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>> and yet you would think it would be, as we're seeing more efforts in the intelligence community, that there are new efforts by russia underway that this would undercut some of the russian talking points the republicans have taken up, that ukraine is behind the 2016. but that's not necessarily the case. >> it's not the case that the intelligence community deals in fact, but the facts are not getting over to the hard right in congress. they have a political agenda. they're trying to undermine the press, they're trying to undermine the cia and the fbi to the benefit of russia. there is no ques...

We'll see what the timing is. we're not just going to sacrifice the facts and getting to the truth and upholding our constitution for a timeline that is arbitrarily imposed. i think we just have to stick with that, and we are doing a lot of preparation, i'll tell you personally, that i'm going back and i'm reading all of the nixon impeachment proceedings, the staff reports for the clinton proceedings as well. i'm going through all the depositions in case, just to prepare myself, because this is a somber moment. none of us came to congress wanting to impeach a president. we understand the gravi...

Doesn't hold water. >> peers actually contradicting what they're saying. ryan, in general, we see this again. intervention by the president. how do top military officials feel about all of this? the reversal of gallagher's demotion, the pardoning of clint lawrence, a convicted murderer and also the pardoning of army major matthew goldstein? how do they feel about what this does to their ability to this? >> they advised the president against take these pardons. the president went ahead and did it anyway, lobbied extensively by some members of congress, some members of the veterans communities, ...

Clear, many americans, some service members, or veterans, who believe that this is the right decision, what president trump is doing. they have made the case that, you know, this is just what happens in war. what do you say to that? >> the veteran community is not a monolith, that's true. half a poll of iraq and afghanistan vets thought it was okay to do. each case is slightly different than the oh but in none of them, brianna, were these crimes done in the heat of battle or the fog of war. two cases, gallagher and goldstein case, talking detainees murdered in detention. the threat had been ne...

Ground, but also that the american people are comfortable with? >> well, the culture isn't working. in a lot of these cases, the gallagher case there was prosecutorial misconduct where he hacked into the defense team e-mails. one of the other cases,'s cull pa story evidence --'s cull pa story evidence was not handed over, so there were serious issues of prosecutorial misconduct. that's troubling. but i what it does is it makes the war fighter, especially the special forces, second guess themselves when they're on these missions. jill e jill right. >> when they're on these missions, they have t...