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Really did open up -- they thought it might stop impeachment from going forward. of course quite the opposite happened. new people came forward, enormous amount of facts were available for the democrats to investigate. and this letter tonight which i have read as many smart legal commentators on it as i could find. it doesnt sound legally sound to argue the house doesnt have somehow unconstitutional to go forward with the inquiry. and i assume this is headed towards the supreme court. in the mea...

Commentators, joe lockhart, president clintons press secretary during that impeachment process and paul begala. he also served in the clinton administration during the impeachment process. so you both are the perfect people to talk to. youve seen this movie before. how does their tactic differ or follow what you all decided to do? >> well, its radically different. completely different. its a cover-up. an ongoing cover-up that president trump has engaged in. in the clinton days, we complied with,...

Realize, as you point out, that the facts they did release, the reads out of the phone calls on a full transcript and the whusal blower complaint really did open up -- i think they thought that might stop impeachment from going forward and quite the opposite happened. new people came forward and a new amount of facts came forward for the democrats to investigate. and this letter tonight which ive read as many smart legal commentators i have made. doesnt sound like a legally sound letter where it...

A democrat from missouri and looked democratic senator from missouri or if i were another sort of purple state, id look at those numbers and say, okay, americans want us to look into what happened with the ukraine call, but theyre not ready for us to remove him from office yet. so those poll numbers suggest that only fools would rush in, that there actually should be -- and i know this is old fashioned -- but there should be an inquiry. they should gather facts. there shouldnt be a rush as ive h...

Districts that are going to be actually up in the air next fall. what do you think the best move is for them? >> i think the best example is rob portman of ohio, because he came out and he said look, that call with ukraine was inappropriate, and this is key. if youre going to resist impeachment and theres lots of very good reasons to do that, if youre going to resist impeachment, you shouldnt enable the presidents worst behavior. so just because you dont think he should be removed for what he sa...

They ought to do what was done with clinton. its not in the constitution. its not required, they can do whatever they want, but they ought to have a formal vote to start the impeachment inquiry, get the members on the record. i know pelosis afraid of whats going to happen to her suburban members if they vote that way, but she ought to do it. also pompeo had very good complaints in the white houses letter. theyre saying people are coming to state department staff, democratic congressional staff c...

Then obstruction and remember robert mueller. >> he didnt say no obstruction. he said im not looking at obstruction because i cant indict a sitting president and he gave us a list off ten things. bill barr said it and thats what you think is the american people are going to rely on his word? >> you think theyre going to buy the robert mueller report as a basis of impeachment? >> theyre not. i think rirl i its a problem. theyre not using it. >> and so are the commentators on cnn saying it. thats ...

Commentators and fans who labeled the league as phony and kowtowing to the government. >> i think the nba came to the right decision. it took a little longer than it should have. i think the nba realized that they had a huge problem on their hands. >> reporter: trying to solve that huge problem has created another one for the league. fresh backlash frombeijing. shortly after he voiced the support for free speech, china state tv said it wont broadcast or stream nba pre-season games in china and t...

Lets talk about that for a moment. first of all, the politics of impeachment. first it was russia, no collusion. then it was obstruction, no obstruction. then remember robert mueller which everybody is basically forgotten about? >> he didnt say no obstruction. he said, im not looking at obstruction because i cant indict a sitting president that he gave us a list of ten things -- >> he said there was no obstruction. and robert -- >> bill barr said it, and you think the american people are going t...

Trumpet t-shirts online. these all go to benefit the police union charity. our democrats building -- or will it backfire? fox news contributor karl rove for more. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: if you heard senator mike lee just a couple of minutes ago blatantly shooting down, making no pretense about it that as far as you can tell there is no talk of g.o.p. senators coming together to gang up and vote out the president should the house impeached him and send it o...