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Impeachment inquiry. she says the constitution doesnt make that clear. there was a question why she doesnt call republicans bluff on it and make a vote. she says this isnt about calming a blue. this isnt a game here. this is deadly serious work. when is this going to break out into the open? i put that question to adam schiff yesterday. we have some of his response which we can hear now. >> maybe we dont have it. we do anticipate a time when we will be releasing transcripts and we do anticipate ...

Discussed. and journalists like yourself know where those are on the hill. >> and how do you -- is there anything unique about how you prep a whistle blower for testimony? >> there is. >> im going to go through some of the questions they may receive. in this case, some of the questions they may receive from republican defenders, might be particularly extreme. that are going to harkin back to the defenses that they are using to say that this is not a big deal, this is hearsay, et cetera. im sure ...

Relationship with president putin and they are trying to look at his tax returns. as robert mueller noted throughout his testimony, robert stone will be in court later this year. lets ask about what happened yesterday with jerry nadler going to court to say he wants to see those documents from the grand jury that underpin muellers report. how significant is that? what does that say to you about where we are in this fact finding process, this move towards impeachment by some democrats? >> that wa...

Nadler to change the rhetorical difference? >> i think this is really interesting, particularly as you note the timing coming on the heels of nancy pelosi saying as she has been saying for weeks and weeks now that shes going down this fact pattern that shes going to continue to do this fact finding process and investigate. i think that thats a little bit of throwing some catnip to the impeachment hungry folks. when i travel the country talking to these democrat candidates, i am struck by the num...

>> theres some discussion about how swift that was. >> martha: without a nap before we go? >> i think they are not anymore entitled to the benefit of every doubt than what the democrats are willing to accord to the president. this has to be investigated. its part of the fact-finding process to determine how it was that they acquired the evidence and what we are to make of it, how we are to weigh it. this is where this investigation goes now. its the investigation of the investigators. >> martha:...

There too because there are two termses of what happened today. one is the president is just acting unconstitutionally in defying her power. the other is that hes lost touch with reality and its not within his senses. weve got look carefully at the 25th amendment, as well. >> when does the impeachment process begin? >> well in a certain sense you could say its begun because the fact-finding process has begun in pretty much all of the major investigative committees in congress, in the oversight c...

Were bringing against barr, that were going to bring against mcgahn, anybody who defies the lawful authority of congress. throw the 25th amendment in there too because there are two termses of what happened today. one is the president is just acting unconstitutionally in defying her power. the other is that hes lost touch with reality and its not within his senses. weve got look carefully at the 25th amendment, as well. >> when does the impeachment process begin? >> well in a certain sense you c...

Legally speaking where do you see it? >> i think youre right. i think this is just the beginning. we all know there are more than a dozen other investigations involving the trump organization, the trump inauguration committee and a variety of other things surrounding donald trump. and i think its important to not forget that. you have the southern district of new york involved. you have new york attorney general involved, perhaps the manhattan da, district of virginia. >> would they have access ...

Say enough. thats enough. but what does worry me is that the dangling interferes with the fact-finding process. that is what investigations are about. and that has never really, you know, hit us quite the way its hitting us now. >> we should note successfully interfered if this is, in fact, manaforts motivation. in court yesterday at sentencing the mueller prosecutor said they didnt get any useful information out of him they didnt already know. mission accomplished. this tweet, i feel -- this is...

Everybodys just going to say enough. thats enough. so what does worry me is the dangling does interfere with the fact finding process. and that has never really hit us quite the way its hitting us now. >> and successfully interfered. if this is in fact manaforts motivation. which is in court sentencing, they didnt get any useful information out of him they didnt know. this is the president. i feel very badly efor paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12 year old tax case among o...