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Witnesses come in from the white house for anything -- hes not letting them come in to talk about immigration. were not just talking about criminal investigations. its the entire oversight process thats being challenged. everything happened really quickly during watergate, and they are doing a much better job of dragging their feet. the courts acted on the expedited cases and things went fast. and the one thing you left out in what happened in that period was we had subpoenaed in the prosecution...

Of congress, which is just as bad as the obstruction, just as bad as the abuse, maybe even more so because its destroying democracy which is built on having checks and balances and having oversight. and if you say i wont have any witnesses come in from the white house for anything, hes not letting them to come in and talk about immigration. were not just talking about criminal investigations. its the entire oversight process being challenged. everything happened really quickly during watergate a...

Something, it spikes. we saw it with mueller, and we saw it when mueller made indictments and the whole point of the impeachment is to educate. >> and chris, do you want to respond to philippe saying that, where are you right now on the prospect of the impeachment or at least the inquiry? >> until 10 days ago, alex, i believed that the overall oversight process would be enough to keep this president in check. it is very clear that for democrats, not having done something significant, and not onl...

About mueller and whether the presidents conduct was obstruction. we are seeing things that are a normal part of the oversight process. he wants to say this is impeachment but also a little leery to do that so to get to that place he has to go through the investigative process and that is where we are, that is the duty what the constitution says their job is and that is what we are seeing. daymac that is coming across the same time we have the 302s on bruce abca26, last night, jerry nadler annou...

How do you respond to your colleagues? theres an oversight process. we have lawsuits teed up. the way to do this is to build the evidence and so on. your colleagues seem to think that the oversight process is insufficient. >> i think we do that in impeachment. were going to see in getting mcgahn out there. what is the grand jury testimony? thats the main course. you say indict. not that you came to a ham sandwich, but thats what you do. >> help us understand what jerry nadler did. by doing that,...

Is. right? they say that they -- they worry that hes trying to goad them into impeaching him because impeachment will be good for him. but he actually quite plainly seems very scared of impeachment. hes cooking up all these nonsense legal arguments. i will sue if they try to impeach me. which just isnt a thing. he attacks weakness -- hes a bully, thats how he operates. the failure to start an impeachment process is encouraging him to lawlessly block the oversight process in congress. to sort of ...

The midterm elections to do something -- to avoid impeachment that was based on a kind of misunderstanding of what kind of person president trump is. right? they say that they -- they worry that hes trying to goad them into impeaching him because impeachment will be good for him. but he actually quite plainly seems very scared of impeachment. hes cooking up all these nonsense legal arguments. i will sue if they try to impeach me. which just isnt a thing. he attacks weakness -- hes a bully, thats...

Star witnesses to talk about the parameters of what might be part of an impeachment inquiry. i also thought that he was there to sort of highlight some of the aspects of the mueller report that seemed swept away because many people dont want to see the full report, or at least hear about it. didnt get a chance to see the entire hearing, but what i gleaned from the oversight hearing is that the house committee is looking for a way to go forward. >> martha: they want to impeach. they are trying to...

We represent different areas of the country, geographically diverse and idealogically diverse as well. there will be differences of opinion both on policy and on oversight. obviously, as you know, there are some who believe in a proceeding under the normal sort of oversight process is the most prudent step. there are others, and that includes me who believe that opening an inquiry, an impeachment inquiry, is the most prudent step. as you know, and youve interviewed several of my colleagues previ...

Chairman nadlers position? >> we could say legislating in oversight was not mutually exclusive, and that certainly was the case yesterday when we passed the dream and promise act. with respect to that report, i havent seen that report, so i dont know if im in a position to comment on it. you have reported on this, as have many others, there is obviously differences of opinion within the democratic caucus. as one would expect, we are a diverse party, a big tent caucus. we represent different area...