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Crime as the charge for an article of impeachment, he still thought that neither of the articles of impeachment here could be justified or were sufficient or could be used to impeach the president. both the abuse of power article and the obstruction article. so taking snippets out of what he said really does an injustice to the totality of husband testimony because the totality of his testimony was entirely against what the house ended up doing here. thank you. >> thank you, counsel. >> the sena...

Impeachment inquiry related to trumps attempts to obstruct the russia investigation. but the white house says now that impeachment has gone forward. theres no rush to settle the dispute over mcgahn. the d.c. court of appeals is set to hear oral arguments in that case next month. we have the former director of the nixon presidential library and a former assistant attorney general. you guys will help us break down all this information here. thanks for being with us. were going to dig into impeachm...

>> juan: let me respond to greg on this. i say you say rush, rush, rush. remember john bolton, not only john bolton, but mack mull va nooe, all the guys have firsthand knowledge but trump said dont testify, send it to the courts. so maybe nancy pelosi should hold on and say -- >> greg: the case is too strong, you dont need witnesses. thats what i heard. >> juan: thats why we have an obstruction article of impeachment. >> greg: its not obstruction. >> juan: nancy is going to go to court? youre er...

Argument as we go into this process. >> and hes expressed respect for nancy pelosi the last few months. >> julian epstein because you were the judicial counsel during the last impeachment this country went through, what would your advice be in terms of the scope. theyre drafting them now. do they keep it narrow? do they stick with ukraine? do they broaden it out and include the potential obstructive acts laid out in the mueller report? >> i think they should clearly keep it narrow to the ukraine...

Offense. he just suggested that the democrats need to spend months in court fighting the president over those witnesses before writing that up as an obstruction article of impeachment. harvard law professor noah feldman said he did not support impeachment efforts against the president until he read the call record with the president of ukraine in which donald trump asked the president of ukraine to announce an investigation of joe biden. >> id like to focus the panel on the evidence they conside...

Obstruction article of impeachment. harvard law professor noah feldman said he did not support impeachment efforts against the president until he read the call record of the phone call with the president of ukraine in which donald trump asked the president of ukraine to announce an investigation of joe biden. >> id like to focus the panel on the evidence they considered and the findings in the intelligence committee report that the president solicited the interference of a foreign government, uk...

Courts. he could show up and exert executive privilege and not answer questions. thats fine. this is involving him, bolton, mulvaney, others, the white house, the executive branch, is constitutionally immune from having to testify to the united states congress. and there is no legal basis for that, which is why they will lose in court. heres where i think democrats face an important decision, strategy moment. we now have seen a focus on the underlying abuse in power article of impeachment with u...

Pompeo, mcgahn and others. make the obstruction article on parity not just ancillary. >> censure is being thrown around. >> i think censure is not the end of the line. i agree with you about obstruction of justice need to go nail that down rock solid. when drafting the articles of impeachment which there will be a vote on them, they do need to make sure that in drafting them, they are trying to make sure that at least as many as possible are let proof so when they are turned over to the senate f...

Southern district of new york. former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, nbc news and msnbc legal analyst, chuck rosenberg. politics editor for the root and msnbc political contributor, jason johnson. we are also joined by former u.s. ambassador to russia and msnbc international affairs analyst michael mcfaul. paul butler, georgetown school of law professor. former federal prosecutor and an nbc news and msnbc legal analyst. let me start with you, ari melber. weve been staring at the t...