in development aid around the world leland: some restrictions also. a lot of priorities, and the military s one. leland: yeah. some restrictions in terms of what that money for defense may or may not be able to be used for. congressman, we appreciate it. we re going to check back out there, we know you ve got a busy day. appreciate you spending a few minutes with us, sir. thanks. leland: all the best. kristin? kristin: well, house democrats are moving forward with the impeachment inquiry as the white house opts to not participate. democratic members of the house judiciary committee are meeting behind closed doors this weekend ahead of monday s hearing, and david spunt joins us from capitol hill with more on what we can expect. what s on tap, david? reporter: hi, kristin, it surely is. listen, two important things going on right now. the first is that house judiciary democrats, they put out a report about the constitutionally of inpeachment. several of those members here on the
with the va, but veteran services organizations who have better access to veterans. ed: important help we need to get to. let s quickly get to impeachment, an important subject. i is a you tweeting this morning the wall street journal editorial at the top of the show about how the economy is roaring right now. is this why your democratic colleagues are pushing so hard. al green said months ago we can t beat them at the we had 260,000 jobs added last month. economic wealth is growing. and the president s economic policies are producing results for the american people and nevertheless, democrats remain obsessed with reversing the will of the american people. ed: quick, you responded to respond to your democratic colleague with ukrainian aid. this idea that it was somehow improper or inappropriate for the president to withhold aid is absurd in the las five years
congress passed four times legislation not only to allow the president to withhold aid or seek assurances from the government of ukraine it was countering corruption, but we affirmatively mandated the president to do so. ed: so you wanted those strings attached essentially. the bottom line, they re trying to impeach a president to follow the laws that they themselves voted for. schiff and pelosi voted for the laws. the 2014 freedom act, requires the president to seek reassurances. he was not acting in his personal political interest he was working in the action of the people of america you re making a case. go wildcats. and are they doing enough, uber and lyft, and they reported
this is very problematic, ed. ed: big issues indeed and you ll be able to take those to the voters and nancy pelosi going to the voters she says she s trying to hold the president accountable. thank you for coming in. thank you, ed. ed: ahead, get the democrats s response to noancy pelosi s call to impeachment. and stick with fox news all afternoon. special anchor bret baier will go one on one with mark esper from the forum in california. that s live at 2:45 eastern and it will also stream on fox nation. stay with us.
donald trump was elected because they ll do anything to tear apart of the president. ed: and referring to devin nunes and rudy guiliani, react to big picture. where are we on impeachment? i m not thrilled that we re going down this path of impeachment, but the president left us with very little recourse, we ve been trying to do our responsibilities. why he was putting a hold on aid approved and authorized for ukraine. that s our job, we have to ask the questions, who made that decision. the president ought to take up the judiciary committee and have counsel there. he ought to let mick mulvaney come and testify and secretary pompeo testify. if those folks who were in the room can clear it, great, let s clear the president. he s blocking all of those requests into congressman, we certainly appreciate you coming in and thanks and have a wonderful weekend, sir. ed, thanks. ed: and the release