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You here tonight is i feel like we are as a public, as a country are in this moment where were now seeing a lot of evidence, a lot of serious allegations about potential criminal behavior by the president and were all taught to believe that when that happens, impeachment proceedings follow. if there is compelling evidence that a president committed crimes while in office but in this case there is this law enforcement aspect of it outside of the im peop of the impeachment process and i want to kn...

Katyal. >> the reason i wanted to have you here tonight is because i feel like we are as a public, as a country sort of in this moment where were now seeing a lot of evidence, a lot of serious allegations about potential criminal behavior by the president. and were all taught to believe that when that happens impeachment proceedings follow. if there is compelling evidence that a president has committed crimes while in office. but in this case there is this law enforcement aspect of it outside th...

Trump campaign is still unclear. the document also gave no indication whether president trump was aware of manafort transferring the data and didnt specify how kilimnik might have used it. we do know manafort and his deputy rick gates asked kilimnik to give it to the uen cran oligarchs, who financed russian-backed political parties. george vance, let me start with you on this, how can something like this potentially or could it potentially implicate the president more broadly having hired paul m...

Get a lot more direct answers than before. and that is because as this investigation has unearthed more information and more time has evolved, more information has come out, more answers have been given and especially as i think were about to receive some -- theres some indication mueller will come out with something some time soon, there will just be enough out there. i think many republicans, myself included, didnt want to jump the gun. you want an investigation to unfold. i always found very ...

Run the campaign, or is that connection not strong enough for that to be an issue? >> i think the short answer is we dont know. mueller likely has a lot of information thats not publicly available but its pretty interesting to me manafort, whose best protection here would have been to tell muellers team everything that he knew, that was his one guarantee of getting favorable treatment at sentencing, there was something here that was so important that he had to protect it. i think that certainly ...

To that committee that we dont already know from what weve seen in court documents and that wont violate that trust? could he, for example, talk more about what he knows about that trump tower meeting? or do you think those topics will be off limits? >> well, i know the trump tower meeting is still subject to investigation by mr. muellers team and others. so i doubt that youll hear any more than mr. cohen has already admitted to which is testimony that he thought conformed to what the president ...

Never remember and i would hope that republican members of congress would join in are telling the president you have no right to interfere with our witnesses appearing before our committees and making this kind of personal attack on their family. you know, when mr. trump has gone low, i have thought its impossible for him to go any lower. hes proven me wrong. he has gone lower by attacking without naming or without any facts mr. cohens father-in-law. and i hope the american people no matter who ...

Something like that but we will see. the mueller report, we need patients to get this come out. it will give a lot of indication. frankly, this could be eye-opening in some areas or some people could look at this and say wow, that was a two-year investigation and we didnt get anything out of it. >> muellers reputation, we will see, congressman. let me shift gears for a second and ask you about one of your colleagues in the house, steve king, who made reprehensible comments about white nationalis...

Article two of our constitution was responsible for foreign relations and who is responsible for national security, what if he is working against the giants of the united states? there really is no criminal end to that inquiry. so at the end of the day i think where this is all going, this is a question for congress. this is a political question ultimately about impeaching, as whether this president is fit to serve as leader of the united states. >> julie, you agree? >> the other thing i keep th...

Included, didnt want to jump the gun. you want an investigation to unfold. i always found very interesting now some democrats are asking should trump be impeached? and many democratic members are saying what republican members have for the last nine months, lets wait for the mueller report to come out. to answer your question directly, i think youll get more candid answer from republicans but i think that will also be likely because more information has just come to the fold in the past several ...