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Who might offer something in support of president trumps theories. so one of the impeachment counts that is moving forward which is obstruction of congress is because the president stonewalled those exact requests for information. >> so apparently the presidents attorney rudy giuliani says that hes -- the president has asked him to brief investigators, including some republicans, about what hes found in ukraine. would you be open to giuliani testifying before the senate judiciary committee on hi...

That territory which they have been denied because of our presence and the presence of the kurds. so this could not be more of a screw up and more detrimental to our national security than it already is. >> do you believe what donald trump did visa vi the kurds and turkey should be grounds -- additional grounds for his impeachment? >> well, joy, im not a lawyer and im not going to be part of drafting up the impeachment counts assuming they come forward. but i think when a president of the united...

Uncharged people. so there is a rule that allows grand jury testimony to be unsealed if its in connection with or preliminary to another judicial proceeding. it turns out impeachment is considered another judicial proceeding. so that is why you see impeachment referred to so many times in this document filed by the house. they have to do that to say to the court, this is a pending judicial proceeding. it may not sound like one, but impeachment counts so we have to get access to these normally su...

Stronger standing in court. jerry nadler has filed a petition with the court for the grand jury material that underlies the mueller report. the reason that is significant is that grand jury material could only be given over in a few cases. one of those is in a judicial proceeding, and as nadler said, previous courts have ruled impeachment counts as one. this is how you get what well call schmimpeachment. tincture of impeachment, depending on who you have. >> we will proceed when we have what we ...

Grand jury material that underlies the mueller report. the reason that is significant is that grand jury material could only be given over in a few cases. one of those is in a judicial proceeding, and as nadler said, previous courts have ruled impeachment counts as one. this is how you get what well call schmimpeachment. tincture of impeachment, depending on who you have. >> we will proceed when we have what we need to proceed, not one day sooner. >> among other things we will consider are obvio...

Preliminary to judicial proceeding, impeachment counts as a digital proceeding whether it was an inquiry or not but in any event they will prevail. it might take sometime but you are right about this schizophrenic political -- shannon: leadership says we are not going there. i want to get a comment about this decision on the supreme court lifting this lower courts decision blocking use of military funds for certain sections of building the border wall. the aclu saying this is not over. and the s...

Impeachment counts. theyll probably prevail. might take some time. youre right about this schizophrenic political versus strategy. >> shannon: leadership says theyre not going there but this filing says they are. i want to give you a comment about this decision from the supreme court lifting this lower courts decision blocking the use of military funds for certain sections of building the border wall. the aclu saying tonight this is not over. border communities, the environment and our constitut...

But he certainly could be charged with obstruction. and he certainly could be impeached for obstruction. and all of the things that weve been talking about are i believe clearly obstruction. i think there is enough evidence of acts that are intended to stop an investigation. i recently reviewed the indictments in the watergate case. and so many of the things that i read could be changed to trump as the defendant. >> and jill, obstruction of justice was one of the impeachment counts in the house ...

Read could be changed to trump as the defendant. >> and jill, obstruction of justice was one of the impeachment counts in the house of representatives against the president nixon, wasnt it? >> yes. it absolutely was. and another was abuse of power. so even if you accepted the argument that it cant be obstruction of justice, the president can abuse even his constitutional powers. i would argue that if he started to pardon everybody who was involved in this case to avoid the investigation going an...