line. under normal circumstances it takes a lot more creativity to sell lipstick than it does to be the white house press secretary. x stepped on the totally different job under joe biden, the rules have changed. you have to be able to think on the fly, because your boss can t. so every time he goes outside you re going to translate what he said or what he really meant, for the sake of argument he meant anything at all. i know that you re frustrated for example, i can taste it. what does frustration taste like? an earthy slightly unctuous blend of banking notes, mango and raspberry? joe biden did not say. the white house press secretary, that is her job. to name another example, which united states senator who represents the state of florida and which is the state of wisconsin which is not near florida? the press secretary has to know that too, and of course just stayed today, and et cetera. so it s not an easy gig and particularly tough job on the topics are serious like nuc
Impeachment. Robin biro, appreciate you on the program. And this is breaking. We just found out Speaker Pelosi will speak at 5 p. M. Eastern right after that meeting with the democratic caucus. Stay tuned to fox. Dana fox news alert. Major developments expected this hour as democrats beat the drums on impeachment amid the ukraine controversy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will make an announcement at 5 p. M. After meeting with other leaders this afternoon. Her office now says she will make the announcement at 5 p. M. But first shes set to take questions at a forum in washington. Well also hear from former Vice President joe biden this hour. Hes expected to say congress will have no choice, that the house will have to impeach if the president refuses to fully cooperate with all of their investigations. Hello, everyone. Join me for this wild ride. Im dana perino and this is the Daily Briefing. Complete coverage this hour. We start with chief White House Correspondent john roberts c
preventing protesters from going to judge his doorsteps trying to influence their decision from interrupting church services, a lot of these democrats we talked to are not budging and not backing away from supporting this law breaking behavior. tucker. tucker: thank you for doing that for us, i appreciate it. and by the way, whether or not it is a crime as it appears to be, it is certainly wrong and grows to society. we are not supposed to influence judges, they are not elected, they are not supposed to change something, they do not amend the constitution, do we really want people showing up at judges homes and intimidating their families? it so obviously a terrible idea. the treasury secretary, nobody in this country is more personally responsible for our economic oppression then janet yellen, completely reckless, and affirmative action hire, so you should not be
not full blown impeachment. you had congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeting saturday night late night basically blasting her own democratic leadership writing, quote, at this point the bigger national scandal isn t the president s law breaking behavior, it is the democratic party s refusal to impeach him for it. now, prominent republicans are cautioning against a rush to judgment. bottom line is, i don t think he should have done it but that s a far cry from what some are claiming to know is fact when we don t know fact. reporter: some republicans are questioning the push for impeachment on a whistle blower report that none of these lawmakers have read. dana? dana: one other question. tell us about this process. there s an impeachment inquiry. where does that go? what happens next? reporter: well, that can be stretched out for a long period of time. you remember the ben ghazi select committee. that could give all kinds of
counsel mueller testimony fell flat the president may have, if this reporting is true about what took place in the july 25th call, the president may have transitioned from taking a wait and see attitude to sort of popping the clutch and proactively heading toward finding additional dirt or trying to find additional dirt about a potential rival, former vice president biden. that being said, i still think the bigger issue here is not as much the timing but the fact that, according to reports, this request or this suggestion was even brought up by the president on this july 25th call. it s interesting, susan, because the house speaker, nancy pelosi, says if the administration continues to withhold the whistleblower complaint from congress there will be, in her words, a whole new stage of investigation. but over the weekend this was tweeted and i ll read it to you. at this point the bigger national scandal isn t the president s law breaking