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Specific reasons. i think they want to ask him about his conversations with ukraine's president about attempts to get control of ukraine's natural gas company. he's already said that he went there to speak about that. he represented some of his own constituents as possible consultants to the ukraine government. we know that giuliani when he was back there and the months before trump first made that phone call when he was digging for dirt on biden simultaneously parnas and fruman themselves were trying to get a taste of the ukraine natural gas company, the biggest company in the country. >> but...

Attorney general barr, perhaps he has gained a perspective that he's a bit invincible because of barr's interpretation of executive authority or power. it's interesting. if trump did do this, it's a bold move. he's trying to pressure a foreign leader shortly after he's elected into getting dirt on a political opponent. it's pretty audacious. let's look at what senator elizabeth warren said. she wrote on twitter. by failing to act, congress is complicit in trump's latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in u.s. elections. what do you make of warren pressuring congress to imp...

Hijackers took control of the plane in 1985 after it took off from athens, shooting and killing a u.s. navy diver and taking the other 146 passengers and crew hostage for days. new today, iran's president ratcheting up the rhetoric ahead of his trip tomorrow to the u.n. general assembly in new york. this morning, he criticized the president of foreign forces in the persian gulf after president trump -- instead of taking a military strike on iranian targets. >> when i was running, everybody said, oh, he's going to get into war, he's going to get into war. he's going to blow everybody up, he's...

Reasonable minds could almost disagree on. on the one hand, you could argue that the president has almost complete authority over international relations so that a communication with a foreign head of state is -- he's almost unlimited in his power, but on the other hand, if for example there was the withholding of a multimillion dollar aid package to ukraine and that was dangled in front of them as a sort of inducement, that is almost exactly the kind of corruption that article 2 and the impeachment clauses contemplated. consider that the impeachable offenses, the two examples we get in the co...

Collusion. >> that's bigger than. >> i'm going to quote today's legal expert, dmx, the yeerjerke work, the game. so michael cohen is caught up in the game. if donald junior and ivanka are caught up as well, they're guilty of one felony. the act makes it illegal to offer a bribe to the foreign government if you're a citizen of the united states. so the issue is, first it has to be to influence a corrupt act. the defense as we know it, we were going to give putin this $50 million condo but it was a ploy to get other rich russians to buy in the building. if that's true, that's a defense. but on t...