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Saw that theyre being perceived as paralyzed opposed to strategic. particularly when the president admitted to behavior we have agreed is a problem. >> danny, we saw how corey lewandowski stone walled congress. last week. now that this speaker announced impeachment inquiry, will democrats have a better coordinated approach for hostile witnesses now? and maybe more leverage. this appears to be much more serious. people take impeachment proceedings more seriously. >> yes. i would agree that the co...

>> and when you give the different ideas of why, all of the bolded phrases here have to do with the instant circumstance surrounding ukraine. why? >> so, these are the allegations that have recently surfaced in the past week that are deeply, deeply concerning to me and to the colleagues who i joined with to create this letter. we deem that these allegations as stand alone allegations demonstrate a grievous presence of potential corruption, violation of the oath of office, and what is really trou...

This is democratic overreach as they move forward over the next few days. >> david, thats what im so struck by. not just how difficultly the democrats started behaving yesterday after all this, but how differently the white house behaved from anything weve seen in the past. their tactic in the past has been stonewall and fight it out in court. yesterday the idea the president is going to allow this whistle-blower complaint and the transcript of the phone call, i mean, he could have done that las...

This, clear sort of quid pro quo implications. weve wondered for a long time why the trump administration hadnt delivered the assistance to the ukraine that we passed on a bipartisan basis. its very clear that the president was using this as leverage. every time in this letter the prime minister of ukraine wants to talk about defense cooperation or help with his economy, president trump takes it back to investigating his political opponents and intervening in this election. that is just an abuse...

You have so many steps in between then. to even get to the conviction let alone a trial in the senate. what you have is a political move to suggest that look, the american people dont actually think that contemplation and strategy should replace the separation of power. it got to the point where she saw that theyre being perceived as paralyzed opposed to strategic. particularly when the president admitted to behavior we have agreed is a problem. >> danny, we saw how corey lewandowski stone walle...

No choice but to lead to impeachment. that would be a tragedy of his own making. overnight more extensive reporting from the "washington post" detailing just how the presidents personal lawyer rudy giuliani pursued a shadow ukraine agenda while key foreign policy officials were neutralized. the timeline involves the abrupt removal of the u.n. ambassador to ukraine, senior officials being circumvented, and the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. >> several officials describe t...

We deemed that these allegations, stand-alone allegations, demonstrate a grievous presence of potential corruption, a violation of the oath of office and what is really troubling here is the notion that we have a president who potentially pressured a foreign country to provide information about a political foe and his family and allegedly sought to use military assistance and security assistance dollars, taxpayer dollars as leverage in that quest. >> allegedly is the key word. just so the audien...

Things can be negotiated away when there is pressure because if there is no pressure then there is no incentive for teheran to divest itself from terrorism no incentive to divest itself from the nuclear quest the only time iran has changed like the end of the iran iraq war given up on a fundamental national security product of is when there is pressure and its ironic that rouhani says that if all the sanctions are waived then iran will to go shoot because then what is there to negotiate over a b...

To them thats how these cycles go. we have seen it before, but this does have some odd parallels does it not, to what happened to comey in the beginning and the march towards using leverage of government to stop this presidency. >> look nancy pelosi is right. what she said is no one is above the law but that means congress is not above the law. congress may not impeach a president unless the president has committed an impeachable offense. the constitution sets out what the offenses are. you dont...

Go. we have seen it before, but this does have some odd parallels does it not, to what happened with comey in the beginning and the march towards using leverage of government to stop this presidency. >> look nancy pelosi is right. what she said is no one is above the law but that means congress is not above the law. congress may not impeach a president unless the president m has committed an impeachable offense. the constitution sets out what the impeachable offenses are. you dont go around conv...