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Breath moving quickly to demand more information, testimony, documents or whatever they say they need to carry out investigations into the trump administration. Two subpoenas including the 2020 censuses were served. Were hours away from what will be a closely watched move on capitol hill. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote to authorize a subpoena for special counsel muellers report without redactions. William barr did not can deliver the report by the it deadline. Well use the sub...

Hill inside the room where we will see House Speaker nancy pelosi later on this hour in just about 40 minutes or so. Peter, i want to start with you. For the first time we are hearing from secretary of state mike pompeo who is overseas about his role, his involvement in that call thats at the heart now of this whistleblower complaint and impeachment inquiry. Hallie, youre exactly right. This is the first time that we are hearing mike pompeo address the reports, confirmed by nbc news that he was ...

Last month, his testimony, according to sources, reverb rated even among a number of republicans up on capitol hill. And now we know, were seeing the exact words, americas top diplomate in ukraine said under oath to the u. S. House of representatives. And the transcripts show that he described a quid pro quo between ukraine getting military aid released and that Oval Office Meeting with President Trump in exchange for conducting political investigations that would benefit trump. So let me just r...

Gone in their physical form by now. Theyre not. Papers like the one that got thrown on your doorstep this morning, theyre just a big deal when we look at them on days like this. And, you know, if you squirrel copies of this weeks newspapers the front pages, someday your kids and your grandkids will look at those newspaper front pages from this week and theyll still have the same wow factor that they have for us today. Let me show you some of todays front pages. This was the front page of the New...

Witnesses were called specifically in thes impeachme hearing this afternoon were the first witnesses who were specifically requested by the republicans on the committee. Now we dont know exactly why the republicans on the committee were so eager to call these particularto witnesses today. It kind of seems clear that the democrats would have beenar jus as happy to call them if the republicans hadnt. This is specifically who the republicans wanted and it seems like a its probably not the wa they h...

They could move to a markup session. Look for clues as to what the articles of impeachment might be. Will they deal with contempt of congress . Bribery . There is one possible article of impeachment that is particularly radioactive. It is in article 2, section 4 dealing with treason. Only twice before have they ever dealt with the potential article of impeachment with treason, one with a judge and one with a senator. Rare they might get into that area. The potential democrats might wander in tha...

Look at those newspaper front pages from this week and they will still have the same wow factor that they have for us today. Let me show you some of todays front pages. This was the front page of the New York Times today. You see the big allcaps headline there in the upper right. Expert condemns flow of fictions on ukraines role. And then the other four columns on the top of the front page are dominated by this gigantic dramatic photograph of fiona hill, until recently the top russia expert for ...

Up her mind. Reporter hearing from constituen constituents . Constantly. Phones ringing off the hook. We literally cant pick up the phone fast enough. People on both sides. Strongly against and people strongly for, and i assume that will persist. Reporter are you ready to vote for them . No. What im going to do right now is do what i was trained to do as a cia officer. Sit by myself with a full body of information. The articles, the reports on both sides, right . Both democratic and republican. ...

Nixon impeachment. So at that point in 74 thered only been one other attempt at president ial impeachment. That had been Andrew Johnson way back in the 1800s. But there had been impeachments of officials other than president s. And the Impeachment Committee in watergate walked through what had happened to president johnson and they walked through what the constitution says and what our history offers us in terms of how to approach impeachment. And you can see here the way they stack it up. The h...

Congress is so quickly grinding forward in the impeachment probe. Consider where congress is just tonight, balanced between those three witnesses who spoke last week you probably caught some of their testimony. It was also caught by over 13 million americans. And then look at the witnesses this week starting tomorrow. Eight of them. Now in a typical congressional schedule, these kind of investigative hearings could easily take over a month. And lets be clear. In a criminal probe like from doj, a...