>> good evening and thank you for joining us i am trey gowdy and it is "sunday night in america". are we in the era of dooley impeachments the era and which whatever party controls the house seeks to remove a president from the other party and is there a double standard when it comes to congressional investigations. eric swalwell is a corner if you will a medical examiner displaying his version of a death certificate for the biden impeachment probe. it's the same eric swalwell for years perform cpr on the russia collision investigation on a daily basis. the same eric swalwell who badgered witnesses and leaked to the press of a duly elected president in the media never challenged him and they never challenged adam schiff when he invented a whole new category of evidence and never produced it. >> there is more than circumstantial evidence now. >> use indirect evidence of collusion. >> i don't want to go into specifics but i will say there is evidence that is not circumstantial and very much worthy of investigation. >> adam schiff was wrong about russia and fisa and the steele dossier and he pursued to failed impeachments and as punishment for the failures was the undying adoration of the d.c. media coupled with the democrat nomination for u.s. senate. so much for consequent is. impeachment is tantamount to the political death penalty. the investigation and trial will resemble a chaotic carnival. >> the chair has ruled. >> what are you afraid of. >> so far in this. it is felt like the worst episode of the apprentice. i'm sure you're familiar with that show. >> it seems like my colleagues in you and others are trying to become the next vice president. you're wasting over time, hours and hours going down fake rabbit holes and amplifying conspiracy. >> this is a show it's all fake. >> make no mistake, the chaos is intentional and is correlated between house democrats and their defenders in the state. the house democrats disrupt while the d.c. media minimizes gop investigation. democrat investigation on the other hand are treated like the college of cardinals, they demand to know when the gop will move forward with impeachment. >> let's do the impeachment, why continue to waste millions of dollars the taxpayers money if were going to impeach because you believe you've shown he's committed a high crime and misdemeanor, what you waiting on. >> we have chairman jordan here also the double chairman why are you calling for the vote in your committee, when is it going to happen. >> they did not seem to mind when nancy pelosi took weeks to simply transmit articles of impeachment from the house to the senate. it took her weeks to walk a couple hundred steps from one side of the capital to the other. were left to wonder whether impeachment has become washington's version of dueling banjos and if the reason americans have a dim view of the media. the media never met a republican investigation that should begin or democrat investigation that should end. joining is now house oversight chairman james comer, welcome mr. chairman where does the impeachment inquiry stand, what witnesses are left for you to examine. >> right now we want to hear from joe biden, what we heard three former business associates all testified under oath that joe biden was a central figure in the family's influence peddling schemes. what we have proven and the democrats will not dispute nor will the media dispute, the biden family influence peddling and they did not have a single legitimate business in the biden family did not provide one single hour of work for the tens of millions of dollars they received from her enemies around the world that is influence peddling one-on-one, although further the biden family did not pay a penny of taxes on the $28 million they received from our adversaries around the world but the problem joe biden has three business associates have testified that joe biden was the central figure and their influence peddling schemes. what the democrats were saying that the hearing, impeach one, they want an impeachment because they know the senate is not going to do anything. i want to hold the biden family accountable and the best way to hold them accountable is through criminal referrals. we have proven many crimes were committed and the democrats are not disputing that the president's son and brother committed crimes and what their disputing joe biden was involved in the scheme that is why we given joe biden an opportunity to come before the committee to explain himself. >> president biden sat down for an interview and special rob her did not turn out that well for him deeply not inviting him to sit down for a transcribed interview, do you want to send questions to him you want to send questions to his lawyer, how do you propose to get answers to them. >> we're going to send him some questions were definitely going to do that but were going to give them opportunity if he wants to come in front of the house oversight committee he has an open invitation he better do it quickly if he wants to sit down for a transcribed interview i will bring the oversight staff to the white house and we will conduct a transcribed interview. it is his choice. if he does not come forward and answer for himself, we're going to have to believe the testimony of bob belinsky and archer who testified that joe biden was a central figure in joe biden met with all these people and is like dozens of times about his knowledge of and participation and benefit from his family's influence peddling schemes and that's not going to play well for joe biden moving forward when we entered the real accountability phase of this investigation. >> chairman you mention criminal referrals those would be to a d.o.j. run by merrick garland put in place by joe biden. you expect this criminal referrals to be in addition to impeachment articles or in lieu of impeachment articles. >> that's a decision that leadership is going to have to make but again the fact that the senate is not going to take impeachment seriously just like they have not taken merrick garland impeachment seriously i think is evidence if we want to hold them accountable we're going to have to focus on the justice. the merrick garland of the justice will not hold this family accountable then maybe if trump wins president then trey gaddy department of justice can hold this family accountable for the wrongdoing that is one of my hopes there. >> chairman, my wife cannot live on the salary that the attorney general makes but thank you for saying that. i love being a prosecutor that i love working for fox because i get to talk to you, thank you for spending some time with us on sunday night all the best to you and your beloved state of kentucky. >> thank you. >> former president trump has until tomorrow to find half a billion dollars for an appeal bond in the new york civil fraud case otherwise he runs the risk of the state of new york and start seizing assets. joining us to survey the legal landscape and former prosecutor andrew kerr caskey and attorney john yoo. the justice system is different and used to be different and even opponents are entitled to due process and fundamental fairness. half a million dollars judgment in a case with no financial loss and no real victim to some of us seems personal and punitive are we missing something is there something that justifies that amount whizze which is ten amouo the business death penalty to donald trump. >> there is not the appellate division credibility depends on how they act on the state that trump's team has filed with it. right now looking at a state or relief from the astronomical judgment and the requirement to pay it by monday the defense team has gone forward and given the appellate court rationale that they need this day allows for exceptions to be made in the courts have made the exceptions of the past in a case is of far less gravity and amount that we have in this case we talk about the likelihood of success on appeal and they go through all sorts of issues or calculation at accounting and judge arthur engoron did and they hit on the eighth amendment the amount of penalty is astronomically higher in any calculation that you can put forward to show damages where there are no factually evidence of damages, their very solid grounds for the appellate court and i hope that they don't do that right down. trey: the news was a little better for the former president and georgia nathan wade is off the case they are allowing the defense to appeal to leave fani willis on the case. what do you think will happen on appeal and is the timing of this trial and definitely push beyond november because of this. >> it's hard to see how this case gets to a verdict before november given that we haven't started any real proceedings in front of a jury but the more important thing were all former employees and we all know the department prosecutors have to have the highest integrity and they need to have higher integrity if they get a after president for the first time in history and bring charges against a presidential reelection campaign which is an exercise of first amendment rights because ultimately prosecutors in the legal system can't succeed and can't maintain law and order unless they have the confidence of the cooperation of the public and if the public sees prosecutors and monkey business and sometimes seem to be lying on the court on tv in front of everybody then we have to be worried whether they have the integrity necessary. >> this is for both of you will start with you. >> he won the colorado case and the impossible it was 19 megs 0. and i doubt that's going to be 19 megs 0 will start with you professor then you andrew. >> i would not bet against you, you have a good track record. i think it might be 19 megs 0 but it might be 19 megs 0 against president trump and the reason i say that all the presidents in the past decision seem to run against trump i don't think the court is likely to say that the president have immunity from federal criminal prosecution but people should keep in mind immunity means trump doesn't mean he has to show up and appear and whether this is really fraud i don't think it is and if it's interfering with the congressional process i'm not sure it is and trump took away everyone's voting rights i definitely don't think he will be able to make those important constitutional legal arguments even when he loses immunity of the line between a personal act i don't think the oral argument went well for trump's lawyers for the d.c. court of appeals. what do you think. >> i'm going to disagree with john i think is a case for the supreme court to grant some degree of immunity. this is a case of first impression no president has been prosecuted criminally before we have some precedent that talks about the outer perimeter of the presidency and not be in a guideline for the idea of immunity. the d.c. circuit court totally ignored that and said that the president doesn't enjoy immuni immunity. that seems to suggest the opposite of what we see all the time the government actors have a certain degree of immunity. if the board gives the outer perimeter standard to donald trump then how do you define what that looks like that's good to be the difficulty for the supreme court this decision is good to go forward for hundreds of years on how to prosecute presidents. how that line is drawn is very tricky of the engagement of the president and the legitimacy or the sanctity of voting does not have to deal with foreign interactions or policies which is an article one function of the presidency is very difficult to say. i think the supreme court is going to set a guideline for what immunity looks like it is going to be relatively far down the line and they're not going to get into the politics of deciding what is and was not a presidential act versus a personal act. >> members of congress should listen to 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except more bitterness and acrimony in the conference, members are actively campaigning against fellow republicans and they criticize what another publicly which may be why members skipped a gop retreat designed had discussed how to govern to instead campaign against current colleagues. speaker mike johnson told the gop members to knock it off and quit attacking one another but they are not listening, joining is now political congressional correspondent olivia beaver's. speaker mike johnson threw a party or a retreat and no one showed up were very few. they were too busy going out trying to kill one another politically speaking. it was very poorly attended and meanwhile there campaigning against one another. >> you sort of touched on about the irony of the speaker coming out swinging and blasting some of the republicans members for campaigning against her own colleagues and incompetents were the people that could receive this message were not there and if you narrow it down the biggest name that comes to mind is matt gaetz and he was down in texas trying to campaign against tony gonzales who is in the cabinet who was in a runoff in a social media pro-gun influencer but is also been involved in other races like congressman mike voss against darren bailey which he was unsuccessful as he was able to plow pull ahead of that one. it's really mixed results and it's a broader fight for the house gop conference will look like engaged in johnson on two different sides like kevin mccarthy and gates were previously. trey: it may start looking like a minority if they keep doing this, they have apparently more energy for fighting with one another than they do for fighting anything else. he mentioned illinois, texas, virginia current members actively campaigning against the head of the freedom caucus, correct. >> this is very interesting it is my hometown we have chairman bob good who first decided to endorse ron desantis over donald trump there is an element of a question of will donald trump get involved in at the moment he had some of his campaign officials taking shots at bob good he has incense endorsed trump but another element is kevin mccarthy might be looking to put money into the race or some of his allies. one thing that struck me, member told me recently he said he has not seen this many of his republican colleagues line up against the sitting member like bob good as they have liz cheney, there is an irony here, bob good is facing john mcguire a navy seal in the state senator and is looking to run on approach trump platform. trey: you mentioned the former speaker kevin mccarthy he was canned for using democrats to pass certain bills which is exactly what speaker mike johnson has done. are any members wondering what has changed and what if anything has gotten better since i got rid of mccarthy and if not what if anything will happen is johnson. >> i think the realization that's been with mike johnson, the party does not change that much in a matter who is in leadership there is always attention internally of the people who go against leadership and the people who are going to be part of the team and with a thin minority it's a tough time for anyone in the speakership position to get things through especially when you have some of the conservatives tanking votes for bills to come to the floor into the minds of most republicans blocking the republican agenda, that sort of regard it seems like a lot of the things that dave was saying mike johnson faces his own transfer motion to vacate. >> 's sounds from where i sit down in south carolina that the gop house conference is beginning to resemble "game of thrones". but the members of congress may wear more makeup than the actors and actress on "game of thrones". all the best to you i told you to go to law school and you did not do it you decided to stay. winter is coming and it may come this november, olivia beaver's, thank you for joining us on a sunday night. coming up a leading 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>> a defense who you're referring to if you're referring to prime minister bitumen yet in yahoo he was angry by those comments but most israelis know that chuck schumer is not only the senior jewish member of the u.s. government but also a long time study french israel, what you have to see the comment in context and term of the overall administration policy, secretary of lincoln was in israel this week delivering a message that you cannot have famine in gaza and continue with sending your military enter raw for and essentially israel will lose the pr campaign overseas and support from around the world but let's go back to an important point the prime minister made about how other countries are watching and the enemies of the united states and hypocrisies are watching. china and russia teamed up at the un security council in the u.s. brought forward an immediate cease-fire plan that we get the hostages home and stop the fighting in gaza in both china and russia voted against it because they know that the longer the conflict in gaza that the u.s. is hurt by this. other countries are watching and this is interconnected and very, very dangerous right now. >> jennifer griffin with her pulse on the conductivity of the world as always, thank you for joining us on a sunday night. >> up next the stock market is up the optimism about the u.s. economy is not, president biden pay a high price come november. economist and trump senior advisor stephen moore breaks it down only on "sunday night in america". ♪ (♪) there's two things a young man wanna be - a cowboy or a gangster. and a gangster's outta style. i got back to my roots... we come from a long line of cowboys. my grandfather, my great-grandfather, my aunt even rode horses. when i see all of us out here on this ranch, i see how far our legacy can go. 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trump, welcome, thank you for joining us, the stock market is up but that seems long-term to midi voters while inflation is something that we experience daily, how do those to get reconcile? >> i hope that this election is about the issue of whether americans are better off today than they were four years ago. because every poll for the last two years has shown that americans by wide margins believe that there were soft. the reason for that what you just mentioned is the inflation has not subsided, prices across the board are about 20% higher than they were when biden came into office, the average family is about $2000 poorer today than they were when biden came into office and trump left office. under trump the average family gained about $6000 in purchasing power. people are angry and feeling financially stressed out and that is the reason, biden can point to a strong stock market new question about it but what people really care about is the money in their pocket. trey: i'm going to ask you a question that may see material but you're an economist so i know you can handle it. you president take too much credit for a good economy and therefore get too much blame for about one. do presidents really actually impact the economy that much and if so how? >> they sure do look at what happened with reagan when he took over from jimmy carter within a year or 18 months he completely turned around at the direction of american economy and we have the biggest boom in american history, look what happened when trump took over from obama people forget how bad the economy had been under obama. i remember by the beginning of 2020, right before covid hit thank you we have the best economy ever, there is no way trump could lose who would've ever thought you would have appeared debit that would change everything. when you have a pandemic, that is something were a terrorist attack that will obviously change the direction of the policy matters. that's why i'm in this business and you are in this business and congress because the policies that you make have an incredible impact on the living standards of americans. trey: i want to ask about a policy there is dicey political but it is important, deficit spending. does it have an impact on the economy, if so mandatory spending seems to be the driver of our debt and deficit, does that have to be addressed before you can ever fully get a handle on the deficit? >> certainly debt is exploding on everyone on the show knows that. when i first came to washington in the mid-1980s the entire national debt was 1 trillion and here we are 40 years later and the debt is closing on $40 trillion and everyone knows this is wrong and everyone knows it is harmful and the debt has gone up under republicans and democrats. let's face it you were in congress and notice another politicians love to play santa claus and pass out goodies but they don't what to cut spending. when you were in congress we saw improvement. but the most important thing, let me give you what example, joe biden has a 350 billion, not million, three to $50 billion green energy slush fund in the budget. he is using that to pass out the money to all of his favorite friends he announced that he is going to pass out more taxpayer dollars for student loan bailouts, that is inappropriate you did my opinion when you were in congress we could easily cut every program ten or 15 or 20% across-the-board americans would not even feel it and then we have to get the economy growing and we have to get back to the booming economy and you will see revenues commented that will bring down the deficit. >> stephen moore a past advisor in the future advisor to a republican president of the united states. >> with president and i said how long will it take to fix the economy and he said two or three months and will get the economy right back on track. trey: my grammar teachers would be happy to say past, present you in future, stephen moore thank you for joining us on a 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doctor anita phillips lives and works at the intersection of faith and culture and mental health and the author of the book of the garden within, welcome it is wonderful to see you again. americans say they are unhappy. why is that when we live in times of prosperity and abundance. >> it's a significant finding that levels are dropping especially among young people, the key is to recognize what the central question is in the survey the central question is not how happy are you, the central question centers on what do you think your life is like compared to how good you believe it could be is a comparative question about life satisfact satisfaction. trey: what affirmative steps can we take to capture their own ships to claim ownership over our own happiness. >> this report let's us know the social support is one of the most important things that contribute to how satisfied we are with her life and as a result how happy we may feel, building, social support networks that are healthy engaging with the network that we have in person versus texting and social media and spending time with other people is one of the ways that we can boost the experience that were having this is super significant. we know that america dropped from number 15 to number 23 and the happiest countries of the world largely because a huge decline and happiness among young people so social support network is critical to addressing the. >> we had a chance to visit not long ago and i was struck by how upbeat you are even though in talking with you about what happened when you were growing up. yet every reason to not be upbeat for yourselves and division cells and anger cells how can we avoid becoming consumers when it seems like that is what were being sold as fear, anger and division. >> it is up to us to view our life through the lens that we choose but are surrounding israel and what are the ways that we can improve experience that were having is to maintain that we can connect with people that we care about and we have the freedom to make certain choices and lean into that and defined communities and support the choices that were making. it's important to recognize that people are impacted by the environment in which they live, i would love to believe that we would individually take charge of this in the statistics from the happiness report are showing that we need to work together to change the places that we live so people are not suffering like this especially young people. trey: young people to me seem more connected in terms of social media they have more access to one another and information in the happiness numbers are going down so there has to be a difference between connectivity as i use the word in connectivity and a positive standpoint. >> absolutely, the 2019 report looking at the impact of social media in the united states it's been extremely detrimental for the mental health of young people they are not having the same social connection experiences even though they are connected to a lot of information. the fact that social media pushes the comparison standard is what are the things that is undermining the mental health of the people. and if i answer a question on a scale of 0 - 10 and ten is the best life i could be living rank yourself, social media artificially inflates what they believe it would be in their best life could be in that type of comparison is undermining their wellness, we see young people as young as 12 or 13 years old to experiencing heightened experiences with negative emotion because of the comparison standard and we see a gap between young women and young men so girls are struggling even more as a result of this comparison standard. i encourage parents to help manage how their children are engaging with social media in the painful emotional experiences undermine mental health in ways that could last a lifetime. >> doctor anita phillips a trauma mental health expert the book is the garden within. thank you for 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