but where is mr. schiff. mueller, robert mueller, testified the ken starr report, ken starr testified, the author of the schiff report is not here. instead, he s sending his staff to do his job for him. i guess that s what you get when you re making up impeachment as you go. so as we look forward there s going to be plenty of time to discuss the factual case for this and the statements that have not been made. what is detrimental to me is this, this committee is not hearing from a factual witness, not doing anything past hearing from law school professors and staff. we ve not been given something about the president to come. show me where he would have a proper process in this, where we could have witnesses called by both sides. but i want to say this, in ending, i love this institution. i was here as a 19-year-old kid as an intern.
was conduct connected to an investigation but nobody ever told him that. sondland even asked the president directly, he said what do you want. the president said nothing. i want zelensky to do what he ran on, ukraine did nothing and got the aid anyway. how this is also a problematic experience look over the past three weeks when the chairman of the intelligence committee, who by the way is absent today, guess he can t back up his own report, but he started his own hearing by making up the factual call when he made it up, he started the fairytale we re having today. if you can t even put the transcript in the right context, just read it. chairman schiff couldn t even read the transcript. he had to make it up because if he didn t make it up it didn t sound as bad. he said listen, let s make up some dirt. that s not what was said. the transcript, the chairman misled the american people as an attorney, as a chairman, as a member of congress who swore an oath to tell basically to be hones
give him lethal aid. ed: to your point what about the fact that jerry nadler who is going to take over for adam schiff because it s got over to the judiciary committee says in his letter to the president, by the way, we are still looking at alleged obstruction in the mueller report and that could be an article of impeachment? i thought we already dealt with that. we did. the only found there was no collusion, robert mueller said that there was no actionable evidence that would lead to an indictment for the president and when he was queried on that, that was not because he was the president. if he had been anybody else, he would not have been indicted because there wasn t the evidence. what is the subtext of all of this? there is no new witness is for there is no documentarian evidence. there is no special counsel. there is no leon jaworski, there s no ken starr report. unless they can bring in a marquee witness like john bolton who has new information of direct testimony in convers
you need somebody deranged enough to do it. that s what we ve seen in the hague and london. ed: dan, interesting that you have, the president goes to see the troops in afghanistan, u.s. troop still on the ground fighting essentially the war and terror. you had this reporter at newsweek putting up this report, didn t realize that he was heading to afghanistan and put out this tweet suggesting that the president spending his entire time in palm beach tweeting, playing golf, and all the rest of her that obviously had to be deleted, taking down the president, had some fun with him. i thought newsweek was out of business. what do you think the matter what will go after the president even if he s doing his job? ad, the sad part is you bid it dispels when you follow this stuff like you and i both had, around the holiday seasons, we aren t giving any trade secrets, you google it for the president of
from sunday. if anyone else had been accused of what the report finds the president had done, they would ve been indicted. ed: this is the man who was going to be running the impeachment deal and moving forward and h he said on fox nes sunday that there was collusions obstruction. i guess that tells you why my friend jerry was not running the impeachment hearings for a while there. ed: he was sort of sidelined by nancy pelosi. sidelined my foot. he was completely taken out of the picture so that schiff could do his schiff show. anyway, if we are going to get to the truth, like he says he wants to hear, there are three witnesses that are absolutely critical in my opinion, and that includes the nonwhistleblower whistleblower. it includes abigail grace, who was close friends with the nonwhistleblower, and sean misko. all three of those worked at the national security council. they all worked with biden and