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Agreement in democratic caucus that the president must be held accountable, no one is above the law and we have responsibility to conduct oversight to follow the facts. >> but theres not agreement -- >> no, we are not going to let the president engage in cover-up and prevent the american people from learning the truth. now there is some discussion about whats the best vehicle to do it, is it through normal oversight proceedings or is it through the opening of impeachment inquiry? thats really a ...

Work on infrastructure bill, agreement in democratic caucus that the president must be held accountable, no one is above the law and we have responsibility to conduct oversight to follow the facts. >> but theres not agreement -- >> no, we are not going to let the president engage in cover-up and prevent the american people from learning the truth. now there is some discussion about whats the best vehicle to do it, is it through normal oversight proceedings or is it through the opening of impeach...

Mueller outlined in the report since most people did not actually completely read it. >> the leader on the republican side has not allowed the democrats in our hearing monday to say because of rules of conduct hes a liar, a grifter, hes obstructed justice or any of these things. the rules of congress and jeffersons rules about the king applyi applying to us dont let us say the truth. >> what we want the american people to know that the president of the united states directed individuals to creat...

>> lets talk about the politics, nancy pelosi has laid this out. i agree, has made a political call. it may cost her the majority in the house. i would wonder if thats true, george. do you think people are going to vote for somebody because they were for impeachment? >> no i think the country is not particular interested in this. >> it wouldnt affect the vote at all? >> no, this is basically as the country hears it, its a process question. i know the refusal was an item in the nixon impeachment....

Shop, in a town hall, what theyre talking about is the need to be able to -- to be able to work hard and pay the bills at the end of the month. >> joining me now to talk about this democratic strategist, maria cardona and ben ferguson. listening to john ask this question and i asked candidates process questions before. thats what this is. its a process question. they always hate it. they say they only want to talk about the issues. maria, shouldnt she have a better understanding of what blew up ...

The issues that are important to us, that are playing out. >> dickerson noted a process question, he admitted in 16 he lost because he couldnt get 51% and he basically said i dont need 51% this time with so many in. >> no, he doesnt. >> i dont know if -- his floor isnt 34 but his floor is probably higher than most everybody else in this field at that 15 to 20. >> yeah. >> it doesnt take much imagination to see him at 30 suddenly impenetrable. >> when you look at the latest polls out of your shop...

>> process question number two, then. why publish thursday night as opposed to waiting for a third source or fourth source, knowing the stactionz of this story? >> we published because we were very, very confident in the sourcing of this story. we had been waiting. its not like anthony walked into my office on thursday noon and said, i have this. weve been developing on a long period of time, with sources, with a -- and without getting into the details of sources, with a set of sources who were ...

>> mr. carr is a lovely spokesperson, we know him, weve dealt with him in the past on a number of occasions. its never been my experience to get any signal, wave off, any go ahead from the special counsels office through that spokesperson. its not the first time weve dealt with him. certainly will probably not be the last. >> and you should realize hes speaking as one of the reporters. there havent been a lot of breaks out of the special counsels investigation. we have been on the outside breaki...

Faithfully execute the laws and what could be considered an abuse of power, people will remember that. some of the dancing around hes done to avoid committing to certain things, people will remember that. theyll remember he promised transparency, he promised he was going to give us the information, and he promised he would not allow trump to bully him and break the law. so well see. >> i was about to say, im cautious about bringing in another guest, but someones been very patient with us. thats ...

That communication continue and what we will learn from this. >> not just flynns time in the white house and after, but before flynn was in the white house. when he entered this plea deal, he was the first person that mueller was able to grab who had connections to the campaign, the transition, and the white house. this is what i think people have forgotten because of course what mike flynn pleaed to is lying to the fbi. a process crime. thats all that mueller has. it could be all he has. there ...