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Impeachment processes. and folks in my community didn't quite realize that the investigations that were ongoing were to inform the house decision on whether to file articles of impeachment. so i felt the need yesterday to make this announcement at the town hall meeting in response to a question from a constituent. people throughout the communities, all across our country, are watching what's happening. it's painful. it's deeply disappointing. deeply disturbing. and so we want the facts. and that's what these investigations are hoping to achieve. >> and congresswoman, i want to put out your tow...

To impeach the president. talk about how democrats have changed their tactics. >> my colleague and i poured through the 53-page grand jury petition that the house judiciary committee sent a couple of weeks back. they are trying to get ahold of the special counsel mueller's testimony. saying that the house committee would be involved because they would have to view sensitive information. despite his optiposition, adam schiff has been heavily involved in crafting the legal strategy in which they have stated they are considering whether to impeach the president. now this presents a major challeng...

Investigation instead of an impeachment inquiry. there is an effort to get secret information from the mueller report to help democrats decide whether to impeach the president. is the window closing for democrats to do this? >> well, naturally, it's closing, as, you know, the election is upon us now. 2020 is in focus. the president could be removed through impeachment processes and could be removed by a democrat who beats him. when we watched special counsel mueller address congress, you watched him walk in tight rope of not wanting to endorse any politics on the left and the right. both sides...

Proceed, it's an odd situation that we have this conservative republican in the house, more forward-leaning than most democrats in the house of representatives. now and it's not just weird for congress, it's out of line of the people who put them in power to begin with. >> they're saying, those who are against moving forward with impeachment processes, that they're doing it, anyway. by you know, holding hearings, getting documents. that this is effectively the process that an impeachment would be anyway. >> that's not quite true. i know that nancy pelosi, who is a brilliant politician and know...

>> congressman, what does this do to the impeachment process in the house of representatives? all previous impeachment processes have been about something the president has done. it is about events in the past just like in coups, courtrooms are always evaluating events that occurred in the past. here's a president who is saying he would violate the law and he'll do it, he'll violate that law in order to get re-elected. he's promising the possibility of future crimes. how does that affect the impeachment calculation? >> it certainly has an effect on my think. i have come a long way just in the ...