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Impeachment, the white house signaling it will play no role in the house impeachment process. less than an hour away from a democratic-imposed deadline on whether president trumps lawyers will participate in the house impeachment process at all, zero signs the answer will be yes. leaving a divided house to move forward in a process that will kick into high gear next week. >> facts are clear. the constitution is clear. the president violated the constitution. >> reporter: with the house judiciary...

White house communications team has been meeting with republicans for weeks trying to iron out strategy and messaging and fix problems before they pop up. disagreements whether that whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment process should testify. plenty for the two sides to iron out. the president, though, sounding confident he was asked on thursday, if he believed that impeachment would be a stain on his legacy. listen to what he said. >> is this a stain on your legacy? >> not at al...

Can unify moving forward. while one side finds it appalling that the president hasnt been impeached yet the other side considers it a witch hunt to try to impeach a sitting president. how do you plan on unifying the nation if throughout the impeachment process, and what advice do you have for the politician who will succeed you on keeping the republic? >> thank you for your question. its really important to note that the country was divided. the president had been a very divisive force. hes not ...

Giuliani in a worse place and saying worse things right now, vis-a-vis his clients interest, could you come up with a worse combination? >> you would not. if you are at all engaged in trying to help this president navigate this crisis in his presidency, getting through the impeachment process, the one place on earth you dont want rudy giuliani is in ukraine, taking documents from a known corrupt politician about joe biden and having those pictures on the internet. its unbelievable. >> and tweeti...

The judiciary committee just released his action. the american people deserve answers from president trump. the house invited and then subpoenaed his top advisors. the president ordered them not to show and continues to block key evidence from congress. we are disappointed that the president has once again failed to provide those answer heres. we gave president trump a fair opportunity to question witnesses and present his own to address the overwhelming evidence before us. after listening to hi...

And fix problems before they pop up. disagreements whether that whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment process should testify. plenty for the two sides to iron out. the president, though, sounding confident he was asked on thursday, if he believed that impeachment would be a stain on his legacy. listen to what he said. >> is this a stain on your legacy? >> not at all. its a hoax. a big, fat hoax. >> reporter: one other note. while weve been hearing from sources that the president i...

>> thank you, and thank you, speaker pelosi. if donald trump is reelected and continues to behave corruptly with disregard for human dignity and the law what recourse will the house have since the impeachment process will already have taken place, what will the checks be on the president if he is reelected? >> thats not even contemplate that, because really, the damage that this administration has done to america, whether we can withstand two terms, i dont know. we all pray that god will bless a...

Its the first time i can recall, i might be wrong, the white house counsel has actually written a letter quoting a presidential tweet, in which he says, if youre going to impeach me, do it now fast, so we can have a fair trial in the senate. it goes on a bit. this letter is quoting the presidents sweet, and it is -- clearly, if it wasnt dictated by the president, theyve decided now to let him run their strategy. >> thats an important point indeed. the white house clearly has been from their pers...

Said all along this process not fair and youve not allowed us to have our lawyers in the room for some of the proceedings and weve not been able to cross-examine witnesses and so on and that is what the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler was inviting the white house to do through the rest of the process, to have lawyers in the room and participate in the process and the white house is now saying all of this is a sham. all of it is a hoax. were not going to be involved in what they describ...

>> this impeachment process is historical. how do you want to be remembered as part of it? >> no, i want to be remembered as part of the affordable care act. i would hope that my legacy would be one of respect, one of fairness and one of honoring my oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states from all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help me god. >> and again, you see the wrestling. she, even now, often talks about a lot of important policy stuff were doing, but t...