washington post and legal contribute for msnbc. and so, charlie, you first, the new phase of the impeachment inquiry, and what do you think? well, i am interested in the whole pushback that is not just the white house, but the trump allies and we saw a letter from devin nunez demanding testimony from nelly orr and others and so lindsey graham says if you don t put that in there, it is a sham. so we won t have peaceful testimony on wednesday and friday as the public hearings start. i expect the republicans will do everything they can to turn it tone into a circus, and rancor, and it is going to be a turbulent ride going forward. charlie, six on the record confirmations of the quid pro
u.s. presidential election. one of them is nelly orr. she works for fusion gps. that s the opposition research firm. they also want to hear from a dnc staffer so clearly they want to go down that route as well. now, whether these witnesses actually appear before the committee, it s not a great likelihood. democrats will have to approve of them. they want to probe what president trump actually knew about all of this as it was going on. fred. kevin liptak, thank you so much. with me now, francesca cham beh bers and matthew rosenberg. good to see you both. francesca, you first, this gop request to have the whistle-blower and hunter biden testify in the impeachment inquiry, democrats will likely reject this request, but will this give republicans an opportunity to try to make the case that this impeachment inquiry is simply not fair to
investigation. into former trump campaign officials. another senator went to not investigate construction allegations involving joe biden s son. according to ukrainian officials, the democratic national committee contractor alex za al alexandra chalupa to try to get them to comment on ties to russia. an official that was a source for nelly orr as she worked on the anti-trump operation cond t conducted by fusion gps and funded by the democrats and democrats on this very compete
people were shocked. i said, don t worry. and ultimately, wlahat happened we fought it out, the outcome was obvious. and we have worked together very closely. i like him a lot. i actually like him a lot. and he s a very smart guy. he loves the people of texas, which i do. and in fact, right now, i guess they said they ve never seen it s like a big tailgate. it goes on for miles. [ inaudible question ] i think her husband is not much better, i think nelly orr is a disgrace, taking marital protection, so she doesn t have to talk about corruption. i think she s a disgrace. [ inaudible question ] look, i can t tell you. i can only tell you this. we give them hundreds of millions of dollars. they do nothing for us. [ inaudible question ]
yeah. [ inaudible question ] to me he s not lyin ted anymore. he s beautiful ted. i call him texas ted. no. ted cruz and i had a very, very nasty and tough campaign. it was a very tough campaign. once it ended and we got together by the way, very late into the campaign we lasted. people were shocked. ultimately what happened, we fought it out. the outcome was obvious and we have worked together very closely. i like him a lot. i actually like him a lot. he s a very smart guy. he loves the people of texas, which i do. they said it s like a big tailga tailgate. it goes on for miles. it s over 100,000 people. [ inaudible question ] i think nelly orr is a