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>> we see the action of this president be an assault on the constitution, once we had his even admission to that, we had no choice but to go forward. its hard. we want to weigh the equity. we want to be fair as we go forward. paul: as house speaker pelosi moves to expi dishsly on impeachment -- expeditiously on impeachment. democrats accusing the white house of a cover up as secretary of state pompeo acknowledged he was on the july 25 phone call between president trump and ukrainian president ze...

Leader, its a completely separate question. >> of course. and nobodys seeking -- i mean interestingly that people assume that hes seeking dirt. paul: they may not be. they are trying to find out what happened. >> what happened. paul: yeah. >> and how is it that a counterintelligence investigation was begun that wharfed into a criminal investigation and we ought to know how that happens and why. paul: separate from that, though, lets take the presidents comments this week publicly inviting china ...

The case for impeachment this week? >> well, i think the short answer to that would be no. but lets put it in some caveats here. impeachment is what the house democrats want to make it to be. they can define impeachment. but nonetheless, most of the american people regard impeachment of a president as a grave serious activity. and the question is why had the democrats decided to elevate the issue of donald trumps interactions with the president of ukraine to an impeachable offense, as nancy pelo...

And saying communist chinchina china, you investigate joe biden. >> i agree it is unpresidential. the american people need to make up their mind. this president since the inauguration day has had the entire established washington against him and this is the way donald trump fights back whether hes president or citizen of the united states and i think voters will have to figure out whether thats appropriate. paul: still ahead as polls show growing support for impeachment, a look at the potential ...

To whether, for example, if the president called henry kissinger who is no longer in any administration and wanted to get advice, it might cover that conversation. paul: what about a conversation, though, with xi? does that mean any time a whistle-blower decides he wants to make a complaint and say i think i heard, i heard that there was some -- something bad happened in a call. therefore im going to write a complaint and it goes up to capitol hill and capitol hill says we have to see what the t...

Because when the issue subpoena as the judge pointed out you have more authority if it is a judicial proceeding, and if it is not, if the speaker can just declare that, without any change in the rules, this is going to be tangled up in a lot of fights and so forth before we get there. paul: if ultimately if this is partisan impeachment, dan, it will have a lot less credibility. >> oh, yeah, it will, but i mean thats i think what the democrats are trying to do is put some of these republicans in ...

Bad reports it. the president is not a member of the intelligence community. so that complaint went to the wrong place. the fact that it ultimately went to congress doesnt mean that then the conversation itself has to be released. these rules pretty much rely on the discretion and common sense of people who are serving in the government. there are -- you cant -- theres no rule that enforces itself. ultimately you rely on peoples discretion and common sense. paul: but if the congress is saying we...

Theres a separation of powers. the president conducts foreign relations. congress conducts oversight. paul: right. >> sometimes of some things. the notice by the way that the powers of congress are e mum -- enumerated, the powers of the president arent. the founders -- paul: made that distinction. >> correct. the notion that somehow congress can look into any conversation of the president is -- doesnt go any place, wont go any place with the court. paul: one of the reasons i gather they havent h...

Progressives to rethink whether theyre going to support him or elizabeth warren. but i think a lot of those democrats out there are thinking joe biden is being hammered by president trump. and in a way trump is giving those democrats more of a reason why they were supporting joe biden in the first place. and as bill is suggesting, if joe biden can survivor the hunter biden stuff and the investigations, i think probably this helps him ultimately. paul: yeah, it is an interesting question, kim. yo...

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...