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It is invoking this idea that you cant trust authorities. you cant trust institutions. hes the only one who is the final arbiter of the truth and you should be worried about everything educationlse you see him. and he engaged in that 2016 campaign. and calling robert muellers investigation a witch hunt and did now with ukraine. invoking this notion that the bidens were engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the ukrainian government. and that the servers actually hacked the 2016 election werent in ru...

Prosecutorial misconduct. i dont find they are very viable and they will not really work. those are not clear defenses. this is part of the spin that has come out. well see what happens. the impeachment inquiry needs to move forward. it needs to move forward deliberately but with some speed now. i think its really important for the democrats to do this in a process that is about stacking all the evidence. there is never one piece of evidence in the case that makes a whole case. this is why feder...

70s during water gatd, and there is a time, and it would behoove democrats to do this as quickly as possible, to actually win over maybe a 10% middle of this who are actually amen able to facts that could potentially change their mind on some things. >> if this stays a fact finding mission, it likely will continue to get support. early polling is showing the public is open to this investigation, hugh. >> i want to pick up on something that professor concke said -- >> he was my student. >> she wa...

Press as being the opposition party so that the press will not be believed, so he can undermine the credibility of the press. thats what hes trying to do. hes trying to disqualify the press as an arbiter of fact so that theres only one person, one institution that is believed, the white house and himself. so that the public will only believe him and believe no one else. its not just disqualifying the press as an arbiter of fact, its disqualifying the courts as an arbiter of fact, the intelligenc...

Today house speaker nancy pelosi wand the president not to retaliate against the whistle-blower or anyone who helped them. she also laid out the urgency of the probe during an appearancin on "morning joe." >> i think we should move with purpose and expeditiously, not hastily, though. the matter is in the hands of the intelligence committee. they will take the time that they need and we wont have the calendar be the arbiter, but we do -- theres -- it doesnt have to drag on. >> as pelosi talked ab...

That they need and we wont have the calendar be the arbiter, but we do -- theres -- it doesnt have to drag on. and, again, were in court on many of these cases, whether its the presidents taxes, his bank accounts, his accounting, emoluments, a whole slooe slew other things. who knows the timing of the courts. but its no use to say by such and such a date. but looking, shall we say, the material that the administration is giving us, they are actually speeding up the process. >> the decision itsel...

Resign. 225 house democrats and one independent have expressed support for some type of action regarding impeachment. lets get right to capitol hill. nbcs geoff bennett is taking the temperature there. the house speaker says she wants to move expeditiously but not hastily. what does that mean? where do things go from here? >> she also said she wont let the calendar be the arbiter of this inquiry. there are only 28 legislative days left in the calendar before the end of the year. the thinking had...

Arbiter, is that your sense? >> i dont know him personally but everything ive heard about him is that hes a straight shooter. >> what do you think happens next? i mean, i guess the question is how does congress and the i.g. at the dni and everyone attempt to secure whistle-blower protections as this goes forward and there will obviously be a trumepd s amount of pressure and attention paid to it. >> well, there are two separate things and i want to focus first of all on what you said about securi...

Wouldnt have come to my attention as general counsel. there were a number of them every year that would come up, some of them were found to be meritorus, some of them were not, but they were always transmitted to congress. >> so what youre saying is the normal procedure is it doesnt go to the counsel of dni? >> thats right. ordinarily it would just be sent up. im entirely speculating here but when this hit mcguires desk it looked at it and said this is an allegation against the prez. the first t...

Actually had the option to refuse to ford a valid, credible whistleblower complaint. and i also dont recall one being submitted that was characterized by my i.g., my inspector general as urgent. so im very sympathetic to joe maguire, the acting dni. i think hes got caught up in the politics of this. and its true that the office of legal council and the department of justice is supposed to be the final arbiter about legal issues across the executive branch. but the bigger point here is the observ...