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Proposition and instead they gave it as a footnote with a trial court judge who once said that in 1992 in a case that was then vacated. its not precedent in the first instance and even if it was, that opinion has been vacated. we could spend eight hours looking at every sentence of this letter, but its laughable. >> youve been writing about impeachment, the history of impeachment, i want to ask you, just generally, what you see coming of this. as you just saw in the open to this show, you saw tr...

You fight us, we reserve the right to draw an adverse inference. meaning if you are silent, we will assume the worst regarding the allegations against the president. and two, we reserve the right to bring an article of impeachment against the president for obstruction of congress. footnote, that was one of the draft articles of impeachment against richard nixon before he resigned. >> heres another question. can giuliani sidestep a subpoena by claiming attorney/client privilege? >> it is a very f...

Telegraphing that is different. >> okay. bring it on with the footnote of but this is different. how about last night at amherst college, ruth bader ginsburg was asked her opinion about whats happening in the country and how it will be seen down the road historically. >> how do you think people will characterize this time in american history? >> as an abberration. >> a great man said the true symbol of the united states is not the bald eagle, it is the pendulum. the pendulum goes too far to the ...

President wouldnt be aware of what was going on, given the fact that rudy giuliani was on television on this network and everywhere else, talking about what they tried to do in the first place. like you say, the vice president doesnt go to the leader of a foreign leader without being briefed by the president in the previous days and weeks. they are scrambling in pences office to figure out a narrative that avoids all these land mines and still makes him, in the end, look okay. >> in the whistleb...

>> connected with this. >> that is undermining americas national security. what was your takeaway from the whistleblower complaint? >> i can just say i know my first hearing question for mayor giuliani, which is going to be could you speak for the whole four hours? >> go. go. yeah. >> but on your point, i can tell you, you know, i was the white house staff secretary. im familiar with these kinds of call memorandum. its an extraordinary thing that first of all the director of national intelligenc...

United states wanted in that conversation from the president of ukraine. whatever you can do to help the reelection campaign of donald trump. that is the donald trump, jr., meeting at trump tower with russians during the presidential campaign on steroids. leading off our discussion tonight is former director of the white house situation room where he managed president obamas phone calls with other heads of state. he is also a former chief of staff to the director of the c.i.a. larry, thank you...

Of this? >> thanks, lawrence. absolutely, it looks like every memorandum of a telephone conversation i saw during my time at the white house in terms of its format, in terms of the caveats at the bottom in the footnote, in terms of the markings. at a certain level, you almost have to applaud the president for releasing this, what appears to be full transcript. >> there are a couple of ellipses in this and some people are pointing to that, the little dot-dot-dots, wondering what that might be, ar...

>> congress never clearly authorize the tsa to use the technology and it is not ready for airport use. we havent debated the privacy concerns and we dont understand what the agency wants to do and how they will be using this data. >> reporter: cbc says it is the fastest way to keep people safe, they have a 97% match rate and already caught 7 people posing as someone else at airports. heather: what if people want to opt out? >> you can opt out. the concern for the aclu and other groups is if you ...

Us. >> how urgent is this? do you have any inkling what this is about? >> its almost like a double whistle-blower. you have the inspector general coming forward to say you guys should have heard about this. you didnt. if he was so moved to tell us that, to me that says its pretty important. >> you have the whistle-blower and the ig is the one sort of flagging this. >> yes. >> this person should be talking to congress. >> we never would have heard about it unless he came forward. >> its the ig wh...

Were frying to say thtrying to really bad. he wins because he overwhelms us. >> how urgent is this? do you have any inkling what this is about? >> its almost like a double whistle-blower. you have the inspector general coming forward to say you guys should have heard about this. you didnt. if he was so moved to tell us that, to me that says its pretty important. >> you have the whistle-blower and the ig is the one sort of flagging this. >> yes. >> this person should be talking to congress. >> we...