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Reporting on this, the great piece sort of knocking down the more nonsensical reputations that have been thrown about here, that there is an understanding among republican leaders if not the white house that theres genuine political danger here. >> absolutely theres genuine political danger and i think professor greer is right about you cant expect or assume that republicans are going to break off in significant numbers, but you cant dismiss the possibility either. we had a poll came out that sh...

For potentially, right? which is he used the power of the presidency to ask a foreign government to get dirt on a political opponent, period. he admitted to it. >> this is where we are. so what were seeing now is the wheels are coming off this really insane not so stable genius bus. and now you have donald trump whos kicking up dirt. this is what hes doing. hes kicking up dirt trying to confuse all of us. but once again this is clear as day. and let him continue to obstruct congress. lets not fo...

That have been thrown about here, that there is an understanding among republican leaders if not the white house that theres genuine political danger here. >> absolutely theres genuine political danger and i think professor greer is right about you cant expect or assume that republicans are going to break off in significant numbers, but you cant dismiss the possibility either. we had a poll came out that showed 16% of republicans supporting an impeachment inquiry 23% in a cbs poll over the weeke...

The president of the united states held up allegedly, allegedly, $400 million, which i might add would be 10% of ukraines military budget. that money he held up was to buy javelins and security information. and he held that up for what purpose? allegedly, to get them to interfere in our election by getting dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. thats not a very complicated fact pattern. thats called quid pro quo. its either called bribery or extortion. simple. >> all right. stay with me, because ...

Vast majority would say we would not bring up an opponents name in a conversation number one. number two, theres no evidence or fact pattern that leads to anything close to quid pro quo and number three, theres not evidence for impeachment. that being said there are probably two or three republicans who are very concerned about just the tone and frankly, i think, the fact pattern over the last three years would be more concerning to them than simply the conversation with president zelenskiy. tha...

It is not in dispute -- i suppose you could look at the whistleblower allegations about locking down the notes as being uninvestigated, but that is only because doj refused to investigate it. i mean, the fact pattern, the danger for democrats to me right now would steam to be muddying this up with too much granularity. donald trump south oght to run foreign policy the way tony soprano did but less eloquently. >> and there is a big circle here and clearly a lot of people are involved. at the leas...

So its not the same as republicans turning on trump, but it is a very significant moment. the republicans at least to some extent actually are standing shoulder to shoulder with democrats to represent the interests of their institutional body against this sort of unprecedented assault. >> and its not nancy pelosi, when she talked about the allegations that prompted her to get to this point, she talked specifically about what president trump admitted to. she didnt go as far as she potentially cou...

Cross-examine witnesses.and no i couldnt use anonymous reporters in a courtroom and every witness he called was cross-examined. reporters do whatever they do. i need to eyeball the witness and judge credibility. heres what my fellow citizens believe. if you are going to investigate oneed fact pattern, you need to identify a nearly identical fact pattern. what they dont like is the duplicity.of always looking at n bus having the tendency to ignore, look, you just played the clip. the president of...

The bidens and ukraine that the president keeps on coming back to? obvious, the focus is what he said or didnt say to the ukrainian leader. but he continues to tweet and talk about joe biden and hunter biden and what happened and the prosecutor that was let go in ukraine? >> trey: one of the things i like is that you are a fair person. i think your viewers also consider themselves to be fair people. i think that if youre going to investigate part of the fact pattern, you need to investigate all ...

His chief of staff to freeza tnd not tell people why, to say its interagency mumbo jumbo. >> and its so important -- >> and then the president of the united states -- im sorry. im talking to my jury very slowly here. then the president -- then the president of the united states under that fact pattern, when hes waiting for almost $400 million in military aid to defend his country, what does the president of the united states talk about eight times? he talks about sending rudy giuliani, his perso...