ainsley: ainsley was so much better than brian, give it to this team. it is fruitcake from claxton, my friend al parker, great tennis player. brian: watch fox nation christmas special. ainsley: janice, do you like cake? there s cake? star of the showdown. brian: the prompter is calling your name. ainsley: i m sorry, third hour of fox and friends starts right now. ainsley: it is a big day for the biden family on capitol hill. house will vote to formally launch impeachment inquiry into the president, steve. steve: hunter biden is expected to appear for a closed-door deposition. brian: awaiting hunter s arrival on the hill. if he does not show up, republicans warn he could be held in contempt of congress. lawrence: mark meredith joins us. it is going to be occurring behind closed doors, a lot of focus to see what the president s son has to say. he is facing tax evasion allegations. last month his lawyers offered to have him testify publicly. republicans
different stage of the campaign. now is when the ground game becomes central. we re opening 20 offices in 20 days across iowa. a bunch of offices around new hampshire. getting more and more organizers on the ground. up to about 100 in iowa. the summer is fun. you do the fairs. but in a way i think now is when a lot of the folks who have not been there for the blow by blow following every minute with every one of the dozen oh two candidates, folks are starting to tune in. you can feel something starting to gel. crowds are picking up? for sure. we did an office opening in iowa city. we were going figured maybe we d get 100 people. we wound up with 800 people. people are tuning in. for our campaign, we re seeing the momentum build, even though it is a long way out. it is a long way. five months out. that s why you always have to be worried about any stories to talk about a campaign and where
that in those days the republicans were actually patriots. i m not sure that causal story s correct. my read of the causal story is that the impeachment inquiry began when most people didn t favor impeachment and moved in tandem with the hearings. that is true. because times are very different. yeah. there was no forum for learning about the things that we ve learned about trump outside of the impeachment process. that s not true today. i mean, the analysis of what mueller, first of all, i don t believe for a minute trump s read the mueller report. i don t think he can possibly read 400 pages for him. but the for that matter is what i think what pelosi s doing is brilliant, actually, she s letting the momentum build. i don t think she s resisting it at much as you said she was. that s the story line. you think it s strategic patience? i think it s strategic patience. look, pelosi has not missed a step. she s the one person who has got donald trump s number in washington. sh
they were very careful. they were very deliberate. they didn t go beyond the facts that were known and the groundswell grew to so much that in those days the republicans were actually patriots. i m not sure that causal story s correct. my read of the causal story is that the impeachment inquiry began when most people didn t favor impeachment and moved in tandem with the hearings. that is true. because times are very different. yeah. there was no forum for learning about the things that we ve learned about trump outside of the impeachment process. that s not true today. i mean, the analysis of what mueller, first of all, i don t believe for a minute trump s read the mueller report. i don t think he can possibly read 400 pages for him. but the for that matter is what i think what pelosi s doing is brilliant, actually, she s letting the momentum build. i don t think she s resisting it at much as you said she was. that s the story line. you think it s strategic patience? i th