Perspective on how the ukraine controversy is affecting the 2020 election. Upper biden plans to resign hunter biden plans to resign from a chinese firm. All those stories right here, right now on sunday morning futures. Maria and we begin this morning with President Trump, he has fired back at House Democrats as they accelerate their impeachment push with a flurry of new subpoenas seeking testimony from Energy Secretary rick perry expect two indicted associates of President Trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The president reacting at the values voter summit last night in our nations capital. Now it is the outrageous impeaching. Look, impeachment. I never thought the id see or hear that word with regard to me, impeachment. Its a witch hunt. Its based on a single phone call of congratulations to the president of ukraine which they fraudulently mischaracterized to sound absolutely horrible. Maria meanwhile, democratic frontrunner joe biden is now voicing his full support for impeachment, saying President Trump has Left Congress with no other choice. Donald trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts. To preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. Maria joining me right now is georgia congressman doug kohl lynx ranking republican on collins, ranking republican on the Judiciary Committee. Thank you so much for being here. Good morning, maria. Maria the wall street journal is reporting that hunter biden, joe bidens son, has pledged to resign from this private equity firm that he is on the board of on october 31st, and he says he will not work on any foreignowned companies or serve on their boards if his father is elected president. This just coming out now. We know there has been so much around this story, but now hunter biden says he will step down. Your reaction. Well, its Pretty Amazing now after the line is being shined on, now youre going to come out and say, well, ill ten away from all of this step away from all of this because it might seem as a conflict of interest. This just shows you how much this is a messedup situation and how much there were other things going on, and all the democrats want to do is focus on President Trump because they dont like President Trump. I think this is another way to save a flailing campaign thats going down. He knows hes in trouble, and this is a way to try to attract attention. Maria we know there have been three testimonies behind closed doors as part of this impeachment push, another one on friday. Some of it leaked out and then others, other things from that cannot be leaked or discussed. Tell me what youve learned so far from these behind closed doors testimonies in this impeach. Inquiry. I think the first thing is lets at least go back and remember a few points. November 2016 began the impeachment push for the democrats was because they cried in brooklyn, they havent got over it yet. When they gained control of Congress Last year, instead of being truthful, all they said was were going to impeach the president. Number three, when the impeach. Hit in january, all Jerry Nadlers focus, lets have investigations. Mueller was going to show us that the president need to be impeached. It failed. Now you go to Speaker Pelosi and adam schiff had to say weve got a failing plan here. We promised the Democratic Base that we would with impeach the president , and so far weve shown hes done nothing wrong except have a great economy and a great standing around the world. Viewers need to know this, they said we cant win this in the public eye, so were going to take it behind closed doors. So in the past few days, they have. Adam schiff, who has trouble telling the truth, is a very good lyric. Lets be honest, hes 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 whats going on in our two countries. This is a sham, whats 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. Its not happening in the Judiciary Committee, which nadler runs, its actually in the intel committee. Number two, it is all happening behind closed doors. We dont know what anybody said on friday you had another testimony from the ukrainian ambassador. Her Opening Statement leaks but then Everything Else as part of that is behind closed doors. And now theyre calling him a fact witness, John Ratcliffe called adam schiff a fact witness because, of course, he did meet with the socalled whiting blower before whistleblower before the complaint was public. Johns exactly right. Adam schiff is so deeply involved in this, this is a man who once said, you know, theres collusion in plain sight. Well do whatever we want to do because the president needs to be impeached, and weve got the proof. Hes beening been saying this for well over two years. Hes a fact witness in that his staff and others met with the whistleblower before this came out. The president released the transcript of the call, and everybody said, okay, wheres the there there because theres not a there there. Many reporters said if you look at the whistleblower complaint, it was laid out in a way in which adam hiv could then go schiff could then go to committee and keep it behind closed doors. Its not just the Judiciary Committee thats been left out, the Foreign Affairs committee has been left out as well. Speaker pelosi knew that adam schiff would do whatever she wanted him to do, and the American People are the ones who suffer here. If they want to overturn the 2016 election, get in the field, have a candidate who knew where some of these states were to campaign and do that in 2020. You dont turn over an election based on the fact that you hate a president who got elected who beat the person you thought was going to get elected. And by the way, hes working on trade deals, we have an economy. They cant beat him on the facts, so theyre going to beat him on the lies. Maria but what are you going to do about it . If your colleagues on the left are in the majority. The American People are p wondering whats going on in terms of this impeachment inquiry. We dont see transcripts, we cant hear any of these hearings. By the way, no ones getting anything done. Youre supposed to pass usmca, get trade deals done as well as, perhaps, gun legislation, infrastructure. So what are you going to do about it . Well, if anybodys watched me over the last nine months in particular, i dont sit back and take it. Thats why im here with you this morning, thats why weve been talking about the story. If adam schiff wants to have it behind closed doors, my job is to pick the lock. Look at the lies that have been told, look at these hearings that have been had, and nothing has came from it. Now because you dont like the results, you take it behind closed doors. Were going to work to get these triplets released, but also the senate is hopefully going to be able to begin looking at other things as well, especially the horowitz report which should be coming out in the next little bit. These are the kinds of things that viewers have to understand. What theyre getting from washington, d. C. Is a onesided approach to an impeachment because democrats know they cant win on the facts. So those of us like myself are going to keep going forward. I believe that sunshine is the best disinfectant. Right now adam schiff dont want disinfectant anywhere close to what hes doing. Maria we want the talk to you about the russia probe straight ahead. Also counselor to president clopway and congressman mark meadows coming up. Follow me on twitter and on instagram, maria bartiromo. Stay with us this morning, were looking ahead on cologuard colon Cancer Screening for people 50 and older at average risk. Honey, have you seen my glasses . 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Were expecting it to show exactly what weve been concerned about for a long time, that there wassish shaws was issues at the department of justice. I start the looking at the ones that should be the most concerned because one of the things i didnt mention is the democrats wanted nothing to do with any investigations into the real issues of collusion and corruption that was part of the 2016 campaign, which was the Democratic National committee, fusion gps and all of these parties that came together to try and deny donald trump from becoming president. They never wanted any part of that, they dont want any part now. When you see brennan and mccabe really ramping up the im innocent phase of their life when they go on tv and talk about this is not really happening, but the best one is when mr. Comey, the one who has trouble with the truth, who has a superman syndrome is out there saying, oh, i wish that this was just go away. Then he says all i want to do is get rid of this president. This report going to show what happened in that time frame, and i believe from what were seeing from their reaction, its not going to be very good. My only question is will the democrats have an integrity bone in their body to call mr. Horowitz to our committee to have to answer about this report. Maria yeah. Last weekend on this program we had George Papadopoulos on the program, and weve been following this, obviously, for the last couple of years, and we put together this timeline of what looks like entrapment given the fact that he got all of this outreach from these internationalist, quoteunquote, ambassadors and people who invited him to conferences like steven hall per or Alexander Downer or from australia or joseph miss fud. Now, on that situation, this was the individual who dropped the news on George Papadopoulos that russia had Hillary Clintons emails, and he said and another of these internationalists said to him, well, this is great news for you and donald trump, that youve got these emails. And he said i would never do that, thats treason. That transcript, that conversation was transcribed because he was an informant, the guy who said that to him, and that was not given to the fisa court. Is so many people is have come on this program, trey gowdy, John Ratcliffe, to say that was exculpatory evidence that was not given to fisa court. Is that something youre going to be looking for in this upcoming report on friday . Thats the first of many things. You have a court that meets in secret that is integral if they have a position where they receive all the information. If theyre being withheld exculpatory material, then it just goes to the position that the corrupt cabal of mccabe and comey and strzok and page, all these folks are really had a mind item set of they came off of an email investigation of hillary clinton, went right into lets see if we can investigate this president because we dont like who this president may be. And at that time he was still a candidate. And were seeing this build up and build up and build up. And so i think this report is going to show even comey himself said e the dossier was salacious and unverified. Why would he actually go out there and verify that before a fisa court . Why do we find out mr. Durham enlarging his investigation all the way into the spring of 2017 when we had the special counsel . Also beginning to have doubts of mr. Muellers truthfulness in what he was actually looking for and how much rosenstein was a part of mccabe, this whole deal with the mccabe memo shows there were discussions of wearing a wire to the white house. Maria, this is something Everybody Needs to be concerned about, i dont care what Party Affiliation you have. You need to make sure we actually find out did our department of justice turn on us x then these questions are going to be answered. And i believe thats what youre going to see starting maria yeah. And as our timeline correctly points out, miss feud telling George Papadopoulos talking about the emails, that was way before the fbi started an investigation, march and april in 2016 was when he first got that information. Also this 10,000 in cash that was dropped in his lap from another informant, they said, oh, we want to do business with you, heres 10,000 in cash. Again, they were using i mean, if this is it comes to light in this i. G. Report and in bill barrs investigation and john durhams investigation, they were actually using the tools that this country uses on terrorists thats, you know, informants, you know, wiretapping. These are the tools that this country uses on terrorists, and they were using it to try to entrap Donald Trumps campaign if this is true. This is what everything weve learned so far leads me to believe. Well, unlike the democrats, i actually believe lets let the facts come out. Lets remember, maria, everything you just talked the about, that was under the obama biden administration. That was under the previous administration. When the collusion and the work from russian, you know, operatives, when we had this dossier coming out which was paid for by the dnc, this was under the watch of president obama. Im sort of tired of being lectured by the former president about how he was in charge, and they would never have done this on the world stage, yet it was under his watch that this was the election are interference from russia actually happened. Lets just put this all in perspective. The i. G. Reports going to show what its going to show, and youre seeing the players who have been involved anytime squirming on stage. You have a john durham whos looking into this for possible chargings as we go forward. But all at the same point, the democrats realize that in the light of day they couldnt find anything to impeach President Trump on, so now theyre going behind closed doors, and theyre just believing that the American Public is not smart enough to realize what theyre doing. They can just leak out what they want to and influence this next election cycle. Never forget this is not about a ukrainian phone call, this is about the 2016 elections that was a failure and the 2020 election that is almost a year away. Maria wow. Is so can you do anything being in the minority . Can Lindsey Graham, as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary with subpoena power, can he do anything . What can you do to push back on this . Well, number one, like i said, its amazing to me that my chairman would like to have just, you know, very partisan hearings that go nowhere and are simply for show. But Lindsey Graham is the chairman of the senate Judiciary Committee, and hes already said he will have mr. Horowitz there. I cant wait to see this report come out. Remember, this is not going to be a report like the mueller report. Theres a lot of probably classified information, but theres a lot of Public Information because were dealing with an Intelligence Community and very secretive issues for our national security. Is so i think everybody just needs to be aware, sit back, let the facts come. Unlike the democrats who want to change the facts, let the facts come to us. Maria and, by the way, youre not getting anything else done in the meantime. Weve talked about a Prescription Drug plan, gun legislation, weve talked about, obviously, usmca. Is that ever going to come to the floor, do you think . No. And heres the interesting part, the president himself as reached out on transportation, on Prescription Drugs, the president himself has reached out on trade. The president himself did criminal Justice Reform last year, a bill that i helped write. These are the kinds of things this president has reached out, and every time he reaches a hand out, the democrats in the majority bite him. Its amazing he keeps wanting to work with these folks because they have no desire to work with these people. Theyre not wanting to be part of the success. Maria all right, congressman, well be watching. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, maria. Maria President Trump is now threatening to sue house party leaders. Reaction from counselor to president Kellyanne Conway. And mark penn with his unique perspective on how the joe everyone uses their phone differently. Thats why Xfinity Mobile lets you design your own data. You can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. All with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. Its a different kind of Wireless Network, designed to save you money. Switch and save up to 400 a year on your wireless bill. Plus, get 250 back when you buy an eligible phone. Thats simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click, or visit a store today. Maria welcome back. The president taking aim at the democrats impeachment push this morning for a thursday straight evening last night at the values voters summit in washington. The democrats are consumed by their, quote, hate to see him removed from office, that the hes looking into i suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and adam schiff, pelosis point man in the houses impeachment inquiry. Watch. The radical left tolerates no dissent, it permits no opposition. It accepts no compromise. And, look, we have all seen it. We see whats going on. There is no compromise. Frankly, these people are crazy. [laughter] [applause] maria joining me right now is the counselor to president , Kellyanne Conway. Its good to have you. Good morning, maria. Maria i want to get your reaction to the news of the morning, and that is the wall street journals reporting that hunter biden plans to now step down from the board of a Chinese Private equity firm. Yes. Well, he should have done this quite a while ago. In fact, he probably shouldnt have been on the board to begin with. He hitched a ride on air force two with the Vice President of the united states, also his father at that time, came back with sweetheart deals, and i am really disappointed in so many members of the Mainstream Media stretching their necks to defend hunter biden saying and we must say that theres no wrongdoing here, nothing illegal. Folks, this is what people hate about the swamp. This is a part of how donald trump won in the first place, saying that were going to get rid of these sweetheart deals, make sure that we clean up the axis of power in a place like washington, d. C. Where someone like hunter biden gets a 50,000 a month retainer for ukraine january Energy Company when Everybody Knows that he doesnt have that skill set. And, maria, i want to say a couple things. Joe bidenss in big trouble. Hes plummeting in the polls, hes calling for the president s impeachment because he doesnt have a path to beat the president at the ballot box. If the democrats thought that they could defeat donald trump a year from now, theyd put all their energies behind that candidate, but they cant do it because they dont have it. They have to run against the trump economy, deregulation, the fact that we are net exporters of oil and natural gas, that hes promising peace and prosperity around the globe. And i think joe bidens now seen as Hunter Bidens father, not as Barack ObamasVice President. And people are saying where is hunter . Fine. Where is president obama . Why isnt he out there supporting the man who served as his Vice President for eight years . Why isnt biden on top of the polls just by saying im going to bring us back to the obama years, give you eight more of the obama years. Hes in trouble, thats why hes calling for impeachment. And in the president s defense went he said in the call, hey, people are talking about biden and his son, they darn well were. The hill had an article on april 1st, fox news, cnn, june 12th. Abc, june 20th. And may i tell everybody, three months ago the new yorker had a scathing cover story about hunter biden and said could his business dealings in the ukraine and, quote, tumultuous personal life maria right. Damage his fathers chance at the presidency. Were talking about three months ago people in hiding now. Maria why is he still the frontrunner . Obviously, it doesnt look right if hes the Vice President and his son getting money from the chinese while the Vice President is doing official business with the chinese, but joe biden if you look at the polls is still the frontrunner in the 2020 election. Well, barely. And im one of the people around the president who says, you know, prop him up. Meaning lets keep biden in there, because biden made a huge mistake. He could have had this running away had he announced the presidency by going to five states that obamabiden won and then donald trump and mike pence won. Is wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, iowa, michigan. He didnt do. That he sent out a videotape about things that have already been disproven. He doesnt know what hes doing, hes 02 running for himself for president. But hes not my problem. The reason hes the frontrunner is because the rest of the field are unabashed socialists. You actually have Bernie Sanders insulting Elizabeth Warren. You know what he said . Socialist Bernie Sanders insulted socialist Elizabeth Warren by saying shes actually a capitalist. He thinks thats an insummit biden was leading by 20, 30 points a couple months ago, now a lot of National Polls show warren surging. Maria do you think warren will be the frontrunner . Do you think itll be trumpwarren in 2020 . Have no idea. Im sure a couple of the strap hangers who are in third, fourth and fifth are going to hang in there. I do think its funny that in a party that says were woke and were going to be transformational, theyre not backing the africanamerican woman, theyre not backing africanamerican man. Maria yeah. Theyre not backing the gay man, the mayor. Were going to have people who are different. They could do that. Those are democratic primary voters, and theyve got the three white people at the top of the polls. What i think is going on with impeachment is a disgrace. Adam schiff loves to be in front of the cameras, and yet the one place hes not in front of the cameras is while hes leading an impeachment inquiry. Maria yeah. Thats so curious to me. Why doesnt he come out in the open, and i want adam schiff under oath every time he talks, because he does what liars and cheaters do, they lie and they cheat. He lies to the American People. He has no credibility. 100 republicans have called for his censure. Maria well see. He said it was the in plain sight, the collusion between donald trump yeah, and he lied. Maria if two years. I want do you about china. The markets rallied big on friday because there was a sense that a deal was getting done, and the president tweeted on saturday that an initial trade agreement with china was the great and biggest deal ever, citing wins for u. S. Farmers and billions in boeing plane sales. Can this deal stand with the chinese just buying more stuff from america . What about the intellectual property theft that the president has spoken so much about and the forced transfer of technology . Do you feel that this initial deal gets a handle on those things . I do, more ya. Its maria. Its a huge first step, and the president made clear were talking about such massive deals here with china that it has to come in different phases. So phase one does tackle the fact that 4050 billion more for our farmers, the president says he hopes that the farmer has enough tractors to sustain that. It also, it also tackles Structural Agriculture issues which are just as important. It may be something thats not necessarily in the public every day. Also they started with the Technology Transfer discussion and intellectual property. Those will come more in phase two, and the president looks forward to seeing president xi in chief hay soon, and chile soon. They pulled out last minute from the deal in april, last spring, weve been negotiating, and i think ambassador lighthizer and secretary mnuchin have expressed great optimism about what happened, and the markets liked it as well. This is also why they want to impeach the president , because they cant argue with the fact that we finally have a president who brought china to table in the first place. Why do we have a half a trillion trade deficit with the worlds second largest economy . Maria also the human rights abuses. Were going to the take a short break, i want to ask you about how important that is for any deal. Coloradan yea on americas next steps in the middle east as well. Then congressman mark meadows and mark penn are no, just a sec. What would it look like if we listened more . Could the right voice, the right set of words, bring us all just a little closer . Get us to open up . Even push us further . It could, if we took the time to listen. The most inspiring minds, the most compelling stories. Download audible and listen for a change. Peyton, what are you doing . alexa added to band shopping list. Nationwides teamed up with amazon to bring you the allnew echo auto. Alexa, add xylophone to band shopping list. alexa okay. We dont need a band shopping list. Join nationwide now and get a free amazon echo auto. Maria and we are back with counselor or to president Kellyanne Conway. You were telling us about phase one of a deal with china. When would we expect phase two the . Well, in due course. I mean, they still continue to negotiate, and secretary mnuchin and ambassador lighthizer and, indeed, the president himself have said that this is a a long process. This president takes the long view. At least is the first president , obviously in modern times, to get china to the table in a serious way. And you see whats happened in the chinese economy, you see the effect of the tariffs. This president is there for the farmers, and thats also another reason why the usmca has to get passed in congress. Theyre so busy trying to impeach a president whos been successful economically and so many other ways that they cant even put to a vote usmca, the trade deal with mexico, canada and the u. S. When you have that along with what weve done with japan, korea maria yeah. What were doing with china, really shows a president who has elevated the issue of trade from where it was for years, mired in one of the most prominentish hues of his presidency issues of his presidency. Obviously, well continue to press on intellectual property theft. Friday was a big step forward, and he looks forward to also president xi making good on his promise to get fentanyl the heck out of our country. Thats important too. Maria what about the middle east policy in there is a continued upit over the president s policies in syria and the way that weve left our partners, the kurds. There is a shifting position even within republicans that the president s policy by pulling our troops out is worsening an already chaotic situation. Secretarys per made clear that our First Priority e is the safety of our soldier ands that we felt like the situation was worsening. Weve tried to remove them out of harms way. We have two competing interests here. Turkey a nato ally that we put on notice if they continue with this incursion, it could lead to a humanitarian crisis, the release of isis prisoners and most importantly for turkey, a destruction of their economy. On friday treasury secretary mnuchin announced new possible sanctions. He had to get the authorities in place, but at the moment the president commands the treasury secretary the, he can go ahead and do maximum sanctions which, of course, would wreak great damage to the turkish economy. Turkeys a nato ally, the kurds have been incredibly helpful in helping us to defeat isis. The isis caliphate, the physical caliphate is destroyed. That continues. And at the same time, this president has made a commitment to not be in endless wars. The last two administrations kept us in the middle east, great expense of money, but most importantly, of lives. And he doesnt want to continue. Hes been very clear about that. Maria what is the president going to do in the face of all of this . Hes trying to conduct business and yet the resistance is trying to stop him at every turn. Are you expecting him to try to sue nancy pelosi and adam schiff as he suggested last night . I maybe he can, but americans are smart and fairminded, and they see whats happening here. You have democrats and some of their friends in the Mainstream Media trying to unto an election result from three years ago and trying to, yes, ill use the word, interfere in the next election. Theyre so worried about foreign governments interfering in our election, why do we have people, democrats and some of the media in our own country interfering in the 2020 election by just trying to get in the president s way . But he doesnt let the resistance stop him. Look what he just did this week. He got a first phase of the deal with china. Maria right. He did an amazing executive order on transparency. Hes continuing to deregulate. Hes trying to continue to bolster our economy. We had great economic numbers last week even though the critics said otherwise. Two months ago they were predicting recession, maria, so he will continue. Hes ready to sign usmca, hes ready to do infrastructure, hes got 160 federal judges and counting on his watch. No one stops him. The last couple days he got home at 1 30 in the morning two of the days and yesterday went back out and gave a speech to a different group. Hes working all the time, people see where he is. He gives a lot of availability to the public and to the press, and yet youve got the democrat, what have they done . They voted on impeachment, they had a resolution to condemn a tweet. America, they work for you. Theyre wasting their time and your money. They were on recess for six weeks, came back for a few days to try to impeach the president and were gone for two more weeks. What are they doing . Maria what a moment in time hell continue to work. Thank you, maria, take care. Martha Kellyanne Conway there. Democrats are issuing speak thats for Energy Secretary rick perry and two indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani as they have no plans yet to vote op on a formal impeachment inquiry. My next guest says hardened criminals have better protections than President Trump. Republican congressman mark meadows sits on the House Oversight committee. Thanks very much for joining us. Great to be back with you, maria. Maria first, your reaction to whats taking place in terms of the impeachment push. You heard what doug collins said, what are you going to do about it, that its all in secret . We need to bring it out and let the American People judge for themselves. Ive now spent over 20 hours behind closed doors listening to testimony, and if that testimony were to come out, you would realize that it would be exhibit a and exhibit b on the exoneration of this president , but yet you know adam schiff wants to make sure he keeps it all in private. So what we have to do is continue to appeal to the American People. I think an open and transparent process is really what we need. But this president has been faced with unrelenting, you know, just attacks each and every day. If they spent onetenth of the energy trying to lower Prescription Drug prices, wed see 30 reduction in Prescription Drug prices. But instead, theyre constantly are each and every day putting out a false narrative that are not supported by the facts. Martha do you think nancy pelosi will bring the usmca to the floor for a vote . Well, if its all about the 2020 election, she will not do that. She will say that, ultimately, they cant give the president a win. Ive talked to some of my democrat colleague, and in the privacy of their caucus where theyre getting together, each and every time its brought up that we need to do something good for the hard working mesh taxpayer, they say we cant give this president a win. Now, when you have that kind of an attitude and thats coming from the Democratic Caucus certainly theyre not going to vote on it because it would make the economy boom, and it would reelect this president which, by the way, hes going to be reelected anyway. Maria and what about this impeachment inquiry . The threat here is that the public really doesnt understand whats true and what isnt true. Youve got a lot of noise around this impeachment inquiry. Is it the right process . Maybe not, but its continuing to be sort of taking all the oxygen out of the room. Well, if its coming from adam schiffs mouth, its not true. Maria, youve followed this for a long time. You knew the whole russian collusion hoax, you know, that evidence that was going to come out that was there, available for everybody to see . Well, you know, weve spent 30 million and had a potential prosecutor and yet they a special prosecutor and yet they found no evidence. Theyre going to find the same thing. Heres the problem, impeachment a much lower bar. Its a political process, so you dont even have to have the facts as long as you have 218 democrats willing to vote for it. Maria wow. So weve got to clear it up, make sure its transparent and make sure the American People are the final judge and jury. Maria i think this has a lot to do with what were about to learn from john durham and bill barr. I want the ask you what youre expecting from the i. G. Report out this upcoming weekend as well as what youre expecting from those investigations that are act. Back in a i cant believe it. What . That our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost . Hey jill hey kurt movies . Ill get snacks no, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our Car Insurance with geico. I got snacks ohhh, i got popcorn, i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. Am i chewing too loud . Believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. This is the family who wanted to connect. To go where they could explore and experience adventure in unexpected places. Who were inspired by different cultures and found that the past can create new memories. Leading them to discover were woven together by the moments we share. For everywhere you go, expedia has everything you need, all in one place. Maria we are back with republican congressman mark meadows. We are looking forward to getting the inspector e general report out. My sources tell me it will be out on friday, the 18th. What is your expectation of what well learn . Well, based on the documents that weve provided many of those documents to Inspector General horowitz is and his team who, by the way, have spent an unbelievable amount of time doing just a very thorough research, we believe itll be a scathing rebuke on the fbis fisa process. Not just the fourth and third fisa, but the whole fisa process. What they knew, when they knew it, and based on documents that ive seen and and i have not seen the i. G. s report, but based on documents that ive seen that weve provided to the i. G. , theres a real question in terms of did they turn a blind eye to, you know, flashing yellows and flashing red lights and go on through . And in the interest of trying to dig up dirt on this president. I believe they did. I think what youll see is a strong recommendation and a minimum of changing the protocols as it relates to a fisa application process, because with we know that they used unverified information. We knew that they used information that they had a high probability that it was actually made up. And yet they continued to use it. Maria yeah. Well, you would think that anybody from both sides of the aisle would be outraged that our intelligence agencies were using the tools that we used on terrorists to stop donald trump and then even after he was elected, duly elected president , to use those tools to try to take him down. I just wonder if were going to see accountability. Do you believe well see prosecutions, indictments for the people who actually inserted donald trump into the story of russia meddling in the u. S. . Well, i can tell you the American People that have been following this want accountability. They dont believe the fbi should have a different standard. Now, what normally comes out of an i. G. s report is that they will make some recommendations to the attorney general, sometimes criminal referrells. I do referrals. I do believe there are a few areas that should be criminally referred. And at the same time, whether theres indictments, thats going to be a question for the attorney general. But a lot of people out there are saying we cant continue to allow wrongdoing to happen and no accountability. I know you hear it, i hear it and maria yeah. Hopefully, at the end of the day justice will prevail. Maria we already saw it for andrew mccabe, what does that mean in. When you look at a criminal referral and possible indictments, obviously theyre looking at all the evidence. Sometimes they say, well, were going to wait for the rest of the story or the bigger part of the picture. Maria okay. I think what americans say is if theres wrongdoing, you know, whether its a small infraction or a large one, they need to be held accountable. Maria congressman, youve done great work on this, thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you, maria. Maria mark meadows. Hunter biden issuing his first public response to President Trumps attacks on his work in ukraine. 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Joining us now, mark penn, chief strategist on bill clintons 1996 president ial campaign as well as Hillary Clintons 2008 president ial campaign. Mark, its great to see you this morning. Thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Maria your reaction in terms of hunter biden stepping down and its impact on 2020. Well, a bit late to really clear everything up. I think im glad hes done that. I think at a certain point hes going to have to kind of go through exactly what did and did not happen here. I do think the American Public wants to know about everything that everybody did here. Maria so assess the field for us, mark, in terms of 2020. Where are we now . Do you think Elizabeth Warren is going to be the frontrunner . Well, i wouldnt count joe biden out yet. Maria okay. I think he continues to, i think, be the frontrunner in National Polls. I think hes got more problems in iowa and new hampshire. I think Elizabeth Warren has shown more momentum than any other candidate, but really people are in the 20s and 30s. No one is a clear frontrunner in this race today, and no one should be counted out either. Maria when you were doing the strategy for bill clinton, you said you were the architect of that strategy, and you said, look, do the job of president , let the lawyers and pr folks fight impeachment. Thats not what President Trump is doing. Assess that. Well, yes. I was one of the architects of the strategy that when the president was asked, he would say, look, im here today to talk about education. The American People want the president doing his or her job. Thats the most important thing. Rather than be your own attorney and rather than prosecute the case against the democrats and increase partisanship, our strategy then was for the president to stick to his job. And i think thats a much better strategy. Thats what the American Public wants to see in response to all these investigations and charges and countercharges. Maria hows it impacting the president s chances for reelection . Well, i think the president s job rating has held up in all of the polls, so i think most people are seeing this as a partisan political fight maria right. At this point regard he is of the fact theyd like to see things investigated. Look, right now the majority of the American Public dont like the president , a majority dont like the democrats and a majority dont like republicans. [laughter] so youve got to understand the more that washington looks this way, in the time of record prosperity maria yeah. You have such a sour mood. And that makes for an electorate thats going to be highly volatile. Maria any thoughts ahead of tuesdays big debate . The democratic debate is tuesday night. Real quick, mark. I think its going to be fascinating. Will democrats really surround joe biden against these charges . Will Tulsi Gabbard attack the new york times, and will people turn on warren because shes the frontrunner . Maria its great to talk with you always, mark. Thanks for joining me. Mark penn. And thank you so much for watching this morning. Ill see you tomorrow morning on mornings with maria with on tx business network. Have a great rest of your sunday is, everybody. I am the twisting thundercloud. I am royalty of racing, i am alfa romeo. Lou good evening president tre hammered daily by the radical dems deep state left Wing National media, spent term fighting the corruption, that has filled the district for decades the president taking on all his antagonists enemies at once to overthrow subvert his presidency. The Republican Party and president the Republican Party has been treated extremely badly by the democrats very unfairly. Because they have a tiny margin in the house 24e6 he they have hes