division. john demurez, a trump appointee who announced he is leaving his post next week. a department official tells fox news demurez departure was planned for months schumer wants foreign minister sessions and his successor is bill barr. this is not some kind of washington insider thing. this is about people s phone records being subpoenaed without them even knowing about it. house intelligence committee chairman schiff today called for doj reforms. hours after the attorney general released a statement leading, in part, political or otherwise improper considerations must play no role in any investigative or prosecutorial decisions. bret, about an hour ago, the attorney general just wrapped up a meeting with news executives to talk about the seizure from doj of journalist private communication. a readout from that meeting says progress was made no. other prudent details to share right now. we do know the inspector general of the department of justice is investigating the matter a
see if it flies in congress. set to see what happens for sure. great to be on. charles: democrats are pushing forward with impeachment, what is in store as proceedings are expected to head to the house judiciary committee? fox business hillary va ugh has the latest. testified in open hearing, 17 witnesses deposed behind closed doors and house intelligence committee chairman schiff says it is time to turn over their report to the house judiciary committee, writing in a letter to colleagues this afternoon saying what is left to us now is to decide whether that behavior is compatible with the office of the president and see if constitutional process of impeach cemetery impeachment is warranted. the judiciary committee could decide to hold its own batch of hearings and call their own witnesses or they could take the intelligence committee report and start drafting articles of impeachment right away.
committee and out of the house. so now that the transcript is out there for the public to read, do you want yovanovitch to testify publicly as well now that we ve seen it was many hours, right, she was behind closed doors with you and your republican colleagues. we ve all been able to read it. do you want her publicly, too? personally i would, but frankly i don t think that is a decision that should be made until we ve had an opportunity to see just what exactly is the entire pool of people that have been able to be deposed is determined. we don t know that yet. i think she would be a prime candidate. there will be others as well. that decision will be made again after we ve had an opportunity to look over all of those that have come forward thus far. and see who it is that actually has the most materially significant content to offer. right. in some of these cases obviously we know a lot. we know it was in the opening statements. we don t know the full back and forth questioni
welcome back. we have been looking at the white house reaction to all the coverage about the president s conversation with the ukrainian president. tomorrow apparently the democrats are going to meet to discuss next steps in the investigation of the president. far less attention has been put on the republican side. here is a healthy piece after fairly small sample of republicans talking about this. it is regrettable that house intelligence committee chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. i would like to have the whistle blower come and talk to me so we know what his story is. i don t want to hear it second hand. i believe president trump is going to blow you away with his willingness to disclose and transparent about this phone call, because i think he did nothing wrong, and he has nothing to hide. the bottom line is i don t think he should have done it but that s a far cry from what some
by valentino. welcome back. we have been looking at the white house reaction to all the coverage about the president s conversation with the ukrainian president. tomorrow apparently the democrats are going to meet to discuss next steps in the investigation of the president. far less attention has been put on the republican side. here is a healthy piece of a fairly mall sample of republicans talking about this. it is regrettable that house intelligence committee chairman schiff and senator schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. i would like to have the whistle-blower come and talk to me so we know what his story is.