sure president trump is on very strong ground when he is refusing to or trying to block the turning over of financial documents from some third party. that s another matter. but, when it comes to the testimony of don mcgahn and hope hix and i guess others that have now been subpoenaed who were from his inner circle in the white house, i think he is on pretty strong ground and i m not sure the democrats will win on that in court. in fact i m pretty sure they won t. martha: brit hume good to see you. thanks, martha. martha: we have matt gates and chris hahn and host of the progressive progressive. we invited democrats to weigh in. they declined. thank you very much for being here tonight. a lot of heat on the impeachment tonight chris hahn. let s look at this most recent poll from fox should trump be impeached is the wording here. no you have yes 42%, no 50%. obviously reports of behind closed door battles between
immigrants coming to get their free healthcare. i m a little bit perplexed by some of these democrats who are so up in arms about the idea of president trump s something that he is going to release illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. if you are against that why are you creating these sanctuaries? why are you offering free healthcare to illegal immigrants? martha: let me play this. what i want to point out is that the language has changed so dramatically in such a small period of time. here is joe biden in 2007 talking about sanctuary cities. watch. this would you allow these cities to ignore the federal law. the reason the cities ignore the federal law is the fact that there is no funding at the federal level to provide for the kind of enforcement at the federal level you need. part of the problem is you have to have a federal government that can enforce laws. senator biden yes or no would you allow the cities to ignore the federal law? no. martha: what do you think
attack on a very good man what do you think of the decisions justice kavanaugh and lined up with justice gorsuch that some would find surprising. with any new justice on the supreme court, you have to look at their record over two or three years. you can t look at one decision that they make often one particular case. look at overall record over two or three years. if you look at judge kavanaugh s record up to 12 years of service on the d.c. circuit, he has a record where he had the judicial philosophy that president trump campaigned on that he was going to appoint judges like justice gorsuch and justice kavanaugh those were the type of judges president trump was going to put on the bench. martha: we were watching the protests today on the steps of the supreme court. do you believe there will be a contest of roe v. wade? do you believe that there will be do you believe there
and i think for the national audience, that s a risky position. martha: i want to get your thoughts on what s going on with chairman nadler and the no show from don mcgahn today, the white house encouraged him not to go today. how does all of this seem to be playing out to you? well, it will be interesting to see which route nadler now takes. will he go to the contempt route and attempt to start impeachment proceedings with the, you know, the leadership would have to go along with that? or will he go to court? there is sound from him today in which he suggested that he would go to court. my sense is if nadler goes to court to try to force don mcgahn ands or in the inner circle of the trump white house to testify, he will lose. executive privilege is asserted here by the president is not unlimited privilege. but if it applies to and the courts have repeatedly, including the supreme court recognized that such a privilege does exist. if it applies to anyone, you would think it would a
we will see what happens. can you see my full interview on our website. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that s it for this special report, fair, balanced and and still unafraid. the story hosted by martha mccallum starts right now. hey, martha. martha: interesting, revealing interview, bret. good to see you. bret: thank you. martha: here we go, breaking tonight, two big campaign battles for democrats playing out on capitol hill today and into the evening this evening. impeachment and abortion. first, in front of the supreme court 2020 democrats rallying against the new laws that limit abortion. this is the ideals of our nation. these guys think they are going to take women s healthcare backwards. beginning of president trump s war on women. they were joined by california congresswoman jackie sphere who fired up the crowd with this. i am one of the one in four women in this country who have had an abortion.