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Aboutism. the soviet will say you can't ask us about human rights. who are you to teach us. now they're saying you can't talk to us about human rights because you're persecuting these protesters. of course, this is coming amid a crackdown on civil society and politicians and journalists in russia. people are going to jail and the like for posting poetry online. and lavrov is basically saying we don't expect anything from the summit on our side. >> so that is what he is expecting. what's the objective for america here? if you're having a summit, hopefully you have one. what is the plan? what do...

Expanding at the ready to attack a government that they disagree with their decision-making, that is a massive national security threat. that is a massive just safety threat to the american people and it is the job of the american government to investigate that. and that republicans want to protect that and keep that hidden for political gain, is really -- is really shocking. i mean the republicans want to investigate black lives matter or other groups to make it -- what about-ism and what they should be fact finding and finding out just how long an ongoing threat and how dangerous an ongoing ...

You don't require a mind reader. in every criminal case and i would assume in every impeachment case, yes, you have to show that the president was operating from a corrupt motive, and we have, but he also makes an argument that all quid pro quos are the same and all are perfectly copacetic. some of you said earlier if they could prove a quid pro quo over the military, that would be something. well, we have, so now the argument shifts to all quid pro quos are just fine. they're all the same. i'm going to apply professor dershowitz's own test. he talked about the step test, john ralls the philos...

Possible republican 2020 opponent. could they honestly say that they would similarly be opposed to impeachment? and think the investigation in this whole matter would be outrageous. by the way, i'm not asking them to explain themselves to me. i'm generally curious how they explain it to themselves. couple answers i got. a lot of it is what aboutism. they'll quickly change the subject to, what about hilary clinton's use of -- >> libya. they'll talk about other things. >> then there are some people who say, look. let's face it. of course, the position would be different if it was her. but they -...

Just that. and all of those emails were dumped on the internet right after the mueller hearing, the next morning he picks up the phone, talks to another foreign leader and is trying to get that foreign leader in ukraine to interfere in the 2020 elections. so, he has abused his office. he has abused his power and he should be impeached. >> on that point, congressman curbelo, your fellow republican party members have largely avoided defending most of that. they seem to vacillate between arguing that aspects of it didn't happen. while some of it is debatable, we reported out how the key evidence ...