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Did everything we could to frotemgs fis p. and you think the partee would have gone along with it? >> absolutely. we have to do what the constitution and the evidence requires. theres overwhelming evidence of the presidents abuse of power and effort to obstruct. they never once tried to justify the pszs corrupt behavior. we-no choigs and we have a responsibility to go back the districts and explain why we have to take them inside and choice and process. the speemer of the house ds we

War veteran and cnn contributor with a passion on the subject will join me this hour. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we begin with the breaking news. two of rudy giulianis so-called expert witnesses to find alleged corruption by trumps opponents were arrested today by the u.s. department of justice for, quote, corrupt behavior. led barnas. said his ukrainian operation is to help his client, the president. they were arrested at dulles airport last night holding one-way tickets out of th...

>> its such an open and shut case in my mind. its astonishing that there is something that could condemn this behavior. republicans are afraid of donald trump and theyre afraid of the trump supporters. i dont find that to be a super compelling argument when youre looking at -- obviously, corrupt behavior, right? its just absolutely corrupt. theres no question, theres no way to shade it in a way where its not corrupt. it certainly rises to the level of impeachment and yet i think youre not going ...

You served as a trump adviser who has since opposed the president after the mueller report. are you hearing anything behind the scenes, and if so, what are you hearing? >> well, the friends i have over at treasury department, the financial regulators, white house all tell me the same thing about him theyve said from the beginning, they see his flaws. theyre not blind. theyre hoping to do good policy. we havent talked about this most recent scandal, but what i get from them is either, you know, i...

Unlawful, unconstitutional, corrupt behavior. and if republicans, and heres the big difference between watergate and what were seeing now. if republicans are willing to go along with this, it is going to change our history. because republicans became the heroes in watergate who finally said, we cannot tolerate a corrupt president who undermines our electoral system and this is far worse than just undermining the electoral system given the rhetoric and what weve seen of the presidents unraveling ...

Back. >> even some on the right say the attack on legal abortion as gone too far. >> i think alabama has gone too. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. the trump administration is continuing an assault on continuing congresss roles. a day after the personal lawyer told a gob smacked judge, congress shouldnt be able to investigate if the president engaged in corrupt behavior. a-electee letter was sent to jerry nadler not only refusing to turn over white house records, but more importantl...

Good evening from new york. im chris hayes. the trump administration is continuing an assault on e continuing congresss roles. a day after the personal lawyere told a gob smacked judge, congress shouldnt be able to investigate if the president ul engaged in corrupt behavior. a lengthy letter was sent to jerry nadler not only refusing to turn over white house records, but more importantly claiming that congress has no standing to investigate trump at all. he wrote "the committee is not a law enfo...

Sign that they found evidence of conspiracy on president trump and the russians. they found a lot of wrongdoing and the state charges look at corrupt behavior. theres a lot of those investigations out there and the totality of them could be very damaging for the president. >> the president has worked really hard to kind of distance himself from all of these players and all of these charges, still saying no collusi collusion and that theres nothing to the investigation and its not me. >> look, he...

Neither one of them, including assange, would be guilty of any crime because they didnt steal it or hack it, correct? >> that is absolutely correct. the pentagon papers case stands for the propositiony publications can publish stolen documents as long as they are not involved in the stealing. itsub in the public interest. itbo was important for america o learn about the lies underlying the vietnam war and the same can be true here. isnt it important that americans learned of corrupt behavior by ...