Accusations affect impeachment . Parnas is under indictment from the Southern District of new york. He walks to work with the lawyers. Should we take his claims about ukraine a grain of salt. What about impeachment . Never ending grand jury like trial which critics warning democrats want . While they call witnesses like john bolton . With something momentous as this, should voters hear from those at the heart of the controversy, the bidens, about their involvement in ukraine . We have the debate. This debate. Critics pointing out Nancy Pelosis rhetoric getting increasingly heated, over over e top . Will that hurt impeachment in the eyes of voters as well as pelosis credibility . It is more than just pelosi and her souvenir impeachment pens. Pelosi claims impeachment is not about the evidence. It is really about allegations. This debate tonight, critics say past time for pelosi and leftleaning media stop with the rhetoric. Stick with the facts. Stop comparing trump impeachment to the clinton and nixon charges. It is nothing like that. Those charges involve those two president s were way worse. Anybody that talks like that, dont have the facts. That is what experts are saying. The debate tonight. Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Liz okay. Welcome to the show. Youre watching the fox business network. Okay the debate. How does the lev parnas accusations affect impeachment . Parnas, again he is under indictment in the Southern District of new york. He want to work with the government, his lawyer says. It is about reducing his sentence. So experts are saying take parnas allegations about the president and ukraine with a grain of salt. More on that and impeachment from kevin corke in washington. Reporter good to be with you. More accusations and more of the same in washington as the president fends off allegations of payforplay with respect to ukraine this as the senate now prepares to open up the very own impeachment trial. You mentioned the big name were following today, lev parnas. He has been talking a great deal on television. He is unindictment as you says. He says he has information lawmakers should consider. For example he claims leaders in ukraine were told by him if they announced they were looking into burisma and bidens then president poroshenko would get an invite to the oval office. Parnas claims he did this all this at direction of rudy giuliani, this is key, at the behest of President Trump who today denied knowing parnas at all. I dont even know who this man is, other than i guess he attended fundraisers, so i make a picture with him. Im in a room i take pictures with people. I take thousands and thousands of pictures with people all the time, thousands during the course of a year. And often times i will be taking a picture with somebody, i say, i wonder what newspaper that one will appear him. I dont know him. Perhaps he is a fine man. Perhaps he is not. I know nothing about him. Reporter no surprise House Democrats want the new information in the upcoming trial with claim by parnas, mike pence, Mick Mulvaney and john bolton were all in the loop on attempts to get ukraine to open investigations into burisma and hunter biden. I think bolton is a very important witness because i think between me and bolton we could fit in all the dots. I think because i was on the ground there and he was over here. You would be willing to testify . I would be very willing to testify. Reporter very willing to testify, says lev parnas. As we wait to see just who and how much material might be included in the upcoming trial, we do know that even as chief Justice John Roberts presides it is Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell who will set the pace of play. As you know, well be looking forward to next week. That is probably when things will get underway as we all await the big vote. Do they have 67 votes to throw president out of office of the presidency . Well be watching together. Betting money says not yet. Back to you. Liz kevin, thank you so much. Great to see you sir. Thank you for your good reporting. We have a lot to cover. Bring in former federal prosecutor doug burns. Great to see you. Thank you. Liz how does all this affect the impeachment case . Hard to say. Number one we dont try cases in the media. Im getting sick and tired honestly of the breathless over the ski tips fulminations about this when the point is if the guy is witness, let him come in he will abnormal witness. To break down what they are leaking, there is a little bit in it for everybody. On one hand the left again was, hysterical that the woman yovanovitch was under surveillance. He heard that he debunked it. Liz parnas debunked this. The guy telling me this was extremely intoxicated was. Didnt take it seriously. In criminal law we have puffing i can do 10 kilos a week, theyre puffing. That hurts the left. What helps the left he started making noise about how the president knew this and president knew that liz but he never spoke to him. Never spoke to him. It is not clear. So again, basically fundamentals im a trial lawyer. Not try it in the media. Trial lawyer would tell you exactly way you teed it up, take it with a grain of salt. He is a defendant in the Southern District off new york trying to help himself. Liz the Justice Department is investigating leaks by potentially james comey in 2016 and 2017 involving classified information possibly russian intelligence affecting the Hillary Clinton email server case. Not surprised at all. Liz the second time he is being investigated appears. We were talking about this before. James comey is one of the great enigmas honestly i seen in years and years. He was respected figure. U. S. Attorney. He was attorney general. Liz why the leaking . I dont know what he was up to why he was doing but it is pretty clear those watching this, he engaged in leaking. I almost fell out of my chair the day he cavalierly, that is really the key words oh, yes, i gave that to this friend of mine who is law professor at columbia. You remember that fame must exchange, Daniel Richmond because i wanted to get it in the Public Square and get a prosecutor appointed. Which was Mueller Probe. Couldnt believe it. Liz Mueller Probe which locked up the country for two years of the lets get back to what is going on with impeachment. Andrew mccarthy making the point, that the democrats trying to turn the senate trial into openended never ending grand jury probe. Yes. Liz where they get to dictate witnesses. Do you think that something as momentous as this the bidens should be called in. There are two schools of thought, that the impeachment is like the grand jury and return of indictment then you go to trial. Historically it really doesnt work that way. Generally speaking most of what is supposed to be developed happens in the house, okay . There is less emphasis on Additional Information and additional witnesses. What i find absurd to be blunt is that they were saying over and over in the house, it is overwhelming case. There is nothing to talk about. Then they breathless pivot we need new information. That is ridiculous. Liz by the way ukraine leaders a dozen times said, a dozen times, they did not feel pressure, no quid pro quo. We have the gao now saying that that they broke the rules. A number of my closest friend and i discussed over and over. He is veteran lawyer and judge. The point is, i mean this is just ridiculous, you know the way this is being handled in the sense of new information is necessary. It is overwhelming case they say. At the same time and they just go back and forth with the same rhetoric. Liz, not to be cute, but it is like a mattel doll. You remember the dolls you wind them up. You wind up the political mattel doll, the president sold out his office in order to get dirt on his opponent. Just frustrating. Liz the president says his team was not allowed to present any fact witnesses. Joe biden and the bidens. Ukraine government is second to russia in that area of the world in terms of corruption. Right. Liz you know, it certainly worth considering to having bidens called in because he could be, as Vice President he could be a future president. Ukrainian, energy company, would want to curry favor with d. C. By putting hunter on the board. Again, this is breathlessly absurd rhetoric. They turn around, say hunter biden and joe biden having to to do with this. They say over and over on television. Reality in the taped call, the whole essence of your complaint that the president said can you do us a favor, the country, by the way, look into this burisma corruption which involves, if i were talking to a judge, which involves the bidens, your honor. Therefore we want to call them in, see what they know, so we can square it against the phone call. But again, politics and criminal law. They dont mesh. Liz yeah. I heard people on television literally say with a straight face, quite troubling, particularly lawyers, there is not one scintilla of evidence that the bidens had anything to do with this. That is ridiculous. Liz will you come back . Sure. Liz the comey story will have legs. Appreciate it, liz. Liz markets blast a new high, another big trump policy win. Nasa 2. 0. Edward lawrence has the story from the white house. Edward. Reporter administration taking a victory lap over signing the phase one trade deal with china. Ratification of usmca on usmca. The document will be here at the white house shortly for the president to sign that. Now im told that from canadian sources that canada will take up their part of ratifying usmca. They will start their work on january 27th when their new parliament is seated. On china, the u. S. Trade representative says that the agreement we had, phase one trade deal is binding, as well as he believes has enough enforcement in it to protect intellectual property. White house Economic AdvisorPeter Navarro says the chinese had no choice but to sign it. Listen. Their economic model is bankrupt and thats why they really do need to reform that model. In addition to the tariff pressure from President Trump, they have domestic pressure on a model that is imploding. They need to join the world where we have fair trade, reciprocal trade. That will be better for their economy. Reporter chinese vice premier that says china will strictly honor this agreement. Commerce secretary wilbur ross says the u. S. Will be watching closely to see how this is implemented. This agreement, has the most precise, the most effective trade enforcement procedures of any trade agreement, any country has ever had. The complaining party, presumably u. S. , then has the right, as long as they act in good faith, and as long as we act proportionately, to unilaterally put tariffs or other retaliatory action on china and they cannot reprise against us. Reporter spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in china says this is a good agreement for the world. He goes on to say this, quote. That it also shows that our two countries have the ability to act on the basis of equality and Mutual Respect and work through dialogue and consultation to properly handle and effectively resolve relevant issues, liz. Markets are he showing two here positive economic news. Back to you. Liz now were talking dow 30,000. Edward lawrence, great to see you. Thank you for your reporting. 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Sources tell us irans religious dictators have 200 billion in slush fund moneys to fund themselves, to fund terrorist proxy forces terrorizing the middle east. Watch this exchange. Lets listen. It is no secret that khamenei, has a slush fund, a secretive fund of 200 billion that he is using at his discretion for their own corruption on one hand and on the other hand, using it for undermining regimes in the surrounding area of iran. Detableizeing the entire situation. Number one, you have a breaking news story because that is a very classified bit of information that the ambassador just talked about, about the slush fund. Yes, iranians have a slush fund that they dont just use for terrorism. It is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The point is that they have a worldwide reach with their, with their terrorism organization. Liz what do they use the fund for . Oh, the 200 billiondollar slush fund primarily is put in their own pockets. Ambassador, i dont know why he would want to let that information out. Liz your reaction to this . Unfortunate. For people in iran, nobody is against you, we support you. You are upset because of the regime. They are using your money, taking it to sponsor terrorism all over the world. Theyre paying proxies in lebanon, syria. Spending on in europe, iranians need to know what happens with their money. They were starving in iran. In 2019, 1500 iranians were killed by Iranian Military because they want to protest against this corruption. Be strong. Were with you. Israelis, europeans, america. We hope the day will come when iranians will choose to elect the government that will choose funds to support the iranian people. Liz Trump Administration sanctioned one of these funds, the National Development fund last fall. To your point standing with the iranian people. Nancy pelosi getting, House Speaker getting criticized for minimizing street protesters in iran. Lets take a listen to this watch. The fact is this. There were protesters in the streets before against the regime. After the taking out of soleimani, there were protesters in the street joined together. As you know, against us. That wasnt good. But there are difficult receipts why people are in the street. Of course we would love to see the aspirations of peopleof iran with a better situation there but escalating the situation, unless we have exhaughed every other remedy which we havent . Well we dont know that. Liz your reaction to this . How do comments like that play on streets of iran . We have to empower the iranian people because of their suffering. By the way theyre shutting down internet. When there are riots or demonstrations theyre shutting internet which is ridiculous. We have to stand with them and support them. President trump to attack soleimani was a show of deterrence, not escalation. Showed strength. U. S. Is more respected. After multiple attacks against u. S. Targets in the region that was very important decision for President Trump. Liz 2020 democrats are attacking President Trump for the drone strike on soleimani. President trump didnt start prompts in the middle east. Joe biden attacking him, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, joe biden saying trump tossed a stick of dynamite in tinderbox. Senator Elizabeth Warren saying it was recless. Your reaction to 2020 democrats . I dont want to get into your politics. We have enough politics in jury. I know the Deputy Defense minister in israel. I know soleimani what he was planning to do against your targets, not against israel but iranian people. President trump was liz forgive me, because the President Trump and white house has been attacked for saying that soleimani was going to attack u. S. Embassies saying there was no proof of that but youre saying there was . Absolutely. Liz you have seen it . For 19 years mr. Soleimani was the mastermind of terrorism in the region and the world. We saw attacks in europe. Liz have you seen proof they were going to attack u. S. Embassies . He was going to plan attacks against american targets, against european targets and against middle east targets. He was funding all those attacks i so i think right decision at right time. We support President Trump for that. Liz okay, so what is the next step with iran if what happens next . We see them float