Deal with the messaging on the ukraine, on all the scandals going on. Harris josh kraushaar, Political Editor for the national journal. Great to have you. Thank you very much. I am harris. Here is dana. Dana President Trump said to speak any moment as the fight over impeachment hits a new level. Hello, everyone. Im dana perino and this is the daily briefing. President trump is about to hold a joint News Conference with the president of finland but the big focus right now obviously, impeachment. The president attacking what hes calling the donothing democrats, accusing them of wasting time and not focusing on other issues. President trump also going after the whistleblower who reported on his july call with the ukrainian president. They come up with this impeachment nonsense and everyone knows. All based on one phone call that
i had. There was no quid pro quo. The whistleblower was so dishonest. The whistleblower said terrible things about the call, but i then found out he was secondhan
everything, right now we know that what dana said earlier, the biggest development so far today and the day is young is that there could be more articles of impeachment because of obstruction of congress. and tying together these two points. the reason congress asked, didn t subpoena first, asked people to voluntary testify, because they are following up on things outlined in the whistle-blower complaint or suggested by the transcript or by other evidence that s come to light. they re not randomly, let s have this person, that person. they ve been focused, i have to say. they have the responsibility to investigate and the way you investigate is asking for documents and asking for sworn testimony. this is not hard. it s not even that trump makes it seem nancy pelosi is throwing occupy subpoenas left and right? they ve been reasonably disciplined. they weren t cookies as he said? okay. not a as we speak the state department inspector general is on capitol hill briefing staffers
dana: as we keep reminding people, impeachment is a political decision. there is no legal definition. martha and juan, if you will stick with me, we will wait for the president trump press conference. the state department, inspector general holding an urgent meeting in this next our briefing staffers from key committees in the house and senate about ukraine. she congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. if you could catch us up on that while we wait for the press conference to get underway. in addition to congressional correspondent the briefing, there are a number of faces that we expect who are invited to appear on capitol hill in the days ahead. let s show them to you. special envoy for ukraine kurt volker expected to give an interview to several committees. monday deputy assistant secretary of state george ken s. tuesday a counselor. thursday, ambassador gordon sumlin, american investor to the e.u. former ambassador recalled from ukraine in may expected