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Question time that shes allowed in-house hearings. veteran democratic woman catherine clark of massachusetts is a member of nancy pelosis leadership team. the vice chair of the house democratic conference, and this is what he says about her new freshman members. >> i do think the freshman have changed everything. >> those freshman got a chance to change everything because voters sent them to congress to change everything, and everything they have changed has been bad for donald trump and the tru...

Said. >> i most certainly do. he does not honor the constitution and i can tell you a couple of places where he doesnt. number one, article one, section nine, the emoluments clause. lets go for that. >> anything else? >> i have a pocket constitution in every one of my purse us. i look up stuff every day. that dude lies. he lies, the fec chair had to call him out about breaking the law. she took an unprecedented step of going out and calling him out on publicly doing it. dont you even tell me abo...

Im not saying people arent concerned about it. when they have an hour and a half with the presidential candidate in the democratic primary they are talking about jobs, wages, health care. theyre talking about their downtowns are falling apart, mental health coverage, something that he wants not happening in large swaths of the american countryside. in rural america they are getting hammered with the tariffs and farmers havent made a profit in five years. so people are talking pocketbook issues w...

>> you like unlikable people. >> im a very agreeaable person. i want to be liked. i dont think he cares. at the time that we are in our nation right now, we need a leader like that. particularly when you are going overseas and you are talking to the leaders who are putting their country first, whats wrong with putting america first because we have all these old trade agreements that are like nafta. >> do you think he honors the constitution? >> whats that? >> does he honor the constitution? >> i...

Apply with sub ppoenas, includi don mcgahn. >> thanks very much. now democratic congressman john gary mindy. a member of the house arm ed services committee. let me start with this new reporting. whats your reaction about that? >> well, seems to me that the president really doesnt understand the institution, doesnt understand the responsibilities that congress has. he might want to take a look at article one. of the constitution, which is the legislative powers of congress and among those powers...

>> if you did that, thats a way of trying to get at the president, but you cant legally, thats the closest you can come. >> i am not saying the evidence is there, i am saying it could be done legally. >> one of the other things you said is theres a statute of limitations, if they want to hold him accountable after the presidency, may have to seal an indictment. >> statute of limitations for most criminal offenses is five years. no one is above the law, thats what article one, section 3 of the co...

And this is exactly whats supposed to happen. article one and article two have a fight and article three is the referee. right now theyre siding with article one. >> my response to that and thats true, article one needs to assert its powers. they have the power of the purse. you can initiative showdowns and an impeachment inquiry. i dont know if that matters. but theres the brute playground politics of force against force. >> the one thing i suspect is trump is willing to go all the way with wha...

Committees do it all, and by the way, its not just a matter of the russia investigation, its a matter of obstruction of justice and now its a matter of a cover-up as nancy pelosi has stated. its a matter of obstruction of congress. if you read the constitution, its a very slim little document. article one, the congress, they have a lot of power. and the bottom line is if they walk away from that, matheyre making a mistake. i think the polls will follow the truth, and i i think speaker pelosi is ...

Only has the power to investigate the presidents conduct while in office, but before office. this is whats supposed to happen. article one and article two have a fight and article three is the referee. they are siding with article one. >> my response to that and thats true, article one needs to assert powers. this is the thing. they have the power of the purse. you can initiative showdowns and they have impeachment show downs. i dont know if that matters. there is the playground politics of forc...

That, i think it becomes crystal clear whats happening here. we are moving into an autocracy, the likes of which we have never seen in this country. >> congresswoman jackie spear from california. thank you for making time. >> another member of the house is in leadership and sits on two committees investigating president trump. jamie raskin of maryland. also a law professor in his previous life before congress. a lot of theorizing with all of this. let me start with this. >> can you answer the la...