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And that overwhelming opposition among republicans, think about some of the swing state republicans. before that, take a look at this. mcsally in arizona has got to worry about the filing it deadline for the primary is april 6th. theres all that talk with mcsally in arizona where she supensionally turned on trump. and there is time after that for a republican to get in and challenge her in the primary. youvr seen what the republican base thinks about the impeachment question. filing deadline not...

Speak out about him. hes trying not to perjure himself after already having to change his testimony and perhaps pleading the fifth when hes in front of those cameras. >> the impeachment does seem inevitable, right? it will move off the house floor. when speaker nancy pelosi said they were doing this on principle not on politics, i take her at her word. democrats have expended a ton on this impeachment question. the question is, does it blow back on them in the election some way? do you have a se...

The facts. i wish republicansment wanted te more of the facts. its almost a formality at this point. hes admitted to doing what he did. >> and that hasnt moved the needle so much. it kind of stalled, really, keith, when you look at public opinion when it comes to this impeachment question. >> well, yeah. i think this is a case that is going to be built brick by brick. its going to take time. theyre not going to just sort of -- as the republicans have been arguing -- put out their star witness fr...

Neil: on the import/export thing, im wondering that the democrats will push to get the usmca done to prove that they can focus on impeachment and other work that a lot of people want to see done as well. what do you think? >> i think theres a lot of effort going into usmca. im on theways ways and means committee and spending a lot of time on that the and the leadership is working on getting through the final details with will lighthizer, mr. trumps point person on this. it points out one thing t...

Presidents tweet in real-time. do you characterize the presidents tweet as intimidation from a legal perspective? second question here from an article of impeachment perspective, is that ready-made obstruction? >> first from the prosecutors view, this could fit into federal laws that are broadly defined in terms of witness tampering. anyone who intimidates a witness before a proceeding, and that includes congressional proceedings, may be guilty of the crime. and it includes attempt. on the defen...

Witnesses. so, they came to tell the hear in these argsd so we can think about the vietnam veteran, the decorated service to the country, the 50 years that ambassador taylor has been a public servant. and then prosecutors also think about things like that voice, that hair, again, just a brilliant witness. you know, the facts now not that much in controversy, the big impeachment question is based on what we all know does that just removing him from office when an election is less than a year away...

Credibility of the witnesses for themselves. and im confident that they will. >> jeremy bash, ambassador schiff there underscoring that new development today, that new piece of evidence entered into the record by ambassador taylor about a phone call from the president to his e.u. ambassador political appointee gordon sondland where he is calling to ask about the investigations, the investigations into burisma in 2016 is and then the reflection from gordon sondland that all he cares about is the ...

>> theres no question about it. and so the fact that they wont i think tells you a lot about the -- about how the white house is handling this. >> have you ever seen anything like this? >> never. bill taylor was asked that question today. have we ever -- i worked from 1980 on in the u.s. government for five presidents. no president in our lifetime has ever asked another leader to investigate that presidents rival for political gain for the presidents re-election. its an abuse of the presidents p...

People that said, hey, you better do this, you are in trouble, and he finally relented. well, and whats come through in some of the testimony was there were people within the executive branch in the testimony of laura cooper that the transcript we just got that were concerned about laws being broken in realtime. congress had already appropriated the money. it was about releasing congressionally appropriated funds to an american ally for whom it was life and death. >> where is he? >> thats a load...

Staff for the cia and department of defense. >> i think there is a foundational question that was presented here today which is is it okay for an american president to demand that a foreign government official investigate the american presidents political rival. president trump and his allies present a clear defense. they say, yeah, its okay, its fine with us. there is nothing to see here, just read the transcript. he did it but its not impeachable. there really is no dispute about the facts. i ...