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Where there was an allegation or an impeachment article that went to the question of abuse of power, and also, that was entirely along party lines and that never survived the full house of representatives. so you know, you can talk about the fact that you can have an impeachment article pretty much whatever the house decide social security appropria-- house deci appropriate, but they suggest that a well founded well placed article of impeachment alleges a crime. i also suggest it is an on instru...

Problems when it comes to mapping out parameters of this trial come january. >> david jolly, censure possible? >> no, i think thats off the table. and you saw this debated as a compromise during the clinton impeachment. the difference here is democrats in 98 were willing to have the conversation with republicans. what if we delivered votes for a censure to say that president clintons behavior was wrong? republicans under donald trump will never acknowledge the wrongdoing of the president. and so...

They did know. i mean, you cant just make things up. the argument that the removal provision in the impeachment article was somehow brand new, that is the exact same language that republicans crafted in the clinton impeachment. i mean, they just made things up and it was sad. >> i mean, im not sure how you deal with that, but im curious, it does kind of -- i cant even xri behi comprehend behind that sort of thing when you have the facts laid out so specifically. but when you speak to any of thos...

Constitution. therefore, it is illegal. thats the underlying sort of point to be made about the abuse of power here. hes extended beyond the powers the constitution gives him. the second thing that occurred to me is something we learned in watergate. it was said there, its been said since. cover up the source of the crime. so we have to look at how the president has abused his office to avoid testifying on the impeachment article. obstruction of congress is based on a systematic attempt to order...

>> the devin nunes memo backfired on them. >> this is what all of the hype was about? it was like a sad trombone. [trombone noise] >> laura: more like a trumpet. course, the talking heads praised schiff. >> this is a case of nunes baselessly claim, and schiff came back with a ten page body blow. >> a very clear and lawyer like rebuttal of specific facts. >> the schiff memo definitely fills in some of the gaps in the nunes memo, and its much more consistent with actually how the fbi obtains these...

Chairmanship. >> the nunes memo is a dud. >> the devin nunes memo backfired on them. >> this is what all of the hype was about? it was like a sad trombone. [trombone noise] >> laura: more like a trumpet. course, the talking heads praised schiff. >> this is a case of nunes baselessly claim, and schiff came back with a ten page body blow. >> a very clear and lawyer like rebuttal of specific facts. >> the schiff memo definitely fills in some of the gaps in the nunes memo, and its much more consiste...

Democratic campaign headquarters. but this impeachment. these articles are saying donald trump must be impeached for what he has done and he must be impeached for what he will obviously continue to do. >> i think thats the most important part of the impeachment article. on page five, nine pages. on page five there is a line. they say that you need remove donald trump from office. he has made clear if not, hell continue to abuse the powers of his office in exactly this way. its not a retroactivis...

Both ambassador volker in his deposition and yermak in an august "new york times" article denied that mayor giuliani was speaking to president trump as his agent. irn stea instead, as ambassador volker explained, rudy giuliani saw them as a conduit in which they could change the presidents mind. the second allegation at issue, of course, is whether the president obstructed congress by not agreeing to all the demands of documents for testimony. as someone with experience in investigations, and i ...

Really moved by the ukraine story and what an affront that was to u.s. he national security, but the presidents willingness to interfere with and obstruct this investigation cant be ignored and will likely constitute impeachment article. its hard to put together an article of impeachment that deals with obstruction that ignores the damning information in the second roll of the mueller report. >> right. >> so while the mueller report itself has lots of other aspects to it, mr. mueller was really ...

We dont know what it is or the details behind that. thats all that happened today. the folks that know more, charlie savage washington correspondent for the new york city times, anita kumar, political white house correspondent, glenn kirschner, msnbc legal analyst. that could be a one-hour show just on those few things n. the five or six minutes weve got with you, lets kick it off with you, charlie. what do you make of the three developments today? >> well, the first one that interests me are th...