Giving Due Process News Today

Remains unclear whether the judiciary committee will afford the president a fair process through additional hearings. this letter comes on the eve of a busy week. members of the intelligence committee are expected to get a draft of adam schiffs report. ro khanna of california. thank you for being here with me tonight. let me ask you, first of all, of the presidents decision not to participate. this attack of stonewalling. how effective and what does it tell you about the white houses approach ge...

Get their arms around how big this process could be. and so we still have big question marks tonight. the bottom line, i think, david, this is an outlying of the grievance and complaints toward the impeachment process. and it is a rain check for perhaps the president will partake at some future point. >> just underscore that rain check, the line that stands out to me in that letter, under the current circumstances we do not intend to participate in your wednesday hearing. again another deadline ...

With the first lady to london for that conference and the anniversary of that alliance. but the bigger picture here is it takes several pages to get to know and what it outlines is the frustration that we have heard in bits and pieces along the way from the white house, from the president, and from his republican allies that they argue this process has been unfair to the president from the beginning and that you cant at some interim point undo that without changing some of the presidents abiliti...

Issue. >> the cry that we heard here, no due process. i was struck by a line in that process that jerry nadler sent to the united states. the president has a choice to make. he could take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings or stop complaining about the process. how are his complaints, do you think. as you look at what your republican colleagues are saying and approaching this. how is that resonating with them? >> it has no basis because he is the one that is blocking ...

The american people through that even if it isnt as riveting tv. but what i find interesting that letter that you quoted of doug collins, like i want to find my constitutional experts. at this point we are so polarized, we cant believe anybody is an independent actor, even somebody who is specialized in the study of the constitution for their entire career. that simply does not exist in the world that we live in now. everybody is on somebody elses side, and you have to fight back that. and the o...

Not. in the judicial system, we dont ask the subject of the, of the indictment or the subject of a criminal prosecution. we dont say, oh, were going to indict you now. why dont you send your lawyers over and help you talk us out of this. the president is getting more representation than he would in any legal process. we are now approaching the point where the president will get articles of impeachment, i believe he will. then it will go to the senate. that is the presidents opportunity to push b...

The state of play, as we know it. as i say, the intelligence committee going to review this report beginning tomorrow. there will be a vote on tuesday night. whats the transition going to be like between these two committees and whats going to happen on wednesday? >> we are going to see this handoff of course between adam schiff and jerry nadler. jerry nadler has sort of taken very much a back sseat to this. nancy pelosi seemed to, you know, want to sort of turn power over to schiff instead to s...

We see it being hatched here. it is to cry foul and to complain about the way its been conducted and to complain about the depositions that we did, indeed, see the transcripts of, as well. im curious to hear your thoughts on the potential efficacy of that and hit this on procedure and process. >> well, youre implying, david, that some rationality to it. which is a flaw in your question. i think what chairman nadler did is smart. saying, hey, why dont you guys participate. you cant criticize us f...

Conservative point of view as well as a liberal point of view. but no names have been provided by the committee. so thats one small detail. but in a larger sense, what this also does is it reserves the presidents right to participate at some future point. its really taking an incremental approach sort of attacking the committee for the work thats gone on thus far to say it hasnt been handled properly or fairly, that it has sort of devolved to rumors, and keeping the door open so that if the pres...

Grounds for presidential impeachment from four scholars. to assure fairness and restore integrity, i request an expanded panel and a balanced composition of witnesses. chairman adam schiff not an academic witness who could do that? >> i think the last time i was here, i said that democrats need to keep it simple and call it what it is, call a spade a spade, the quid pro quo, its bribery, its extortion. but in this case when i think about the republicans approach and defense to it, is that the am...