Philippe Reines SHOULD NEVER BE ON TV much less FOX

House Republicans generated big headlines yesterday by unveiling a list of witnesses they want summons in the impeachment hearing the most prominent name hunter Biden the former vice president's son who was making plenty of money in Ukraine Molly Washington Post says this about that Republicans want to publicly question witnesses who would divert the conversation away from questions about Trump's behavior to allegations only tangentially related to the case naming Biden's and also 2016 election interference that's the initial take by the paper well yeah II don't think that's very defensible the entire original phone call that set off this entire drama was our discussion about hunter Biden and his role at Berea and also that Vice President Joe Biden people keep talking about how he's a current presidential candidate but he's a previous vice president who had a lot of responsibility for Ukraine this is very relevant to whether what the what President Trump was saying was okay or not okay if is it okay to be concerned about corruption in the past versus whether he was trying to affect a forthcoming election so this is very relevant to the entire issue and hunter Biden did work for briefs but he did get a lot of money and he and that that relationship was used to affect us policy and these are important things severally the press is already saying that Adam Schiff the Democratic Chairman will say no to this and that the GOP will then accuse the Democrats of running a one sided hearing and I think there'll be the usual split in the press saying oh this is outrageous no of course he shouldn't testify it's a distraction yeah it's all it's all a strategy by the Republicans I think it's a smart strategy to put hunter Biden out there to show that in their perspective this has been very partisan and of course if you think that there is an issue with what Trump did in this phone call you have to have an issue with what Joe Biden did as well so they're keeping this in the news cycle also once again the whistleblower the Republicans wanting him to come forward he was on that list as well and Adam Schiff is likely to say no to that as well so I think this is going to come down to a transparency argument also for Republicans saying look we're not even getting into all the facts here Phillippi worked in the State Department in the last administration New York Times says the following rarely has the State Department been the center of vault against a president and believing that policy was hijacked by partisan politics and that's the media consensus hijacked by partisan politics but that enables President Trump to say no no they're being partisan and they're just people who didn't don't like my policy on Ukraine or anything else on the far in front well first down Trump doesn't need anyone's excuse to say it he says it either way the people at the State Department I mean think about this for a second most of them joined at some point when President Bush might have been president or President Clinton or the first president Bush some of them have been there as far back as Nixon they didn't join up to thwart Donald Trump and they often carry out policy that they don't agree with you think that the bulk of the State Department agreed with invading Iraq yet thousands of Foreign Service officers went and served in Iraq and Afghanistan my point being what they are seeing and what they are saying is about breaking the law they are expressing concerns about how this aid was held up and it's been reported today that the president's defense that eventually the aid was released that it was released because the State Department did it because they love that the times is that they're at the center of a revolt and does that rather reprovingly I mean the entire debate is about who gets to set foreign policy is it the people by electing presidents or is it the bureaucracy and that's what every piece of testimony has shown thus far is that some people think the bureaucracy gets to dictate foreign policy over and against the will of the people she has a responsibility to follow the law and should not break the law alleging there's a law the president's own ambassador and the president's own envoy Ukraine I've got to get a break we could continue this for another hour and a half ahead CBS 5