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>> and nia, in her letter she said were taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas or continue obstructing the house of representatives. nobody is above the law. i dont think -- it is going to pass more than 218 democrats in the house. but it is not going to stop the republicans and the president from complaining. >> no, it is not and as dana said, i think this puts them on ...

Also here tonight, bret baier is the host of "special report" and author of "three days at the brink," fdrs daring gamble to win at world war ii. a great read is all of bret his books are. great to have you here tonight. i want to ask you if you saw whats going on in the news all of this with regard to what kelly ann and i were talking about, and thats this new nancy pelosi move to actually have this vote, which is going to happen this week, apparently. what is that change? >> listening to some ...

Resolution. were going to pass a resolution. number two, it says no more court fights. you resist a subpoena, thats evidence of obstruction of just. keeps it moving. >> it knocks the legs out from under the process argument, which was the big argument that republicans were making last week in congress, when they stormed or went in, whateveria want to call it, to this hearing. >> the brooks brothers. >> right, knocks the legs ought of this argument. it puts the white house on the defense, but the...

Anything wrong. the president is saying this call was perfect, the whistle-blowers account of the call is misinformation. they know the whistle-blowers account of the call has been backed up by the skand the actu transcript of the call that was put out, so you dont see many republicans saying that. the process argument is a short-term argument. at some point this is all going to come out into light and the republicans are going to have to deal with the substance. >> and what were hearing from re...

Mike pompeo, everybody makes mistakes. hes a never-trumper. his lawyer is the head of the never-trumpers. theyre a dying breed but theyre still there. >> it was mike pompeo who asked mr. taylor to come out of retirement. nobody thinks of bill taylor was political at all. my question is will republicans on capitol hill get into the character assassination or will they stick to the process? theyve been hesitant to attack folks like bill taylor and when you ask them about it, they go back to the pr...

Republicans are attacking way to suppress the substance. and that should be very clear. who have access to everything thats happening here. so, you know, there is no universe in which republicans are being shut out here or if you consider them to represent 50% of americans this is happening behind closed doors and its happening in a way that we understand this information is secure and sensitive, but republicans are very much being included in the process. so any process argument is just a way t...

Pretty remarkable opinion, not for its ultimate conclusion, but the way in which the judge got to her conclusion and what she said in the course of that. first of all, as you were discussing with the congressman, she really just knocked down this talking point, basically, this process argument that the republicans have been making, and she dont that in a political way. she said, look at the constitution, look at the rules of the house. there is no requirement that certain votes be taken or this ...

Information, the grand jury information. the fact is that these very same people, mike pompeo when he was on the benghazi committee, were refusing to let state department lawyers and that whole process argument is exactly the process that they were performing. and in those two previous impeachment exercises, the one leading up to the watergate also, the clinton impeachment, there were special prosecutors or independent counsels. so they are doing the work of an independent counsel. it is more an...

Senate and that is where the process argument does support. >> calls to break up facebook as its ceo was grilled on capitol hill this week. mark zuckerberg deserve the criticism he got next. was in an accident. when i called usaa, it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" thats where i felt relief. were the rivera family and we plan to be with usaa for life. see how much you can save with usaa insurance. oh! you got a fast one there see how much you can save just cant get him to slow d...

Testimonies in public, emily? >> conceivably. as jonathan alluded, to the house republicans and the senate republicans have tried very much to focus on process over substance. but we know now with the latest judicial hearing by the judge, that even the process argument is being undermined. a lot of criticism about how nancy pelosi didnt formally call for a launching of the impeachment inquiry. that was sort of undermined in this latest judicial ruling. so not much left for the republicans to cli...