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Overriding scientific and environmental concerns about how this should work? >> you know, it is worth pointing out that this administration has been hell hell-bent on conducts the lease sale in the arctic wildlife refuge before the end of this year even though the tax bill gives them through 2021 to conduct a more complete and thorough review of potential impacts. and you know, what my reporting shows is that the department of the interior has changed and in at least one case, modified the concl...

I was in the olive oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago. thats all. >> good old frank pentangeli a character from the god father two where he plays a mobster then turned congressional witness where he folded under threat. personifies witness tampering, which is why it seems so dumb to invoke him as a totem felony the prosecutors found it important. they quoted that very reference in a case against stone. the case includes a charge of tampering with a witness. when stone was...

Democratic congress members backing an impeachment probe has grown as the chairman who would lead, jerry nadler is formally invoking the i word in a count. five house democrats have stepped out in favor of an impeachment inquiry, including congresswoman katherine clark of massachusetts, a member of the house leadership, and the highest ranking democrat to publicly take this stance. then you have three more house democrats today announcing support for an impeachment inquiry. annie custer, chris p...

Chairman paul manafort share this prize internal polling data with the russian operative, and perhaps why, because you see there, we know what was alluded to. it is redacted. the reason it was redacted is because of grand jury material. now, in the court filing today, the house judiciary committee argues there are several episodes that have this kind of information redacted and the committee needs it. they need it because the doj will not allow prosecution of a sitting president and they explain...

Counsel investigation if they looked at his finances. hes not going to be able to hamstring the u.s. congress in the same way. were going to get to the bottom of all of it. >> do you think theres a high crime that the president obstructed justice. >> certainly. multiple times. each one of those episodes described -- >> if thats the case, let me press you on that. everything you just laid out viewers would say, yeah, that sounds bad and certainly in the congresss ambit to do something about it, b...

Context of this, and for the house democrats, though, thats not all because there is a new legal move as they try to pry more evidence loose from the white house and justice department taking their case to court to get redacted grand jury material. this is the stuff that actually informed the grist of the narratives until the mueller report, and it picks up the fight over the very ways that attorney general barr held back parts of this report. we all remember the redactions and he did allow memb...

An executive to pry loose the yes, grand jury material from the mueller report. now, that doesnt mean its easy. the so called road map that was stuffed inside that briefcase and presented to judge in 74. it took 44 years before it was unsealed and after a s.w.a.t team went to get t the federal judge who ordered the road map to be unsealed is the same federal judge the house judiciary committee appealed to today in this newfound quest to get grand jury material for the mueller case. there are not...

Coming out of that that congress did not want to provide funding for the border wall. they only appropriated a fraction for certain border securing measures but not the wall specifically, and so the third point i would just make is that this sets a bigger precedent than just in this case, namely that the executive can basically misappropriate money by declaring a national emergency and this is a very bad precedent for the future. >> isnt that the obviously wild part of this. >> yeah. >> even tho...

Grown as the chairman who would lead, jerry nadler is formally invoking the i word in a court filing. five house democrats have stepped out in favor of an impeachment inquiry, including congresswoman katherine clark of massachusetts, a member of the house leadership, and the highest ranking democrat to publicly take this stance. then you have three more house democrats today announcing support for an impeachment inquiry. annie custer, chris pappas of new hampshire, and mike levin of california. ...

Report cited over 150 times. house judiciary making the case if there is grand jury testimony of the presidents knowledge of these events and how his campaign approached all of it, that would shed light on what the president might have been trying to cover up with his repeated attempts to of course interfere with and obstruct the mueller investigation. those attempts made, yes, back through mr. mcgahn. his testimony has been blocked by the white house. judiciary chairman jerry nadler announcing ...