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Placate the 31 democrats who won in swing districts. >> bill: clinton and nixon impeachment had real crimes. the president has not committed a crime. thats the big difference in what im saying is a partisan impeachment. the only bipartisan issue is to not impeach or start the inquiry. for the 31 in prime districts have to be saying what did i get myself into? >> bill: lets wait for the news on that. nothing in regard to the mueller report. a lot of talk they would dip back into the report. it do...

Justice to do too much. i do want your take on one question facing democrats this morning which is how expansive to make the articles of impeachment. we know theyre still talking. but whats less clear is if its just talk right now and theyll focus on ukraine. where do you see it going? >> my view is in my opinion that it would be a tactical blunder, a huge mistake of democrats were to expand the focus to include the mueller report. lets not forget, john, that in the second half of the mueller re...

Impeachable offenses but only about 47% want to see the president removed. so the democrats havent quite gotten to where they need to get to in terms of winning the public argument but theyre a lot further than they were in september and thats because of the discipline that nancy pelosi has exerted. the more narrow they can keep this focused on the ukraine matter where there seems to be consensus in the entire calk urks i think the better off the democrats will be. but for political reasons and ...

The only modern model that chief justice roberts has is rehnquist. what can he take away from the rehnquist lesson that might guide him? >> i think hes going to adopt rehnquist as his patron sane the. hes going to want to do the least amount possible during the senate trial. i mean, right now, the gop would love it if roberts would recuse himself, they dont want him there. the democrats are going to be putting on heat saying, we must hear from john bolton, if obstruction issues come with the mue...

Not at all. no, maam. nope. and more people than ever are enjoying romantic getaways. (romantic music) thats gross priceline. every trip is a big deal. welcome back. cnn has learned the house judiciary committee will take a vote that could open the way to impeaching president donald trump. this development comes as democrats brought their impeachment probe beyond president trumps potential obstruction of justice. cnns joe johns is at the white house for us. what more do we know about these dev...

It is -- >> i hear -- >> its this administration. >> i guess i go back to what you just said, though. youre making a case that it violates the constitution. and youre not the only one. a lot of democrats have made this case. how is -- how is an article of impeachment not the next avenue if the courts are going to claim that he has this power? >> well, i think you saw that just before we went for district wor work that jerry nadler and our entire committee steered the ship in the direction of now...

Get powerful relief with new pepto bismol liquicaps. new developments on this friday night. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski after some wrangling is now saying he will testify publicly in this impeachment probe by the house judiciary committee. the committee ramping up what its now calling formal impeachment proceedings is according to chairman nadler investigating these obstruction issues. white house officials had talked about invoking executive privilege in some sort of bid to ...

Expect you let the facts take you where they lead you. thats what he did. if hes diving into the whole russian issue and that leads him into obstruction issues which it did, he would be yelling at him for not pursuing that. look, if it was a president on the other side of the aisle, you can get radcliff would be screaming bloody murder if he left that out of his report. >> sure. thats why i kept referring to logical overlap meaning the republicans are saying something some trump critics said whi...

Was frustration theyre being drawn into this. >> and the date is very important. today was supposed to be the date you heard from robert mueller. and the democrats do not want to hang their hat on the hook that maybe racism which is a foregone conclusion to many people about the presidents state of mind but the idea they were hoping that if there was a discussion on impeachment, it had to do with the mueller report, obstruction issues, the issues surrounding collusion and pho-- foreign interfere...

File prosecutors who filed this just now are trying to put a different trump adviser, stone, in prison. we have that later in the hour. there are also and you may have heard because it was being discussed on msnbc in the last hour. escalating tensions amidst reports that iran shot down a u.s. drone. thats obviously an important international story. we have a report on it later on "the beat" tonight. theres a lot going on. we begin with the transcript from the hope hicks testimony. chairman jerry...