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Join robert mall muller testified. >> the judiciary committee has collected an enormous amount of evidence. and now 300 page report from the intelligence committee. he will demonstrate and does demonstrate patterns of behaviors about this president to see foreign assistance and interfering in american presidential election. and then an effort to obstruct congresses, review the circumstances. so we will look at all of the material that we collected im the evidence and generated. i will make a jud...

>> the president has come out and said he welcomes a fair trial, he said do it now fast. shortly after pelosis announcement. do you see the president getting involved in fully cooperating? >> lets remember secretary clinton, participating at the benghazi hearings were 12 hours or president clinton participating in his impeachment trial back in the 1990s. there has been a sense of responding to congresses oversight even if its an overreach. its important for president. the white house claims and ...

What he and the paragraph with? talking about bob mueller. this is the basis of this impeachment of the call? it couldnt be further from the truth. you want the standard to apply when representative gates, youve got to look at the context, but when the president of united states is clear that you try to change his wording. hes talking about the two years this country went through because of the mueller report and somehow the standard doesnt apply to the president. thats ridiculous. >> the gentle...

The definition we are applying today to trumps conduct, that would have justified looking at all of that conduct. >> well, yeah. and heres the thing. just because someone wasnt accused of robbing banks five times in the past doesnt mean they didnt rob a bank today. just because previous congresses did not take these crimes, did not take this behavior as seriously, doesnt mean that what donald trump is doing today is as much of a problem. and i also think this is really compelling and certain mem...

Crime. for many politicians and both parties in congresses and state houses, basically everywhere but the white house, bribery can get you a ticket straight to prison. and a bribery plot is still a felony, even if there is no official money involved or even necessarily an explicit quid pro quo spelled out that is what the precedents say, which should weigh on the mind of any politician in any party caught up in a bribery plot, whether its successful or not. now what congress does with tomorrows ...

Hearing on the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment. a panel of expert witnesses will testify whether the presidents alleged conduct falls under high crimes and merchandise as cited by framers in the constitution. well, my next guest has valuable experience on the subject. in 1998, michael gearhart testified about similar impeachment of president nixon. the only expert invited by both parties. here is part of his testimony. >> the ultimate purpose of impeachment was not to punish ...

As a kind of figurative conversation between franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan. as different as the presidents were, as different as the congresses were, this is not sont mental, its not that everybody was wearing frock coats. ask george wallace, ferocious battles. but it was on a continuum. and it was two central questions had to be asked and answered, and one very much came up with ambassador taylor in particular this week, which is to what extent will the state play a role in the economy. ...

Military, bravely, some have gone on to college, now have careers and are here in america, thriving, entrepreneu entreprenl spirit, thats consisten wonder. 1 # of% have gone on to -- 10% have gone on to commit crimes. there were theft, issues, but murder, rape, big, big deals here, and youve got to think about it. their parents come into the country illegally and now some of their kids are committing crimes. >> part of the challenge, why weve seen administrations both republican and democrat not...

>> its interesting because, its another national leader and that would be the top news of the day. but washington is a different place right now. and we are glad you are on it. federal appeals court ruling tonight that congress can seek eight years of president trumps tax return records. trumps legal team says it will appeal this to the supreme court. the administration is arguing the house of committee subpoena exceeds congresses investigative and legislative powers. and justice ruth bader gins...

Like im going to cut your knees off unless you do what i want you to do, that would clearly be a high crime and misdemeanor. >> how have other congresses reasoned their way through the question of the law? once the facts are stipulated to or established and i dont think well ever get this, but once they are established, how have other congresses reasoned through to find out whether those facts match that threshold? >> i actually saw this close up in the clinton investigation. i was a witness the...