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Time in the current circumstances and that fact-finding takes time. the thing about nixon which may be helpful to remember is he had two impeachment articles proved against him by the house judiciary committee, one involved a president's refusal to comply with subpoenas and this president has refused to comply with a lot of subpoenas. another article approved against nixon charging women he -- char go offer his political enemies and here we have the president asking a foreign leader to help go after one of his political enemies. so if anything it sounds worse than what we've seen before. >> su...
Joe biden son. the president promised to connect ukraine's president to his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and the attorney general of the united states bill barr. cnn legal analyst counsel to the assistant attorney general of national security and the chief counsel for the house judiciary democrats during the clinton impeachment. so thank you both for being with me, and starting with you, you know, this is not a verbatim transcript. in reading this today, do you see a smoking gun? >> i think it's pretty close to a smoking gun and i think that combined with the fact that the director of nat...
Impeachment to a possible if not probable impeachment. and i think the idea that the administration can give, and trump can give a benevolent explanation of the phone call with the ukrainian president is, i just think that dog is not going to hunt. close to a smoking gun as you get. >> hearing the president jumping in, there was no pressure during the bilart rteral a couple minu ago. so trump brings up the attorney general's name several times on this call. still cnn learned there was never any consideration he would recuse himself from handling this issue. so do you think he should ask is the...
While we await the release of a full complaint, we reiterate our call for release of the full transcript of the call between president trump and the ukrainian president and reiterate our call to protect whistle-blowers from retaliation. i urge bipartisan vote to defend our national security, and to protect our democracy, and yield back the balance of my time. thank you. >> gentleman from ohio. >> reserve balance of my time. >> living to speaker pelosi talking about the whistle-blower clant. we know from reporting here at cnn that complaint is being delivered to the senate how committee this af...