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Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the found...

Verge dramatically from those listening had expected. president trump spoke to gordon sondland prior to this phone daul, the u.s. ambassador to the european union who donated $1 million to the president's inaugural campaign. and who had been directed by the president himself to take on a leading role in ukraine issues. ambassador sondland relaid the president's message to president zelensky through ambassador kurt volker who had had lunch that day with president zelensky's top aide andre yermac who appears repeatedly through this scheme as president zelensky's right hand man. ambassador volker...

Actually felt we had plenty to work on back in early august after robert mueller had completed his public testimony. i believe that his report is a damning and devastating report of illegal behavior. and especially obstruction of justice. clearly a crime. but plenty of abuse of office which is an impeachable offense and of course defiance on the ledge lative branch across the board in terms of legally issued subpoenas for us to do our work. all are grounds for impeachment and i supported it before the ukrainian revelations. >> right now, your committee is hearing testimony from david holmes, t...

Breaking overnight. u.s. troops have begun withdrawing from northern syria which clears the way for turkey to invade the region. this move essentially abandons the kurdish fighters who fought alongside american forces in the battle to defeat isis. joining us now is joe lockhart. he was president clinton's press secretary including during impeachment. i want to read you a statement from mcgurk. he said president trump is not a commander in chief. he makes impulsive decisions with no knowledge or deliberation. he blusters and then leaves our allies exposed when adversaries call his bluff or he c...

My first to you. what john kelly got wrong about representative frederica wilson and the johnson family. can you share with our viewers the short version? >> yeah. absolutely. this is a story about identity and how we view people. and i think the general communicated that he was stunned that a member of congress would participate in this phone call. and i think what he left out for people is that representative wilson is not primarily a member of congress to the johnson family. she's known them for decades. she was the principal of sergeant johnson's father's school. sergeant johnson and two o...