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Years? democracy is in play. you cannot be anymore severe or passionate. anybody that doesnt get that has got their head up their butt. >> certainly there is that idea that if the president is impeached here, is not removed and then wins re-election, how does that embolden him going forward when he never has to face voters again? >> go ahead, michael. >> i was going to say, you know, based on everything thats said around the table, here is where i come down on this. and this is really a question...

Proceed. admiral, lets go to you on this. what are the implications of the president of the united states putting his thumb on the scale and inserting himself into this? >> well, lets start with the basics here, which is that all of these cases, theres been a whole veefrs them nseries of th the president has come into the process and issued a pardon or clemency if the clemency. in all of those cases, these were crimes that were uncovered by fellow s.e.a.l.s and green berets who turned in these p...

The president of the united states to step into a case like this and to, that in fact, hand down a directive to the navy? >> its extremely rare. it does occur, you see it just like you do in the civilian world, willie, you see where a president and all presidents have done this, issue pardons along the way. but in the military, because we have our own system of justice with the investigators, the juries, the judges are all military, its very rare for a president to step into that process. and in...

Process and the law. and the republicans know that. and their long term game and their short-term game is to wear this thing down to the point when it gets to the senate theres no runway left. and mitch mcconnell has two very important options, one, not to even hold a trial because the evidence coming from the house isnt sustainable, or, two, to hold it but then we know what the votes going to be because its already locked and loaded. and so those moments like yesterday i thought reflected that ...

Wlars widepositions, what will have been the significance of this process for you? >> the think the failure to impose consequences on the president here for his being able to demand of a foreign country for a personal political benefit in exwhichange for what another country wants, other countries take lessons from this. so the chinese to lift tariffs that american farmers suffer with. other countries, the europeans, the north koreans, they know now one of the things they can put on the table to...

I dont want to overstate it, but it just seems to be that everything is known at this point. everything is known over and over again. we heard the same narrative, the same quid pro quo narrative. and, you know, the only -- the only good thing in this whole process, to me, is that the american people have been allowed to see some great public servants who ordinarily dont get any attention for the good work that they do on behalf of the american people. >> jonathan, one of the things dr. hill did ...

And, you know, i hate to say it but when women show anger its not fully appreciated, its often, you know, pushed on to emotional issues and perhaps are deflected on to other people. what i was angry about was that he waersnt coordinating with u i realized that during his deposition that he wasnt right. he wasnt coordinating with us because we werent doing the same thing he was doing. so i was upset with him that he wasnt fully telling us about all of the meetings that he was having. and he said ...

Comfortable, a, on the trust issues and, b, on negotiation and understand even the process and how are we going to avoid continuing to drag all of these unbelievably important international issues into the domestic political side of this? i think theres a storyline there that is going to be part of the run-up to the election granted that foreign policy in the send not going to drive this one. but its a supporting argument to what you just laid out. >> mika, if this plays out the way that donny a...

But theres enough -- we have the fact set related to the particular behaviors. it would be good to obviously know exactly what mike pompeo did, mike pences role because we have to understand their level of culpability or not culpability. theres always obviously more to know. . >> what i mean is we have enough to go on right now. i think people understand the basic dynamic that the president wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden on false charges in order to create a political problem for joe bi...

Your case, you make your case. im going back to the poll that i cited in the previous hour, the emerson poll, people, i do believe that people are -- have a wear-out factor on this stuff. and the more you say somethings on fire. oh my god, you say somethings on fire a hundred times you get a bit desensitized to it. you have your case, you havent it any clearer. that doesnt mean we cant revis the john bolton or rudy giuliani or mick mulvaney in the future. but tie this up right now. you have the ...