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Stonewalling, will be as schiff said previously evidence for a separate article of impeachment on this obstruction question. >> jeff, thank you very much. jeff bennett for us on capitol hill. jeff and garrett are going to continue to work that side of the story as this continues to develop. two individuals involved in the how judiciary committee process tell nbc news that we could be seeing three or four articles of impeachment. one to two may be on abuse of power, specifically defined as push...

Somebodys head. but what people are doing lines up with what the president believes and the president says. so you can put those two things together and come up with a conclusion. >> one quick thing about that, which is, you are right, they were going after rod rosenstein pretty hard. they threatened to impeach him. they held him into contempt. i never saw him more forcy, more angry and more committed to do the right thing where he would say, you want to come after me, fine? you want to come aft...

Blow off impeachment and not participate and not send your lawyers and the like. and it demonstrates i think this presidents contempt for institutions, number one. and also as gene robinson was saying, the fact is that they dont have a standive defense. there is very little attempt to even bother defending donald trumps actions. so theyre just attacking the process, and thats what they have left. and the problem with that is the process is a lot fairer than theyre saying. indeed, its the same ba...

Disassociated and think its funny. all of these systems that have -- have screwed us over time and again, yeah, theyre like, you know, what else do i have but to laugh at this maniac pushing buttons somewhere? >> a foreshadowing of the national election. >> while they ridicule president trump, they have contempt for the democratic party which they think has made too many moral compromises. >> do you think the democratic party speaks to the issues facing your community? >> no, not at all. you cou...

That i know that i would consider as stereo typical trump voters are completely disassociated and think its funny. all of these systems that have screwed us over time and again, yeah, theyre like, you know, what else do i have but to laugh at this maniac pushing buttons somewhere. >> so while they ridicule president trump, they have contempt for the democratic party, which they think has made too many moral compromises to help communities like theirs. >> do you think this speaks to the issues fa...

>> reporter: in the mountains of eastern kentucky a trio of leftist activists have figured out how to make people listen to them. >> thats where the democratic party is. >> reporter: the party is tania turner, tom ray and tom sexson. its reported in a cabin of whitesberg, a town of 2000 in what is rock solid trump country. >> i think some trump supporters that i know that i would consider a stereotypical trump voters are completely dissociated and think its funny. all of these systems that have ...

Conclude it is better to be more narrow in impeachment articles. prosecutors face temptations all the time. just because you can charge someone with a particular offense does not mean you should charge them and if you model articles of impeachment with too much, it gives the other side the opportunity to cherry pick and point out the weakness of the weakest article. i think for that reason if i were participating and giving them advice, i would tell them to keep it narrowly focused on the conduc...

The impeachment inquiry in terms of total contempt of the oversight, not just the criminal oversight but for example homeland security cant testify about immigration policies. thats eviscerating our three branches of government and checks and balances. that needs to be stopped. and it happens in plain sight of abusive of power by using the approved mumbai congress that was supposed to help ukraine to fight the russians and our enemies as well and saving us to fight them by letting ukraine to do ...

Actually like people to testify. it is a democrat scam that is going nowhere. but future presidents should in no way be compromised. what has happened to me should never happen to another president. jackson a district court judge who ruled that mcgahn has to testify disagreed with the president in his ruling saying, in part, quote: this court holds that executive branch officials are not absolutely immune from compulsory congressional process no matter how many times the executive branch has ass...

Making up laws like executive privilege to really try to avoid proper oversight function. so i actually think i heard you say mick mulvaney put out a statement hes going to refuse to compile and listen to trump if trump continues to say dont testify. i have to tell you, that couldnt be a more squarely unlawful act and it is in contempt of what a federal court judge just said with respect to the law. so i think these people now are really putting themselves in harms way. >> what does this do, mik...