process isn t being held up. you ll see at the beginning of the hearing they ll do a motion to adjourn. they ll do a motion to have a subpoena for hunter biden right there, anything they can do distract away from the substance they ll hear and draw the line towards the process because that s what they think is their best winning argument. the president, is he worried at all about public hearings and how that might sway public opinion? the numbers on impeachment has been ticking upwards. do they think that this is unpredictable what might happen? well, i think that that s reflected a little bit in how he s been reacting on twitter. number one, republican strategy, he seems to be dismissing the strategy of saying, look, maybe what he said wasn t perfect after all, but it s not impeachable. he doesn t like that. he wants people to go out and say it s perfect. he wants to make it seem like everything that s going on with the hearings are wrong. and that s sort of the lane he wants repu
i mean, before you get there, the rules process, you wrote today in an nbc news think piece about how republicans should understand the rules process because they re the ones who wrote the rules for these committees. right. let s all understand something here, for the last 25 years, 20 of them republicans controlled the congressional committees. they controlled the investigators. we saw through benghazi, these are the same rules being used right now by democrats. they don t like not having a counsel present for the president, they have to blame themselves because they wrote those rules. don t like closed door depositions, they conducted hundreds of them during investigations like benghazi. this rules we re playing by are ones that republicans wrote. what we ll see at this hearing that is different than anything we have seen is the structure. we ll have a witness give his testimony and get questions for 45 consecutive minutes. it s not five minutes here, five minutes there that voll
articulate people telling the story of a president who let s forget quid pro quo. it s one of the things to muddy the works. who extorted a vulnerable country by holding up military aid. republicans aware of the high stakes are preparing to defend the president by tearing down the investigation. according to politico, they ll continue to paint the process as politically motivated by minimizing mr. trump s role in any shadow campaign and pushing debunked conspiracy theories about ukraine s alleged influence in the 2016 elections. they ve also demanded to hear from the whistleblower and hunter biden. democrats who control subpoena power are not likely to say yes. 2,700 pages of transcripts from the closed door hearings have been released so far. expect more to be made public this week. the president trying to inoculate himself of what more
in the process and things? it s a set tell mike step in the right direction i think there s a number of the resolution draft that we have seen it does have a rules process and perhaps some changes will come out. the most important thing is we are now going to have sunshine that we have all been waiting for from these now many weeks because how can we assess witness credibility, we can t. how can we know whether ambassador taylor was persuasive or whether his testimony lacked persuasive power once he was subject to cross-examination? that s the good part. all of it leaks out here and there and i refuse to believe anything until we actually are able to see it altogether. listen to kevin mccarthy is the minority leader in the house was on fox in france this morning. there is no impeachable offense to what they are doing now as they met the process is a shame and they are actually changing the process for the worst. they are making adam schiff now the prosecutor, the judge, and
example ok let s take the stability for pact yes right fact is that since it was introduced not a single year has gone by without at least one member countries firearms is breaching you remember the commission president because from his claim in twenty sixteen france was given that you re so wrong. exactly whilst we re a sample of your i don t perfectly well i share your criticism about that because indeed it seems to be an assault offered to speed judgement on the public finances if you re a big country you will be treated differently in a small country and there s evidence to that and so i m internally sixteen when spain and portugal breached the rules process decided to set fines. zero exactly what message does that send that these rules are not really credible i know that you are a group you re going to view rules when you feel like you knew enforce them well yeah but then again when it suits you well it s really interesting because you treat me as if i were the european union you