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Articles of impeachment literally while president clinton was in the act of lighting the national christmas tree. those impeachment proceedings against president clinton were set in motion, of course, by the crusading republican speaker of the house, newt gingrich, who now is back here to let us know that republicans at least have some sense of decency. they have some sense of the rules around what makes for a fair impeachment process and what doesnt, and frankly, christmastime is part of what y...

About the impeachment process, we had hoped he might accept our invitation. if the president has no good response to the allegations, then he would not want to appear before the committee. having declined this opportunity he cannot claim that the process is unfair. the presidents failure will not prevent us from carrying out our solemn constitutional duty. so theyre going ahead with or without the president or any lawyers that might represent the president in these proceedings. sounds like it wi...

Throughout this entire process, that it is unfair, that democrats arent giving trump sort of the ability to defend himself in this process. you know, i think they are kind of trying to stick to that and trying to not participate and trying to continue to not, you know, provide evidence or provide donald trump or other lawyers to kind of participate in it because it really would undercut their greatest argument right now against impeachment. so i really think theyre trying to stick to it, and the...

The homeland. for pelosi being able to get mose those members on board was mandatory. one of theern cans isnt so much a conversation about the fact that theyre participating in impeachment but as an aid to one democrat put it to me, the accusation that theyre only doing impeachment. that they arent also doing the bread and butter kitchen table issues that they got elected on. thats why youll hear pelosi and other democratic speakers talk about other legislative priorities they have, lowing the c...

[kristen gasps] (employee) because you never know what might be behind you. (kristen bell) does the sloth come standard? (kristen bell vo) looking to buy? enterprise makes it easy. last night the white house told the house judiciary committee it will not participate in the next phase of the impeachment process. after hearing on monday, members of that committee will turn their attention to articles of impeachment. jamie raskin is a collscholar o constitutional law. its been reported the commit...

Dont think this is going to be a track record for anything going forward. as it is, there are still four other american citizens in jail here in iran. and their future is totally unclear. >> ali arusi, as always thank you. impeachment inquiry. new today a critical development on this. this mornings big headline, the white house and president trump rejecting the house judiciary committees invite to participate in the next phase of the impeachment process. so for the latest on the new developmen...

With their crime by covering up the evidence. and that happened with richard nixon. it was alleged to have happened with bill clinton. and so it was charged in both of those cases. its happening again with donald trump. in fact, it continues to happen to this day. he has tried to organize a complete blockade of witnesses. fortunately, weve had around a dozen patriotic faithful public servants who have come forward against the threats of the white house to testify. every other president cooperate...

Release him from that nda. he outlined some of the work he did. this is a debate eight weeks out from the iowa caucus where you see two front-runners going toe to toe and calling for more transparency. >> ali vitali, as we look where youre at and president trump who will be there later today -- close by at least -- we were asking this question before it went to break. as the impeachment process moves on and we see the president reacting to it, who is it better for? is it better for the president...

Grisham had to say -- "the assertions made for this story are not only false, they are a disgusting attempt at invading the privacy of the first family. this is not journalism, it is fabricated tabloid trash." quickly, did the trump administration ever give you an official response to the story? im sure you reached out. >> no, they didnt respond to this one. theyve said in the past that media reports were the way they initially found out about undocumented workers and therefore they took action ...

Special votes and special sessions. their number one priority, theyre running for president but they also need to be also focused on their jobs. >> joe, can this backfire politically on the democrats? the whole trial process. say he is acquitted by the senate, does that backfire on nancy pelosi and the democrats and the democratic candidates for president? >> i dont know that it backfires on them. but clearly, if -- if -- if people suppose that the impeachment process will weaken the -- the folk...