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People are smart, i hope they look at the facts. and i hope they make their decision and call their representative, call their senator to tell them that they want a fair trial in the senate. not a fixed trial where the forman of the jury, mitch mcconnell, the guy that decides all the rules is actually going to coordinate with the defendant that makes no sense whatsoever. it is an outrage and frankly its, a tremendous disrespect to the constitution and to our framers. >> all right. with me now, k...

That america hes strength -- take that down, that america gets strength end, mika, when our allies are strengthened and when our enemies, people who want to destroy us are actually -- we resist them. >> things went south when pelosi explained to the president that russia has always wanted a foothold in the middle east and now has one with the u.s. withdrawal. were told pelosi then said to trump, quote, all roads with you lead to putin. wow. well, that explains his tweet. he was called out. with ...

These are allies of president trump. steve scalise and kevin mccarthy voted against the president. they voted for this house rebuke of donald trump and what hes doing in turkey. everyone knows that this was a mistake. everyone in that room, everyone at that table knows and it is hard, donald trump knows and hes trying to talk his way out of it with things that hes making up off the top of his head. >> so lets go to break. were going to be remembering elijah all day. but as we go to break, i just...

Hill, who until recently was the top europe official at the white house, said you got to go into this meeting and figure out what theyre talking about. when fiona hill walked into this room down in the basement, she heard the ukrainians and ambassador sondland discussing bu burisma. thats the natural gas firm in ukraine with hunter biden, the vice presidents son, is on the board. so new evidence that lawmakers will be scrutinizing that this whole corruption push by the president and ukraine was ...

Congressional review act. and we can undo a regulation this administration did. president obama wisely put some real restraints on these power plans coal burning power plants that spew so much carbon and other stuff in the air, so many of our lakes in the adirondacks are dead because of it. and we now can undo by a cra a congressional review act resolution, and it only needs 51 votes, to prevent the administration from undoing what the obama folks did to keep our air clean and deal with climate....

Shocking when you stop and think about it. and, michael steele, one of the things that chuck schumer was talking about, the majority, the republicans in the united states senate, you can probably clearly recall, i clearly recall its an iconic photo of barely gold water, i believe hugh scott, then the senator from pennsylvania and i think a third republican united states senator outside the white house after they went down to tell richard nixon, you know, its over, youve got. and youre just wonde...

Members of congress. and one of the things that resinates about elijah cummings in a world, washington, d.c., filled every day with daily bouts of horrific polarization that verges on sounding like hate when you look at it from the outside, elijah cummings stood every day for fairness. he stood every day for equity. he stood every day for moving the ball forward. not just for his city of baltimore. and people look at congressmen and they say -- and senators, they say ed markey from massachusetts...

Eu, that would be unsemiacceptable or inconsistent with the good friday agreement. but its a big but, the principal partner politically of boris johnson, the democratic union has bartered essentially the big party, they dont like the deal. people in america forget formal name of the country, joe, is the united kingdom of great britt tab and northern ireland. they dont want there to be anything that smacks of a border between northern ireland and england or anything else. so this still has a way ...

Even the ben ghazi committee. there will be a resolution this week that deals with the whistle blower. thats the only thing we know. the only other thing we know is the speaker is going to meet with her caucus at 4 p.m. and talk to the press afterwards. the reason this is so muddled is this is kind of impeachment without impeachment. lot of democrats are saying, okay, im for an impeachment inquiry. it helps inoculate them from a primary challenge on the left. people say, hey, this is a democrati...