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Affect everything else thats coming down the pike? how is it going to affect the tax bill, for example? will jeff flake decide to vote for it? what will john mccain do? you know, et cetera, et cetera. will this affect other things coming down? will people be more willing to say to donald trump, you know what, sorry, youre not going to do much for me. in fact, it may benefit me to keep you at a distance. so all of this combined with what youre talking about -- >> this goes back to bakaris point. ...

That if a president walked into the department of justice and said i know there is this public corruption unit. shut that down. they shouldnt be investigating democrats. well, thats obviously corrupt you. cant do that. >> you cant do that. thats impossible. look, john mitchell, who was nixons campaign manager who was the attorney general was convicted of obstruction of justice. richard nixon was an unindicted co-conspirator in an obstruction of justice conspiracy that was tried in the d.c. distr...

Its finding that russia interfered with the presidential election. now president trump has declared essentially open warfare on the fbi in an apparent attempt to discredit an investigation that is ever edging closer to him. president trump seized on the story that special counsel robert mueller removed a top agent from that russia inquiry this summer over possible anti-trump texts the agent sent. a spokesman for the special counsels office told "the new york times," quote, immediately upon learn...

For dropping sanctions in return for help on the election. >> okay. that is a theory of the case. this is the thing. that quid pro quo he is sort of a speculative question, although i think plausible theory. here is the thing, matt. if you take a step back, russia criminally intervened to help donald trump win the election. criminal sabotage. the newly elected president, the sitting president, barack obama then punished them with sanction and the trump team coordinated secretly with russia to mi...

Democratic congress when they are in power. because that is the only time republicans will actually do anything about the deficit. and if they bring down the deficit, its like putting money into a savings account that republicans can later use to cut taxes some more. >> right. >> so the republicans love deficits. >> are peoples memories long enough that this is going to be front of mine for folks that are running for office, making calls, volunteering and voting? >> especially if this is the onl...

Are gone. >> thats the risk you run. thats a great point. >> were these odd populist xenophoic republicans who decided that these people were going to put money and rights back in their hands when they had been taken by unnamed folks a while ago. >> and voted for guy who said i will not cut social security, medicare or medicaid. >> they dont care about the deficits. the mitt romney of the world are going to get the vapors over the fact that thing raises the deficit and they may see this as a mea...

Joining me now representative representative jamie raskin, representative where impeachment proceedings would begin. what do you think of the argument the presidents lawyers appear to want to make now the president cannot by definition obstruct justice as the chief law enforcement official of the united states? >> well, i think its completely outlandish and absurd. you know, weve got no kings here. weve got no royals. and no person is above the law, including the president of the united states. ...

This summer over possible anti-trump texts the agent sent. a spokesman for the special counsels office told "the new york times," quote, immediately upon learning of the allegations, the special counsels office removed peter strzok from the investigation. but the agents purported investigation into the russia investigation and the clinton e-mail probe provided president trump with a useful target. the president tweeting, quote, anti-trump fbi agent led clinton probe. now it all starts to make se...

With obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire comey and his constitutional authority to tell the justice department who to investigate, who not to investigate. for obstruction of justice by the president, you need clearly illegal acts. with nixon, hush money paid, telling people to lie, destroying evidence. >> do you agree, matt? >> no. its such a dangerous argument to make because it essentially says that the president as the chief law enforcement agency, because h...

Awaiting to see what else comes of the mueller investigation. were calling on all members of congress to stand by the special prosecutor and to defend his independence so that there is not an attempt to sack him and fire other people involved in investigation. that really would be a constitutional crisis. and i think that would lead certainly a majority of members of my caucus to push for impeachment. i mean, that really would be a crisis in the republic. >> are you worried thats where this is h...