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Meanwhile the impeachment push continues on capitol hill. you write about that in your piece titled dont call it impeachment, call it a witch hunt. you write, this is a legislative -- it is an effort to destroy the president chosen by the american people. this is a project they have been involved in since election night 2016. in that piece you talk about the importance of words and the context they create. you urge everybody not to use the word impeachment in the current political process. you o...

>> someone who knows how this works out, the push to impeach is at stake. it might come back to bite the party pushing it. always good to see you. why do you say that? >> i say that because impeachment is doomed to fail given what we know. the facts are flowing in. in the history of the country, obviously presidential efforts to impeach do not work. but guess what, of the 62 impeachment proceedings eight have resulted in convictions. this will result in a conviction, why we on the impeachment tr...

Constitution to call it impeachment that we are on a formal impeachment inquiry. with all due respect until the house of representatives votes as a body to conduct an impeachment inquiry or investigation, there is action by committees sanctions by the speaker so sounds like a structural point but we live by structure in the constitutional republic. neil: how do they proceed to that next step? they are leaving it to the judiciary committee to get involved. what would change doing it the way you s...

Flirted with a foreign aid to go after the competitor. so the idea that this is somehow going to stop. that somehow trump is tamed. that he wont do everything possible to win in 2020. its now bogus. this man the president will do anything. including directing a foreign power to make up information about the family of his most likely at least then competitor. >> whether you call it impeachment or illegal. call it what you will. this is -- hes batting 100. >> i asked trump is acting like a democra...

Information about the family of his most likely competitor. >> yeah. >> if i could -- >> well, whether you call it impeachment or whether you call it illegal, call it what you will, you know, hes -- this is -- hes batting .100 at this stage. >> i want to ask you, you know, trump is acting like the diplomats in this case would actually pursue something far more extreme than the impeachment youre talking about, juliette. if the tables were turned, the president actually had this to say about what ...

Over subpoenas and other things. talk in a practical way about what new tools democrats have to get facts on the table if they have a formal impeachment inquiry now that they didnt have before. >> the formal answer to that in the law is you can get grand jury materials more easily when you is an impeachment proceeding. here, theres not necessarily a grand jury thats been convened so those prohibitions arent necessarily at stake. here, theres something really different. this president has done so...

The executive and legislative branch. they want information, the executive branch wants to give them what they need them. this isnt anything new. nothing at all. >> you have not seen an administration outright ignore subpoenas coming from the hill? it is in terms of the scope of it. >> what do you mean ignoring subpoenas? lawyers oppose suspense all the time in the context of court cases. the administration has a right to oppose subpoenas where they think the subpoenas are overreaching. certainl...

Election. rick: i dont know if you saw the post editorial targeting jerry nadler. they call it impeachment kabuki theater. >> nadler has critics. there is no question about that. whether or not one of the critics is his boss is a good question. he is absolutely determined to go ahead and fulfill what he believes to be his job and said thats what hes doing. but it has created some confusion. i think its iting that that confusion is giving the doj some ammunition in its filing with the court. >> w...

Out of office through the 2020 election. rick: i dont know if you saw the post editorial targeting jerry nadler. they call it impeachment kabuki theater. >> nadler has critics. there is no question about that. whether or not one of the critics is his boss is a good question. he is absolutely determined to go ahead and fulfill what he believes to be his job and said thats what hes doing. but it has created some confusion. i think its iting that that confusion is giving the doj some ammunition in ...

Candidates, you have candidates to share more personal moments and as we move into the debates in october and november more and more you understand what their vision is for america and thats very important. >> you someone who is called for impeachment. it is not a word was used tonight, neither was robert mueller, neither was articles of impeachment. why do you think that is? >> thats a good thing because i dont think the democratic party will be defined on the basis of impeachment. we should be...