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To a body, the congress, that the president cannot say no to. that was also, of course, the week when the inspector general came out with the remarkable and unprecedented report about kellyanne conway's breaking of the hatch act by doing political things on the taxpayer dime. and the president said, i don't care. it was probably that week that i realized this president has no interest in the law or in abiding by the constitution. and it was time for congress as a coequal branch to stand up and say that will not fly. >> you note in your statement that impeachment actually might wind up serving ...

Like the oversight investigations i mentioned in previous panel that republicans have conducted. and whether and it is a political division the voters make, that assessment whether or not have you gone too far. but you are allowed to do that they are a separate and coequal branch. >> bret: i got ought this. the constitution i have got. i'm talking about the political -- >> nearly 1,000 prosecutors who say they believe that the president obstruct dollars justice. >> and it couldn't find an example of anyone else that they could point to a case would bring. >> the democrats in congress, no matte...

But, really this is a difficult situation for them because they have a base that got whipped up into a frenzy through false reports that they participated in and now they are wondering what happened. they got -- they put all their cards on this mueller probe and came up with nothing and it's very difficult for them to deal with. >> bret: a.b., as these investigations continue, and there are other investigations including finances and the efforts to get the president's tax returns, where is the political onus? where does it fall? you are saying the president shot himself in the foot in the past...

Three big legal issues tonight involving president trump, the house intelligence committee releasing transcripts. the federal judge ordering an accounting firm to hand over trump's financial records to congress and the white house directing former counsel don mcgahn to defy a subpoena and refuse to testify tomorrow before the house yjudiciary committee. there is a lot to discuss. sara murray and elie honig. everybody is defying everything. we can all go home, nothing to report here. is that right right, sara? >> i guess it's done, nothing more to do, no coequal branch of the government anymore...

Essentially a constitutional monarch and stands above congress and the courts. that's a complete inversion of the constitutional design. under our constitution, congress is in article one. we are the law making power and receive the sovereign power from the people. we can impeach the president and executive officers. he cannot impeach us. he has it backwards. congress is in the process of reasserting our constitutional preemenance. we are not just a coequal branch. we have a president who thinks he is a king and acting in a lawless manner. >> you mentioned impeachment that strikes me as part o...