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Taken offense at that and -- >> i think everybody. i think all of these witnesses would say that is not true. >> it's not true, but it's not entirely untrue either. the judgment of impeachment, of what is an impeachable offense, will always be a political judgment. this is not a courtroom. who the losing side -- >> acceptable is -- >> the losing side can't appeal this decision. this is the one and only place impeachment can be decided. >> did congress say this is unacceptable? >> there's remedies for that. that's why there's censure. >> there are a lot of potential remedies congress has. that'...

>> don? >> go ahead. >> yeah, i do. i chair this group called american bridge which does a lot work and we are in 60 counties in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and florida and we are talking to people who were obama trump voters hoping to get them back, right? and in the ump te en conversations we've had with thousands of people we have found 2,000 people so far that voted for trump and that are saying, i can't do it. but in all of these conversations only one time, one person used the word impeachment, raised the issue at all. everybody else is focused on is there a family member that's dy...

And then secondly, what is he going to do right now to improve those conditions and how is he going to make sure that the money that was appropriated is spent wisely? what's the timeline for spending that money, what are the metrics for success, how are things going to improve in ten days, two weeks, a month, two months and so forth? >> let me move to another oversight issue. jeffrey epstein. i know that alex acosta has been invited to testify before the oversight committee. do you think you'll get him? >> well, perhaps he will resign before that. i've called for his resignation along a lot of...

Comply with what is clearly an oversight issue on a law that congress passed called the hatch act. it's a pretty important thing they want to talk to her about. >> the principle of the hatch act is that you shouldn't use the powers of the government to get yourself elected, and that's a really important thing in america and in our constitutional republic. and if that has been thinned out, if that's something we're going to scoff at in terms of a law because people having gone to jail for it in the past, that's a really big change for us to go through as a country right when we're heading into ...

Talks apparently, and so what it raises is why weren't they approved during the normal process without their father and father-in-law, the president, intervening to get a security clearance? everybody else who goes through the process can sake six months, nine months, a year, but individuals who work in the white house are expedited. in a normal situation senior officials throughout the government and especially white house officials would be expedited assuming there are no problems. so the fact that they weren't expedited and that their clearance was somehow stuck indicates that there was som...