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>> do president trump's demands on ukraine also establish the high crime of bribery? >> yes, they do. >> can you explain why, please? >> sure. so the high crime or misdemeanor bribery, i think it's important to distinguish that from whatever the u.s. code calls bribery today. the reason for this in part is because in 1789 when the framers were writing the constitution, there was no federal criminal code. the first bribery statutes that the united states congress passed would not have reached a president at all. the first was just about customs officials. the second one was only about judges. i...

Happens in washington that doesn't have some political motivation. that's why you see all of this testimony, it is not expert witnesses saying here is the section of the us code that was violated. it is a lot of unelected officials telling us how they feel about what happened. >> sandra: breaking news, jennifer williams is the mike pence aide appearing on capitol hill this morning. we're now getting word from our own capitol hill reporter chad per gram that they ultimately did issue a subpoena. the white house did try to stop her from appearing this morning. we saw her arrive on capitol hill. ...

Dismiss the indictment or judges exclude evidence or in extreme cases a conviction can be overturned. and so you're exactly right about that. chuck rosenberg and i had this conversation earlier tonight. and the cousin of perjury that we came up with was 18 u.s. code, 1001, false statements or a leak to do with this investigation. it's very difficult to contemplate what the federal crime that investigators would be looking at so hard could possibly be. >> ellen farkas, next week tim morrison testifying. you know tim morrison. >> i do. >> what do you expect? >> i think it will be different from ...

Prosecution, and defendants have the opportunity to move to dismiss the indictment or judges exclude evidence or in extreme cases a conviction can be overturned. and so you're exactly right about that. chuck rosenberg and i had this conversation earlier tonight. and the cousin of perjury that we came up with was 18 u.s. code, 10001, false statements o a leak to do with this investigation. it's very difficult to contemplate what the federal crime that investigators would be looking at so hard could possibly be. >> ellen farkas, next week tim morrison testify iing. you know tim morrison. >> i do...

Withholding this aid. i think he's going to be forthcoming. he is the current acting ambassador to ukraine and can really help to shed light on whether this policy toward ukraine has been driven by american national interests or whether the president has hijacked it for his own re-election in 2020 and outsourced it to rudy giuliani. >> let me ask you about the whistle-blower that brought this to the taepgs of the worattenti. the president asked if there was even a whistle-blower, pointing to adam schiff, with no basis in fact. does a whistle-blower need protection, something laid out in u.s. c...