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Constitutional grounds. but it's the judiciary committee, which has traditionally been the most partisan committee in congress. members going after each other as much as they might be going after the constitutional basis for this report. and then, oh by the way, we're going to have rolling deadlines all week long. we could potentially have additional hearings announced next week. we've got this deadline on friday for the president and his attorneys to decide if they want to participate in the inquiry at all. so we're up against an end of the year deadline. it isn't a real deadline but for poli...

Quid pro quo. the idea that the money was released because they knew there was an investigation going to be happening. >> right. and in some ways there was already evidence of this. we know that the democrats had announced an investigation of ukraine matters on september 9th, two days before the aid gets released, but this tells you even more that the president and his team was aware at least in a broad way of what the whistle-blower had concerns about. and so we now know a new element of the time line just gets introduced, usually these things are well-settled by the time utalk about drafting...

Articles of impeachment. so, a very fast-moving situation. >> let's talk about the articles of impeachment. something you wrote tonight is that two articles of impeachment are virtually guaranteed to show up as features of the impeachment against the president. but that democrats are divided on whether to involve matters related to russia and the mueller investigation into this. tell me a bit about the dispute. >> right, so the ukraine investigation clearly honed in on the abuse of power argument. trump pressured a foreign government to help his own political prospects and obstruction. a lot o...

Hearsay rule that are played every day in courtrooms and could play in an impeachment proceeding where the fact that you don't have the direct conversation but the circumstances create the validity of the testimony, it's just as strong as direct conversations. >> what do you think? >> i think you'll continually hear that theme by republicans. i think they'll continually push democrats to show evidence of the president actually saying i wanted this bribery screen to go through. and i think you'll hear that. the other thing you'll hear from republicans is the inherent power argument that you may...

But it the start i would like to focus on the substance of this. this is impeachment in search of a crime. much of what the discussion is by the democratic party doesn't ever work its way around to high crimes and misdemeanors, treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors, it starts with abuse of power argument. the difference between this one and 1998 is you didn't have to search far to be able to understand in connection with the clinton impeachment there were crimes that were set forth in the impeachment referral and no one was left to wonder what those crimes were, perjury and instruct...