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Constitutional grounds. but its the judiciary committee, which has traditionally been the most partisan committee in congress. members going after each other as much as they might be going after the constitutional basis for this report. and then, oh by the way, were going to have rolling deadlines all week long. we could potentially have additional hearings announced next week. weve got this deadline on friday for the president and his attorneys to decide if they want to participate in the inqui...

Quid pro quo. the idea that the money was released because they knew there was an investigation going to be happening. >> right. and in some ways there was already evidence of this. we know that the democrats had announced an investigation of ukraine matters on september 9th, two days before the aid gets released, but this tells you even more that the president and his team was aware at least in a broad way of what the whistle-blower had concerns about. and so we now know a new element of the ti...

Articles of impeachment. so, a very fast-moving situation. >> lets talk about the articles of impeachment. something you wrote tonight is that two articles of impeachment are virtually guaranteed to show up as features of the impeachment against the president. but that democrats are divided on whether to involve matters related to russia and the mueller investigation into this. tell me a bit about the dispute. >> right, so the ukraine investigation clearly honed in on the abuse of power argument...

Hearsay rule that are played every day in courtrooms and could play in an impeachment proceeding where the fact that you dont have the direct conversation but the circumstances create the validity of the testimony, its just as strong as direct conversations. >> what do you think? >> i think youll continually hear that theme by republicans. i think theyll continually push democrats to show evidence of the president actually saying i wanted this bribery screen to go through. and i think youll hear...

But it the start i would like to focus on the substance of this. this is impeachment in search of a crime. much of what the discussion is by the democratic party doesnt ever work its way around to high crimes and misdemeanors, treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors, it starts with abuse of power argument. the difference between this one and 1998 is you didnt have to search far to be able to understand in connection with the clinton impeachment there were crimes that were set forth in t...

One is going to be on the ukrainian abuse of power argument, and then the other will be based on obstruction of justice during the mueller proceedings. and, you know, its important not to forget, though, the whole question of obstruction, right? you know, two or three months ago we were all saying theyve got a very strong case on obstruction. so its well possible you could have two charges now come out of the impeachment process, and that might strengthen the hand of the administration with rega...

Louse and she goes back to quoting the federalist papers. yes, i do think it ought to be appealed. thats the right legal step to take. it does seem relatively straightforward. >> so, david, there is a temptation here for the democrats and maybe, according to some, a dangerous temptation, which is that if this is upheld, they would have access to the grand jury material from the mueller investigation. thats not the investigation thats happening right now. were getting the publicity from ukraine h...

Coming forward with mostly corroborating evidence. we know what happened. you know, the crime scene was that call and its all been verified. everything the whistle-blowers complaint has been verified. but the more you can corroborate it, the more you can nail it down. and also, filling in details that could lead to legal trouble for other players other than president trump. people like rudy giuliani. and they could be in a world of hurt legally and if they are, it will be in part because of some...

Stooer reing zeroing in on the abuse of power argument. well discuss what that means. and plus a deal over the tax returns. new developments on that, next. are we going to see donald trumps tax returns? its tough to quit smoking cold turkey. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. chantix reduces the urge so when the day arrives, youll be more ready to kiss cigarettes go...

Democrats push too much and put too much stock into this, it might just burn them in the end? >> it definitely could. they dont say of the the wall argument. this is a presidential power argument. basically saying trump is grabbing power and spending money doesnt have the authority to build a small. the presidency is becoming too powerful. trump is exceeding authority and thats going to be a very appealing argument in the elections. but youre right they can overdo appearance push come to show we...