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They are the republicans in increasingly blue districts. >> melissa: you think those people will cross over? >> marie: im looking at those districts to flip those. >> melissa: heres what charlie hurt had to say about what happens if democrats cross. >> clearly i think they will definitely lose four or five but if they lose 17 democrats, if they lose anything close to ten or more i think its a huge black eye for nancy pelosi and the democrats. >> id be shocked if they lose ten or more but even if...

This the last few weeks -- they call this impeachment inquiry, thats what they are calling it. i dont want to call it that because that implies constitutional order and nothing the democrats have done over the last year is constitutional. they have denied the will of the american people, they have denied the peaceful transfer of power, theyve set themselves above the constitution and in the process they have massively abused not only carter page is right and george papadopoulos and i would argue...

Kinds of theories that have all fallen flat. and the big one was the mueller impeachment. you really wanted that one. that didnt work so well. didnt work so well because there was nothing there. i would say something about president zelensky and this discussion with the president. he himself, president zelensky without instigation in this conversation at all about ambassador yovanovitch after shed been recalled said her attitude towards me was far from the best as she admired the previous presid...

Washington monument of gratitude and gravitus of bob mueller. that hearing fell flat and obstruction of justice was abandoned. we move into a july 25th phone call and went to quid pro quo. quid pro quo kept going and kept going. they decided that wasnt working really well. we poll tested bribery. it had a little bit of a problem because you cannot prove the elements of the crime. i dont care how many different ways we say it, when the victim of the crime, alleged victim continues to go on nation...

>> mr. armstrong. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my democratic colleagues have tried to cloak this proceeding as a somber, serious process that they regret having to advance. but that is not the case. this has always been about the fact that these democrats hate this president. they have been focused on removing him since the day he was elected. and long ago they decided that impeachment was the remedy. they constantly and consistently marched ahead undeterred by facts. and make no mistake, this st...

And then you are off to the races. >> right, exactly. its so, again, open-ended. and i agree with what bob just said, you can pour anything into that vessel, whatever suits you. whatever brew you want, you pour it into, thats very, very dangerous. and so, the three presidential impeachments previously, there has, in fact, been issues of a clear and flat-out violation of law, including crimes. now, abuse of power. abuse of power, i think, has been motivated by these democrats looking back to the ...

>> right, exactly. its so, again, open-ended. and i agree with what bob just said, you can pour anything into that vessel, whatever suits you. whatever brew you want, you pour it into, thats very, very dangerous. and so, the three presidential impeachments previously, there has, in fact, been issues of a clear and flat-out violation of law, including crimes. now, abuse of power. abuse of power, i think, has been motivated by these democrats looking back to the prior impeachments, and seeing the ...

Walked through it. we bring to bob mueller into the judiciary hearing and im pretty sure there were people working out statutes next to the washington monument of gratitude and gravitas of bob miller. that hearing fell flat and obstruction of justice was abandoned. then we went to quid pro quo and quid pro quo kept going and kept going and then they decided that wasnt going very well so we pull tested bribery. bribery had a little bit of a problem because you cannot prove the elements of the cri...

Again. hee has not had real counsel. they made mistakes and it is the grounds for article two of obstruction. they could have given a more nuanced response, where they could have pretented to cooperate, instead they just gave a flat out no. >> that was perhaps because they, as the other briefers and the other officials are really appealing to an audience of one, the president, who wanted a flat out no. >> that makes it a tougher argument. and the white house is on firm league ground claiming the...

Mrs. bass -- >> you are listening live to this historic day, thursday, december 12th, the house judiciary committee beginning the mark up against president donald j. trump. we have breaking coverage today, i want to bring in senateer claire mccaskill. were going to see some of this procedural back and forth what is b happening when you see the minority republicans interject this way. >> they are just -- i dont really understand the point, theyre going to try to make a point with this but i think...