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Defense in this impeachment inquiry. do you think they just believe if they keep saying this that thats what eventually people will believe? >> yeah. i think trump and guiliani are basically showing their contempt for the impeachment process because they seem to be doing the very same thing now that trump is getting impeached for, which is traig ying to solicit ukrainian interference in our politics. the best summary i saw was in "the washington post" quoting a trump donor who said the fact that...

Because she was bad but because rudy guilliani didnt like her and a bunch of gangsters associated with rudy guilliani didnt like her. lastly, important to those in this building, the american public is split on what i just talked about. the president said i have no obligation whatsoever to provide documents, provide people, provide testimony to the congress of the united states. this is where we should leave behind our partisan labels, the president of the united states claiming absolute immunit...

It is is one of the purest foleys ive ever seen. theres no legal grounds for it and constitutionally it is a complete violation of why they exist to begin with. >> but your committee had problems with getting the obama administration and the attorney general to comply, right? >> and when they did, we held them in contempt, sued them and the court upheld our congressional authority to issue those subpoenas, which is what any court will do and continues to do throughout all this entire process. wh...

Podcast called versus trump? >> i think i was on a live panel that the people who ran the podcast called versus trump -- >> do you remember saying the following, liberals tends to cluster more. conservatives, very conservative people tend to spread out more. perhaps because they dont even want to be around themselves. did you say that? >> yes, i did. >> do you understand how that reflects contempt on people who are conservative? >> no. what i was talking about there was the natural tendency, if ...

Argument to say well, the constitution is law, upon that we are in agreement. but the refers to a crime to say well, you cannot trump the constitution because it defines a crime, it does not define the crime. it references the crime. the crime examples were given during the constitutional convention, but those do not comport with bad practices. they comport with real bribery. but to say that the supreme courts decision on what constitutes bribery is somehow irrelevant is rather odd. what the con...

Called versus trump? >> i think i was on a live panel that the people who ran the podcast called versus trump -- >> on that do you remember saying the following? liberals tend to cluster more. conservatives especially very conservative people tend to spread out more. perhaps because they dont even want to be around themselves. did you say that? >> yes, i did. >> do you understand how that reflects contempt on people that are conservative? >> no. what i was talking about there was the natural ten...

And for a long time he swam next to a noble shark and that shark was named john mccain. but that shark is gone and now we have donald trump. and though the dech ritist is vile, he remains well-fed. theres many more of politicians in washington, all of them republicans in this instance who their fidelity to trump, their obedience to him, that is their highest calling. and we should have a particular contempt for those senators who we know know better, the ben sasses of the world, the rob portmans...

We should have a particular contempt for those senators that know better. the ben sasses, the rob portmans of the world. the john thunes of the world. why is it why do they want to be united states senators? what is it theyre doing up there? theyre unoffice for this assault on the constitutional order? this erosion of civil liberties? this erosion of the american mind of faithfulness to the american experiment. in this country, despite all its flaws, is a miracle. it was a miracle birthed in 178...

Shutdown that deposition. what you see is republicans really trying to prove that they have president trumps back. >> anyway, theyll ultimately fall to the judiciary committee to draft articles of impeachment. theyre coming in the next couple of weeks against president trump. nbc news reports according to individuals involved in that process there could be three to four articles of impeachment drafted by the judiciary committee. we got that in ukraine and that whole trade, that shakedown. one on...

Many things including bribery, corrupting our electoral process, extorting a foreign country using federally appropriated dollars. theres a lot that could go into that. the question is whether you break out into a separate article, bribery, separate from that broader abuse of power. then you have contempt, obstruction of congress and that is where many things could also go into because so much has been obstructed under this administration, many different investigations, including ukraine, includ...