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For the white house. every time there is a release of information whether it is the whistle blower complaint or the call memo or the state department tax traffic from last night, the factual landscape gets worse for the president. and the reason is that the underlying facts are awful. so the more visibility you have into them, the worse the situation gets. and all of that creates a significant incentive to withhold information. the trouble is that if you withhold information t house has now made...

Out publically and did it today. whether its legal or not, we have to put that aside. its almost certainly not constitutional. and as rachel said, this is one of those articles of impeachment thats not going to need an extensive inquiry. theres a tape, you play the tape, you have the article of impeachment right there. its cut and dry, whereas perhaps with the ukraine scandal it may not be as cut and dry. >> heres what congressman schiff said about all this. take a listen. >> i find once again t...

>> reporter: good morning. secretary pompeo is currently overseas in italy but he and his state department are the focal point for those leading this impeachment inquiry. mia mike pompeo trying to block officials from his department of talking to congress. sending a fiery letter to elliot eng l saying the deposition requests are an attempt to intimidate, bullry, and treat improperly the professionals of the state. the chairman from the three house committees accusing pompeo of intimidating depar...

More now on all of this with ro khanna, a remember of the house oversight and armed services committee. sir, thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me on, brianna. >> democrats are accusing secretary pompeo of trying to shield some of the potential witnesses at the state department. he said that doing so would be illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction. how far are democrats willing to go to force pompeos cooperation here? >> well secretary pompeo is just stonewalling and ...

Officials. pompeo is being warned that his delaying tactics may be used as obstruction of justice. now the inspector general is asking for an urge enter briefing on capitol hill tomorrow. first lets talk about this state department ig, who is supposed to be the independent watchdog of the state department requesting an urge enter hill briefing. theres a lot of questions we have about this, because we just found this out. what do you want to know? >> first of all, according to kylies reporting, i...

National security. >> our president sacrifice to our national security. >> this is a very serious matter of national security. >> at the expense of our national security. >> president united states is willing to compromise national security. >> the tipping point is clear, it was national security full stop. >> tucker: national security! a causey or cortez who could not find ukraine on the big type math. how did the president jeopardized the security, by delaying, they say, military aid to ukrain...

Our national security. >> our president sacrificed to our national security. >> this is a very serious matter of national security.it >> at the expense of our national security. v >> president of the united states is willing to compromise on national security. >> the tipping point is clear. it was national security full stop. >> tucker: uh-huh. national security! says ocasio-cortez, who could not find ukraine on a big type map. how did the president jeopardize our national security? by delaying,...

Also from republican lawmakers. now the background on in just for those folks at home is that essentially the pentagon is able to delay or suspend over 100 military projects to get about 3.6 billion for the presidents border wall. and the only reason the defense sect, mark eppser can legally ask for that is because you remember the president declared the national emergency earlier this year along the southern board are border after he lost the fight with congress to get funding for the wall. now...

>> the president has flirted with the idea of a potential payroll tax cut, even know administration officials said thats not part of the plan. hes looking at other possibilities in terms of slashing tax rates to boost the economy. >> can he do that without congress? >> he would need likely approval from congress. and frankly, it contradicts the notion that the economy is doing just fine. even if you look at the delaying of the implementation of those tariffs until december, it was designed -- it...

The latest reading of the constitution, because the constitution does not specifically call out citizens in this question. because people. >> harris: but weve seen questions like this in our history. >> yes, but the court has been asked the question and they havent been asked this question before at this level. theyve been asked and they made a ruling for the president doesnt like it. there was also a ruling today that -- im more pleased with this ruling, i was displeased with the one on gerryma...