committee. congressman, thanks for coming. thanks for having me on. let s talk about the house intel hearings really quick. you think the hearings that took place successfully made the case that the president tried to extort ukraine. money for investigation, but you see what has come out of the republican report that they put out. why then they re not conceding a singing point. why do you think then the judiciary hearing tomorrow will do anything to move the needle at all. i don t know that the republicans were watching the same hearings we were watching that the public was watching but i think the intelligence committee chairman schiff put out, you know, a pretty good case here that there s an abuse of power. i think when we see that report he ll lay out the facts. you saw fact-based witnesses corroborate those charges so at least on the abuse of power charge, i think you ll see that in the report laid out pretty clearly. i also think you likely will see obstruction of justice
the french putting a digital tariff on it is products this year. that s just half of it. what a day. the president about halfway through his london trip but apparently he s far from done. meeting moments with the royal family at buckingham palace before attending a reception with boris johnson. to john roberts in london who has been following it step by step. hi, john. been a busy day for the president, neil. it s wrapped up the meeting at number 10 downing street. the president on his way back to spend the night at wynn fieldhouse before a full day of meetings tomorrow. he did have a lot of people in his cross hairs. the latest is adam schiff after the democrats released the intelligence committee report. the press secretary, stephanie grisham saying at the end of a one-sided process, chairman schiff and the democrats failed to produce any evidence of wrong doing by president trump. this report reflects nothing more than their frustrations.
state, the clear evidence here is enough to rest the case on impeachment. but even more important, the standards here have been set forth in the constitution for centuries. they ve been debated often. the constitutional scholars appearing before the senate are well-known and the report is based on testimony that everybody heard over the past couple of weeks. so there are no surprises here. the republicans, they want the chairman of the intelligence committee adam schiff to testify. he s the one who led the inquiry to begin with. they say he has the command of the facts. do you think it is appropriate for him to appear and answer questions before the committee? there is absolutely no reason for adam schiff to appear. he s the chairman of the committee that heard this testimony. if the president of the united states has exculpatory evidence that shows his innocence, he
military assistance to ukraine saying it needed to be reviewed and that ukraine is historically corrupt country and he had within the president s responsibilities to ensure that money was not going to a country that could be misused in any way. suggesting that even the role of rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney, something that had raised alarm bells with a number of senior u.s. officials saying that the rudy giuliani role was proper and saying there is nothing improper with rudy giuliani s role even this report suggests that the president s claim that ukraine may have meddled in the 2016 election. something refuted by a number of witnesses including in the u.s. intelligence community. while they re saying there is indisputable evidence that ukrainian officials opposed president trump in the 2016 election and did so publicly and also they re defending that july 25th phone call that the president had with president zelensky of ukraine in which president trump urged zelens
intelligence committee, controlled by republicans, but also creates a false sense of complacency and credited vladimir putin with his contention that the ukrainians not the russians attacked us. top republican on the house judiciary committee objected to what he called the short notice that the committee members are getting and who the witnesses are and the nature of the report and the details of the house intelligence committee report. they say the process is totally unfair. is it fair to have a hearing on wednesday, wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m., when they just now discovered who are the witnesses, the constitutional lawyers, the experts who will testify and they still haven t seen the basis of the report namely the house intelligence committee conclusion. the purpose of the hearing, this wednesday, is to frame the standards. and the legal issues. and i could tell you, as a former prosecutor, as the chief federal prosecutor and united states attorney for connecticut and state a