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In the constitution of the government. they are starting this process. there is precedent that is how some of this has been done before. there is no such thing as an official impeachment inquiry. there is no break glass tool kill. there is no giant legal changes. and as kirsten lays out so well, they have laid out so many important documents and subpoenas, there is not a lot of good will or good faith left, to think that the white house left. the other point of this, of course, were still on rec...

Government statutes, for a campaign, even if, we still have impeachable offenses that are not necessarily crimes, that are merely abuses of power. so it doesnt need to fit perfectly into a criminal statute. although, you know, reasonable minds disagree some, like alan dershowitz say an impeachable offense must be a crime. but many others say it need not be a crime. and history demonstrates that that is the case. abuse of power is not a crime. and that has been the basis for impeachment. >> are y...

The house democrats want to move quickly and they want to have a full vote on articles of impeachment by thanksgiving and thats less than two months from now, but as you know the white house will stonewall in terms of dealing with subpoenas and getting documents. can they do it? can they have a full vote by then? >> i think they will try to do so and the president will try to stonewall, but heres the difference before. theyll hopefully learn a lesson that the stonewalling is a delay tactic and i...

Within the intelligence activity concerning a dni. this concerned conduct by someone outside the intel community and did not relate to any intelligence activity under the dnis supervision. satisfied? >> yeah, this is going to be the typical push and pull between the executive branch and congress. i suspect this will get worked out between the two of them at some point in time. this is somewhat of a delay tactic. we dont know a whole lot because we dont know whats in the complaint so its really d...

Forwarded to the i.g. doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern. it says it should be serious allegations relating to the funding, administration and within the intelligence activity concerning a dni. this concerned conduct by someone outside the intel community and did not relate to any intelligence activity under the dnis supervision. satisfied? >> yeah, this is going to be the typical push and pull between the executive branch and congress. i suspect this will get worked out between the tw...

Credible as though julie allegations. if it were something that did need investigations and the senate democrats didnt think that, that is really saying. he has never said that hes talked to the actual majority. >> susan: he wrote a letter saying that he would like the fbi. if you are venting a supreme court nominee, you ought to follow up on an allegation. the u.s. senator says this is worth doing. >> mollie: no, he knows how the allegations are set up. he was part of the discussion about that....

Is the ground shifting, in the sense, and i have heard this is a delay tactic. were not going to have the discussion right now. if theyre trying to delay it, i looked at the front pages of the paper this morning, i didnt see anything on legislation to battle gun violence or action to battle gun violence hasnt already dropped from the national consciousness less than two weeks later. >> i saw in usa today, there was a story about us candidates talking about it, making it an issue. as i said, its ...

It so it was just forward looking rather than backward looking. that is one of the allegations in the mueller report. it cannot relate to whether she was involved in trying to get michael flynn to not testify in the mueller proceeding, which is another allegation in the mueller report. so what the white house is doing is invoking a blanket privilege that the courts have said does not exist. they know it doesnt exist. it is kind of putting lipstick on a pig of an argument that they just dont have...

The political importance of this, because there were concerns that by putting the census question in, it will reduce folks who are immigrants, legal ones. mind you, their response and influences how congressional districts are drawn. legally, getting to this broad and even preemptive really declaration of executive privilege here from a large perspective. theyre using this for everything now. is that legally sound? >> its fine if theyre doing it while theyre determining which documents are execu...

Whether the supreme court will have to take these cases if it does? >> the supreme courts prerogative is they dont interest to do anything they dont want to do. >> exactly. >> but if there is dissension in the lower courts it may go up to the supreme court faster. the issue here, of course, is, remember this, happened before where the courts had weighed in to say a subpoena for the member of the executive branch, you must comply. operation fast and furious is one example of this, the harriet mye...