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Articles. solicitation, scheme, corrupt intent, obstruction. those are the key words in those two articles. they cover all the evidence we heard in the hearings. they were concise, they were clear. they don't want the waters muddies. what the republicans will need to do because they didn't have evidence is muddy the ut wahhers. that's what we're going to see tonight in this markup. >> geoff, taking what my wra is saying there, what do you see the republicans doing beyond messaging? in other words, the markup is an actual process whereby there is debate, discussion, editing of what are articles...

This report and not have committed, by any stretch, a high crime. many people have pointed out there's all sorts of deals in foreign policy. of course there are. there's treaties. that's a deal. there's leverage and pressure. of course there are. that's why the u.s. wants a strong military. the issue is not that those actions occurred but with any crime, why it's a high crime or impeachable activity, the question always goes back to whether there was, essentially, corrupt intent. did you do a thing for the wrong reason? when you look at this, the most damning pieces in the report that we haven...

Level of the evidence and corroboration. nunes part would be a huge deal on its own, given that he is supposed to be doing this investigation. chairman schiff was quite careful in his generalized remarks about it tonight. and they still have a relationship, a professional relationship with this committee. but he did use a very legal word here in discussing the potential complicity of members of congress. take a look. >> it is, i think, deeply concerning that at a time when the president of the united states was using the power of his office to dig up dirt on a political rival that there may be...

Biden in those to our knowledge. the only thing that changed ostensibly is the former v.p. decided to run for office. >> in previous times the aid was given, there was no connection at all to quote, unquote, corruption. ukraine was a corrupt company but they didn't have a president elected who was a corruption fighter. they had a president who was corrupt. all of a sudden it became important about corruption. they don't care about corruption. the fact is they wrote the book. >> the idea of corrupt intent, the constructive analogy for you guys in terms of what the wrong was seems to be this was...

Country, but they didn't have a president who had been elected who was a corruption fighter. they had a president who was corrupt, and yet that wasn't even questioned. all of a sudden it became important about corruption. they don't care about corruption. the fact is they wrote the book. >> the idea of corrupt intent, the constructive analogy for you guys in terms of what the wrong was, is this was a bribe. you're going to have to make the proof to the american people against counsel now at the judiciary committee level that this was a scam all along to lever ukraine. one of the major defenses...