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In one case may even have caused the death of an individual in order to extort money out of people who were the royalty of saudi arabia. he claims jared kushner gave him that enemies list. that is not a normal use of intelligence processes that we have. could donald trump say i did this, i gave him as essential adjudicating authority i gave him this clearance? yes. but if at any point that information is found to be in the hands of our enemies or is found to have been traded off in some form of horse trading for some personal benefit, then you have an article of impeachment. >> john, what do y...

To be methodical and building a case here, if a case is to be had. we can't ignore criminal activity. but remember, this is the first public hearing, the first. it has to be a process. when we look back at watergate, that was almost a two-year process and it worked. it persuaded the american people that the person they put faith in didn't deserve it. >> leading off our discussion now, democratic congressman lloyd doggett of texas, also with us former federal prosecutor, barbara mcquade and jill wine-banks, a former assistant watergate special prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst is with us. c...

And so in that way every time you interview a witness or look at documents, you uncover additional bricks that you can use to build that wall. >> congressman lloyd doggett, i know that you thought that the most controversial pressurized thing you'd ever handle is tax legislation because that's what usually is the most pressurized thing in a congress. here you are now on the ways and means committee at the very center of this investigation and we really appreciate you joining us tonight. we hope you can come back. we'll have to hear more about how it's proceeding in your committee. we appreci...

I think this impacts on millions of people with security clearances who have to open up their lives, who have to show their financial records, who have to follow the rules to keep a security clearance, when the people at the top can abuse that privilege, you know, at will. and so i think there's a lot of people working for this president, working for this administration who really feel that they're part of an unfair process. >> malcolm, the fact that the president is out there saying i didn't do what sources inside the trump administration are saying he did do, this is not going to come as a s...

Lying. "the new york times" reports that white house counsel don mcgahn and white house chief of staff john kelly were so concerned about the president ordering a security clearance for his son-in-law that they each wrote memos in which they clarified their objections to the security clearance for jared kushner. tonight overnight committee chair elijah cummings sent a letter to the white house saying that they have, quote, stalled, equivocated and failed to produce a single document or witness to the committee about security clearances. today harvard law professor lawrence tribe said if trump ...