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Playing out here? >> what it highlights is what appears to be a tension between president trump and his fbi director. remember, chris wray is a trump appointee. trump picked him out after he fired james comey comey which kicked off the inception of the mueller investigation. now we have the president himself basically saying he doesnt think chris wray is doing a good job. the issue this presents for wray, if you read through the inspector general report, they didnt find evidence that affected th...

Team he found that the fbi had a legitimate reason to open the investigation. now horowitz did find some wrongdoing. i dont want to gloss over it. it includes the mishandling of an application to monitor a trump campaign official. that would be the one and only carter page. overall horowitz found the investigation was justifieds thats roughly what was expected, but heres the craziest thing. when the ig report was released, attorney general william barr came in and immediately disputed its conclu...

Specifics here that the democrats are zeroing in on. >> yeah, i think heidi summarized it well. at its core, what democrats are saying is impeachment is unique. its not something thats supposed to happen every day, its rare, but with credible evidence of very serious wrongdoing, its appropriate. what theyre zoning in on is serious, its serious because only the president has the powers that donald trump used to, as in the words that they use, create this scheme to interfere in our elections and u...

Pelosi has to make in the coming weeks. >> i want you to stand by for a second. i dont mean to surprise wu the senator graham news. he just spoke in the hallway calling this a sham. he predicts that impeachment will be over fairly quickly and i do think that is going to be some of the lines that youll hear from the white house and the presidents allies. i want to bring in our legal and political experts as well, a former u.s. attorney who worked as a senior expect with the fbi, serving with the ...

>> ari, listen, i have no -- ive never met candidate trump, president-elect, candidate trump in my life. >> you were foreign policy advisor at one time. >> volunteer for a large team, 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 was serious hard evidence here is infinitely more serious in terms of, you know, the wrongdoing. and as you said, those 17 areas of miscon...

>> giuliani in ukraine while the president is being impeached and the russian foreign minister is in the white house while the president is being impeached. cant be -- >> thank you very much. >> special coverage continues with wolf blitzer in washington. >> good morning. im wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. one hour from now, the evidence, a critical house judiciary comm set to kick off up on capitol hill. well hear congressiona...

Committee, which will establish the contours of the impeachment. but then you really have the key question, the political question of scope of the articles of impeachment. so the risk, i think, of drafting a broad set of articles of impeachment is that democrats could be seen as overreaching. but a narrow set of charges could be seen as overlooking certain acts of wrongdoing. my sense is that democrats will err on the side of keeping it simple and focusing on ukraine so its clear to the public. ...

Gps and consultants were doing for dnc. maria: they were trying to muddy you up. >> candidate trump up, it was targeting me because i had russia connection. >> republicans like devin nunes say the report is crucial to knowing all sides of the story. >> i think horowitz to either confirm or deny that what we put out to the american people is true, we know theres evidence on carter page that they didnt get to the fisa court, thats critical. >> keep in mind that a separate investigation continues l...

Levers of government in his control to not only request it and invite it but to pressure that country to do it. and thats exactly what he did. you will hear more about that in the presentation for the house intelligence committee. and whats most striking as we come back to this issue that the framers were concerned about. is there a continuing risk of wrongdoing? the fact that president trump did this after he was caught shows the risk. shows the risk of what will happen if this body doesnt act....

A campaign platform to extend the invitation to the foreign power, now he has the levers of government in his control to not only request it and invite it, but toly pressure that country do it. and thats exactly what he did. and w youll hear more about th in the presentation from the house intelligence committee: and whats most c striking as w come back to this issue that the framers were concerned about, is there a continuing risk of wrongdoing, the fact that president trump did this after he w...