Has found when the boxes came back from north korea. A very meaningful, important moment for that Mcdaniel Family and for all americans its an honor to show it to you. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Im dana perino. Up next, shep smith. Shepard its noon on the west coast. 3 00 here in New York City where republican congressman is facing a judge on charges of Insider Trading. The lawmaker denies he did anything wrong. Were live at the courthouse. President trumps lawyers making what they are calling a Counter Offer for an interview with the special counsel Robert Mueller. Ahead, the details on what they call the last chance to avoid a possible subpoena of the president. And the star witness on the defense at the trial of President Trumps former Campaign Chairman. But rick gates says he has a very good reason to tell the truth about everything Paul Manafort did. Lets get to it. Shepard smith reporting live from the Fox News Deck. And first from the Fox News Deck this afternoon a sitting
apartment employees, is illegal. and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. the committees want to speak with the ambassador, her ambassadorship to ukraine ended abruptly. ambassador kurt volker, former envoy to ukraine who connected a presidential advisor to rudy giuliani. george kent, the states european and eurasian burial. ambassador to the european union before secretary pompeo sent the letter to the committees, the investor had told the wall street journal he was planning on appearing in his deposition. that scheduled for october 10. ambassador kurt volker is no longer an employee at the state department. he resigned friday. shepard: s secretary pompeo, he says his folks are not going to be allowed to testify because it s not feasible. the committee says you have to let them testify.
his employees will not show up for depositions over the next two weeks with the house democrats because it s, as he put it, not feasible. this is we are learning that pompeii was on that july 25 phone call with the ukrainian president. the call during which president trump asked for an investigation into a political opponent, namely joe biden. our nation s top diplomat ignored reporters questions today. mr. secretary, do you have comment on reports that you are on the july 25 call with president zelensky. shepard: listen to what he said we could go. the wall street journal is reporting president trump pressed the president of ukraine eight times to work with rudy giuliani to investigate joe biden s son. what do you know about those conversations? you just gave me a report about a whistle-blower complaint, none of which i have seen. see when he was on the call, as
that, joe hockey, great name if i ever heard one, the australian ambassador to the united states wrote a letter to the attorney general saying we heard what the president said back on the 24th. we stand ready and willing to help you in any way we can. the white house is not providing any context to the morrison call except to say, confirm what the department of justice has told us, any request the president made of morrison to work with barr was a result of barr asking the president to do it. if you are the prime minister of the country, it would be unusual for the attorney general to make that request, so he took it to the president so that leader to leader they could talk about it. shepard: john roberts on the north lawn. thanks so much. it s a long way down from congressman to convict. republican chris collins of new york officially has given up his seat today and right now is going before a judge with an expected guilty plea in an insider trading case.