Perspective on how the ukraine controversy is affecting the 2020 election. Upper biden plans to resign hunter biden plans to resign from a chinese firm. All those stories right here, right now on sunday morning futures. Maria and we begin this morning with President Trump, he has fired back at House Democrats as they accelerate their impeachment push with a flurry of new subpoenas seeking testimony from Energy Secretary rick perry expect two indicted associates of President Trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The president reacting at the values voter summit last night in our nations capital. Now it is the outrageous impeaching. Look, impeachment. I never thought the id see or hear that word with regard to me, impeachment. Its a witch hunt. Its based on a single phone call of congratulations to the president of ukraine which they fraudulently mischaracterized to sound absolutely horrible. Maria meanwhile, democratic frontrunner joe biden is now voicing his full support for impeachment, saying President Trump has Left Congress with no other choice. Donald trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts. To preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. Maria joining me right now is georgia congressman doug kohl lynx ranking republican on collins, ranking republican on the Judiciary Committee. Thank you so much for being here. Good morning, maria. Maria the wall street journal is reporting that hunter biden, joe bidens son, has pledged to resign from this private equity firm that he is on the board of on october 31st, and he says he will not work on any foreignowned companies or serve on their boards if his father is elected president. This just coming out now. We know there has been so much around this story, but now hunter biden says he will step down. Your reaction. Well, its Pretty Amazing now after the line is being shined on, now youre going to come out and say, well, ill ten away from all of this step away from all of this because it might seem as a conflict of interest. This just shows you how much this is a messedup situation and how much there were other things going on, and all the democrats want to do is focus on President Trump because they dont like President Trump. I think this is another way to save a flailing campaign thats going down. He knows hes in trouble, and this is a way to try to attract attention. Maria we know there have been three testimonies behind closed doors as part of this impeachment push, another one on friday. Some of it leaked out and then others, other things from that cannot be leaked or discussed. Tell me what youve learned so far from these behind closed doors testimonies in this impeach. Inquiry. I think the first thing is lets at least go back and remember a few points. November 2016 began the impeachment push for the democrats was because they cried in brooklyn, they havent got over it yet. When they gained control of Congress Last year, instead of being truthful, all they said was were going to impeach the president. Number three, when the impeach. Hit in january, all Jerry Nadlers focus, lets have investigations. Mueller was going to show us that the president need to be impeached. It failed. Now you go to Speaker Pelosi and adam schiff had to say weve got a failing plan here. We promised the Democratic Base that we would with impeach the president , and so far weve shown hes done nothing wrong except have a great economy and a great standing around the world. Viewers need to know this, they said we cant win this in the public eye, so were going to take it behind closed doors. So in the past few days, they have. Adam schiff, who has trouble telling the truth, is a very good lyric. Lets be honest, hes a good leaker. They took it behind closed doors, heard testimony that i have heard that says these transcripts should be released completely because they defeat the entire narrative. But as long as he can keep it behind closed door, then they leak out only what they want to leak out. And this is why you have seen in the progression. The president has done nothing wrong. He has said and, by the i way, just is ask the ukrainian president who said i felt no pressure. This was simply a discussion of whats going on in our two countries. This is a sham, whats going on right now. Maria last week we had on congressman John Ratcliffe, and he mentioned three reasons that this seems to be questionable. Number one was that, typically in any impeachment, the jurisdiction for impeachment is the Judiciary Committee. Its not happening in the Judiciary Committee, which nadler runs, its actually in the intel committee. Number two, it is all happening behind closed doors. We dont know what anybody said on friday you had another testimony from the ukrainian ambassador. Her Opening Statement leaks but then Everything Else as part of that is behind closed doors. And now theyre calling him a fact witness, John Ratcliffe called adam schiff a fact witness because, of course, he did meet with the socalled whiting blower before whistleblower before the complaint was public. Johns exactly right. Adam schiff is so deeply involved in this, this is a man who once said, you know, theres collusion in plain sight. Well do whatever we want to do because the president needs to be impeached, and weve got the proof. Hes beening been saying this for well over two years. Hes a fact witness in that his staff and others met with the whistleblower before this came out. The president released the transcript of the call, and everybody said, okay, wheres the there there because theres not a there there. Many reporters said if you look at the whistleblower complaint, it was laid out in a way in which adam hiv could then go schiff could then go to committee and keep it behind closed doors. Its not just the Judiciary Committee thats been left out, the Foreign Affairs committee has been left out as well. Speaker pelosi knew that adam schiff would do whatever she wanted him to do, and the American People are the ones who suffer here. If they want to overturn the 2016 election, get in the field, have a candidate who knew where some of these states were to campaign and do that in 2020. You dont turn over an election based on the fact that you hate a president who got elected who beat the person you thought was going to get elected. And by the way, hes working on trade deals, we have an economy. They cant beat him on the facts, so theyre going to beat him on the lies. Maria but what are you going to do about it . If your colleagues on the left are in the majority. The American People are p wondering whats going on in terms of this impeachment inquiry. We dont see transcripts, we cant hear any of these hearings. By the way, no ones getting anything done. Youre supposed to pass usmca, get trade deals done as well as, perhaps, gun legislation, infrastructure. So what are you going to do about it . Well, if anybodys watched me over the last nine months in particular, i dont sit back and take it. Thats why im here with you this morning, thats why weve been talking about the story. If adam schiff wants to have it behind closed doors, my job is to pick the lock. Look at the lies that have been told, look at these hearings that have been had, and nothing has came from it. Now because you dont like the results, you take it behind closed doors. Were going to work to get these triplets released, but also the senate is hopefully going to be able to begin looking at other things as well, especially the horowitz report which should be coming out in the next little bit. These are the kinds of things that viewers have to understand. What theyre getting from washington, d. C. Is a onesided approach to an impeachment because democrats know they cant win on the facts. So those of us like myself are going to keep going forward. I believe that sunshine is the best disinfectant. Right now adam schiff dont want disinfectant anywhere close to what hes doing. Maria we want the talk to you about the russia probe straight ahead. Also counselor to president clopway and congressman mark meadows coming up. Follow me on twitter and on instagram, maria bartiromo. Stay with us this morning, were looking ahead on cologuard colon Cancer Screening for people 50 and older at average risk. Honey, have you seen my glasses . 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Were expecting it to show exactly what weve been concerned about for a long time, that there wassish shaws was issues at the department of justice. I start the looking at the ones that should be the most concerned because one of the things i didnt mention is the democrats wanted nothing to do with any investigations into the real issues of collusion and corruption that was part of the 2016 campaign, which was the Democratic National committee, fusion gps and all of these parties that came together to try and deny donald trump from becoming president. They never wanted any part of that, they dont want any part now. When you see brennan and mccabe really ramping up the im innocent phase of their life when they go on tv and talk about this is not really happening, but the best one is when mr. Comey, the one who has trouble with the truth, who has a superman syndrome is out there saying, oh, i wish that this was just go away. Then he says all i want to do is get rid of this president. This report going to show what happened in that time frame, and i believe from what were seeing from their reaction, its not going to be very good. My only question is will the democrats have an integrity bone in their body to call mr. Horowitz to our committee to have to answer about this report. Maria yeah. Last weekend on this program we had George Papadopoulos on the program, and weve been following this, obviously, for the last couple of years, and we put together this timeline of what looks like entrapment given the fact that he got all of this outreach from these internationalist, quoteunquote, ambassadors and people who invited him to conferences like steven hall per or Alexander Downer or from australia or joseph miss fud. Now, on that situation, this was the individual who dropped the news on George Papadopoulos that russia had Hillary Clintons emails, and he said and another of these internationalists said to him, well, this is great news for you and donald trump, that youve got these emails. And he said i would never do that, thats treason. That transcript, that conversation was transcribed because he was an informant, the guy who said that to him, and that was not given to the fisa court. Is so many people is have come on this program, trey gowdy, John Ratcliffe, to say that was exculpatory evidence that was not given to fisa court. Is that something youre going to be looking for in this upcoming report on friday . Thats the first of many things. You have a court that meets in secret that is integral if they have a position where they receive all the information. If theyre being withheld exculpatory material, then it just goes to the position that the corrupt cabal of mccabe and comey and strzok and page, all these folks are really had a mind item set of they came off of an email investigation of hillary clinton, went right into lets see if we can investigate this president because we dont like who this president may be. And at that time he was still a candidate. And were seeing this build up and build up and build up. And so i think this report is going to show even comey himself said e the dossier was salacious and unverified. Why would he actually go out there and verify that before a fisa court . Why do we find out mr. Durham enlarging his investigation all the way into the spring of 2017 when we had the special counsel . Also beginning to have doubts of mr. Muellers truthfulness in what he was actually looking for and how much rosenstein was a part of mccabe, this whole deal with the mccabe memo shows there were discussions of wearing a wire to the white house. Maria, this is something Everybody Needs to be concerned about, i dont care what Party Affiliation you have. You need to make sure we actually find out did our department of justice turn on us x then these questions are going to be answered. And i believe thats what youre going to see starting maria yeah. And as our timeline correctly points out, miss feud telling George Papadopoulos talking about the emails, that was way before the fbi started an investigation, march and april in 2016 was when he first got that information. Also this 10,000 in cash that was dropped in his lap from another informant, they said, oh, we want to do business with you, heres 10,000 in cash. Again, they were using i mean, if this is it comes to light in this i. G. Report and in bill barrs investigation and john durhams investigation, they were actually using the tools that this country uses on terrorists thats, you know, informants, you know, wiretapping. These are the tools that this country uses on terrorists, and they were using it to try to entrap Donald Trumps campaign if this is true. This is what everything weve learned so far leads me to believe. Well, unlike the democrats, i actually believe lets let the facts come out. Lets remember, maria, everything you just talked the about, that was under the obama biden administration. That was under the previous administration. When the collusion and the work from russian, you know, operatives, when we had this dossier coming out which was paid for by the dnc, this was under the watch of president obama. Im sort of tired of being lectured by the former president about how he was in charge, and they would never have done this on the world stage, yet it was under his watch that this was the election are interference from russia actually happened. Lets just put this all in perspective. The i. G. Reports going to show what its going to show, and youre seeing the players who have been involved anytime squirming on stage. You have a john durham whos looking into this for possible chargings as we go forward. But all at the same point, the democrats realize that in the light of day they couldnt find anything to impeach President Trump on, so now theyre going behind closed doors, and theyre just believing that the American Public is not smart enough to realize what theyre doing. They can just leak out what they want to and influence this next election cycle. Never forget this is not about a ukrainian phone call, this is about the 2016 elections that was a failure and the 2020 election that is almost a year away. Maria wow. Is so can you do anything being in the minority . Can Lindsey Graham, as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary with subpoena power, can he do anything . What can you do to push back on this . Well, number one, like i said, its amazing to me that my chairman would like to have just, you know, very partisan hearings that go nowhere and are simply for show. But Lindsey Graham is the chairman of the senate Judiciary Committee, and hes already said he will have mr. Horowitz there. I cant wait to see this report come out. Remember, this is not going to be a report like the mueller report. Theres a lot of probably classified information, but theres a lot of Public Information because were dealing with an Intelligence Community and very secretive issues for our national security. Is so i think everybody just needs to be aware, sit back, let the facts come. Unlike the democrats who want to change the facts, let the facts come to us. Maria and, by the way, youre not getting anything else done in the meantime. Weve talked about a Prescription Drug plan, gun legislation, weve talked about, obviously, usmca. Is that ever going to come to the floor, do you think . No. And heres the interesting part, the president himself as reached out on transportation, on Prescription Drugs, the president himself has reached out on trade. The president himself did criminal Justice Reform last year, a bill that i helped write. These are the kinds of things this president has reached out, and every time he reaches a ha