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Is a pro-firearm state. we did it. they could simply adopt the pennsylvania law. and it was passed by republican legislature with tom bridge as governor. i'm amazed that they can't just take up something so simple as universal background checks. >> it's a choice. and president trump has chosen not to do it at this point. bill barr says it's because of impeachment. >> no gun owner will notice. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, guys. coming up in our next hour, we'll speak with congressman shawn patrick maloney. he will be among those asking questions at today's intelligence committee hear...

So i think that speaker pelosi quite rightly realizes there's a messaging issue here and it needs to be explained in straightforward terms without any latin involved so that people can understand the alleged wrong doing on the part of the president. the only other thing i would say is i think she's probably mistaken in referring to this as bribery if, in fact, it occurred as they are presenting. it was probably extortion. hey, i have something you need. i'm not giving it to you unless you give me something that i need. not by the way for my country, but for my personal plal objective. that's m...

Michael, as you well know, being one of the drafters, the word bribery is in the constitution as it concerns impeachment. the president, vice president, and all civil officers of the u.s. should be removed from office on impeachment for conviction of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and zme misdemeanors. that's one reason she likes that word. why else? >> when i started with you i said there was a messaging challenge for those seeking the impeachment of the president. does this fall in the category of watergate? hay, that's a burglary. we all know what means. or is it white water? a ver...

Misdemeanors. >> whether it's one or whether it's the other, i think we're in agreement that what they're trying to do is convey something that can be readily understood by the american people as having crossed an impeachment line. >> but what you do hear, michael, are the president's dechkders saying basically it can't be a crime if the victim didn't know that a crime was happening. and so they keep saying zelensky didn't know the aid was being held up. i don't know if zelensky did or didn't. because the diplomats all around zelensky sure knew that something was up. and they were worried abou...

A potential confluence of both the political self-interest of the president, getting her out of the way so he could do his deed in ukraine. >> reporter: yovanovitch said she was warned to watch my back because of rudy giuliani and his associates. on wednesday, deputy assistant secretary of state george kent describing giuliani building a smear campaign against yovanovitch. >> i became alarmed as those efforts bore fruit. they led to the ouster of yovanovitch and hampered u.s. efforts with the new zelensky administration in ukraine. >> reporter: democrats intensifying their stance on impeachmen...