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This does not go to the house floor. they are covering for the moderates who dont want to vote for impeachment, the vast majority dont want anything to do with it. if they were going to an impeachment inquiry, theres over 900 pages of procedure and precedence that would be applied, that would be due process. one of the biggest jokes today in the hearing is that they were giving the president due process by allowing his attorney or him to write a letter after the fact. you can write a letter afte...

President. so weve been working very hard prevention measures, and/or dealing with the high-capacity to find partners across the magazine clips, we can get some aisle and develop what i call that muscle memory of working republican support on the floor of the house of representatives. across the aisle. >> i know of you dont want to >> what about mansion/toomey? talk about impeachment but im >> the house and senate are part fw going to ask. of a legislative process and at does it put you two in a...

And i think brad parscale is also demonstrating that hes an absolute match for trump world because his business dealings are really complex. theres a lot of apparent self-dealing in all of this. this is consistent with the presidents ethics and values. i think he would admire a guy who might double dip here or there, might hire the girlfriend of don junior, might hire the ex-wife. this is all very consistent with how trump world operates. hes a swamp monster, and thats familiar to them. >> i spo...

Parscales pockets, that could become a bigger story and more of a problem for brad parscale. >> even if his comments about trump dynasty get him in trouble with advisers, is there a professional downside for him, being so flattering? >> absolutely not. you know, i think one of the things thats perfect about this is that he used the word "dynasty." and dynasty was a famous tv show between 1981 and 1991. thats right in the presidents sweet spot. he would think of himself as blake carrington. i don...

Self dealing, will they go after compete competenc competency. >> voters do care about what that happening to them now, what their president is doing now. so i always thought focus on what he is doing as president. >> the competency and the lying matter when they affect voters. on the one hand youre saying hey, alabama, dont worry, you will get hit with a hurricane. and the people in alabama go outside and say there is no hurricane and we want accurate forecasts. those of us who live along the...

Days left in session. in september, 13 days. october 12 days. november 8 days. december also 8 days. >> right. this is a lot to get done in a very short period of time with a divided party. i also think that theres much more unanimity around the idea of attacking the president on this idea of corruption, self dealing is a much more powerful argument. thats something you hear certainly on the presidential campaign side of things from people on the more liberal end of the democratic spectrum and t...

This deadlock. thats only going to be coming to the table with full perspectives in mind. i dont think thats happening right now as weve seen with these conversations being pushed back, becoming more and more intense. we can only hope that within the next couple of months before they need it, there is an agreement that comes before the end of the year thats going to take both sides coming to the table and being flexible. >> we know that, what, $160 billion of stuff is going to be taxed it things...

Know, instances of this kind of self dealing and grift that we have seen in the trump era. what was really remarkable is what we create reported about the crews reaction. the crew were so confused by what was happening when they were rerouted to scotland to refuel at this tiny airport outside of trump turnberry because they had never actually done that before in the 50-plus trips they had taken internationally to do these kind of routine supplies, trips, they had never stopped in scotland. it wa...

So beyond the pale. >> its really just -- >> what a world. upside down, don. >> charlie, lets switch gears because i want to talk about this. according to a letter obtained by cnn, the house oversight committee is investigating money spent by the u.s. military at the airport closest to trumps turnberry resort in scotland. the letter from elijah cummings says $11 million was spent and the airport offered cut rate prices on rooms to some crews and free rounds of golf at the trump resort for americ...

And given the presidents referral, referral of business to his properties or trying to refer business to his properties, as manu said, this raises issues of the emoluments clause, self-dealing. there are problems. now, as a political matter, im not yet convinced that nancy pelosi or those democrats in swing districts thing impeachment is a good idea. there may be a lot of merit to what nadler is doing, but as a political matter, im not so sure this is where nancy pelosi and many of those distric...