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hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missour...

Invoke something called constitutional immunity? >> right. so kupperman's saying that he's between a rock and a hard place. he's saying, look, i don't want to defy my former boss, the president, who's not letting me come here. and i don't want to defy congress, who wants me to come testify. so he's saying, oh, i can't do anything about it. it's not up to me to make this decision. so, hey, judicial branch, you guys make this decision for me. now, democrats say that that's an absolute copout. that of course he is required to come before the congressional investigators. and they're saying that th...

If the whittaker thing, if the president told him to replace the person in charges of sdny, he did it while he was in office and that would fall within that obstruction bucket, correct, paul? >> i agree. also i'm going to gently disagree with ross. the misuse of presidential authority is precisely what the founders thought was the ground for impeachment. george mason objected to the pardon power on the ground that it was too broad to which james madison said that's og, we'll impeach anybody who aputibuc ab power. when we think the president has overstepped the bounds of presidential authority ...

Mike flynn and paul manafort. mike flynn being the former national security adviser who pled guilty to making false statements in this investigation. and obviously manafort. and that is something that mueller has been looking at himself. mueller was looking at the question of why is it that the lawyer was offering a pardon? why was he discussing a pardon? it was among the 49 questions that mueller wanted to ask the president, that had fallen to the obstruction bucket. that was not in the responses the president sent just a few weeks ago. those were related to russia. but sort of a larger loomi...

Offering a pardon? why was he discussing a pardon? it was among the 49 questions that mueller wanted to ask the president. he had fallen into the obstruction bucket so that was not in the responses that the president sent just a few weeks ago. those were looming over russia. it conditions to a part in it, what would the parent's thout on this. and if he used that authority. for part of it people have the. . how did it center around that portion of the discussion? >> it was interesting, brian. as you know, has been so unwilling to really challenge.