President Donald Trump has said that he wants to deliver a 'fireside chat' on national television and read a transcript of his controversial call with the Ukrainian president. 'At some point, I'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. When you read it, it's a straight call,' Trump told the Washington Examiner in an Oval Office interview on Thursday.'This is over a phone call that is a good call,' Trump said of the impeachment inquiry, just hours after House Democrats voted unanimously to formalize their probe.At the heart of the inquiry is a July 25 phone call during which Trump is accused of withholding military aid from Ukraine to force the country to investigate political rival Joe Biden. President Donald Trump has said that he wants to deliver a 'fireside chat' on national television and read a transcript of his controversial call with the Ukrainian president Former President Franklin Roosevelt (above) popularized the idea of 'fireside chats,' which is the term he used for weekly radio addresses to the nation RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Democrats speed up impeachment probe with four new witnesses... Donald Trump loyalists scramble to unmask the... Share this article Share Former President Franklin Roosevelt popularized the idea of 'fireside chats,' which is the term he used for weekly radio addresses in which he laid out his agenda for the American people. Trump said in Thursday's interview that he had no intention of cooperating with the Democrats' document requests and subpoenas, even after the vote.'You are setting a terrible precedent for other presidents,' Trump said of cooperating with the probe.Trump went on to say that compared with the three previous presidents to be impeached, the claims against him were trivial. 'Everybody knows I did nothing wrong,' he said. 'Bill Clinton did things wrong, Richard Nixon did things wrong. I won't go back to [Andrew] Johnson because that was a little before my time,' he said. 'But they did things wrong. I did nothing wrong.' In the first formal test of support for the impeachment investigation, the Democratic-controlled House voted almost entirely along party lines - 232 to 196 - to move the probe forward in Congress. The vote allows for public impeachment hearings in Congress, which are expected in the coming weeks, portending a bitter battle ahead as the United States heads into a presidential election year.Democrats who accuse Trump of abusing his office and jeopardizing national security for personal political gain were almost unanimous in approving Thursday's measure, but they did not pick up a single Republican vote.'It's a sad day. No one comes to Congress to impeach a president,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said before the vote.Republicans accused Democrats of using impeachment to overturn the results of his 2016 election victory. 'It should not be Nancy Pelosi and a sm
Trump says he wants to read Ukraine call transcript in a FIRESIDE CHAT
President Donald Trump has said that he wants to deliver a 'fireside chat' on national television and read a transcript of his controversial call with the Ukrainian president. 'At some point, I'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. When you read it, it's a straight call,' Trump told the Washington Examiner in an Oval Office interview on Thursday.'This is over a phone call that is a good call,' Trump said of the impeachment inquiry, just hours after House Democrats voted unanimously to formalize their probe.At the heart of the inquiry is a July 25 phone call during which Trump is accused of withholding military aid from Ukraine to force the country to investigate political rival Joe Biden. President Donald Trump has said that he wants to deliver a 'fireside chat' on national television and read a transcript of his controversial call with the Ukrainian president Former President Franklin Roosevelt (above) popularized the idea of 'fireside chats,' which is the term he used for weekly radio addresses to the nation RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Democrats speed up impeachment probe with four new witnesses... Donald Trump loyalists scramble to unmask the... Share this article Share Former President Franklin Roosevelt popularized the idea of 'fireside chats,' which is the term he used for weekly radio addresses in which he laid out his agenda for the American people. Trump said in Thursday's interview that he had no intention of cooperating with the Democrats' document requests and subpoenas, even after the vote.'You are setting a terrible precedent for other presidents,' Trump said of cooperating with the probe.Trump went on to say that compared with the three previous presidents to be impeached, the claims against him were trivial. 'Everybody knows I did nothing wrong,' he said. 'Bill Clinton did things wrong, Richard Nixon did things wrong. I won't go back to [Andrew] Johnson because that was a little before my time,' he said. 'But they did things wrong. I did nothing wrong.' In the first formal test of support for the impeachment investigation, the Democratic-controlled House voted almost entirely along party lines - 232 to 196 - to move the probe forward in Congress. The vote allows for public impeachment hearings in Congress, which are expected in the coming weeks, portending a bitter battle ahead as the United States heads into a presidential election year.Democrats who accuse Trump of abusing his office and jeopardizing national security for personal political gain were almost unanimous in approving Thursday's measure, but they did not pick up a single Republican vote.'It's a sad day. No one comes to Congress to impeach a president,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said before the vote.Republicans accused Democrats of using impeachment to overturn the results of his 2016 election victory. 'It should not be Nancy Pelosi and a sm
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