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And trying to be hopeful about that. if they want to make a counterargument, then the president needs to allow some of these other witnesses to show up and he needs to cough up these documents that can shed light. and if this is actually what the president thought at the time and theres evidence of that, then fine, the congress can consider that both with respect to impeachment and if they impeach then with respect to the trial. maybe thatll -- maybe thats where this will come out. maybe in the ...

Witnesses i have ever seen on the stand. if this was a trial setting with a jury, the jury -- he would not be their favorite witness at this point hes doing very little, i think, to try to participate in good faith in the proceedings whether its contempt is a very close call judgment that has to do with litigating this issue of the proper scope of executive privilege. i think the president has stretched this beyond any possible understanding of what its really meant to cover its not, as ron klai...

To get all the facts here. there will be no rush to judgment as democrats are accusing republicans of doing. i very much believe in allowing people to be heard. but i am not going to be played and im not going to have my intelligence insulted by the michael avenattis of the world. i will not be a participant in wholesale character assassination that defies credibility. at this point dr. ford has not been able to corroborate her story. rachel mitchell, the chief of the special victims division of...

All of the questioning instead of the republican senators themselves? >> theyre turning this into a trial setting. she agreed to come and answer the questions and address the issues raised by the members of the committee, not to be come and put on trial. it is completely inappropriate. >> republican senator lisa murkowski, who is not a member of the committee, says an fbi investigation could answer the questions about these accusations and she thinks perhaps the second accuser should also come a...

Roy cohn who was elected by no one, participating in the questioning of witnesses and being rough about it. >> yeah, thats exactly right. there is a precedent for this. and it could politically help republicans if they had an outside counsel. it would give them a little bit of independence from the situation. it would prevent the appearance of an independent investigation. it could create more of a trial setting. it could make it seem like dr. ford is on trial as opposed to sharing her testimony...

That could be a recipe for trouble because were talking about 11 white male republican senators, some of whom -- one of whom, orrin hatch, has already stirred a lot of controversy earlier this week for comments he made that seemed to be insensitive to dr. fords personal story. >> we should note there is precedent, a lot of it in history, just not in the modern television era, for chief counsels or outside counsels running questioning during hearings. we all remember roy cohn, at least watching t...

Roy cohn who was elected by no one, participating in the questioning of witnesses and being rough about it. >> yeah, thats exactly right. there is a precedent for this. and it could politically help republicans if they had an outside counsel. it would give them a little bit of independence from the situation. it would prevent the appearance of an independent investigation. it could create more of a trial setting. it could make it seem like dr. ford is on trial as opposed to sharing her testimony...

And in the midst of an employment dispute at the same time. >> exactly. there is a federal law called the congressional accountability act that basically says if you go through counseling or mediation subject to your employment dispute, it should remain private. what the lawyers are alleging now is that in breaking that privacy, that confidentiality, they allege the chairman is essentially violating federal rules. now, we will report as soon as we get it this is brand new. we have reached out to...

Female stories, and they know the story thats now becoming real. >> thats right. brooke. thats the extent of it. weve heard naples. weve seen george zimmerman going in and out. trayvon martin is a name. of course, the reporters who have followed the story, theyve seen ims of him. for the jury, this is the first time theyve seen him in a trial setting and in this case it was the body of a teenager and the pictures were very disturbing, including one that shows the bullet hole, the wound that ende...

>> its information to look at at every case as a different case. with the hasan says there has been procedural wrapping lynn. he want towed wear a beard during his trial and the judge held him in contempt for growing a beard which is against military regulations. it went to an appeals court it took six months. we are back to the trial setting again. it is frustrating to the victims and related to the victims who are diseased. these procedural issues dont exist in the afghanistan case so informat...