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Government to target an american citizen for political gain and at the same time withhold $391 million in military aid from a very vulnerable ukraine which is ally to the united states and is still at war with russian-backed separatist its in crimea. that is why we're at this moment. chris: but, congressman, democrats have been making that case, you've been making your best case to the public for two months now. you just finished 30 hours of televised hearings, 12 witnesses and the public apparently isn't buying it at this point. i want to put up a recent poll, back in early october people app...

Democrats want to ask him about. there are questions about the practicality of his testimony. >> meanwhile, could you explain executive privilege? we heard about that in the nixon administration. >> it was the nixon v news it was about the tapes. in releasing those tapes was the first time a judge, the justice established executive privilege as a thing, dating back to george wash it has been insnroakd one manner or another. but in the watergate case that allowed the president to draw a ring around certain decisions and deliberative discussions that he had with senior aides to keep that from th...

It would mean, again, the president was above the rule of law. that the rules didn't apply to the president. i think the supreme court will go this way. >> congress is a coequal branch. sometimes people forget that. thank you for all of that. the arrest of two associates of the president's personal lawyer rudy giuliani has now thrust the former mayor square in the middle of this ukraine controversy. is president trump now backing away from his old friend? everyone uses their phone differently.

Consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. a coequal branch of government. >> and articles of impeachment tell you that? there's a risk here. but if you're congress, you want to hear what he knew about the president's motive for with holding congressional aid to ukrain. you want to know why call me he said. and why did he call the it president before responding to his fellow diplomat about the old quid pro quo? if you're the president you want a muzzle on anyone who can potentially imp lllicate and tro explain your init tensions. but one...

A coequal branch of legislation. >> didn't lessons of nixon tell you that? there's a risk here. if your congress you want to hear what he knew about the president's motive. with holding congressional aid to ukraine. you want to know why he wanted communications to be off text messages. call me, he said. and why did he call the president before responding to his fellow diplomat about the quid pro quo? if you're the president, you want a muzzle on anyone who can potentially implicate you and try to explain your intentions. one of the president's chief defenders says look, there's no need for any...