former whitewater independent counsel, byron york correspondent for the washington examiner, fox news contributor. robert from an investigator standpoint, you re experiencing the legal world, one the most respected lawyers out there, isn t the biden angle more troubling than what trump is accused of? maybe having some, you know, exuberance or ken starr and sol were saying bad judgment to bring it up in a phone call. being accused of that versus what biden did? if anybody exercised mafia-like tactics to strong arm the ukrainians, it was joe biden. now what the purpose of all of that was i suppose is subject still to some debate. i do know that rudy giuliani feels very strongly that there is not only smoke out there in the ukraine but fire as well as
we want investigations, even though there s been investigations of the president for well over two years. interesting, ted lieu, leading democrat, he said today we have to act quickly but not in haste. that kind of seems to sum up where democrats are right now. they can t quite decide. laura: synonyms all right. stay right there. and fox has confirmed about a dozen republican lawmakers were there earlier today to read the transcript of trump s ukraine call before it was released and jim jordan joins me now. chris stewart. he just viewed the actual whistle-blower document and congressman, you have some breaking news for us tonight. we know that it s been declassified and it s been released so it should be available for everyone to look at and i encourage everyone to go look at it. before i went in this morning, i was a little bit anxious. i thought am i going to be surprised? is there going to be something of this where i go, oh, no.
laura: so what will the followed be if the democrats fail in this impeachment gambit of theirs? joining me now, doug schoen, former advisor to president clinton. harmeet dhillon, fox news contributor. doug, explain for our audience exactly what the democrats stand is? they stand to lose the presidency in the house. they could blow it all and i worked for bill clinton in 98 and i saw the republicans overreaching on impeachment. it hurt them in the 98 congressional elections when we ran on progress, not politics. you saw the video that s been shown of the democrats widely decrying the republicans overreaching and having read the transcripts, heard about what the whistle-blower said, there s
laura: now that the democrats are fully embracing impeachment, we want to take you through the next steps. joining me now, chi fox news national correspondent ed henry. good to see you. what is significant would be the numbers. the fact that a majority of the 217 house democrats are saying that they are in favor of some sort of impeachment inquiry. what comes next? it would be the house judiciary committee drafting articles of impeachment. what s interesting tonight is that there is a split among democrats. you have some democrats saying they want kind of a kitchen sink approach. they want to keep their base completely happy by having articles of impeachment about russia and the mueller probe, about hush payments to porn stars, and ukraine as well. there is another camp and it appears in sticker nancy pelosi