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Capricious, ash tear or made sense. The Supreme Court in boumedin struck it down saying it was not an adequate substitute for habeas. Thats correct, senator. Your role was to find out a way to engage congress on the Detainee Treatment because it was your view that congress, being involved, would strengthen the president s hand . As a lawyer . Yes. I was not a policymaker but i did advise. As a lawyer. As did many others. There were very other many fine lawyers, too, senator, who advised the admi...

Former independent counsel concluded this from what he has heard so far. >> clearly in his opening statement of quit pro kuo and then he says later well, the president said i dont want anything, right? president zelensky should do the right thing. you cannot convict -- you shouldnt charge but you cant convict a sitting president on the basis of conflicting and ambiguous evidence. >> sandra: there is one republican in the house who was in that room yesterday that perhaps is democrats best hope at...

>> garrett, democrats seem to be seizing on the new details about those text messages between diplomats about ukraine. >> reporter: yes, the text messages are interesting for what we know about them and mysterious for what we dont. the smoking text message, if you will, is between these two diplomats, bill taylor, the acting ambassador to ukraine and gordon sunderland, a political appointee, ally of president trump who was ambassador to the eu. it reads in part from taylor, as i said on the phon...

Lawfully. it was a good faith negotiations to resolve all matters with him. do you think this conduct, from what we know, fits into the category of federal extorsion? >> lets talk about what extorsion is real quick. its threatening either physical harm or harm to reputation in return be for most often money or a thing of value. it doesnt have to be money. the normal iteration is if you dont pay me $10,000, im going to publish these pictures. here its if you dont step forward and not investigate ...

Disingenuous in some of his answers today. for example, when he was, as andrea pointed out, when he was asked about some of the, his memoranda and the torture memo thing and he said i havent seen that. theyve been in the newspapers. clearly his aides, his handlers have that material, so it cant be that he hasnt seen that material. he also said when asked about for example campaign finance law, he said that there was a lot of room to regulate expenditures and there really, i have to say as somebo...

>> no, there was no quit pro quo, there was -- no quid pro quo, no effort at all to buy my vote. i had requirements. the requirements were no government run plan no federal exchange, national exchange. and adequate language to deal with abortion. those were requirements. but nobody was buying any votes. >> greta: i dont understand whose idea was it the 100 million? >> it is a was put in as a number. >> greta: by whom? >> well, i didnt draw the bill so i dont know the answer. >> greta: whose idea...

The 100 million? >> no, there was no quit pro quo, there was -- no quid pro quo, no effort at all to buy my vote. i had requirements. the requirements were no government run plan no federal exchange, national exchange. and adequate language to deal with abortion. those were requirements. but nobody was buying any votes. >> greta: i dont understand whose idea was it the 100 million? >> it is a was put in as a number. >> greta: by whom? >> well, i didnt draw the bill so i dont know the answer. >> ...