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Ought to be impeached. that they see crimes. just last week, a member of the judiciary committee said the president went down a crime spree. his words. before the present was elected. the chairman of the oversight committee, after michael cohen testified, said that the: testimony showed that president trump committed a crime in office. crime, the chairmans words. democrats cannot keep using the word crime without setting in motion an impeachment path that they cannot avoid. thats going to backfi...

Especially at the end, i saw a political stunt written by clinton hacks. >> jesse: no russian collusion according to michael cohen and, juan, roger stone didnt have any advance notification about the wikileaks dump. >> dana: there is one person we havent talked about. she was not in the hearing. that is speaker pelosi. she has tried to tap the brakes and tell her caucus we are not on an impeachment path. she is wanted to tried carefully on that. in elijah cummings wrap-up statement, he took grea...

Moderate, suburban districts where they want people to get some things done. one of the most effective people was katie hill, the young woman from southern california. she used to work in the obama administration, one of the freshman democrats whose not gotten a lot of attention. she is solid and moving forward. if i were pelosi, i would want to focus on those folks rather than the far left. if they go down an impeachment path, it probably wont end well for them. >> jesse: and they have to wait ...

The run of the mill improper practices that the president would not be able to govern the country. they would lord over him and he would not never be able to act creatively and would fail. so the framers had this idea that you need some real wrong doing. high crimes and misdemeanors or bribery or treason are serious offenses because otherwise the impeachment power could get out of hand. >> what rises to the level of an impeachment offense? >> as long as its a grave abuse of power that threatens ...

President, even without an indictment, mueller could still make a recommendation to the house of representatives. >> yep. >> a lot of political fall out. they can recommend impeachment, on and on and on. what trouble could that cause for the president? >> yeah, so i think it is really important and laura always does a good job of differentiating here. there is a legal path, right, and thats sort of the indictment path. and then there is a political path and thats the impeachment path. look, were...

There in the ethos. back to thish of t issue of the indictment. even without an indictment mueller can make a recommendation to the house of representatives, a lot of political fallout, they can recommend impeachment and on and on and on. what trouble could that cause for the president? >> yeah. i think its really important, and laura always does a really good job of differentiating here. theres a legal path, right? and thats sort of the indictment path. and then theres a political path and that...

Fellow at nyu law school. hue hewitt, also a lawyer and msnbc political analyst. let me start with you, liz. we heard from john mccain, bringing up the specter of watergate. we have to start with obstruction of justice. there are different rules for a president of the united states and somebody like you or me, a civilian, but is there anything that you see here, hard, solid evidence, that would lead you to go down that path? >> well, two paths here. one is a criminal path. the other is the impea...

When theres a crisis, economic collapse, a massive crisis abroad. president trump is trying to go at the pillars of democratic society. it is not just the media, it is the court, the opposition party, his own people in the legislature. its the intelligence branches. all of these set up a situation where hes going to say, you know, god forbid theres a terrorist attack and im in charge here and i dont care what the courts or kon says an enthats when we have a crisis and the institutions need to pu...