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Much, i guess you can look at it and say there was no intimidation there, but on the other hand it gave adam schiff the opportunity to talk about all of the things that they have asked for that the administration hasnt turned over so to me that was in unforced error because he was able to marshal what he calls evidence of obstruction and theyre talking about having an obstruction article of impeachment and then to drop the tweet in the middle and give schiff the chance to read it to this witness...

The ukraine/u.s. treaty e that we ratified in 2000, the second big witness i think thats important are any witnesses that really relate to the criminal origins of the russia collusion probe. and, you know, like nelly other and only of those that have been named. at the end of the day, if they can do that, it kicks the legs out from underneath an obstruction article. these are important witnesses. and as far as the whistleblower, you know, the whistleblower made himself or herself a material witn...

Testified that there were serious problems, but they didnt have a direct link to the president. that is what republicans have seized on saying they cannot make the case the president knew or ordered this. all this will do is create one more speice of the obstruction article impeachment democrats are expected to draft here in the coming weeks. every time a top administration doesnt show, it means that that person becomes a central part of the impeachment efforts. >> for folks at home who might no...

President mike pence who they added late in the game to try to testify on friday. theres perry, theres bolton. theres a number of these officials who would be great gets for democrats but who are unlikely -- mick mulvaney added today as an invity, but unlikely to cross the firewall at the white house but could be in the lack of their appearance still useful for democrats in saying, look, we knew there were 40 witnesses, we invited or subpoenaed all 40 on the only 30 showed. these are ten element...

State department there, without the ability to prepare the risk of classified information which could be leaked out or spilled in the way that the department couldnt oversee. can have counsel in the office but i regret that. i wish these were open and fair in the process that reflected what the american people deser deserve. >> bret: lou dobbs will have that on fox business. one of the things adam schiff talked about today is that this is all building towards obstruction article of impeachment, ...

Scrutiny. nbc news has learned that most of the witnesses scheduled for closed-door testimony, the remainder of this week are not expected to appear as requested. house democrats have already insisted they wont go to court to compel those witnesses to testify. instead they will consider their efforts to stonewall lawmakers as part of a separate obstruction article of impeachment. that is, it seems, republicans are starting to circle the wagons around a new defense of the president in a developme...

About this morning, including some new important reporting from bloomberg. jeff mason is here. jackie kucinich and shan wu. let me begin with the wave of subpoenas that is coming. should the american people expect that to actually result in something different? meaning, increased cooperation, or, say, if democrats vote overwhelmingly to move forward officially on this impeachment inquiry, does that mean the white house will all of a sudden cooperate? >> i dont think its going to make a differenc...

The house of representatives now appears to be moving quickly towards drawing up the details of all of this obstruction from the white house and from the president specifically into an initial article of impeachment against president trump. just as the first article of impeachment against richard nixon in 1974 was about obstruction and appears the house is moving to make the first article against trump an obstruction article, as well. it appears to be the first one they are working on in detail....

Inquiry, it will be much more than that. the house of representatives now appears to be moving quickly towards drawing up the details of all of this obstruction from the white house and from the president specifically into an initial article of impeachment against president trump. just as the first article of impeachment against richard nixon in 1974 was about obstruction and appears the house is moving to make the first article against trump an obstruction article, as well. it appears to be the...

Documents to the state department. the state department from the outset had control over the documents we see this morning that theyre having control over the testimony. and youll see that frustration from house democrats boiling over. my colleague rachel who has been doing great reporting on this, and i reported over the weekend just how democrats are going to move, at this point, going to rapidly move toward an obstruction of congress article because they know that, for example, if they defer ...