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Participating in ukraine policy. the dems cant win. if its ever focused on mr. giuliani, was there a deal for american taxpayer money related to the bidens? different question. this shadow diplomacy people are talking about is a nonstarter. >> how significant would john boltons testimony be, jamie, assuming he comes forward, tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> let me put it simply. no one in the white house wants john bolton to testify. i really think he is their wors...

Yesterdays news, the president was already trying to reverse himself in the region and starting to keep troops there to secure the oil, as he says. and hes made clear that -- i dont mean this to sound like a question of motivation, i think he believes its important for america to reduce its footnote in the area, but he always makes this a talking point. he always says this is what he promise nd his campaign, he needs to deliver. as we go to break, more from california where he just turned his ...

The justice department under bill barr decided they didnt like that precedent, and they flipped and decided they wouldnt support that kind of position anymore. they would not support the grand jury material collected by special counsel mueller being handed over to congress for potential impeachment the way that happened in watergate. the justice department said, yeah, we know we did this that way before, but were not going to do it this time. well, judge howell addresses that in a sort of kidney...

The bob mueller investigation, the justice department under bill barr decided they didnt like that precedent and they flipped and decided they wouldnt support that kind of position anymore. they would not support the grand jury material collected by special counsel mueller being handed over to congress for potential impeachment the way that happened in watergate. the justice department said, yeah, we know we did this that way before but were not going to do it this time. well, judge howell addre...

Thats the relevant, most recent precedent here. clear as day. when it came to this special counsel investigation though, the bob mueller investigation, the justice department under bill barr decided they didnt like that precedent and they flipped and decided they wouldnt support that kind of position anymore. they would not support the grand jury material collected by special counsel mueller being handed over to congress for potential impeachment the way that happened in watergate. the justice d...

President clinton. the one issued under president clinton in 2000 actually contains a footnote. im going to nerd out on you. footnote 36, rachel, which specifically says you can investigate a sitting president. not just by a federal grand jury, but also by congress. and so the department of justice has conceded the point. mr. trumps lawyer has not. >> that, even though youre taking about a footnote there, youre making a very clear point. i was struck also listening to the hearing today that the ...

Not just by a federal grand jury, but also by congress. and so the department of justice has conceded the point. mr. trumps lawyer has not. >> that, even though youre taking about a footnote there, youre making a very clear point. i was struck also listening to the hearing today that the judges and the attorneys seem to all agree that this is going to end up at the supreme court. if the point of law here is that simple, that the justice department says a president can be investigated, even if ju...

Where he found himself. >> i mean, how about we all just learn through the mueller proceedings and all of the legalese that we all had to wade through in terms of the mueller report and the arguments about why the president was not described as having potentially committed a criminal offense, wasnt the whole idea there that mueller and his team accepted the premise from the justice department that the president would not be indicted but that did not preclude them from investigating the president...

And sue nancy pelosi. or maybe we should just impeach them. because theyre lying. and what they are doing is a terrible thing for our country. >> that was the president over the weekend, threatening to sue top democrats adam schiff an speaker nancy pelosi amid the impeachment inquiry. joining us here on the set, a guy who knows how to sue people, misinnocence legal legal . >> can the president actually sue adam schiff? >> absolutely not maybe with an action striction and a footnote. >> oh, a min...

Fifth amendment protects defendants when they are involved in criminal prosecutions. the due process clause of the fifth amendment does not apply to the political process of impeachment. and when i saw white house counsel cipollone put that in his letter and drop a footnote as support that due process applies to impeachment hearings, i did a double take and i looked at the footnote. you know what he cites, he cites some trial court judge who once in 1992 said that in court in a case that was vac...