Monochromatic. And just out moments ago, john bolton says that he doesnt think the Trump Administration really means it when they vow to stop north korea from getting a deliverable nuclear weapon. We are going to talk about that as well. But first the capitol is quiet tonight after the churn of a historic week. And the jet fuel fumes are beginning to thin out after congress literally flew out of town. We still dont know what the political fallout will be from impeachment, and aftershocks could be felt for weeks if not months. Despite the president s ongoing complaint that democrats were obstructing his agenda, things are actually getting done, believe it or not. When we came on the air just two weeks ago, much was unknown about how tumultuous the rest of the year would be. But the tonnage of what is left to do in washington before 2019 comes to a close is significant. There was a prescription drugs about bill to pass, the usmca trade plan to put to bed, and the small matter of averting
Forward. Ill admit, i dont know what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we dont want. But alas if they can figure that out, they can explain it. When we bring the bill, made in order by results committee that we can call up at any time. Im not prepared to put the managers on that bill yet because we dont know the arena were in. Frankly i dont care what the republicans say. I want to go straight to garrett haake. This is fascinatinfascinating. Where do we go here . Were at halftime on impeachment and we dont know when the second half starts, who gets the ball. What you have is democrats essentially trying to call republicans bluffs on two points. First the president s bluff that he would like to see everybody come testify in a senate trial. He said anyone should come testify because he thinks it would be mare fair, and we heard from Chuck Schumer saying he thinks theyre bluffering so now you have essentially a stand off between nancy pelosi, Mitch Mcconnell, and d
The lawmaker on break in the impeachment focus moving to 2020 and Speaker Pelosi said she wants assurance that the trial will be fair but a member of President Trumps legal team says its time for her to stop playing games. We will wait between the break obviously to see if nancy pelosi is pulling a stunt and we can get back on track and have a normal trial with house managers and go through the real motions in the real process that we did not see in the house. That will lead to the president s acquittal and dismissal of the two articles of impeachment. We have rich live inside the Convention Center where the president will be speaking. Good afternoon. 2000 Young Conservatives and truck supporters for the turning point annual summit in the president is supposed to be here in an hour in white house Officials Say he is expected to talk about the accomplishment over the past year and a very energetic crowd and we dont know what the president is going to say or how long when he starts to sp
To immediately send the articles of impeachment to the senate, that opened this whole thing up, and then Mitch Mcconnell at 9 30 this morning and Chuck Schumer this morning on the senate floor and nancy pelosi the most important thing by far that weve learned in all of this is your interview with Chuck Schumer and what you just summarized there where hes telling us all of the democrats are with him. That is not an easy thing to achieve. Right. Yes. And hes got that, and thats very powerful in dealing with Mitch Mcconnell. He needs four as he kept saying to you. He needs four republicans, and what hes asking for is something that a lot of republicans are going to see lines up with Public Opinion, which is that the trial should have witnesses. I mean 71 of the public including two thirds of Republican Voters say that there ought to be witnesses at the trial. Mcconnells trying to have some sort of fake trial that has no witnesses at it. Schumer will see that with Public Opinion on his sid
Almost three weeks effectively freezing the state of play on this constitutional moment. Pelosi says shes weighing a delay in order to get a fair trial in the senate and wont select impeachment managers until she knows how the senate intends to conduct itself. But Mitch Mcconnell contends its decided House Democrats are afraid to bring their case. Speaker pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. Well see whether House Democrats ever want to work up the courage to actually take their accusations to trial. Well, according to politico the politico magazine, an emboldened pelosi was dismissive of mcconnells charge saying fear is never a word used with me. You should know right away im never afraid and im rarely surprised. In an interview with the Associated Press the speaker said of trump, hell be impeached forever no matter what the senate does. Hes impeached forever because he violated our constitution. I