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Investigations. i do believe in the coming week or so youre going to start to hear words like that. >> they did that last session for benghazi. they created a select committee of lawmakers, removed it from the traditional committee process and had one investigative committee focused on benghazi. >> even if its not one, have an overarching -- >> this is whats interesting to me about the benghazi committee. democrats at the time face a choice. do they participate in that enterprise. they decided u...

Things, you know, in the committee process with the courts not trying to distract themselves with this, you know, bobble of impeachment that so many of them clearly want to do, but would suck up all the oxygen for everything else in the political world. i think that argument doesnt go away. its just the stone walling from the white house and from the administration on every little thing made it so difficult to do any of that oversight they are almost left with no choice at this point. >> certain...

>> we are actually at the beginning the of a process. a process we on the judiciary committee were block fareed taking any action on even having hearings or investigations into some of the things that are out there and being alleged about this president in this white house. and so that is now the process we have started under a democratic chairman nadler that we have 81 requests out, hopefully, we dont have to subpoena and hopefully we get all of that information and we can start having the hear...

Rasheeda talib who made the expletive-laced vow to go after president trump shortly after being elected. >> speaker pelosi and all members of leadership have always encouraged us to represent our district. this is something that was very important to my residence, still continues to be, to my constituents. >> you are continuing to push for five-minuimpeachment, right? >> i am from the beginning of the investigation. instead of having rumors, lets have a committee process and investigate these of...

Know evidence, then it didnt make sense. >> my personal position is that he is a blight on the american society, the american government, the american nation and humanity. >> he should be impeached. >> i think he has done things that are certainly worthy of looking into impeachment. >> think about this. every single person i dont care if you are republican or democrat wants the offenses, the things that you have been hearing about, instead of being rumors, lets have a committee process and inves...

Whatsin really wonderful about this current moment is that we actuallyt see the legislative branch actually doing its constitutionbr -- taking up its constitutional responsibility. >> bob, the democrats have a strategy to coordinate all of these investigations and at the same time, focus on issues that are kitchen table issues that matter to every day americans. is nancy pelosi that person? when i watched the president say these requests are a disgrace, we should be focused on infrastructure, im...

Them. they think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for. >> do you believe generals, plural, said that? >> the way generals would say that is by telling congress that has the authority to initiate spending and to transfer spending not the president of the united states and they havent done that. so if they really wanted that to happen, they would call the democrats and republicans in congress and the appropriate committees and ask for legislation and steps in that dir...

So if you look at the political implications of this and the key critical states that are going to be important in 2020, it is easy to see why republicans see advantage in this. >> what is your response? >> yeah. well, first i hope that we can start dealing with facts as we talk about the resolution and what i hope to become a bill. scott, you know as well as me, there used to be a time on capitol hill where you could introduce legislation which by the way again has not yet happened, but you can...

What i hope to become a bill. scott, you know as well as me, there used to be a time on capitol hill where you could introduce legislation which by the way again has not yet happened, but you can introduce legislation and that legislation goes through the traditional committee process. there is a committee markup. members of congress are allowed to introduce amendments. so even when you talk about targeted missions here this he say they want to have zero emissions at a ten year mark. scientists ...

As much and have as much wealth as the bottom 150 million. now you cant move forward with an economy like that. maria: are you endorsing 70% tax rates right now? >> well im not going to negotiate a tax bill right now because theres so many variable s here. theres vat taxes, progressive taxes, income taxes i think it needs to be done through committee process but what i will say if we dont address the fact that 400 people as much wealth as the bottom 150 million we need a tax code that address es...