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With these two who, i agree, i was listening to holmes opening statement. i thought hes straightst out o whatgh aaron sorkin would writen a screen play about the good guys trying to rescue america from russian influence. >> you want these people on that wall. i think theyre strong. their argument is theyre defending america under parties of botham administrations. the only thing you can do in a congressional cross examination is try to make it more about legitimate policy differences, and more a...

To get to one place. and that is to have ukrainians investigate joe biden. the other interesting point weve heard day after day, chris, is that this was a policy disagreement. that the bureaucrats are trying to undermine the president because they didnt like his policy. and we know from covering washington all these buildings around us, all these different agencies, state, pentagon, they can be at cross purposes sometimes if they disagree with policy. thats a real thing. the difference here is n...

Critic we heard on the committee, they were just airing policy differences. no, actually these people who have worked with different policies and under different presidents by definition. as you say, many went to the lawyers through the official cha channels because they saw something that looked wrong, inappropriate, and potentially illegal. that goes to something else here which is ultimately, this is not about leaking. its not about criticism, its not about anyone breaking the rules. the whis...

Have fiona hill at the end of this week and shes a former trump russia adviser. but as i said, at least a couple of these people do have firsthand knowledge of the actual phone call. >> yeah, well, we the american people also have firsthand knowledge because we can see the best evidence, we can see the transcript of the phone call, that theres nothing there. great, we can all observe the sky is blue. fantastic. doesnt mean theres anything legally impeach aable abouable . what these witnesses are...

Old enough to remember the last impeachment fight in washington -- republicans were portrayed as a general matter as the partisan fanatic on a doomed mission, and you get zero sense of that now. even though democrats are on an equally doomed mission to em peach and remove trump. howard: i certainly dont agree that the most likely outcome in the senate that the president will be acquit, but what do you make of some conservative commentators attacking these career diplomats, you know, not on groun...

Old enough to remember the last impeachment fight in washington -- republicans were portrayed as a general matter as the partisan fanatic on a doomed mission, and you get zero sense of that now. even though democrats are on an equally doomed mission to em peach and remove trump. howard: i certainly dont agree that the most likely outcome in the senate that the president will be acquit, but what do you make of some conservative commentators attacking these career diplomats, you know, not on groun...

How are you devising what was-- >> the whole ball game, neil, is whether or not you believe and whether the american people believe that the president had corrupt intent. we dont impeach an administration. we dont impeach an administration based upon policy differences. we impeach a president of the united states for having committed a high crime or misdemeanor which constitutes an abuse of the public trust. neil: anything youve heard so far hit that measure? >> no. i think its well short of it....

Department i believe at the time in ukraine, especially to have this attack happen coming out of left field. >> scott? >> yeah. i dont think it was smart for the president to tweet at her today. i found her to be pretty compelling figure. she clearly loves her country. i mean, she may have policy differences with the president and thats fine and she admitted in her testimony. she understands these positions serve as the pleasure of the president, but to attack her today i think while she was tes...

Over policy, impeachment is a constitutional process that congress must utilize as necessary. >> tucker: do you want to know what the left is up to? its not hard to define. there is a code, write this down. listen carefully to what they deny. that is always the real answer. you are not supposed to impeach a president over policy differences, says adam schiff. hes right about that. that is exactly -- precisely what they are doing. christian white and serves at the senior advisor at the state depa...

>> in this impeachment hearing today where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or other high crimes where is the impeachable offense in that college are either of you here to assert there was an impeachable offense in that call? >> cricket started chirping. >> there is silence. eventually taylor says im not here to make a determination, that is your job but that is the bottom line question. it is not even the hearsay stuff, whether they heard this or whatever. it is, is it impeachable a...