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Republicans are doing that and in his view theyre not even taking it seriously. what do you think? do you agree? >> well that is the right thing to do. is to say this behavior is bad doesnt rise to the point of impeachment but they have thus far declined to make a substantive argument. it has been all process and the idea of calling the whistle-blower, i dont get it because it is a moot point and if you shoot the messenger, the messenger is trump because he gave the transcript out. and whether t...

Forward to testify to corroborate aspects of the complaint already known, when it becomes a circus atmosphere as opposed to the substantive defense of the conduct or substantive attack of the conduct. in the event it would not be productive and also undermine why we have the protection act in the first place. >> lets step back and i want to talk about the immediate future. and ron, bringing back memories of the clinton impeachment, what do you expect to see in the next hours as the house judicia...

I like the beliefs of the people whose rights have been violated and people are dismissing that in favor of the other conclusion which is true. but this is deeply concerning just for all american citizens. >> but on this planet, not the one that ron speaks of, we dont get to have the two separate conversations. >> i have them all day long. >> i know you do. but there are two parts. there is the part frightening in terms of the fisa court and the procedures. on the other hand, the republicans aga...

>> presumably there your first answer you side with the inspector general, mr. horowitz some. >> that is right. and one of the things i did emphasize that im grateful that the fbi director chris wray, instead of continuing to support the conspiracy theories advanced by president trump and frankly by attorney general bill barr accepted the conclusions of the inspector general report and would promptly move to implement the recommendations to improve the fisa warrant process and agreed with the co...

Egregious. he goes until someone imposes a penalty and forces him to change direction and i think republicans who -- if they uniformly vote to say this is okay, they are signing themselves up to defend something more difficult to defend. >> and remember, talking about students of power and weakness, impeachment is about the power of congress. even more so than perhaps about the abuse of power of the united states. one of the articles is obstruction of congress and if they allow that to take plac...

Surveil and record people associated with our campaign. look at how they have heard people. their lives have been destroyed by scum. >> the president also getting a major boost from his attorney general bill barr today, weighing in with a scathing assessment of the obama administrations fbi. barr made no bones about hiding his belief the bureaus 2016 206 investigation into the trump campaign was bogus. >> i think our nation was turned on its head for three years. based on a completely bogus narr...

Abusing the highly sensitive fisa warrant process. >> the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principally the law-enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies to spy on political opponents but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election. >> the inspector general report 17 instances of major errors or omissions in the fisa warrant application focused on donald trumps former age, carter page but also says...

Usually only used in extreme cases of obvious high crimes and we dont have that. why are they doing that? appears a big train is coming into the station. we are about to get the report from the inspector general, the department of justice, the fisa warrant process, the united states attorney is turning up information about what really was at the source of the origins of the russia collusion debacle, you had 120 interviews at the state department. what is about to happen is we are going to learn ...

Those warrants were illegally obtained. do you think im likely to hear that? >> you know, i really dont know. horwitz did a good job to the investigation but is not a prosecutor. he doesnt have the ability to subpoena and interview witnesses outside of the doj or the fbi. but here is what i do believe. i do believe the warrant process was abused. not only do i hope he will tell us that it was off of the rails, i hope the fisa court will take the report seriously. im looking for the fisa court to...

Do you think im likely to hear that? >> you know, i really dont know. horowitz did a good job to the clinton e-mail investigation, but he is not a prosecutor. he doesnt have the ability to subpoena and interview witnesses outside of the doj or the fbi. but here is what i do believe. i do believe the warrant process was abused. and not only do i hope he will tell us that it was off of the rails, i hope the fisa court will take the report seriously. im looking for the fisa court to clean this mess...