ukrainian trying to raise alarm bells about donald trump. that s not even remotely the same thing as a top down kremlin organized pew lynn led effort to fundamentally interfere in a u.s. election. what you re seeing more broadly is an effort by republican lawmakers to throw as much chum in the water as possible here and just bog this process down in counter measures and counter charges and complaints about one another and other countries here that republicans don t have to win these arguments. they have to make them confusing enough that people just tune them out. i think that s what you re seeing from republican defenders of the president in this stage of the inquiry. to jeff bennett at the white house, here s the president on his way to a summit complaining that the impeachment is muddying the waters and it shouldn t be taking place on wednesday, the same time as he s at a summit in london. he s tweeting about all of this himself in route to london
hunter biden didn t do anything illegal. his father, the vice president, didn t do anything illegal or unethical and all of these attacks on the bidens and the effort to bring the whistleblower in to testify are just an attempt to try to put more chum in the water. bill: that from over the weekend. senator chris murphy. katie pavlich editor of town hall.com and jessica tarlov, fox news contributors. hope you had a good weekend. let s get back to it. are you ready? nothing improper for the son of the sitting vice president to get involved with a company that has had a spotty track record. go. well, the first thing i would say if we re going to hold former vice president joe biden to the same standard that democrats and house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff are holding to president trump, then joe biden certainly did something illegal
possibly made a mistake, but let s be clear. hunter biden didn t do anything illegal. and his father, the vice president, didn t do anything illegal or unethical. and all of these attacks on the bidens and the effort to bring the whistleblower in to testify are just an attempt to try to put more chum in the water and distract from the corrupt scheme that is at the heart of this inquiry. you know, marie yovanovitch wasn t the ambassador at the time, so as you know, you often get briefed in anticipation of these not confirmation hearings for the worst case scenario so it s not out of the ordinary for issues like that to come up when she s getting ready for testimony. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. with less than three months to the iowa caucuses, there s a new breakout front-runner in iowa, but what does that meeng for the rest of the field? plus, president obama weighing in on the 2020 race. his warning to the democratic candidates. that s next. of nowhere.
illegal or unethical and the attacks on the biden and the efforts to bring the whistle blower to testify is an attempt to put more chum in the water and distract from the heart of the inquiry. marie wasn t the ambassador at the time. as you know, you often get briefed in anticipation of the confirmation hearings for the worst-case scenario. it s not out of the ordinary for issues like that to come up when she s getting ready for testimony. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. thank you, jake. less than three months until the iowa caucuses. a new break out frontrunner in iowa. what does it mean for the rest of the field? plus, president obama weighing on the 2020 race. his warning to the democratic candidates. that s next. stay with us. of nowhere.
ukrainians to investigate a political rival but doesn t rise level of impeachment, it s basically to go on offense by essentially throwing off as much kind of chum in the water about the idea that a the real corruption is the bidens or the real scandal, the real corruption is the way the democrats are running the hearings and you know in a way, it s really just a kind of to of skate and change the conversation and to give conservatives something to hang their hat on so they think think president trump isn t perfect but these guys are worse. thanks to all of you. appreciate it. thanks. thanks a lot! so how might any of this impact the first week of the public impeachment r hearings? marshall cohen is here to help us understand those first testimonies. so marshall, let s dig in on three particular witnesses this week. who really could bring you know