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Intimidated prospective and actual witnesses including career and civil military -- excuse me, military and civil servants, as discussed here, like ambassador yovanovitch, lieutenant colonel vindman, ambassador taylor, jennifer williams, and others. and he directed all current and former administration witnesses to defy congressional subpoenas. professor, based on that set of facts, does this conduct meet the threshold for obstruction of justice as envisioned in the constitution? >> yes, maam, i...

The president is for impeachment, sort of an inference of sorts, a suggestion that the presidents conduct here meets that threshold for impeachment. also this is expected to discuss the presidents and the democrats view of congress, comparing it to past cases of administrations cooperating with congress, including an impeachment episode but saying thats not been the case here. now, all this support is expected to serve as the backbone of articles of impeachment that democrats are expected to wri...

>> and ryan, to that point, david raises the point, what is the intent of the president? theyre trying to get at, and they explicitly do. there is no direct first-hand evidence of any such scheme. the democrats are alleging guilt on the basis of heresy presumptions and speculation. presumptions i think capturing davids point of, well, they are presuming what the president wanted when he said something. whats your response to this argument at this point about heresy? given that we did not hear jo...

Official working on the impeachment inquiry. the committee is going to release a report shortly. weve been expecting it to happen sometime today. the house intelligence committee is going to vote this evening to adopt that report, and then its moved to the house judiciary committee which will open up formal impeachment proceedings in that panel, but the committee is going to detail the findings of this investigation that has spanned more than two months looking at the presidents handling of ukra...

Impeachment hearing, the president, along with his attorneys, has declined to show up tomorrow as he once again lashes out at the process. >> these are very unfair hearings. this gives these unfair witch hunt hearings. as an example i just heard today, they get three constitutional lawyers. its all nonsense, theyre just wasting their time, and we get one. when its fair, it will be fair in the senate, i would love to have mike pompeo, i would love to have mick, i would love to have rick perry and...

Finished blasting macron so it could be a little bit of a testy gathering. back to you. steve: indeed. brian: the real probable with macron is really thought with our put and not with the president and macron, its really with turkey its turkeys president erdogan and president of france macron, because its erdogan was who was buying the s 400 system, the russian system. it is erdogan that is saying im coming across the border and start blowing up the kurds and the u.s. pull dollars back there was...

Different because thats going to be more an academic discussion with legal experts and the like discussing what has been found in the house intelligence committees investigation so far, and they say they dont even know who the witnesses are yet at wednesdays hearing so they cant participate. they have not yet responded to a second request for a later deadline to discuss whether theyre participating due to proceedings but theyre not eager in large part because they want to continue to make the ar...

Russia, who likes to see division at nato. of course, concerns about that. and much of those concerns would depend on what president trump does. hes been tough on some of the nato leaders in the past, criticizing them for not making the 2% of gdp on defense spending commitments. now, there is good news on that front for president trump. spectacularly successful is how the white house is describing this, what we heard from the nato secretary general ask, since 2016, nato allies are contributing $...

Debate. is that going to hurt him? >> two thresholds you have to hit. one a certain point at the polling. is he a little bit below that the second threshold as you mention is the number of donors that he has. what we found in our work along with the firm will viewership is down when we look at the november debates is down from the october debate. steve: why is that? >> it doesnt give an opportunity for the candidates to fully be heard and its a format that rewards the zinger over the substance t...

High threshold. it appears thats been met to proceed with the inquiry. these are serious charges. obstruction of justice is a very serious charge. we dont even exactly what the articles will be. and acagain, when youre talking about using the leverage of the presidency in national security situations, as a formal diplomat, i can tell you thats something presidents use on a regular basis to advance the interests of the country. >> do you see any conviction? >> were a long way from there. i would ...