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Abuse of power, obstructiand ob? >> obstruction, easy to understand. on the other hand you dont often see it by itself. right? you need the substantive wrongdoing and then the obstruction. i dont know. to me theyre both very, very strong and go hand in hand. i dont think anyones going to think of it as article 1, article 2. >> you think somethings missing? >> i would have liked to have seen the bribery article. the theory of the first article, abuse of power is well and good. no question this wa...

Fight thats about who thinks theyre more than somebody else and who wants to take a lard line because i think it makes them sound tough on tv. take john bolton. he was the third trump national security advisor to resign or get fired when he left the administration in september of this year. on page 80 of this report we get confirmation president trump and john bolton met one-on-one in august to talk about trumpsropies to keep folding up military aid and ukraine. a one-on-one meeting between the ...

What they had to invent at the budget office to make it seem sort of legal what the president was doing, they needed someone to keep signing off on holding up the military aid over 2 to 6 days. now, thats not usually how this works. they needed an operate to keep doing this thing otherwise they thought it would look too bl blatantly illegal. they had to take the white house staffer who would normally be in charge of this kind of thing, they had to take him off the job and give that job to a trum...

How could devin nunes, congressman, be participating in the official investigation of this scheme without ever disclosing his own apparent involvement with all of the people who were this scheme? well get to that a little bit later on. but all of this super serious stuff they turned up about the withholding of military aid to ukraine, particularly if it looks like thats going to be its own separate article of impeachment, potentially a bribery article of impeachment, that whole investigation als...

About whether the administration was bending if not breaking the law concerning at least two omb officials resigning including one in the office of general council. nevertheless omb continued to implement the hold. so its a serious thing, right? its one thing hes trying to get help from ukraine to help him in the next election. that itself is likely to get him impeached on abuse of power grounds. but him withholding this military aid in order to get him help from ukraine. its so serious it puts ...

Meeting and him withholding military aid from ukraine to try and get that help from ukraine for that election. the kind of leverage he brought to bear on that country, the stuff he knew that country wanted and needed and wouldnt give them unless he gave those investigations that could be an article of impeachment. that second one if you isolate it that way, that conceivably could be an article of impeachment based around the idea of extortion and bribery. right, conditioning an official act on r...

Supports the seriousness not just of the president trying to get help from ukraine to get him get re-elected. but on the issue of the president holding up specifically that military aid, theres a whole bunch of evidence here nuts and bolts proven stuff how serious that was and how people involved in it at the time knew how serious it was. for one thing they knew it was illegal. on pages 71 and 72 theres this. president trump freezes the military assistance to ukraine, and agency experts repeated...

These call records that were obtained by his own committee. he turns up in these call records talking with rudy giuliani during the course of his scheme. and recall he talks to other people involved in this scheme as well. how could devin nunes -- congressman, we participating in the official investigation of the scheme without ever disclosing his own apparent involvementual all of the people who were this scheme? well get to that a little bit later on. but all of this super serious stuff they t...

Stand up and yell about trump holding up that aid to ukraine. it was just as congress was derning to say it was trump personally holding up that aid and he was doing so for illegal reasons because he wanted joe biden investigations at the cost of handing that money over. >> john bolton quit or was fired september 10th just as congress is making noise about that, just as the whistle-blower complaint is becoming known to congress and one day before the military aid to ukraine is finally released b...

Sends to them. >> which articles of impeachment do you think will come out of this inquiry? >> well, i think youll get -- he might get a bribery article, abuse of power which essentially would be the same thing because it involves the same fact pattern and definitely get an obstruction of congress since the administration has chosen not to cooperate to any extent at all. and the brave people who have come forward from the administration did it without the permission of the white house. so, well ...