That the case against the president is open and shut, because they lack essential facts to prove impeachable offenses, they had to resort to the usual. Lies. Ro thats something the president called out this morning. I think the other side has a soul lied, i watch the lies from adam schiff, hes a liar and a fraud. Laura hes right about that, lets walk through the biggest whoppers today from adam schiff. Here schiff is trying to convince all of us that hes a mesmerizing force when it comes to history. That russiaies systemically interfered in our election to help elect donald trump, the campaign understood that and they willfully made use of that help. Laura heres what the Mueller Report actually said. The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in election interference activities. Can you read . Second, schiff is putting words in the mouth of ukraines president. President zelensky clearly understood the quid pro quo for the white house meeting on july 25th. Laura if zelensky clearly understood that he has a funny way of showing it. We had a good phone call, it was normal, nobody pushed me. Laura its all normal. Third, schiffs tall tale about the white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. Mulvaney didnt just admit the president withheld crucial aid appropriated by congress to apply pressure on the ukraine to do the president s dirty work. He also said we should just get over it. Laura that is alive. Mulvaney wasnt admitting to corruption, he was talking about the president s right to conduct Foreign Policy and negotiate with foreign leaders. When he said get over it he was mocking all the liberals left aghast by the very idea that trump as president of the United States can differ on policy with career bureaucratsts on the seventh floor of the state department. Schiff has taken what mulvaney said out of context and hes doing it to smear the president and bolster the sham impeachment, its shameless. Why isnt any other outlet calling these lies out to . It was actually more than just a lie. This was one moment of all the moments today that really got my goat. Schiff confirmed today what we have been telling you for the last three years. Democrats dont really like the idea that you, the American People, get to pick our president. This whole democracy thing, representative democracy, itsop had its day, they dont like it anymore. They dont trust you, the American Voters. Ti the president s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, we cannot be assured that the vote would be t fairly won. Laura you see what hes doing, if trump wins in november, they are going to say its ukrainian meddling. Forget russian meddling, it will be something but they do not trust the people. That came through undisputedly today, it was disgusting. Joining me now is congressman doug collins, member of trumps Impeachment Defense Team and Ranking Member on the judiciary committee. Congressman, they tried in my view to disenfranchise American Voters with the local russia case which he repeated today and now they moved ony to this because they cant stand the idea that trump could beat any of their shining stars from bernie to biden in november. They cant take it and ive really come to the conclusion that if their people dont win, they have to say its rigged. End of story. They have to, think about this. Adam schiff and jerry nadler in particular who went on a giant tirade last night talking about the senate, what they are trying to do is do two things. They want to see if they dont do something now, the election is rigged and Everyone Needs to be aware of that. They are saying if the senate doesnt do what they want them to do, then the senate is corrupt. For everybody who has watched the democratic primary field, that clown car cant win. Compared to the president to actually have something to run on from a trade deals, a economy that is booming, Foreign Policy that works, they know they cant win on the facts so they are trying to do everything they can to undermine a president who is doing everything he said he would do which is unique in politics, hes reached out to millions of americans who have been cut out of the system. Africanamericans, hispanics, its the lowest unemploymentca rate in years. All the democrats have done is use them as political pawns. This is why you are seeing what you are seeing on the floor, a rehash of tall tales, lies, and dishonesty when they know they cant have candidates who can beat him att the ballot box. You disenfranchise people ands tell them they cant do it. Laura i was over there today, i decided to torture myself and go over to the senate chamber, i have my own thoughs and i have a story about what what happened later on the show it was something to watch. Its this moment we areat goingo play next that again shows the American People what they couldnt prove in the house was a quid pro quo. T they will restate in the senate trial as if they have proven it, watch. Witness testimony, text messages, the call record itself confirm a corrupt quid pro quo for the white house meeting. The president and his allies have offered no explanation for this effort except the president can abuse his office all he likes and theres nothing you can do about it. Laura where was the bribery article of impeachment then if there was a quid pro quo . Why did theyar drop it . They dont have it. They have no case in the house, they went to two of the weakest impeachment articles and a member been written, this abuse of power nonsense is saying well just say whatever we wantd to say and call it abuse of power. Obstruction of congress is simply adam schiff and jerry nadler pitching a temper tantrum and now they are going to the senate to say we didnt want to do our job so you do it for us. Yesterday when adam schiff said we didnt call john bolton because he said he would take it to court and then we just backed off. Thats just saying you either give into my demands are im going to say youre corruptf anyway. They cant prove their case now, they repeat it enough times, they are hoping beyond hope that its actually true. The problem is nobody is listening to them anymore, they are saying the samee things wee already disproven. Not only are they missing on the process which they so destroyed in the house but they are losing on the facts because this president did nothing wrong, end of story. A quit, move on. Laura great to see you tonight. Senator tom cotton just sat through all of what i attended for maybe an hour and a half, the Senate Proceedings i was watching you in the gallery, i was watching you and i was thinking if i am this board, how can these people sit through can these people sit through this for these many hours . It was unbelievable. It seemed like an exercise largely rooted in builtup fury and anger that trump actually gets to choose the Foreign Policy and dictate Foreign Policy for the United States, they hate that. They want the statey department to determine it. If you sat through an hour and a half of it you heard the entirety of the democrats argument. They repeated themselves and if they had genuine evidence of wrongdoing by this president , you would think they would stand on this evidence and let it stand but rather,de they kept repeating themselves time and time again because they did not prove their case in the house of representatives. What this gets back to his anger that the president won in 2016 and the frustration that the elected president gets to direct Foreign Policy of the United States. Laura i just mentioned this, democrats tried to make this case with the following clip. From the former ambassador yovanovitch, watch. She said there was great concern at the seventh floor, there was great concern, they were worried, she wanted to give me a heads up about this and things seem to be going on. She wanted to give me a heads up. Laura senator cotton, who cares . Isnt it the president s prerogative to determine w foren policy and frankly if he wants to fire every ambassador in the ambassadorial ranks, he can do that whether its good policy or not, its his article one power to do so, correct . No building, anyone else not elected by the American People makes Foreign Policy, the president makes Foreign Policy. Advisors advise president s decide, hes free to listen to their advice and reject their advice as well. If the democrats dont like that, they should run someone on the ballot who can beat him this fall rather than trying to impeach him for a policy difference. Laura this reminds me of bureaucracy fights back, the swamp monsters come back because they are thinking you came in saying you are going to drain the swamp, the state department is filled with swamp monsters and they want to determine a more globalist Foreign Policy, they want to go back to the good old days and trump doesnt want to take us there. St that is the tension that has existed in the state Department Since i was working in the reagan administration. It is always that tension and there is another moment which i know with your military experience you will love to tee off on. This is adam schiff actually saying that ukrainians died because of President Trumps decision, watch. This military aid which has long enjoyed bipartisan support was designed to help ukraine defend itself from the kremlins aggression. More than 15,000 ukrainians have died fighting russian t forces d their proxies, 15,000. President trump use the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised National Security of the United States. Laura two questions, number one is u. S. National security really imperiled because of ada being delayed for a couple of weeks to ukraine . Im really amazed at all these democrats who think that its a grievous risk to our National Security and the lives of ukrainian soldiers that President Trump decided to pause aid for six or seven weeks. I didnt hear many of them complaining when barack obama refused to provide that aid for over three years. Barack obama sent them cash, donald trump sent missiles. In ukraine, barack obama sent meals ready to eat in blankets, donald trump sent hellfire missiles. Laura the implication and his comment was also with 15,000 ukrainians dying due to what he says was russian aggression, some blood is implicit in this it has to be on the hands of the president , is there any proof for that . There is no proof for that, the funding was released in Early September was for the next year, there is no evidence that any soldiers in ukraine on the front lines were running short of supplies. Maybe it inconvenienced some bureaucrats in kiev who are trying to plan for the next years budget but there is no evidence that any soldiersre didnt get the supplies they need and lets remember its because of donald trump that they have things like antitank missiles whereas barack obama only sent the meals readytoeat and blankets. Laura the impeachment managers routinely will say President Trump was trying to hurt his political opponent, in other words inferring subjective intent which the whitehe House Counsel just brilliantly destroyed the idea that you could infer intent, and negative or criminal intent and i want to play something from just a few years back from barack obama speaking to dmitry medvedev, then the president of russia. After my election i have more flexibility. I will transmit this information to vladimir. Can we infer from thatdi that president obama was keeping Key Information from the American People, saying one thing during the 2012 election cycle and planning to do another . Is that not fraud and abuse of power under their definition . You could drive a truck through what they are describing is abuse of power. I think you could infer Barack Obamas policy toward russia was one of appeasement and weakness, Donald Trumps policy has been firmness. It has also as the white house lawyer said yesterday, its reasonable for a president to look at the gross obvious conflict of interest that run ukrained to policy for the Obama Administration at a time when his son is receiving 50 or 80,000 a month from one of the most corrupt companies in ukraine as well. That is always a legitimate inquiry for the United States before we send money to a government for which corruption can be endemic. Laura you did have milk today, that brought you in a glass of milk, no cookies but you did have milk . I couldve put some vodka in it, that wouldve beene a white russian. I think adam schiff mightve accused me of collusiont if i wouldve had a white russian. Laura the milk killed me, i saw that. Good luck, i hopee we see you later in the week. Lets bring in our panel of legal eagles to break down day to trim of the impeachment trial. We underline in boldface that. John eastman, claremont sr. Fellow and constitutional scholar. Its something we heard from the senators today was that these arguments do democrats end up hurting themselves by using that process last night with the rules to make their arguments . It did seem like a heck of a lot of repetition today. That was the danger, while i thought it was a good tactical move last night, the danger is that people are going to say enough is enough. I will say they did i thought, particularly schiff, a skillful job of integrating their arguments with audiovisual aids and schiff from what i understand was a pretty good assistant u. S. Attorney for six years, i will give them credit for that on scorekeeping. I think its a real danger, people are going to say we get it, weve gotten it from the beginning, lets make a decision. A laura lets go to john eastman. The sudden love of the founders by the democrats, they are all for tearing down statues and all those old white guys, what did they know, suddenly they are dressed up as betsy ross and they need a fife and drum corps. Its what we call law office of regionalism, youve got a point to make and find some snippet of a founder that said that, you take it completely out of context and pretend thats a regionalism. Originalism. The reference is to hamilton was particularly interesting because hamilton actually worried about on impeachment process that has nothing to do with impeachment proper but was used for partisan ends,nt one faction against another. If they want to quote hamilton, they ought to quote the full measure of that speech rather than the snippet they think proves the point they are making. T its mindnumbingly dull and dishonest, i dont even know how you got through an hour and a half. Laura we have a story about what happened to me on capitol hill. I wish you were there, we couldve had more fun. Adam schiff now says he has discovered what isis really motivating trumps actions. When a president wields power in ways it is inappropriate and seeks to extinguish the rights of congress, he exceeds the power of his Constitutional Authority and violates the limits placed on his conduct. Obstruction of a separate and coequal branch of government for the purposes of covering up and abuse of power whichn implies corrupt intent. Laura we are implying corrupt intent becausemp the president use the system of checks and balances and his own article one powers to say we are not giving you those documents are these witnesses, make us do it in court. Now that is obstruction of congress and abuse of power . You can impeach a lot of president s if that is Inappropriate Conduct a standard thats it. I would like to go back and look at how adam schiff performed as an assistant u. S. Attorney with this sort ofey standard where you tell a defendant, if you dont give us the material on which we can convict you, we are going to add a count in the indictment for obstruction of justice. That is the standard he uses and whether its an illegal context as a u. S. Attorney or a political context and the challenge between two branches asserting their legitimate authority, its an appropriate an appropriate and in this context, it ought to be stricken and left out of the senate on a motion to dismiss or summary judgment. Laura there was a funny moment today, we are desperate for humor. When i think of humor, i think of solol wisenberg. Just call me chuckie. Laura the president today is overseas and he does this press conference because he knows the impeachment is about to kickoff, watch. When that be great . I would love to sit right in the front row in the stare in corrupt faces. Thats not the way it works, president s dont do that. Laura the president this showboating, i would love to stare down schiff there is nothing that would prevent him from going but it would not be advisable, jay sekulow said. I thought it was waiting for a quote from sekulow. The president needs to be careful about what he says during the impeachment process. That kindd of thing has gotten him in trouble before and im particularly concerned that he might Say Something criticalte f chief Justice Roberts which i think might really turn some people and some citizens against him. I think he needs to be careful. Laura hes just having fun, he likes to stare them down. I think people are desperate if theyre going to make this a show with clips and video, trumps attorneys are going to do that this week, theyre going to have their own clip what i would do if i were the president s tea is i would have an evidentiary objection for everything that schiff has saidw youre not allowed to say things and opening argument at trial that you dont have evide