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>> what is the bribe? >> if you do not -- >> quid pro quo. >> quid pro quo is latin. it just means this for that. a bribe is this. i have corrupt intent when i ask you to do something in exchange for something else. >> chris, you come from a very political family. if senator smith asked senator jones, i want to build a bridge in minnesota. i need funding, and i'll give you funding in florida, that's a quid pro quo. >> no corrupt intent. >> well, he's going to get re-elected if the gets the bridge funded. >> get me dirt on my opponent, and i'll give you the bridge. corrupt intent. it's a bribe....

The democrats don't have any evidence of an impeachable crime here. why would they start an impeachment inquiry if there was no evidence of a crime? this is what's crazy about this whole process. >> -- an attempt to bribe the president of ukraine. >> what is the bribe? >> if you do not -- >> quid pro quo. >> quid pro quo is latin. it just means this for that. a bribe is this. i have corrupt intent when i ask you to do something in exchange for something else. >> chris, you come from a very political family. if senator smith asked senator jones, i want to build a bridge in minnesota. i need fun...

Would be just diplomacy, which is not a crime. now here's the legal part. if the same official deploys that money to help themselves, that corrupt intent makes the same action a crime. and that's how corruption law is landed. here we go, a guy you might remember rod blagojevich in prison. he was a governor, he had the power to take the action of filling a vacant senate seat. it's when he tried to abuse the power and enrich himself and take money for the same action of picking a senator, it was that corrupt intent that made the action a crime. now, what i'm telling you may sound pretty straight...

Innocent reasons that you might call for an investigation, which is that it is clearly and unmistakably a personal benefit to the president of the united states and that is frankly in the criminal context a rather novel extension of the bribery and extortion statute, one that the supreme court and other lower courts have been concerned about, the whole notion of an in-kind campaign contribution is one that the supreme court has struggled with. so before we wander off into impeachment land over what i think is, you know, arguably a pretty thin case that would be a criminal case that would have ...

Corrup intent and thatis designed as i purpose. and the improper purpose was using the levers of government, the $400 million appropriated by congress, in order to get the ukranian government to assist trump in his re-election campaign by investigating the bidens. you've got all the circumstances surrounding this that just reek of corrupt intent, hiding transcripts, people being told not to testify, hiding the ball on the facts here. so, yes, and you've also got extortion, the hobbs act where in fact the ukranian government is being extorted with the money that was appropriated by congress. th...