people of color are going to continue to take up some sort of priority space or some sort of priority time. or if those issues are going to be regarded as side issues or secondary things that debe dealt with if we have time. janell ross, doug thor nel, and noah rothman, thank you very much. up next, the confederate flag is in my final thoughts. stay with us. at fidelity, online u.s. stocks and etfs are commission-free.
witnesses, then it s questioning whether they have firsthand knowledge of certain decisions. you re going to hear people talk about whether the president talked to bill taylor. we know he hasn t talked to some of these diplomats and they still carried out his orders. another thing is republicans thought they had an offramp here. they thought they were able to say, what the president did here was wrong, it made me uncomfortable, but it was not impeachable. you saw that at the top level of the party, then the president blew that up. you have house republicans going into this hearing tomorrow completely in a l completely, in a lot of republicans views and the leadership, completely unprepared for what s going on here because they are not able to defend the white house as a substantive matter. many of them, not all of them, many of them, so they have to rely on these side issues. we know what the end game is, pretty much. we know the president is going to be impeached by the house. we don
american national interests in order to get something for his own personal gain. they re calling it extortion or bribery, and they want to leave it at that. they want to try to use these witnesses, these fact witnesses, to fill in the details. but they don t want to get lost in all the side arguments that tend to come up in a broad investigation. there are a lot of complexities. they understand there are going to be a lot of distractions from the president s side, a lot of side issues. their idea, their hope is to keep this a very concise argument. we re looking at the impeachment schedule right now. and what do you think here? are we going to be getting more of the same or somethingtels beyond just the transcript something else beyond just the transcripts? it s hard app to. i think after talking to sources on capitol hill last week and the week before that, it sounds like lawmakers are ready to head into the public hearing phase. you know, we had a couple of different officials
donald trump get reelected. what we re going to have to decide is whether that s acceptable behavior for a president. we can go off and talk about, you know, joe biden s son, and we can talk about all these side issues, but the real issue here is whether the president of the united states can go to a foreign leader and say, i want you to do this solely for the benefit of my campaign. that s what this is about and that s what we ll have to decide. everybody stand by. there is a lot more we need to discuss and we will right after a quick break. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.
they re searching for economic prosperity, to have a double standard where you say college athletes shouldn t do the same doesn t hold water. i m hoping tim changes his mind opt this. at the end of the day thankfully tim is not the governor or a lawmaker that will vote on this. i do think there should not be a double standard for college athletes. everyone in america should have every right, economic liberty afforded to every citizen in america. i have to say thank you so much for coming in and having this discussion. it s a lot more complicated than i think people realize and it raises a whole bunch of side issues that we had a chance to talk about this morning, and it s something people ought to think about and think about hard. thank you very much. thank you for having me. all right. president trump has good reason to doubt many of the national polls coming out his way. after all, most polls showed his 2016 victory a long shot, but dig deeper into the numbers and there are rea