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American history, the house is drawing up articles much impeachment against the president of the united states of america. house democrats note this -- no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the house of representatives to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors. joins me are my dear friend steve kornacki, and the host of "hardball," chris ma matthews. give us a history lesson. >> the party...

Power, that this is part of a pattern by the president, that he, on obstruction ordered all of his most closest deputies to defy congressional subpoenas that were lawfully issued, and that this was just a blanket obstruction, as much as the president obstructing his own impeachment when the constitution says the sole power of impeachment lies with congress. >> heidi, are these finalized articles? could we see them change any way? >> highly doubt theyll change in any way. what will happen is the ...

Dividedd government is better. you have a government that keeps ovchecks and balances. >> tucker: i think people do want that -- >> if youre going to have control of the house of representatives and not conduct and carry out your constitutional duty of oversight and holding president trump accountable, when you see example after example of him obstructing -- tucker: [laughs] we just had two and a half years of russian investigation. >> you undermine the democracy. and the mueller report shows --...

During this budget deadline. >> well, when you think about it, i mean, he did say that we should not be worrying, that they do not have the deportation force coming out and knocking on our door. but it is happening. it has happened in the last year since i got to ask him the question. i think that he needs to really think about what he said, because technically he made a promise. he said that i should not be worried about it, which this is not the case. and by him obstructing to bring the d.r.e....

They do not have the deportation force coming out and knocking on our door. but it is happening. it has happened in the last year since i got to ask him the question. i think that he needs to really think about what he said, because technically he made a promise. he said that i should not be worried about it, which this is not the case. and by him obstructing to bring the d.r.e.a.m. act to the floor for a vote, i think definitely he is not, you know, meeting up to -- hes not meeting the promises...

Is just so terrible that our politics have come to this. weve got a tax reform bill that is a mess, we have north korea thats a mess and we have the president sort of under, you know, under investigation and two of this top people lying to the fbi and here we are, trying to decide whether or not it is bad for a child molester to be in the senate. it is end of story we should be moving on to more important things. >> ed, go. >> well, listen, kate, i first of all i think its an absolutely amazing ...

This is the presidents personal attorney who is involved he says in sending these tweets out and in the explanations after the fact. what do these explanations mean to you? whats your take? >> sure. well a couple things. first of all, it tells you that the presidents legal team is concerned the president obstructed justice. there is no reason for the presidents legal team to go out and claim that the president cannot obstruct justice unless theyre concerned that he may have liability for that. t...

Hes in charge, guys, the constitution says is in charge of investigations. if he orders the fbi to terminate and use the resources elsewhere, the person in charge of the fbi, therefore, im not obstructing justice, im doing my job. now i dont happen to agree with that theory and most legal scholars would not agree that the president could obstruct an investigation of his own office. because then its personal. its not him just doing the job to help the country. its him obstructing justice directly...

Fbi director to let the investigation of flynn go, then fired the fbi director, james comey, some time after that, at least in theory, you could construe an obstruction of justice case, some have said. the attorney for the president, of course, indicating in his view no obstruction of justice case can be made here and thats going to go back and forth for a while. but overall, kate, i think the important thing to look at when you look at this, is the presidents willingness to wade in again and ag...