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You put it all together and the democrats dealing with him obstructing congress at every turn on legitimate congressional oversight and inquiry, they don't have a choice. >> bill, i want to ask you about how the republican party specifically republicans on capitol hill are going to process this. let me first show folks what has played out in the last couple of hours though. mitt romney, trump critic certainly from the 2016 campaign, now a senator from utah, he was asked and here is what he had to say. >> i think that it would be very helpful to get to the bottom of the facts to follow the law ...

Investigation and congressional investigations of that, the white house is pretty much stonewalled on just about every request they've had from congress. they exerted executive privilege to prevent former aides from testifying. they refused to hand over documents. so this is just another example where they're not going to give an inch. so far and some of these cases are making their way through the court system but so far it has been a pretty effective strategy for the white house and has put democrats kind of on the defensive and confused about their next step. i think the way the trump white...

Investigation. and they, senator or speaker pelosi in her letter she sent to members yesterday used the strongest language she has used so far and implied that the lack of turning information over is part of the problem, too. >> and ashley, following up on that, procedurally it is my understanding when there is a whistle blower complaint like this the inspector general deems to be of an urgent nature that procedurally congress is then supposed to have the opportunity, intelligence communities are supposed to have the opportunity to review that whistle blower complaint. obviously the white hous...

When he was running for president. he said that he would sit down with robert mueller. that didn't happen. so this could be one of those loosy with the football kind of things and likely will be. the president in his remarks did mention something that is a legitimate concern which is that these foreign leader calls happened under the idea that they are not going to be made public. that the contents and in particular transcripts won't be made public. earlier in the president's administration there was major controversy when some of these transcripts were leaked. there are legitimate concerns ab...

Intelligence community used when this whistle blower complaint was brought to him. he saw this, evaluated it, and judged it to be an urgent, credible national security issue that needed to be brought to the attention of the congressional committees and leaders of congress. so, i mean, i do think that there is real national security concern here. and across the intelligence community, which i cover, i mean, the idea that a president would use the levers of government for political gain is deeply troubling. so beyond how this plays out in the white house there is this other dynamic of how it pla...