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The president poses? >> yes. for the same reasons we just discussed. i think the june television interview with george stephanopoulos this year, where the president indicated he would once again welcome foreign inference is another data point to understand where it is. and i was just saying that hes got such a great record and they just dont want him to win, if that is the case, why does he need to cheat to win the election? >> exactly. >> why cant he go on his own platform. >> i think the const...

You can see from the deutsche bank case and the other case, it takes months and months to go to the appeals court. thats what the president wants, to delay this as long as possible. >> lets talk about that case, mcgahn case, on december 22nd, th this judiciary served a subpoena to testify and he refused. and on the 7th, it was compelled. it was another 3 1/2 months before judge jackson found the constitution does not allow the president to kneecap investigations because as the judge wrote, i put...

I do think one thing we saw today was democrats presenting a coherent case what they believe happened. on the other hand, we saw republicans talking about process of arguments and adam schiff not there to testify and talking about the whistleblower. what we didnt hear much of was even a substantive defense of the presidents conduct. we saw the minority, steve castor present an opening statement and did the best job anybody could. when it came to the members questioning, it fell apart. they didnt...

Feasible. >> unless something changes in the senate trial which is possible. somehow they can compel john bolton to testify there. its a republican controlled body as opposed to the house. i wasnt at the house caucus meeting. i dont know exactly why adam schiff was applauded. there is support for him in the way he conducted the hearing. >> correct. >> not necessarily for impeaching the president. im not so sure thats the case. hair where youre coming from. everything is looked at through a parti...

>> and refused agencies to produce documents? >> that is also true. >> based on the presidents order, federal agencies have ignored more than 70 specific requests for records from the investigative committees, is that correct? >> if i could just add -- >> quickly, please. >> this would ordinarily be a document case. if you were prosecuting this case youd be basing it on the documents. the fact the documents are being withheld is quite significant and remarkable we built the record we have on the...

Were very proud of it. its transformational in so many ways which ill go into if you wish me to. i dont know. ill tell you this. there are many court cases, and some reporters keep saying why dont you wait for the court cases. we have the court cases because the president is obstructing justice by appealing everything to the courts and then the courts have ruled in our favor overwhelmingly, appeal it to a higher court, and now some of those cases are up to the supreme court, and then well see ho...

Countries so we dont pay any more than 120% of something. its transformative, the savings will go to medicare, for additional benefits, vision, hearing, dental. thats the biggest improvement to medicare since it was established. and the other benefits as well. the list goes on. so its about -- everything we do is supposed to be about getting results for the american people. we hope that we can always find common ground. we have a responsibility to do so in a bipartisan way. but if we dont, we ca...

Member on the intelligence committee even before i became part of the leadership, the gang of four. so i knew there were no nuclear weapons in iraq. it just wasnt there. they had to show the gang of four all the intelligence they had. the intelligence did not show that that was the case. so i knew it was a misrepresentation to the public. but having said that, it was a -- in my view, not a grounds for impeachment. they won the election, they made a representation. and to this day, people think, ...

President, they have obtainject and taken it to court. we have won, as i mentioned earlier, at every level in the courts. now were waiting for some decisions from the supreme court as to whether theyre going to take up these cases or not. the deutsche bank case with the presidents financial statements, the mazars case, the mcgahn case. article 3 of the nixon impeachment was that he did not respect the subpoenas of congress. so the president in some ways is self-impeaching because he is obstructi...

Articles of impeachment. so, a very fast-moving situation. >> lets talk about the articles of impeachment. something you wrote tonight is that two articles of impeachment are virtually guaranteed to show up as features of the impeachment against the president. but that democrats are divided on whether to involve matters related to russia and the mueller investigation into this. tell me a bit about the dispute. >> right, so the ukraine investigation clearly honed in on the abuse of power argument...