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They never reached toout to enge in this accommodation process. it was a complete stonewall not only will the white house not participate or respond toe the duly authorized subpoenas of congress but we're going to direct every other executive branch agency to defy this. >> i have a a series and please keep your answers brief if you can. during last week's hearing my republican colleague said that congress has not built a sufficient record to impeach. as a former prosecutor you have spent years building a case record. what is the strength of the record here? >> i think we have moved fast and i ...

>> well, speaking of kupperman's counsel, his lawyer does call this a momentous constitutional dispute. whenever this ult mightiimatelyg decided and wherever it goes, how important could it be? >> well, this line between where the president's power to keep information in secret and where congress's power to compel the production of information for oversight or impeachment purposes, where you draw that line is very murky. there's very, very few concrete rock solid supreme court precedents to tell us where that line is drawn. usually, because presidents back down or there is a negotiation, an ac...

This could be considered obstruction if articles of impeachment were to be filed in the weeks ahead. >> thank you so much, sarah. i appreciate your reporting. also breaking tonight, "the new york times" reporting that a second official, a member of the u.s. intelligence community, is weighing whether to file a whistle-blower complaint about trump's dealings with ukraine. let's discuss now. ryan lizza, carrie cordero, and max boot. max is the author of "the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right." so, just quickly before we get to this, carrie, what does this mean now that mike pompe...

Whistle-blower complaint about trump's dealings with ukraine. let's discuss now. ryan lizza, carrie cordero, and max boot. max is the author of the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. quickly before we get to this, carrie, what does this mean now that mike pompeo has missed a deadline? what happens next? what do we know? >> well, i think they're just going to have to keep going back and forth, and they'll have to decide whether they're going to try to enforce it in court. normally what you want is some kind of accommodation process. so if an agency is trying to comply, like really...

Everything just goes out. >> no one, i don't think, ever fully anticipated a president who would consider himself so firmly above the law that he wouldn't engage in any sort of accommodation practice with congress. you know, in the past obviously presidents don't like to be questioned, often don't want to turn over information. so there's an accommodation process. information can go first to the gang of eight, the eight key leaders in congress and the senate, or some other process of a negotiation over what will be turned over will happen. the trump administration has made it clear that they w...