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Facts. the only issue they can debate is whether this bad conduct rises to the level of impeachment and thats a fair debate to have. but i tell you what. i thought i understood the rules. that you cant use your official resources to investigate your opponent, especially colluding with a foreign head of state. cant use federal resources or dollars to coerce somebody to basically do what you want them to do. i thought i understood the rules and the standards and i thought the department of justice...

Into consideration and break with the president? >> i think, s.e., as many as 5 republicans could vote to convict. i tell you, the real political pressure here in this situation will be on those five swing state senate republicans who are up for election in 2020. susan collins, cory gardner, joni ernst. theyre the ones at greatest risk. many of them, they cant win simply with their base. they also need to persuade independent and swing voters. and they need both in order to win. and this puts th...

Method and the first thing that comes up is fox news. >> same with me. >> come on. >> i literally just did this. part of the thing is -- and heres something we all have to be concerned about. theres becoming now i think a mainstream sentiment among conservatives that all of the mainstream media is just liberal left-wing. >> van, thats not becoming. ive been working in politics for 25 years and weve had a left-wing bias in the mainstream media. this isnt a new phenomenon that -- >> ive heard the ...

Youre the one that put out the pj thing. so what got this whole thing started is not an honest set of concerns about the lack of transparency, which left and right share. its not an honest concern about too much power for silicon valley, which more people, right and left, are beginning to have. its a cheap line that has now taken off on the right that theyre out to get us in particular. and the reality is there is no evidence for that. you can cherry pick a bunch of things but -- >> hey, van, le...

Relayed the information, so were not dealing with some vacuum of knowledge. >> of course we are. we dont have the context of it. we werent in the meeting. >> all right. so van, context aside, because i see that as an excuse, not an explanation here. violence, violence. if you people win, van, youre coming for the gop. >> well, that sounds to me like panic on the part of the president trying to stir up his own base with baseless fears. thats unfortunate. listen, donald trump has achieved some pre...

Get alice johnson released, he also pushed for the reality star to get that oval office meeting with the president. so van, how did you get involved in this? >> ive been working on criminal justice issues for 25 years, believe it or not. its my first passion when i got out of law school was working on these issues, so i had been working on alice johnsons case during the obama administration, #clemencynow was a campaign we were running under the obama administration, and obama, to his great credi...

Happen. if donald trump called you and said, look, i dont like your protest, your flag stuff, whatever, im going to put that to one side. come to oval office and talk to me about a substantive issue like criminal justice reform, would you do it? >> i would definitely consider it. if i wouldnt, what is it im trying to accomplish. if you can go directly to the president of the united states and talk about these issues plaguing our communities, thats a responsibility for us, regardless of how you f...

Chris, we had real concern that you might have a weaponized, politicized fbi being unleashed. you also had concerns maybe they were going to back off of these white supremacist groups and they have. we never thought that you would have the gop take a wrecking ball to the fbi, tt the would y to destroy the fbi and that you would have people like myself out here trying to defend the fbi. this is so crazy and its so nuts that literally people dont know what to do. when the leader of the democratic ...

Happening. thats the problem. you have a bipartisan -- both political parties should be proud of the fact that for the past seven years weve had that unemployment rate coming down. obama had his share and so did trump. its a bipartisan success. >> van, i love hearing you say president trump did a good job. >> if the president got out of his own way, dave, and said less inflammatory things, he would hear that more often. lets see what he says tomorrow night. stick around. "the final fact" is ne...

Country becauut the president md the point. what jay-z was saying was its good were having these numbers continuing to improve -- obviously it started under obama -- but it still doesnt get the president off the hook for some of his rhetoric and the way he says demeaning things about people, and its hard to raise kids when the parents are saying things like s-hole, et cetera. let me say one more quick thing. i would love to hear what david says about this. just one more quick thing here. under o...