what a country it is, we are honored to cover it.it back tomorrow, the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. have a great night. sean hannity is next. shannon: we begin with a fox news alert tonight for the top 10 2020 democrats facing up for the fifth time in atlanta. the first time since mayor pete buttigieg s skyrocketing numbers, confronted by his lack of experience. the progressive versus moderate divide on display on taxes and health care. tonight, the end of day two of week two of the house democrats marathon impeachment hearings. a key witness when pressed admits the president never told him anything was hanging in thee balance for ukraine. so tonight president trump called victory and so do the democrats. we ll debate. hello and welcome tosi fox news @ night. i m shannon bream in washington. let s kick off with peter doocy live from atlanta. hi, peter.
pretty quickly, haven t they? they were all shooting things out. and pretty sure pompeo wasn t even in the country and they were responding right away. there is nothing there. there has never been anything there, as we ve been saying. they continuously done this to the president and they are going to keep doing it. laura: his point was there was a quid pro quo to launch an investigation to get a meeting. the meeting happened anyway and there was no investigation. all of those things fall by the wayside because they have made a decision that trump is a bad person and we need to have a democrat in the white house and that is it. that is kind of the whole story. win at all costs. they want to overthrow the last election and influence in the next election and they are not going to be able to do it. the time frame, when a new president is elected, zelensky was an unknown. parliament didn t even meet until the end of august. everyone can say i m anticorruption, but we have to wait and
this is a slow-motion explosion. i can t emphasize how explosive this is. we have witnessed today on live television, riveting. ambassador sondland testimony had such gravity to it. speak of this was an ied from mr. solid. he exploded. laura: he physically exploded? that could have gotten messy. but when we leave their world of make-believe, we see that there is no there there. president trump never told me directly that the aide was conditioned on the means. so it wasn t really a presumption, you heard from mr. giuliani? i didn t hear from mr. giuliani about the eight, i heard about burisma and 2016. you understood at that point as we discussed, two plus two equals four, the aide was there as well appeared that was the problem, no one told me directly that the aide was tied to anything. i was presuming it was.
you were to sum up what we learned today from these hearings and they were touted throughout the day as pivotal. a bombshell, ied, blowtorch! what would be your summary? donald trump is skeptical of foreign aid and washington loves foreign aid because it allows politicians and ambassadors and government bureaucrats to do our favorite thing, give away other people s money. donald trump was especially concerned about the ukraine because it was the third most corrupt country in the world. of course, everybody in washington wants you to believe that russia is always our enemy and ukraine is the friend when the reality is far more complex than that.s republicans do their best work today when they drove a wedgeha between that which sondland presumed in the wisdom as part of the diplomatic world in which he actually heard and saw. i think that mike turner, johni radcliff, jordan did a good job showing that the only direction that ambassador sondland got from president trump is that presiden
bureaucracy, the donors and friends. other than that, shut up and obey. that s the program and maybe it will succeed and maybe it will remove the president. okay, what then? washington will celebrate, of course. will they have learned anything from the exercise, will the 2016 elections have changed their minds or the priorities at all in any way? or do they continue to convince themselves this is some weird operation run by russia and racism in the heartland. something that they could safely ignore and return to a kind of arrangement that looks very much like 1978, for that matter. we know the answer to that. the people in charge are capable of learning anything, the country would not look like it is today. congressman matt, the floor the key watching carefully today, if