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The president's that is of primary importance. let me read you a statement from senator ron johnson who wrote this letter to the republicans on your committee. he said vindman's testimony together wiother witnesses use similar terms of our policy, long standing policy, lend further credence to the point that i'm making. whether you agree with president trump or not, it should be acknowledged that the constitution vests the power of conducting foreign policy with the duly elected president. republicans saying that vindman had a problem with the policy but that shouldn't matter. >> and of all th...

To ask all week since i had the opportunity to interview the president's lawyer, jay sekulow. he's taken the position it would be unfair as a matter of due process to try to convict a president on anonymous testimony, people who can't be confronted. most people know the rules are different, there's no constitutional requirement what was merits due process. what do you think about the substance of that argument? do you think there's fairness there? would it concern you to remove any president if it was primarily on anonymous testimony? >> look. the constitution vests the authority to remove a p...

Republicans. people sit in the house and senate are governed by their own bodies pursuant to powers given to those bodies to control the behavior of their own members. when al franken is getting tossed out or bob packwood, the constitution vests them to control their own ethics. the only power against the president is impeachment. so if new allegations arise or new facts in old allegations arise, post the presidential election, i think you'd see an upswell in chatter about im'maei impeachment but they haven't. they're talking about the same allegations today that were asked and answered by 62....

Sense, but at the end of the day, no matter how rep rehen s henceable roy moore is, he hasn't been convicted of a crime. >> article one, section five of the constitution vests with the body to expel a member. they were going to expel bob pacwood and mitch mcconnell led that back in the day. he's very unforgiving about this. there will be a process. the senate can't deny him his seat. they can only expel him once he's taken it. but i don't expect him to get a committee assignment if he were to win. i don't see that happening, stephanie. but i would not be at all surprised if it is the quickest ...

And if we look at these campaign statement. the judges posed a series of rhetorical questions. one asking, maybe would he say sorry everyday. another saying, well are we supposed to look back what president trump said in college? and finally they said, if you can't remove the taint, how is the president supposed to protect the country. >> laura, thank you. laura jarrett reporting for us from richmond, virginia. dana, i want to play a little clip. this is an exchange that sally yates had with senator ted cruz on this very issue of why she was fired because she refused to go ahead and support th...