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>> so this entire argument appears to be the fbi had a flimsy basis to open this investigation in the first place. he says that all the time. the word is predication. a fancy word for saying did you have legal grounds to do this or not? his argument, just a random conversation with george pop top liss low-level campaign aide and wasn't enough to do something as important as opening a vast investigation on the trump campaign. but inspector general michael horowitz interviewed over 170 people over 1 million documents and said it was properly predicated in part because of such a low threshold and...

These other boxes of secrets that are strewn around the white house? >> well, i'll say this. i don't think there's a set timetable. i've seen the speculation regarding the potential calendar, but i think it's that. i think the speaker has been very clear we're going to move expeditiously but we're also going to follow the facts as they lead us. as you know, chairman schiff great example of this with respect to the hearings conducted over the last two weeks that there were other witnesses that they learned of by virtue of the testimony they received in the depositions, and ultimately those witn...

>> i'll say this, i don't think there's a set timetable? i've seen the speculation regarding the potential calendar, but i think it's that. i think the speaker has been very clear we're going to move expeditiously but we're also going to follow the facts as they lead us. chairman schiff great example of this with respect to the hearings conducted over the last two weeks that there were other witnesses that they learned of by virtue of the testimony they received in the depositions, and ultimately those witnesses came forward and testified, an example being mr. holmes. so i think we're going to...

Lieutenant colonel thought was odd. he thought it was a demand, which is a matter of interpretation. injecting domestic political considerations that did relate to corruption in ukraine. that is one of the contextual points that i think we tend to overlook. i also wanted to say that in about an hour ago a very helpful to the president's conversation in terms of the hold, the impetus on the hold and releasing the security assistant funds, was there any illegality? is a judgment call, if the conduct of foreign relations. and the lieutenant colonel said, "we looked at that." or, the lawyer said. ...

Endless series of separate impeachment articles, but then in the end that's a judgment call that the judiciary committee and entire congress under the guidance of ultimately speaker pelosi are going to have to make. >> no president under these kinds of investigations have ever made it more difficult for the house of representatives to narrow down their article of impeachment accusations. >> he certainly makes it hard. he makes it hard to go with the mantra that small is beautiful because in this case a really proliferating series of articles are possible including emoluments, obstruction of ju...