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Misdemeanors that go back to the mueller get and didnt get enough airing in the public square. >> there is a lot of temptation now from democrats who are more on the left side of the spectrum to expand this entire process. they feel like theyre on a track right now following the public hearings where theyre digging into this administration and they feel like many of these officials are opening up in a new way that they havent seen in two and a half years. at the same time they know theres so muc...

Way to fire arch bald cox, and leon jaworski. when they finished their work, they compiled all the evidence that they and the grand jury had obtained over the course of their investigation. they compiled it all into a confidential report, went to a federal judge with the support of the justice department and asked the judge for permission to please convey that information to congress. because congress had a judicial proceeding underway. congress was considering articles of impeachment so the jus...

The white house has now officially declined an invitation from judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler to appear at the committees first public impeachment hearing this week on wednesday. they were invited to come defend the president, they choose not to. at one point, the white house counsel and his letter rejecting the invitation. he goes out of his way to call the expected hearing a quote purported impeachment inquiry as if its not really an impeachment inquiry. its not really happening, no...

Wednesday morning. four law professors are expected to testify about the historical and constitutional basis for impeachment hearings without anyone present from the trump white house. yesterday white house lawyers told jerry nadler, democrat of new york, quote, we do not intend to participate in your wednesday hearing. nadler has given the white house until 6th of december this friday to decide whether it will take part in any aspect of this impeachment process. earlier on this network, the cha...

Nato anniversary. phil, do you think that the impeachment process is going to be something thats going to be weighing on him as he is dealing with essentially a crucial moment in u.s.-nato ties? >> i think it is. but i think in a subtle way. we watched him do everything from go to baseball to football games to try to be more statesman like overseas. hes talked about trying not to participate in the sort of difficult political questions in the u.k. about exiting from the european union. i think t...

Overseas now but the president remains focused on whats happening in the impeachment inquiry? >> reporter: thats right. right now the white house is saying, no way the president and his lawyers will not be participating for the next impeachment hearing set for wednesday and the white house officials saying they are ruling it in the house and saying democrats are nowhere meeting their demands for white house involvement in these proceedings in the house, the praesident slamming the process callin...

Should come forward and present it. he has been blocking witnesses, and testimony from some of the key witnesses that have been sought by the committee and rather than hiding behind a commuter -- computer screen and tweeting he ought to come forward and tell the american people. >> the argument they make is adam schiff led the investigation into all of this, the ukraine investigation and the impeachment inquiry and since there was no special counsel who did it, ken starr led the investigation in...

Phone call between trump and zelensky, out of the mouth of the president himself, is an extortion. quid pro quo is a euphimism for extortion. and extortion is not only an abuse of power, its illegal. >> doug collins, who is the top republican on the judiciary committee, says that adam schiff, the intel committee chairman, should testify. what do you say to that? >> i think doug collins is running for the senate back in georgia, but i dont think thats a serious suggestion at all. we dont start ca...

And i think thats pretty accurate. the -- the -- you know, a 50% approximately favor impeachment. but that doesnt get you to 67 votes in the senate. and i think thats sort of where things have stood from the beginning. and thats where they remain. >> you know, you could argue that the change in the politics is that republicans have become more, not less, united against this. wouldnt you say? so i wonder this wednesday, and as this continues, what can, if anything, democrats do to change that dyn...

No surprise. >> not a surprise. >> not a surprise. but it doesnt mean that they wont in the future. and so what does it mean for this week? >> well, it means that you -- these will be more attacks on the impeachment process from the white house. but not an engagement with the facts of the presidents behavior. this has been the approach from the white house and its republican allies from as soon as the ukraine story broke. and were going to see more of that. and i just think, you know, it -- we n...