During the leagues faceoff with beijing. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Happy friday, dave. They cant stop the questions from coming. These guys have to answer them. Happy friday, october 11th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with the stunning and dramatic airport arrest that could have links to the ukraine scandal engulfing the white house. Two associates of Rudy Giuliani, arrested on charges they viol e violated Campaign Finance laws including donations they made to a trump super pac. They are sovietborn citizens. They were detained on wednesday, after the feds learned they had oneway tickets out of the country. Giuliani told the wall street journal, they were traveling to vienna, where giuliani was also headed. Starting in november of last year, the two men helped him in the ukraine, digging up dirt on democratic candidate, joe biden. You can see the two men here in this twitter video. We dont know where or when the video was shot. But we know the three met
Giuliani central to the allegations the president abused his power. Giuliani has been studying history, just not impeachment history. I went back to read two books about the salem witch trials. They required witnesses to face the witch and some witches were acquitted. The witches had it better. They had more rights. Interesting theory there. A lot of news to get to this hour but we begin with the white house slamming the door in the face of democrats. The president s lawyers declaring in a brazen angry letter last night that they wont cooperate at all with the House Democrats impeachment inquiry. From that letter, President Trump and his administration reject your baseless, unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic process. Your unprecedented actions have left the president with no choice. In order to fulfill his duties President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances. The House Speaker nancy pel
Cox for him. Ultimately we know how that all ended, right . Leon jaworski got archibalds old job, much to nixons dismay, carried on with the investigation that cox had started. That information was handed over to congress in a document known as the watergate road map. Congress used that evidence collected by the special prosecutors to, themselves, draw up damning articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon and then it all came to an end, right . Nixon, knowing he was not going to survive an impeachment vote, ended up resigning the presidency. But whatever happened to old Archibald Cox, first watergate prosecutor, the guy fired at the end of the saturday night massacre . Turns out after nixon fired him, he landed at a Good Government Organization Called common cause. And at common cause, just ten years after nixon resigned , thy did something theyve never done before. They issued a public report and sent a letter to every single United States senator, urging for the First Time Ever th
The best of terms with the Trump White House and i dont like to use the shorthand terms but considered a russia hawk in trump world, that means you disagree with donald trump on just about everything involving russia. And, you know, the relationship of her sort of per view under the Trump Administration and whats happened with this ukraine proceeding, an interesting ask to ask the russia advisor to come in and talk about this ukraine scandal. I would love to hear what she has to say about this. I dont know what sort of leverage that will have to block her but well see. Legally, they dont have any but well see what they do. Thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. Donald trump has crossed a line in polling that no president running for reelection has ever crossed. No president running for reelection has ever had a majority of the American People say in a poll that that president should be impeached and removed from office. Donald trump achieved that today in a stunning new fox news poll which
It calls an illegitimate and unconstitutional impeachment inquiry. As we sort through it im bill hemmer. Here we go. Welcome to wednesday. Sandra a brandnew day. Good morning, im sandra smith. Here is where things stand at this hour. Speaker nancy pelosi and House Democrats saying the white houses actions are further evidence of obstruction plus subpoenas are starting the fly. Three House Committees now trying to force the testimony of that key u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. Senator Lindsey Graham says democrats need to stand down. This is a star chamber process in the house behind closed doors. Theyre about to destroy the nation for no good reason. Ive read the transcript. I do not see anything wrong there and i want nancy pelosi to know that republican senators are not going to impeach this president based on this transcript. So she can stop now before she destroys the country. Bill exclusive new reporting by fox news putting bob mueller back in the spotlight. Did the former special c