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Describing the things that matter to him and the priorities that matter to him. hes made very clear he thinks that other countries, including uukraine and china and others should investigate his democratic rivals. so, i think thats something they will take into account and i think that, you know, the white house is left scrambling to look for a defense on the substance, rather talk about process, because the process is a better argument for them. they can make the case that democrats are being u...

Manufactured outrage and theatrics that were seeing. every one of us swore an oath to protect and defend the constitution. and while their short-term political ambitions may be obscuring their ability to see the larger picture, that history will look back and judge this moment about what did we do when a president violated his constitutional oath, violated national security concerns. when a president behaved like this, what did we do? do we do our job and hold him accountable, or did we fall to ...

This entire process, let the facts set the agenda. so, we are looking forward to getting that material. this is a huge victory. and as you mentioned, it is also important to note that the judge in her ruling also said that the process of this impeachment inquiry is constitutional, it is in accordance with house rules, and it is being done properly. >> so, does that put to rest the republicans argument about the process? i mean, does that just say, okay, its over, dont talk about it anymore? >> i...

He knows that this is a process, again, thats just been backed up by the courts if it wasnt clear enough already, that is open to republicans. there are 40 republicans who sit on the five committees of jurisdiction in the impeachment inquiry. all of them are allowed to be part of this. i do not sit on one of those committees. i dont go to this part of this inquiry. they also have a house republican counsel who is part of all of these depositions, part of all of this testimony, and is asking ques...

Substance the nature of the way the president has tried to craft ukraine policy. one thing that concerns the white house is the fact that when it comes to whether or not the presidents substantive actions were defensible, there is a lot of division among republicans on capitol hill. >> oh, yeah. it seems like there was some sort of a conference call to republicans that said, use the word process, process, process. i mean, i think it was uttered like 33 times in all of the q&a with reporters yest...

Medicine in yogurt or apple sauce. that is an extraordinary thing to say about the president of the united states. >> i cannot believe that analogy either. extraordinary in so many ways, guys, our conversation. betsy and john, thank you so much. well see you again. lets go now to 2020 and the second step criminal justice forum now under way in south carolina. thats where several democratic candidates are taking the stage this weekend. and among those in attendance, senator cory booker, of cour...

Here? did microsoft simply make a better pitch? >> such a big coincidence, alex. yes, we connect the dots. we know by the memoir from john snodgrass, former speech writer to john mattis, that the president instructed mattis to screw amazon in this process. now, jim mattis said we werent going to do that, were going to do it above board, but jim mattis isnt there anymore. and one of the things that weve seen, the iterations of this presidency, have been people willing to restrain his impulses, re...

He was just riding on john mccains coattails. john mccain died, and the way i put it is he found himself a new father figure in trump, and hes now doing the same thing, but trump is the leader of this. so, i think we have to banish the notion that lindsey graham is some sort of a maverick or a truth-teller, and hes really just beating the drum in defense of donald trump now. occasionally, he may lapse or not be able to go as far as the president wants him to, but it seems like virtually every ti...

Piece that there is a growing recognition within the democratic caucus that they need to start figuring out the public aspect of their impeachment inquiry soon or else the republican stunts, decrying the closed-door process, that could dominate the narrative. do you think theres a timeline to when the public portion of the impeachment probe is going to happen? >> so, there is definitely a time crunch right now. i mean, lawmakers only have a couple of weeks before they leave for thanksgiving, a c...

Republicans arent going to notice theyre not defending the president on any of the facts and theyre just focusing on the process? i mean, how many times that day in q&a did we hear the word process uttered? >> this is all theyre left to, alex. i mean, look, were beyond the point of what the president did. you know, he traded -- he wanted to trade arms for dirt with the president of ukraine, and thats been well established, not only by the white house, but by the whistle-blower and by witnesses a...