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Before the house, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. >> martha: all right. so looking at it from the democrats' perspective interest for a moment here, they look at your line of questioning and say yeah, so why didn't you defend the president on this issue of abuse of power. you spent most of your time going after them as partisans and trying to undermine their argument that way. but you didn't try to dismantle their argument that the president abused his power. why not? >> because i only had 5 minutes, mar...

Violation. then some were talking about quid pro quo. a lot of talk about quid pro quo. then they kind of tested the idea that the president extorted ukraine in this matter. and then they seemed to settle on the question of bribery. and the advantages of bribery were two-fold. one, it's pretty easy for people to understand in a sense and two, it is specifically mentioned in the constitution with impeachment is prescribed for treason, bribery or other high scrims and crimes and misdemeanors. today what we saw was an effort to define bribery because we had a disagreement among the professors of ...

Like you to do us a favor though. but after spending a few weeks watching and reading the hundreds of hours of testimony, according to the testimony of career civil servants, the president extorted ukraine. unsuccessfully in the end, it appears. the committee is expected to vote to approve the vote and that will head to the house judiciary for review. they'll use that report to condicide whether to draft articles of impeachment. they will be holding a public hearing examining the constitutional grounds for the president's impeachment. we just learned a few hours ago this evening, the witnesses...

Impeachment investigators saying that other witnesses have now refreshed his recollection about certain conversations. he now confirms that he made clear to a top ukrainian official that military support was contingent on ukraine's plans to deliver on trump's demands. according to stoppedland's updated testimony, he now recalls telling a u.s. aide, i said that the resumption of the u.s. aid would likely not occur until you crane provided the public anti-corruption statement. with this relevation, sondland has become the fourth witness to afirm a quid pro quo. military aid in exchange for polit...