- In other news tonightthe President of Ukraine

is denying President Trump pressured him

during the phone call at the heart

of the impeachment inquiry.

President Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv

that there was no blackmail.

- I think, my opinion,

that I don't know in any cases

but in our case what we had,

I think that this is not corrupt

because it was just call.

- [Female Newscaster]And declaring in a tweet

that the Ukrainian Presidentsdefense exonerated him,

President Trump said quote,

"That should end this Democrat scam,

"but it won't because the Dems

"and media are fixed."

This has more Americans than ever before

supporting impeachment.

More than half, 51% of allvoters in a Fox news poll,

want President Trump impeachedand removed from office.

40% of oppose impeachment altogether

and 43% of Americansthink what the President

said on the call with Zelenskywas an impeachable offense.

- Here now, David Brody,

CBN chief political analyst.

David, let's start withthat Fox news poll,

those numbers have to be

concerning for the White House.

- Yeah, they are andPresident Trump's not happy

with them either.

On Twitter, he said, "they stink."

Well, okay, he didn't say it that way,

but the point is,

he's not happy with them at all.

And if you go deeper inside the numbers,

here's the problem, John, with this poll.

He is up in terms ofsupport from impeachment,

which is not a good thing in this case.

11 point with democrats,

he is three points upamong the republicans,

three percent morerepublicans want him impeached

five percent more whiteEvangelical's want him impeached.

This is a disastrouspoll for President Trump

and if this is gonna be the way forward

then buckle your seatbelt.

- Well, David, today it looks like they

are expanding their legal team.

President Trump announced today,

former South Carolina RepublicanCongressmen Trey Gowdy

is joining his legal team.

This is a very interestingpick because Trey Gowdy,

he was the one leadingthe charge investigating

the Obama administration.

- That's right.

Two years with Benghazi,

he is a tenacious prosecutor with a twang

and he's got the whole thing goin' on.

Look, he doesn't mess around

and he's also very good on television

and I think that is something that

was important to Donald Trump

because you will see him asthe lead guy on television.

Jay Sekulow has been out there,

Rudy has been out there.

I think they're gonna scale Rudy back,

he's got a few other things goin' on,

but Trey Gowdy for sure willbe the guy now on television.

- David, over on the otherside of Capitol Hill,

the Senate is consideringsanctions against Turkey,

including PresidentErdoğan for invading Syria.

Is this a way to use a back door method

to force President Trump's hand?

- I don't even thinkit's a back door method.

I think they're saying to this president,

"What you did was wrong.

"We're gonna go aheadunilaterally as Congress

"go ahead with sanctionsand deal with it."

And so an aide was telling me,

someone close to Lindsey Graham's office,

says that they believe this could get done

maybe in the next week or so

but beyond all of that,

they believe the presidentmay sign this sanctions bill

which most people think he,

President Trump would veto it

and then Congress would havethe votes to override it

but this aide tells me actuallythey think the president

could actually sign thesanctions bill against Turkey,

which would be interestingbecause he has said

for Er to want to do his thing

but he's also been kind of skeptical

of the whole thing as well.

- That's true.

- And David it's rareto see this many people,

this many allies of the president,

speaking out against hisdecision when it comes to Syria.

What is the White House doing to tamp down

on what could be a possible revolt?

- Well, they say, look,

it's only 50 special op forces,

number one, they'll say that.

They'll say we're gonnaobliterate Turkey economically

if they mess up andfinally this Saturday night

as we reported here first,

the President will speak tothe Values Voter Summit crowd.

He will actually speak at a dinner

in honor of Pastor Andrew Brunson,

who of course was in Turkeybeing held there as a prisoner

and so this will be anopportunity for the White House

and President Trump specificallyto do a bit of a reset

or at least explain toa very important crowd,

why this move was necessary.

You'll see some new language,I think, on Saturday night.

- David, real quickly here,

we know that this has to havean affect on President Trump.

How is he handling this?

Is it taking a toll on him?

- I think it's definitely taken a toll.

I mean, I think you can see anecdotally

he looks a little bit more tired.

He looks a little bit more worn

but what I notice isthere was an actual quote

and I wanna just read this to you.

He said this, these words, "Iunderstand the other side."

is what he said and he saidit three or four times.

This was the day after he started getting

bombarded with criticism.

It's very rare for Trump to say,

"I understand the other side."

Let alone say it three or four times.

That, to me, knowing himfor about 10 years or so,

that he understand that he's getting

a lot of incoming damage

and he's gonna have to deal with that.

- Thanks David.

- David, thank you very