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Antithetical to our democracy and nothing injuries the american people more than the president who uses his power to weaken their authority under the constitution as well as the authority of the constitution itself. may i read one more sentence? >> the witness may have another sentence or two. >> thank you. if congress fails to impeach here, the impeachment process has lost all meaning. along with that, our constitutions carefully crafted safeguards against the establishment of a king on america...

Discussed whats considered to be a legitimate impeachment process. the book is pretty anti-trump. it is presumptively illegitim e illegitimate. there is a strong risk that policy disagreements or partisans over taken the proper measure of congressional impartiality. we can expect opposition leaders to the president will be pushed to impeach and suffer internal blow back if they dont. the key question is whether theyll cave to the pressure. the house will under take additional doom partisan impea...

Cant wait to get to. >> wow. >> but i want to make a note of something as we begin this hour of coverage and after your hour of coverage tonight and what a packed and historic night it is. we have had a major development, major development today in the campaign for president. senator kamala harris dropping out of the race. and i think -- i didnt get every word of your show, but i think that amounted to a sentence or two. >> it was the first sentence but it was -- i know. >> and thats what ive go...

Mayor or whatever, lawyer, they all had a mission in life which was to do this dirty deed, hold up, a shakedown ukraine for dirt or at least a statement, a declaration of dirt on the guy at the time trump figured he was running against. >> we have to keep our eye on the ball here which is how fundamentally kruptdi fundamentally corrupting to our system. we are using this cast of characters to leverage taxpayer dollars, white house visits to get announcements of investigations into his political ...

Rivals. congresswoman, my hope is that republicans will take the weakest link -- in other words the weakest article theyll attack and say you cant throw the president out of office for tweeting something that could be called witness intimidation. theyll take your weakest charge and make it your main charge. how do you deal with the choice of articles? >> well, first of all, i think that tomorrow is going to be a really important hearing because were going to delve into the impeachment process, w...

This is not the first time impeachment has invaded a foreign trip. joining us now is cnn political commentator joe lockhart, president clintons press secretary during that impeachment process. what do you remember from that time, joe? >> i remember there were a series of foreign trips where impeachment played a el rrole. theres a contrast between how donald trump is handling it and bill clinton handled it. we didnt criticize the republicans for continuing with the impeachment process because we ...

Committee run by some of those clowns. thats kind of degrading. >> they acted like clowns, congressman. id never call you that, but when you are there as a member of congress and youre supposed to have oversight over the executive and you act like defense counsel. its not your job. it like when nunes ran to the white house, his job was oversight. thats what im point being out as an objective matter of fact. they werent supposed to be doing that. they chose to do it. >> chris, we had this convers...

Story of the news in january apparently or whenever the impeachment process takes place in the senate. and i dont think theres any doubt anybody, especially for kamala harris as a prosecutor, i think she has the most potential to gain from this, being in the senate during the impeachment trial for donald trump. >> she doesnt get to prosecute him. >> she gets to talk about it every day on the news. she gets to be the story. she gets to come on cnn and msnbc and hold press gaggles and press briefi...

Inquiry. it would be seen as a huge backtrack to take this step at this stage. >> the president was asked point-blank by a reporter if it diminished his stature in the international meetings on an international stage. he is amid the impeachment process. and he stuck to the playbook. he called the democrats crazy and said it was bad for the country what they were doing. >> unpatriotic, yeah. >> the impeachment witch hunt is the hoax thats been taking place for three years. does it cast a cloud? i...

Tomorrow chairman nadler will open the hearing with four constitutional law experts. >> hold on for one moment. hold on for one moment. house republican leadership are speaking right now. i want to hear what they are saying. >> now for several weeks since the impeachment process began. i would ask people to remember that they have failed despite the fact they had a process that basically put everything tilted in their direction. democrats were able to act as judge and prosecutor. they were able ...