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So why am i still thinking about this? ill take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain. congress has, i think, a right and a duty to challenge if there are questions about the integrity of that process. >> that was john brennan on the standoff the house is currently engaged in, refusing to hand over documents related to the security clearance process, including for the presidents son-in-law, jared kushner. last week we learned kushners clearance was obtained via a presidential order and now we find...

Ruling. this is unprecedented and the fact that he did that, donald trump, i think the congress has legitimate concerns about how he is in fact exercising a legal authority but doing it in a manner that really undermines again the integrity and the purpose of security clearances. >> what are the reasons that security clearances for someone like jared kushner or ivanka trump would be held up? would be the kind of objections that would be raised? >> it could be any number of things. there could be...

Open a criminal investigation into whether trumps son-in-law and top white house adviser broke the law by omitting foreign contacts. >> kushner had to submit two forms. the first two were false and misleading. he should absolutely be investigated. >> trump telling reporters the investigations are all about politics. >> basically they have started the campaign. the campaign begins. the campaign is actually going on for the last two fland a hal years. the a shame. when they look at it they say pre...

How partisan it is? and he seems to be alluding to fox news, saying that part of the reason why the president is protected is because he has essentially a mouthpiece. >> well, i think mr. connolly is acknowledging reality, which is that impeachment is a political process. its subject to, you know, political reality, which is that its going to be perceived as being a partisan process unless you convince a significant number of republicans that this is an honest attempt to get to the truth and det...

Document requests, as you mentioned. but then the white house, if they choose, can try and slow walk that. any of these document requests and subpoenas for testimony can be held up for at least a year, if not multiple years if the white house wants to litigate those or the parties involved want to litigate those. so one idea of this strategy that nadler is taking where it looks like a fishing expedition, part of that might be to get the ball rolling on what is going to start out being negotiatio...

Political process, impeachment. and the democrats are going to continue to bring, to have hearings to make document requests, potentially add subpoenas, have witnesses come in and continue to investigate this president out in the open. does the white house bet that having the president go out there and say its harassment and its an abuse of congress and its a witch hunt, do they believe that their messaging will ultimately be more effective than anything that the democrats can bring to light, sh...

Change parties ought not to put in automatic jeopardy the incumbent in the oval office. >> what do you think the difference is between today and between the 70s and nixon or today and the 90s and clinton? >> i think were more tribal in our politics. i think were a lot less open to hearing contrary information. i think we have our own media outlets that we listen to, almost in a cultist fashion. >> are you saying that makes it harder to bring articles of impeachment against a president? >> i thin...

The white house has issued a letter, a white house lawyer, essentially saying to elijah cummings, you have asked us for all this information about security clearances, which are an inherently executive branch function. you, the congress, have no right to inquire into this. you certainly dont have a right to know what the fbi and cia determined about jared kushners fitness for a security clearance. and elijah cummings has responded this hour saying, well, in fact, theres plenty of press dependent...

Katy. i think theres a couple issues here. one is during watergate, in addition to the congressional hearings, you also had a special prosecutor and a grand jury that was establishing the crimes that had been committed. members of the presidents inner circle had been charged and indicted in those crimes. youve seen people close to trump charged with crimes but not related to the kind of things were talking about could potentially be impeachable offenses, with one exception. youve had in the sout...

Evidence that is compelling and the brings along the american people. whether that leads to impeachment or not, that has to be a process. that has to be the end result of a process, not the beginning of a process. you may go to court or look at going to court to bring a criminal to trial. you still have to build a case. you dont just decide in advance someone is a criminal, lets put them away. and the president is entitled to due process, a fair process, and the american people are entitled to h...