the third contact was a third person and he told the c.i.a. about the contact because he was their source. why is it important that they lied to the court, that the court had known that he had reason to be talking to this person, it would have been completely different. that's why there was a lie because the fact never got confirmed and would change the entire predicate to the court as to whether or not carter page was ar foreign agent. you cannot surveil. wednesday, we will have a wearing and we will get the good, bad and ugly and find a y this never makes sure this doesn't happen again. read the entire report. not focus on whether or not there was a legal predicate. i'm here to tell you that doesn't drive my thinking. there was a legal foundation. but what i will not tolerate is how it got off the rails and the department of justice to continue this investigation continually lied to the court, mislied to the court, and the continuing operation against the president of the united states. that should bother all of us. what is this akin to us?

and c.i.a. told them i think that i'm being cultivated and people are reaching out to me and i'm suspicious they're reaching out to me for the wrong reasons. it is confusing but when you look at all that, the way they changed that document to say that he wasn't a source completely undercut everything that he had been working on in the past and the reasons that he was in touch with these people. it really is stunning what happened to carter page in this entire thing. then you think about the spin-off of all of the stories that were front page news, blockbuster revelations that were related to carter page. i think of even on the view joe behar going after carter page. the person at the center of all this. you have to ask yourself how we got here. i think today will be one of the most interesting hearings we've had in the course of the last couple of weeks. >> sandra: carter page said i will never completely restore my name but make sure it never happens again. we're about to see that hearing room

i told the c.i.a. about my meeting because i was a source for the c.i.a.. so they would have you believe that carter page is working against our government, not with our government. so carter page, in the summer of 2017, is trying to tell anybody and everybody -- i was working with the c.i.a. i reported my contact with this person, and nobody believed it. the c.i.a. had told the f.b.i. it was true earlier. but it never made it through the system. somebody got so rattled at the f.b.i., they asked mr. kleinsmith to check it out. out, hes it communicates with the c.i.a.. is carter page a source for you? they email exchange, say, yes he is. what does mr. kleinsmith do? he doctors the emailed to say, no, he is not. and you caught him. , don't know how you caught him because you've got to dig into this email chain. it would be like getting a lab report from the f.b.i. . the fingerprints don't match, and the agent says they do. that is how bad this is. now, let me tell you a little bit about mr. kleinsmith, if i can find it. [papers wrestling] -- papers rustling]

and the c.i.a. and paid for it. bill clinton, no foreign influence, no rigging of an election.totally and improperly and indefensively had sexual relations with a 21-year-old intern and lied about it. but this was a president trying to rig an election coming up in 2020. using a country, an ally under duress facing external threat to its survival from moscow and from russia in need of our assistance that has already been voted for and asking for exchange to get that, of meetine withresident to validate the new leader of our allyth there, tha spy on an upcoming election in the t's principal opponent. >> woodruff: you're saying >> i think it's quitee that? straightforward and clearly undetandable and clearly understandable by anybody and ij thiny, quite honestly, no republican i knowill be able t to explahis or her grandchildren why he or she voted against this, thatibhis was defethat this was acceptable behavior on the part of the president oesthe united st >> i i think they'll say, oh, i might have voted for censure, this doesn't rise to the level of impeachnt. i think that's th

f.b.i., c.i.a., it's all so understandi don't it. he took a cigar out of his mouth and said the theme of this going to get're there.n of bitch out of timothy: was there some pressure thehe republicans and staff -- there were a number of the staffembers of who were very disappointed with how things were going and how his job. was doing were there any pressures on you? questions?sking you william: the republican members of the committee had their own their ownght to have legal research done and i did that. memo mightt minority have been about the right of cross examination because we did memo on that and there would be the occasional research dale ladder or chuck mcclurey, davert dennis, some of the republican members. would do that. i thought we had that obligation. hand, i spent a lot of time with the democrats. it may have helped that my job legal constitutional side more than the factual development side. that easier.de timothy: once the committee chose the broad interpretation impeachable offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, wh

who lied to the court about carter page's association the c.i.a. is known to say viva la resistance. have your political opinions all day long, you just them.act on and here's what i would say. there was a million stop signs. there were numerous stop signs that were run. they seemed to want to get an outcome. why did they want it so badly -- what drove them so much to lie and to turn the process upside down? i don't think it's much of a biases didsay their come into play. but we need to make sure we know what happened and it doesn't again. [indiscernible] >> came to this conclusion -- doesn't matter agree. i don't know why they didn't tell the court about the subsource's statement in january. any normal system would have stopped. when you're told that the person who helped prepare the document will not verify it, disavows it, you need to slow down and figure out what is going on here. down,ly did they not slow they falsified the results of the interview to the court to actuallyook like he was truthful when they know he wasn't. what made them do thi

and he says, "well, you know, gil was in the c.i.a.""no, i -- i -- i didn't know that." he goes, "oh, yeah--" >> did you believe that? >> no. and then, he pulled out an id that said, "the c.i.a." on top of it. it had gil's picture on it and his name. and then, it had this badge in there that said, "special officer." >> the badge was -- was obviously, you know, from walmart or -- or kmart or something like that. it was definitely a fake. >> reporter: nick says he refused to participate and never heard about the plan to scare tom again. >> you have to wonder what a juror makes out of all this. >> reporter: reporter james nani covered it for the local times herald-record. >> they're hearing about a love triangle, and poisoning, and death and homicide, and a dentist, and emails, and the c.i.a. >> reporter: police later found the fake c-i-a i-d on gil's computer and tacked on felony forgery charges. and on a computer server in gil's office, police found an internet search for the word "midazolam." >> if thomas kolman had been sleeping -- >>

you are looking at probably hundreds of general officers, state department employees, c.i.a. and department of defense folks. i don't think you can get that level of coordination to do that kind of deception. i and many, many others gave assessments at the time based on facts we knew at the time. and those were honest assessments and never intended to deceive the american people. i think these are very, very good piece of investigative journalism but it is not the pentagon papers. they were multiple volumes, 50, 60 volumes and they were written in advance of decision making. the afghan papers was an attempt in about 2,000 pages to do post facto interviews looking backwards to determine lessons learned to go towards the future. they are different in both nature and scale and scope. >> is it time to leave afghanistan? secretary esper: we need to ensure it never becomes a safe haven for terrorists. until that mission is complete we will maintain a presence to do that. >> you talked a little bit how the department of defense stepped up its efforts to safeguard elections. can you

believes he was captured on iran's kish island while on a mission for the c.i.a. >> we have been fighting for 12 and a half years to get my father home to us. we know the iranian regime is responsible for kidnapping him. >> reporter: you have no doubt. >> we have no doubt whatsoever. >> reporter: this april 2011 photo of levinson in an orange jumpsuit still gives his family hope that eight years later, he is fighting and staying strong. last month, the iranian government admitted a united nations filing that levinson's case was ongoing. his family saw that as a ray of hope. >> it shows exactly what we've believed all along, which is that the iranians took him back in march of 2007, and that they have the ability to send him home to us. >> reporter: the reward for information leading to the 71-year-old's return has been increased to $25 million. sarah believes the reward and president trump's twitter messages demonstrate that the u.s. government is engaged on the issue. >> we want to know what charges they have against him, but most importantly, we want him home. he has seven kids. he has

and i saw him do it when he was director c.i.a.ement for sure. ed: certainly a lot of questions questions. we'll see if we get answers and accountability. daniel hoffman, we appreciate you coming in. >>> the green bay packers foundation facing backlash for donating planned parenthood. two former nfl players weigh in on that controversial next. and a train derails, crashing into a river. the massive cleanup at this hour coming up. ndle is made. [ chuckles ] so, what are some key takeaways from this commercial? did any of you hear the "bundle your home and auto" part? -i like that, just not when it comes out of her mouth. -yeah, as a mother, i wouldn't want my kids to see that. -good mom. -to see -- wait. i'm sorry. what? -don't kids see enough violence as it is? -i've seen violence. -maybe we turn the word "bundle" into a character, like mr. bundles. -top o' the bundle to you. [ laughter ] bundle, bundle, bundle. -my kids would love that. -yeah. bundle, bundle, bundle. even after you clean, odors are still trapped in your fabrics. f

imagine federal agencies, f.b.i., c.i.a., spying on the campaign of a candidate for president. republican or democrat, we should equally be alarmed that that happened. i hope it gets rooted out. i hope whoever did that, abused their power, gos to jail. but it happened. it's being investigated in a criminal way. but horowitz himself pointed out where there were abuses of the fisa process. and you know what? that's coming back up to this congress early next year for renewal. parts of that program will come back up again. important tools to combat terrorism but tools that now have been identified to have been abused. we need to work together to clean that up so that that doesn't happen again. but that happened and it was used against the trump campaign. i haven't heard the disdain and outrage from both sides, i'm surely outraged, our side is surely outraged, i would hope we're all outraged that that happened. but when we talk about those reports, again, if there were all of those things that the gentleman asserts in the mueller investigation and ultimately report, curious that not

mujahideen warlord and follower of massoud, gul haider, battled the taliban and al qaeda alongside the c.i.a. and u.s. special forces in early 2002.ay hethe main challenge for any afghan government will bett g the taliban to lay down arms. >> ( translated ): many of the sons of former commanders in the mujahideen are fighting and dying within the security forces. in that situation, if they bring th,taliban back into liti then that will create a backlash because they have committed a loof atrocities. if the leadership want to be in government, then all the taliban should surreer. their fighters should leave their weapons, and they should be reintroduced in t government forces. i am not afraid of fighting the taliban. back then, we fought them with our bare hands. te >> rep back in the panjshir, most are resigned to american tros one day packing up and going. >> i'm not nervous about americans leaving. they came with their own will, and they will leave with their own will. but the people of afghanistan and they never let any invasion to be successful. and if any other invasion happens, if any

a c.i.a. investigation found that order came from the very top, crown prince mohammed bin mmlman himself. an allegation norah o'donnell put plainly in a "60 minutes" noterview in september. did you order the murder of jamal khashoggi? >> ( translated ): absolutely not. this was a heinous crime, but i take full responsibility as a leader in saudi arabia, especially since it was committed by individuals working for the saudi government. >> make some noise! >> reporter: this is the image of saudi arabia the crown princ ked wo invited super models, celebs like armie hammer and d.j.s like david guetta to a music festival in an effort to promote sweeping pid dramatic changes in the country, but critics say the show is all a show in a country cat continues to crack down on idlitical dissidents. khashoggi's death prompted an international uproar. l e year-long trial was held in near total secrecy. two top government aids were exonerated. khashoggi's fiancee, hatice cengiz, rejected the verdict, saying

lawyer falsified a document about page's previous cooperation with the c.i.a. in order to renew the wiretap. >> they gave misleading, inaccurate information. >> reporter: republican criticisms of the f.b.i. echoed the president's. >> folks, they spied on our campaign, okay. they spied. >> reporter: connecticut democrat richard blumenthal pressed horowitz on that point. >> did you find any evidence that the f.b.i. tapped the phones at trump tower? >> no. >> reporter: democrats also focused on another conclusion from horowitz, that the f.b.i. igvestigation into the president was launched legitimately and without political influence. >> there is no deep state. simply put, the f.b.i. investigation was motivated by facts, not bias. >> reporter: despite the republicans' repeated attacks on the f.b.i. during the hearing, the chairman, lindsey graham, said he still has faith the f.b.i. director christopher wray can fix the problems. norah? >> o'donnell: catharine, thank you. the final frenzied push toward impeachment begins tonight with a rare evening debate in the hou

>> i mean, if a president said once, well, maybe we could encourage the c.i.a. to get involved here because that would, you know, maybe dissuade the f.b.i. or complicate their efforts, even once, if it was to dissuade the f.b.i. on a case that was aimed at the president's breastplate, that might be enough. of course, it's license perjury. like perjury. a perjury prosecution looks at the color of the underlying case. if you didn't have the underlying evidence, then maybe you would say this is too artificial. >> before the vote, did you sense there was going to be bipartisan support for some of these articles? before the votes -- on the four articles? >> yeah, i'm trying to remember the timing. yeah, it was pretty clear there would be some bipartisan support, some republicans going along and there was a very dramatic moment, i remember, involving chuck wiggins. i think it was when the smoking gun tape was played, which was june 1972, and i'm not sure when this meeting occurred. but there had been a diehard group of perhaps nine or 10 republicans who were with the

aechael morell is a former deputy director of the c.i.a. >> if i were the chinese and i knew that theresident had classified conversations in a public area, i would want to put ome sort of collection device down to pick up those conversations. ti reporter: a u.s. official told me today that the chinese have been stealing relentlessly and running numerous intelligence operations. that is one reason, norah, why whenever you have an arrest at ar near mar-a-lago, you can bet the feds are going to be paying attention. >> ninan: i mean, setting off real alarm bells, jeff, thank you. a warning tonight about deceptive thieves robbing elderly victims, sometimes on their own door steps. r 'll show you how the scam works and reveal inside secrets from a con man who pulled it off many times. carter evans reports tonight. >> hello! >> reporter: you're watching a scam artist in action. >> bye-bye. >> reporter: he just took $10,000 from barbara mccullough. it all started with a phone call from someone claiming to be her grandson. >> i said, "you know, it really eoesn't sound like you." but he said,

day of hisrst presidency, he went to the c.i.a. and started lying before and so he's attacking our way of life. he's attacking our government. is preparing, quite consistent, interestingly, in what hannah aaron wrote in 1951, you want to destroy people's ability to resist, you theiro destroy distinction between truth and lies because if they can't they can'tthing, act. and that's -- i don't want to the united states to nazi germany or stalinist russia. reject those comparisons in every way. but there's an awful lot of way those to the dictators treated the truth and supporters gos along with it, as happened in thinkf those places and i there are elements of total totalarianism in trump's and his movement that is derived specifically from his if he were to be ourlected, i don't know if government can survive it. think about fox news. anything likebeen fox news. we know what state tv is and we know what independent tv is but don't really know what fox is. it's something brand new and it a lie so if you want to tell the truth, you wou

activity, by disgrunted c.i.a.perative who was dismissed from the white house national security staff, to a certain extent there is no crime. the forefathers are clear on what they thought impeachment should be used for. >> bill: they're reading the resolution on the floor of the house. >> against donald john trump president of the united states of america in maintenance and support of support in the articles against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. the constitution provides that the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment and that the president shall be removed from office for impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. in his conduct of the office of the president of the united states and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of the president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve and protect the constitution of the united states in violation of his constitutional duty to take ca

the very first day of his presidency, he went to the c.i.a. and started lying before the cameras, and so, he's attacking our way of life. he's attacking our government. he is preparing -- it is quite consistent, interestingly, in what hannah aaron wrote in 1951, that if you want to destroy people's ability to resist, you have to destroy their distinction between truth and lies, because if they can't believe anything, they can't act. and that's -- i don't want to compare the united states to nazi germany or stalinist russia. i reject those comparisons in every way, but there's an awful lot of similarity to the way those dictators treated the truth and the way trump's supporters go along with it, as happened in both of those places , and i think there are elements of totalarianism in trump's presidency and the movement that derives specifically from his lying, and if he were to be reelected, i don't know if our government can survive it. i do not like to make projections. i am a historian. think about fox news. there's never been anything like f

i'm going to do what i was trained to do as a c.i.a. officer. not to listen to the news and people yelling and screaming, my colleagues going back and forth. what i'll do is take the weekend, i'll put the full body of information together and i'll make an objective decision based on the information. i won't be pushed and prodded one way or another and i'm not going to be jammed to make a decision when i haven't had time to really think. >> bill: there has been some time over this so far in these hearings have gone on for a couple of months now. just so our viewers know your district, michigan number 8 covers lansing, runs down to detroit to the south. >> rochester hills and the suburbs of detroit. >> you won the district by 3%. donald trump won it by 7. how are the people back home thinking? >> they're engaged. the phones are ringing off the hook. we had to install a third phone line yesterday in the office because we couldn't keep up with the pace. that's in michigan and in d.c. we have young people constantly on the phones. people have the ful

these are subdivisions of the chief intelligence service, e c.i.a. that is the truth.'re all obeying e mast in coordination with each other. >> reporter: le mesurier's swedish wi emma has reportedly told turkish detectives her suicide has not beed out.tion but friends and colleagues find it hard to believe thaldle mesurier wave intentionally leapt from such a relatively low height. >> in the last two years or so, an awful l of people who've disagreed with the russians in particular have fallen off baonies. so i think it is very suspicious. >> reporter: hamish de bretton gordon is a british army chemical weapons expert and former colleague of le mesurier. they last met a month before his death. >> i didn't leave that meeting thinng here is someone who i really troubled. but having said that the amoun of abuse, the amount of ill aced propaganda, disiormation that's on socia media and the internet coming out of russian bots and syrian regime and others was unbearable. >> reporter: days before his death, on twitter, the russian foreign ministry accused le mesurier of being

these are subdivisions of the chief intelligence service, the c.i.a. that is the truth.y're all obeying one master, in crdination with each othe r >>eporter: le mesurier's swedish wi emma has reportedly d told turkishectives her husband was taking medication for stress. suicide has not been ruled out. but friends and collgues find it hard to believe that le mesurier would have intentionally leapt from such a relative low height. >> in the last two yr so, an awful lot of people who've disagreed th the russians in particular have fallen off balconies. i so i thiis very suspicious. >> reporter:amish de bretton gordon is a british army chemical weapons expert and former colleague of le mesurier. they last met a month before his death. >> i didn't leave that meeting really troubled. someone who is but having sd that the amount of abuse, the amountl disinformation that's on social media and the internet coming out of russian bots and rian regime and others wasun arable. >> reporter: days be ore his deattwitter, the russian foreign ministry accused le mesurier of being a spy wi

. >> as someone who has worked for the c.i.a., as someone who has sworn an oath to protect there constitutionhing out to a foreign power is something >> reporter: on cnn, colorado's jason crow also said he will vote to impeach, but stoppeday short ofg the president should be removed. but another moderate democrat, new jers's jeff vadrew, reportedly disagrees. according to multiple outlet impeachment and switch to the republican party.as he house prepares for votes, the senate prepares for an expected tnaal. democratic leader chuck schumer today made an offer for how it could work. schumer wrote senate majority peader mitch mcconnell last night suggestingng presentations by each side and four witnesses-- white house chief of staff mick mu, dvrmer national security aor john bolton, senior white house advisor robert blair, and budget official michael duffey. all have declined house requests to testify, but other testimony indicates they all may have heard directly from the president about ukraine. >> the four witnesses we've called have not been heard from. that is a difference, and it's a diffe

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and e c.i.a. to spy on one campaign to benefit another campaign, it's ridiculous. now, i watched that hearing, the i.g. report, and i was really upset at the way they played this down. you know, "the washington post" has been impeaching the president since day one. as a matter of fact, i think you ran a headline, it's time to start impeaching donald trump. so that's my comment. i wish you could be a little more bipartisan on this thing and get both points of view. host: ok. i'm not sure what brian been and the mike debonis said that you view as biased, but let's talk about the i.g. report and how that plays out, how that impacts impeachment. mike debonis, you go first. guest: carl referenced the headline. what he's referring to. we did a news story about democratic activists trying to impeach the president early on, and i'll say that i've talked to a lot of republicans recently who are very pleased we wrote that story because it's become a very popular talking point for them. that was a story about what democrats were thinking. we report on both parties and what th

the f.b.i., the c.i.a., have the ability to go unfettered and ask the judge for the ability to surveil people. and the judge trusts that they're giving him the full information. and we saw abuses listed in that

as a c.i.a. case officer i used with foreign nationals who were providing foreign intelligence to help inform our ardest national security decisions and keep our country safe. these individuals from countries abused their power and defied the rule of law imprisonment and often their very lives in order to provide the united states with to informn to help us us. ms. spanberger: but why? t was their belief in the united states, their belief in our country, the longest standing democracy in the world, country a beacon of hope in republic, a democratic founded on a document and the belief in the rule of law and a belief in its people. i am proud to serve in the people's house, representing serving wn and, again, our country, that beacon of hope in the world. and today, especially today, i founding the documents that have set us apart in the world, leading people across enerations and the world to risk everything beliefs in our great nation. today, especially today, i to rm my commitment upholding and

fed, i thought, by intelligence streams mainly from foreign intelligence services coming into our c.i.a. as a clearinghouse. i think if you will look at the origins of the investigation, that's the sort of stuff that you have to look at. obviously durham as a prosecutor is not as cabined as horowitz, the inspector general. horowitz is to look at the justice and f.b.i. durham can look at the whole thing as a prosecutor without limitation. it is probably better to think of what we'll get from durham not so much as a report because the first thing a prosecutor has to decide in a criminal investigation is whether there will be an indictment. so, you know, there might be a report if there are not charges ultimately. but that i think is the first thing are there criminal charges to be brought? >> sandra: a few months away now. now to kimly -- she asks the question why did the judge stone wall devin nunes. she wraits after the horowitz report the court had no choice but to respond. it is pointing fingers at the f.b.i. but the court should itself account for its failure to provide more scrutiny

goldwater's campaign, signing off on wiretapping his opponent and goldwater's airplane and using a c.i.a. spy to obtain advanced copy of goldwater's strategies and speeches. president barack obama refused to provide documents to congress related to fast and furious. his unconstitutional recess appointments were unanimously struck down by the supreme court. he used national security agencies to lie to the american people about benghazi to win the 2012 election. he spied on reporters. finally, it was the obama administration that committed 17 serious violations before the fisa court to spy on trump campaign associates. despite these clear abuses of power by f.d.r., j.f.k., l.b.j. and obama, republicans did not impeach. why? because the framers did not want a low bar for impeachment. they wanted congress and the president to work out their differences. when i asked professor turly in a judiciary committee hearing if any president could avoid impeachment with this low standard, he said no. i yield back. mr. collins: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i

but purposely doctored emails to take information like i don't know, carter page was working for the c.i.a was in touch with russians and the f.b.i. decided to ignore that. they also decided to omit fully a christopher steele connection to the clinton campaign in the fisa warrant proving that the application for the fisa warrant was entirely political. there is a bigger question for everyone to think about is where would we be as a country today if the f.b.i. hadn't doctored evidence to give to the fisa court, lying to the court. would we have a special counsel investigation with robert mueller? the debate about impeachment? i suspect the answer is no if the f.b.i. didn't doctor evidence. >> bill: if the director tries to run an investigation it gets mucked up. was he still dodging yesterday? >> comey? yes. after he came out with the indictment/non-indictment on hillary clinton and then came out with saying we're looking at emails that went to wiener's laptop. he is a very problematic figure that people on the right and left can agree. chris wallace did a great job holding his feet to the

navy and then he claims that he was an asset for the c.i.a. and then now we know that the f.b.i.at he was working for another government agency. okay? and what -- what recourse does carter page have now? this is a guy who was doing -- who was a patriot working for his country and if you look at what the democrats and all the mainstream media have said about this man, this is shameful. look, i'm a big supporter of fox news. you guys get it right more than not. but there are so many people that came even onto fox news and disparaged carter page. i think he is owed a big apology. >> bill: you call them dirty cops and spies. i don't know if you lump all the people in the same basket here or whether or not that's the perspective from where you come. james comey has a piece in the "washington post" said human beings make mistakes. to the former f.b.i. director on that comment what do you say? >> well, number one, i wouldn't read anything that he has to say anyway because i know that in 2017 when they all knew that i had not revealed any classified information, when they knew i had only

he outed a c.i.a. operative that we had in russia. he hasn't accomplished anything but giving away $1.6 trillion to the rich. he inheritted a recovering economy. this isn't his economy. it was seven years into success when he was elected. he's offset our trade deficit, some $318 billion that americans are now paying for. previously it was $88 billion that i had understood. but now i see that it's escalated. trump university was a fraud. he got fined $25 million. his charity was shut down. he was just recently charged $2 million there. he's generated over 15,000 lies to these people. i think it's really a sad affront to the intelligence of the american people because your previous caller had it right. he has also created a direct threat to south korea and our influences with japan and our agreements with those countries. host: steven from illinois. to you and all of our calls and comments and tweets and text messages, we appreciate the first hour of this monday, december 23. again, the house and they are back in two weeks on june 6. pe

and e c.i.a. to spy on one campaign to benefit another campaign, it's ridiculous.i watched that hearing, the i.g. report, and i was really upset at the way they played this down. you know, "the washington post" has been impeaching the president since day one. as a matter of fact, i think you ran a headline, it's time to start impeaching donald trump. so that's my comment. i wish you could be a little more bipartisan on this thing and get both points of view. host: ok. i'm not sure what brian been and the mike debonis said that you view as biased, but let's talk about the i.g. report and how that plays out, how that impacts impeachment. mike debonis, you go first. guest: carl referenced the headline. what he's referring to. we did a news story about democratic activists trying to impeach the president early on, and i'll say that i've talked to a lot of republicans recently who are very pleased we wrote that story because it's become a very popular talking point for them. that was a story about what democrats were thinking. we report on both parties and what their ac

and c.i.a. to harass his political enemies.president engaged in a pattern of abusing the trust placed in him by the american people by soliciting foreign countries including china, russia, and ukraine to investigate his political opponents and interfere on his behalf in elections in which he is a candidate. the third article approved against president nixon charged he had failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. in the president's circumstances, he has refused to comply with and directed 10 others in his administration not to comply with congressal subpoenas. pompeo, mulvaney and bolton. as senator lindsey graham now share of the senate judiciary committee said when he was a member of the house, the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress and he became the judge and jury. that is a perfectly good articulation of why obstruction of congress is impeachable. the president's defiance of

they lied initially, said that he was a russian agent, when actually he had been used by the c.i.a. as a spy against russia. and so they lied, it was fraudulent, and there hopefully people that will answer for their crimes and fraud in the department of justice in the days to come and it sounds like that should be the case. and there was fraud all the way through. but for three years we have been hearing about the crimes of the candidate trump and then the crimes of president trump, and we come now today based on the initial fraud that got this whole impeachment stuff started, and no one on the other side is willing to acknowledge the fraud that brought us here, nor the fact that so many people here have been screaming about the president's crimes and we're even hearing today like we just did oh, yes, there were crimes. why aren't they in this impeachment document? because they don't exist. they've been disproven over and over and over again and that's why the gentleman's amendment is so well taken. you don't want to go down this ground. i think it's a bad idea when it was proposed