inflation as bizarre. this as the dow takes another plunge. we have fox team coverage. susan li in new york tells us what s going on with the markets. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, mike. in the president s first interview of any kind with a reporter since february and first print interview since may of last year, he says he thinks the reason that people are upset from this country right now is the pandemic and he says he does not believe a recession is inevitable. tackling inflation is my number one priority. also today he claimed that inflation isn t his part. the a.p. writes in an interview the president bristled at claims by republican lawmakers that last year s covid-19 plan was to blame for inflation reaching a 40 year high calling that argument bizarre. his treasury secretary it did contribute. that spending produced excellent rewards for americans at most it contributed modestly to inflati
Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Here is what he said then i have an article, too, where i have to write to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do
whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what the c
violent attack. the washington post reported that a pence aide while in hiding in the capitol basement with the vice president was told pence s action was to blame for the violence under way. and this resurfaced audio from steve bannon s podcast four days before january 6th, eastman claiming pence s courage and spine could get in the way of their plans to overturn a fair election. are we to assume this is going to be a cli ma am particular battle that s going the take place this week about the very question of the stgsality of the lock material act of 1877? i think a lot of that depends on the courage can the spine of the individuals involved. are you talking on the other side of the football? would you be be that would be a nice way to say a guy named vice president mike pence? yes. meanwhile, more proof this week that something needs to be done at the faultiness and deadly danger of the big lie, the heart of the capitol attack is only on the move across this
impeach the president. now that the russian collusion allegations did not work out, democrats have settled on the ukraine phone call, eight lines the president utderred on july 25th with ukrainian president zelensky. but the foreign affairs committee, the committee on jurisdiction wasn t the committee leading the impeachment inquiry or holding the hearings. never was the oversight committee. the houses chief investigative entity. the judiciary committee was only recently brought back into the mix after fact finding concluded. instead the impeachment inquiry was run by the house intelligence committee and these former federal prosecutors. democrats on the intelligence committee ran the impeachment inquiry in a manifestly unfair way. all the fact-finding was unclassified and that was made clear at the top of every single deposition but the democrats took advantage of the closed door process in the capitol
house floor, and they cut off his mic. this is without precedent. this is without minority rights. and i have said the democrats should be providing republicans and presidents and the president the same exact rights that they would be demanding if the roles were reversed. unfortunately, where we are today is that we finished up another week are a i have spent the entire week with adam schiff in his bunker in the capitol basement whereas michael mccaul just said in that clip that you just played chairman schiff has been building a record in secret, leaking out information. some of that information that s been out in the press is just absolutely inaccurate. and to say that president trump did not do anything that is impeachable, we re not within a galaxy of impeachable conduct here. that s an understatement to say we are not within a galaxy of impeachable conduct. on the process and on the substance. this has been epic,