it s another thing to use the whistleblower process through which your leak becomes validated as a whistleblower complaint. ainsley: do you think the democratic leaders were on board with this long before? pete: listen to the whistleblower someone got. brian: everyone said it was great. so well put together. pete: the most professional whistleblower document have you ever seen based on second hand knowledge and hearsay? this is clearly someone who understands the process. and, again, the call didn t match the complaint as we point out. there is a lot of discrepancies because if something is hearsay, that s what happens. i want to know who the hearsayer is i know the president. steve: you mean the leakers? pete: the person who told the person who became the second hand whistleblower. steve: apparently ad according to the report on this and whistleblower complaint. half a dozen people inside the white house presumably. brian: i m i m the president of united states. steve: who talked to t
reality. and he should be, and his intelligence. steve: called a traitor yesterday, a spy. i know he has gotten criticism for how we treat and i have had my own criticism of how far we handle detainees at guantanamo bay. we have gone very soft in the way we react to things that shouldn t be done to the president of the united states or any elected official. ainsley: could the president say hey, you know what? i don t want 12 people listening to my calls anymore. pete: how can you be the top diplomat alongside mike pompeo and have these contentious conversations or friendly conversations with world leaders and not trust that executive privilege will be adhered to? brian: if you look at the president of the united states if he is trying to do acting like a mob boss and hold this over the ukrainian leader. no one tells the ukrainian leader that if you watched him side by side with the president on wednesday, number one, number two. the president is going to be a mob boss, how many mob b
staff that he hired, the legal team that he hired. maybe he isn t expected to get so political just investigate it. so many people hate this president they are making it. brian: to your point, steve, this is a title, unforced error. he has all these gains economically and internationally. and why you would send your lawyer out to find out about a would-be opponent and information that might have interest for national security. but is tangential and should be way down on your list is beyond me. the president was on a roll. if you look at what he accomplished at the united nations, rallying everyone around our iranian plan, as well as what we are seeing with economic numbers, it s he created this is a challenge he created himself. steve: hogan gidley is going to join us from the white house shortly. in the meantime we have news with jillian on this friday morning. jillian: a soldier is killed and three others injured in army helicopter crash. the blackhawk stationed in louisiana was
negotiate behind the scenes. is it an impeachable offense? i don t know. you make up your own mind. and let us know. we would love to hear from you. steve: you know, impeachment is based on high crimes and misdemeanors. ainsley: correct which was not evident when you read that. steve: no. but it s a political matter. and it s whatever congress says it is. ainsley: you are right. steve: so it s political. one of the other things fred fleitz said it s very concerning to him that given what he has read it indicates intelligence officers and other federal employees are violating the rules governing presidential phone calls with foreign leaders. there are a lot of laws involved in that. that s why at the beginning of the program we were talking about how some top republicans would like to figure out who these leakers are who are talking to the whistleblowers. brian: i would just like to add this. something that the white house has to answer succinctly and that is why did you hold back aid?
president broke the law. of course they did. schiff asked him 25 different ways trying to get him to say the president did something wrong. and joe maguire stuck to his guns and said no, i did my job. then they tried to say oh, you ran to the president. no, he did what he had to do because executive privilege had to be waved. steve: he was simply following the laws written by congress. exactly. steve: pam bondi former attorney general of the great state of florida. thank you. thank you. steve: have a great weekend. college students want president trump impeached. one problem. they are not exactly sure why. what do you think is an impeachable offense he has committed? well, i m not in to politics. i m sure there is reasons that i don t know of.