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Where there was an allegation or an impeachment article that went to the question of abuse of power, and also, that was entirely along party lines and that never survived the full house of representatives. so you know, you can talk about the fact that you can have an impeachment article pretty much whatever the house decide social security appropria-- house deci appropriate, but they suggest that a well founded well placed article of impeachment alleges a crime. i also suggest it is an on instruction of congress. and they are reviewing. a case involving whether or not president immunity is wel...

Problems when it comes to mapping out parameters of this trial come january. >> david jolly, censure possible? >> no, i think that's off the table. and you saw this debated as a compromise during the clinton impeachment. the difference here is democrats in '98 were willing to have the conversation with republicans. what if we delivered votes for a censure to say that president clinton's behavior was wrong? republicans under donald trump will never acknowledge the wrongdoing of the president. and so they will never offer a censure compromise. and house democrats are right to impeach the preside...

They did know. i mean, you can't just make things up. the argument that the removal provision in the impeachment article was somehow brand new, that is the exact same language that republicans crafted in the clinton impeachment. i mean, they just made things up and it was sad. >> i mean, i'm not sure how you deal with that, but i'm curious, it does kind of -- i can't even xri behi comprehend behind that sort of thing when you have the facts laid out so specifically. but when you speak to any of those colleagues who make statements like that after the fact when there are no cameras around, is t...

Constitution. therefore, it is illegal. that's the underlying sort of point to be made about the abuse of power here. he's extended beyond the powers the constitution gives him. the second thing that occurred to me is something we learned in watergate. it was said there, it's been said since. cover up the source of the crime. so we have to look at how the president has abused his office to avoid testifying on the impeachment article. obstruction of congress is based on a systematic attempt to order people from the executive branch and others in the loop on this ukraine situation not to coopera...

>> the devin nunes memo backfired on them. >> this is what all of the hype was about? it was like a sad trombone. [trombone noise] >> laura: more like a trumpet. course, the talking heads praised schiff. >> this is a case of nunes baselessly claim, and schiff came back with a ten page body blow. >> a very clear and lawyer like rebuttal of specific facts. >> the schiff memo definitely fills in some of the gaps in the nunes memo, and it's much more consistent with actually how the fbi obtains these things. >> laura: will now we know those blithering idiots were wrong. how any of them are in poli...