Transcripts for CNN CNN Tonight With Don Lemon 20191214 07:2

CNN CNN Tonight With Don Lemon December 14, 2019 07:26:00

object to that, and they could say, listen, he has to hire outside counsel as mr. clinton did and proceed that way and not -- this doesn't go on the taxpayers' dollar. there are all kinds of things they can do and hopefully they will do. >> do we have time for this? this is alan dershowitz. he is expected to handle the constitutional piece of this. he was on cnn earlier, for a senate trial. this is the argument he's making. watch this. >> particularly after today, the supreme court today granted cert in three cases, indicating that they're going to review the subpoena power of both congress and the prosecutor, and it seems to me that substantially undercuts the second article of impeachment that basically says you obstruct congress if you refuse to comply with subpoenas absent a court order. so i think the president's constitutional arguments were strengthened today, and he'd be well advised, i believe, to limit himself to those constitutional arguments. >> that's his impeachment

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