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Now that we seen the facts trump is beating all the democrats in wisconsin. impeachment turns big-time a month ago, independence wanted the house to impeach trump, now after the hearings independent say no way. dont impeach at all. what a mistake by democrats. the public opinion has a lot to do with the media, the media manipulates you. when adam schiff was in his creepy basement he would rig a secret hearing and cut off republicans and then leak specific handpicked under picked testimonies to t...

Establishes the smoking gun for the democrats. shown a lot of insinuation the president was pressuring these people. i would say one final thing, and allre the reporting about this, when they finally say what did we get today in these testimonies, what they got was pressure for the ukrainians to announce an investigation. rather than undertake an investigation, thats going to be a crucial distinction when they get to the trial. >> whether or not the president was testified in seeking ukraine to ...

Connection but its a weak one. why is it week? there are legitimate reasons for the president on the basis of privilege to withhold it. >> what is that privilege comes from? >> derived from separation of powers. its a battle between the executive and legislative branch. there are reasons why theus sanctity of conversations and confidentiality necessary to do your job, why he would want to protect conversations from being disclosed. to trying to turn that into abuse of office or contempt of congr...

November 8th said bolton was personally involved in many of the events, meetings and conversations in which youve already received testimony -- im sorry, as well as many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed in the testimonies thus far. so i sort of get the fact hes trying to make money out of the whole thing, but he does seem to be constantly baiting somebody into saying you need to talk to me. do you think theres material information that he has because mulvaney,...

President in august and warned him what it would take to lift a hold on u.s. military aid to ukraine. >> it would hang on whether president zelensky would be able to favorably impress president trump. >> reporter: but bolton could know so much more. two weeks ago his lawyer wrote a letter to congressional leaders saying bolton was involved in many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed in the testimonies thus far. >> what could he have witnessed? >> john bolton woul...

Testified bolton met with ukraines president in august and warned what it could take to lift a hold on u.s. military aid to ukraine. >> it would hang on whether president zelensky was able to "favorably impress" president trump. >> reporter: bolton could know so much more. two weeks ago his lawyer wrote a letter saying bolton was involved in many relevant meetings and conversations not yet discussed in the testimonies thus far. >> what could he have witnessed? john bolton would have had more mee...

We need to keep this very narrow. i heard the comments of the previous guest blaeforehand and remarked people came to congress at the beginning of the session wanting to impeach wbefore the president was sworn in. i was not one of those people. this is a clear and distinct set of events and thats why i joined with my colleagues to say we need to move forward and investigate this and find out the facts. >> yeah, and i do want to make note, i appreciate your service as you have said, you did not s...

Been very little change when it comes to republicans stance toward impeachment. >> yeah. kimberly, i know that youve written about the democrats reactions following the hearings. what all did they hope to accomplish going into these testimonies? and did they do it? >> yeah, what they wanted was a clear narrative being made, not just to congress, but to members of the public. if you recall with the mueller investigation, a lot of times, the democrats told me that they were frustrated at different...

Spend this sort of political coin in different ways. remember, bill clinton was big on inviting lawmakers out on the golf course. president barack obama loved golf, didnt love golfing with members of congress. president trump taking a lot of people to sporting events, always putting people -- not always, but frequently bringing members of congress down on the plane to wherever hes going so they can go back and say, look, we flew on air force one. there are, through, clear limits, i think, within...

About a president who stepped beyond his bounds, and that it is not only the right of members of congress, that it is the duty of members of congress to serve as a check upon them. one thing that these hearings have done is unite the democrats. you havent heard for quite some time about all of the differences between the democrats that we talked about at the beginning of the year. thats really gone, and theyre united. and there are also some democratic lawmakers who have expressed disappointment...