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Willing to make a deal with the taliban without the involvement of congress. here you have the president as philippe was saying telegraphing if you want to be charitable about it, with a the prime minister of israel should be doing. what's your response to that? i go back to you as the lawmaker, as the member of congress watching this happen again and again, the white house taking on this outsized dare i say inappropriate role. >> of course trump is circumventing the congress. he's circumventing the constitution, flaunting the constitution, i want to take some responsibility in congress as wel...

Officials to say we need to take a second look at this. and ivanka, just by virtue of being married to jared kushner might have issues of her own there too. >> you know, carlos, we didn't elect a family. we elected one guy in the electoral college. it seems like he has outsourced the stuff of power that he has given to jared is unbelievable. jared is cooking up what he thinks is a middle east deal for peace which i don't think is going anywhere because it's not creating a palestinian state. he is involved with running the 2020 election. he is doing everything in the world without any kind of p...

Because as i mentioned earlier, we have a constitutional duty to hold the executive accountable. i think we should be doing that. >> thank you for working on the stacy abrams campaign, because stacey abrams should be the governor of -- [ cheers ] >> congressman, let me follow up here. because you say today she is doing a great job. but you said after the election that you would not be quote answering the call of the american people if she and her top two deputies were in charge. you say today she is doing a great job. were you wrong about that? >> no, that's what i heard on the campaign trail ...

Opinions out there. but i just come back to what the right thing to do is here, alex. we've got to follow the constitution. the constitution is very clear that it's congress' duty to hold the executive accountable, especially a president breaking the law and i don't think anyone is debating he's not breaking the law by violating subpoenas. so we need to have this inquiry. congress does two things, we debate and we vote. i don't think it's the right time to vote on impeachment. we don't have all of the facts yet. in fact i voted for opening this discussion last year. a lot of this evidence was ...

That would love nothing more than to see american democracy disintegrate and crumble is just galling. and i think democrats and republicans, independents, anyone who loves this country must demand that the white house be held accountable. and if congress isn't going to do it, then it's we the people through our power at the voting booth who will have to do it by putting people in congress who will hold the executive accountable. >> yeah, james comey clearly now believes that the only way to break this dam is in the voting booths in november. jonathan capehart, thank you very much for joining o...