i think that s a good chunk of it, yeah. i do, jim. for a couple different reasons. number one, this is a president that we all know likes a show. he comes from a reality tv background. likes to have cameras around him when he s at the white house. i think right now he also wants to see, once that trial comes in the senate, a show take place in which he can finally feel like he s defending himself or his lawyers are defending himself. one big issue that the white house has raised and believed has been unfair this entire time is that democrats have focused on witnesses they have brought and republicans have charged that they re not allowed to bring in their own. that would change in a senate trial in which the white house could put on that sort of counter show with a focus on joe biden, a focus on hunter biden and sort of play that out for his supporters. jen fernifer, we ve seen how chaotic many of these house hearings have become. lack of substance. a lot of infighting.
overheard saying i will impeach the president and kavanaugh. the man is obsessed with not serving the public or defending his oath of office. he is obsessed with impeaching the president and drug everybody else with him. bill: adam schiff said we could go to court for 8 to 16 months and said why not wait asking this rhetorical question, why not let him cheat in one more election. you heard that comment as well. that s complete malpractice from adam schiff. the white house was willing to participate. you have the cards and deck stacked against you where you can t have the formal investigative process and you claim impeachment, you claim not normal house hearing. normal house hearings are what he tried to do. when you claim impeachment much more was required and he failed. they will go down in history along with the speaker of having the most partisan impeachment on the less facts of any we ve seen simply because they have issues with the president. bill: thank you for your time, d
wednesday s first impeachment hearing in the house judiciary committee. that is the committee which will determine whether to bring actual arlts of impeachment. the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler has also imposed a second deadline, 5:00 p.m. next friday, for the white house to respond to whether or not the president intends to call witnesses or present evidence in the broader house hearings. and there are also two other major events coming up in week. we re expecting a report from the house intelligence committee with findings from the historic private and public impeachment hearings, plus the president is on his way to london, a long-planned trip, to meet with leaders at the 70th anniversary of the nato alliance. that summit is likely to be strained by the white house s decision to substantially cut u.s. contributions to the central nato budget. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with the president in florida this holiday weekend. jeremy, i just listed everythi
technical and confusing, which brings me to what we re going to do right now. we ve asked you guys what are the things you want to know more about in the impeachment probe, and we ve got your questions, so let s get into it. arwyn wants to know can the daets call bolton as a witness in the senate trial if he doesn t give testimony in these house hearings? bolton would definitely be a key witness. if he continues to refuse to testify in the house probe, we think it s unlikely that he would get separately called in a senate trial because that s where republicans hold a majority and are setting basically the key rules. we did get key details and a lot of testimony from his former aide fiona hill. joseph z asks what exactly is the role of the supreme court during the senate trial? it s not so much the whole court but you re thinking of course of one key member, supreme court chief justice john roberts. he walks across the street and would preside over any senate impeachment trial just as w
or january depending on when the house impeaches. do you think that is the right strategy, or this because he doesn t really have the votes to dismiss? no, i think it s probably the right strategy. i mean, you re going to have more hearings here in the house. we don t know which way they re going. president trump sent them off in his own direction on friday, so i think, ultimately, you re going to need a trial in the senate at which in that trial there s going to be an issue on the table that the democrats in the house are never going to discuss, and that was hunter biden s role in ukraine and burisma. there are some details there that need to be opened up, and that will come out of a senate trial. and that could last all the way through january, and at the end of it the american people are going to have to make a judgment about what they think about all this. but they re only getting half the story with these house hearings. paul: yeah. ing that s a risky business for some of the se