believe it or not, that was not the circus. it was the house judiciary chair, the second impeachment hearing on the hill today. but that mockery of justice was only just beginning. we are now learning the democrats intend to file i m sorry i m laughing i know it is serious but i don t take any of these people seriously. two of the articles of impeachment, abuse of a power and this is what we see the fbi did to trump and obstruction of congress. wait, do they go to court to get a subpoena? no, they didn t. joining me now, steve scalise ken buck and steve chabot. great to see all of you congressman steve scalise, i went to the tv and set my watch a bunch of politicians and lawyers interviewing committee lawyers. i ve never seen anything like this. your take away. the witness literally gets up from the table, runs over and ask another witness questions.
it is a shame because it s been for the country. there were so many other things not getting done like 60,000 people who died of overdose as last year. let s do something about that or the southern borders. laura: the drug prices, my insurance went up 8% this year. congressman buck, obstruction of congress, now my law school education was not as good as all of this, but they didn t go to court to force a subpoena. how can this be obstruction of congress when the white house basically said we don t recognize this sham and we will not participate. they didn t go to court to get a degree. it is not obstruction at all. in fact, what is interesting to me, on one hand, chairman schiff and chairman nadler refused to turn anything over and when president trump claims a privilege, that is obstruction. they instructed our inquiry and ability to gather information to bring up proof, yet president trump does that legitimately and secretary of
state, those are privileged. the chief of staff but somehow he has all obstructing. they don t go to court to challenge that privilege, they just charge him with obstruction. laura: congressman, if anybody is guilty of obstruction of congress, it is adam schiff. i mean i guess if you are congress but he has obstructed your ability to put on defensive witnesses, despite they claiming they would. he said he would bring the whistle-blower and going back to the mueller investigation more than circumstantial evidence. he never had any because there wasn t any. really when you talk about something, it is an abuse of power. he found out later he was spying on members of the press, members of congress. we don t know who else. i ve heard reports up to 3500 pages of telephone records that adam schiff is sitting on. he only selectively released it against his political opponents against a concerned reporter. why isn t the press outrage the way he is spying on members of the press? their sou
president lied in those written answers to robert mueller. now, you ll remember that this is all coming out in the wake of roger stone being found guilty last week on seven counts, including lying to congress and witness tampering. and in that trial, significant information came out from rick gates, the deputy campaign chairman at the time during the campaign, as well as steve bannon, about what the president and campaign aides knew at the time of these wikileaks releases. and there was one specific conversation that was recounted by rick gates, that in july 2016, the then candidate trump took a phone call from roger stone and when he got off the phone call, the president apparently said that he indicated more information would be coming from wikileaks. so this is all something that the house of representatives, kate, now wants to know more about, so they can determine if, in fact, the president potentially lied on his written answers about what he knew about
u.s. intelligence community, which has said and stated quite plainly that it was the russians who attempted to impact the 2016 elections. not ukraine. yet they re chasing this personal prerogative of the president, which is inconsistent and not a part of the official u.s. foreign policy. scott, let me pivot. i have to ask you about the conviction of long-time trump associate roger stone yesterday on seven felonies, including lying to congress. a lot of people have gone to prison in service of this president. michael cohen, paul manafort, michael flynn, rick gates, george papadopoulos, roger stone is on his way. why do you do it? i don t know but there s a word in every column, lying, lying to somebody, lying to congress, lying somewhere. so my advice to people in this world, whether you re in politics or anything else, don t lie. don t lie, just tell the truth. most of the time that s what we teach our children. that s what i tell my