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To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules ...

Those things arent happening now, and i think this is all political, and i think its a situation where sadly the speaker lost control of her own conference. >> you have said you have not read all the depositions. >> i havent been able to. >> thats right. were supposedly going to see them before then. have you closed the door completely to approving an article of impeachment? >> you never close the door completely to anything like this, but again, we just adopted a process that every single repub...

People can see the witnesses, can see who they are, what bias they , bring, what credibility they have and what they know, ultimately theyre the ones that can put pressure on the senators to say, look, the facts support this. >> this is something were hearing from republicans who dontin have a strong take on ts which is to say -- there are republicans weve spoken to in washington, not attaching names to this, said, look, wed rather theres no impeachment to deal e with. their concern is that tele...

What does the nixon model teach folks here today? >> well, first of all, the nixon process was very different and most of the investigation had happened and a lot of it was public so the public knew about the enemys list and the public knew that there was a taping system and the public knew there was an insider named john dean that was a part of the cover-up and it was a saturday night massacre that was a public event that got democrats and republicans say there was an inquiry and there was a lo...

Number one, he made it clear he doesnt want to testify before congress. he said theres no point of it. hes not going to go beyond whats in his testimony. i hope this is my late statement about it. quite clear hes laying a marker down. he doesnt want to testify before congress. the report speaks for itself. this was an important inflection point in the career of this special counsel investigation. its now completely over. the report, largely ended it. he had some finishing up to do. now hes no lo...

Report, mueller saying for the first time that from the out set of the probe under justice department rules, his office could not indict a sitting president but indicating that now its up to congress. >> the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrong doindoing and beyond department policy we were guided by principles of fairness. it would be unfair to potentially -- it would be unfair to potentially...

Something critical to our democracy and they found systematic interference from a foreign government and private internet people who were coming in to influence our election and our opinions via social media. we saw that in the indictment. he wanted to emphasize that. other things that have happened since his report was this idea that there is another process in order to find the president wrong doing. in order to investigate criminal wrong doing by the president. it shouldnt be through the crim...

Repeated calls. mr. muellers statement made it clear that congress has the right and we believe obligation to continue our constitutional mandate oversight without interference and stone walling and following the facts where they may lead. >> at this stage, we still have subpoenas being ignored. don mcgahn refusing to testify. we dont know yet what hope hicks and others will do. their only agreement is on the intelligence committee to have controlled, some sort of controlled interview in private...

Learned that the president was, in my words, weaponizing the intelligence community to go after his political enemies. hey i didnt complete this investigation over two years and have the attorney general misrepresent it, redact it, hide the underlying materials, keep it from congress and shout down a well. it has to have some meaning. its clear he left it to congress as you suggested. now it becomes a legal matter. >> congressman, he also said that the negotiations or the process of getting the ...

Report, that maybe they assembled it all and said can we charge him with a crime. i guess we cant. its quite clear they knew that going in. his summary of the report though doesnt go an inch beyond what the report says. it is a very accurate summary of what the report said. i did think it was interesting that given this report is 440 plus pages long, he did choose to pull out of it what is a very brief mention plus a footnote in section two of the report on obstruction when he said the opinion m...