to the polls to vote for the president. they're trying the change the outcome of 2016 and influence the next one. >> brennan: well, republicans will be able to ask questions of witnesses and call their own. who is it in the public hearings that republicans want the hear from? >> well, margaret, that's not true. if you read what the resolution says, now adam schiff controls the time, and new they have written it -- >> brennan: democrats are in the majority. that's