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Proceeding, but theres nothing that joe biden or any of the other witnesses republicans have talked about have to say about what the president is being impeached for. the only purpose of bringing them is for distraction urged by the master of distraction, donald trump. >> but why? if their argument is, you cant say the president had corrupt intent, which you would need for abuse or any type of what we call in the law sigh enter, malice aforethought because he has a legitimate belief that biden r...

How would corrupt intent be provable from a criminal standpoint? >> sure. intent is always the hardest thing to prove. you have to get into someones brain to figure out what it was they were planning to do or intending to do, trying to do. but investigators do this all the time. i mean, the fbi is very, very good at public corruption cases. and they built it through documents and through cooperating witnesses and circumstances. and so if there is an investigation, i can assure you that investiga...

If the pardon was corrupt, the pardon still stands but there could be repercussions for the governor. >> how is something like that proven, again, given how broad and clear this power is. how would corrupt intent be provable from a criminal standpoint? >> sure. intent is always the hardest thing to prove. you have to get into someones brain to figure out what it was they were planning to do or intending to do, trying to do. but investigators do this all the time. i mean, the fbi is very, very go...

Not whether somebody acted, you know, rashly or recklessly or foolishly or prudently but whether they acted corruptly. if the pardon was corrupt, the pardon still stands but there could be repercussions for the governor. >> how is something like that proven, again, given how broad and clear this power is. how would corrupt intent be provable from a criminal standpoint? >> sure. intent is always the hardest thing to prove. you have to get into someones brain to figure out what it was they were pl...

Presidents power is a very, very severe breach of constitutional duty. no question about it. the framers saw it the same way. alexander hamilton put the word political in caps. i dont think thats the best over >> the ultimate jury is the american people. there are five polls out in the last week. >> theyre split. >> its about 45% on the real clear average for support for impeachment. over 50% against the impeachment. >> ive seen plenty of poes that call it 50%. 60% of the american people said he...

Articles. solicitation, scheme, corrupt intent, obstruction. those are the key words in those two articles. they cover all the evidence we heard in the hearings. they were concise, they were clear. they dont want the waters muddies. what the republicans will need to do because they didnt have evidence is muddy the ut wahhers. thats what were going to see tonight in this markup. >> geoff, taking what my wra is saying there, what do you see the republicans doing beyond messaging? in other words, t...

This report and not have committed, by any stretch, a high crime. many people have pointed out theres all sorts of deals in foreign policy. of course there are. theres treaties. thats a deal. theres leverage and pressure. of course there are. thats why the u.s. wants a strong military. the issue is not that those actions occurred but with any crime, why its a high crime or impeachable activity, the question always goes back to whether there was, essentially, corrupt intent. did you do a thing fo...

Level of the evidence and corroboration. nunes part would be a huge deal on its own, given that he is supposed to be doing this investigation. chairman schiff was quite careful in his generalized remarks about it tonight. and they still have a relationship, a professional relationship with this committee. but he did use a very legal word here in discussing the potential complicity of members of congress. take a look. >> it is, i think, deeply concerning that at a time when the president of the u...

Biden in those to our knowledge. the only thing that changed ostensibly is the former v.p. decided to run for office. >> in previous times the aid was given, there was no connection at all to quote, unquote, corruption. ukraine was a corrupt company but they didnt have a president elected who was a corruption fighter. they had a president who was corrupt. all of a sudden it became important about corruption. they dont care about corruption. the fact is they wrote the book. >> the idea of corrupt...

Country, but they didnt have a president who had been elected who was a corruption fighter. they had a president who was corrupt, and yet that wasnt even questioned. all of a sudden it became important about corruption. they dont care about corruption. the fact is they wrote the book. >> the idea of corrupt intent, the constructive analogy for you guys in terms of what the wrong was, is this was a bribe. youre going to have to make the proof to the american people against counsel now at the judi...