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Political, the phone call was unseemly. the other question is, is it an impeachable offense. and i believe that this is exactly the kind of thing that the founders had in mind when they wrote impeachment into the constitution. its not about figuring out whether the president committed a crime or not, although he may have. its about whether its a high crime and misdemeanor in the sense that he has committed a political crime. and when you consider a notion that we have a president who tried to ge...

Where he will give closed door testimony to members of those three committees. and hes not the only one expected this week. we had fiona hill yesterday. tomorrow, we expect michael mckinley. hes the former adviser to mike pompeo, the secretary of state. he resigned last week citing personal reasons. we also expect gordon sondland on thursday. highly anticipated deposition happening behind closed doors with those three committees. a very busy week on capitol hill and members will be back this aft...

To the august 12th disclosure to the intelligence community inspector general. also the attorney says the second whistle-blower has firsthand knowledge of trumps call with the president of ukraine. joining us in new york, glen kirs kirschner. he has firsthand knowledge of that conversation. this has been rightly or wrongly that president trump has talked about. he is using that to cast doubt or a sperbspersions on this individual. you can come back to what the president is saying. >> when you sa...

She claimed that she had become claustrophobic because of this event 36 years ago. there are other comments of a sexual nature i would rather not get into, but he was never told about her assault in any way, shape or form. and anyway, i dont want to talk more about w the sexual stuff bt there is that out there, as well. >> yeah, laura, i havent seen that letter, i only heard your reporting on it earlier. i will say, this i i assume the f.b.i. will consider that matter and also assume the f.b.i. ...

Brett kavanaugh? i mean, it is true he has -- except for this and this is a big thing in his career, a blemish free record, but suddenly we are looking at his high school yearbook. we are learning that the guy in the room with him mark judge wrote a book detailing that these boys were partying it up and often blackout drunk in high school, and when i look at that yearbook page and all the comments under it, it does raise a flag or does it? >> it does. >> is that -- what did you call it, collater...

In the woodward book, in the anonymous column, we keep hearing about what is going on inside the white house and what the writer of the anonymous op-ed wrote, whoever it was was driven to go public in this way because of the president. policy runs off the rails and it is always marked by immorality, so here we are. >> its marked by patriotism, the column. i knew it was a good thing because it corroborates what woodward is reporting, it corroborates the reporting that people at cnn and other news...

Cohen. terms of collusion and other things that mr. mueller and others are investigating, i think they know an awful lot. i think they will actually be able to get to the truth, nor matter how much mr. cohen is incentivized to embellish his story for his personal gain. >> a guy whos a reformer prosecutor said dont make it sound like everything has to rest on michael coen. he could just be a corroboratesing asset for investigators that other people were in the room. theyll go to those people, pus...

Act. >> why wasnt it in the email? >> i dont know but it corroborates. >> arent you taking his word for a lot? >> much. >> they were there at the meeting. >> theyve lied before. >> they lie about everything. >> vesselnitskaya was in favor of the act, she is with another lobbyist also part of that endeavor so this corroborates the fact at least part of that meeting was about the magnitsky act. >> this is nancy pelosi congressman nancy pelosi laying out the things she thinks are legally relevant h...

That position, quits, man, theyre just going to replace him with an fbi director who is going to quash the investigation, one thats potentially picked by the trump administration. so i think comey did the best he could to handle the situation. >> right. >> the other thing that people should remember is the letters are not evidence. i keep hearing about the comey letters as evidence. theyre not. comeys conversations and his testimony is the evidence. what is important about the letter is that it ...

Present during the attack of the students. we also show that the majority of the witnesses in this case -- this is according to the mexican governments own criminal file we got access to -- were brutally tortured, the majority of them. so this revelation of the military being on the scene of the attack that night is the latest in what we found, and really it goes -- it corroborates what the mission for human rights said just yesterday. we were able to make those documents public. >> i appreciate...