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A draft article for obstruction of congress and he complied with some subpoenas. not this president. he has completely shut down everything. >> were fighting all the subpoenas. i have an article ii where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. >> so he doesnt have the right to do whatever he wants. article ii gives the president quite a bit a power. the big question strategically will be article iii. what did they do with mueller? do they continue? do they have it as their own artic...

He said hes friends with william barr, which made me a little suspicious. then he said he was opposed to the article iii of the impeachment of nixon. thats the one where nixon got impeached for failure to turn over items. he just wants the democrats to be dragged in front. its weird and disingenuous, but what its not is saying trump is innocent. he never said that what trump did is not impeachable. he just said investigate it more. >> theres a question here about all of this. its very clear to m...

Him off, because they were like wait, thats not the argument we want to hear. >> the republican witness one of the arguments he made was that this should be a more thorough long lasting process in which every last witness is dragged out from hiding where they currently reside with claims of essentially absolute immunity that the court has already struck down in the case of don mcgahn. so we already know how the courts feel made on behalf of these witnesses being blocked, and that was the republi...

Also took pains to note that article iii of the imof impeachment articles against richard nixon was a similar article outlining obstruction. you can say their strategy worked. they didnt give mulvaney and bolton over, but at the end of the day, hes still going to get charged with articles of impeachment. >> as it would seem here. and when we look at this, at least, danya, the idea of the witnesses, republicans saying you only are giving us one. number two, youre having us give you our list befor...

Comes together is manage the congress has to consider which is at what point do all the patterns become a potentially impeachable event? and where does tonight fit into that? david? >> well, you remember that during the trump russia investigation in the house intelligence committee when it was controlled by republicans, witnesses came forward from the administration, hope hicks and others and refused to talk about things without even citing executive privilege. they just said im not going to tal...

General welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our prosperity do ordain and establish this constitution of the united states. it goes on to immediately establish article i, the legislative branch, article ii, article iii the judiciary. the genius of the constitution, a separation of powers, three co-equal branches of government, to be a check and balance on each other. its that that we take the oath of office, we gather here on that opening day with our families gathered...

>> article iii of impeachment against richard next on, the article was based on the idea that richard nixon, as president, failed to comply with subpoenas of congress. the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena was the day that he was subject to impeachment, because he took the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress and he became the judge and jury. >> jon karl with us live at the white house again tonight. and jon, president trump has attacked the whistle-...

Judiciary democrats during the clinton impeachment. lets listen to what lindsey graham said then in 1998. >> article iii of impeachment against richard nixon, the article was based on the idea that richard nixon as president failed to comply with articles of subpoena from congress. he took the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress and he became the judge and jury. >> julian, rings a bell. >> yeah. this is alice in wonder land upside down reality. the white house is ...

>> or we start fining them. arrests would be very dramatic. >> that would be -- >> thats a constitutional crisis. >> yes. >> theres a third option. >> yes. third option is i think most practical. they could simply roll into an article of impeachment and begin the impeachment proceedings themselves. >> they simply say if you are going to obstruct, we are going to draw negative inferences on everything youre obstructing and consider all the facts disfavorable toward you. i think thats what the whi...

Doesnt exist. and i think thats obviously one of the pieces we have to -- we have to find occupant more about. the other thing, anderson, thats really bothering about this is this tossing around of the word treason. treason is the only crime specifically defined in the constitution. article iii, section 3, defines treason essentially as siding with an enemy of the country in a war. and to throw it around in this situation, the problem is the president feels that he is the state, you know, like l...