the articles haven t even moved yet. they haven t carried over to the senate. when that happens, we don t know when a trial will start, voters don t know what will happen before the iowa caucus starts and might coincide with the senate trial. what the president is trying to do is trying to make sure that his days of his voters are paying attention to his side of the story, which is that he is the victim here and that he s a part of a quote-unquote witch hunt by the democrats. one tweet is getting a lot of attention. he retweeted a link naming the alleged whistle-blower here. that s something that a lot of news organizations avoided, the president avoided to this point. are there any ramifications for that. on its face, the president of the united states making national news for days at a time by retweeting surfer mom 77 is just a bit crazy in and of itself. that s where we re at with donald trump. he s been tweeting and
this is a president that is always anxious to claim victory in some way. not just anxious to. he does it whether there s a victory or not. that s right, even when he doesn t win. now speaker pelosi has thrown this curveball where there s no guarantee there will ever be a trial in the senate if those impeachment matters don t get named. that leaves the question pending and doesn t allow the president to turn the page before the 2020 election which is what he d really like to do. i don t think that s going to happen. the overriding feeling is it s going to happen. the question is when. it s going to happen. i haven t been given the exact timetable, but this is going to be for a limited period of time that she s holding these. she wants to try to use it as leverage to get witnesses. if she can t, at least she s raised public awareness ha the president is blocking all his deputies from testifying. heidi, thank you for that. carlos curbelo, hans nichols, as always down there wit
majority of them, an estimated 80%, have been left for dead on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell s desk. health care, civil rights, gun control, environment, military and foreign affairs, the list goes on. many of the bills had won bipartisan support and yet they too are still stalled in the republican senate. things like universal background checks, net neutrality, and reauthorizing the violence against women act. i want to bring in former congressman steve israel from new york who used to run the democratic congressional campaign committee. good to see you, steve. you ve spent more time than most working to get democrats elected to the house. so the democrats has said they re do-nothing democrats, he s said they re only focused on impeachment. how do they cut through the noise here especially if you re in one of those swing districts where you maybe actually do have some voters who haven t made up their mind yet? that s going to be the strategy imperative for democrats, especi
crossing the 9,000 threshold. the president taking credit for that and also saying more is to come. on the fundamental question of are articles of impeachment going to be sent over and is this going to be somehow untied, we don t have a lot of developments. we are unaware of any conversations between senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer. the last we had was on tuesday from the two of them, trading exchanges back and forth. you have house lawmakers saying, look, this shows the weakness, shows pelosi s weakness, bru that s not new at all. we re in this staring contest where it seems like both sides, especially the president s side are trying to martial their troops to make sure the democrats don t have a case for impeachment and that s why the articles haven t been sent over. i guess we need to continue to monitor the twitter feed. even as he monitors cable news, we know he likes to watch
pete: we are out on fox square. ed: it was a big crowd but we ll be back tomorrow. we are in christmas spirit and cheer. pete: join us tomorrow! ed: merry christmas. have a great morning. neil: all right, well, the rush is on. i m not talking about the holiday rush but rush for simply more spending in washington and unfortunately, not for impeaching the democrats are stalling that, congress sending the president a flurry of bills before dashing out the door including dishing out a lot more money to keep those government doors open. now the one thing not being rushed for the time being is the impeachment articles, and sending it along to the u.s. senate as you probably heard, house speaker nancy pelosi had a standoff with her senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. some scholars are asking if those articles haven t been transferred, has the president really been impeached?