An unprecedented campaign of obstruction of this impeachment inquiry. i see three articles in here. obstruction of justice, abuse of power, abuse of office however you want to say it and obstruction of congress. those you can jump out at whatever else they might come up with, but they re going to be i think at least three articles. one question also is whether or not they will, when they end up drawing up the articles of impeachment whether they will specifically identify bribery with respect to financial assistance that was held out. that might be one of the things we hear articulated tomorrow in the hearing that s going to take place with the constitutional law professors as to whether or not the facts that are described in the report and that have been unravelled through the investigation constitute bribery in terms of the impeachment provisions in the constitution. go to cnn s chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, you were live in london, because the president is act
Of impeachment. puckli publicly repeatedly challenged the authority of the house to conduct an impeachment inquiry into his accesses rasegarding ukraine. up see what they re trying to make the argument where this comes down going forward. how they ultimately expect house judiciary committee to deal with this as they start to draft the articles of impeachment. democrats careful not to explicitly say the president should be removed from office. they stopped just short of that saying ultimately that it s up to the house judiciary committee, up to the full house but clear here where they stand. they, in fact, do believe the president should be impeached, that the president did commit these acts abusing his office, engaging in misconduct and clearly obstruction of congress in their view. they make the case for impeachment as an institution and then they make the case against the president. manu raju, thank you so much. i want to show folks, this is it. okay? 300 pages. a very lengthy repo
The mulvaney press conference, and then were in the public statements in the two weeks of testimony in front of the committee. and those basic facts are not contested as the report says here. it s up to congress now to decide who to do with those facts and that gets to your points about the historical significance of these acts and is this conduct that really any party for the future wants to consider as appropriate and acceptable for any president to engage in and that s why these proceedings are so important to create historical records. i would add, too, what mulvaney said in one sentence is absolutely true. of course this influence and lobbying in foreign affairs in this town. happens every day. however, corrupt influence in foreign affairs, ask paul manafort how that worked out for him. the point is, there are limitations to what you can do. you have to register. there are as i think yovanovitch and register as a foreign agent. yovanovitch, hill, others
Terms but clearly thinks he hasn t done anything wrong here. right? although he sort of oscillates between saying it was a perfect call and misrepresents things on the call which indicates there was something wrong with it. what do white house officials think and as they re reading this here and then the republican report, kind of ignores facts, what are they looking at here? interesting. i just had, got a response from someone who close to the white house who was saying, look, the democrats are making this all about democracy, democracy is on the line. the democrats can t walk that back. that s something white house officials as close to the white house are seizes on as we get the first read of this report. that this is bigger, as you ve pointed out, democrats are making this bigger than just here s what s going on in ukraine. this is about democracy. this is about our system of checks and balances. that is a weakness in the argument do you think? they do. they think this is a l
Come out from the house intel democrats and one of the key points they make manu outlined, carrie cordero, is, the president has gotten in the way of their investigation. this is about checks and balances and he is usurping the ability of congress to do the job that it is imbued with in the constitution. yes. clearly, and congress and chairman schiff has demonstrated and articulated their concern about the obstruction all throughout the process that congress has been frustrated by the administration and the president s directions to witnesses. it says, for example, in the summary we have already, a dozen witnesses followed president trump s orders defined voluntary requests and lawful subpoenas in refusing to testify. clearly the obstruction is something that congress feels at least the members that are authoring this report, feel that they have a constitutional responsibility to create a