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Of support among republicans for president trump? >> i dont. i think the republicans are very honest in the sense when they agree with the president they say it, and disagree they will say that too. theyre absolutely opposed to impeachment. they dont think the process has been fair. >> rooney doesnt sound opposed to impeachment. >> i think congressman rooney is one of maybe a couple, right. but when they disagree with the policy on syria, everybody speaks out. so people feel free to say what the...

Theyve had plenty of chances to come clean. but yet, they have hundreds of anonymous accounts that attack me on a daily basis, sometimes hourly basis with defamation, slander, et cetera, and you just have to wonder like what on earth are the board members and the ceo of twitter thinking here so now, a judge has now ordered them to participate in the discovery process, we need to know the identities of the people who are committing these crimes, and in some cases, death threats yet twitter and th...

Presidents behavior and very seriously and adversely affecting the operation of the entire white house complex. >> so, bob, let me ask you, since its a violation of an executive order, if someone is involved and classifying incorrectly a readout of that conversation and doing it and being part of a process that theyre doing it because -- not because of classified information or sensitive national security information inside that document, but because of political embarrassment, has that person c...

The question is will more republican senators poke their heads up? ben sasse made a quick poke the other day and said im deeply troubled by this, lets not jump to conclusions. what is the breaking point where republican senators dont have a choice but to speak out about this? so far its been just mitt romney. >> you know, i mean, mika, a lot of times it seems over the past several days some people on the left want these republican senators to set their hair on fire, say impeach, impeach, impeach...

>> that they should be hanged. >> they were great, they should get the medal of freedom. but whistleblowers against him should get the chair. it is witness intimidation is what it is. its a very stark and dark warning to people around him who, frankly, lets be honest, who have leaked like sieves for his entire -- >> sometimes its worth stepping back and putting aside all of complaints and transcripts. having a president who talks nostalgically about executing people is bizarre and scary. >> and ...

That they need and we wont have the calendar be the arbiter, but we do -- theres -- it doesnt have to drag on. and, again, were in court on many of these cases, whether its the presidents taxes, his bank accounts, his accounting, emoluments, a whole slooe slew other things. who knows the timing of the courts. but its no use to say by such and such a date. but looking, shall we say, the material that the administration is giving us, they are actually speeding up the process. >> the decision itsel...

Executive order its improper, a violation of law to classify to avoid embarrassment. but to your point, theres all kinds of people down in the sit room and the white house who hand this will in the normal course. they start talking and when all of those people feel comfortable telling the truth, youre going to have a lot of corroboration of this. which is, of course, why the president is making threats. >> and think we should step back and note the rich irony that the 2016 campaign was waged aga...

Senator who has stuck his neck out the most. >> yeah. >> this is a big tell. >> and, gene, its hard for them to brea to preach deep state when all of this was done by the book, following the whistleblower statute, with an ig, an inspector generals report, the inspector general appointed by donald trump, and every part of the process was followed and open to the letter of the law until the attorney general of the united states who is involved in the controversy decided to go deep state with it. >...

Impeachment process, and people are saying yes, but this is the right thing to do. this is a national security issue. this is an issue about behavior in judgment and all the rest. i think there is some hope, and we should also as american citizens hope for this that if the weight of the evidence -- remember, this is a discovery process that were about to enter. think of it as a judicial process in which massive amounts of evidence are supposed to come forward. if the evidence is so compelling pe...

Today. not here right now. >> well, youre more than welcome to make an announcement right now? >> its really sad to think that a president would -- perform an impeachable offense. its hard. you know, its hard to say weve got ton that place, but what would be an impeachable offense would be that which is proven in a, in an investigation. >> right. >> that investigation -- >> the calling for, convening a select committee on an impeachment is the beginning of a process, a discovery process. not the...