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They've gone to the wayside. you conclude the following. if they don't pull off impeachment and drive donald trump out of public life next year the losses for the democrats and media will be devastating. the familiar do or die stakes of trying to take out the king. you are making a case they have no choice but to go forward on this. >> well, i think at this point they have no choice. they are completely committed. but i don't think it was ever very clear to them what they were trying to do. look, from day one from inauguration day they've been trying to in effect impeach donald trump. they did...

At the end of the day, you can't impeach somebody over obstruction of justice where you use the wrong legal standard, a legal standard that doesn't exist. it seemed like that was -- maria: so do you think you popped the impeachment bubble? >> i think everybody saw and a lot of democrats have conceded that it's time to move on, that there's a hole in the impeachment balloon that's large enough for jerry nadler and adam schiff to walk through together. but schiff and nadler don't seem to see that, you know? the same folks that promised that there was going to be impeachment by collusion, you kno...

The white house, thanks. we are going to get reaction out from two lawmakers, one democrat, one republican, who are both on committees involved in today's hearings. first up from a republican john ratcliffe. thanks for being here. >> great to be with you. >> bret: i want to ask you generally your thoughts of today and what you took away from it. >> i think the main take away today is the impeachment balloon got popped completely today. you can't impeach a president on obstruction charges when the special counsel admits that they applied a legal standard to the president that has never been app...

Michael horowitz, i do think that his findings will be significant, jason, because it presents a real potential problem for the democrats. right now we already know, bob mueller has told us that a democratic administration started an investigation into a conspiracy with russia that did not exist. that is bad enough. it would be a whole lot worse if it turns out that that same democratic administration continued that investigation by breaking rules of the fisa court. if that happens, you can pretty much put a pin in any impeachment balloon, because it would be hard for the democrats to say, wel...

His findings will be significant, jason, because it presents a real potential problem for the democrats. right now we already know bob mueller has told us that a democratic administration started an investigation into a conspiracy with russia that did not exist. that is bad enough. it would be a whole lot worse if it turns out that that same democratic administration continued that investigation by breaking rules of the fisa court. if that happens, you can pretty much put a pin in any impeachment balloon, because it would be hard for the democrats to say, well, we started an investigation that...