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Judiciary committee with oversight of the department of justice. we got reporting today that william barr had asked the president to ask the prime minister of australia to help barr on an inquiry that hes apparently overseeing with a former u.s. attorney or u.s. attorney who is looking into essentially the origins of the mueller investigation. theres also reporting that barr personally asked foreign officials to aid that inquiry into the presidents cia activities in 2016. on its face, the leader...

Understand. he wants to criticize behavior. that doesnt give license to call out, in his language, traitors. each week i think i cant be more surprised, but im more surprised. >> and the democrats look at this as a narrow campaign violation and theres nothing there. do you believe potential criminality could be broader than a campaign finance violation? >> there were an awful lot of questions raised by the whistleblowers complaint. it touched on a wide variety of areas and wide variety of areas ...

Once advised my, you finish being prime minister, you want to leave the stage, but i think at some stage you have to write down what you were thinking, what you were trying to do, what you think now. it is a book that you can write, historians will pore over every detail and will come to the conclusions that they come to. but i think leaders should try to write down what they were up to and why. >> and what a critical time for this book to be released. >> the book is "for the record." david came...

The door at the dnc. >> that is of course tom bossert, former trump administration official, who did say after he did not think that this was an impeachable offense, but he still called out the actions which again there can be republicans that believe that. and you know what, you can have a lot of democrats that can attack them all they want. but they dont want to go back 20 years and look and see what democrats said during the clinton impeachment. they just dont for actions that actually had bi...

Didnt happen which is a reminder to all of us how much harder were going to have to push here. >> if mitch mcconnell did the garland act he did that successfully stalled the supreme court justice from being put before the senate and confirmed or not confirmed being nominated by president obama, if he does this this time, do you think the american public will punish republicans in the senate at polls if they dont stand up and demand a trial? >> i absolutely do. if they believe that a trial is in ...

The inquiry, what is the difference between that inquiry and actual impeachment and how do you proceed from one to the other? >> well, impeachment is a thing. when he is finally impeached, it is a vote that then either can go to the senate for a trial or can be a conclusion by the house itself, saying, we find that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. but that end result, whatever form it takes, has to be proceeded by an impeachment proceeding, an impeachment inquiry. thats w...

Investigation. he wore secretary clinton out with an investigation. he said, oh, shes so bad because she was under investigation. this president and the truth dont live on the same planet, and we need to be honest about that and admit that. he will take the word "investigation," and he will draw the conclusion and tell the american people, he will look into the camera, he will do rallies and say vice president bidens been convicted by now. this president lies, and he lies a lot. so all he needed...

Of this president by -- >> hold on. hold on. they cant tadidnt take the no procedures with these calls. our reporting is that they didnt even have a transcript made of one of the phone calls, his conversations with mbs and the saudi king. >> we dont actually know that. when we look at the -- there are claims that the ukraine phone call with the president was put into this secret computer server and that that was out of process. all of that is speculation. and when you are going to the "post" for...

Related. but i dislike the fact that people are jumping to so many conclusions so quickly and making so much political hay out of this. and youre dealing with very value tide issues. >> but you think it justified the inquiry? >>. >> i think it justifies moving through politically. they can corroborate or deny, we dont have any of that, we have an expecter generals report. it is very different from the mueller report or whatever, doing that. this is very, very different. it is going to be a very ...

Enough to warrant impeachment. the counter argument is what you heard robert ray say a few minutes ago, that some legal experts say that asking for an investigation is not asking for a thing of value. so the solicitation doesnt trigger the campaign finance law. is that what this was, just asking for an investigation? >> chris, with all due respect, i would say that is b.s. from the top to the bottom. all he needs -- this president, all he needs is the hint of an investigation. he wore secretary ...