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Make it hypothetical. lets make it not a republican, not a democrat, a hypothetical independent president who he finds out is withholding vital military aid to a country until they do an investigation that involves his or her politics, how would we think about that? there are guardrails in terms of presidential behavior, and one time you asked me, i believe, whether this was -- you know, whether he had violated, you know, the power that he has. >> right. >> and i said at the time i thought that ...

Aspects of this system. we wont know by friday what those will be, but someday we will, and when we do see them, its going to affect public opinion. >> basil, another one we were watching out for is laura cooper as well as national security council director of european affairs. national security council. >> not a lot of happy people. >> cant be. i answer that by attaching michaels point. if you remember a couple weeks back, the fox poll said that 51% of this country thought that this president w...

Congress and directing his members of congress and his ambassadors not to testify. many of those are in open rebellion, those ambassadors this week did testify despite what the president said because they believe that the congress and the american people should have the truth. thats what nixon was -- the one of the articles of impeachment nixon faced. i think it applies here. its just those two articles. its straightforward and simple. its an open and shut case and honestly, i think im a pretty ...

Dots and make sense of something. and its hard. its very, very hard when you listen to the fulsomeness of the words said there. we always like having you on to try to explain this stuff. >> we appreciate you, michael. be sure to tune into "smerconish" tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. hell speak with the only former fbi agent in congress and that is brian fitzpatrick. >> that doesnt mean email or tweet at smerconish for this. jim mattis chose to make jokes about the president after months...

A look at this map of the south china sea the red line that you can see here is what is known as the 9 dash line that is the day my cation line for chinas unilateral claim to these voices if you look at the blue dots that those are the. those are the territorial claims of the other countries in the region now china claims it has an historic claim to these waters the un says there is no legal basis for such a claim but that doesnt seem to bother china there is an economic side to this these water...

Hitting the small monitor reactor conference. first of its kind of done. last and for me on a personal note one of the most important things i worked on was standing up in office from whole cloth on artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence technology office is now set up and ready to go. >> bill: to you from your military days, time as a governor and time in the white house, you got that okay? well get this straightened out. live television. thank you for your service, sir. if youve g...

Misconstrue my comments. there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukraine military aid and the 2016 election. >> i dont know what his case is. the media is to blame for writing down what he said and fox recording on video what he said? he stood at the podium and connected the dots for democrats and said you are darn right im paraphrasing that we were holding up aid to ukraine because the president wanted an investigation of corruption. he suggested, didnt directly say, but suggested there wa...

This morning, a part of that damage control effort. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i think he was straight up with what he said. you know, i think there are people trying to connect dots. >> straight up how? >> when the facts -- by basically saying that there was no quid pro quo in the sense of what those folks out there would like for it to be. that were going to give you this money unless you go investigate joe biden and his son. i never heard that said anywhere, any time in any conve...

>> katy tur, thank you. have a good weekend. te hello, everyone. im chris jansing in for ali velshi. in impeachment terms, this is deadline day. right now, window for white house acting chief of staff and energy secretary rick perry to submit subpoena documents is closing. mulvaney has already said he will not comply and the white house is scrambling today to undo the damage mulvaney caused to the presidents no quid pro quo defense. a full court press including just a short time ago the presiden...

We dont know that to be the case today. but we cant come up with any policy reasons why trump was doing giulianis bidding. and we cant figure out why giuliani was doing the ukraine work for free on behalf of the president. theres lots of dots to connect here. it does suggest that this ukraine story, which we know is corruption at its core, may be connected to some of the strange things that were happening surrounding turkey. >> im shocked that rudy giuliani does not believe he needs a lawyer at ...