chief lawyer on the national security council who in turn put it on a secure server. this was not a perfect phone call obviously. was it criminal? according to timothy morrison another individual who listened in on the phone call, he did not believe so. he did not believe it rose to the level of criminality on the part of president trump. eric: but for an impeachment, we re told you don t need a crime. you don t need a criminality. you just need high crimes and misdemeanors or something that is unbecoming and against the constitution and the oath that the president took for the united states. let me play you a sound bite of adam schiff because democrats would certainly disagree with your assessment. here s mr. schiff. in both clinton and the nixon impeachments, the minority did not have the right to call witnesses on their own unilaterally. they could call for a vote but it was a majority vote that they were not assured of winning. we would love to hear if they are interested in havi
his lawyers say he won t voluntarily appear and are waiting for a subpoena. frustration is growing for the closed-door hearings. a letter was spent to speaker pelosi last night calling for all transcripts to be made public. even some democrats say that should happen sooner than later. the phase we re in right now is the deposition phase, where witnesses are called in to determine whether or not they have any information that s relevant to this case. at that point, we will move into the very public phase of hearings which frankly i do think is overdue, to be fair. house judiciary member andy biggs is calling on house intelligence chairman schiff to also face questioning. mr. schiff will tell you if he s honest that there s nothing that s going on in that top-secret room down in the basement of the capitol that there is nothing classified there, but he is still trying to prevent that from coming out. speaker pelosi says in the
president trump pulled out of the middle east conflicts. president trump has been vocal about his plans to extract the u.s. from the middle east. most recently saying let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. trump announced a full troop withdrawal. it wasn t until march 2019 that u.s. forces, along with global allies and kurdish forces, did finally gain back the last of the isis held territory. despite the pushback, u.s. troops were helped to stabilize the situation in syria. after this month s announcement of a withdraw, chaos again. breaking news this morning. ken delaney talking to house intelligence committee sources as house intelligence chairman schiff has not received any notification or briefing about what took place overnight. ken saying this is an extraordinary development that he would not have been notified. we ll have you weigh in on the minutes we have left in this hour as we wait for the
about impeachment. today something s changed. we have brand new reporting, new day continues right now. joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, they d be getting the electric chair by right now. if we sit back and we don t do anything, there is basically a stain on us as well. it is regrettable that house intelligence chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. the push towards impeachment is essentially shifting into overdrive. there s no indication that he abused his power here. there s no indication that there was any quid pro quo. this offense is so egregious, the president tried to get the ukrainian president to do an investigation for purposes of benefitting his re-election. it just reeks of corruption. this is new day with allison camera toe and john berm berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is n new day.
opponents. and he said he spoke, mentioned vice president biden s name, but did not ask for an investigation. he may have, by the way. i just don t know whether that was in fact said by the president or not. that was mitt romney talking to nbc s geoff bennett, not garrett haik. senator lisa murkowski was similarly cautious today telling alaska public media that if the president used his influence o pressure ukraine it would be very concerning. now, today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell broke his silence on the issue, accusing democrats of politicizing the whistleblower process in their attempts to shed light on the allegations. it is regrettable that house intelligence chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue circumventing the established procedures and protocols that exist so the committees can pursue sensitive matters in the appropriate, deliberate, bipartisan manner.