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Direction, congress must. cass, you are not -- i think your reputation is not as a kind of like fire-breathing radical. i think your temperament is fairly moderate in temperament and judicious. but you seem to come down on the impeachment side here. why? >> well, impeachment side with respect to congress obligations not necessarily with respect to any particular president. so its probably good to go step by step and look at the issues with a degree of solemnity and not in a partisan way. so if y...

>> absolutely, and of course think about the two parallel tracks here, don. youve got the criminal implications if hes implicated in an actual crime. you have the political considerations that dont have to follow and track the definitions that we have in the code of criminal law about whats a high crime and misdemeanor, for example, so on the impeachment side, remember the guideline, thats the important thing, the guidance thats been issued has not been set in stone, and certainly the balancing ...

Trumps consistent seeming desire to rid himself of mueller. he obviously fired james comey, jared kushner and others rooting him on to do that. he cant outright fire mueller. he cant get the attorney general do it. hes recused, have to get the acting attorney general, rosenstein, said he wont do it. you now have members of congress. a republican resolution put forward by three members of congress pub lirred friday introducing resolution demanding robert mueller resign on his own based on a compl...

To the big kahuna. >> and that of course is the president of the united states. and liz bet, thelizabeth, that k to trumps consistent desire to get rid of mueller. he ultimately fired james comey. he cant outright fire mueller. he would have to get the deputy attorney general to do it who said he one of the. you now have members of congress introducingdema demanding that robert mueller resign on his own based on this. there are human rule others that steve bannon is encouraging trump to defund m...

Nepotism. it draws people close because of this comfort factor, but it almost always results in great vulnerability and often great damage. what do you think? the last notorious pardoning was president clinton pardoning -- what do you think about trump saying im going to pardon these people preemptively? >> he can. one of the greatest abuses back then was when bill clinton pardoned his own brother, which was outrageous. the problem is that if you push down on the criminal side, it tends to push ...

Costs. lets get into it with ross garber. he knows his way around the unique challenges of this kind of case, as well as richard painter, a white house ethics chief under republican george w. bush. his watchdog crew is suing trump and he has an exploratory committee for a potential senate run in minnesota. welcome to both of you. richard painter, what do you make of donald trump at the very time muellers gotten more cooperation and more progress, donald trump basically down to one lawyer with at...