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Deems fair. democrats want to see more commitments from the white house on witnesses, on document production, and so youre seeing this whole chess game play out with not just leader versus leader but lawmaker versus lawmaker. >> to the point that bob is making here, we had that graphic on screen, you need 51 votes in a senate impeachment trial to get through any procedural thing, so topics like whether to call witnesses et cetera, you need 67 votes to convict. democrats would need at least 20 re...

Why was the subpoena, if the republicans saying were not hearing who we need to hear, on the democratic side, this is going to be a very essential decision coming down from the federal courts. which, if youve been subpoenaed, who should i listen to, the white house or the house of representatives? why was it withdrawn? >> actually, i think thats where we see the most hypocrisy in the narrative pushed forward by the president, by the white house, and by the republicans, that witnesses havent test...

Document production and blocked witnesses from testifying. and therefore, hes obstructing their probe. whats wrong with that argument? >> this is even more ridiculous if were going to make a comparison. look, the president does not forfeit constitutional prerogatives merely because an impeachment has commenced. he isen tie l tellshe is -- he o withhold the information. the presidents advisers including mr. bolton and mr. cupperman have taken it to court. the democrats are eluding litigation. how...

Document production and blocked witnesses from testifying. and therefore, hes obstructing their probe. whats wrong with that argument? >> this is even more ridiculous if were going to make a comparison. look, the president does not forfeit constitutional prerogatives merely because an impeachment has commenced. he isen tie l tellshe is -- he o withhold the information. the presidents advisers including mr. bolton and mr. cupperman have taken it to court. the democrats are eluding litigation. how...

Schiff also said in the report says that the investigation is not over. it sounds like they would talk to my stomach refused to talk to mulvaney. >> bret: is the process of evolving up to other avenues, other things, going back to mueller and the possibility of the other task rectors mike records factoring income is assault possible? >> you open up to mueller and you are going to lose more moderate democrats when it comes to the separate articles of impeachment. i think you may find moderate dem...

Right. cant get to the bottom of these things without talking to rudy giuliani and understand why he was calling the office of management and budget. >> you surgeonly cant exonerate the president without talking to rudy giuliani. when you line up omb, line up the white house calls, line up the date on the timeline and the three amigos, it looks bad so rudy giuliani, if this was perfectly normal and innocent and there was some other reason for him to be on the phone with an omb official, he could...

Into the bidens and burisma on behalf of the president in the senate. how is that playing out? >> its very bizarre. a week or two ago, he said he didnt want to do this. he had a quite close relationship with biden when the two served in the senate for many years and before that, graham was in the house. the interesting thing will be here, the state department, which has resisted document production in the houses investigation, does it cough up documents here? that will be something to keep an ey...

More. >> final question, deadlines for document production this week, including, i believe, from the white house itself, which has said they will not cooperate. do you have a plan in place for what to do if and when they do not turn over those documents? >> chairman schiff has said it well. if they refuse to turn over the documents that, in and of itself, is an act of obstruction to an impeachment inquiry article i. third article of the nixon impeachment was obstructing congress investigation. a...

Not. >> we keep getting asked the question in 923 different ways, what did she say to you? of course, we cant answer. ill reiterate that i think every single person has come before us, has added new information and given new depth to our understanding about what went on here. i think theres enough information in the public domain that as one member, i believe its clear that the president has committed impeachable offenses but every member is different and how it is they get to that point and whe...

Trying to get more information out of all of these players in the ukraine drama. >> okay. so im going to ask you the next question as if my colleague stephanie ruhle were sitting next to me because she is. in the golden age of letter-writing and asking people to do things, most people connected to the white house, donald trump, in this case rudy giuliani, have exactly the same answer to those letters. they take the letter, they read it, and then they do this, and they throw it away. what happens...