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Intersect with his clients, his clients business. he bris tled when i raised this with him, these are not the normal conflict of interest rules that apply to people. one thing id say about rudy giuliani, hes somebody that anybody would agree, that cartoon clip shows it in this way, did great things once in his life, after 9/11 he was the figure who really rallied new yorkers. >> by the way, his first term as mayor of new york some people want to say that dinkins began that process, but new york ...

End, at least i think, should make all americans feel a little more comfortable about the fisa court and how there have been abuses and how yesterday it seems that some of those abuses are going to be reformed now. >> well, i think the fisa court was exactly right in the stern opinion it issued yesterday, and what the fisa court basically said is this is an ex party process. that is the suspect is not represented before the fisa court, only the government there. and therefore the court is comple...

Come down hard on the bureau. at the same time, this is a vital process. we need to be able to have a method of going to court with classified information when we suspect someone is an agent of a foreign power. so that process has to continue, but clearly the safeguards i think that the inspector general recommended need to be implemented and perhaps others as well. >> so congressman, "the washington post" reports that vice president mike pence has refused to declassify testimony about what he s...

Newscast w thats why weve moved forward. weve done so methodically. >> chairman i want to give you a chance to respond to what the president said about you in his letter to nancy pelosi yesterday. first i want to ask you about one of the criticisms weve heard from republicans, heard again from ranking member collins in that rules committee hearing, which is that this process had a set calendar, that youve rushed to the end of it, that you wanted to get out of town by the end of this week and get...

I said let me look at all the evidence, and i get pounded. but there were a lot of people like me, conservatives and liberals that said you know what? were going to look at all the evidence before we decide. now, for the majority leader of the united states senate and for the chairman of the judiciary committee to say were not going to be impartial. were not going to look at any evidence. were going to treat this with absolute contempt. it just cheapens the institution so much. >> it disturbs me...

This is part of a constitutional process, and how we endured after 99 and how we will endure after 2019. >> its part of the strength of this society and were seeing it exactly today. youre absolutely right, joe. and it is in the touconstitutio. the founders didnt give americans a lot of tools to discipline a president. its one of the reasons why andrew jackson was censured because they were looking for ways to express unhappiness with the way that a president was behaifg. this is part of the con...

What he did, holding a press conference. i mean, it sort of shows the sorry state of trumpism that this guys their hero. devin nunes, youre saying devin nunes did not say in the memo two years ago what the i.g. said as far as the facts? >> thats right. the vast majority of what the i.g. revealed about flaws in the fisa application were not known to either me or mr. nunes two years ago. they were the product of 170 interviews and 2 million documents we didnt have. we were really in the same posit...

The oath that turned senators into jurors during the clinton impeachment trial. it is the same oath that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is expected to take when the trump impeachment reaches the senate, but mcconnell said flat out yesterday it is an oath he has no intention of honoring. >> this is a political process. theres not anything judicial about it. impeachment is a political decision. the house made a partisan political decision to impeach. i would anticipate we will have a large...

Process but at the same time they dont really want to see the evidence. the fact is the evidence is really already uncontested and overwhelming. if we have yet additional witnesses who further corroborate what we already know, yes, it makes the case that much stronger but the case is already overwhelming, and so i think those process subjections fall flat when theyre not really interested in having those witnesses come in or receiving those documents. >> the president did write that rambling six...

Blanker or what some other members have said. theyre people who have served the country and they have decided they will vote yes, which means now the president of the united states will be impeached. the fact that its inevitable makes it no less historic. this is as mika laid out, 1868, 1998, and now 2019 when united states presidents have been impeached, and i think it will be quite a scene tonight in battle creek, michigan, with the president of the united states standing up at one of his rall...