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Republican defense that there was no quid pro quo. one more defense has been knocked down on the republican side. >> and it strikes me, shan, i have to say. this is what mick mulvaney told us when he was speaking out loud at the white house press conference and then had to retract. he made the mistake of saying what apparently is true and republicans were going to come around to anyway. >> absolutely, john. i think they eventually had to come to this. i mean their whole original strategy of, we did not mouth the words quid pro quo, or trump didn't, as though that would somehow shield them from...

They have now finally issued their first subpoena. all these other things were just nasty letters. finally yesterday, last night, mcmulvaney, the chief of staff got a subpoena. but it's issued on the authority of the oversight committee because there is flow impeach inquiry it's a fraud. the early saying they have inherent authority to arrest. they have never done it for over a century. they have never ever done it to an executive branch official. they don't have any authority to do it. ultimately what they will do is go to court and try to get a judicial finding that somebody is in contempt f...

Here is somebody who does. andy mccarthy knows about these issues. we asked him about what rasheda tlaib said. here is his response. >> look, it's not surprising that she doesn't know the process, i suppose. it's not surprising that people think there is a bunch of subpoenas out there, pete. they have now finally issued their first subpoena. all these other things were just nasty letters. ultimately what they will do is go to court and they will try get a judicial finding that somebody is in contempt for not complying with the subpoena and they will hope that that ratchets up political pressur...

>> methamphetamines, zoloft. >> there was more. the defense revealed that toolan spent years fighting depression and obsessive compulsive disorder and in the late '80s he attempted suicide and finally the defense was ready for its knockout punch. a neuropsychologyist. >> my opinion is that he has profound frontal executive dysfunction. >> he testified that years of substance abuse brought about that mental defect. because of it, toolan could not control his impulses so the defense argued he could not be held criminally responsible for the murder. >> it was like the perfect storm. you have the ...

Is that the case here? i mean, does this really have some sort of long-lasting impact on a child, being detained in a cage with lots of other people, not knowing where your parent is? >> so, you ask a really very important and fundamental scientific question. what we know is that different types of stress affect the brain and can cause resilience or can cause trauma. so, what these kids are experiencing is something called toxic stress, and that is unmitigated cortisol, fight-or-flight hormones, the types of hormones that actually disrupt brain development. and for a 10-year-old or an 11-year-...