and john carlin joins me fromph nix, arizona. i just want to say at mentioned in this 400-plus page report in two ftnotes. we've looked at them both. they're tangential references, so we're not going to go into that detail. i do want to get, though, to the meat of this. what is your principal takeaway from it? >> well, judy, after two yea, a million documents, over, what, 50, 70 interviews by an independent inspector general, you have a conclusion that the lowed. appropriately fo its procedures inp ogssenianvin. they followed the rules of the justice department and the f.b.i., and because they followed those rules, we had ang inveion that led to the unpacking and discovery of an unprecedented russian intelligence conspacy which costs tens of millions of dollars, included computer hacking, leaked documents, exploitation of social media a campaign has led to suessf indtmen,n s30ome cases coictions of individuals for criminal misconduct. >> woodruff: but you also had, as. >william brangham just laid out, descripti of erors made alon

judy: john carlin, former justice department official, thank you. ♪ judy: our other big story tonight arthe judi committee in the house of representatives that today hearing the evidence of therguments for and against putting president trump on trial. nick shifrin begins our coverage. reporter: today, democrats summed up their case for impeachment and sharpenon their attackresident trump. >>ru president's continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheap to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and national security.nick: republie hearing a sham. the lawyer is badgering the witness. nick: and called the case and unfair rush to judgment based on secondhand information. >> it is riddled with hearsay, presumptions, and speculation. to paraphrase professor turley, the impeachment record is empty on proof. nick: this was their attempt to narrate the story before impeachment.rticles of democrats argued president trump withheld military aid to the president of ukraine so he would initiate investigations into joe biden. e first article of impeachment is expec

john solomon. this is an extraordinary violation of constitutional rights that adam schiff has now admitted to. jerry nadler and professor carlin made this point, and it's a laughingstock point. that trump invited russian hacking when he said hillary destroyed the emails on her private server. maybe we should ask the russians for them. the notion -- they are making this into the big lie that he somehow invited the russian hacking, which is utter nonsense. he was making a laughable joke about hillary keeping emails on a private server that every government of the world had access to because it was unsecured. it would be laughable if it wasn't so deadly serious, and what they are doing, undermining this country. the president is over at a nato meeting and they are pulling this crap. this is stunning to me. >> laura: i will say it again, any time the president of the united states can be mocked the way he was by academic elites. he looks like he is right out of nicholas nickleby from 1997. one is angry and the other one is flat and boring. i think people are watching this and going, how are the patriots doing? what is going on wit