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Week, however they do it, they should focus on the broad power, but also focus on this is textbook bribery if not extortion and that should be considered too. >> as this unfolds, rudy giuliani, the presidents personal attorney, just returned from a trip to ukraine. heres gop congressman mark meadows. >> i dont know of any role that rudy giuliani is playing on behalf of the president of the united states. i think hes over there as a citizen. i think part of that is probably trying to clear his na...

The elements of the charges, and i predict about three or four articles, and as jennifer will tell you, when youre a prosecutor, you have the law that you know before the trial, and your goal during a trial is to satisfy the elements, and i think if the house judiciary does that, and then does it on the house floor, and then does it on the senate floor, youre going to have three bites of the apple to show the american public that this is textbook, textbook bribery, and an abuse of power by the p...

I agree with him but what you also have here, ana, is textbook bribery. 18 usc 201 fits all the elements of a bribery scheme. >> let me bring in our legal expert of this group, sophia. bribery and extortion. you mentioned it too, tara. sophia, would you go that far? >> absolutely 100% correct. my biggest concern right now is the whistle-blower and the fact that we have a federal act, the whistle-blower act of 1989 which as i said on previous programs dates back in this republic to 1778 when the ...

Shift blame away from the president. how successful would they be in making this argument, but all those people were perhaps going rogue without the presidents knowledge. >> their chances of being successful with that argument are probably as low as the red skins winning the super bowl. and i got to say this, watching the president deny that he knows sondland and watching the president say that the testimony that he is hearing from these depositions, it reminds me of a baghdad bob when we were i...