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Months. whether it is now essentially at a plateau or whether it will continue to grow or shrink, i dont think it is really the question we should be asking. i think in the first instance we should be asking, what is our constitutional duty here and if we decide our duty is to impeach, then we need to make the case to the american people and we have to hope that well be successful in making that case. but this shouldnt be driven by what we think helps us in 2020 or hurts us in 2020. there are go...

Spend this sort of political coin in different ways. remember, bill clinton was big on inviting lawmakers out on the golf course. president barack obama loved golf, didnt love golfing with members of congress. president trump taking a lot of people to sporting events, always putting people -- not always, but frequently bringing members of congress down on the plane to wherever hes going so they can go back and say, look, we flew on air force one. there are, through, clear limits, i think, within...

Notion of hearsay, that we didnt actually observe firsthand through the comments of people like bolton, who will not appear and other people, what the president of the united states actually intended. and who he was directing to perform certain duties. all of that was undermined by dr. fiona hill. >> yeah. and the whole thing, she was like, wait a minute, you did not know that burisma meant biden? come on. carl bernstein, youve lived through this before. im sure you could relate to that column t...

>> and the whole thing, she was like wait a minute, you did not know that burisma meant biden? come on. carl bernstein, youve lived through this before. im sure you could relate to that column that i showed -- >> i remember that column. >> you are that column. chairman schiff made a comparison between president trump and nixon in his closing statement. watch this, and then well talk. >> what weve seen here is far more serious than a third-rate burglary of the democratic headquarters. what were t...

We get very hyped up watching. the reality is if the games take trump out of office, youve got to take this betrayal and move it to a bigger place for the candidates to tuck the football under their arm and go. >> but, donny, youve said from the beginning of this you need a clear message, keep it short and keep peoples attention. democrats did that. adam schiff said a lot in his closing statement. it was two weeks with strong witnesses so the if this didnt convince the american people, why do yo...

And washington, making everyone who runs for federal office put their tax returns online. we have to have the courage not to make just individual changes, not to fight for little pieces. we want to make real progress on climate. then we have to start by attacking the corruption that gives the oil industry and other fossil fuel industries a stranglehold over this country. i am so grateful to be here, and i am grateful to an america that gave the daughter of a janitor a chance to become a public s...

Together. please go to corybooker.com. >> senator booker, thank you very much. >> mr. steyer, your closing statement. >> last time i was on this stage, i started by saying everybody here is more patriot and more competent than the criminal in the white house, and i stand by that statement. but im different from everybody else on this stage. i know that the government in washington, d.c. is broken. i know that its been purchased by corporations, and ive spent a decade putting together coalitions ...

If you give me a chance to lead, i will cause what john lewis says is good trouble. i will challenge us. i will ask more from you than any other president has ever asked before because we -- >> thank you, senator. >> -- need to mobilize a new american movement. keep me on this stage. keep me on this race. it is time we fight and fight together. please go to corybooker.com. >> senator booker, thank you very much. mr. steyer, your closing statement. >> last time i was not this stage i started by s...

Still the front runner, if you look at national polling. how did he do last night? >> there was a sense that there was sort of peaks and valleys. he had some answers where you were watching and he really seemed to be struggling. and then he had a couple of very strong answers people thought that his closing statement was good. he had a good answer and response in the question to about how democrats would handle the chance of lock him up that theyre now hearing at campaign rallies. and then there...

>> -- and a chance to become candidate for president of the united states. thank you. >> vice president biden, your closing statement. >> i assume were only talking about the corruption of the federal government, we werent talking about barack obama and his spotless administration. we made so much progress. but one thing we havent talked about today. weve talked befrg. we havent talked about the one thing i think is most consequential. you know, the american people have an enormous opportunity. ...