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Who might offer something in support of president trump's theories. so one of the impeachment counts that is moving forward which is obstruction of congress is because the president stonewalled those exact requests for information. >> so apparently the president's attorney rudy giuliani says that he's -- the president has asked him to brief investigators, including some republicans, about what he's found in ukraine. would you be open to giuliani testifying before the senate judiciary committee on his findings? or do you think even entertaining this is a mistake? >> my gut reaction is that even...

That territory which they have been denied because of our presence and the presence of the kurds. so this could not be more of a screw up and more detrimental to our national security than it already is. >> do you believe what donald trump did visa vi the kurds and turkey should be grounds -- additional grounds for his impeachment? >> well, joy, i'm not a lawyer and i'm not going to be part of drafting up the impeachment counts assuming they come forward. but i think when a president of the united states makes a rash, it impetuous decision without consulting with his national security advisers...

Uncharged people. so there is a rule that allows grand jury testimony to be unsealed if it's in connection with or preliminary to another judicial proceeding. it turns out impeachment is considered another judicial proceeding. so that is why you see impeachment referred to so many times in this document filed by the house. they have to do that to say to the court, this is a pending judicial proceeding. it may not sound like one, but impeachment counts so we have to get access to these normally super secret documents. >> we went through some of the documents on friday. it seems as if the word i...

Stronger standing in court. jerry nadler has filed a petition with the court for the grand jury material that underlies the mueller report. the reason that is significant is that grand jury material could only be given over in a few cases. one of those is in a judicial proceeding, and as nadler said, previous courts have ruled impeachment counts as one. this is how you get what we'll call schmimpeachment. tincture of impeachment, depending on who you have. >> we will proceed when we have what we need to proceed, not one day sooner. >> among other things we will consider are obviously whether t...