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Better understand. >> and mimi, one of the things about these congressional hearings is it's extremely hard to anticipate the kind of interference that the republicans launch, because they are violating every norm of committee process that existed in the institution and so when i'm watching this, i don't have suggestions for chairman nadler about here's how to fight these guys, because i've never seen any conduct like this before in these hearings. and what they don't have are the rules that you have in a courtroom that you can rely on a judge to smack down a lawyer who is getting out of order...

The limits of what we thought were the powers of chairmen in this process, because they are abusing this hearing process and there really isn't a way to get them to behave the way they're supposed to in these hearings. >> well, i think to the extent possible, and i realize under the procedural rules you can't completely do this, they have to not engage right? they have to try to shut it down as quickly and as early as possible there seemed to be a lot of debate going on about -- right there in the moment about privilege. i mean, this is a bogus privilege that's being asserted. so either they s...

New concerns this morning about who is serving in the president's cabinet. and frankly how they got there. patrick shanahan has withdrawn his name from the nomination process. "the washington post" and others have unearthed nearly decade-old information of domestic violence within his family. should the white house have caught this issue? should the fbi have caught this issue? should the senate have caught this issue when they confirmed him as deputy defense secretary? joining me now is angus king. senator, thank you for being with me. the stories about what went on in the shanahan family are ...

Republicans and what the range of opinion is, how much republican support or at least agreement might there be if the house democrats were to impeach? >> well, i think if the house democrats were to impeach, they would have to go through the entire hearing process, television coverage gavel to gavel just like watergate. we both lived through that lawrence and we know that public opinion can change. the polls are not that far apart right now but something as serious as this, you cannot blindly follow polls. what you need to do is follow the evidence and if you're a member of congress, your cons...

House democrats were to impeach? >> well, i think if the house democrats were to impeach, they would have to go through the entire hearing process, television coverage gavel to gavel just like watergate. we both lived through that lawrence and we know that public opinion can change. the polls are not that far apart right now but something as serious as this, you cannot blindly follow polls. what you need to do is follow the evidence and if you're a member of congress, your conscience. i think once the public is informed and understands what all went on, just like that lady you had on up there ...