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Other issues in which this president has assumed powers of congress, specifically money out of nato and taking them more than 100 and say 1.6 billion out of nato to build his border wall. completely ignoring the appropriation congrepower of co, the power to purse. >> you are talking about different issues here. im specifically focusing on the ukraine call and the focus of this impeachment inquiry right now that question of inher represent contempt was to that issue. what do you sa toy critics wh...

In my view, we have enough facts but in and of themselves. if we can call the witnesses of the people who are also on that call, the people who gave information to the intelligence community inspector general, that to me would be a logical next step to get that confirmation. then from there in my view, we would have enough in order to vote on impeachment. >> so calling those witness, as we know and hearing from them two different things. these days in washington. a short time ago, your colleague...

>> we will get more on that trey gowdy move. for more on congressional democrats next move. lets go to our cnn on this body. they do have the too many of inherent contempt that they have not used. they have subpoena power, which they are using. what else can they do? >> reporter: its very clear here, poppying speaker pelosi is not going to fold to the white house pressure at this point of potentially having a full house vote on articles of impeachment. she has said in the past, of course, she is...

Other issues, alone to put forward article of impeachment. >> theyve got to act essentially is what hes saying. do you agree with that, john? >> well, as i recall it, the clinton impeachment, they did do it just before the holidays, and the trial was in early the next year. i think what theyre going to do, don, is theyre going to try to build the strongest case with the most evidence they can do in a reasonable amount of time. they know theyre going to be stonewalled. why theyre not really adopt...

Impeachment is political. congress has every right on the evidence of the zelensky call alone, let alone obstruction and other issues, alone to put forward article of impeachment. >> theyve got to act essentially is what hes saying. do you agree with that, john? >> well, as i recall it, the clinton impeachment, they did do it just before the holidays, and the trial was in early the next year. i think what theyre going to do, don, is theyre going to try to build the strongest case with the most e...

The votes i am sure are there for an impeachment inquiry structured in such a way we have the full opportunity to get all the information, call in the witnesses, get the details, get the e-mails and all the rest. with regard to inherent contempt, i have been for that all along. i think that when the witnesses come and they simply refuse to answer questions, i think its time to call in the sergeant of arms, march them off to a little jail. which we do happen to have in one of the rooms of the cap...

Beenen the tradition, if not, yu can hold us in contempt and we will see you in court in a matter of months. >> tucker: but as auc procedural matter, is it true or is it not -- youre the sitting member -- that in order to have an impeachment you have to have a vote, right? leadership cant just say theres an impeachment. there has to be aer vote. >> right. traditionally -- the house makes its own rules, okay? so one could argue that they are just making up the rules as they go along. but we do ha...

White house in a letter to the speaker of house nancy pelosi calling ongoing impeachment effort illegitimate and unconstitutional and furthermore saying it will not cooperate in less a full house vote is held to begin a formal inquiry. congressman devin nunes is the ranking member of the house intelligence committee and former chairman when the house was under republican control. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so if im understanding this correctly, the white house is saying o...

Of this. and so, i think that the polling is a little bit of a question mark at this point, and you know, talking to political strategists and lawmakers this week, they dont really see where this is all headed. theyre trying to make political calculations right now about whether impeaching the president is ultimately going to prove to be the popular thing to do, and theres just not enough information before them to be able to decide that. >> barbara, does the supreme court have a role here in br...

That lied about the mueller investigation and the findings. he actually went and testified and lied and threw out a conspiracy theory that had long been debunked on what the basis of the mueller investigation was, even though he knew it was a lie. hes going around the globe right now chasing conspiracy theories that he knows is a lie because hes not representing the people. he is donald trumps roy cohn. and now of course you have congress defying -- or you have donald trump defying congress, the...