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Foreign government to help him in his political campaign at the expense of our national security as well as undermining the integrity of our elections. that cannot stand. he will be held accountable. no one is above the law. paul: house speaker nancy pelosi launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump this week, acwhicplunging washington into n election year clash between congress and the president that is likely to have unforeseen political consequences. so kim, we've been hearing for weeks that -- months that nancy pelosi was opposed to an inquiry. why did she change her mind?...

Guided by office of legal counsel, doj, is this report credible enough to turn over to either congress because it's urgent or the attorney general because it's not urgent. so again, normally these things would be handled internally, investigated intern l nailly by either -- internally by either the attorney general or a committee that's looking you out for justice rather than trying to grandstand or use it for impeachment but here we are in this new transparent world, i. paul: thank you for being with us. as we come back, as he faces a formal impeachment probe, how great is the political and l...

Foreign government to help him in his political campaign at the expense of our national security as well as undermining the integrity of our elections. that cannot stand. he will be held accountable. no one is above the law. paul: house speaker nancy pelosi launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump this week, acwhicplunging washington into n election year clash between congress and the president that is likely to have unforeseen political consequences. so kim, we've been hearing for weeks that -- months that nancy pelosi was opposed to an inquiry. why did she change her mind?...

-- congress must investigate the contents of that telephone call between the president and a foreign leader. you now, if you take this to its logical conclusion, it means any time anybody in the bureaucracy has a complaint that they say this is a problem, sends a memo, says you must turn it over to congress and pretty soon does -- can any presidential conversation be turned over to basically be listened to by congress and for that matter the whole world? >> it's a very fair question, right, which is we want to encourage actual whistle blowing but we don't want a situation where there's no priv...

Doesn't mean there's not room for criticism, doesn't mean for instance there's not room to explore rudy's role as a foreign policy person or the classification issue, did they do it to avoid leaks, do they do it regularly or is it something where someone in the white house thought this call doesn't have the optics we don't like. i'm not seeing anything that rings as criminal. the problem with impeachment is impeachment is whatever the hell congress says it is. they can pretty much call things abuse of power, betrayal of this that, or the other or mafia impersonation and they can probably go fo...