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>> reporter: good morning to you, erica. with public hearings scheduled for this week, vice president biden told the crowd last night that he believes president trump violated the constitution and that the house had to act to protect it. former vice president joe biden defending his and his sons actions in ukraine at a cnn town hall in iowa. >> theres absolutely zero basis to the accusation that i acted any way inappropriately or that my son did. this is all about trump trying to create a divers...

Within those authorities. in the meantime, some liberal, political and legal analysts say democrats should refrain the discussion away from quid pro quo and towards extortion and they found some takers. listen. >> you have enough evidence for the depositions we have done to warrant bringing this forward. evidence of extortion scheme. >> the president acted criminally and extorted the way a mob boss would extort somebody. we already do have evidence of the presidents wrongdoing of the extortion. ...

Political and legal analysts say democrats should refrain the discussion away from quid pro quo and towards extortion and they found some takers. listen. >> you have enough evidence for the depositions we have done to warrant bringing this forward. evidence of extortion scheme. >> the president acted criminally and extorted the way a mob boss would extort somebody. we already do have evidence of the presidents wrongdoing of the extortion. >> you can call this extortion, bribery, all the same thi...

Wrongdoing to say that this call really was about going forward in using your political power as a president to go after political opponent. but he is not voluntarily doing it. adam schiff is blocking him and refusing to bring any republican requester witnesses, which shows they are not interested in a fair process, especially when the vote was so by party lines in terms of moving it forward. >> jesse: eat them adam schiff is not stupid enough to bring hunter to testify. >> juan: lets not pay at...

There was, and they cant seem to figure out how to defend the president. now were seeing in this republican memo that has come out today that the argument is about the presidents state of mind. can you prove that he had culpability? can you prove that in his mind he wanted to commit wrongdoing? >> but theyre not on trial. >> this is a political process. >> right, this is a political process. all they have to do -- this is where theyre missing their opportunity to be trumpy. this is not a crimina...

That there is some wrongdoing. neither one is conducting themselves with any sort of clear moral authority. >> the problem is they really dont have a leg to stand on here, and this entire house of cards falls apart if people start talking about, for instance, the presidents tweet today and this notion that, well, he didnt have the state of mind that would have been a guilty or corrupt state of mind to engage in investigating corruption and investigating the bidens. and if, in fact, thats true an...

To say look, there was some weather now with nbc wrong doing on this side. meteorologist bill karins. but look at joe biden, there was >> winter. >> winter. >> when you see a 9 on dallas. wrongdoing on that side as well. thats typically like maybe but as we know there has been no december, january. >> there is a legitimate proven, nothing proven in regard to these allegations, against nose-dive happening with regards to happening, especially on the hunter biden, theres no east coast where we are...

Of government. in the light have that were getting all the information we can. im proud of chairman schiff and his committee along with the hours they poured into, along with the republican colleagues, dont forget theyre there also, of the hours put in front of the american people of the wrongdoing of this administration. it is about the oath of office and abuse of power and just as important about our congressional oath of office. i swore on january 3rd, i would uphold the discussion. i know al...

That was disappointing. we had really talented cross-examination by barry burke, our staff attorney, at the end of the hearing. one thing we may have learned, change the timing around. sometimes its better to get right to the testimony right up front while people are paying attention. many hearings go on for hours and hours and we need to lay out the sailant facts early to keep the attention of the american people so they will see the evidence and facts and so they can judge for themselves. in t...

>> and republicans are making their own demands, arguing that the whistleblower and hunter biden must testify, despite weeks of testimony backing up that original whistleblower complaint and no evidence of wrongdoing by joe or hunter biden in ukraine. theres a lot to get to on this important monday morning. capitol hill, our national correspondent suzanne malveaux is there. good morning. >> good morning. its rather quiet here as the house and senate are in recess for this veterans day, but it is...