Hey, Bill O'Reilly here and this is the Talking Points Memo for Newsmax.

So everybody is talking about the impeachment thing, right?

I, as a kind of famous guy, I walk around and I'm curious about what the folks think.

I don't care what they think on CNN or Fox. I want to know what the folks think.

So, you know people walk up to me all the time and I say, so what about this impeachment thing?

Then they'll put... you know a pro or anti Trump statement out there and I'll say, what's the crime? Now for the pro Trump people, it's oh there is no crime. But for the anti Trump people, and I divide it up. There's a silence. There is a silence. I said so what are we going through impeachment for? What did the president do on the phone with the Ukraine president?

What did he do. Never get an answer. Nobody knows.

I'm a simple man. That's a simple question. You try it.

What's the crime? There is no crime.

Now, we went over this in great detail on BillOReilly.com and I went over it with Wayne here on Newsmax. The president calls the president of Ukraine and wanted information about a situation he feels might have been corrupt. Mr. Trump is the chief law enforcement officer of the country.

He has the perfect right to do it, and it doesn't matter whether it's a political opponent or somebody who's driving his car.

If he thinks there is corruption, and he does. That's in the United States of Trump. I run right down what he thinks of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and what they tried to do to him. That's at the genesis of all of this.

But anyway, what is the crime? Why are we going through impeachment, which will hurt every American because the economy will go down and very serious issues that should be resolved by Congress will be ignored. Why are we doing it? So I'm promoting the United States of Trump on the radio, right?

I'm doing radio everywhere and I am on with WBAL radio, our affiliate. We do the O'Reilly Update radio program and that's our big affiliate in Baltimore. I'm I'm with a guy named Clarence Mitchell, who is a very smart radio host and he has run for office.

So I go Clarence, and Clarence is not a Trump supporter but he's a fair man.

Clarence, what is the crime?

He says there is no crime but there is an election violation. Now, it's the first time that I ever got anything back like that. I go, that's very interesting, Clarence. Tell me what the election violation is. He says, well if you are running for office, as President Trump is. You cannot solicit help from a foreign country. OK. Now that's not a law, but it is a rule in elections. You can't do that. That's un-ethical.

So, I said okay, I understand all of it and the ethics rule is a good one. But what if there is an interpretation of what you did? So President Trump is obviously trying to find out about corruption. He believes that Joe Biden and his son were in some kind of corrupt bargain with Ukraine.

He believes that Ukraine might have information about the Russian collusion investigation, and he's the chief law enforcement officer of the land. Shouldn't he be compelled to ask for information from the president of Ukraine? Clarence ceded my point and I said if that's all true, and it is. That overrides though might be election violation. Does it not? That's why you guys watch me, right?

I'm not gloating. I'm telling you that this impeachment thing is dangerous and here's why it's happening. It's driven by the media, not Nancy Pelosi and her party. They're hitching a ride on the impeachment train. The media's driving it, and you know why?

Because not one Democratic candidate has captured the attention of the American people. Not one. And Joe Biden is a damaged guy. The media has to get Trump out of there or he may be re-elected and they know it - and that's what this is all about. Getting Trump out so he cannot run for re-election.

I'm Bill O'Reilly for Newsmax. We'll see you again soon.