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The words impeach or impeachment mentioned 85 separate times with the argument citing this, a constitutional power of the utmost gravity approval of articles of impeachment. right now, 96 democrats are calling for an impeachment inquiry, seven have come out in support after muellers testimony including the highest ranking democrat so far congresswoman catherine clark, the sixth ranking house democrat based her decision on "unprecedented stonewalling and ob sfrukzstruction." >> jill wine back, di...

Different interviews that they want to be holding on capitol hill including with hope hicks and the former chief of staff to don mcgahn. so this is a battle that continues to escalate by the day. and this is just the latest twist. >> yeah, geetting developments week by week. kristen welker with the president there in tokyo, thank you as always with the breaking news and all the details. lets go to our panel. nancy cook, lynn sweet, jill wineback, and natasha beartran. jill, were lucky to have yo...

To form a partisan investigation and he is not required, i should add, to heed the advice of the intelligence agency heads here. its totally unilateral, then that is going to set up a showdown. >> a lot to bite and chew here. jill, can the president do this give the ability to have access and declassify information. number two, what does happen if the cia and other heads of these intelligence agencies as being reported there by natasha say, no, not going to let you? >> here id like to talk in tw...

Stanford or anywhere that i know that accepts this theory except for putins party. united russia has recently introduced a resolution to rewrite the history and to say that this was a legitimate intervention. and thats whats so bizarre about this. it appears that president trump is getting his knowledge about soviet history directly from somebody, either mr. putin himself or putins party. >> well, jill, bring us home on that because this then brings us back to the investigation thats happening r...

Sure most americans have never heard of, the equivalent of russian facebook and it seems bizarre to me that he, with that profile would be doing intelligence work. but the other twist, it also seems strange, why would the russians want to trade him for butina except for his own appointed lawyer, the russian appointed lawyer has said explicitly that and that is very bizarre, too. by the way, this is a lawyer thats very close to the russian government, close to the russian state security service, ...

Three other countries. he previously served as a u.s. marine, was court martialed and found guilty of attempting to steal $10,000 worth of u.s. currency from the u.s. government while deployed in iraq in 2006. he also bounced nearly $6,000 worth of checks around the same time according to military documents. the marines dishonorably discharged whelan in 2008, and since his detention, questions have been raised whether the russians will use whelan in a prisoner swap with maria butina. russias for...

Of a d.c. court after a u.s. district judge appointed by donald trump important to note ruled that the white house must reinstate acostas press pass after a contentious exchange last week. and joining me is peter baker and msnbc political analyst, and jill wineback is a special prosecutor and also msnbc contributor and great to have both of you with us. and jill, explain what happened in court today in terms of the legal developments and what is going to happen next. >> the legal occurrences tod...

Flashbacks discussing it. some of the details are out, and some of them fleshed out or elaborated on and they provide a human portrait of who monica lewinski is, and unfortunately for her, she was a cartoon figure in this extraordinary campaign in 1992, but at the heart, she is a real person who got herself in over her head and found herselves in the crosshairs of a frenzied political media that, you know, nobody could want to be in. and for her to now have a chance to speak out to tell her side...

No motivation for coming forward, other than to help protect the supreme court from a man who is not qualified by character to be on the court. a man who has a history of heavy drinking. >> i hope the democratic members make those points of order, they call for hearings and an fbi investigation. they can do all of that, with all the cameras in this country watching. the democrats on that committee have a tremendous platform tomorrow to demand an fbi investigation, to demand a full hearing by all...

Georgetown university and a former adviser to anita hill. well, two experts here. let me go to jill on this. how -- let me ask you, jill, about the guys who are now living in assisted living tomorrow. theyre going to be sitting there with a woman they call a female assistant, like somebody coming into the house to look out for uncle oren thats having a hard time getting up and down the stairs. its an absurdity, i think. what do you think thats going to look like to outsource the questioning to a...