pelosi, told me there may no longer be a choice but impeachment. this seems different in kind, and we may very well have crossed the rubicon here. i guess the question for congress right now is do we now live in a world where a u.s. politician can use the power of his office and american tax dollars to push a foreign government to give him dirt on an opponent to help retain power? is that the world we live in? cnn reports from capitol hill. reporter: the long impeachment push is about to boil over. i don t think we have a choice. given the constitution, we must move forward with impeachment proceedings. reporter: president trump s admission that he pressed ukraine to investigate joe biden and then blocked congress from seeing the whistleblower complaint about it is now flipping democrats impeachment drive into super charge.
others may eat, based in d.c. nothing is more fun than getting a little r&r with our senior citizens. too cute for greg. he doesn t like feel-good stories. look at him. have a nice weekend, everybody. bret: welcome to washington, i m bret baier. while much of you are getting ready for a much-deserved weekend, the representatives in the house are sprinting towards a six week vacation tonight. whether that is much-deserved is up to you. what we know for certain this evening is that the mueller hearings are over but the democratic effort to remove or befuddle president trump will go on. met by full and fierce resistance from the president himself. in the midst of that impeachment drive, the leader of the house is finding an uprising led by an aggressive young congresswoman who is now at least saying the right things. fox team coverage denied on capitol hill where the speaker is trying to bring her caucus back together.
flipped republican districts that went for a trumpet focusing table issues in this impeachment drive is actually putting their hold on the house at risk i think because those democrats don t want to focus on impeachment. americans have been very clear they don t want impeachment but interestingly with the americans do not want, the polls show, a majority, they think there was bias against donald trump and the fbi and they want an investigation into how this thing started, and that s what s coming and the reason they want that investigation now is because they were lied to. they were told over and over that donald trump is a russian agent, that he committed treason, he conspired with russia and they want to know how he spent $30 million and came to this moment how did this happen? i think the democratic impeachment drive is dead. they may try to give it a live bret: on impeachment, yes or no? no. i will go with yes. bret: to 95 democrats voted for it in a test but the othe
the democrats want mueller to say tomorrow that donald trump committed an impeachable act. they want a perry mason moment when the special counsel says he did it. the prime legal target will be obstruction of justice. was it a high crime for the president to order the firing of the special counsel charged with investigating him? the prime political target will be collusion with russia. did president trump encourage and reward russian interference in the 2016 election. these twin missions, legal and political come with a hazard. it s the democrats big chance to ignite an impeachment drive, also their final one. in cowboy movie terms, this is the gunfight at the o.k. corral, but also the last saloon.
he resigned before it came to a head in 1974 is this hearing a prelude to an impeachment drive whenever it comes to this president? we ll see. in the case of both nixon and clinton, the judiciary committee had access to actual everyday. as of this moment, the committee has no evidence. we just have the mueller report. so we had a great victory. we think today when the justice department essentially caved, and said that they will provide the committee the evidence, the underlying everyday of the mueller report, which we will review. this hearing today really was an educational matter. the law professors, former u.s. attorneys, a mr. dean, who was the white house counsel during the nixon years, were able to provide information about what the report actually meant from their expertise.