nothing got in the way of the 10-day break. slammed the brakes on and the gas and the brakes. i have driven behind drivers like that. they drive you crazy. martha: now you know they will get out in time for christmas, too. exactly. martha: always good to see you from the new york post and fox news contributor. thank you, michael. thank you. martha: president trump s european trip ended on a little bit of a sour note after other world leaders were caught bad mouthing the president. jesse watters has some thoughts about that as you might imagine. is he coming in now. coming in hot. hello, jesse.
the fact that nancy pelosi held a caucus meeting this morning and reportedly asked her members are you ready? speak now or forever hold your peace was kind of the theme of this from what we are learning as she cautioned against taking it one step at a time that house chairman judiciary chairman jerry nadler stressed urgency. watch this. we are all aware that the next election is looming. but we cannot wait for the election to address the present crisis. the integrity of that election is one of the very things at stake. martha: here now michael goodwin new york post political columnist and fox news contributor. we always look forward to your calls when they come colume out, michael. glad to have you here tonight. why the rush. one of the arguments against impeachment election is coming up very soon what s the rush to impeach. nadler is trying to answer that by saying oh, we can t trust this president. we might have an issue in the 2020 election. i think that s a very weak argume
bias at play in terms of the candidate election process for the democrats. guess what? the process was changed. more mayors, more locally elected officials, higher number of minorities and women in place to help assure that that wasn t the case. and barack obama and hillary clinton a black and a woman have won. doesn t that seem to prove the case? martha: it does. south carolina joe biden is at 33%. you hear from some voters talk about that race they love the fact that he was president obama s vice president and they want to continue that legacy. they think he is the one to do it. in south carolina you have about 60% of the democratic party voters are minority. martha: juan, thanks. my pleasure. martha: still ahead tonight, exclusive reaction from the white house to today s impeachment hearings. michael goodwin is here on why the 2020 election could be accelerating this process. a big topic tonight. he s up next.