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Congress has very broad authority, not unlimited authority, but very broad authority to get information needs from the executive branch. that would be relevant to the ongoing ukraine investigation. two, this will be very important to the ukraine impeachment process because the judge can confirm, no, the white house does not need to take a separate, full vote to have a separate inquiry. and now this is the federal district court, first of three levels, it will almost certainly go up to the court of appeals and potentially up to the u.s. supreme court. an important victory but only round one. >>...

Putting your party and your own little hide ahead of what is correct in this case. all you should be calling for is for all of this to be sent to the intelligence committee. that's what the law says and that is what you should be advocating. so we hear all these democrats running around saying impeach, impea impeach, impeach. it will have no credibility without republicans. i am waiting for one or two republicans to strongly say that this is wrong but let's investigate, maybe there's some excuse out here that we don't know, i'm fine with that. but we need to know what happened. >> two things t...

Covering the eight critical information needs, things like economic opportunities and the environment. well, just the notion of the government has a role in deciding what the critical information is and what people in america need is, that's peril from the get-go. and the way they were going to do the study was also intrusive. they were going to ask news reporters, how do you decide to cover certain stories and have you been told by management not to cover something? what if your station is perceived biased? questions like that don't have a place in the newsroom when hired bay researchering fr...

And what hasn't been mentioned is that one of the things that started this was the house committee on energy and commerce actually got wind of this last fall and then got in touch with the fcc with commissioner pai and others. so this is something that was done by a pretty small group inside the fcc and even the other commissioner didn't know about it. >> i was just going to say, the irony of this from a media perspective, is that you had conservatives. commissioner pai is an obama appointee but he was writing in the wall street journal. republicans on the hill. and fox news made this an issue...

You have to have access to a computer terminal. >> this is a multimedia study. they are saying it's critical information needs. there again, so subjective. what will the commission do with the information, how will they utilize it? again, it's the commission that licenses broadcasting. you know, this is something that could be potentially dangerous for america. this is just the freedom doctrine 2.0. >> i would expect that no news room in this country would let a government monitor into it. i can't, i don't know any news organizations that would. what are you going to do about it? what is your ...