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And if there is a pardon in the future, my money is on roger stone. >> more so than manafort or flynn or the others for that matter. a sense stone will get the maximum? >> no, he will not get the maximum. talking about charges before theyre convicted the metric, number we have, statutory maximum. makes sense to report that. but the statutory maximum is a horrible predictor of the ultimate sentence because its arrived at adding all all possible sentences, statutory maximum for each and leads to d...

Promised to do it again if he gets elected. >> its not corrupt. >> they dont have to argue its illegal. they just have to argue it was bad judgment. >> you can hold up aid to a country that theyre using to defend themselves against russia because something that happened in the past you didnt like? >> the other problem, scott, with what youre arguing here is that the timeline here. there were two years when donald trump was not raising his concerns about joe biden and hunter biden. it wasnt an is...

Illegal. they just have to argue it was bad judgment. >> you can hold up aid to a country that theyre using to defend themselves against russia because something that happened in the past you didnt like? >> the other problem, scott, with what youre arguing here is that the timeline here. there were two years when donald trump was not raising his concerns about joe biden and hunter biden. it wasnt an issue for him until joe biden announced he was going to run for president. so that sort of makes ...

At the very least, he kept it within the bounds of the united states. >> far more serious and far more witnesses than richard nixon has. >> is speaker pelosi right that this makes what nixon did look almost small? >> it does. this is so much more serious than nixons activities. >> laura: congressman, wasnt an actual crime at the center of watergate? >>er yes. what is so ironic here, you have the transcript. we all know what is the evidence, we can all read it, and they bring person after person ...

Elections. the cover of makes what nixon did look almost small. >> reporter: republicans pushing back, kevin mccarthy saying chairmanships -- chairman adam schiff is lying about the whistleblower. >> adam schiff has lied numerous times. i do not think adam schiff is fit to be in this position running the intel committee and it is decision by one person. i believe adam schiff spent his entire time in congress trying to impeach him. >> reporter: there is a close door deposition. david holmes, amba...

Watch. >> were member what richard nixon did. at the very least, he kept it within the bounds of the united states. >> far more serious and far more witnesses than richard nixon has. >> a speaker pelosi right that this makes what nixon did look almost small? >> does. this is so much more serious than nixons activities. >> laura: congressman, was it an actual crime at the center of watergate? >> yes. what is so ironic here, you have the transcript. we all know what is the evidence, we can all rea...

Ever posted any stolen democratic documents. months before. they were told wikileaks was going to start doing that during the campaign. rick gates also testified today he witnessed a phone call between trump and roger stone about a forthcoming document dump from wikileaks. and that sure makes it seem like the president may have lied in his written testimony to robert mueller when he told mueller in writing that he never talked to roger stone about that subject. so those headlines from the testim...

One of the many claims the author makes, quote, senior trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a midnight self-massacre to sound a public alarm about president trumps conduct. but they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government. i think we want to read more of the excerpts. first, its like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak to find your elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard and cursing loudly about the cafeteria ...

Vote, even for president, to understand why i want to look again at what political gerrymandering is and why if you have an election today your vote really matters. every ten years congressional districts are redrawn to reflect the change in population. now theyre redrawn by the party controlling whatever state the districts are in. political or partisan jerry mandmand gerrymandering is drawn to that districts will benefit someone. you can be sure there is no makes, rivers, or boundaries governi...

Of clarity on what the facts are. theres a reluctance of people in congress right now both on the senate and house. to get out in front of where the facts ultimately might wind up. the release of the transcript. and the public hearings are important. in addition to see what the public makes of it all. >> on the where the facts are. it is traditionally this white house strategy to muddy the waters as much as possible and put out alternative facts, put out statements which arent true. and over tim...