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Republican defense that there was no quid pro quo. one more defense has been knocked down on the republican side. >> and it strikes me, shan, i have to say. this is what mick mulvaney told us when he was speaking out loud at the white house press conference and then had to retract. he made the mistake of saying what apparently is true and republicans were going to come around to anyway. >> absolutely, john. i think they eventually had to come to this. i mean their whole original strategy of, we ...

They have now finally issued their first subpoena. all these other things were just nasty letters. finally yesterday, last night, mcmulvaney, the chief of staff got a subpoena. but its issued on the authority of the oversight committee because there is flow impeach inquiry its a fraud. the early saying they have inherent authority to arrest. they have never done it for over a century. they have never ever done it to an executive branch official. they dont have any authority to do it. ultimately ...

Here is somebody who does. andy mccarthy knows about these issues. we asked him about what rasheda tlaib said. here is his response. >> look, its not surprising that she doesnt know the process, i suppose. its not surprising that people think there is a bunch of subpoenas out there, pete. they have now finally issued their first subpoena. all these other things were just nasty letters. ultimately what they will do is go to court and they will try get a judicial finding that somebody is in contem...

>> methamphetamines, zoloft. >> there was more. the defense revealed that toolan spent years fighting depression and obsessive compulsive disorder and in the late 80s he attempted suicide and finally the defense was ready for its knockout punch. a neuropsychologyist. >> my opinion is that he has profound frontal executive dysfunction. >> he testified that years of substance abuse brought about that mental defect. because of it, toolan could not control his impulses so the defense argued he could...

Is that the case here? i mean, does this really have some sort of long-lasting impact on a child, being detained in a cage with lots of other people, not knowing where your parent is? >> so, you ask a really very important and fundamental scientific question. what we know is that different types of stress affect the brain and can cause resilience or can cause trauma. so, what these kids are experiencing is something called toxic stress, and that is unmitigated cortisol, fight-or-flight hormones,...

Some sort of long-lasting impact on a child, being detained in a cage with lots of other people, not knowing where your parent is? >> so, you ask a really very important and fundamental scientific question. what we know is that different types of stress affect the brain and can cause resilience or can cause trauma. so, what these kids are experiencing is something called toxic stress, and that is unmitigated cortisol, fight-or-flight hormones, the types of hormones that actually disrupt brain de...

Brains. researchers are raising the alarm. >> lets look at what it can do to a young brain. executive function, processing speed, memory, attention span, concentration and worth noting to a lot of people that vote who may be smoked pot years ago that the marijuana being produced todays really powerful stuff being made in labs, not your daddys weed, not the same stuff that was around in the 70s. >> exactly right. what we found in colorado is the marijuana produced todays 405% stronger with regard...

Responsibility. congress does. they need to exercise it, particularly because there was no legitimate oversight for two years. so i think representative nadler and others are doing what they should be doing, and they really shouldnt take a back seat to mueller. i also think when it comes to how this -- how impeachment ought to be viewed, you know, i got in fights with judges sometimes when i was a prosecutor, because i thought a judge was overstepping his or her bounds and sort of bleeding into ...

Oversight got shut down. >> are you dropping precedence in the first answer? >> i did. sorry about that. >> thats amazing. very legal right out the gate. keep going. >> okay. so i think that if congress, congress is just asking questions. whether or not the supreme court is going to permit congress to in some ways intrude into the process that the president went through with kushner i think is doubtful. >> youre saying basically this is an area they have a lot of power in the white house, even i...

Mandate and then anything ancillary to that which includes false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice. thats it. >> what do you think about those counts? do you think the president has anything to worry about? >> i dont. i dont think personnel decisions, including the firing of the fbi director can constitute obstruction of justice. >> do you know why you do it? >> i dont think you can separate that out from the fact that thats the presidents prerogative any more than what "the new yor...