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In his opening statement -- look over here -- in his opening statement, hung it all on this abuse of power. watch. >> under article one of the constitution, the president can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. the highest of high crimes is abuse of power. it occurs when the president uses his official powers to serve his own, personal, selfish interest at the expense of the public good. the first article of impeachment charges president trump with abuse of power. >> laura: i would sa...

Shows support for impeaching and removing the president is at its lowest since this whole thing began two months ago on the opposition to impeaching and removing the president is at its highest. basically the two lines have intersected and i think 46%, so continuing to hold these hearings, continuing to make these arguments not some huge drop away but certainly isnt getting any bipartisan buy-in and i think more democrats than not think lets get this over with, we are committed to this, we are g...

In his opening statement -- look over here -- in his opening statement,is hung it all on this abuse of power. watch. >> under article one of the constitution, the president can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. the highest of high crimes is abusers of power. it occurs when the president uses his official powers to serve his own, personal, selfish interest at the expense of the publicia good. the first article of impeachment charges president trump with abuse of power. >> laura: i wo...

Context, during the watergate hearings president nixon turned over recordings of his conversations in the oval office. later, president clinton handed over his dna. president trumps obstruction was by contrast, absolute. those are the facts. theyre overwhelming. theres no denying them. having reviewed the evidence, we come to our second question. is the presidents proven conduct impeachable? the answer is simply -- is simple. absolutely. under article i of the constitution the president can be i...

But the evidence reveals a different picture. the evidence is clear that president trump took advantage of ukraines vulnerability and abused the powers of his office to pressure ukraine to help his re-election campaign. this is the highest of high crimes. and president trump must be held accountable. you know, in addition to compromising ukraine, this compromised our standing in the world. because what does it say to our allies? what does it say to vulnerable, new democracies? when they need the...

Of the land. when our founders spoke about the basis for impeachment, what they spoke about was the abuse of power, using the office of the presidency, the enormous power of that office to advance your own personal financial or political interests and betraying the national interest in undermining our national security. this is the highest of the high crimes and misdemeanors are framers of spoke about and this is the only remedy -- >> martha: lets go back to the evidence. who would you say is th...

Institutions. usual lly its politicians beatg me over the head with that. james baker, this is the idea of restoring peoples faith in the institution. the argument will be, so they left out what they didnt like and then the i.g. says it didnt affect the outcomes. how did it not affect the outcomes if they left things out? what do you understand about the process that sheds light on that? >> the process needs to have the highest degree of integrity and the lawyers and the agents need to have the ...

That? >> the process needs to have the highest degree of integrity and the lawyers and the agents need to have the highest -- they need to adhere to the highest duty of candor to the tribunal, to the court, and they need to hold themselves to high standards. the stuff weve been talking about it completely unacceptable, it should not happen and obviously we need to fix the process. ive been involved in this battle to make sure that pleadings in front of the fisa court are accurate. ive been worki...

Matt gorman, former rnc communications director and tom bevan from real clear politics. great panel here. lets get to it. in a way how much more is there to say, tom, when it feels as if the end of the story has already been written for us. >> we know how it will play out. there are no coincidences in washington and so to have this announcement of usmca on the same day of articles of impeachment. the honey around a bitter pill especially for democrats in the competitive districts that will go ba...

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