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For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet w...

Democratic leader daschle would determine that the senate would acquit itself without respect to the president, would acquit itself well as the one institution in the federal government thats designed to see the broader view and only operates on bipartisan consen s consensus. the senate had a caucus of 100 before the clinton trial to lay out the ground rules. it is my hope that this senate will follow the model from the clinton trial. as i said, the president is on trial but so is the senate. an...

People will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction. and now house democrats have issued a formal subpoena compelling ambassador sondland to testify and turn over documents. manu raju has more. >> good morning, dave and christine. the democrats have been alling all along. nancy pelosi said shes not going to be pressured. practically it could take up a lot of time. its difficult to draft a resolution like this. it could require a lot of consens consensus, pro e provide a distraction, give ...

Impeachment on the table. that doesnt mean suspending these investigations. investigate, subpoena, do your due diligence, exercise your constitutional oversight responsibilities. and if facts emerge that lead to impeachable offenses, or at least allegations that are credible, and theres political consens consensus, go for it. >> congressman coleman, bring us home, sir. >> okay. i think we should not sell the american people short. if there are going to be tv hearings, and there will be tv hearin...

Shutdown took place in december. senate republicans did pass with democrats a bill along a bipartisan basis that would have averted the shutdown and house republicans were still in control of the lower chamber who passed a separate piece of administration that allocated money along the border wall and skipped town jamming the senate and precipitating the shutdown. now democrats are in control of the house and with senate republicans also having no appetite for another shutdown, there might be mo...

Department to come after the rest of us? so, again, there are really important walls being torn down today between the president of the united states and the justice department. and once they get torn down, i worry that you cant put them back up again. >> one of your colleagues, republican colleagues southern cornyn, he is the number two senate republican, had this to say. i think the special counsel needs to wrap things up as soon as he can consistent with accomplishing the job he has been give...

This investigation that is ongoing by robert mueller. the president clearly is still focused on what this says about the legitimacy of his presidency. the legitimacy of his victory in the presidential election. he mentions there that the press wont say hes a great president, or a great candidate, was one of f the dwrathe greate candidates of all time. clearly thats his focus even at this late stage even as its closing in on an interview with him. >> sa bray na? >> i think the its clear the presi...

Is his vision possible? >> his vision is very nice, and it may yield some smaller fix -- well it may yield some smaller fixes, because in the discussion about the comprehensive health care field, you may find areas where theres agreement between republicans and democrats but in terms of them being able to sit down and somehow after seven years of this political mud slinging or more, be able to sing kumbaya and come to consens consensus, if it happens within a two-year bill, that is a stretch. yo...

For middle income families which is going to unleash growth in our society. russia just tried to undermine our democracy and is now having its strongest head of influence ever in our lifetime. >> the french now -- >> no because we dont know what happened in france. what russia did here by consens consensus, because he still doesnt seem to accept that it was russia. >> didnt clapper say yesterday there was no involvement between the trump campaign and russia? >> its interesting you go to that and...

Fact that across this country, there have been great disdain for unwillingness of the leadership in the house to remove him because you cannot do a legit independent review. >> hang on one second. we have to hear house speaker ryan speaking now. hang on one second. >> that is ideal over why over the last couple of weeks. we have encouraged members from across the conference. you see them represented here today. we eencourage members from across the conference to come together and try to find con...