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Out al-baghdadi today. but a terrible week for american national security under this commander in chief. >> lets turn to the impeachment inquiry against president trump while we have you because on wednesdays, you had a group of republican members of congress, they stormed a closed-door hearing in a secure area to protest the impeachment proceedings. you said on twitter that the republicans are attacking the process because the substance is indefensible. unpack that for us. not just the criticis...

Will likely be a senate trial perhaps in january or february or maybe in december depending on how it goes. >> its a senate resolution. its not a binding sort of thing. the way these resolutions are structured, there are several paragraphs of background and then a couple of real points that close it out as a resolution. they do make some strong arguments that kind of question the motives and the legitimacy of what the house is doing. but the ultimate conclusion, the three points at the end are p...

And his lawyers are never-trumper. and the other problem is -- hey, everybody makes mistakes. mike pompeo, everybody makes mistakes. hes a never-trumper. his lawyers the head of the never-trumpers. theyre a dying breed, but they are still there. >> so president trump says, hey, this guy is a never-trumper. on twitter he used some pejoratives that i wont repeat. but you dont hear republicans echoing president trump on that. they attack the process, but they dont attack the witnesses and they dont...

Military would be immediately discharged for doing something like that, probably dishonorably. but they dont need to do that because there are republicans in these hearings. in fact there are about 103 members of congress in the three committees that are conducting the inquiry so far. and i think 48 of them, so just about half, are republicans. so the bottom line is that you dont hear republicans trying to defend what the president did with ukraine. you dont hear republicans try to defend the fa...

You have to change poll numbers hopefully at least really galvanize this and make it a partisan fight. so if you go back to even the clinton impeachment as the house dems were kind of strategizing makes its way through the judiciary committee, then democratic representative chuck schumer got his folks together with john conor and others and said we need to make everything a fight. we need to fight every motion, every subpoena. if we go and try and make this bipartisan, it legitimizes it and we n...

Republicans are attacking way to suppress the substance. and that should be very clear. who have access to everything thats happening here. so, you know, there is no universe in which republicans are being shut out here or if you consider them to represent 50% of americans this is happening behind closed doors and its happening in a way that we understand this information is secure and sensitive, but republicans are very much being included in the process. so any process argument is just a way t...

National in connection with the u.s. election. what democrats are doing right now behind closed doors, this is their fact finding process. they are getting the view from the white house. getting the view from the state department. getting the view from ukraine as to what was happening before and after this call. so when you hear president trump say the call was perfect, lindsey graham says i told president trump there was nothing wrong with the call. thats not really the issue. democrats have sa...

Which is what is happening now, are absolutely routine in congressional investigations. i have played a role in them myself. so this is normal. it helps congress put together a factual record with the cameras out of the room before the politics take over. and thats what they are trying to do here. i think republicans do have some legitimate process arguments. i think the speaker should have put a resolution on the floor to begin this process. she didnt need to lawfully, and its a question of pol...

Person, any american to solicit anything of value from a foreign national in connection with the u.s. election. what democrats are doing right now behind closed doors, this is their fact finding process. they are getting the view from the white house. getting the view from the state department. getting the view from ukraine as to what was happening before and after this call. so when you hear president trump say the call was perfect, lindsey graham says i told president trump there was nothing w...

Person, any american to solicit anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a u.s. election. what democrats are doing right now behind closed doors, this is their fact-finding process. theyre getting the view from the white house, getting the view from the state department, getting the view from ukraine as to what was happening before and after this call. so when you hear president trump say the call was perfect, lindsey graham says, i told president trump there was nothing wron...