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City Donald Tropics back to the leave the courtroom at any moment now he is expected to speak we will take you there live when he does here is what we know right now new york banker gary farrow the third witness to take the stand more on his testimony in just a moments meanwhile the second witness to be called was on the stand briefly she is a former Trump Organization employee and was Donald Trumps longtime assistant multiple decades she worked for him under direct Questioning Graph said she ha...

Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i m...

Today, andy? >> act is a good way of putting it, sandra. its theater. the best thing said about criminal referrals is that they dont make any difference to the justice department. i say thats the best thing that can be said because the worst thing that could be said is if you actually have a case as a good prosecutor that is evidence-based and that you could get convictions on, a congressional referral of the kind we are talking about here can actually be used by the defendant at trial to sugges...

Going to be pursuing this any further than the democrats have. what will be interesting to find out, and well talk about the legal experts about this, there will be criminal referrals of the president and some of the other players who have come to light during these series of january 6th hearings. adam schiff believes that there is reason for criminal referrals. hes been after the president as you know for a long, long time. he said "in terms of the criminal statute, if you can prove someone inc...

0 very place we know for sure was right here, fascinating. a lot of people have told the life of jesus, its a humbling and audacious task, this is different because we took you there. >> thanks for everybody watching. stay for special coverage of the january 6th select committee meeting right now. >> sandra: special coverage of the january 6th committee proceedings. in just moments the panel will announce criminal referrals to the justice department for prosecution during what is expected to be ...

Were of what an abuse of power is, and what is suddenly happening as it goes on. as they are taking statements of the adam schiff report that came out of that intelligence committee and asking, how does that fit into what you just told us about abuse of power? and what i think is -- this is ultimately setting up to our articles of impeachment that are not necessarily or predominantly criminal offenses. but abuses of power along the lines of what the law professors have laid out. >> bill: andy, t...

Sitting next to turley, professor of george washington university who has the opposite view of the facts before them. lets bring in our roundtable. we are stacked up today. i want to get to andy mccarthy first and find out. these are not fact witnesses, andy, they are offering what you could argue, their legal opinion as to what they believe the case is. how effective was this morning session? >> i think it has been very effective so far for the democrats. and in an interesting way. i sense that...

Then every president is capable of being harassed by his political opposition on grounds that he abuse power. this is why ive always thought and continue to think that we are really bipolar on impeachment. and we are focusing on one part of it now, which is the abstract legal part of it. into the framers, again, the most important part of it was the abuse of power or the crimes had to be so serious that you could move two-thirds of the senate to remove the president. and i expect that when jonat...