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Vladimir putin a pass. that's what happened when mitch mcconnell blocked two bipartisan bills in the senate which would have helped protect your vote from foreign interference. one, to help get election machines to have paper ballots, second to mandate campaigns with foreign offers of help to report to the fbi. the timing couldn't be more perfect. it came one day after former special counsel robert mueller told us in his own words what he and his team found in their 18-month investigation, that the trump campaign wholeheartedly accepted any help russia had to offer. >> the trump campaign wasn'...

President a pass. they're going to continue with the investigations, they're being stonewalled by the white house and the administration, but you know what is going on also, brooke, is further obstruction. and this, if there is an impeachment, can all add up as part of the process. the article 3 against richard nixon was based on his behavior after they started the impeachment proceedings. because he refused to cooperate. he refused to supply his tapes, he didn't -- he couldn't prevent all of the witnesses. but he did what he could. but that is what that article three was based on. not somethi...

The democrats simply pursue impeachment right now without any bipartisan support it could well blow up in their faces. that's a legitimate point. but on the flip side of the ledger is the fact that congress does have a constitutional responsibility to enforce the law and if the president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, which i think is more likely than not in this case, what kind of message does that send about our regard for the rule of law if you give the president a pass because it's too politically difficult to try to hold him to account? i mean, i know that nancy pelosi's awar...

But you know, nothing she says should be construed as giving the president a pass to do whatever he wants because the justice department has already said that he cannot be indicted, which is questionable. but that's the justice department position. so if he can't be indicted, and if he can't be impeached, is he king donald? is he above the law? what kind of accountability are we going to have for him? >> that's a very good point. douglas, historically, has there been a reluctance to impeach the president based on politics? am i forgetting similar comments from newt gingrich maybe for example? ...

Monday. now the president is firing back on michael cohen. two days after he testified before cummings' committee in public. >> he is a racist. he is a conman and he is a cheat. >> reporter: the president suggesting that congress demand a manuscript of cohen's book he claims is a love letter to trump. tweeting your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradiction against his thursday. the like a different person. she totally discredited. but as trump remains fixated on con, his comments this week giving dictator kim jong-un a pass for the death of an american student...