in question with president trump, in zelensky s words he says i wasn t speaking with president trump from the vantage point of a quid pro quo because i didn t want us to look like beg ars. but that s not all that he said. he went on to say, you have to understand this is a direct quote. we re at war, if our strategic partners, zelensky says, then you can t go blocking anything for us. so president trump is really gloming on to what portion of what he says to cast that being exculpatory when the full quote does not make that point t. other point is president makes is that the impeachment inquiry is a hoax. he s said that before. he also says that democrats purposely scheduled wednesday s hearing for a time when he would be out of the country. these things have been moving on parallel tracks. yes, the nato trip has been on the books for a kwiel. but back when the house formalized the impeachment inquiry back in november with the full house vote it laid out in the rules that the judicia
mike? jason, good evening. the senate is due to return tomorrow afternoon but there are no signs of progress at this point.t. president trump in iraq today was asked how long the partial government shutdown would last. whenever it takes. we are going to have a wall, we are going to have safety. we needgo have safety for our country. we have terrorists coming in through the southern border. it is not clear the democrats want to cut a deal with the president with nancy pelosi facing a critical vote to become speaker on january 3rd, and clearly not wanting to look like she is caving to the president. on christmas eve, the top democrats in congress went after the president on the partial government shutdown. leader nancy pelosi and senate democratic leader chuck schumer saying, the president wanted the shutdown but he seems not to know how to get himself out of it. as long as the president is guideded by the house freedom caucus, it is hard to see how he can come up with a solution
the overwhelming majority of democratic voters are forr impeaching trump. i get it. they ve been told he s a war criminal. so why should democrats g impea? in there s people in the party that would like the to see an investigation of the president. the majority is one in suburban swing districts that want people to work on things like healthcare, changing the tax reform so it benefits the middle class and other issues that they campaigned on. most of the campaign was not about impeachment. i don t think we re at a pointt where impeachment is a real thing. impeachment has to be bipartisan for removal in the senate. nancy pelosi knows that. she will be the speaker of the house. i do not think barring some major revelation in the mueller report, i don t think you ll see impeachment on the agenda for
a news anchor for univision, a frequent guest on the show, joins us tonight. and ricky, thanks for coming on. great to be here, tucker. tucker: this is, among other things, a criminal conspiracy to subvert american act of hostility aimed directly at our nationalts interests, by all four of the potential future president of mexico. why a should we not consider mexico and an emmy in light of this? candidate say a lot of things when they are campaigning. president trump said he was going to build a wall at the border and mexico is going to pay for it weighed 17 months into his presidency, we know that s not going to happen. i think they showed a willingness to cooperate with the u.s. on issues like immigration and border security. tucker: you make an interesting point.t. let me just suggest a difference between the two pledges. the president pledged to build a wall on american soil with american tax dollars. he did not propose forcing mexico to pay at gunpoint.
he s a democrat representing the state of wisconsin and he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. glad to be here, tucker.la tucker: the intelligence committee, our intelligence t committee, described rt a key component of the russia propaganda machine. here you have one of the leaders, grand inquisitors of the russia investigation y appearing on it, willfully being used by the russian government to propagandize our people, to undermine our democracy, to hack our way of life. why should he not recuse himself immediately from the investigation on the basis of that? i assume from the whole intro, you are doing that as tongue-in-cheek. clearly, as you know, politicians are on many, many networks. i don t think he, as you arean trying to describe, saying that rt is trying to undermine american democracy. i got the point.t. i get the point. i think we all get the point. tucker: i m using the standard that everybody is using, the leaders of your party are using. if you have conta