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Because it is partisan. and i expect that what we are going to find out, if we learn anything, as a result of the vote in the house on thursday, it will be overwhelmingly partisan. which should then counsel in favor, as you suggest, laura, that the sun and take appropriate action in response. remember, the senate is in control of the president's party, and even under existing rules, the president makes an appearance in the senate through counsel, and the first thing i would expect to happen is a properly filed motion to dismiss to end this thing -- >> laura: immediately. john, i want to get in...

I mean, these are the kind of things we ought to be looking at. and nobody seems to be doing it. >> laura: i mean, it's a shock, frankly. that the senate, with a healthy majority, is not putting the pressure on this bureaucracy who seems to be trying to run their own little fiefdom over at the white house intel agencies. as john mentioned, our catherine herridge says the big question is who colonel vindman shared his concerns with. >> vindman writes "i provided readouts of relevant meetings and communications to a very small group, properly cleared national security counterpart with a relevant...

Media outlets. last night, the media was going gaga about vindman. number two. witness appearance is hyped as a bombshell. >> we began with the bombshell breaking news story. >> a bombshell opening statement. >> bombshell testimony on capitol hill. >> this is a very, very important moment. >> laura: and free media forecast doom for trump. this headline from nbc is typical, extremely disturbing, top democrats alarmed over vindman's testimony on a trump-ukraine call. but remember, despite the relentless press build up, the public is still left in the dark, and even republicans inside the intervi...

Criminality, there wasn't any in the transcript, but maybe general abuse of power, you know, stuff. so that arrives, and then mitch mcconnell, at that point, can do what? can he immediately move a motion to dismiss to the chief justice? >> they certainly can. look, during the clinton impeachment, there was an effort to try and have witnesses brought forward, and that was shut down. the senate has full control over how to conduct the impeachment inquiry. if this was a rank partisan thing, there is no evidence here, you know, we're going to have a vote right now to decide whether we are going to...

Is an answer on 18 u.s. code 798, leaking classified information. so robert, should vindman, and those actions, be looked at here under that statute? there's also another statute of talking with a foreign government, which we will get to. but what about that particular statute? >> i don't know why that inquiry got cut off. i suspect the reason is that adam schiff seems to be concerned about protecting the identity of the whistle-blower, which may explain why he wasn't going to allow what amounts to cross-examination of colonel vindman about who he shared information with, but understand also, ...