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>> exactly, brian. it is an absolute sign that they are not prepared to execute on a plan to impeach this guy. should he be? make that argument all day long. will they be able to pull it off? if theyre at the performance level they showed yesterday, i would put donald trumps odds of even getting enough votes to vote on impeachment in the house, you know, to stop it as excellent. not to mention whats going to happen in the senate. mitch mcconnell is going to have every single republican vote in t...

Into custody. he is in contempt." they let him treat them like dirt. and its astounding to me. what happens when they get people who do have immunity? what happens when they get people who can exercise executive privilege? this is an astounding lift. they think theyre going to get a miracle of impeachment and remove him from office? theyre out of their damn minds. >> im going to ask you a question im assuming you know the answer to. tell the good folks watching tonight why guys like you and me w...

Completely divested himself from these properties in the first place. we knew it was going to be a battle. we knew from the beginning the emollients clause was something there was real risk around. this is just another proof of that being the case. >> do you expect this white house to comply with any of your requests? and if they do not what sort of teeth do you have to force them to comply? after all, corey lewandowski stonewalling the judiciary committee the other day not held in contempt, cou...

I think we have to exhaust our options to the courts. so far they have been ruling in our favor, unfortunately in terms of timing, there is an appeals process that has to be followed. but that is playing out. once that information starts to come back, its really important for me and most of my colleagues to make sure we do this the right way. even though the white house isnt going to do it the right way. we have an example to ensure at the end of the day however this resolves, we have done every...

Military, i come from a military corey lewandowski faced off state. i have a son in the military. against the house judiciary another war in the middle east committee for nearly six prickly to protect the saudi oil? it would be ridiculous. hours. his testimony then devolved into >> i can hear critics saying, a name calling, stonewalling though, what message does it spectacle. send to other u.s. allies in the region who might fall victim to >> the white house has directed irans provocations. does...

Was flanked by white house attorneys. said he never read the report. it just looked terrible for mr. lewandowski. worse than that, it looks very bad for the president because, as you know, article 3 of the nixon impeachment articles of impeachment was the very thing that happened yesterday. obstruction of congress. the president is showing himself to be in violation of his constitutional duties. thats what that looked like yesterday. >> i agree. i have seen no precedent for someone who does not ...

Does it have impeachment value? i really dont know. because i think if democrats felt like this was enough, they would have moved forward with it already. because its already laid out there. and i think at this point catching corey lewandowski in a lie is fine. its useful about how much we can trust him. is it useful moving forward with impeachment? i dont know. >> we heard they wanted to animate the mueller report, turn it into a movie. corey lewandowski refused to read the script for that movi...

Of character that mr. lewandowski is. he showed himself very, very poorly. and we got some very important things on the record about the obstruction by this president. so im pleased that we continued with the hearing. >> why is it only a consideration, though, to hold him in contempt, if you believe that there is no actual privilege that he can exert? >> i -- thats beyond me. that is up to the chairman, actually. >> so -- but you want him to do it? you want him to push through with this, with th...

Hourswohour hours worked just as effectively. >> democrats looked flat footed from the jump. i do want to ask you, though, this strategy of letting the mueller report be animated by testimony of people involved in all of this like lewandowski, do you think its backfiring? >> i dont think it backfired at all. i think congressman edid outstanding jobs. there were some beginnings where it stumbled. doug collins and running for trumps recommendation to be senator from georgia got a lot of time and h...

Theres no precedent for citing executive privilege for what you all were talking about. >> alisyn, youre welcome to have someone from the white house to come on specifically the white house counsel who wrote the letter to the judiciary committee and to my counsel that said were asking you to preserve the right of the executive branch to hold executive privilege. but mr. lewandowski, its not your privilege to waive. just like attorney/client privilege is not the attorneys client -- is not the att...