Steve: you are lucky. ainsley: get straight to the news. fox news alert that is fast push for impeachment brian: democrats unveil at least two articles of impeachment. steve: griff jenkins is live in washington, d.c. with a preview of coming attractions. nancy sat down with jerry. they had a con fad and now at 9:00 this morning a press conference. griff: that s right. get the chairman of all the committees to lead the inquiry. nadler, schiff, malone and watters unexpected to unveil two articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of congress. this after the judiciary committee s evidence hearing devolved into chaos yesterday. and one point real outrage from republicans from the majority counsel this guy berry burke appeared at the witness stable at the start of the hearing only to become the aggressive witness questioner from the dais after. there is no rule or precedent for anybody being a witness and then getting up and question and so. i have ruled. of order is he
She made this point saying if congress does not impeach on this evidence, maybe impeachment shouldn t even be in the constitution anymore. so, that s where the speaker is. what else is happening? new today, the house just dash yar committee announced its second committee hearing. chairman nadler working on drafting articles of impeachment in evidence hearing on monday. they will have a lot of witnesses that are of interest given they re coming from the intelligence committee, those lawyers. so, then we ll see the scope, the size and what any articles written tonight, something i couldn t tell you last night for sure, they re writing them. what will they say? will they deal with this as n narrow or broad as an abuse of bribery? what will they do with a witness that may be a cospontaneo-consp. where is he? he s in ukraine. you re looking at him with the ukrainian lawmaker. those photos were posted today.
Manafort hasn t been seen in public since october. if he had his way he wouldn t be appearing in court this friday. back with me now. so, harry let s start with you. manafort wanted to sdkip appearing on friday. citing transportation is too time consuming. a federal judge shot him down. he s in prison. where else is he going to go? right. that was really interesting. every since he pleaded guilty he s gone limp as a rag doll. has been completely passive. and hasn t wanted to contest anything and really tried to avoid any kind of evidence hearing. he said please don t do an evident hearing. that s hi strategy. it s a pathetic one. but consistent with fishing for a pardon. she said this time.