was actually all about getting down into what actually happened in 2020. and justifying that the position that the president had nothing to do with collusion. nothing to do with russia. and they were probing the ukraine part of that story. ed: more to the point of joe and hunter biden, isn t rudy giuliani making a fair point that the democrats have made this all about process and what did rude do and what did he not do when they don t want to investigate burisma, how hunter biden got all this money, and whether or not joe biden, who is overseeing ukrainian policy for president obama was pulling strings as burisma was being investigated? yeah. this goes, ed, to really the unfairness much what went on in the house. if you remember the very first hearing not the slate of hearings that we had in the last week. if the in the beginning, when they put the director of national intelligence on, adam schiff did that parody
we had no choice but to act. the evidence is clear that the president, the president has used his office for his own personal gain. laura: andy, is the evidence clear that the president abused his office, as pelosi claims? rising to some level, of impeachable offense? the evidence isn t clear. i appreciate that you played what schiff said at the end of thed hearing because i think is an interesting bookend to the way he started the public part of the hearing weeks ago when he had the director of national intelligence in to testify. that was the day that he famously gave his parody version of the schiff i m sorry. the zelensky-trump conversation, and in that parody i ve always thought it was very telling that he says that trump essentially
told zelensky i want you to make dirt up on my political opponent. i ve always thought that was very telling because that s along the lines of what you might actually need to get in the ballpark for impeachment. the president is asking them to fabricate something about the bidens out of whole cloth. of course what we know is that what he was asking for was an investigation where there s reason to believe there may have been corruption and the tell is that schiff had to reach for the stars in this parody version because the evidence he has doesn t come close to it. when you get to the end of it, whether they have a technical violation. i don t think they do. of the bribery statute but it i such a gulf from what they proved.
the evidence is clear that the president, the president has used his office for his own personal gain. laura: andy, is the evidence clear that the president abused his office, as pelosi claims? rising to some level of impeachable offense? the evidence isn t clear. i appreciate that you played what schiff said at the end of the hearing because i think it s an interesting book and to the way he started the public part of the hearing weeks ago when he had the director of national intelligence into testifying. that was the day that he famously gave his parody version of the schiff i m sorry. the zelensky-trump conversation and in that parity have always thought it was very telling that he says that trump essentially
parody version of the tweet, a partial rendition where he left that out, and asked ambassador yovanovitch to respond. it would ve been more responsible if adam schiff wants to ask that question to let ambassador yovanovitch read the entire tweet to digest and respond. if you want to talk about what president trump said about ambassador yovanovitch, why would he cherry picked out, he loves to withhold key facts, that s how he rolls. he withholds information, he outright lies, and he cherry picks leaks, in this case it took apart a tweet. so it was the entire approach. that they never asked ambassador yovanovitch about what president zelensky said about her. that s how he rolls with all of this. why is president trump putting out information fighting back? it s because adam schiff only once the american people to have 3% of the information, and connect dots that are not connected to right the greatest