short notice in may. recalled early. she will now appear on capitol hill october 11th. then also the unpaid special envoy to the ukraine kurt volker will now appear for a transcribed interview tomorrow on capitol hill. finally what's arguably the biggest event, the closed door testimony from the inspector general for the intelligence community michael atkinson. the last time he was here on capitol hill he could not answer specific questions about the whistleblower complaint because it had not been

declassified. now he is in a position to answer questions about process. firsthand versus direct information held by a whistleblower and whether standard procedures were followed. last night on fox the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani defended his actions. listen. >> absolutely represented the president personally against charges he colluded and that he will be impeached. this came to me in november of 2018 while i was still defending against mueller. i began gathering all this to defend the president of the united states, my client. i was brought into it. i didn't go looking for it. i didn't go looking for joe biden. >> new information we have is the inspector general of the state department, an independent body within the sfait department that acts as the internal watch doc requested the urgent meeting with house and senate staffers about ukraine documents set for 3:00 p.m. eastern on the senate

side. that will be in a secure facility. they'll be dealing with some classified matters. >> sandra: extra busy morning on capitol hill. >> bill: jamil jaffer, i just want to share -- the calendar for today, tomorrow and friday on screen right here. we mentioned the schiff/pelosi meeting today. presidential news conference from the white house there. the state department i.g. with linick. tomorrow the special envoy, friday the closed hearing with the intelligence community ig michael atkinson. is the appearance of linick today is significant? >> you have the request for testimony by five career or low-level political appointees of the state department. you have mike pompeo saying

don't threaten my employees. if you want to come to us, come to us through our legislative liaison dock also. these are state department documents. you have the war of words. in the middle of this you have the state department i.g. asking for an urgent meeting with house and senate staffers. what does linick have that is so important to get over there and ignoring pompeo's direction going up there and if so, what does it mean? >> bill: so they're saying that mike pompeo has an issue. does he or not? he is entitled to be on that phone call as secretary of state. >> it would be off if the secretary of state weren't on a phone call with a foreign leader. not unusual for secretary of state or deputy to be on those calls and their staff as we found out that's what happened here. and so i don't know what issue he might have. obviously he is also fine to go around to meet with world

leaders and talk with them. was the president asking for something in his personal capacity in exchange for official action? that's the debate that will happen in this impeachment inquiry the democrats are doing. mike pompeo was on the call. the real people that president said need to be involved were rudy giuliani and bill barr. they'll be part of the conversation, too. now it is true that mike pompeo is a fact witness in the sense he was on the call. but we know what happened on the call. we have the transcript. so we don't need fact witnesses as to the substance of the call. >> bill: probably on dozens of calls, right, in a week's time perhaps. eric holder says bill barr has an issue. here he is from yesterday. >> involving the president in a justice department investigation is something that would be reserved really for only the most important investigation. when the people look at the justice department, the people in this country look at the justice department and think it

is some ways politicized it has a negative long term impact on the department. >> bill: what he is saying the i.g. is doing his own investigation, michael horowitz. but at the same time what barr did is he wanted to figure out the origins of the russia deal from 2016 and why you had a special prosecutor come in doing his work now. the i.g. can only talk to people employed by the government. the special prosecutor has the authority to talk to people who are no longer in government which now three years down the road would seem logical if you want to find out the truth. your view on that. >> that's exactly right. the president made clear to the american public repeatedly saying he wants to find the origins of the russia probe. wlu think it's good or bad idea. he said he wants the attorney general to do it. not surprising that the attorney general and john durham, he investigated the

c.i.a. tapes matter during the bush administration. john durham and the a.g. are talking to people and not surprising when talking to the australians. this probe began with the george papadopoulos conversation started with starting with an australian diplomat. the president intends to do that and nobody has really objected until now. so the question is should they go talk to the australians. that seems like a sensible place to start. >> bill: appreciate your analysis in washington, d.c. we'll call on you again. we try to figure this out every morning. here is my sense about where i think we are right now. two days ago they said they would have a vote by thanksgiving. we have yet to hear the defense on behalf of the administration. thanksgiving might be wishful thinking. this could be very much a drawn-out matter. i think to our viewers at home and across the country get

ready. >> sandra: pyongyang test firing a ballistic missile. the state department called on the north to refrain from provocations. lucas tomlinson live with more on that. good morning. >> good morning. officials say the north korean missile flew 500 miles in space, twice as high as the orbit of the international space station and two months after kim jong-un was photographed at a shipyard where a submarine is being modified to carry a ballistic missile like the one launched. the latest missile test was fired from a barge or underwater platform. earlier this week the former national security advisor issued a fresh warning about kim jong-un. >> under current circumstances he will never give up the nuclear weapons voluntarily. if you believe -- you may not -- that it is unacceptable for

north korea to have nuclear weapons, at some point military force has to be an option. >> the north korean missile test took place hours after president trump's new top officer mark mille held a meeting with japanese and south korean counterparts. the new chairman counts north korea along with china and russia as the nation's top threats. roughly 12 hours after the missile test the u.s. air force test fired a missile of its own. unarmed by nuclear capable missile was launched from an air force base in california early this morning and flew 4200 miles to the pacific marshall islands. its missile test was planned six months in advance. the timing with north korea a coincidence. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: 10 minutes past the hour. the question is the vaping crisis getting worse? half a dozen have died across

13 states from illnesses from e-cigarettes. >> sandra: red state democrats with a warning about the trump impeachment inquiry. we'll tell you what exactly they're worried about. >> bill: money, they're raising a lot of it. the trump 2020 team raising $125 million in the last quarter. karl rove has reaction on what that could mean in a moment coming up next. the technology that they need in school, they're not going to be competitive in the workforce that's waiting for them. since verizon innovative learning, students have hardware, connectivity, and quality curriculum. the jobs of tomorrow will involve technology. now students are truly hopeful for what they may achieve.

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>> bill: pumping the cash into republican coffers, they raised $125 million in the past three months. team trump reporting 50,000 new donors in 24 hours after the impeachment inquiry was announced. sanders 25, harris 11. biden and warren have yet to disclose. we'll see what they say about quarter three. can you draw a direct connection, karl, to the money being raised and reported by the trump team and rnc to the headlines over impeachment? >> i think you can. you can also do that for the democrats. let's talk about trump for a moment. people give money when they feel it's necessary. if you are a candidate in an easy race, harder to raise money. if you are a candidate in a tough race where it looks like

you can win and there is excitement, helps a lot. the fact that the president is being attacked by his opponents, tribal moment in american politics. when that happens it causes his supporters to say i want to come to his aid. two other things here. the trump campaign and the rnc have spent the last three years persistently paying attention to prospecting for new donors and then integrating those donors into their network and activities. and we saw that with 50,000 new donors who came in the most recent period. but that is constant. that has been going on constantly over the last three years. the universe of donors is getting larger. whenever they have a moment like this i have the ability to quickly expand their efforts to take advantage of that moment. finally, their data analytics. they are spending a lot of time figuring out where these people are coming from, what they're like, who they are and finding more people like them.

for example, the president is coming to dallas shortly. back in the 2016 campaign, they had at least i think 100 ral eels with more than 20,000 people but never knew who they were. now with their campaign manager they know the name and contact information for everybody who tries to get a ticket and gets through the doors. and the people who are standing outside. so they are using that data to constantly hone their model of who it is who is likely to contribute, support and volunteer on behalf of trump. >> bill: i don't see a republican going to have a campaign rally in dallas, texas. maybe there is a need for it. you have half a dozen republicans in the house that will not run for reelection. mac thornberry is the latest this past week. for an election that in 2016 went to president trump by nine points over hillary clinton. now there is a reason he is

going there. to get more of these analytics. you live in that state. the possibility of going red to blue. how real is that? >> the republicans have been complacent in texas. mac thornberry retired. he has been there 13 years. i don't think his district is in danger of turning blue. donald trump carried the district by 80 to 17. that's the only congressional strict in the country where a republican presidential candidate got more than 80% of the vote. but he is going to dallas for a reason. the reason i think is to broadcast his message about energy but also to continue to further -- these rallies are a way to broaden their fundraising base. every one of those people who comes through the arena door will be a potential donor. 25 or 30,000 people will be in the arena and tens of thousands

outside and maybe more than 100,000 will request tickets and all of those people then become prospects for their fundraising effort and this was one of the reasons why they raised such a record amount of money in the last quarter. >> bill: a have point. do you agree with my peachment . maybe it happens or not. we have yet to here the defense on behalf of the administration. as that continues to roll out it will stretch out for a long time. what is your view. >> i don't think the democrats care about laying out their case. they've heard a parody by adam schiff, we've heard demands from three committee chairs for literally within a matter of two working days the state department employees showing up and documents being delivered. there will be a column tomorrow in the "wall street journal" on this issue about the speed of the democrats in trying to bring this to conclusion. i don't think they'll get it done as quickly as they want to get it done. they'll get it done quickly.

they're gone for two weeks and then back. they want to get this thing done by the end of the year. some want to get it done by thanksgiving. some want a vote in the house by the end of the year. richard nixon was driven from office after a 13-month investigation by the senate select committee on watergate followed by a three-month long deliberation by the house judiciary committee. those things overlapped a little bit but you are talking about 15 months during which president nixon and the watergate burglary and cover-up were investigated. the democrats could care less about the facts. they have been on this president since the beginning. they want to overturn the last election and whatever flimsy excuse they can make themselves believe is sufficient to do that is what they'll act upon. not going to serve the country well. >> bill: we'll talk again. >> sandra: a former dallas police officer convicted of murdering her neighbor set to

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talk, who knows? meetings he sat in on. the company that operated the dive boat conception suspended operations amid an ongoing investigation into the tragic boat fire on labor day. 34 people died. 5 crew members survived. william la jeunesse has more on that from los angeles. >> the company owned three large overnight dive boats. conception sank last month catching fire. sister boats truth and vision the company said yesterday will not accept passengers and remain docked in santa barbara. we're officially suspending all operations of our fleet. right now it is important we dedicate our efforts to make our boats models of new regulations that we will continue to work on with the ntsb and coast guard.

conception caught fire labor day killing 34 passengers aboard while atf investigates what happened officials believe there are three reasons why so few survived. one, inadequate escape hatch. no safety briefing and the crew's failure to maintain a night watch as the coast guard requires. the f.b.i. did recover numerous items on the sea floor and they're being examined in addition to what is left on the hull on a dry dock near where the boat sank. a surviving crew member says in this 10-page claim, sims broke his leg when he jumped off the top trying to save passengers. >> he tried to get down a ladder, flames had engulfed the ladder and so the crew that was on the bridge had jumped down to the main deck and one had broken their leg.

>> the ntsb and coast guard issued recommendations regarding power stations and escape hatches that charter boats should meet. you assume the changes are in progress on the truth and vision. arguments for those lawsuits we'll hear in the next six months. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: 27 past. the secretary of state firing back today at democrats. they say he is a fact witness in the inquiry. florida republican michael waltz stands by and will react. >> sandra: mark zuckerberg saying he would go to the mat and fight if senator warren became president. kennedy will be here to react to that next hour. we get it. it's just the way things are. when you're under pressure to get the job done, it seems you have to accept the fact that some equipment will sit idle, or underutilized. but it doesn't have to be that way. that's why united rentals is combining equipment,

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not to contact legal counsel at the state department. >> sandra: that was secretary of state mike pompeo pushing back against house democrats accusing him of stonewalling their efforts to obtain documents and depositions on the administration's dealings with ukraine. speaker nancy pelosi and house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff expected to address the stand-off during their news conference. it will be happening one hour from now. joining us is michael waltz a member of the armed services committee. what do you expect from the press conference that they're about to hold? >> who knows? i mean, this is essentially a fishing expedition, investigation in search of a crime. i think the secretary of state is right to draw the line at direct contact with state department employees. and it is just never -- as we've seen from mueller to transition to this it is never going to be enough. they are going to want more and more and more and more. >> sandra: they say he is

stonewalling. he says they're bullying. pompeo says they are bullying and he won't tolerate that. has he thrown a wrench with the speed. >> they are looking to ram this thing through as quickly as possible. i think as a reaction to how long the mueller probe took and that this would -- the calculation is this will be better for them politically and they want to get it done in time to hurt the president for as we run into 2020 and the 2020 elections. >> sandra: jim jordan is making the case that adam schiff is just plain too biased to lead this investigation. here is jim jordan making that case on hannity last night. >> nancy pelosi putting adam schiff in charge of this impeachment inquiry is exactly what jim comey did when he put peter strzok in charge of the trump/russia investigation. someone as biased as adam schiff. they've already made a determination and they don't care about the facts and truth

and the american people see through it. >> sandra: can the case be made schiff is too biased to lead this impeachment inquiry? >> representative schiff has made his agenda clear. that's to impeach the president. this is the same person who pounded the table that he had beyond circumstantial evidence that the president had colluded with the russians, which we've now seen to be false. so i do think that should be called into question. but i do think his agenda is very clear. meanwhile he is leading an intelligence community -- committee with oversight of intelligence community and we have china stealing our secrets left and right. huge issues we should be dealing with in the intelligence committee and we're not. it has become the impeachment committee. >> sandra: the chairman of the house intel committee. we'll see where it goes. the state department approving a weapons package for ukraine.

as someone who sits on the armed services committee can you tell us what do we need to know about that? >> this is for javelin missiles. anti-tank missiles to defeat russian armor. not the first batch the ukrainians have bought. it is important to note the obama administration would not provide these weapons. trump administration for those who say he is soft on russia is providing ukraine these weapons and this is another batch of them and important to note this was not part of the package that the president had questions about and put a temporary halt on. even though they were mentioned in the transcript congress has approved it. my green berets have used them in the field and it's a fantastic system. >> sandra: important to point out this is separate from the $250 million in aid held up before the criticized phone

call. >> the question has questioned foreign aid and its effectiveness and how it is being used and whether there was corruption involved across the board. whether central america, afghanistan and ukraine. he has questioned that across the number of countries. to say it was a quid pro quo i think is disingenuous. >> sandra: there is a lot of debate still on that and we'll see where it goes. pyongyang test firing a ballistic missile houfrs after agreeing to resume nuclear talks about the u.s. what does it mean? >> i supported the president in the original summit. we had to try something different. time is not on our side here. the north koreans are developing better and better capabilities. this gives them a second strike capability to launch from submarines that they're continuing to develop. and i think at some point soon we need to hold their feet to the fire, resume the maximum pressure campaign.

they're showing no signs of denuclearizing and they will continue to develop more sophisticated capabilities. this has me very concerned. it is very troubling for our allies in south korea and japan as well. >> sandra: the state department condemned the launch calling on the north to refrain from provocations. what do you expect the response to be? >> i think the response is going to be what the north koreans have continued to do, buy time. their missile engineers and nuclear engineers are busy bees perfecting their program. we can't have them have short range or long range missiles holding countries at risk. >> sandra: republican congressman from florida appreciate your time this

morning. thank you. >> bill: the story broke on our watch yesterday. sentencing phase resumes for a former dallas police officer convicted of murder for shooting her neighbor in his apartment. the jurors must decide whether she spends the rest of her life in jail. casey back on the news in dallas. >> court is scheduled to get underway in about an hour from now here at the dallas county courthouse. let's take you live into the courtroom now where you see a texas state seal. that is what is put out on the video feeds in the court as parties are coming and going. when the judge emerges from the chambers they widen out and court begins. remember jurors will be deciding how long amber guyger will spend behind bars. the same 12 jurors that convicted her yesterday of murder. though it is unclear how long

today's sentencing phase will take and how much testimony we'll hear. the 31-year-old amber guyger ex cop spent her first night behind bars. this is her mug shot booking photo taken shortly after she left the courthouse yesterday. booked into the same jail she once transported criminals to in her five years as a cop. for prosecutors the sentencing phase is really putting the jury in jean's families shoes tugging at the jury's heart strings. something his mother accomplished getting upset recalling memories of her middle child. >> my life has not been the same. it has just been like a rollercoaster. i cannot sleep. i cannot eat.

it's just been the most terrible time for me. >> we expect the defense team will spend today trying to portray guyger as a good citizen who made a mistake and someone who always wanted to be a police officer because she liked helping others. murder carries a sentence anywhere from 5 to 99 years without the chance for probation. so, bill, ultimately the same jury who convicted her will now have to decide just how long she will spend in prison. >> bill: thank you, casey. >> sandra: the washington nationals coming from behind to beat the milwaukee brewers in the wild card game. the nats won at home after taking the lead in the eighth inning. they go on to play the dodgers in the best of five division series. game one is tomorrow in la.

my dad is a big baseball fan and it's on in my house. did you watch it? >> bill: i didn't see much of it. you go 162 games and you get to that and right fielder misses that. three runs. they are going nuts in washington, d.c. they probably stayed out all night. what did your dad say? >> sandra: i was watching bret baier talking about the game. he just watches baseball like crazy, cub fan through and true. >> bill: here we go, october. johnson and johnson agreeing to a $20 million settlement ahead of a trial in ohio that accuses the company of sparking the opioid crisis. is that enough? our attorney will be here to tell us what's up on that case. >> sandra: a new report saying deaths from overdoses spiked 70% from the years 2013 to 2017. >> bill: a federal judge rules on a bias claimed against

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surprise to anyone grassley dating back 25 or so years has had a really consistent view on whistleblower protections. authored the most meaningful legislation in the area and has been very consistent regardless of the partisan differences of the issue at hand. i don't think anybody should be surprised by that. i don't know that anybody should be frustrated with it. i don't totally agree with his view, either. if you're a support of the president you believe what house democrats are doing is a genuine sham here, you want people like chuck grassley more involved, not less involved. they have tons of credibility when they dig into something, they get very deep and they always produce results. i think at the end with chuck grassley being deeply involved in this as the impeachment investigation unfolds is only a good thing for the president of the united states. >> bill: he said for our viewers, grassley. this person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws.

we should always work to respect whistleblowers complaints. second hand information shouldn't be rejected out of hand but require additional leg work to get at the facts and validate the claim's credibility. on those points the whistleblower lives or dies, to bar a phrase, based on their own credibility, josh. >> that's right. that's what at the core of this. we may find out that this is all a setup or we may find out the whistleblower did as senator grassley said follow the proper protections. a lot of questions whether they have any firsthand knowledge of these conversations and what the ultimate motives were for rolling this out. whether they talked to anybody. whether there was any sort of a planned orks -- -- senator grassley will find out the

truth. >> bill: will they have to eventually go to those who informed the whistleblower and talk to them to measure their own veracity or how this came about? you just don't go on the whistleblower. you have to go to the source where that person got the information, yes or no. >> why it's not admissible in court and why hearsay and second hand knowledge is not admissible in court. you have to go two, three, four steps down the road to find out where the story started. this is a different process. this isn't a legal process, a political process. it started in this sense with the whistleblower. really it started in 2017 with the mueller report and everything else. here we are. but i think at the end of the day as i said before, folks like senator grassley who are deeply involved in the substance of this issue will get to the core of the claim. >> bill: two more things here. you say republicans need to fight as a team.

>> yeah. no question about it. again, look, nobody should be shooting inside of the tent at this point. i understand that every republican needs to find out facts and needs to understand what the specific impeachment arms that will be presented but house democrats have been trying to do this and allies in the media have been trying to impeach the president of the united states since the day he was sworn in. this is a partisan war. you may disagree with president trump on a whole range of issues but if you have ever have an interest in winning anything ever again better figure out how to stick together and fight as a team. >> bill: what they did with kavanaugh. >> that's a perfect example. >> bill: what about those who suggest you don't know anything about this whistleblower, don't give he or she the credibility they're looking for right now? >> i don't know it hinges on the whistleblower. we've already seen the

transcript. what the transcript shows is up to everybody's interpretation apparently but looked clear to me. no laws were broken. what the president of the united states is trying to get at. what the attorney general is trying to get at, is a bunch of countries that had influence over the 2016 election working with the united states to figure out how and why. this is a perfect question, right? why is it that when we found out russians were trying to infiltrate our election you didn't warn the campaign that was targeted, president trump. but rather you went to the f.b.i. to open an investigation against that campaign. that question has yet to be answered. we need an answer to it. i think the impeachment process may provide an answer to that. not good news for house democrats. >> bill: we'll see you in time if you're right. thanks for coming back today. >> sandra: a woman comes face-to-face with a lion after jumping into an enclosure at

the bronx zoo. what was she doing there and what the zoo is saying about all of that this morning? >> bill: prince harry blasting the british press and we'll tell you why next. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy.

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>> sandra: prince harry slamming the british media for a ruthless campaign against his wife, meghan markle coming a day after the duchess of sussex filed a lawsuit for breach of privacy. i saw you responding to this

yesterday, carley. you know, there are two sides to this story. >> prince harry filed a lawsuit against the u.k. mail on sunday newspaper for publishing a letter that meghan markle wrote her father after their wedding and prince harry says that the mail on sunday omitted specific paragraphs, sentences, even words to change the meaning of the letter and the context. the mail on sunday is sticking by the reporting. this thing could go to trial and these cases are obviously pretty hard to win. i think it's more than just about winning for prince harry. he blames the paparazzi for his mother's death. he may feel like i couldn't defend my mother when i was a little boy but i will defend my wife now. >> sandra: he draws those parallels in his statement. there is a human cost to the relentless propaganda when it is knowingly false and malicious. though we have continued to put

on a brave face as so many of you can relate to i can't begin to describe how painful it has been. in today's digital age press fabrications are repurposed as truth across the globe. who sides to the story, some who feel truly bad for the couple and the press they have endured but morgan is a morning show host in the u.k. good morning britain. he says we're about to get end of tour reports saying what a great success it has been. now harry and meghan at war with the press. stuff you're complaining about is legitimate scrutiny. >> sandra: he complained they used to be friends and she ghosted him for prince harry. it could be weighing into his opinion. there have been countless negative headlines by meghan

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>> sandra: we're awaiting a big news conference happening this hour. the two lead democrats in the push against president trump about to speak to reporters as the impeachment frenzy sweeps washington welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," it is wednesday morning. welcome, everybody. i'm sandra smith. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. house speaker nancy pelosi, chairman adam schiff appear before cameras as the news as well as the scope of the inquiry changes by the day. >> sandra: accusations flying on both sides of the aisle. a look at some of it from this morning. >> this is essentially a fishing expedition, investigation in search of a crime. i think the secretary of state is right to draw the line at direct contact with state department employees. and it is just never -- as we've seen from mueller to now

transition to this it is never going to be enough. they are going to want more and more and more and more. >> i want to see what transcripts they were trying to hide away. >> the president has met with vladimir putin the president of russia a few times with nobody else around. so yes, we absolutely would like to see those conversations with the leaders of saudi arabia, russia and other nations that may be in there. >> bill: mike emanuel sets the scene for us now on the hill. good morning. >> good morning to you. expect a whole range of questions for house speaker nancy pelosi and intelligence chairman adam schiff with more developments likely this week. state department inspector general steve linick is due to meet today with commit aides in the house and senate on ukraine. increasing tension between democrats and state department about ukraine and the desire to have state department employees sit for transcribed interviews. >> we won't tolerate folks on

capitol hill bullying, intimidating state department employees. that's not acceptable and i won't permit it to happen. >> bill: tomorrow kurt volker is expected on capitol hill to take place in a transcribed interview with committees. he resigned his post last friday. then the watchdog for the intelligence community michael atkinson is expected to testify at a closed door hearing with house intelligence friday. atkinson is the one who said the allegations were of urgent concern and should be shared with congress. meanwhile, assuming there are articles of impeachment drawn up and put on the house floor, then democratic leadership will need to have the votes. a key democrat says there has been massive pressure from outside liberal groups to get on board. >> i was one of the most recent people to come out under enormous amount of pressure i might also add. i was the focus of ads by tom

stier and move on.org but i was worried about how divided this country is. >> moderate democrats are anxious to keep the focus on ukraine but concerns more liberal members want to take the inquiry in 20 different directions. >> bill: thank you, sir, from capitol hill. >> they tried the two year mueller approach. that didn't work. we had had time to prove them wrong. they'll say we're strike while the iron is hot and in the intelligence committee. the most bias chairman in charge of it, adam schiff, no different than peter strzok. >> sandra: jim jordan on the very credibility of the impeachment inquiry. let's bring in our a-team. jonah goldberg, brad blakeman former deputy assist tonight to george w. bush and jeanne zaino. professor.

the frenzy continues in washington jeanne, where do things stand this morning as we await the press conference at the bottom of the hour? >> it has been a frenzy. the real challenge is democrats have to get in control of the process. i go back to nancy pelosi talking about this as bipartisan and by kam ral. you don't impeach unless you meet both those standards. they haven't met it. we still could. democrats have to be very careful here about moving too fast and getting ahead of this thing. >> sandra: maybe mike pompeo through a wrench in the ability to carry on quickly with the impeachment inquiry. >> there is a weird symmetry, very little message discipline on either side. you have the democrats who couldn't even hold corey lewandowski on a leash, never mind the entire executive branch.

you have rudy giuliani, the president himself going 100 different directions in all this and democrats wanting to go 100 different directions. we're heading toward chaos and who do the american people blame for it? >> let's go back prior to the summer. the mueller report came out months past. democrats said we'll act to impeach the president on the mueller report. now they took the summer off. they come back. now this call comes out. now the mueller report nobody is talking about that. now it's the ukrainian call. what do we have today? not the ukrainian call. it is every other call that the president had with every other leader that the house determines needs to be investigated. this is off the rails. i think democrats are overreaching. they are undisciplined. i think the american people see what is happening. i don't think they like it. they didn't like it when they announced before the summer there would be impeachment on the mueller probe. i think the democrats are

heading down a slippery slope. >> i think there is a way tore democrats to get more control over this. this is undisciplined on both sides. one thing i've long said is they could try to get republicans to be in charge of some of these investigations. my concern is always do the american people see this as a legitimate process? is it partisan? it is right now. the legitimacy goes out the window. >> republicans will never get that responsibility. >> i think democrats have to work hard as nancy pelosi said. this has to be a bipartisan effort or it looks completely -- >> bill: some of the pushback you get from the right. the i.g. report is not out yet. we may get it within a few weeks. i know we've been saying that for a long time. we may get that. john durham is doing the investigation on the side. "wall street journal." foreign influences and double standards. democrats want to stop barr

from what happened in 2016. i'll allow you to answer, jonah. how much credibility do you give this argument? >> seems to me they're separate tracts. i'm waiting to see a better argument against attorney general barr than what we've seen so far. i think he handled himself -- you can't say the 2016 meddling is outrageous and that the administration isn't taking it seriously. then when they take it seriously say that's outrageous, too. i'm waiting for another shoe to drop before barr has done before the criticism. a lot doesn't touch on the whistleblower or that stuff. the reason why everyone basically a fight over narratives. republicans want a narrative that is investigating the investigators and biden scandal. democrats want a narrative that says it's all about trump. and it remains to be seen who can win that. >> sandra: laura ingraham makes the point the democrats are freaking out. >> the attorney general is

clearly closing in on the foreign players from 2016. come on, this all explains why the democrats are freaking out and so determined to stop trump and smear barr. they bet, i think, that it's safer to sully trump with bogus accusations than finally face the music themselves. >> you know, i don't know that democrats are freaking out but i do think you can have both an investigation. we should know what happened in 2016, and you can investigate the president's phone call with the ukraine and any other improprieties that a whistleblower says the president did. they have to happen in the way the american public believes the investigations are legitimate. i think we're all in trouble here. it is seen as a partisan fight at this point. >> first of all, the whistleblower isn't a whistleblower. you become one after the facts determine that what you leaked

actually warranted a w*is blowing. i think at this point i call him or her a leaker, they leaked information, whether it rises to whistleblower will be determined. >> whistleblowers, we shouldn't call them leakers. they are also not agents of the deep state stuff. >> i'm not saying that. the terminology the democrats are using the term whistleblower saying the president was wrong. i read the transcript. as a lawyer the best evidence is a four corners of the transcript not what somebody else intended but what the principles intended. the president intended and he told us. >> sandra: national intelligence said this person went about this in all the appropriate channels and considered this a credible

whistleblower. >> it means you believe there may have been impropriety and then the president will be investigated and use the term. >> the way the democrats are using the terminology whistleblower are used in a way to not indict the president but convict the president. >> whistleblower doesn't mean you blew the whistle on a crime but you think something bad happened. the word leaker is problematic. it was not a leak to the press. >> bill: the whistleblower stands or falls on his or her own credibility. eric holder and bill barr. here is what he said yesterday. >> paying a price both in terms of questioning whether or not he is acting as the president's lawyer as opposed to the attorney general and a negative impact on the justice department. you have to not only be substantively neutral, you have to appear to be neutral when you are the attorney general of the united states. and i fear that he has crossed

a political line. >> bill: bill barr was under oath when he said i'm looking at spying, right? bill barr told me back in april or may that he was going to get to the bottom of whatever went on during the election of 2016. what's eric holder talking about? >> i hate this stuff. eric holder was very much a political a.g. for his president and this idea that now he is going to opine from a great height about how other a.g.'s aren't as neutral as he was is kind of ridiculous. >> sandra: dollars raised to the trump campaign and rnc third quarter $125 million. $308 million to date. the trump campaign says it has attracted 50,000 new givers in the 48 hours following the start of the investigation of impeachment proceedings. >>

battle lines have been drawn. republicans are showing the support of the president with their pocket books and coming out and giving small, medium and large donations. they're coming to the defense of the evidence the only way they can before they can go into a voting booth and vote. this is a good determination as to how the rank and file feel about this president. and they feel he is being railroaded. >> this was the fear of the moderate democrats and red and purple state democrats all along was that the notion of an impeachment would actually help this president in the election. that it would drum up his base. they would be more determined to go out because remember, president trump one of his big problems in 2020 would be if his base stayed home. this does excite them. that's a problem for them. >> bill: as we turn a page at this part of the story and look at the bidens, is it -- >> i really apologize.

>> bill: i was fighting for you. >> bill: tucker carlson came up with the photo the other day. they are golfing from five years ago. what is the problem for joe biden when he is on stage 14 days from now? >> i kind of have a hot contrary take on all this. there is a lot of gas lighting going on. hunter biden is a sketchy guy, no problem. but this actually could have been the lifeline for joe biden. he was starting to go down in the polls. elizabeth warren was overtaking him. now the entire democratic bought in on the idea of impeachment. you cannot make the case for impeachment without defending joe biden. big chunks of the democratic party. they are all running to biden's defense saying he is a statesman and hero. remember how bernie sanders couldn't bring himself to criticize hillary clinton over the email.

a similar dynamic. when he was about to falter you have the unintended consequence of this making him a hero for a lot of democrats. you can't abandon him. >> i think it helps elizabeth warren. her campaign is built on the argument of corruption. this plays right into it. joe biden is not -- we don't have any evidence he did anything wrong. certainly hunter biden is not in the ukraine getting these positions without nepotism. but setting all that aside it paints a picture of joe biden not unlike the one of hillary clinton and what she had to endure. i think it is hard for joe biden to make the case to progressives and liberals that he can fight corruption and drain the swamp as the president said in washington, d.c. that he has been so much a part of. that helps elizabeth warren. >> sandra: brad, we'll see democratic leadership, nancy pelosi and adam schiff, take to the microphone there on capitol hill while congress is still on

a two-week recess and they will give an update on the progress of this inquiry. your expectation. >> everybody else has gone home. they said in the beginning of the summer the president was so dangerous to our republic he had to be removed using extra order constitutional removal process of impeachment and conviction by the senate. yet they took the summer off. now they come back. they have new evidence of some new allegation and it's even worse than the first and they take another two weeks off. we're in the 2020 election cycle now. this is unfair, this is unjust, and they are the only two holding down the fort while everybody else is out of town. >> i would rather my representatives come home and talk and asking for documents and they're still working. >> bill: thank you jeanne, jonah and brad. >> i will be in better health

next time. >> bill: the trump team cracking down on illegal opioids. >> we expect the chinese to begin making arrests, conducting investigations and put people away sending drugs to this country. >> bill: a shocking report finds a dramatic rise in abuse and overdoses during the obama administration. we'll run that down for you. >> sandra: mark zuckerberg saying he will go to the mat and fight if elizabeth warren does become president. how she is firing back. >> bill: does she like or dislike the comment? the woman willingly going into the lion's den at the zoo. we'll tell you why she thought it was a good idea. it was not. newday usa has some great news for veterans with va loans.

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>> bill: we're seeing triple digit losses for the dow today. a bit of a fall yesterday. manufacturing data from the midwest that is not making a lot of people happy. so there is some fallout from that again today. down 305 so far. 10:20 in new york. johnson & johnson agreeing to settle an opioid case for $20 million. a shocking new report from the inspector general showing the

rate of opioid deaths grew 71% per year from 2013 to 2017. the report blasting the dea for a slow response. kisha hebbon is a former defense attorney and prosecutor and marc siegel, the legal aspect first. what do you make of this? >> i think at this point with any epidemic it is hard to point fingers to say one administration is the reason for it or failed to do x, y, z. right now the government needs to focus on more criminal prosecutions, more civil lawsuits and dea needs to use their regulatory power to take away drug licenses to these companies and implement their regulations. >> bill: if you find abuse. >> look at all the deaths happening. i feel the dea did not do enough. i don't know why but it is clear more needs to be done.

>> i agree. we're talking about a situation where doctors are primarily responsible. they wrote the prescriptions. drug manufacturers plied them and pharmacists went along with it. bill, get this, 11.5 million people admitted openly that they were misusing the prescriptions and these are controlled substances. i'm thinking for the first time today where was the dea? of course they are responsible and so i agree with this report that's coming out. they aren't the most responsible but they have an obligation to patrol controlled substances. >> sandra: pharmacists get a prescription, they have to fill it. what are you suggesting when you invoke them? >> pharmacists -- that's a great question. they have to also look at what they are filling. they don't only have to fill it. a doctor gives a prescription. i can't tell you the number of times a pharmacist called me and asking why are you using

this? doctors, pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies and the dea has a role. they were asleep at the wheel. >> doctors are more culpable and they write the prescription. doctors are getting kickbacks and all kinds of things. they definitely should be prosecuted criminally in my opinion. >> bill: some of these opioids have helped people. it wasn't always abuse for everyone who was given it. >> sure enough. if you break a bone. you had surgery. plenty of times when opioids are indicated. how long are you on them? the longer you are on them the more risk of addiction. >> sandra: the testimony in the punishment phase of the amber guyger trial continues at this hour. i believe botham jean's mother and sister were set to testify. he was shot in his own apartment and guyger entered in her police uniform and shot and

killed him. what do you see coming from this this morning and her fate? >> i feel when the jurors decide the sentence of a criminal defendant they're more harsh. they are play people. they take into consideration all the emotion, his mother testified, the sister said i just want my brother back and then they are hearing all kinds of stuff about this police officer or former police officer who had racial bias, made comments about the martin luther king march, how she texts a partner after this guy died and showed insensitivity. i feel like the jurors won't have any sympathy. >> sandra: the defense team has made the case she accidentally walked into his apartment and thought he was an intruder. >> she showed no remorse afterwards. there is that question to the jurors didn't believe it did she say put your hands up or did she shoot? any officer would know if you see someone in an apartment say put your hands up but not just shoot. evidence shoefd he was probably sitting down or in a feet --

feetal position when he was shot. >> sandra: she faces up to 99 years behind bars. >> even if you believe her story when you walk into the wrong apartment, fight or flight occurs. stress hormones pour out and judgment is impaired. what also comes out your prejudices. this story certainly lines up to me as someone that was prejudice. >> bill: in a case like this do you have to find motive? we did not hear much of that yesterday. >> it's the circumstantial evidence-type case. i question what would be her motive. like the doctor said there is prejudice in there she felt this black male was scary and made her more fearful. i don't think she thought i want to kill my neighbor today. >> sandra: the pregnant women and zantac, should they use it? >> i try not to give any medications if you're pregnant.

a lot of reflux and heartburn with pregnancy. there are alternatives but medically this amount of exposure over nine months will end up being completely safe. from a legal perspective watch out. obstetricians can be sued if you don't get into harvard. >> sandra: i hear a lot of obstetricians say they leave because of that. >> sandra: when in doubt, ask your doctor. breaking news at this moment. we can now confirm house democrats have subpoenaed the white house as part of their impeachment investigation. in moments speaker nancy pelosi and chairman adam schiff will be answering questions from reporters. we expect you will hear a lot more about that when they step in front of that microphone. today's headliner senator rick scott will join us on all of that.

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bradley international airport north of hartford connecticut are responding. the smoke coming up in the image here. responding, they say, to a world war ii aircraft that apparently crashed either at take-off or landing. there is an active fire rescue operation underway. the airport has been shut down. the world war ii fighter plane and three bombers were at bradley airport through thursday, which is tomorrow. historic aircraft clearly owned by a company out of massachusetts. and that is about what we have at the moment. so we watch the rescue crews respond to that scene but this is -- the airport north of hartford and we're getting it now. bradley international airport. >> sandra: the airport confirms was with a world war ii aircraft. the airport is closed. they say at this point we'll

issue further updates and information as they become available. but an active fire and rescue operation underway. breaking news this morning as we learn house democrats plan to subpoena the white house for ukraine documents. if they aren't voluntarily handed over by end of week. in moments nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, will be holding a news conference along with house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. let's bring in our headliner florida senator rick scott. good morning to you. your expectations as we're about to hear from democratic leadership. >> they have a vendetta against trump. this has been going on for almost three years. they hate the election of 2016, the results and they're trying to change the election of 2020. we've all seen it. we saw the transcripts, we saw what the whistleblower put out. i don't see what they are talking about. but i know they'll go down this

path. so it's frustrating. we have a lot of things to do. focus on drug prices and things like that. >> bill: you just mentioned the transcript. when you read it, what is your fair reading of what you interpret in that conversation? >> i still don't see what the crime is. i keep saying show me what the crime is. and no one ever says that. they say well he shouldn't have done it. all of us would do things differently than other people would do it. if we impeach somebody there ought to be something they did wrong. >> sandra: there is a suggestion in that phone call to the head of ukraine to look into potentially the president's political opponent in the 2020 election. what did you make when you read through that part of the call? >> first off, shouldn't we actually know what happened? when you listen to what joe biden has said that he worked to hold up funding until they

got rid of a prosecutor and then his son as a deal over there. shouldn't we find that stuff out. isn't that legitimate to find these things out? i just don't see -- i don't see what the issue is. i think it is just a democrats. they hate trump. i've been in d.c. now for nine months. it is just all -- the democrats just hate donald trump. they don't like what happened in 2016 and they're working hard to make sure he doesn't win in 2020. that's all this is. >> bill: you mentioned a lot of things to get to. we want to cover ground before the press conference. you came back from asia. with regard to north korea firing this ballistic missile. we believe talks could resume again this weekend. >> look, i'm glad president trump is talking but nothing is happening. this guy is a murderous tyrant. he has continued to develop

nuclear weapons. we have to worry about american citizens. i'm glad president trump supposedly have this great relition -- relationship. this guy has to stop developing nuclear weapons and put the pressure on him to stop this. >> sandra: if we could circle back to what we are about to hear from democratic leadership and what we heard from mike pompeo this morning confirming he was on that phone call with the ukrainian leader. he says that the democrats are employing bullying tactics and he won't tolerate that of his employees of the state department as secretary of state. democrats are accusing him of stonewalling. here is the letter to deputy secretary of state making the case that pompeo is now a fact witness. pompeo is now a fact witness in the impeachment inquiry and shouldn't be making any decisions regarding witness testimony or document production in order to protect himself or the president.

obviously signed by many of those leaders, eliot engel, adam schiff and elijah cummings. want to get your reaction to that. >> i think secretary pompeo should be doing his job to make sure he protects the agency. they are trying to railroad the -- the democrats are trying to railroad everybody through this. there is a process. let's follow the process. this is going to the senate intelligence committee. richard b*ur's committee. we need to go through a logical process. they're trying to rush it through. they have to make news to try to hurt the president. that's all they're doing. >> bill: you just returned from hong kong. what were your observations as you saw the protests in the street. one person shot yesterday. what did you see? >> well, i'm the first senator that went over there and met with protestors and business

people and ceo. what president xi is doing is disgusting. they have rights. when britain turned hong kong back over to china there was basic rights. president xi from communist china is doing exactly what he is -- he is a dictator saying you can't have peaceful protests. you can't assembly. your access to a lawyer is tough. they are making it very difficult to get a lawyer. what they're doing is shooting -- the tear gas canisters this big metal? they're shooting them into the crowds to hurt them. they have the big plastic disks this wide and that thick shooting right at individuals. so the police are just thugs. they are beating these people up. it is disgusting. they are trying to take away everybody's rights. this is president xi doing this. a precursor to what he will try to do with taiwan and go over the entire region and he is a

dictator trying to take over the world. >> sandra: senator rick scott. appreciate your time this morning. >> bill: welcome home, senator. thank you. king of the jungle in a bizarre sight. a woman climbing a safety barrier at the bronx zoo jumping into the lion's den and coming face-to-face with one of the big cats. what's up? jackie heinrich has the story. >> you might ask yourself what was this lady thinking? well, she explains it on her instagram page. the woman whose handle is queen empress posted the video showing herself in the lion's habitat. i went in his habitat. he did not growl or go into attack mode. even animals know if you are acting out of love and fearlessness. it is about being one with mother nature and loving all things. three videos of the incident on her page and in one of them you

can hear a man in the background try to stop her. >> i want to get closer to him. i'm sorry. >> you aren't supposed to do that. i told her, she isn't listening to me. >> sandra: luckily there was a moet separating the woman. the lion didn't react and woman got out safely. new york police are looking for her saying she could face charges. it also appears she had some fun in the giraffe exhibit. another video shows her standing in what looks like their enclosure, too. >> i love you. hi, guys. what's up?

>> the bronx zoo says it because unlawful process. barriers and rules are in place to keep both visitors, staff and animals safe. the zoo says they have a zero tolerance policy. zero. >> sandra: not a good idea. >> she probably won't be allowed back. >> sandra: instagram, wanted everybody to look at the instagram. you endanger others at the zoo who would have to get in and help her. >> in 2016 it was terrible. >> bill: are they suggesting she has done that before >> we aren't there yet. she appeared to be in another enclosure that day. she is wearing the same outfit. >> stupid, huh? >> sandra: crews on scene at a connecticut airport after a world war ii bomber burst into

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officials have shut down the airport. rescues are underway. we'll give you an update on that as we get it. that is happening in connecticut. >> sandra: more breaking news, 2020 democratic candidate bernie sanders undergoing a heart procedure. his campaign saying he experienced chest discomfort after the event and testing found he had a blockage in an artery. in a statement from his campaign they say senator sanders is conversing and in good spirits. he will be resting up over the next few days. we're canceling his events and appearances until further notice and continue to provide appropriate updates. our best to him as he recovers. >> bill: more on that as well. in the meantime elizabeth warren, fox business alert. it's fresh. firing back at mark zuckerberg after a leaked audio from the ceo facebook saying he would go to the mat if she is elected president. warren responded. want to bring in kennedy from

fbn. we might get interrupted. see what time the press conference starts. what did you make of this? >> i'm not a big fan of antitrust law so i'm on mark zuckerberg's side here. whenever you have a successful american company that should be celebrated and this idea that you have to break things apart when they are doing well and that naturally big and successful companies snuff competition because of their existence is the wrong instinct. i think president warren -- i say president warren -- if she becomes president warren she will have dangerous ideas about big government using that battle axe to break up successful companies. >> bill: part of what zuckerberg said. roll it and we'll listen to it. >> if elizabeth warren breaks up companies if sthe is elected companies i would bet we'd have a legal challenge and bet we would win the legal challenge. does it still suck for us?

yeah. >> bill: two hours of audio. she responds and said what would really suck is if we don't fix the corrupt system that lets giant -- >> it's very dangerous if the government is deciding what is anti-competitive and the government is using force to fix companies that it deems too big. that's what happens in places like venezuela when the government really does own the means of production and that is what the worldview of people like senator sanders and warren what it is rooted in. government knows best and we'll do whatever we have to do to make things better. >> sandra: this is the billboard in california promising to break up big tech. she put up a billboard wednesday in san francisco urging big tech to break up

citing antitrust laws. we'll keep watching that. can we watch the dow? it is down 468 points now, kennedy. what's driving this? i know these are fresh one-month lows for the dow and major averages. >> i have no idea. >> sandra: there has been some weak manufacturing data this week. weak economic points. the next move from the fed. all of it has been weighing on stocks. so those growth concerns i think we just got 2% growth. it wasn't robust but wasn't a big disappointment. there are concerns about a slowdown when it comes to the economy playing out in the stock market. that's nearly a 2% sell-off. that catches your eye. >> i'm wondering if some of those indicators along with the political uncertainty and talk of impeachment have investors running for safer avenues and

this tends to be the first area where we see the yips. >> sandra: the uncertainty over the impeachment proceedings, too, playing out and concern from wall street over who may stay president or who may become president. >> i have a feeling if the president announces there is a big tariff agreement with china and they have figured everything out he knows that would be a huge boost for the markets. i'm wondering if he is keeping it in the pocket until the impeachment chatter reaches a zenith. i wouldn't be surprised to see something. >> bill: you on at noon today? >> no, i will be on stewart vafrny and brian kilmeade's radio show. >> sandra: "america's newsroom" first. >> for the first time. >> bill: stand by. fox news alert back to the bernie sanders news now. the campaign says bernie sanders had a heart procedure for artery blockage.

canceling events until further notice. here it is. senator sanders is conversing and in good spirits and resting up over the next few days. canceling events and appearance until further notice and continue to provide appropriate updates. >> sandra: we just got the word of senator sanders. his team saying he is in good spirits and conversing. this happened at a campaign event -- after a campaign against yesterday. >> how exhausting this is. it takes such a physical toll on all the candidates. >> sandra: more of an update. bernie sanders blockage in one artery. two stents were inserted. >> interesting because the way his campaign leaves it until further notice, that's a pretty broad statement. doesn't really give you the feeling that he is hankering to get back on the campaign trail.

>> bill: as of 2016 january when we last got a look at his medical history, sanders had no history of cardiovascular disease. >> both parents lived to be -- his parents lived a very long time. he is doing quite well. also it goes to show age not necessarily a factor because he has had the most energy arguably of any candidate on the stump. even young people sometimes have blockages and stents. fix it and good for him for getting medical attention when he had the signs and symptoms. >> sandra: great to have you here. thank you. >> bill: thanks, kennedy. >> sandra: peter doocy is live in las vegas. i believe we have him now. peter doocy, good morning to you. >> good morning and remember this is not the first time that senator sanders has had medical issues while he has been running for president this time. back in march he hit his head

in the shower and required a couple stitches. he was then seen at a few events with a very large bandage on his forehead for the next week or so. this was a surprise. we were expecting to see senator sanders in las vegas later on today for an event tied to the second anniversary of the country music festival mass murder that will be hosted by giffords focused on gun reform and swing to the west coast for events tomorrow in ontario, california area. and so this is all very last minute and coming in. again, it is the second time this cycle that senator sanders, who maintains as much energy as anybody, but also did just celebrate his 78th birthday has had to deal with some medical issues on the trail. >> sandra: our best to him,

peter doocy, thank you. >> bill: it could be significant news. we'll get fallout as it continues to roll in through here. in the meantime a note from kevin mccarthy a moment ago regarding adam schiff. minority leader in the house of representatives. here is what he says on twitter. chairman schiff has been lying to the american people for years. now he is so desperate to damage the president he literally made up a false version of a phone call. enough is enough. i have signed a resolution to censorship in the house of representatives. we'll see where it goes if anywhere. when you are in the minority you have a lot less authority in the house of representatives. we'll get our folks on the phone and figure it out. >> sandra: jim jordan last night on hannity made the point that adam schiff head of the house intelligence committee is too biased to lead this investigation. he will take to the microphone with speaker nancy pelosi moments from now. and we'll hear more about how they plan to proceed, the

progress that has been made so far since nancy pelosi made that official impeachment inquiry announcement. >> bill: he is referring to what schiff did during the hearing from last week last thursday it was, correct? yeah, last thursday. where schiff recreated his own interpretation of the phone conversation that we read in the transcript between the president and the president of ukraine. president trump has been hot on the trail of adam schiff ever since he did that. has been lighting him up on twitter the past several days suggesting that this was something that was a crime and should not have taken place. kevin mccarthy following suit. we'll see where the censor resolution. >> sandra: this is the nancy pelosi weekly news conference and adam schiff is joining her which is much bigger news when she hold the weekly news

conference. we'll take it live. >> bill: there is a hearing this afternoon, closed doors, not public. i imagine we'll get a leak or two. the inspector general from the state department who reached out to the committee heads late yesterday afternoon suggesting that he wanted to brief these heads of the committees. so that's going to happen. what he has to say we have no idea. it could be significant. a quick break and back with pelosi and schiff and much more when we continue.

>> sandra: fox news alert. 2020 democratic candidate bernie sanders undergoing a heart procedure after a campaign event yesterday. his campaign putting out a statement saying that he experienced chest discomfort after the event and he had blockage in an artery. he will be resting up over the next few days. we're canceling his events and appearances until further notice and provide appropriate updates. we'll continue to update on that. fox news alert now we're awaiting house speaker nancy pelosi and adam schiff to hold a news conference any moment following a stunning move from house democrats to subpoena the white house in its impeachment inquiry. welcome back to "america's newsroom." things are rolling along. i'm sandra smith. >> bill: good morning. i'm bill hemmer. house investigators will issue an subpoena demanding all white house and trump administration

documents that relate to the president talking to ukrainian leader to investigate the bidens. >> sandra: rich edson at the state department. first to john roberts at the white house for us this morning, john. >> good morning and a note about bernie sanders as somebody who went through the exact procedure 15 months ago, i'm sure he is in good hands and will be back out on the campaign trail very soon. meantime to the question at hand here three house committees foreign affairs, intelligence and government oversight say they are about to subpoena the white house to try to get their hands on documents that they have been looking for for weeks in relation to the ukraine investigation. this is -- they wanted to know about the phone call and contacts that rudy giuliani had with ukrainian officials and they were investigating this before any knowledge of this whistleblower complaint came out. the press conference with nancy pelosi is starting here.

>> violating -- exercising his rights under article two. the president of the united states has to conduct foreign policy. calling foreign leaders, they're going to foreign capitals. senator murphy went and threatened the president of ukraine. i think we have to raise their violation of constitution and civil rights. this is worst than mccarthy. how about a totally illicit impeachment proceeding? this is an illicit, rogue impeachment proceeding. >> this was rudy giuliani reacting last night on the ingraham angle to suing congress. we got mixed up there. the press conference with nancy pelosi and adam schiff is starting now. >> sandra: john roberts at the white house. a lot happening this morning. >> bill: we'll pause for a moment and allow fox stations across the country to join us. we don't know what they're about to say but something we wanted to share with our viewers here and across the

country. we'll allow other fox stations to join us. a lot of news in the past 30 minutes with regard to what congress is doing including the subpoena for the white house and what paperwork they're trying to get. we will follow that and much more as we take a two-second time-out and pause. >> bill: this is fox news coverage in new york city. i'm bill hemmer along with sandra smith. house intel committee chair adam schiff joining nancy pelosi at a weekly news conference. they do not always appear together and that's part of the reason why we're taking in this press conference here live. neil cavuto is with us. we brought you in to talk about other matters. as it relates to this we're watching the dow drop like a stone today and what is your read, neil, as it may or may not relate to the news events of today? >> it has nothing to do with this. it is about the economy. it is surprising a lot of

people, bill. something that very few people saw coming. a sudden weakness in the manufacturing sector and factor east. that has a lot of people wondering if it is spreading across the world. we've seen the same thing in europe and asia. it is eating away at us. now, i hasten to add there was good news on the private payroll front. the one thing this president has going in his favor, the strong economy, might be getting dinged around a little bit. i stress that contraction that so many people are talking about is still at good levels overall but it is that factory slowdown that is jarring these folks. october, one of the more infamous months for the markets. >> sandra: as we await nancy pelosi and adam schiff, this is happening as congress is on a two-week break. go ahead. >> i'm sorry.

it's odd about this, sandra, markets bear uncertainty as if life will lend itself that way. they were counting on steady as she goes recovery, impeachment going nowhere, then the ukraine incident and conversations with the australian prime minister. the expedited move that i guess nancy pelosi and adam schiff will spell out in a few minutes. all of a sudden all bets are off. they don't know where this ends. if in doubt you sell out. this might be an opportunity for them to sort of take in and lock in profits but in two days now going into the fourth quarter we've already wiped out our third quarter gains. >> bill: when you talk to the many smart folks you talk to on fox business how often do they bring up the story? do they think it's significant or not? >> they don't for the time being but a sense of the drip drip nation and the age of the broker you're talking to. some of the more seasoned pros there at the time of the bill

clinton situation even those who go far back to richard nixon in 1974 remember as well that that particular set of hearings, impeachment hearings really nine out of 10 americans didn't think they were going anywhere. they thought it was a democrats against a republican president who were elected in a landslide. they didn't seem it was going anywhere. the history of the hearings went on and on and more revelations and tapes and other details that weren't readily available at the start. before you knew it you had full blown impeachment proper saoentiond. what changed for richard nixon was republicans grouping against him. that does not appear to be the case here. >> sandra: amazing when you dig through as you know i still do, neil, those wall street analyst reports and it seems like everyone i read still is weighing the possibility of an impeachment actually happening. fascinating to read.

here you see democratic leadership stepping up to the microphone. nancy pelosi and adam schiff. >> good morning everyone. thank you for being here as we observe the district work in the holy days. as we gather here our members across the country are having communication with their constituents on two subjects in particular, one perhaps. the first is on our legislation hr3 to lower the cost of prescription drugs now. we're very pleased at the response members are receiving as we've asked them to go out there to receive public comment on hr3 and when they return we will be ready to proceed in committee and others to present the legislation. hr3 is important because as i've said to you before, across the country you can see grown

men cry at meetings because of the cost of prescription drugs. it's almost impossible for them to be healthy and financially healthy with the rising cost of prescription drugs. in the last year's election it was a high priority and it continues to be. when the president says he can't do anything because he has a threat of impeachment or the consideration of impeachment i hope he doesn't mean he doesn't want to work together to lower the cost of prescription drugs. it would give the secretary additional powers to negotiate for lower costs. it would end the disparity of costs between what consumers in america pay and what they pay in other countries, a cap on out-of-pocket expenses for catastrophic medicare expenses and it would also in the negotiation not only be for medicare but for all and it would have an insulation read

that reverses years of increases. we're very pleased with the work that has done into it so far by our three chairman. energy and commerce, ritchie neil of ways and means and bobby scott and education and workforce and many members as well. we'll be discussing this again over the break and the district when we return. at the same time, we are making progress on the u.s., mexico, canada trade agreement. this is an issue of concern around the country and we want to be sure that as we go forward we are protecting -- we are strengthening america's working families and our farmers who are very affected by this. this is not about trickle down trades. we aren't trickle down economics or trade people unless it hits home for our workers and farmers in terms of enforceability. we can't be there yet but we are on a path to yes.

as you probably know on friday our house task force under leadership of ritchie neil in ways and means put forth a counteroffer to what the administration has proposed. when we can arrive at a place where not only do we have our issues addressed, but that we have enforceability that will make it real for america's families and farmers then we can go down that path. i hope again that the president saying because of other actions in terms of upholding the constitution of the united states that he can't work with us because i do think he wants this u.s., mexico, canada trade agreement and we want it when it's right in terms of enforceability and that we can work together. at the same time we're hoping we can return and renew our conversations about infrastructure, building infrastructure of america. as i've said our agenda last year when we ran was for the people.

lower the cost of healthcare by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. that's what we're doing. building infrastructure of america the green way so we can increase paychecks, lower healthcare, bigger paychecks, cleaner government. well i think we can work with the administration on drugs and infrastructure i hope so. clean government is more of a challenge. as we gather here today, we are clearly at a place where we are legislating to try to meet the needs of the american people in a transformative way. we are investigating. we are litigating. we also are here today on the one year anniversary of the khashoggi was killed. such a very sad thing and at the same time you see the administration schmoozing with the very people who perhaps

orchestrated that. again, its yesterday the chinese observed their 70th anniversary. at the same time the president was very positive about that. while observing their anniversary is one thing. praising them for it is another when they have serious repression going on right now in china whether it's undermining the culture, language and religion of tibet. replacing in education camps, one, two or three million people, whether it's the suppression of democracy if hong kong and the violation of human rights throughout china. it is the same fight we've been having for years. for what does it profit a man or a country if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul? we seem to be able to ignore the shout-out from our soul on respecting the dignity and

worth of every person? i know many of you are here. some of you are regulars. many of you are not. i said mr. schiff maybe you should come to all of our meetings. we might get coverage for what we're trying to do for the american people. we're very proud of the work of our chairman of the intelligence committee. our -- we take this to be a very sad time for the american people. for our country, impeaching a president or having the investigation to impeach a president is not anything to be joyful about. i don't know if anybody is joyful but it is a sad time. and you just heard me say over and over again the dark days of the revolution, thomas payne said the times have found us. we think the times have found us now. not that we place ourselves in the category of greatness of our founders, but we do place ourselves in a time of urgency

on the threat to the constitution, a system of checks and balances that is being made. it is -- they fought for our independence and they fought and won and established a democracy, thank god they made the constitution amendable so we could be expanding freedom. we see the actions of this president being an assault on the constitution once we had his even admission to that. we had no choice but to go forward. it's hard. we want to weigh the equities. we want to be fair as we go forward, and we couldn't be better served than by the leadership of our chairman of the intelligence committee. my honor to present adam schiff to you now. >> thank you, madam speaker and thank you for leading the entire house of representatives

through this very fraught time in the history of the congress indeed the history of the country. i also want to express my condolence for the family of jamal khashoggi who bravely sought to advocate for free expression in saudi arabia and it cost him his life. we are deeply in his debt and determined to bring about justice for those who are responsible for that heinous murder. it is also an appropriate time to recognize the danger facing journalists all over the world. in terms of the issues that we've been foixed on this week i want to give you a brief update. of what has transpired really just within the last week. last thursday the intelligence committee held an open hearing with the acting director of national intelligence. the following day chairman

engel issued a subpoenaed to the state department in consultation with myself and chairman cummings. we're deeply concerned about secretary pompeo's effort now to potentially interfere with witnesses whose testimony is needed before our committee. many of whom are mentioned in the whistleblower complaint and we want to make it abundantly clear that any effort by the secretary, president or anyone else to interfere with congress's ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress. and more than that we'll allow an adverse inference to be drawn as to the underlying facts. that if they are going to prevent witnesses from coming forward to testify on the allegations in the whistleblower complaint, that will create an adverse inference that those allegations are in fact correct.

on monday i issued a subpoena to rudy giuliani in consultation with chairman cummings and engel. we expect mr. giuliani to comply with the legal process we are using. he is obviously a key figure in this by his own admission and the allegations in the whistleblower complaint. today and within the last half hour chairman cummings noticed a subpoena that will go out later this week or next week after the notice period has expired that that committee intends to subpoena documents that the white house has been withholding from congress. we're obviously coordinating with chairman cummings on that. on thursday ambassador vol ker is scheduled to before our committee and on friday the inspector general of the ic

will appear before the committee and testify as well. the last time the inspector general testified we didn't have the complaint. we now do. we certainly intend to ask the director about the efforts that were made to corroborate that complaint which we now know the inspector general found both credible and urgent. next week we have also scheduled a deposition or interview with the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. and we are in discussion with other state department witnesses to secure their depositions. so we've been very busy this week. we'll be very busy again next week. we are proceeding deliberately. but at the same time we feel a real sense of urgency here that this work needs to get done and needs to get done in a responsible period of time. thank you. >> just one moment please. i will decide who asks the questions. do we have any questions first

to meet the needs of the american people in terms of usmca and the hr3? on that subject? >> how do you envision working with this president on these key democratic agenda items. lowering prescription drug costs and gun safety measures as you consider whether to remove him. >> they have nothing to do with each other. we have the responsibility to uphold our oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the united states. we also have a responsibility to get the job done for the american people. the president has said he wants this u.s., mexico, canada trade agreement to go forward and we are awaiting the language on enforceability. so does it mean that he doesn't -- he can't do that? that's really up to him. i do expect that he does want

that and that he does need that and that he won't blame it on us because we're honoring our oath of office. he says he wants to lower the cost of prescription drugs. the american people want us to do that. so the president saying if you question my actions i can't agree on any subject, then the ball is in his court on that. many of you have always been interested in usmca. any ongoing interest? >> the president keeps saying the usmca will pay for his wall. how does money generated from there go into the fund for the wall? >> it doesn't. i'm not calling on you. i'm calling on this lady here. >> a question for the chairmanship. do you have plans or have you taken off the table the idea of a full house vote on impeachment? >> excuse me, dear.

hr3, anyone on hr3. does anybody in this room care about the cost of prescription drugs and what it means to america's working families? from time to time you've asked those questions. does anyone care about the usmca? hr3? >> hard fast date when you need this to be resolved. usmca. >> i would like -- as far as the trade agreement is concerned, at some point i'm saying it's either yes or no. we either have enforceability or we don't. i'm hopeful that we will and hopeful it will be soon. >> deadline you've given the administration or anything? >> no. we have a good working relationship -- believe me, the quiet you hear is progress. we go back and forth and over this break the staff between

the two trade rep and our negotiators are seeking clarification and where there is room for cooperation where we may have more challenges. it is going in a forward direction. we're very pleased with that. we're trying to find common ground with the president. he always wanted this. we do, too. let's find our common ground. >> another question on policy before we get to the other news of the day impeachment. what about the quiet we hear on gun legislation. two or three weeks ago we might hear what the president would support in a gun package. even the press have heard nothing. have you heard anything from the white house? >> the most recent communication i had from the white house on gun violence prevention was a call from the president last tuesday. so we can segue from one subject to the next year. he called early that morning to say to see the progress he was

making on coming to agreement on gun violence prevention. i was curious about what that progress would be. he said he was working with democrats and republicans. i reminded him that we had sent a bill over to the senate hr8 and hr1112, two pieces of legislation that will save the most lives and i would hope that's what he was talking about was very close to that. you'll be very pleased. that's the last i've heard of that. at that point is when the president segued into the telephone call in which he admitted that this call took place and that what happened was perfect. i would say it's not perfect, it's wrong. but your admission to what has now been in the public domain informed the timing of how we go forward. so again that was the last i heard from him. let me say on gun violence

protection -- prevention. we're not going away until we get legislation signed into law that protects our children. i said to the president on another occasion on the 200th day of the chuck schumer and i called the president on that. that was a couple of sundays ago, i think the 15th of september, maybe 2 1/2 weeks ago. that was the 200th day since we sent over hr8. i pray for the safety of you and your family and i hope that god -- pray that god will give you illumination and enlightenment to pray to work for the safety of other families in our country. so again the most recent -- i won't say the last. i hope it is not the last, the most recent communication i've had from the white house was in the same call where the president admitted to what he said in that phone conversation.

>> on impeachment, have you taken off the table or do you plan for a full house vote on impeachment inquiry. chairman schiff, as the white house seems to be doing delays, it's taken years to come documents and testimony. are you preparing for a court battle and how do make sure it happens and what you say is an expeditious matter. >> there is no requirement there be a floor vote. that is not anything that's excluded. by the way, there are some republicans that are nervous about our bringing that vote to the floor. >> to say that we are concerned that the white house will attempt to stone wall our investigation much as they have stonewalled other committees in the past. it is why i say the white house needs to understand that any action like that that forces us to litigate or have to consider litigation will be considered further evidence of obstruction

of justice. and of course that was an article of impeachment against nixon, the obstruction of lawful functions of congress that is. we'll also draw the inference as appropriate that they are trying to conceal facts that would corroborate the allegations in the whistleblower complaint. we'll have to decide whether to litigate or how to litigate. we're not fooling around here, though. we don't want this to drag on months and months and months which appears to be the administration's strategy. they just need to know that even as they try to undermine our ability to find the facts around the president's effort to coerce a foreign leader to bring dirt he can use against a political opponent, that they will be strengthening the case on obstruction if they behave that way. >> i would like to ask madam

speaker and also chairman this as well. the president wants to interview the whistleblower. he says he has the right to meet his accuser. your response both of you, please. >> the whistleblower has the right under statute to remain anonymous and we will do everything in our power to make sure that whistleblower is protected. that whistleblower is preferences in terms of their anonymity are respected. and let's not make any mistake here. the president wants to make this all about the whistleblower. suggests people that come forward with evidence of his wrongdoing are somehow treasonous and should be treated as traitors and spies. it is to intimidate witnesses and incitement to violence. i hope and we're starting to see members of both parties speaking out against attacking

this whistleblowers or others who have pertinent information. the other thing i want to underscore, though, is what the whistleblower has set out, that is within our power to this date to confirm, we see confirmed in that call record. the president can attack the whistleblower retoreically all the president wants. it doesn't change the fact that the record of that call shows the president of the united states in the same conversation indeed immediately after the ukraine president asks for more military help, the president of the united states asks that leader a favor though. and no attack on the whistleblower or anyone else is going to change those underlying facts. >> the subject of the whistleblower i said to the president on that call you've come into my wheel house, 25 years on the intelligence at member and ranking member as

mr. schiff was before he became the chairman when we got the majority. so i was part of the gang of four before i was even in the leadership as a gang of eight. so for 25 years one way or another i was there when we improved the whistleblower legislation in the late 90s. i was part of that. i was there when we made further improvements and president obama made executive action improvements in the whistleblower legislation. and then we have further legislation. and then i was there when we created the office of the director of national intelligence. and what his responsibility was in terms of the whistleblower. so this is very -- i hope that you understand and i suspect that you do, the seriousness of the president of the united states saying he wants to interview that person. we'll treat the president with

fairness as we go forward. we will have investigations and questioning that are worthy of the constitution of the united states. it is unworthy of the constitution of the united states to do what he did in that call and he admitted to me said it is perfect. it is not perfect. it's wrong, a, and b, that protecting whistleblowers is a very, very important -- important requirement that we have. the intelligence community recognizes the importance of whistleblowers. protecting whistleblowers who see wrongdoing of any kind in our government is essential. so the president probably doesn't realize how dangerous his statements are when he says he wants to expose who the whistleblower is and those who may have given the whistleblower that information. this is a very serious challenge that the president has put there. it is very sad.

i don't see impeachment as a unifying thing for our country. i weighed those equities hard and long until i had the president's admission that he did what he did. >> one question following up on what you just said. some republicans have said that the president's phone call wasn't great but that it isn't an impeachable offense. is it possible you're making too much of one phone call? >> absolutely not. >> well, if you think about what the framers were concerned about at the time of the drafting of the constitution, they were paramountly concerned about foreign interference in american affairs. they wanted to insure the president of the united states was defending the interests and national security of the united states and not corruptly secretly advancing some private agenda with a foreign power. it is hard to imagine a set of circumstances that would have alarmed the founders more than

what's on that call. where you have a president using the full power of his office to try to effectively coerce a foreign leader that is completely dependent on our country for military, economic, diplomatic and other support. to intervene in our election to help his campaign, it's hard to imagine a more corrupt course of conduct. to my republicans colleagues to say there is nothing to see but it's bad or something that you would remove the president from office for, they will have to answer if this conduct doesn't rise to the level of the concern the founders have, what conduct does? now, we only know some of the facts at this point. the call record seems to be pretty indisputed. the suspension of military assistance is undisputed now. the sequestration of this call record and maybe others into a

file in which they were never supposed to be placed, a file that is for classified information of the highest order, covert action, for example, those facts are not contested. but all the facts are around that we still need to flesh out. what was the state department's role, what was the secretary's role, what was the role of the attorney general? there is a great more that we need to know to understand the full depth of the president's misconduct. and maybe when that comes out, it will persuade some of those republicans to recognize the gravity of the situation. but i think we have to be realistic here, there seems to be no floor below which this president can drop that some of the gop members and maybe even many of the gop members would not be willing to endorse and look away from, avoid comment on, let alone rise to condemn

as incompatible with the duties of his office. >> in that telephone call, the president undermined our national security because of his -- what he had done a few days earlier. president said i didn't say that in the call. the sequencing of it. a few days before the president withdrew that. now why would that just come from the president? there was no as far as we know, we will find out if there is, any national security council justification for the president withdrawing assistance that had been passed by the congress of the united states in a bipartisan way. and then the president just on his own decided he was going to use it as leverage. so using that as leverage, we supported that military assistance in the interest of our national security. undermining our national security. undermining his oath of office to protect and defend the

constitution because he was overthrowing an act of congress just on his own. undermining the integrity of our election and that means something to people in their lives. they have to know their vote counts and it will be counted as cast and this president of the united states is stooping to a level that is beneath the dignity of the constitution of the united states and our founders since the chairman mentioned our founders. they put guardrails in the constitution because they knew there might be someone who would overplay his or her power. they never thought that we would have a president who would kick those guardrails over and disregard the constitution and say article 2 says that i can do whatever i feel like. so this is sad. we have to be prayerful. we have to be worthy of the constitution as we go forward. we have to be fair to the

president and that's why this is an inquiry and not an outright impeachment and we have to give the president his chance to exonerate himself what he thinks what he did was perfect. so we have that situation. but i say to my colleague, calmness, quiet so that we can hear, that we can hear what is being said in this regard. again, when -- on that very day, september 17th, that was constitution day, a tuesday, two tuesdays ago from yesterday. that was when that explosion hit of what possibly happened in that phone conversation which the president confirmed to me in our call. and that day is the day we observed the adoption of our constitution, september 17th. on that day way back when when

benjamin franklin left independence hall people said to him what do we have, a monarchy or a republic? he said a republic. if we can keep it. it is our responsibility to keep that republic with the genius of the separation of powers. that t three co-equal balance of power. a republic if we can keep it is our responsibility and the oath of office that we take and that is what is the -- one of the reasons why we just have to look at the facts and the constitution. any other objections people may have to the president have no place in this discussion in terms of is he too cowardly to protect children from gun violence, is he too cruel to protect dreamers, is he too in denial for climate change? save that for the election. this is about the facts

relating to the constitution and that is how we will proceed with dignity, with respect, prayerfully, and again worthy of the sacrifice of our founders. the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform who fight for our freedom and the aspiration essential of our children who will live under future presidents who will honor the constitution of the united states. thank you all very much. >> bill: speaker pelosi saying the phone call with the ukrainian president was wrong. adam schiff saying they are proceeding with a sense of urgency but there will be a number of hearings that will take place in the coming days behind closed doors. already the white house has responded saying this is all a waste of time saying the democrats are running a kangaroo court. the president tweeting in realtime a moment ago saying all the talk of impeachment is driving the stock market lower. we are lower significantly off about 500 points at the moment. this following a day where

we're off several hundred points yesterday as well. there will be developments on this story. stay tuned to this fox news channel and this fox station for continuing coverage on the story. until then i'm bill hemmer in new york. and now our coverage continues on cable. >> sandra: bret baier joins us now. you've been listening to every word coming from democratic leadership there. key there was no timeline laid out by nancy pelosi or adam schiff. they said we're proceeding deliberately and feel a sense of urgency, responsible amount of time is how adam schiff explained it. we don't want this to go on or drag on for months and months. what was your takeaway? >> a couple of things. one, sandra, good morning. the takeaway first was speaker pelosi spent the first part of the news conference talking about healthcare and talking about possible infrastructure and drug prices.

trying to prove that democrats are attempting to do other things besides impeachment. we'll see if that actually happens. but she used that opening time to focus on that saying they could walk and chew gum at the same time. it's interesting that when she was asked about putting this to an official formal vote to have the house initiate an impeachment inquiry that she said it was not necessary by the constitution. that is true. however, there is also no precedent for what she is doing moving forward without a vote. in 1974 the vote was 410-4 to launch an impeachment inquiry into richard nixon. with that came the full power of the house and the ability for the minority to debate the action. and then vote on it. they are not doing this. they aren't moving forward and she noted that there are some republicans who are very scared of that vote would come to pass.

the thing that she didn't say is that there are some moderate democrats who are equally scared that vote would have to come to vote either way. >> sandra: there have been eyeballs watching the dow as democratic leadership was talking because it felt in the lows of the session the dow fell more than 500 points at one point. the president tweeted connecting what we were hearing from democrats on impeachment to the sell-off we're seeing in the markets today. however, there are other factors weighing on the market including economic numbers that were down and there has been signs of weaknesses that have led to some of the selling we've seen in the markets. you also heard from nancy pelosi i hold president trump the ukraine phone call was wrong. we will treat the president with fairness. this is about the facts. she said we will treat the president with fairness not once but twice during that press conference. >> that's right. we'll see how this progresses.

they're moving forward to get documents from the white house and state department. you have the negotiation with the state department i.g. and the team up there negotiating what they are going to hand over and how it is going to work. again we've had that formal vote it gets stickier as far as the subpoenas and how they're upheld in court and whether oats a really drawn out battle. the call, the ukrainian president has since after his u.n. appearance been interviewed numerous times and he has said that he did not feel any pressure. he did not feel like the funding was held over his head. and he did not feel compelled to launch an investigation into the bidens. obviously he can say that in an effort to keep an ally pleased. but that is what he is saying publicly at least about that call. >> bill: do you get the sense listening to your answer, do you get the sense that there is a feeling a couple days ago they can have a vote on this by

thanksgiving or do you get the sense the more we trudge along it could be a long, drawn-out process, something that go can well into the new year if not further possibly. >> i think it's the latter. i think listening to adam schiff and the speaker they would like to get this thing moving and why they're having some of these hearings and calling some of these witnesses. unless there is a bombshell that developments, this could be a long slog and definitely not before thanksgiving but perhaps before the end of the year they get to an article of impeachment if they come to that. i thought it was also interesting that adam schiff essentially threatened that if the administration slow walks that in itself will be an article of impeachment they'll put together. >> bill: point out one more thing. he said we're moving deliberately but feel a sense of urgency. congress is away except for these committees that are specifically working on this. that gives you perhaps a sense of the timetable that they're

trying to make happen. would you agree with that? >> yes. and listen, just look at the calendar. you get to the beginning of february next year and we're in iowa. and then it starts the whole thing. iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, nevada. the last thing they want is a really intense impeachment battle at that moment. the other thing is -- this is speculation up on the hill -- that you have this other track and that is the inspector general who is looking at the beginning of the trump probe and also the u.s. attorney durham who is looking at the beginning of the trump investigation. and eventually that is going to come out, too. if not this month, then before the end of the year. >> sandra: all right, bret baier in washington we'll let you go and see you at 6:00 tonight. joining us now is donna brazile, were you able to hear the words from nancy pelosi and adam schiff? >> i did. i thought they were appropriate. what i heard was that they are

going to proceed with caution. there is no house rule or precedent that they need to follow in terms of having a full vote. i think the committee will exercise their authority to try to get as much information and with the depositions they'll hold as well as bringing in witnesses. this will inform the house as to whether or not they proceed from an inquiry to outright impeachment of the president of the united states. >> sandra: she said specifically, donna, there is no requirement for a floor vote and she made a claim standing there that republicans are scared of an impeachment vote. >> well, i don't know. i'm not inside the congress anymore. i was there during the clinton impeachment as a hill staffer. but i just think that at this moment we shouldn't rush to judgment. look, there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes and as you know, while congress is in recess and members are

holding town hall meetings all over the country, what the committee staffers and others are doing is gathering the information. the speaker also said this will be a fair process. and i trust her. remember, she was reluctant. she has been the leader that has basically said to the congress her members hold off, wait a minute. and this didn't start over the last 30 days. this has been her position for almost the entire period of time that she has served as speaker. so i truly trust her instincts, her political instincts. more importantly i trust the fact that she is going to follow the constitution and she is going to make this as fair as possible. >> bill: thank you, donna brazile with us there in washington today. bret baier prior to that as well. sandra, we have another phase of this story you could argue based on the comments we just watched >> sandra: nancy pelosi made the case that impeachment is not unifying. do we have that sound? we'll play it for you.

>> this is a very serious, very serious challenge that the president has put there. it is very sad. i don't see impeachment as a unifying thing for our country. i weighed those equities hard and long until i had the president's admission that he did what he did. >> sandra: donna brazile still with us. you heard the words from the speaker of the house there, donna. your reaction to that. >> again, i go back to something i heard her say also in her press conference. it's sad. this is a solemn moment. i take no joy out of watching this unfold. i have serious policy disagreements with the president of the united states but he is the president of the united states. and we have to show once again i think as americans that no american is above the law, above the constitution. and they should not use the office of the president for their personal political interests. we have to get to the heart of

what the house is looking at right now. and do that in a fair way. as i say proceed with caution. it is not unifying. it is going to be a difficult moment for those who are 100% behind the president. those who are 30%, 50%. it doesn't matter. this is about our constitution and the office of the president. >> bill: thank you, donna. we get more reaction from the white house. we'll bring that to our viewers in a moment as our coverage continues. a quick break here, back after this. great news for veterans with va loans.

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>> sandra: breaking news out of connecticut. we've been following for it for you. a world war ii bomber plane crashed a short time ago, at least six people have been reportedly taken to the hospital. this happening at bradley

international airport north of hartford. it was associated with an educational group that it brought its display to the bradley international airport this week. >> bill: news about an hour ago. bernie sanders in the hospital recovering after undergoing an emergency heart procedure. dr. marc siegel in studio to explain what we think we know so far. age 78, doctor, what have we learned? >> bill: his age and being a male is a risk factor. he reported a history of high cholesterol and gout. one artery was involved. two cardiac stents. bill, the technology has evolved to the point since they are covered now with a medication that prevents them

from clotting off. a less than 10% chance that he will go on. he will go on blood thiners and do fine and likely back on the procedure. >> bill: even at age 78? >> they keep you overnight in the hospital one day. >> bill: he is a vibrant man. a medical report i think that was made public in january of 2016. i believe that was the last record we saw. what did you find in that? >> again, in that report he had a history of gout and high cholesterol. it was being treated. it sets him up for this situation of having a risk of heart disease. i'm not surprised to see a blockage. the fact in a single artery bodes better. the one that's usually involved is the one on the front of the heart. he had two blockages in there and they were both reopened. >> bill: how do you as an individual, not bernie sanders, how does somebody recognize this? >> in his case he had sudden chest pain on the campaign

trail yesterday. often you have see that. you see chest pain. shortness of death. tingling in your left arm. men see those symptoms than women. women indigestion, diabetics atypical symptoms. he had classic symptoms in his case. pressure in his chest. described like this. just like this. ask the patient. they say i felt a sensation in my chest like this, a gripping sensation. >> bill: for someone looking at recovery time. how long is it? >> that's a really good question. i would say home by tomorrow, usually you lay low for a week or so. gradually increase your activity. bernie sanders you may see him back on the trail in a week or two. >> he is in nevada. >> i wouldn't advise getting on a plane right now. altitude isn't the greatest to go to lower oxygen levels. we tell patients stay where you

are for a few days before you try flying. on a plane you have the risk of a blood clot. don't want to see that right now. >> sandra: fox news alert. house demanding to documents related to the president's phone call with the ukraine president be released. speaker pelosi and adam schiff spoke just moment ago. we'll have more on this when we return. >> we are proceeding deliberately but at the same time we feel a real sense of urgency here that this work needs to get done and needs to get done in a responsible period of time. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands?

>> it is hard to imagine a set of circumstances that would alarm the founders more than what is on that fall. where you have a president using the full power of his office to

try to effectively coerce a foreign leader, that is completely dependent on our country for military, economic, diplomatic, and other support. >> sandra: adam schiff just of short time ago alongside nancy pozzi. he made the case, they made the case that he was stonewalling, he said he was being bullied along with other state department employees. it is on. >> bill: it is, and a critical hearing, you will not see it, behind closed doors, as the div director general from the state department contacted the committee and says that he has something to tell them. we do not know what that is. but we do know that the president will be seen publicly at 2:00 this afternoon, a press conference at the white house, will see how long that goes, but that will be pretty much in about two hours from now, the next big moment in the story as of today. >> sandra: we will listen to

that, stay tuned to the fox fox news channel, we will see you tomorrow. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: fox news alert, awaiting remarks from president trump when he meets with president of finland who is expected to arrive at the white house any moment now. all comes as house democrats impeachment inquiry continues to unfold. moments ago watched top democrats threatening to subpoena the white house for documents. house intelligence chairman adam schiff says that the administration ought to comply with congressional investigators or strengthen their case. >> they are trying to conceal facts that would cooperate the allegations. we are not fooling around, we don't want this to drag on, even as they try to undermine our ability to find the facts around the president's effort to course a foreign leader