there was minority witnesses on december 4th, on december 9th, and it is worth points out that wes invited the president of t united states to come and advocate, submit witnesses, and he chose not to attend and not to suggestnd any witnesses. before sttelling us the sky is falling and there is great disrespect. did the gentleman just say that i did not question witnere witnesses. i said that the president was given thewi opportunity on december 4th to present himself and he was given the opportunity to present witnesses and he did not. so let s be careful in the way that we suggest that rules are beinges violated. everything in a is being done here is consistent with more
impeach the president before christmas and have it all wrapped up to get out of the way for the election and primaries which obviously will heat up after january, let me walk you through the process as we know it from this point forward, we do know that in addition to today on wednesday the committee, we will hear from a number of scholars, they will talk about the legitimacy and the practicality and the constitutalty of the impeach meant process, it should be 4 witnesses in total, one not to support the idea of the process, and on the sixth, the white house will declare intention to take part oncoming judiciary process, same day for republican lawmakers, on december 9th, the chairman nadler will consider the matter, over on capitol hill, arthel, a sharp divide on which the haste the democrats are operating, some speculating that they are trying to wrap this up and race to the clock to
information. in my book, that s fraud and that s lying to the fisa court. absolutely it is. and they were also, now they were aware of this. an fbi lawyer, kevin glassman, apparently did not apply, fill out the application correctly, in fact, he misled the court on the application in an effort to spy on carter. so this is very significant. horowitz has to be hard-hitting in this report. and if he s not, i think the american people are going to see right through this. then we have to leave it up to john durham, and john durham s criminal probe. he had much more leeway here, he can subpoena almost anybody he wants, any documentation, as well impanel a grand journey.e it s going to be december 9th and i think we are just in a wait-and-see game right now. gregg: carter page, if there is not a criminal referral against people like comey and
david s pond is in washington with more details. good evening. that s on december 9th, 2 weeks from yesterday. two days after that on wednesday, he will appear before the senate committee and answer questions about the report. the timing comes days after the committee will hold an impeachment hearing. jerry nadler sent a letter to president trump asking him for other staff to come be a part of the hearing. he says it will focus on laying out the process to the public. i m hopeful you and your counsel will opt to participate in the committee s hearing consistent with the rules of the court and the solemn nature of the work before us. on december 9th when the report comes out, we will find out that an fbi lawyer manipulated a document related to the phis award application to surveillance carter page. carter page with the trump campaign advisor who was under surveillance. the president for two years had his campaign was the target of
ukraine. on december 9th in the middle of the impeachment inquiry, the department of justice inspector general will drop a report on surveillance of the campaign in 2016. there are reports that former fbi director james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe did not act with political bias when dealing with the pfizer application when dealing with carter page, there were also reports that an fbi lawyer changed and important document to surveilled trump aid carter page and it did not affect the validity of that application but one of many questions presented when this report is out, it is going to be a busy december here in washington. shannon: with government funding hanging in the balance, we will be working right up until christmas. thank you. lawmakers say they are looking to hear from their constituents as most polls saying impeachment hearings haven t move the needle. some democrats and pro-trump