Fox News anchor Chris Wallace wasn’t going to let the network’s contributor Katie Pavlich go into a fact-free rant on the air while discussing Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Wallace and Pavlich got into a heated exchange on Monday following former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s bombshell that came gift-wrapped in the form of a book. An excerpt was leaked and it solidifies the Democrats’ call to allow witnesses.
Wallace looked at Pavlich and told her to get her “facts straight” then, Special Report anchor Bret Baier stepped in to advise both of them to “tone it down.”
“The Senate is not the House, the House did not come with a complete case, and every impeachment beforehand, the witnesses that were called had been called in the House before being brought to the Senate,” Pavlich insisted. “So there are questions here about the process.”
“That’s not true. That’s not true,” Wallace shot back. “They hadn’t all been called in the House. In the Clinton impeachment, they’d been called by the independent counsel. They had not been called by the House.”
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After some back and forth over the differences between when witnesses were called in the Clinton impeachment, Wallace tore into Pavlich’s argument.
“Katie, what you’re saying just isn’t true,” Wallace said. “The fact is that the whistleblower information was given to the inspector general, who gave it to the Justice Department. The Justice Department decided not to investigate, and that is why it went to the House.”
“So to say that in the Clinton investigation that these people were interviewed by the House, one, they weren’t, and to say it wasn’t done by the Justice … it wasn’t done by the Justice Department, because the Justice Department refused to carry out the investigation. Get your facts straight!” Wallace said.
“OK, OK, let’s tone it down,” Baier said.
“OK, Let’s talk about some of the facts here, Chris,” Pavlich said. “The point is that all the information that the grand jury and the Clinton investigation, all of the witnesses the House wanted to call, that the Justice Department called in the Clinton case, were done before the articles were voted on and put over to the Senate.”
“That is not what has happened here,” she continued. “The House voted on incomplete information and gave it to the Senate, and now they are saying the Senate should call additional witnesses who have not been called before, and who were not part of the House evidence.”
“So we just shouldn’t listen to what John Bolton has to say?” Wallace said.
“I’m not taking a side, Chris. I’m not saying Bolton should or should not testify,” Pavlich insisted. “I am simply talking about what senators are saying and they should go with the process.”
Watch:
Whoa, sparks fly on Fox News: Chris Wallace tells @KatiePavlich, “Get your facts straight!” @BretBaier then says, “Let’s tone it down.” pic.twitter.com/7IyBch5q6K
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 27, 2020
One of the problems with Katie’s argument is that more and more information, texts, and documents keep coming out. The House could not deal with today’s revelations before it became known. Of course, the House could possibly file additional articles of impeachment, making Trump the first “president” in history that’s been impeached more than once.
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