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I mean, literally this morning in court in new york, the presidents lawyers are arguing in one of these court cases about legal efforts to get access to the presidents tax returns, they literally made this argument this morning in court about the president. quote, your honor, he, meaning the president, he cannot be subject to criminal process while in office. so the attorney general is implicated by the president in this scheme to get a foreign country to help him in his next election campaign. ...

Criminal behavior. i mean literally this morning in court in new york, the presidents lawyers are arguing in one of these court cases about legal efforts to get access to the presidents tax returns, they literally made this argument this morning in court about the president. quote, your honor, he, meaning the president, he cannot be subject to criminal process while in office. so the attorney general is implicated by the president in this scheme to get a foreign government to help him in his nex...

To prevent election interference. the head of the justice department of legal counsel steven engel disagreed arguing that it did not center on intelligence activities that maguire supervises. engel also notes that the d.o.j. memo, that the inspector general found indications of an arguable political bias, suggesting that the whistleblower favored a rival political candidate. >> and former vice president 2020 candidate joe biden reacted to the release of the call between president trump and ukrai...

Understand the urgency. but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not want to believe that. because if you really understood the situation, and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil, and that i refuse to believe. >> an incredibly impactful speech from a 16-year-old activist. i just think it is inspiration toll see a generation like that, kind of setting a stage to want to lead for their future, to protect their future. >> hopefully world leaders will heed her call and do somethin...

You dont even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. yet this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. impeachment is not about punishment. impeachment is about cleansing the office. impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office. >> that was former south carolina u.s. congressman lindsey graham back in 1999 during president bill clintons impeachment hearing. arguing in that case imp...

Still developing, brianna, still a lot to learn here, but nevertheless, he is a current soldier stationed in fort riley in kansas, now in custody of the fbi and awaiting to see a judge in kansas. >> that is inchristine blasey ford -- incredibly serious. we know youll continue to follow it. the president has ordered the pentagon to release some troops with a suspected audi attack on sasudi arabia. the post has come out against this defense, this is what they write. should u.s. troops put their ...

Tell them about the marriage. which she admitted wasnt much. they said corcanny didnt really talk about her marriage. so the detective did someone no one else had done. he started talking to corys former neighbors. >> they talked about all the constant arguing and fighting. >> so you were getting a picture that wasnt in focus in 2006? >> right. >> the detective went a step further. he got in his car and drove to the university of iowa to talk to someone who would have been an eye witness. >> im ...

Infrastructure despite that deal that he touted. that matters too. and we should not allow this president the gift of getting us arguing about whatever outrageous tweet he just sent at the expense of making sure that we are competing on the turf that we will always win on, which is what the american people agree with us on, which is their actual lives from health care to wages to safety. >> i spent more time on the campaign trail working on campaigns than i have on television. what are we missin...

Before he called this bill clearly not a serious effort to make a law. total about-face. why? >> senate democrats are saying he relented because of their pressure. they brought up more money for election security multiple times on the security floor and theyve also brought up broader legislation to change the way states can deal with elections. major leader mcconnell doesnt want to federalize these elections. this is just more money. what mcconnells staff is arguing is, look, the majority leader...

Function. hes obligated to transmit that information to congress. the dni is not allowed to insert his own judgment. unless you really dont want to. unless doj asserts this privilege claim. it shall be transmitted. i think one thing is that is significant to understand is what the white house is arguing is that you cannot blow the whistle on the president. that no matter what an intelligence community member might have heard the president say or promise in these phone calls, the nature of execut...