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Investigation, im bringing in john witback. great to see you today. first of all, lets talk about where the investigation is in your opinion. >> well, you know, its not a surprise that this has become a "saturday night live" skit about a week ago. we dont know what is in the subpoena. we know that unnamed sources, briefed on the matter are commenting about what or may not be in the subpoena. lets assume the subpoena does request documents from the trump organization. are they related to business...

Growth because of this amazing tax cut that was just passed, and finally i think that the russia investigation will exonerate president trump and backfire against original intent to politically harm the president. i think it will give a clean bill of health and show there was no collusion in the 2016 election. lisa: those are some pretty big predictions. charlie said big wins in 2018 for republicans. mueller will common right president trump and well hit 5% check in growth. >> i have trouble wit...

Growth because of this amazing tax cut that was just passed, and finally i think that the russia investigation will exonerate president trump and backfire against original intent to politically harm the president. i think it will give a clean bill of health and show there was no collusion in the 2016 election. lisa: those are some pretty big predictions. charlie said big wins in 2018 for republicans. mueller will common right president trump and well hit 5% check in growth. >> i have trouble wit...

Tax cut that was just passed, and finally i think that the russia investigation will exonerate president trump and backfire against original intent to politically harm the president. i think it will give a clean bill of health and show there was no collusion in the 2016 election. lisa: those are some pretty big predictions. charlie said big wins in 2018 for republicans. mueller will common right president trump and well hit 5% check in growth. >> i have trouble with 5% economic growth. that woul...

More productive use. they may spend more on capitol hill equipment because theres going to be a new tax break for new machines -- >> we need to talk about interest. the president has said over and over hes not going to put himself before country. we know the interest tax helps him. we need to talk about carried interest. this is what kevin brady said earlier. >> we double the holding period for those who will access carried interest. that means, you know, its retained for that traditional real e...

Period, where it kind of puts it back to what the original intent was, which was to encourage local investment in our business. >> that is absolute nonsense. to characterize this like your local mom and pop developer. were talking about blackstone. were talking about kkr, were talking about donald j. trump and his business. and to separate it out saying well real estate firms going from one to two years makes no sense. real estate firms their holdings are much longer than that. the lockup period...

That have rationales other than original intent. if you want to talk about what the framers of the constitution intended, probably the actions that took place close to the time when they were there, many of them alive when john pickering was impeached, probably best indication what original intent was. a good many people dont understand. will conflate what can happen in judicial aspect of a crime, meaning you have to go to court, proof beyond a reasonable doubt. thats not impeachment. it is a po...

Probably best indication what original intent was. a good many people dont understand. will conflate what can happen in judicial aspect of a crime, meaning you have to go to court, proof beyond a reasonable doubt. thats not impeachment. it is a political process. >> constitutional fact. >> process of the house. >> thats absolutely correct. thanks for being with me. >> representative green not only liberal pressing for impeachment. $91 million supporting democrats in 2016 cycle sent a letter to f...

Involve committing a crime. this is a chance to educate the public which we must do. there is a lot of misinformation out there. >> phrase that everyone knows is high crimes and misdemeanors but youre right, theres precedent it doesnt mean a crime in the sense of the courts. article 10 for johnson, congress didnt like the way johnson talked about congress. insulted them and ran them down. >> exactly. >> so theres precedent but also seems to me that modern understanding of it is that its crime. t...

>> as it is currently written, given whatever you called it, does the president support the travel ban as it is currently written? >> absolutely. he supports steps moving in the direction of all levels and forms possible. he wants the strongest executive order out there. he wanted it to move as quickly as possible. that was the reason for that. >> the original intent was to review immigration policies of those coming into the united states. that was january 21st, 22nd. it has been nearly five mo...