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>> completely ridiculous. what the judges were highlighting is, okay, let's just go with your construct. impeachment first or you can never prosecute a criminal president. that would mean if congress declined to impeach a criminal president, doj could never prosecute him? you're giving congress the power to immunize a president against prosecution? the constitution doesn't work that way. >> any practical thinking attorney knows this is ridiculous, correct? >> yes. >> so just buying time? >> buying time, looking for delay, appeal, appeal, appeal. >> all right. joe? >> you know, chris matthews, ...

Reading about it. donald trump attacks abraham lincoln, and says that he screwed up by not caving to the slave holders, and it just sort of floats my. he says mad, crazy things every day and the media for some reason so numbed by it, they don't sit there and emphasize it. yesterday, here's another moment where we just have to stop. the music has to stop and people need to focus. they had their grape nutts and crunchberries last hour, so they're listening to us in this hour. let's just say it. they heard it. donald trump's attorney just argued in court that donald trump could assassinate a poli...

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Some. >> reporter: brownlee's world view has evolved dramatically since then. the self-described pragmatic progressive was recently informed that several generations ago her forbearers were slave holders. >> on the one hand, i wasn't too surprised. on the other hand, when they said your great, great grandfather had two slaves and a child slave, that really hit me really hard. it hit me very, very hard. >> reporter: through public documents and family records, a reuters examination discovered at least 100 members of the last sitting congress had direct family ancestors who were slave holders. m...

Inherited, and so is privilege. and those who owned enslaved people were privileged people. >> reporter: not privileged the enslaved. congressman gregory meeks has sought his family's past for years. records are sparse or nonexistent. >> i want to know now who was that person or people that was able to survive the horrific slave trade. how did they survive, you know, being whipped and chained and slavery. >> reporter: the connection to slavery seems more than an interesting historical footnote, yet when contacted by reuters for a response, 67 of the 100 congress people who are direct descendan...