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Credibility in the legal profession knows it and this indicates one more that it is a complete farce. hold on. >> every discovery dispute in litigation, of which there are many, would result in an obstruction of justice charge and that is not the case.ve >> laura: you fight every document, youre obstructing justice. okay. >> that is not what nixon, very specific -- >> laura: its absurd. precious time. republican senator ron johnson set off a media frenzy today after it was revealed that he knew ...

Whom have oversold their expectations were and these may be more opinion peoples than commentators and generalists, but their expectations of the mueller report didnt deliver in the way the commentators and do you feel like there is a crying of wolf when you are trying to report straight news? >> sure. i can only speak for myself and i think its important when youre a reporter to look for the truth, seek the truth, ask questions, ask follow-up questions like i did yesterday, and to try to stay d...

People will have this perception of the media excel of whom oversold what the expectations were, these may be more opinion people and commentators than journalists but expectations for the mueller report didnt deliver the way those commentators said they would on the air. do you worry about the public feeling they are crying will? when your trying to report straight news? >> i can only speak for myself. it is important when you are he reported to look at the truth, seek the truth, ask questions,...

He push arguments and how much can he get away with. right? he has no intention to changing what he believes about this. right? we have a whole set of republicans and right-leaning commentators who defended the transcript by saying the president never asked him to investigate joe biden really about the other issues. lo and behold trump blurts it out. right? now hes put his entire party in the position of, okay. we now either have to condemn the president, not likely to happen based on previous e...

Father was in the office. you know the sacrifice he made? he was flying over to china getting a billion and a half dollars, they made no sacrifices. they enrich themselves off of politics. quite frankly we are probably the only people in american history who did the exact opposite.. >> laura: i want to read another part of this nbc reporters article, what was unknown is that he has accompanying his father to china. hunter biden was forming a chinese equity fund that associates a set of the timen...

These are not commentators. they are reporters and they are saying, there is no there there. >> you dont think if i was on that trip he wouldve had 12 reporters following me everywhere i went? the problem is they turn -- that is how crooked the media is. they turn out total blind eye to this, and we are into business, they go over to china, they cant pull $0.03 out of china. china wont give them any money, yet the young son of the vice president can go over there and pull a billion and a half do...

>> its not typical. that means that they dont want those calls to be published. lets just be clear about that. in the same way that there was nothing to hide if the call with mr. zelensky was perfect, why were they hiding it? this is a clear signal that vladimir putin and president trump talked about things they dont want in the public. whether it helps the case or not, i agree with your other commentators that it may muddy the waters. and i think what is most interesting is that the evidence th...

Commentators said they may not testify, they could be more limited, it will be more difficult for it to be done fairly and accurately. when we did the impeachment trial we knew when we came through that process that there was certain crimes. something that someone else that wasnt the president would be prosecuted for. so we had a cover up, obstruction of justice, none of that is the type of thing that is involved here. and even when we have all of that, public opinion is never in favor of impeac...

Based upon deviations from norm norms. and then the outer edges of their commentators claiming that this phone call represents the demise of our democracy. im sorry. i beg to differ. there is no quid pro quo. there is no treason. there is no bribery because the federal bribery statute doesnt apply to foreign government officials. there is no quid pro quo and there is no legal campaign contribution because its a department of justice, a properly found asking somebody to open investigation does no...

Norms. >> laura: the must havee missed that in law school. >> and then the outer edges of their commentators claiming that this phone call represents the demise of our democracy. im sorry. i beg to differ. there is no quid pro quo. there is no treason. there is no bribery because the federal bribery statute doesnt apply to foreign government officials.theres no extortion e there is no quid pro quo and there is no illegal campaign contribution because its a department of justicewe learnedy approp...