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Purposes. tonight as we hear the angst and the plain, flat-out hypocrisy, remember that this is a majority who had one thing in mind and i will not deny that they have not passed bills, but i will say they havent passed bills that could get bipartisan support, and weve passed bills that actually get signed into law. instead we want to talk about subpoenas we dont enforce and processes we dont follow, why? because you dont have an argument. you dont have abuse of power or obstruction of congress....

Long day today. long day ahead of you. how you doing? >> you know, every day is a holiday on capitol hill, don. >> explain the process we just saw tonight. does it advance the articles of impeachment? >> so, i think its important to frame what was actually happening tonight, right? you see 41 opening statements, 5 minutes each, over 3 1/2 hours, and you think, all right, some of this is dry, weve seen a lot of this during the hearings but its important to recognize what the members twarl doi s w...

Initial inquiry about the russian meddling with the campaign and the collusion, and i think he thinks there was improper, in the page identifiesa warrants. that that, he should not have aired these views publicly as he did. he defends himself by saying, he doesnt want to leave the record sort of misleading to the american public. thats not the process. the process is if he has an observation to make about the inspector generals report, he administration it in writing to the inspector general and...

Subpoenas or investigation of his investigation. >> i always say to our producers always identify the witness. you know what his background is? he is a birther. hes a guy that only knew one thing about it, claimed obama was born somewhere in kenya and his white mother went over there to have him and he could run for president. >> this is an era of emotion and accusation. when the nixon trial -- when the nixon impeachment process was under way the members of congress who were proud at least to ha...

Politics, sometimes perception is reality. you got to be careful about that to keep fact and fugazi separate like today. as articles of impeachment come down as a result of this presidents penchant for doing the wrong thing with foreign powers, guess whom he chooses to meet with. russias top envoy, sergey lavrov. if there were any doubt whether this president is all about the me over the we, the russian pulled a trump and just lied to your face. >> translator: we have highlighted once again that...

The time now, politics. my argument. politics, sometimes perception is reality. you got to be careful about that to keep fact and fugazi separate like today. as articles of impeachment come down as a result of this presidents penchant for doing the wrong thing with foreign powers, guess whom he chooses to meet with. russias top envoy, sergey lavrov. if there were any doubt whether this president is all about the me over the we, the russian pulled a trump and just lied to your face. >> translator...

Was doing that investigation and presenting it in the white house. i dont want to waste our time arguing about this, the fact is they were invited to participate in the judiciary committees processes through the house and they have not done so thus far. when it comes to the obstruction issue, the other articles of impeachment, congressman, given that these witnesses and these documents have been blocked and your body, congress, has the not only the authority but the constitutionally mandated dut...

What it spares him is a substantive defense on the merits. >> even the testimony against him is oftentimes by himself, standing on the white house lawn asking other countries, foreign countries to meddle in our elections. you know, even his own words, right, hes often his own worst enemy. you also wrote that its his behavior that makes impeachment necessary, also makes for an escape hatch. explain what you mean by that. >> the irresponsible -- the feckless demagogue, the one who engages in the c...

To create an alternative reality like that. what it spares him of course is a substantive defense on the merits. >> even the testimony against him is oftentimes by himself, standing on the white house lawn asking other countries, foreign countries to meddle in our elections. you know, even his own words, right? hes often his own worst enemy. you also wrote that the behavior that makes impeachment -- its his behavior that makes impeachment necessary, also makes for an escape hatch. explain what y...

Satisfying. >> they were skirting the law. i think that what they did to carter page, as you have heard, is just unbelievable. let me ask you this, how many times, how often do you find mistakes enough ice application? >> this is the first time my office has done a deep dive into a particular application. weve done higher-level reviews in the fisa processes and found various issues at a higher level but this of the first time weve been able to delve in in this way. >> its a fairly unusual occurr...