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We have a mission to accomplish. i think that idea of you know it is not a partisan issue. it is an issue of doing the thing thats right. i understand from my point. i came to congress to do all this right, people in my democratic sent me into washington and make hard choices? >> they did that in part because i have been making hard choices in my career in the navy. >> i did six diplomats and weapon systems. there are a lot o f hard choices that had to be named during my career and that backgrou...

Signed on with this with you. >> to see people who have been resonant on this issue and not willing to be out ahead of other people on this, taking a moderate line on this. it feels different. it does feel like something is broken and the democrats are going to move forward. >> does it feel that way to you? >> yes, it definitely does. i quickly consulted my colleagues who i found we are all on the same page, you can see seven of us came together with a national security background and shared our...

Congress right now. in the midst of the national security crisis, admitting he pressed a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent while withholding military aide to that leader in the meantime is making people sit up and take notice that elaine luria has joined her fellow democrats to call that action, quote "impeachable offense." >> they write tonight, we call on our colleagues and congress to consider these of all congressional authorities available to us including the power of ...

I want to clear up something. the biden cam tpaign did not as me to write that debate. i dont work for the biden campaign. the new york times called about a story that was published before the opt ed and based on that story, they were doing a story by elizabeth warrens fund raising. she changed her policy and attacked the bidens fundraiser in philadelphia in june. 20 other people given elizabeth maximum under federal law, ten months before our senate campaign. the "times" called me on thursday, ...

From the first two debates that you know taking personal cheap shots at vice president biden does not work out well. >> so is joe biden fighting his opponents through his surrogates? >> jason johnson, political analy analyst, tiffany cross, and ed randall, former governor of pennsylvania. governor randall, i will go to you first, it was your opt ed that prompted the discussion looking at the way team biden fought back. there is a sense that biden supporters will not break any descent from anythi...

With russians and they lied about it. why would they do that? if you take a look at the lies and the meetings that took place at trump tower. when you take a look at the polling data that has been given to russians, when you talkke a look at the fact that flynn called someone in russia and told him you know the sanctions were going to be lifted and they can go on with their big energy project. there is so much thats there that shows collusion. as far as i am concerned and obstruction of justice....

From the chairman of the house oversight committee, elijah cummings. he wrote on a washington post, the white house has not turned over a single piece of paper to our committee or made a single official available for testimony. yesterday, he followed that opt-ed with a letter to the white house counsel. he gives the administration a final chance to comply with requests before resorting to alternative means to obtain them. this morning, the president was asked if he was directing his aides to ign...

Opt-ed, an aid with the president that it is a huge of breach trust. i am told by conway that nearly 480 people have access to that private schedule just to give you a sense of whos in the know and not when it comes to that piece of it here in the administration. >> you are talking about madeline westerhoust. >> there is been questions about whether executive time is used to not allow the president to watch television or comment on it but potentially not high but not report of who hes talking to...

Opt ed from the research founders of fusion gps, and they were shocked by what the british spy steele uncovered when it kim to the kremlins effort to help elect donald trump, and part of the op ed saying as we told the senate judiciary committee in august, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau received from other sources including one inside the trump camp. that one source in the camp could be george papadopoulos, the fact that he told an ...

>> molly: a number of states are considering raising taxes on gasoline. the federal government might just do the same. federal and gas taxes have been frozen since 1993. but raising them could help pay for infrastructure programs the president has been promising. the average gas price is $2.32 per gallon. the lowest in more than a decade. allison barber has more from washington. allison in >> reporter: hi, molly. in a new york times opt ed, rom emanuel called on president trump to increase the f...