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We move to the judiciary committee next week, just keeping on this simple message. because the american people by and large, there is an information deficit out there on all of this stuff. and they basically understand what trump did was wrong. in fact, i think 70%, 80% of the country, even republicans understand what he did was wrong. the question is how do you get them to the point where they support impeaching him? and that's where you tie in the bribery argument. >> just to make another point about the degradation of american foreign policy. you have trump telling bill o' reilly in that in...

Would you encapsulate this? >> you're giving a good challenge for a tv reporter here. i think it comes down to the democrats' central message that they had witnesses say over and over again that they believe there was a policy coming out of the white house that essentially said if ukraine -- only if ukraine mounted investigations that were personally of interest and personally beneficial to the president could ukraine get the things it wanted, including a white house meeting and military aid money. i think it's an abuse of power, potentially a bribery argument. i think what these hearings were...

There is no direct linkage to this and there is no quid pro quo and no bribery. the democrats have accused them of. >> the bribery argument is very important. previously democrats have been claiming that there was a quid pro quo. but the constitution specifically says for a president to be impeached they need to have committed high crimes and misdemeanors, bribery or treason. now you for nancy pelosi and other democrats switch to the word bribery because it is outlined in the constitution that someone can be impeached for. now if they do choose to impeach the president, they would have to prov...

Of the potential articles of impeachment. an increasing number of witnesses, of course, are part of the evidence yar reasoning for that. you have now more and more people out in public stating the evidence that would support a bribery case, and you have more democrats getting on board with the bribery argument. >> the president broke the law. this is a very strong case of bribery. >> president trump was indeed soliciting a bribe. it's extortion. >> if you sought to condition, coerce, extort, or bribe an ally, if this is not impeachable conduct, what is? >> so, that's how the case is being outl...