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Who you just saw questioning robert mueller earlier today, congresswoman val demings of florida and congressman raja of illinois. you focused on the frankness in the answers he gave. do you feel like you learned something new about the process by which robert mueller came to the decision to ultimately not seek a live interview? >> yeah, i mean, you know the special counsel tried almost a year to get the president to sit down. he refused to do that. and so when we asked today about the presidents...

Enough votes in the house judiciary committee much less the senate. so we started this saying -- >> as an inquiry. >> as an inquiry. what does impeachment mean? how does it apply to this president? what is the case against him? do we have the votes? we dont know. what is the public going to say? we dont know. what was our reaction? the only way to impeach him was to do the right way. so rodino, the chair did it in the right way. no one considered the risk. >> elizabeth hultzman, thanks for shari...

Responses, special counsel was really loud and clear that the presidents answers contradicted much of the other evidence in the case and also that his answers were not always truthful. and so i do believe that that was something additional that we did here, the special counsel today. >> i think youre right about that. i think that was one sort of piece of genuine new news today, his characterization under your questioning. the other thing that i thought was new news came out of congressman, your...

To do the right way. so rodino, the chair did it in the right way. no one considered the risk. >> elizabeth hultzman, thanks for sharing your time. two house judiciary committee members whether they successfully made a case for impeachment. thats ahead. e in a hospital gown waiting to get my eyes checked?" ready? absolutely not. see, having the wrong coverage can mean you get the wrong care, or youre paying more than you have to. thats why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. they...

Bribery and treason as a betrayal of the basic oath of office. and thats what trump did. his duty is to take care of the laws are faithfully executed, but he tried to sabotage the laws, he tried to tamper with witnesses and he tried to obstruct justice. we saw it in case after case that we laid out in painstaking detail today. >> and chris, you might have noticed that almost almost every one of our testimonies, we ended with if anybody else had committed these same crimes, they would be prosecut...

Nixon and watergate when you were on the house judiciary committee, your democratic colleagues said this is too risky. this will create political backlash. i dont want to do this. >> well, you know something, when we first started nobody understood whether they were risks or not. we didnt take polls before we started. we started because of the saturday night massacre and american people said enough is enough. congress, you have to do something. nobody on the committee understood what impeachment...

>> im not going to try to explain that. >> thats coming from pay o page one of volume two in the footnote is the reference to this. what are those constitutional processes? >> i think i heard you mention at least one. >> impeachment, correct? >> im not going to comment. >> come on! after making the case for seven hourings, they said they were waiting to decide on possible impeachment. >> my position has always been whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest...

>> let me just say, if i might, i dont subscribe necessarily to your -- to the way you analyze that, im not supportive of that analytical charge. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mueller, over here. >> hi. >> i want to start by thanking you for your service. you joined the marines and led a rifle platoon in vietnam and you earned a purple heart and you led the homicide unit here in d.c., and later northern district of california. assistant attorney general for dojs criminal division...

The two-year period and you had to come to the conclusion that i dont think theres -- theres not a conspiracy going on here. there was no conspiracy between this president and im not talking about the rest of the presidents team, but this president and the russians. >> as you understand, developing a criminal case you get pieces of information, pieces of information, witnesses and the like. as you make your case. >> right. >> and when you make a decision on that particular case depends on the nu...

Expired. gentleman from california. >> director mueller going back to the presidents obstruction, corey lewandowski, it was referenced that a thousand former prosecutors with 12,000 years of federal service wrote a letter regarding the presidents conduct. are you familiar with that letter? >> i have read about that letter, yes. >> and some of the individuals who signed that letter the statement of former prosecutors are people you worked with, is that right? >> quite probably, yes. >> people tha...