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Is apparently when he started becoming very concerned and he went to the oval office to try to overturn this. it does shed light on why theres been reluctance by the trump administration to have these people testify. >> what we learned from this piece which draws from a dozen plus interviews, draws from documents that we havent seen before and testimony during the impeachment process as well is just the level of chaos or concern westbound tithin the administration, particularly within the omb am...

Spate of anti-semitic incidents the country and after he was going to skate on that, the next goes down, especially during the day he engaged on behavior and then gets in front of news cameras and asked china to do holidays, i think that will help the very same thing. at what point does this stop and make the jewish community and in at what point does this president abide by the laws and rules and national security regulations of this country and to this point he hasnt and that particular the or...

Florida. he retweeted the name of somebody purported to be the whistle-blower. this was a technical fluke. the tweet was up. then it was down. a lot of news speculated that he took down the retweet. twitter says there was a glitch in the system about it appearing, yet it remains there. him playing around with this. as i said at the top of the show, people say he is violating the law but encroaching on what is anonymity for a whistle-blower like we have. >> well, first of all, aside from putting ...

Impeachment. democrats point to the fact that though the president claims that he is innocent, claims that he wants to present witnesses, they say hes the one who is blocking those witnesses. how significant is that in all of this? >> well, that has been part of the democrats main arguments. they didnt go all the way to the obstruction of justice because that would have brought them back to the mueller probe been but overall, trump has played the cards very, very differently than any other presi...

The outcome and create the processes that create that outcome in the end and that is what i understand mitch mcconnell is saying that hes going to do. >> scott, lawmakers are home now and hopefully hearing a lot from constituents, right. it is their job. that is their bosses. they should talk and hear from people. how much do you think what they hear from their constituents is going to make its way back to washington with them? >> oh, quite a lot. i think youre exactly right. when mitch mcconnel...

And they are wont give political speeches theyll give a presentation from the prosecution and the presidents lawyers and then i presume at that point they decide whether they need to have witnesses. this is a perfectly fine process for them to follow. and by the way, i dont think there is a u.s. senator out there save one or two that hasnt already decided how theyre going to vote. this is not like a real courtroom. this is not like an episode of perry mason. this is like every other political th...

Being impartial and being fair and having an opinion. if you set on a regular jury you may think the case should go one way but you are to weigh the facts in an impartial manner and most jurors are able to do that. so is it -- i guess the question is more do you feel this will be as political in a trial as it feels right now in the run-up? >> well, the impeachment is not supposed to be a political process. i disagree with mitch mcconnell on this. and my fellow kentuckian scott on this too. it is...

Starts hell be exactly like any own senator and sits there in his chair without his device and you cant talk, you can only ask questions via written instrument and they are wont give political speeches theyll give a presentation from the prosecution and the presidents lawyers and then i presume at that point they decide whether they need to have witnesses. this is a perfectly fine process for them to follow. and by the way, i dont think there is a u.s. senator out there save one or two that hasn...

But if its true there was interference with the defense relationship with the defendant, then that would be a very bad thing, for which the prosecutor should probably be disbarred and maybe there should be some military action from the jag corps against him. what will happen is still unknown. but this is so disturbing that you have a man who was not charged with war crimes, per se, and wasnt charged with all of these other actions that would have been absolutely a violation of everything the mil...

Interference with the defense relationship with the defendant. and that would be a very bad thing, for which the prosecutor should probably be disbarred. and maybe there should be some military action from the corps against him. what will happen is still unknown. but this is so disturbing that you have a man who was not charged with war crimes per se. and wasnt charged with all of these other actions that would have been absolutely a violation of everything the military stands for. they are trai...