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Scent has to try, the chief justice of the united states supreme court has to try. >> tucker: so everything has. but if you could sum up, just because i think its helpful like they do in high school side forake the other a second. what is your opponent saying? if you could sum up their case in one second, what is it exactly? >> hating president trump, thats literally all that they have. and so this is just a shotgun tactic that we use in legal speakk to say they are throwing everything against t...

Handed to the house judiciary committee headed by jerry nadler would determine if their articles of impeachment that can be brought. based on the allegations we have so far i dont think they can meet that threshold. it doesnt rise to the level of appropriate was a lower complained according to the department of justice analysis. even if they met that hurdle, having the house vote on impeachment, has to go to the senate, the senate is not likely to vote -- to convict but if they did they have to ...

Preside. it shouldnt be politically partisan but its become that way. >> tucker: everything has. but if you could sum up just because i think its helpful for like they do in high school debate take the other side for a second. what is your opponent saying? if you could sum up their case in one sentence. what is it, exactly? i have been doing this all day. >> they hate trump. thats their only case we hate president trump. >> tucker: they have been making that case for quite some time. >> this is ...

Were running on these kitchen table deals. day 1, representative talib that let the cat out of the bag. lets impeach the blank. >> dana: you think the american people have the appetite for this? >> its clear that they dont from the polls. so nancy pelosi made a calculation yesterday that maybe this transcript would be so inflammatory that it would change everything. >> dana: doesnt seem like you would go out on a limb without seeing it first. she had been so cautious up till then. >> youre right...

To a story there that could be an important story. we are no longer in the realm of articles of impeachment involving high crimes and misdemeanors. now its an ever evolving news story that started out in the "new york times" as a call with the president of ukraine and there was a promise made. what happened to that promise. thats no longer the story. then the democrats wanted just the transcript or a recording. as soon as the president announced that they are going to give them the unredacted tr...

They have to. the spending. >> theres people on the left that say i dont like the president these folks are saying but were calling up to the senate finding out where if gun control is. were getting briefings on impeachment. were not doing that anymore. the usmca is probably shelved. theres real world consequences. by the way, if the democrats believe in a principled they should impeach the president, got for it. if the gun control gets shelved, fine. for chuck schumer to say this is not partisa...

Hearsay or second hand information and also the whistle-blower had some kind of political bias but he still felt the allegations were credible enough to investigate. that set into motion a series of events over the last month. there was a referral to the justice department. also a referral to the f.b.i. over whether the presidents ask on that phone call amounted to a campaign finance violation. so what they had to show legally is that the presidents ask for information related to the bideens was...

What happened was so many house democrats came to the speaker and said this has reached the threshold for impeachment. we need you to make a statement. we need house democrats to make a formal statement. so politically, she was showing solidarity with them, while letting the committees still work out the exact process. >> in terms of that process and in terms of democrats commitment to not just opening an inquiry, but potentially bringing articles of impeachment and had some kind of vote on impe...

It was striking this particular story with ukraine apparently the justification for nancy pelosi making this decision today, but no select committee, no specific committee that is going to deal with this, apparently no house vote on authorizing an impeachment inquiry, no clear time table here. so procedurely, is there anything that changed here? >> i was at the capitol all day talking to house democrats, house republicans and members of the senate. they say so much on the impeachment front remai...

Impeachment and approve them for a vote in the full house. only the house of representatives can burn charges against the president. any individual congressperson can start the process. the house then votes, a simple majority of 218 votes is needed to vote on an article of impeachment. we are at 2012. we are six members of congress away from a vote like this happening. does not mean that the 212 that you see would all necessarily vote on the way these articles are written but thats where we are ...