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Opportunity to look those accusers in the eye or testify to your understanding of the facts and of reality. so they are kind of stuck in what exactly is my defense playbook. its why they havent had a formal war room. why do we have a war room if we have nothing to defend? its a tricky negotiating position for them. >> kim, before we go, just briefly, you have something of a debate that has to be decided this weekend. do democrats include in articles or an additional article elements of the muell...

This is classic founding fathers fears concerning betrayal of the nation and why we needed to have an impeachment article and not just an election to save the country from another prejudice, illegal election and from foreign relations that could jeopardize our national security. they dont have a defense. and it wont go in the house but the senate, theyve kind of cooked the books there. that is home cooking. hes been buddies with mitt romney over there. but the fact is trump would never testify i...

Process unfold, and they educated public sentiment, both the events and the hearings and the discoveries. by the end, 57% thought he should be impeached. and then that great moment that you know so well about, you both do, when finally the day before he resigns, barry gold water and a couple of other republicans come to tell him what the situation is. and hes wondering can i get 34, maybe hell get 20. and goldwater says theres only four and im not one of them. >> it wasnt a small compartmentized...

Presidents counsel if they choose to have a counsel come present and respond possibly to questions, but probably we will ask questions, and we will have the opportunity to vote on yes or no, should there be an impeachment article come out of the judiciary committee for abuse of power for contempt of congress, for obstruction of justice. we dont know exactly what all theyll be but thats what we expect, the three articles will probably come within. >> what is the one question youd like to ask? >> ...

Has been continuously involved in throughout this process. and some of us are still concerned about whether mr. mcgahn is going to be able to testify. if he does, the question about the order to fire mr. mueller could also in my mind anyway rise to the level of a potential impeachment article. >> it sounds like you would be in the camp of say your fellow democrat congressman cona to say it is important to include the mueller evidence to uphold the separation of power. he says what we are doing i...

Of slash bribery, obstruction of congress and abuse of power. >> and then a possible vote on impeachment could come before christmas. i mean maybe even by mid month. and then what would happen in your view? >> so once there is an impeachment vote, the way the structure works is that the house has to draft and vote on articles of impeachment. if the house passes an article of impeachment, they vote on them one by one, if they pass it by a majority vote, then that article of impeachment will then ...

Constitutional law experts. judiciary hopes they will have the report from the intel committee by december 4th when they have this hearing, but they dont necessarily need it. what this hearing is designed to do is set the table on impeachment, answering the questions what constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor, what is a worthwhile impeachment article. this is to broadly set the scope of the actual impeachment part of this inquiry. what you had from the intel committee were fact witnesses layin...

Is possible, as a government official, the agency, working for, in this case, the white house does have a right to control social media, but it is also not difficult to just set up a new account on twitter, so it is funny that he sent out four or five messages about the logistics and technical aspects of returning to twitter, but again, he didnt get into any of the substance of the ukraine situation, which is what people really care about. >> and lets move to the impeachment inquiry. because her...

From you, john dean, how important was today. >> it was very important. and i think quigley made an important point on the comparison to the nixon impeachment article on refusing to cooperate with congress and today when you have a witness like today, just more evidence their collecting for that article. >> the state department wouldnt even hand over to him his own emails and text messages which seems weird. hes still a state department employee. were minutes away from the next round of hearings...

Me meacham. its so much about this thats unprecedented. a blend of the andrew johnson impeachment for defying congress and the richard nixon impeachment for all sorts of obstruction sort of blended together but i want to play for you another thing that i think is unique about this impeachment in that this is the first time that were actually seeing a literal word from the impeachment article being thrown around about the president of the united states and that is the word bribery. i want to play...