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Committee arguing he is not breaking laws by refusing to cooperate. i want to bring in two guests. welcome to you both. talk to me about the letter. >> reporter: yasmin, we know that the committee will move forward tonight on the contempt referral. meadows attorneying saying this is contrary to the law. he argues thats because im quoting the good faith of executive privilege and the immunity by a former senior executive firm saying thats not a violation of the statute. in this letter he argues w...

When he had covid. that is according to chief of staff mark meadows, the chief chief. they down played just how ill trump was. his blood oxygen levels dropped down to the 830s. normal levels were 90s. trump viewed it as a sign of weakness. trump only relented after he said, better to go under your own power now than be carried out in a gurney in two days. >> so he apparently has quite a bit to say and is yet at the same time trying to claim executive privilege shields. >> same contradiction. >> ...

American economy would be growing with better trade policy, if we didnt have the protectionism thats broken out in so many places >> yeah, i mean, he set records, but it would be historically unprecedented. i mean it would be something president trump could indeed brag about as perfect, the best ever. heres the number -- heres the thing that jumped out in me in this jobs report, said the number of job postings exceeded the number of unemployed workers by more than 1 million in july. i mean, that...

Sort of cooperate with president trump, both politically and on the question of international security. so its going to get very complex, and it could get uglier before it becomes clearer. paul: i have to say, bill, rudy giuliani going out and running sort of a shadow foreign policy with ukraine and when he could just go through the state department just doesnt look good. particularly given the fact that rudy giuliani at any given moment just makes a bad presentation of the facts. you never know...

With 2020 democratic presidential hopeful joe biden saying this week that hes in this for the long haul. as president trump doubles down on his attacks against the former vice president and his son over their political and business dealings both in ukraine and china. so kim, could this possibly, the politics of this, possibly be helping joe biden in the sense that he can now point to say, look, the president is attacking me and hunter and it is unfair and therefore he looks tough by standing up ...

Checking with the white house, i understand that we have a unitary executive, the white house supervises the entire executive, they dont see the need of having to do that or the optics of having done that are not good. paul: the political wisdom of that, it creates the impression that maybe theres a political -- >> im sort of outside my lane at this point. im not supposed to counsel people on political wisdom. that doesnt seem to be a smart thing to do. paul: what about this issue of executive p...

Why do -- i mean we all know schiff wants to impeach the president. hes wanted to do that probably since january 20, 2017. >> well, right, but look, heres a fundamental problem, though work the entire democratic claim that this is an abuse of power. a lot of americans look at this and say okay, could we just have one set of rules for the road instead of a double-standard? why was it not an abuse of power when the hilary clinton campaign was directing russian dirt to the fbi for use on a counteri...

>> still i think a lot of this is untorrid. i think asking governments to investigate someone through rudy is not a good idea. but im not sure it is impeachable. >> quickly, bill, rudys brief an assignment from the president was to find out ukraines involvement with paul manafort and then secondly joe biden and hunter biden and the ukrainian gas company. typically that would not be a job taken up by state department officials or the secretary of state. that is a political question. could be a le...

Republicans and i think independents are slightly in favor of nonimpeaching but very slight, sort of evenly divided. paul: pelosi is moving very fast. they want to get this done, probably have a vote on the floor -- thats whether to impeach or not. theres still a question of why havent they had a vote on the floor authorizing an inquiry, impeachment inquiry like happened with clinton and nixon? >> well, i think she wants the political issue. she wants the bad press for president trump to keep dr...

Any republican votes for it. >> yeah, to some extent, theres a need to include them, and obviously thats done ad hoc. paul: do you see anything so far in as you have looked at this big picture that theres any violation of law that you detect? by the president of the united states? >> you mean the presidents conversation with the ukrainian president? paul: thats correct, in the whistle-blowers complaint. >> the whistle-blowers complaint pretty much relies on that conversation. it goes into variou...