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Trapezius treason, he said what we used to do too traitors, implying they will be executes. thats a whole other thing. the government has methodology for allowing people to come forward and say there was some wrongdoing. the president is sending a very clear signal out there nobody else talk to anybody. >> this is what the president has done all of his life is obfuscate, never back down, attack, attack, attack. hes gone after chairman schiff very viciously today, and what i think will emerge is ...

That they will be strengthening the case on obstruction if they behave that way. >> i would tliek ask madam speaker and also chairman this as well, the president wants to interview the whistle-blower. he says he has the right to meet his accuser. your response, both of you, please. >> the whistle-blower has the right under statute to remain anonymous. and we will do everything in our power to make sure that whistle-blower is protected, that that whistle-blowers preferences in terms of their anon...

And for the story that has come out today that he went to house intel. i think thats not scandal. thats additional affirmation of patriotism. this was somebody who knew he had information about the presidents wrongdoing and wanted to ensure it wouldnt be buried. and were seeing that from state department officials as well it appears based on this i.g. briefing of capitol hill staffers today. i think what were seeing from the president, nicole, is somebody who knows he is going to be impeached. d...

>> lets not makeness my take here. the president wants to make this all about the whistle-blower and suggest people that come forward with evidence of his wrongdoing are somehow treasonist and should be treated as traders and supplies. this is a blatant effort to intimidate witnesses and incitement to violence. >> congresswoman? >> yes, the president does that. he doesnt hesitate to do that. the kind of tweets that he put out time after time today, there were, i dont know if there were quite a d...

You understand, and i suspect that you do, the seriousness of the president of the united states saying he wants to interview that person. we will treat the president with fairness as we go forward. we will have investigations and questioning that are worthy of the constitution of the united states. its unworthy of the constitution of the united states to do what he did in that call, and he admitted to me, said its perfect. no, its not perfect. its wrong, a. b, protecting whistle-blowers is a ve...

Sitting in on these meetings, its about getting information to discredit the russian probe. thats whats motivating him now. and so thats really whats going on here. >> hes looking back and looking forward. as we mentioned earlier vice president mike pence is being dragged deeper into the entanglement here. a week ago when president trump first publicly defended himself against the wrongdoing, he alluded to his own interactions with the ukrainian president. lets take a look at that. >> i think yo...

Russia and members of the trump campaign during the 2016 election. in other words, it appears the attorney general was and is hard at work helping the president prop up a disproved conspiracy theory for political gain. and that is the reason why an exchange, theres a principle within the rule of law that investigations have to be initiated because of some factual predicate, because theres some reason to believe theres wrongdoing and they are not and cannot be a reason of tool for those in power ...

>> what we objected to was the demands that were put that are deeply violate fundamental principles of separation of powers. we will of course do our constitutional duty to cooperate with this co-equal branch, but were going to do so in a way that is consistent with the fundamental values of the american system, and we wont tolerate folks on capitol hill bullying, intimidating state department employees. >> house speaker nancy pelosi and house intelligence committee chair adam schiff talked abou...

Any time something like this happens, lets say as a private citizen, one may naturally feel this way it is a spy whos out to get you. help us understand this is the ramifications of the president. whos surrounded by lawyers whewith a deep suunderstanding of how ts works. how reckless is it for a president to say this. >> it brings the kind of language that dictators and other governments actually used against those who are accused of wrong doing. we should not get use todd the fact that the pres...

Even though we can read with our own eyes the rough transcript that the white house itself released, and the quid pro quo is right there. the wrongdoing is right there in those ten little words. i would like you to do us a favor, though -- those words with kevin mccarthy, the minority leader of the house apparently was not familiar with. he didnt actually read the transcript. if you dont read the transcript, its easy to conclude the president didnt do anything wrong. but if you read it, you know...