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Hoping to move quickly on impeachment and have something done by the holiday season. i dont know if this will slow their work. i think elijah coummings wouldnt want it to slow the oversight work. in that vein, you will see democrats to plow ahead as they memorialize him and take note of this moment and who he was. >> were going to hear or -- the committees will hear behind closed doors, gordon sondland, the ambassador to the e.u. if we can show one of the text messages with bill taylor, who was ...

It was confirmed by the presidents own add missions on camera. it was further confirmed by the transcript of the telephone call and finally confirmed by very elaborate whistle-blower report that details the entire scheme. every day we learn new evidence which corroborates this shocking behavior of the president and rather than confront or answer or be held accountable to that conduct, hes attempting to challenge the process by which congress is doing its oversight work. an impeachment inquiry th...

And it is not unprecedented which means anything can happen when the system of checks and balances work. i think what you see here in that liability thats important in this context is people who currently work for the president so they have those obligations of office and they may want to make him happy. but the more they believe personal legal liability, the more they have to think about are they opening themselves up to perjury, how do they want to handle themselves, that strengthens the hands...

She had to show up. theres no absolute immunity but she didnt have to answer every question because of an exertion of the executive privilege. now, i hope that makes sense. >> it does, i guess my question is has this idea of executive privilege has that grown with executive authority. the last several presidents have used executive privilege. >> another great question. i think there is probably lines that run together there in parallel, not perfectly but presidents of different administrations o...

Talking about things they know because of their role in the administration, has that grown with executive authority. the last several presidents have used executive privilege. >> another great question. i think there is probably lines that run together there in parallel, not perfectly but presidents of different administrations over many years have asserted executive privilege. now, what normally happens is they reach some sort of accommodation with congress, rather than having everyone run off ...

She didnt have to answer every question because of an exertion of the executive privilege. now, i hope that makes sense. >> it does, i guess my question is has this idea of excessiecut privilege has that grown with executive authority. the last several presidents have used executive privilege. >> another great question. i think there is probably lines that run together there in parallel, not perfectly but presidents of different administrations over many years have asserted executive privilege. ...

Congressman joe nagouse. margaret carlson and tom nickles a national security expert and former republican senate staff member. thank you for joining me on a friday night. congressman it, where do you stand on how democrats should proceed with respect to the president? >> thank you, ali, for having me on. i support opening an impeachment inquiry. i like many colleagues believe that the findings, detailed in the special counsels report made clear that the president engaged in impeachable conduct ...

Important oversight work. it made clear to me an inquiry and opening an inquiry is warranted. ive joined many of my colleagues earlier this week in stating the same. >> margaret, the president seems to have moved forward. hes been carrying on about hoaxes and no collusion and weve learned that william barr seems to be conspiring with the president to make sure these messages get out first. this new call for the declassification and investigation into the investigators is going to having an effec...

Own private attorney rather than the attorney for the people of this country. >> if you cant get mueller in the chair in public any time soon is it worth thinking about how to calm this down? because theres not a great avenue going forward in terms of consensus and you know this president will keep ratcheting up the reactionary moves and this will never end if you cant get mueller in the chair in public soon. >> yeah, i hope well get him before the committee in public. i think its very important...

Will i ing. these wins in court help, i think, help us get back on our feet doing the oversight work that we need to do, but the fact that were having to litigate about all of this is a total loss to the american people, a waste of taxpayer dollars and its flat out wrong. >> youve made congressional hearings on c-span must see tv by asking actual questions about legislation and regulation. the latest moment happened with hud secretary ben carson. let me replay part of that so our audience in cas...