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Was masquerade and they werent so moderate after all. >> as a former prosecutor, former federal judge with many high positions, you look at a pattern of conduct, right? you can look at specific conduct but a pattern of conduct. a pattern of conduct by this house under the democrats has been to seek and destroy. they have issued scores of subpoenas of the presidents private finances, tax returns, his bank records, his past businesses and have had nothing to do with their oversight function. theyv...

Was masquerade and they werent so moderate after all. >> as a former prosecutor, former federal judge with many high positions, you look at a pattern of conduct, right? you can look at specific conduct but a pattern of conduct. a pattern of conduct by this house under the democrats has been to seek and destroy. they have issued scores of subpoenas of the presidents private finances, tax returns, his bank records, his past businesses and have had nothing to do with their oversight function. theyv...

Security, of national security, to stand up and do their jobs. >> you know, jeremy, i dont want to put you on the spot, but im going to do it anyway. at the cia and at the pentagon you obviously were in contact with democrats and republicans. those are agencies with a whole lot of bipartisan support for their missions and their funds. what do you think chairman burr thinks when he sees not just -- i mean, whats remarkable here is weve passed pro trump propaganda. we are now trafficking in this c...

Activity. i experienced some of it on the m deic side when i was director of cia and at the white house. and those oversight responsibilities are very, very important and fundamental to the good operation of the government. and if those oversight activities are going to be beset and undermined by partisanship and by political agendas, that really is going to affect our national security at its core. and so i would like to see that maybe this -- what we experienced over the last several years is ...

City of washington that at least the oversight function of those core national security institutions, the fbi, the cia and others is going to be done in a bipartisan manner the way it was intended when it was set up back in the 1980s. >> you reference there partisanship. i think youre referring to the oversight torture report of dianne feinstein now memorialized in a film. the cynical interpretation there, and i think its been wielded precisely by the president and his allies, right, is that, yo...

Says we understand whats at stake here. we understand that the congress has legitimate oversight -- oversight function. and the presidents way out of line. and then the question youre asking is, what -- is it possible the president will just say, we dont care? >> take me to court. he just did. >> take me to jail. those questions now pop up. we hear its a similar question to the what happens if trump loses and refuses to leave office? you know, all those things which are, i dont think, unreasonab...

Primary, ted cruz, marco rubio. both are here in the senate. cruz on this panel with an oversight function and senator graham himself. he made self effacing remarks that he wasnt seen as a big enough candidate to wind up in the texts. i wonder if you could walk our viewers through the politics that hangs overall of this with candidates who lost to donald trump, who are now trying to defend him and as you say are trying to carry water for a view of a quote, unquote, witch hunt even on the day of ...

Privilege. so this is just another step in this chess game thats going on. this procedural chess game. its going to end up in litigation. theyre already saying theyre going to appeal. going to be a stay and where its headed. >> a bigger issue. hard to imagine a more significant wound than alleged interference with congress ability to detect and deter abuses of power within the executive branch for protection of the people of the united states. i mean, if this ruling were to be overturned, what w...

Making up laws like executive privilege to really try to avoid proper oversight function. so i actually think i heard you say mick mulvaney put out a statement hes going to refuse to compile and listen to trump if trump continues to say dont testify. i have to tell you, that couldnt be a more squarely unlawful act and it is in contempt of what a federal court judge just said with respect to the law. so i think these people now are really putting themselves in harms way. >> what does this do, mik...

Help them kick out the russians who invaded their country. >> yes, 100%. >> dana: yet, what the democrats are saying is that might be true, but it still doesnt negate the fact in their minds that the president broke the law because he was engaging in bribery. how do you see that? the president said the phone call was perfect. do you think the phone call was perfect and if not, do you think that it rises to an impeachable offense to the point that they are bringing the country to a standstill con...