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Vote to impeach the president. please allow the facts to do the talking. nobody knows whether the president -- what the articles of impeachment are. people have made up their mind in a political fashion that will hurt this country long-term. if you don't, if you can't vote for impeachment, give us the due justice to the case. don't decide the case before the case is in. and this bothers me greatly. >> phil rucker, i will never grow numb to the hypocrisy of today's gop. stunning. >> yeah. well, senator graham sounds the same there from two decades before. but his message is entirely different n...

Privilege of the president. and here's why. none of these cases directly ask the president for anything. they are requests to either his banks or his accountants. secondly, they don't involve anything any official act the president took in office. and, thirdly, they don't involve any official business. so it's all his personal records, not a presidential power. so that's what makes these cases so interesting. but the court will hear the argument on all three cases in march. and of course a decision by the end of june when the court wraps it up for this term. >> pete williams, i wonder if you t...

And it would appear that all the questions the kinds of things i ask you on this show, why not press the kupperman case, a real weakening. you even have some right-wing lawyers talking about how breathtaking the sweep of disregard is from this white house and this administration in the category of congressional oversight. >> there is a lot to unpack here. number one, yes, absolutely. the administration has roundly declined to participate in oversight. and that is a dangerous precedent to set. and the strange thing to me politically and substantively is the administration hasn't pretended that ...

They would be there if they could defend president trump without being asked questions for which they don't have comfortable, easy, honest answers. and i actually asked that question of trump when we were in london a couple weeks ago with pompeo and mulvaney sitting right next to him. mr. president why won't you authorize them to go before the congress and testify on your behalf? and he doesn't have an easy answer for that because in his gut he wants them to go testify because he wants them to tell the world that it was a perfect call but they can't exactly say that under oath, under questioni...

Around what happens with this trial and how it gets constructed is does it do service to this article of our constitution that tells our congress that it's their job to protect the country from a president who will not abide by his oath of office. it's interesting because one word we haven't heard, you know, we've heard the democrats say cheater and talking about him being a cheater in the elections and that he will continue to cheat, and as the rev said, rudy giuliani making that point quite clear and quite public. we haven't heard the word disloyal. because it's disloyal to the interests and...