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With a segment of his supporters because they dont trust institutions, right, because he has told them those folks are not to be believed. im the only one to be believed. >> some in his own party are losing faith. >> i have loyalty to people i work with. theres also limits to a political party when you see things happening. >> dont try to ever defend the indefensible with the president or explain the inexplicable. >> im terrified this lying will become the new norm in politics. >> is this the ne...

Is no friend of the united states, thats something you talk to any foreign policy exexpee expert and they will tell you its a dangerous path to be going down. >> it also explains why people like andy mccabe saw enough suspicious behavior on the part of this president and thought lets look into this. this is weird. to see it mimicked now. kennedy and nunes are going beyond defending the indefensible, they are copying the indefensible conduct. >> there was a time, the previous two years, we though...

Mitch mcconnell, for example, zero interviews in the past three months. we searched autotranscripts. he hasnt done a single interview. its not much bet fter if you lk at steve scalise and others. scalise pretty much all on fox news, showing up almost nowhere else in the past three months. this is something thats true for almost all the leaders of the republican party. i know youre not surprised by this, oliver, but i think we should recognize theyve mostly stayed in a bubble. >> well, they have ...

Designed exclusively to give the right wing media an opening to questioning your loyalties. i want people to understand what that was all about. its the kind of attack -- its the keihne of thing you say when youre defending the indefensible. its what you say when its not enough to attack the media, the way the ranking member gave over his opening statement or to attack the democrat, but its what you stoop to when the indefensibility of your case is when you wear a field of blue above a purple he...

Brooks brothers suit but it was designed exclusively to give right wing media an opening to question your loyalties. i want people to understand what that was all about. its the kind of attack, its the kind of thing you say when youre defending the indefensible. its what you say when its not enough to attack the media, the way the ranking member did in his opening statement, and attacking the democrats. its what you stoop to when the up defen indefensibility of your argument forces you to attack...

People and we are supposed to consider both sides but there is not a both sides. right? there is a president who went off of the talking points he was prepared and instead of asking the ukraine to get more serious about investigating and stopping corruption, he has to -- they target their corruption at joe biden. theres not a lot of disputd about that. i understand my republicans try to frame it as he has the right to fire an ambassador. he doesnt have the right to do either of those things for ...

Impeachable offenses, that his actions warrant impeachment are just going to add this on. its just another layer of it. for his defenders it makes life more complicated because they are essentially trying to defend the indefensible, and no matter what happens, no matter what line they come up with, something like this comes out, the president really doesnt care about what talking points they have on any given day. it it just makes their life more difficult. ultimately probably not going to chang...

About these same kind of incursions into peripheral territory because they might get away with it in the way that russia seems to be getting away with it right now. >> all right. senator chris murphy, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thanks. ahead, it was one of the big unknowns going into todays first public hearing, how would republicans attempt to defend the indefensible? thats next. deadline is only days away. with so many changes, do you know if your plan is still the right fit...

The same doj family. a very experienced former prosecutor. he was very smooth today and i thought did a very effective job. i know steve castor from my time at the fbi when he was can the committee and we had some dealings together. professional, competent guy. lets face it, castor doesnt have a case. right? hes trying to defend the indefensible in many respects so he doesnt have much to work with. i think that came through today. >> hmm. so, abby, some republicans were not happy with castors pe...

Same kind of incursions into peripheral territory because they might get away with it in the way russia seems to be getting away with it right now. >> thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thanks. ahead, it was one of the big unknown going into todays first public hearing. how would republicans attempt to defend the indefensible. thats next. indefensible. thats next. and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. hey! my f...