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Wrongdoing which we have been covering for 2 years, what happened at fisa court. what do you make of the aocs tweet? >> she was put by the socialist, beat a sitting democrat in new york city, she was a socialist, what do socialists do? they want full control, they want one-party control, so the only way to get one-party control right now to impeach the president, so thats what they are trying to do, so the more i think that theyre out there promoting this kind of craziness and silliness, i think...

Go ahead, stephanie. >> no. >> yeah. and the person that was fired for investigating his son was fired several hours after that because the ukraine was so worried about not getting the funds. if we want to talk about obstruction of justice, we have it on videotape. you played it earlier in your segment of joe biden saying exactly what he did. but everyone seems to be looking the other way. the media are looking the other way. the democrats pretend it didnt happen. the things theyre accusing pres...

Speak directly to the house senate and intelligence committee as required by law. biden and trump deny allegations of wrongdoing. back to you, guys. >> all right, ellison, we will take it back here, eric. >> republican utah senator mitt romney has become the first republican to criticize the president over this, he tweeted, quote, if the president to ask ukrainian president to investigate political driver either direct or push of attorney it would be troubling in the extreme, critical for the fa...

And the person that was fired for investigating his son was fired several hours after that because the ukraine was so worried about not getting the funds. if we want to talk about obstruction of justice, we have it on videotape. you played it earlier in your segment of joe biden saying exactly what he did. but everyone seems to be looking the other way. the media are looking the other way. the democrats pretend it didnt happen. the things theyre accusing president trump of are totally absurd. of...

Whats the political fallout of all of this in. >> well, i think the political call fallout is what we saw in the tweet from mitt romney a second ago when you have a senator criticizing the sitting president of his -- of his own party, you see that something has possibly been under here, imagine for a moment if donald trump had not made phone call, we dont know exactly what happened, we havent seen transcripts, still a lot of questions, imagine if president trump had kept this as political matter...

President. >> lets discuss this with madeleine dean. welcome to the studio. nice to have you in person. >> nice to be with you. >> all of the reaction, im curious what you think about the argument the president just made there with regard to the whistle-blower, any kind of a call he needs to have, keep it private between leaders of countries and the like. what are your thoughts on that? >> i think if the reporting is accurate, and it sounds like the president himself is on the verge of confirmin...

I do think that we will have to pass some laws that will have clarity for future presidents. a president should be indicted if hes committed a wrongdoing. >> while in office? >> any president. there is nothing anyplace that says the president should not be indicted. >> house speaker nancy pelosi on friday again saying she has not changed her mind on pursuing the impeachment of president donald trump. but as far as presidential powers go, she is making it clear that laws should be changed so that...

What do you think is going on inside the intelligence community as they watch this story? what are they hoping for? >> actually, i think theyre hoping for the rule of law to be followed. theyre hoping for the whistleblower process to be maintained, its integrity main tained. theyre not looking to talk to "the washington post" with respect to ellen. or come on television. theyre pretty much nose down collecting and analyzing information for the national security. theyre not partisan people. theyr...

What did they look at there? interfering with a foreign government. imagine the president interfering with the ukrainian president-elect. its extraordinary wrongdoing. >> you supported impeachment pretty early on. how does this incident play into that support? >> you know, day after day, i think we keep looking at the behaviors of this president and the administration and saying, this is a new low. well, the ukraine investigation, the whistle-blower report, if those two things do converge and co...

Chairman of the senate armed services committee to let them know a little bit about what was going on. then you move up to the 1970s and there were big failures at the time of watergate and people felt it should be more formalized. thats the time the intelligence committees in the house and senate really began. >> jon, are you confident, do you have faith in the system? will the norms in this case as it goes forward, will they hold? >> well, i certainly hope so, and i think my own bet is that th...