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Vote to impeach the president. please allow the facts to do the talking. nobody knows whether the president -- what the articles of impeachment are. people have made up their mind in a political fashion that will hurt this country long-term. if you dont, if you cant vote for impeachment, give us the due justice to the case. dont decide the case before the case is in. and this bothers me greatly. >> phil rucker, i will never grow numb to the hypocrisy of todays gop. stunning. >> yeah. well, senat...

Privilege of the president. and heres why. none of these cases directly ask the president for anything. they are requests to either his banks or his accountants. secondly, they dont involve anything any official act the president took in office. and, thirdly, they dont involve any official business. so its all his personal records, not a presidential power. so thats what makes these cases so interesting. but the court will hear the argument on all three cases in march. and of course a decision b...

And it would appear that all the questions the kinds of things i ask you on this show, why not press the kupperman case, a real weakening. you even have some right-wing lawyers talking about how breathtaking the sweep of disregard is from this white house and this administration in the category of congressional oversight. >> there is a lot to unpack here. number one, yes, absolutely. the administration has roundly declined to participate in oversight. and that is a dangerous precedent to set. an...

They would be there if they could defend president trump without being asked questions for which they dont have comfortable, easy, honest answers. and i actually asked that question of trump when we were in london a couple weeks ago with pompeo and mulvaney sitting right next to him. mr. president why wont you authorize them to go before the congress and testify on your behalf? and he doesnt have an easy answer for that because in his gut he wants them to go testify because he wants them to tell...

Around what happens with this trial and how it gets constructed is does it do service to this article of our constitution that tells our congress that its their job to protect the country from a president who will not abide by his oath of office. its interesting because one word we havent heard, you know, weve heard the democrats say cheater and talking about him being a cheater in the elections and that he will continue to cheat, and as the rev said, rudy giuliani making that point quite clear ...

Or hunter biden in that room. if donald trump could have the bidens come in in addition to the whistle-blower, he would like to have that trial go on for many months. and they are going to have that trial in their television advertising, their digital advertising, on the debate stage if donald trump participates, at the convention. we are going to be hearing about burisma from the stage if joe bidens the nominee. so, theres ways in which trump would like a long trial, if he could have the trial ...

The house democrats shouldve waited for these court cases to come from fruition to be completed because now you are going to have the presidents tax returns, you are going to impeach him next week. you really only have one chance to impeach the president. they cant impeach hem again in june if they found out that hes paid no taxes. we have no idea what they are going to find out here. this is going to reignite that. and i just -- number three, the white house has argued that congress doesnt need...

Publicly, a very weak case, why do they want no witnesses? why are they so afraid of the public servants that came forward and have already essentially spoken to the country and for which donald trump, if he wants due process, is perfectly prepared to respond to their charges, to respond to the facts that they have put on the table? its a striking thing to say we are going to try to bury this. >> all right. no ones going anywhere. we need them all too much. after the break, is mitch mcconnell th...

Outside the supreme court by msnbc news justice correspondent pete williams. it seems like this is another branch of government who is expected to rule and potentially put itself in the middle of a consequential decision about the authority of congress in june, just weeks before the next presidential election. >> so the court agreed to take three cases, the three appeals that the president had filed here or his lawyers had filed here in the supreme court. the first one is an appeal from lower co...

To be tweeting about it around the clock. just your thoughts from watching this court. have you ever seen a dynamic like that shape up? >> well, we saw justice gorsuch on the court involved in some of these privileged cases involving the presidential powers. remember, in the 1970s when the supreme court said president nixon was not immune from a subpoena for the white house tapes, william renquist did sit the case out. but other members of the court did vote on that case. i wouldnt think that an...