call, there s something else that other people can counter that with, and they haven t been allowed to come forward. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi says president trump has the right to make his case before the committee and defend his actions if he wanted to. pelosi was also asked about the timing of all this, ed, and she says she has no idea how much longer the inquiry may last. ed: let s keep it rolling. president trump complaining about a lack of due process in the public impeachment inquiry so far, so let s continue our team coverage. down on pennsylvania avenue or up, i suppose to kevin corke live at the white house. reporter: good to be with you, ed. the white house continuing to push back against the idea that the musings of career government employees should supersede the will of the president or, for that matter, his policies. but that said, there are still some democrats on capitol hill that continue to aim at what they say is a pattern of corruption corroborat
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ed: christina coleman, thanks. in the meantime, new violence in hong kong. we ve got live pictures there. the police and protesters are going at it, live pictures on the left side of your screen. it s a stand avenue right now in the middle of the night between the two sides. police have water tankers, which they fired earlier. officers also firing tear gas at pro-democracy demonstrators barricaded inside the university. police say one officer was hit in the leg with an arrow and now reported will hi they re threatening to use live bullets if the protesters keep using lethal weapons. police shot an unarmed demonstrator during a rally last week. it s been getting pretty tense. we re keeping our eyes on it. meanwhile, protests turning deadly in iran as the regime s supreme leader supports the decision to raise gasoline prices. our correspondent benjamin hall is live with details on that. good to see you, benjamin. reporter: good evening, ed.
i mean, let s hold her to her word. the democrats don t seem to want to keep their word on a lot of things. but this is is so important, ed. we were talking about china a minute or so ago. usmca is actually twice the volume of trade, five times the exports for american exporters. so so this deal in the scream of thing scheme of things is much bigger than china. it would be a shame if nancy pelosi were to continue fiddling while the usmca was in the deep freeze on the, on capitol hill. ed: i ve got let s get it done. ed: your message is very clear that you think she s wasting time on impeachment. in less than 30 seconds, is there one or two things in usmca that will help our viewers? when you talk about selling more of our products around the world, what s the biggest impact? two things. great for agricultural products. secondly, more importantly, historically we ve lost our manufacturing base to the rest of the world.
as president trump said, let s see what happens. ed: well, you re saying a couple things there. i mean, let s see what happens, that keeps the door open this may drag on, as you know. and you used that grade glide path, so i know you don t want to be completely pinned down here, but are we talking about a deal by the end of the year? i think the important thing here, and i ve said this many times on the air, is that let s let robert lighthizer and the president do their thing. they re the best negotiators in the world. the worst thing that can happen is for this deal to be negotiated in public or speculated unduly in the press. that will slow things down. so let s see what happens. ed: okay. but you feel like you re making progress, real quick on that. oh, there s no question, ed, that progress is being made. i mean, robert lighthizer is the best trade representative we ve ever had. working with this president, we ve gotten deals across the board with japan and, by the way, that
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