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Significant. you know, if this was a statement under oath, theres been some question about it, it could be suborning perjury which is a statutory crime, punishable by prison. if it was witness tampering or obstruction of justice, which these facts if true would fit, is a 20-year felony. because were talking about the president of the united states, instead of talking about violations of the criminal code, were talking instead about high crimes and misdemeanors. but this is the very type of thing...

While hes president talking bad about his political opponents, that was not the norm. that actually was changing the norms. it was so different for the time that that was an impeachment article against him. were used to articles being things like obstruction of justice, being things like abuse of power against andrew johnson, they had some of those but they had one article of impeachment hes saying bad things about congress. i cant messenger that happening now constitutionally. is that a reason ...

It was so different for the time that that was an impeachment article against him. were used to articles being things like obstruction of justice, being things like abuse of power. against andrew johnson, they had some of those but they had one article of impeachment hes saying bad things about congress. i cant imagine that happening now constitutionalitily. is that a reason to remove a president from office? probably not but there are a whole bunch of other methods you can do to weaken or remov...

Interested in journalism, all they seem to care about is destroying trump, delegitimizing his presidency, going after, as we saw with judge jeanine pirro, anybody that likes the president. watch this. >> can recall president trump the leader of the free world? can we still call him the leader of the united states? >> it is just as serious to me as the cuban missile crisis in terms of an attack, or the 9/11 attacks. his performance today will live in infamy as much as the pearl harbor attack or k...

Another, joc and prescriptions.or the pole position in their denunciations it was -- whats the word? extraordinary.ons. it was -- whats the word? >> we all know that extraordinary. vladimir putin is holding something over donald trump. >> we all know that we do not know what it is.vladig something over donald trump. we do not know what it but we know it must be something extraordinary. is. >> the definition to me is the first word of the impeachment article in the constitution,inie first word of...

Other seemingly hyperbolic but now totally data-driven point i would make is that when john brennan made that statement yesterday about it meets the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, with all respect, i would say actually what it, the definition it meets is the first word of the impeachment article in the constitution, which is, treason bribery at high crimes of misdemeanors. has the president of the united states now in a sufficient way shown that hes given aid and comfort to an enemy...

Trump and dowd dont know that congressional investigators at the time simply looked at the abuse of, yes, the pardon and clemency power and it was an effort to silence potential witnesses. we dont know if john dowd dire -- trump directed john dowd to do any of this. from article 1 of the house judicial impeachment article stated that nixon was texpectin foufred treatment in exchange for their testimony. that is an impeachment article, that is a type of legal history looking at the abuse of legpa...

>> shannon: do you want to weigh in on where we are in this conversation? >> i think that it is very interesting that we are getting mixed messages of what took place in the meeting. i think that that is very interesting. for one thing, then the second thing that the democrats are already preparing a motion resolution of center to go with the impeachment that they already had to go with the russian investigation that they wanted and now it has gone against them. all the way back to the day that ...

>> shannon: do you want to weigh in on where we are in this conversation? >> i think that it is very interesting that we are getting mixed messages of what took place in the meeting. i think that that is very interesting. for one thing, then the second thing that the democrats are already preparing a motion resolution of center to go with the impeachment that they already had to go with the russian investigation that they wanted and now it has gone against them. all the way back to the day that ...

Those who launch the impeachment article. >> it rallies republicans. it rallies the donald trump supporters to find the effort who would say the effort is offensive, premature and uncalled for. when you rally that kind of group. that means people are going to get to the polls to vote. if the republicans are in control of the house, unlikely any articles of impeachment would get to, would be considered in a judiciary committee where the republicans control the gavel. if the democrats control the ...