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Giving congress additional powers may give congress additional leverage, thus speeding up several cases. for example, this white house is denying access to grand jury material arguing that congress doesnt have a legitimate legislative purpose for requesting it. thats why they said what they said in court today, because an impeachment inquiry gives them more of a look of a judicial proceeding. so a court can allow them to be disclosed if its in connection with the judicial proceeding. you get wha...

Leverage to demand anything in syria? >> there is a total disorder for civilian lives. and theres a indifference from the international community. the u.n. security council is one place where a political solution can be reached. a decision to at least reach a cease-fire currently in idlib can happen. but theres no action whatsoever at this level. so, warring parties are continuing with the fighting on the ground and in the air, with a total difference from the international community. and civili...

Immoral, there he strayed, you know, a couple of feet beyond the four corners of the text, but basically what he recited to us and confirmed for us were all of these episodes of obstruction of justice with michael cohen, where they called him up to try to butter him up to say, you know, stay on the team, stick to the party line, and when he decided he couldnt lie anymore and spilled his guts and told the truth about donald trump and the payoffs to stormy daniels and so on, at that point they tur...

Hold it in store as a form of leverage against him to keep them from testifying against him. thats what mob bosses do. >> congressman jamie raskin, on a night what you have been busy and thank you for joining us. >> thank you for sharing the story. i hope everybody gets comfort nl, and in the article one branch we are going to zealously uphold and defend the constitution. >> you heard it here. and i wish you a good evening as well. let me tell you what we have in store tonight, the democrats are...

Congressman, when the speaker says that the advocacy for impeachment among some members of her caucus gives her leverage, do you understand who she now believes she has leverage over? >> not exactly. what i reflect on is that tomorrow will be 100 days since the mueller report was released. august is approaching. i dont know what more we need in order to undertake an impeachment inquiry, and i came to that view after hearing all the alternatives and seeing how ineffective they were and how really...

Into this. arthel: okay, that said should the consideration of a third summit between president trump and kim jong un at the white house no doubt be taken off the table? >> definitely, that should be used as leverage, i agree with you there, arthel. we dont want to indulge or rewarded this type of behavior with that, i dont think that kim jong un wants to come to washington but what you cant do is rewarded with sanctions relief and at the same time you dont want to play too hard either where you...

Town. look, she says, no, shes not trying to run out the clock on impeachment. there was no hatchet to bury, she says, with alexandria ocasio-cortez who she met with this morning. and, in fact, those who are for impeachment now, theyre advocacy only gives her more leverage. well, what do you think? >> well, she proved -- >> kumbaya. >> she proved why shes a boss. those were very strong words basically saying that ive been around a long time, ive seen this movie gobefore where weve gone through t...

Tampering. were you satisfied with his responses? >> well, yeah. i think that mueller confirmed everything we were saying, which is that the president did everything in his power after the fbi searched michael cohens house to call him up to reassure him, say hang in there, buddy, you know, hang tough. he had several people call to say we love you, youre very high up in the presidents list, you know the presidents got your back, and so on. and then when michael cohen couldnt take it anymore and h...

Ive never seen actually -- yesterday we had 219 votes for the bill. is anybody asking any questions about that? 219, a very unified -- very unified caucus and doing what we needed to do for the american people, even though it was a compromise, even though it was a compromise, i certainly wanted more. but it was a compromise. when we win the white house, and we win the united states senate, and we continue to win the house of representatives then well have more leverage in that conversation. but ...

Is leverage. when she says we would not proceed on impeachment until we have the strongest possible case, shes not saying that she doesnt think they dont have a good or the strongest possible case. what shes saying is they dont have the votes. i mean, and its all about leverage. if say all the sudden 50 more democrats came out and said they were for impeachment, that would be leverage and that would be far closer to the number of votes that they would need. but right now, i mean, if theres anyth...