successfully off impeachment and the president s base is very fired up, but what is clear is that there s mounting evidence coming in these impeachment depositions suggesting that the president did carry out some kind of a quid proquo involving security aid to ukraine and this coming week, we could see additional current and former administration officials disc s discussing this. however one top official close to the president has said he will refuse to testify when he was called to sit for a deposition tomorrow. okay, a big week ahead. thank you very much. as the president continues to lash out at the whistleblower today, the impeachment inquiry in the house is moving full steam ahead. i want to bring in brenda lawrence. the lawyer for the whistleblower says republican lawmakers can now submit questions to his client directly without having
people s choice of a commander-in-chief. for that reason any such inquiry must be conducted by the highest standards of fairness and due process but thus far this time around instead of setting a high bar house democrats seem determined to set a new low. speaker pelosi has initiated a bizarre process. bill: any time mitch mcconnell speaks you have to listen very carefully to the words he is delivering because he has a big say in this if it comes back to his side of congress. bill mcgurn i interrupted you. he is saying the point. this resolution i m not sure will persuade republicans. it is a good step in the sense that people will have to vote and declare themselves so we ll see if all the democrats vote for it and we ll see if a few republicans vote for it. i don t think it will do anything to meet republican arguments. no, i think, you know, the point is that you cannot impeach and remove a president unless it is bipartisan and
russia and china are not going to hit pause because democrats would rather hurt the white house than fund our military commanders. look, congress needs to do its work. we need to fund our armed forces. tomorrow s vote will tell us which senators are actually ready to do it. now speaking of impeachment, yesterday house democrats released their much high resolution advertised as bringing fairness and due process into speaker pelosi s and chairman schiff s closed door partisan inquiry. unfortunately the draft resolution that has been released does nothing of the sort. it falls way short, way short. as i ve said repeatedly and impeachment inquiry is the most solemn and serious process the house of representatives can embark upon and seeks to nullify a democratic election and cancel out the american
what does it mean? i ll tell you what it means in the short term. it means there is no timetable, no scope, no ability for due process, no ability for the president to examine witnesses or to participate. yet this is an inquiry as an indictment for his removal by the senate. i tell democrats be careful what you wish for. you are now on the record. the resolution basically doesn t mean anything but codifies a corrupt process. someday you may be called to vote for impeachment. but it is based on a vote of a process that was not fair to the president. bill: what we found out last hour michael mccaul, straight shooter, deals with homeland security, serious issues, travels the world. he implied that the whistleblower was complicit with adam schiff. dan kildee the democrat from michigan says it is all deep state stuff.
capitol hill deputy secretary of state john sullivan. president trump s pick to be ambassador to russia is appearing before the senate foreign relations committee for a confirmation hearing. rich edson is live at the state department with more on what we know there. good morning, sandra. senate foreign relations committee is about to start examining whether deputy secretary of state john sullivan should represent the united states in moscow as ambassador. sullivan is also the number two official here at a department that has become the focus of the democrats impeachment inquiry in the house. sullivan even led the department for a month and a half early last year after president trump dismissed then secretary of state rex tillerson and before secretary of state mike pompeo took over. his knowledge of this building and u.s. foreign policy means that democrats are certain to focus on whether this ukraine incident is part of something that sullivan knows. they will ask him about this an