Favorite segment. Maybe. Tonya ryman reveals why body language at the impeachment hearing was one of the real stories and friday follies, raymond roy attacked Colin Kaepernicks gentle return to the nfl and a lot more. That is coming up on a special friday follies but first, shifting goalposts collapsed. Thats the focus of tonights angle. What happens when you convene an impeachment hearing and no one cares . From the outset we told you that the schiff show trial is an exercise in goalposts shifting. Now we can tell you that its not shifting public opinion. In fact, its so bad the democrats are asking the public for help. The shift from quid pro quo to robbery came after the dnc conducted focus groups and kept house battle groups in recent weeks texting impeachment and they found that bribery was the most damning we also know that wall street isnt taking any of this seriously. The dow hit 82,000 today. Another record. Aware that witness is from day one felt kind of flat land, democrats on day two today they tried something new. Surely ratings would crackle if they elicited sympathy and showed admiration for their new star witnesses, former ukraine investor, Marie Yovanovitch. Parents lead communist and regimes face because she served as u. S. Ambassador three times. A lifetime of excellent and faithful service to this country. We thank you for your service, your 33 years of service. She had a long and interesting career and may be a wonderful but it became very obvious very early the democrats were just using her as a stage prop. She had no firsthand knowledge of the july 25th call that sparked the impeachment sanity. It she was fired as ambassador before it even happened. The g. O. P. Pounded this home throughout. There are a number of events you are investigating to which i cannot bring any firsthand knowledge. Were you involved in the jule call or preparations for the call . No i was not. Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the United States has been involved with at all . No. Laura that went on for a while, by the way. Naturally, adam schiff, playing the role of Dudley Doright tried to swoop into save the damsel in distress. While you were at the beginning of the story, you are not the end of it. This story is an effort to get you out of the way because they felt you were an impediment to these political investigations the president so desperately wanted. Laura what does that have to do with impeachment . I told you before, this is not an impeachment in search of relevant facts for this is an impeachment in search of a cri crime. Principles of fairness, the relevance of witnesses, concern about hearsay, all of that is jettisoned for the greater good of damaging trump. He is making of the rules as he goes. He did not let republican support any offense. He did not let republican members on their own time through the hearing laura we told you weeks ago that this would be impeachment by emotion and boy were we right. Since the facts and firsthand knowledge were absent in todays hearings, the proceedings often focused on how yovanovitch felt. How did that make you feel . Terrible, honestly. Without upsetting you too much, how do you feel when you heard President Trump . Did you feel threatened . I did. How so . I didnt know exactly. Laura okay. It will all of these feelings are fine. Losing a job, especially when you enjoy, is never fun, but by the end of the day, the media sounded like they wanted her on mount rushmore. I am so proud of this woman. Every woman in america who has fought in a maledominated career should cheer for this woman today. A courageous service. A lifelong, really an american hero. Laura committing a nonerror though, President Trump during the hearing decided to impeach the witness by tweet and just like that, adam schiff and the democrats thought they had conquered the moral high ground and maybe even launch down another article of impeachment . [indistinct speaking] we take this kind of witness impotent intimidation and inquiry very serious. Laura we delve into that phony charge with our legal expert in a few moments. Dont believe for a second that democrats care about officials trying to intimidate women because we know adam schiff doesnt care. Mr. Chairman, i have a parliamentary inquiry. I do want to comment and pastoral yovanovitch, i want to thank you your not recognize. This is the fifth time you have interrupted fully it elected members of congress. The women will suspend, gentle woman. While one got the sense that the entire purpose of todays hearing was basically to try to gin up supports for democrats among suburban women by portraying trump is kind of mean and heartless and trumps tweet about you dont give out of its going back to that plays right into their hands but let me disabuse you of the notion that democrats were or are distraught about trumps ukraine policy. Yovanovitch herself admitted that trump was better for ukraine than obama. While they all acknowledge that the president had the authority to fire and hire anyone he wants in these positions, they still questioned his motivation. They were mad that other folks didnt lobby for her to keep her job. I did everything that i could to address these issues and ask the state department to do what i felt was the right thing, which was support me when it was important to do so. It was also about supporting the policy. Laura with alls due respect, every four years, americans dont elect a diplomatic bureaucracy to serve indefinitely. They elect a president to head the entire executive branch and our current president has the right to have the ambassadors and staff that he believes is bests interest. Its his goal. Because she is missed that pompeo and other highranking officials didnt stop everything they were doing to start a petition drive on her behalf, thats beside the point read whatever you think, it certainly has no bearing whatsoever on impeachment. Adam schiff has struggled to float this lead balloon for months now and today it anywhere. Thats the angle. Joining me now, jonni smith, senior fellow at the claymont interest unit due to an constitutional collar, robert ray, former whitewater independent counsel. John, i want to start with you. Democrats say it provided no proof. You see an Impeachable Offense here after these two days . I dont. Theres a couple of things that come out. One, ambassador yovanovitch lied under oath. She said that she didnt know that Joe Biden Laura lets play that sound bite where she referenced joe biden bringing up concern about this issue. Lets watch. So youre concerned about that aspect because she had to have known everybody in the country knows. How could she not have known . Shes one of the central players in his narrative and she didnt know that joe biden give a speech bragging about how he threatened to cut off a billion dollars in aid if they didnt fire the prosecutors looking into his sons company . How could she not possibly know that . Yet she sat under oath today that she had no idea. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you could look into it, it sounds horrible to me. Are you familiar with the eight allegations related to Vice President biden . Yes. Do you know whether he ever went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution as anyone . No. Laura no. So that just doesnt pass the test. Yeah i mean i dont know under what universe im at it is central to the story doesnt know of that event that everybody else in the country knows. Laura i think she performed as a pretty good witness for them. Shes pretty calm and are going to get into that audio language but she was pretty common to get on that regard but i agree, that point especially, shes mad she lost her job bid i get it. One of the things thats important here, most of the time when you have a new administration, everyone tenders their rugged resignation. That didnt happen this time. Obama cleared everybody because people entered in their resignations laura i want to get into this witness intimidation issue and i want to play a few sound bites and they were going crazy about trumps tweet about Marie Yovanovitch. Watch. We have not seen a climate of intimidation of Public Servants like this since the mccarthy. Speak all of this violent link which, the intimidation, get her out of the country, shut her down. The president is live tweeting this and he is tweeting intimidation. This is criminal. Laura they try to quid pro quo then they went to bribery and now they are on witness intimidation. Honestly, are you serious . I just i cant believe we have gotten to this. Its either the snowflake theory of witness tampering or just evaluated under the instruction of justice concepts. Are there any is anything to believe that the president influence, obstructed, or impeded her testimony whatsoever . The answer to that question is clearly no end none. Laura with adam schiff who was reading it, i dont think she would be aware of it if someone mentioned it on twitter. No one would be aware of it in less adam schiff repeated shes at the witness stand here and she doesnt know what the tweet is so the notion that i could be intimidating while shes artie testifying until schiff read it to her, its laughable. Laura we want to play the sound bite of the president addressing this today because he came out later in the day because he had been hearing this all day long and a lot of republicans werent too happy about it. They thought they had the upper ground and have her hand on this and this is what the president said. Are you trying to intimidate ambassador yovanovitch . I just want to have a total i want freedom of speech. Do you believe those words could be intimidating . I dont think so at all. Laura i mean again, we are talking about impeachment. We are talking about the impeachment of a president of the United States. They dont want him to be able to defend himself, to be able to call to question the policy acumen or frankly his own Decision Making to hire who he wants to hire. They want to shut him down on all fronts. Right and he has the First Amendment right he also was the commanderinchief and had the absolute right to replace her and he didnt do anything to influence her or alter her testimony that he did nothing it would seem to me that would be anything inconsistent with the obligation she has under oath to tell the truth. Hes explored the question it which is legitimate about her bias against him which he has every right to do. In less seriously we are going to engage in the snowflake theory of witness intimidation or tampering, i dont for the life of me, i cannot possibly fathom how this could be a crime or an Impeachable Offense. Laura im going to get into this in the next panel but its hard to say that any woman in any sector, you are strong woman, but then its like you cant have it both ways. They play in this world its a roughandtumble world, youre going to get criticized. Will also have to remember that president zelensky was upset with her for siding with his political opponent and continuing to do so after he won the election. Laura this is typical as a not for the president or leader of a foreign country till late raise objections about an American Ambassador should mark we do it whether its mexico, canada, or country overseas. Thats right in the diplomatic connection between the president and president zelensky would require an ambassador who is not biased against the incoming president of ukraine. There is nothing wrong here and to try to pretend there is is laughable. Laura Eric Swalwell made a point about the whistleblower which i know youre itching to comment on. Watch. The whistleblower has an absolute right to anonymity pair the whistleblowers lawyer has said he fears for his personals hd and will only answer questions now in writing. I wish my colleagues would join me in protecting the whistleblowers right to anonymity. Laura quickly on that. There is no legal or constitutional right to anonymity under the whistleblower statute. So the answer is not strong. Laura yeah. He lied. I mean he knows thats not if he doesnt know that then he should just go do something else. Thought some things are debatable in life and is not one of them. Laura right. Its just like read the transcript, read the statute. Inspector general is the only one who does and cant take out any its a means toward an end. Its not an end to itself. Laura thank you so much. Good to see you both tonight. The democrats threw around a lot of provocation, we dont want to say lies, but house into welsh chair adam schiff, he really stumped to an old dell mike neu low by closing the hearing with this. The president praises the corrupt, he praises the corrupt. He condemns the just. You paid and then he asks for an investigation of the bidens. There is no camouflaging that corrupt intent. We are adjourned. Mr. Chairman, you disparaged those members on the side of the isle that we should have a chance to respond to your remarks. The one joining me now, congressman lee zeldin and hou House Congress men, we said all along that this was impeachment by emotion, it was a theatrical production, and fell flat and got terrible reviews on day one. They knew they tried stomach had to try to bring the drama so its like begging for applause. What was that moment like . I was there and they hearing all day today as i was all day on wednesday. Afterwards we went back into the bunker in the capital basement and went right back to the deposition that took place this afternoon and we are back there and i bunker tomorrow and laura haus about the moment with the elevation. They filled out the crowd with all of their support laura why are you guys not doing that . Well, it there is a lot of effort on the part of democrats over the course of the entire day to make something out of what was at best a draw for them. The fact is that there is nothing new to learn. Not only did they leak out the best of what of what yovanovitch wouldve said when she gave her deposition in this gift, they spun it in a way to set the Higher Expectations so it was actually worse if you are watching at home over the course of today. Not only did you not learn anything new but you realized with the media was telling you about what yovanovitch was going to have to say wasnt there. She was out of the position. She had no owner firsthand knowledge. Sue and she said she lost her job youre welcome to the world. Civil servants dont serve forever. The president can take his ambassador. She had a great job in georgetown university. Thats exactly what she wanted. She got the position she wanted. My background as a military and the department of defense can pick you up and move you several times. A salute and drive on. Laura courtesy of the u. S. Tax they are, regardless of what the president thinks. I want to play for you, president schiff asks yovanovitch about the intimidation. Deserves his attack to you on twitter i read part of his tweets. Everywhere were yovanovitch winch turned a bad grade she started off in somalia. How did that go . He goes on to say later in that sweet that its u. S. President s absolutely and point investors. The president in real time is attacking you. Its very intimidating. Schiff is such a fraud. The president puts out this entire tweet and schiff gives his own rendition of the tweet. If you want to ask the witness for her feelings on the tweed and ask her feelings about everything else, let her read the entire tweet for herself and then ask her a question but for example, the second part of that tweet which was a little of the legitimate point that they left out, they trade picked out, the president noticed this, the jule response from president zelensky to President Trump, president zelensky calls investor yovanovitch of that zero. President zelensky says he believes that investor yovanovitch had loyalty to president or shank so why dont you just allow ambassador yovanovitch to answer that question . Laura and more importantly, if hes intimidating, why is he reading a question mark yovanovitch had no idea exactly. She had no idea the tweed even existed. Talk about witness gagging, not allowing several public witnesses or witness poaching as we saw with attendant curl than men. He needs to look in the mirror. He does everything he accuses others. Laura what did you feel about the way he treated stefon a question mark he does not like a least a phonic and she has been a strong woman, she does her homework, shes been working hard, shes preparing for all of these testimonies, shes been fantastic and schiff states that. Laura on the official who was going to end test testify and give a deposition even on the white house has no great he is expected to come and hes been answering questions with regards to the hold on a but keep in mind, ukraine did not know about the hold on eight until august. It gets released shortly thereafter and guess what ukraine has to do in order to a release . Absolutely nothing. Laura thanks for stopping by. Back to the dungeon for you tomorrow. Up next, the tammy bruce response to democrats in the media yovanovitch as a helpless victim plus a mother of one of the four victims killed in benghazi response to one of the four diplomats comparing herself to what happened in benghazi and even the iranian hostage crisis. When we come back. This is a witness who is they are not just as a fact witness but as a victim. She was a victim of diplomacy. A victim of corruption. Laura lets get one thing straight here, Marie Yovanovitch is not a victim, shes a professional. This whole exercise on the part of the democrats is geared toward one thing. Money. It dreaming, tammy bruce and Fox News Contributor and harmeet dhillon, trump 2020 Board Advisory member. This victim now has an incredibly great fellowship at georgetown university. But we are supposed to feel what tonight . Right well this patronizing attitude entity and centralization of this witness was really quinn dome i cringeworthy to me as a women. We fought hard to be in a situation where women are investors and judges and are at every level and yet i expected brett butler to come out there and do something dastardly with a tone that adam schiff was taking with this witness and the focus group so it was equally offensive when adam schiff discriminated against Elise Stefanik but we dont need to patronize and talked on in either direction. Laura no