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His role in ukraine. given impeachment, they are resistant to go anywhere close to that because they have to admit donald trump is actually right. >> harris: the former vice president has taken some criticism for not getting on this when the story was first unfolding months and months ago. now it seems to have more oxygen, what is the next step that you would advise because you worked with the presidential candidate who is now out of the race, would you tell him to do? >> you and i have talked a...

The president is wrong when he says this was all politically motivated from the get-go. the ig report said was not true. >> bret: could not find. >> politically motivated. >> bret: he explained that like 7 billion times. >> it also says that there were some serious problems with the fisa report. both of those things can be true. boths ads are happy to cherry pick. it is in the interest of our justice system to acknowledge posts. >> this is important. this has been said so many times. the ig did ...

I was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. i was over confident in those, real sloppiness, 17 things that shouldve been in the applications were discussed and characterized differently. was not acceptable. >> harris: his words are doing little to silence his critics. kristin fisher, more on the story developing today. >> despite that admission of wrongdoing in regards to the fisa application overall, really defended ...

Foreign intelligence will be developed in the standard is lower. >> neil: what was he getting at here? in the inspector generals report, with all of these oddities and mistakes and sloppiness and lack of communication, it was based initially on the right reasons. >> i was talking with a couple of my colleagues. we came up with options. one is the benign one. he admits that there was wrongdoing, and hes doing the right thing. two, if he continues with the scorched earth, he may be contradicted an...

Fade and evaporate as they often do. so we come back to you on the substance. two articles, is that enough? >> so there is two different questions. is it enough politically? and i think i would obviously defer to nancy pelosis judgment about what she thinks will get the most votes in the house, what she thinks will be easiest to defend for her front line members, if they are making decisions on these bases, then i think shes the expert. then there is the question of justice. has donald trump com...

Involvement in dealing with investigations of his rivals. >> yeah. ari, listen, i have never met candidate trump, president-elect, president trump ever in my life, so i cant say. >> you were the foreign policy adviser at one time. >> a volunteer for a large team, yeah. >> a group. >> yeah. so i cant really speak in terms of factually. all i know is even just based on some of these allegations, which are being thrown around, i mean, what weve seen definitively with serious, hard evidence here is ...

>> here one of amoshs tweets. he takes on the republican propaganda. here is what he wrote. republicans are making a concerted effort to mislead, high crimes and misdemeanors is not about statutory crimes. in fact, the constitution doesnt provide for impeachment for ordinary crimes. they must be high. impeachable wrongdoing must relate to abuse of office. you dont look to statutes. you look to whether his behavior involves abusing power. violating the public trust or using his office for persona...

The level of high crimes and misdemeanors and to the level of conviction and removal until i see the evidence, i hear the prosecution, which is the house managers, until i hear the presidents defense. then you make the decision based on the evidence. and for the leader of the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell to say hes coordinating with the white house to make sure hes not convicted and removed is -- i just -- it really is part of this see no evil, hear no evil. thats why im so disappointing in my co...

Had complete confidence in the fisa process. and now hes saying he was wrong. well, i guess hes trying to get away with people thinking and understanding that incompetence is much better than being part of what many see as a conspiracy involved in this process. but either way, it is good that he finally did admit some wrongdoing there, and the most important point is to make sure there are not systemic problems with the fbi fisa process, and if there are, they need to be corrected. >> andrew, i ...

Your opinion even before this gets to the senate as a trial? >> well, i must think so because im doing it. so this is a political exercise by politicians. when you look at the history of why you have impeachment in the constitution, what i am saying is that i view this as a political exercise. i view this to be more about nancy pelosis speakership than wrongdoing by president trump. and i like speaker pelosi. i want to congratulate her on negotiating the usmca trade deal as they impeach the pres...