funding not everyone is quite ready to vote in favor of it just yet. i am checking with the department of defense and military leaders to make sure that some of the language in the bill wouldn t unintentionally harm our military readiness. we need to think more about what is happening sooner than that. when you see folks big a.i. prop proponents warn it maybe a problem it s a big wake-up call. bottom line there are a lot of lawmakers believe they are behind on this and something has to give. shannon. shannon: it may kill us, okay, aishah, good luck on the hill today. direct and to the point. bill: colorado republican ken buck and democrat ted lu.
public soon, he s going to be very interesting to see what he s got to say next week. and congressman lu, speaking of ambassador yovanovitch, do you think that the threat that donald trump issued against her attacking her i should say, the attack on her in real time during the hearing in which she was speaking will wind up playing a role in the forming of articles of impeachment should this get to that point against donald trump? i m a former prosecutor. what donald trump did looks like witness intimidation and it s not a one off thing that trump did. he s done this before. he actually threatened michael cohen about his father-in-law and we have other unstances where donald trump is trying to intimidate witnesses. we do know that even fox news hosts were shocked. so democratic caucus want to look at all these instances of witness intimidation and will
that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. joining me now are two congressmen on committees involved in the impeachment process. ted lu and gregory meeks. thank you both for being here. i m going to go back and forth between the two of you. congressman lu, what did you take away from the first two days of open hearings that we heard this week? thank you, joy, for your question. first of all it s an honor to be on with representative meeks. this week was a very, very bad week for donald trump. the american people heard firsthand from ambassador taylor about the bribery scheme of donald trump where he with hold hundreds of millions of dollars and the white house meeting in exchange for ukraine launching two bogus investigations into the dnc server and the bidens. on friday we heard ambassador yovanovitch testify about how she was removed so the decks could be cleared for the bribery scheme to be executed and during
constitution first before just supporting blindly this guy who happens to be president of the united states. i want to thank both congressman ted lu and gregory meeks for your time this morning. really appreciate you being here. thank you. well, the impeachment of a president has occurred twice in this nation s history. another president richard nixon resigned before an actual debate on the house floor could begin. but our nation has never seen anything quite like this. ambassador taylor in your decades of military service and diplomatic service representing the united states around the world, have you ever seen another example of foreign aid conditioned on the personal or political interests of the president of the united states? no, i have not. and joining me now is presidential his torreon john
white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and mr. giuliani. how irregular would such a channel be in american government? i think it s unprecedented and it s good to be with you joy and my colleague ted lu. it s unprecedented and that s what s important about what we ve heard thus far from both of our ambassadors. here we have individuals in our state department who are not there because they re democrats or republicans or independents. they have de dedicated their lives to diplomacy on fwe half of the united states of america and to carry out the united states policy. so what you see lining up are individuals who are testifying now because of a sense of responsibility and obligation to our constitution and to our nation and you see more and more of them within the state department coming out because that s who they are. that s why they signed up. and then you have a president on the other end who is trying to utilize all that he has, abusing his power to try to criticize