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>> you know, and then robert mueller brought up the very real issue of election security. saying as we sit here, we are under attack from the russians in all likelihood in our election. the senate intelligence committee put out a report yesterday that says all 50 states -- there are 50 states in the united states and all of them were targeted by the russians in the last election. on that very same day, mitch mcconnell and republican senators blocked legislation to protect state election systems....

Beginning with the hearing that took place on obstruction of justice on monday. we successfully won multiple cases including in washington, d.c. and new york that reaffirms congresss ability to get information and get documents and secure a witness testimony. the justice department just yesterday blinked in advance of a criminal contempt potential vote that was going to take place on the floor of the house of representatives and now they are beginning to provide the information that we requested...

Justice department is holding it back. the only way to proceed is for the united states house of representatives is to impeach this president. they need to hold impeachment inquiry. they need judges to find out what happened in 2016 and we have to make sure it never happens again. if theyre not willing to impeach the president, we are not going go anywhere on this. the courts are going take forever to enforce this and we will be way past the next election and they are already trying to bring in ...

President at face value, the best opposition research. give it to donald trump, help him win the next election and who knows what trump will offer to the country in return. stephanie, what this demonstr e demonstrates is something that came up in that hearing on monday. some of the republican congress men were asking, how can you still say there is collusion, bob pluler didnt find there was collusion. mueller found that he couldnt prove a experience between the presidents campaign and russia. th...

Committee is determined to make happen. >> robert mueller said he has done that. its in the report and he handed it off to you. tonight you are telling me this is treasonous behavior. if it is, shouldnt you move forward with impeachment? >> i think we have to stay the course in terms of following the faxes, applying the law and being guided by the united states constitution. the approach that we have taken today is to make sure we are aggressively pursuing oversight beginning with the hearing th...

Former u.s. senator, barbara boxer of california and now the cohost of the boxer podcast. a perfect trio on a night with so much news to dig through. what do you make of president trump saying he would accept help from a foreign adversary in the next election. its no big deal. everybody does it. in his words. >> so its now open season for whatever foreign country can put together the best lets take the president at face value, the best opposition research. give it to donald trump, help him win t...

Talking to. whether its joe biden or anyone else, he wants opposition research on them. this is a very dangerous situation. the united states house of representatives needs to act now. >> we learned today from the house intel hearing that, interference is a threat today. not on the horizon, its happening now. lets share christopher wray, the presidents own head of the fbi speak being interference. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any ...

Heres what a couple of 2020 candidates, one democratic, one republican, told "mtp daily" about impeachment. >> speaker pelosi seemed to take impeachment off the table. number one, is that what you heard, and if not, what did you hear? >> im not going to speak for the speaker. i can certainly tell you what my position is, congress does two things. we vote on things, and before we do that, we should be debating them. i think that theres ample evidence out there we should be debating impeachment. >...

An intel hearing. but was it dramatically different or more expansive than what you saw him say in private versus public? >> i cant get into the details of that particular testimony, but what i can say is this, and chairman schiff pointed out these things as well. first, he was very cooperative. and then secondly, he gave so much testimony on so many subjects that hes going to have to come back again, or hes agreed to voluntarily come back again next week. and that was not expected at the outset...

Rogers facing five hours of questioning before the house intelligence committee. >> president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> reporter: comey rejecting president trumps baseless claim that former president obama wiretapped his trump tower campaign headquarters. >> i have no information that supports those tweets. the answer is the same for the department of justice and all of its components. >> reporter: the white house trying to dismiss much of ...