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The free press checks the president, the judiciary checks him and congress checks him. but you are also right that the ultimate check is impeachment. what we know is that the presidents behavior has already crossed the threshold of what was brought for impeachment before the house in the nixon administration and the clinton administration. in fact he crossed those thresholds in the first weeks or months of office. and so that is another means if these other means fail to control this president. ...

>> live by the sword, die by the sword. that was day inslee, governor of washington, and a candidate for president in 2020 showing what democrats could do with the power that donald trump is exercising with his national emergency declaration. senator rand paul citing this precedent as his reason to support the r-- the bill alread passed the house and expected to be voted on in the senate next week. senator rand paul joins fellow gop senators susan collins, thom tillis, lisa murkowski, in rebukin...

>> let me ask you this. theres a court case, an emoluments court case going through. if donald trump is found to be guilty of violating the emoluments clause, which is a violation of the constitution, would that immediately equal a high crime and misdemeanor? >> yes. thats a violation of the constitution itself. the provision is there for a reason. hes clearly -- he did it with malice aforethought, too, if he is found to be in violation because it wasnt like he wasnt warned. he had an easy out, ...

This is history again repeating itself. back then it wasnt at&t, it was itt, the international telegraph and telephone company, where there was a similar allegation about misuse of power with respect to a merger and a whole series of items with it & t. even the attorney general who succeeded john mitchell who went to jail and was convicted of obstruction of justice, pled guilty to lying to congress about his dealings with itt. >> about his intervention in their case on behalf of the president. >...

Anyway. >> heres another example of that. when youre talking about abuse of power, how to rein in a president, the vote that the house kicked off to essentially withdraw the presidents declaration of emergency about the southern border, something that seems facially preposterous since he said he didnt have to do it himself, it now looks like the senate has the votes to pass that revocation of the emergency declaration. >> yeah. rand paul, who maybe isnt always the best vote counter in the united...

Number three, it does seem to be an abuse of power on its face. >> it does. this is no different than what happened in watergate. this is history again repeating itself. back then it wasnt at&t, it was itt, the international telegraph and telephone company, where there was a similar allegation about misuse of power with respect to a merger and a whole series of items with it & t. even the attorney general who succeeded john mitchell who went to jail and was convicted of obstruction of justice, p...

Youve reached a threshold of evidence that justifies that very grave action by the congress. theres a reason its only happened three times. we dont rush into this, and we dont want to rush into it. >> let me ask you if you agree with your colleagues. jerry n jerry nadler has said its already the president obstructed justice. eric swalwell said the same, theres a lot of evidence the president obstructed justice. elijah cummings says it appears he committed a crime when he wrote michael cohen a ch...

Senator pauls support for the resolution would cement its passage through congress, sending it back to the presidents desk where he would likely issue the first veto of his presidency. msnbcs garrett haake is live for us on capitol hill. garrett, the president has promised to and almost certainly will veto this bill when it gets to his desk. but what does that bipartisan rebuke mean? >> reporter: its largely symbolic, ali, but it is a powerful symbol. in this case it would be the biggest legisla...

Flags. now you have various folks speaking. no question this is a shooting that roiled the sacramento community. it led to a wave of protests. one protest shut down the sacramento kings arena during the middle of an nba game. so the question for the district attorney was, is this a crime? did the officers act justifiably in this shooting? and she determined, yes, the threshold did occur here. the officers were reasonable in using deadly force. >> take a look. >> when we look at all these facts a...

Distinction between crimes and impeachment. there is no legal threshold for impeachment. its a political process that begins in the house judiciary committee. asked directly about impeachment, nadler says that is a long way down the road. hes echoing the party line from nancy pelosi on down the line. a lot of top leaders have said that same thing. were going to build this slowly and if impeachment is warranted we will proceed. they are staying away from the i word now, even though they are going...