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Sometimes counterintuitive somewhat sticky issue of whether or not a president has to have committed something that violates an actual law in order to cross the ground into impeachable territory. according to the committee that was investigating the watergate scandal, the criminality issue as it pertained to impeachment, they considered to be something that was pretty easy to settle. the report says, quote, the american experience with impeachment reflects the principle that impeachable conduct need not be criminal. of the 13 impeachments voted by the house of representatives since 1789 at lea...

Adopt as a general subhead for the news these days. and now onto today's news in the criminality issue. but in the impeachment constext the criminality issue is the sometimes counter nintuitive somewhat sticky issue of whether or not the president has to have comitted something that violates an actual law in order to cross the ground into impeachable territory. according to the committee that was investigating the watergate scandal, the criminality issue as it pertained to impeachment, they considered to be something that was pretty easy to settle. the report says, quote, the american experien...

Witnesses publicly since last week. cnn has more from capital hill. >> i hope you're well rested and fed. maybe have some snacks. week two of hearings will be a slog. it's going to be a lot. nine witnesses over the course of three days. starting with four over two separate hearings. just today. here's what to know about the hearings today. two white house officials one jennifer williams in the vice president office. the other lieutenant vindman the top ukraine policy expert on the national security counsel. both of these individuals testified in their closed door depositions they had concerns ...

Cable to secretary pompeo beginning with the words, i am concerned. that's part of the consistent story that's coming together here, is it not? >> yeah. in a firstperson cable. the state department, you know that's a very rare thing when a diplomat will put something in a first person context. that's the point democrats have been making about the public hearings next week. they believe for the most part the facts are not in dispute about how the administration was running a rogue foreign policy as it pertained to ukraine. that's a picture they want to paint. the role of rudy giuliani, often th...

Released today. another transcript, from bill taylor. he's one of the witness is scheduled to be called next wednesday. we got one part of that yesterday from gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union. remember, there was that text message exchange between gordon sondland and bill taylor, where bill taylor raised some concerns with the sondland of what the president was doing. that transcript this afternoon is going to be key, and his public comments next week are going to be key. the other thing that is very important, too, george kent is going to be one of the figure speaking nex...