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In geyserville, the small town north of san francisco. >> power is off out here so limited ability to make phone calls. >> the fire started in an area where power to some customers d the blackout made the evacuations harder. >>ur don work up there. the phone lines were down and its just because someone looked up and saw red in the sky that we were able to evacuate. >> blackouts left more than half a million people in the dark. taking a toll on homes, businesses, even fararmers farmt power for ev...

He has a lot of leeway when it comes to dealing with foreign leaders. you point out that his article 2 powers dont extend to offering quid pro quo. and if this it true this is an abuse of power. is it? >> absolutely. he cant use his article 2 power for personal gain. and if there ends up being any indication he offered something in his presidential authority in order to receive something that would benefit him personally for example in election. that is a problem. theres a reason that the framer...

Its terrible lawyering. its a shame to see from rudy giuliani. he was the attorney for the southern district of new york. he was a legend. now hes a joke. >> you said legally. is it a good pr strategy. something good and bad and something good. >> no, yes, no. >> i dont know. im not going to say its a good strategy. i know it worked. it worked with stormy daniels. he fell through the cracks. aided by the doj policy against indicting a sitting president. because it worked once doesnt make it a go...

Something good and bad and something good. >> i dont know. >> no, yes, no. >> i know it worked. i wont say its a good strategy. it worked with stormy daniels. he fell through the cracks. aided by the doj policy against indicting a sitting president. because it worked once doesnt make it a winning strategy. dont do this at home. >> the attorney general under fire for advising the acting chief not to share this complaint. you backed barr when he was originally appointed. and took great issue with ...

And if there ends up being any indication he offered something in his presidential authority in order to receive something that would benefit him personally for example in election. that is a problem. theres a reason that the framers of the constitution included bribery as impeachable defense. they didnt want self-dealing. heres the other thing. we just finished an investigation about foreign interference in the election. hello? and what -- and you know. >> what was it called? >> it started with...

That is a election federal election campaign violation. which we have already been through. we have done this. >> also even if the president has committed crimes, he may not be prosecuted for this. it is troubling. i dont know, im not an attorney. >> im adding is that in the mueller report one of the big factors that the campaign finance violation werent able to do prosecuted is a lack of knowledge. on the part of the participants. they didnt understand it. thats not the case anymore. >> so list...

He says thats the characterization of the meeting and speaker pelosis comments and i agree with her. today we need to get the government reopened. its 14 days -- >> its a different interpretation than what we heard from the president -- >> well, hes a liar, brooke. those are my words, not yours. hes a liar. >> scott? >> most of the new freshmen definitely want to impeach the president. most of the activists and people who voted in the midterm want to impeach the president, 6.5 million democrats ...

Were not looking to impeach you, thats not going to be actually all that popular with people -- a lot of people who were just elected and made her the speaker and voter for her for speaker and got 40 seats. some of them will be okay with that, especially the leaders of the key committees who are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, were not giving any credence to the i word, we have to see the mueller report and so forth, but david chalian was saying earlier, 80% of democrats are supportive of impeachment....

How plausible is the date of february? is there any way to tell whether m mueller has a viable obstruction case? >> i think weve seen a viable case of obstruction in plain sight for a long time. i believe mueller will have much more information than any of us can even imagine. i also dont think that the february report, if it does come out in february, means that the investigation is over. i think that there are so many loose ends right now, so many things that havent been done yet and so i dont...