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Same track with these legal battles. those two things are not inconsistent with each other. and while the speaker says she isnt moving the -- trying to wait out the clock. its beginning to feel that way. and i think that that is unacceptable. in the unlikely event, i think, of the president winning in 2020, democrats will have lost every single bit of their leverage if they dont move forward now. >> jeff mason, does the white house still believe that they have won this battle, despite the fact t...

Were feuds going on between staffers. we saw pelosi do the interview with maureen dowd, which also set off another round of this by her saying that she didnt think they had that much support, that this squad wasnt actually that powerful in the caucus. and so it definitely was, i would say, a hatchet. it was a bigger feud than pelosi wants to let on. and we are seeing, though, as julie mentioned, it seems that everything has quieted down a lot heading into this august recess and it was not like t...

Donald trumps preps presidency. so i tried to ask her are you trying to run out the clock and she said no. and you mentioned she did get irritated by that question, saying were there more sophisticated questions that can be asked. i want to get a sense from her how long does she anticipate these court fights playing out. she said she is -- is not endless. what does that mean for her? another reporter asked her do you have a drop dead time to making a decision on impeachment. she said she did not...

>> reporter: shes trying to frame their message in august. one thing she does not want to be talking about is the issue of impeachment which a number of her members are agitating about. when you talk to a number of democrats, they made clear that their concerns that the window could be closing to moving forward on an impeachment probe because of the calendar. they are moving to the six-week recess. then theres not many legislative days left in 2019. then we head into 2020 where the election seas...

Actually, yesterday we had 219 votes for the bill. is anybody asking any questions about that? 219, a very unified caucus in doing what we needed to do for the american people, 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 i dont think -- i would never even say that it was a hatchet. but i ...

Upon us to look at, continue to investigate russias interference in our election, harden our election systems, and hold this administration and other people who played in that process accountable. >> do you think that they have been held accountable, congresswoman? >> i think yes and no. i think with regard to these counterintelligence risk, lets just take jared kushner for example. i believe that he is a walking, talking counterintelligence risk given his numerous unreported contacts with the r...

Congressman, when your constituents request you why you asked that question, what will you tell them? >> americans need to know whether their president has been compromise. whether the russians have any leverage over the president of the united states and whether thats affecting his decision making as president of this country. >> in your experience on the intelligence committee, is that what you would expect given the evidence that you read in the mueller report? >> yeah, i think that it is ver...

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Perfect leverage for a hostile foreign power to compromise or to extort a number of different people in the presidents orbit and, indeed, the president himself. now, mr. mueller was not specific, at least was not definite, when he was asked whether or not his investigation, therefore, looked at the presidents finances and tried to see if the presidents financial records would show evidence of those kinds of ties or might be able to detail the ways in which the president may have been compromised...

Resolution from congress. that means the arms sales will go forward. that gives the president quite a bit of leverage with the saudis to pick up the phone and say, im doing this for you, im using my presidential veto for congress. so heres some things i need from you. >> instead what he is doing is glad handing obama bin salman. >> exactly. there seems to be a lot of checks. whats happening, this is a difficult step. every administration struggles with this in the middle east. you have the gcc h...