1999, years after the want to get case -- want to get case and impeachment, i get a call from john podesta, who was then president clinton's chief of staff, and i had known him throughout the clinton white house because clinton and i had been friendly and then he nominated me to be ambassador to mexico so during a couple of months, i spent a lot of time in the white house with john podesta and ron emanuel and other senior members of the staff. so he calls me up in january 1999, it looks like they are going to impeach my guy and hold hearings in the house. near as we can tell, there are a couple of people in this country who know a lot about the law of constitutional impeachment of a president and the other one is very much disqualified by interests, so you have to testify as an expert witness for the defense on the law, which i was happy to do. and did. >> tell us about that experience, just doing it. >> well, i think i went in with a bunch of other former u.s. attorneys, who were also republicans. it was a pretty impressive panel, and i had the additional background of knowing the law of

relief without raising your blood pressure. >>> president bill clinton's former chief of staff john podesta is here. welcome to "primetime." best of holy days to you and your family. it was podesta's emails that was the largest part of the trove of the hack of the dnc server. i wanted you to help us understand that there was no server, it was a cloud system. if people don't know that, it's because people don't care about it at this point so forget it. you made a very different decision on how to handle impeachment with the president. what led to the decision you guys made about how to handle impeachment and messaging of the same and what difference did it make in your situation? >> well, look, i think we respected the process that we were going through. we didn't think the president should be impeached or removed from office. we fought about that with people on capitol hill but we respected the process. our lawyers participated in the process, witnesses were called, we made the argument and ultimately prevailed. the american people stood with the president. they understood that he was doing

during a couple of months, i spent a period of time in the white house with john podesta and rahm emanuel. he calls me up in 1999 and says looks like they are going to impeach my guy and hearings in the house. nearest we can tell, a couple of guys in the country that know a lot about impeachment of a president. the other is disqualified about political interest. you have to testify, which i was happy to do and did. >> tell us about that experience, just doing? >> well, i think i went in with a bunch of other former u.s. attorneys who were also republicans. a pretty impressive panel, and i had the additional background of knowing the law of impeachment, and i said sex is not an impeachable offense. it just isn't. it has to be something that touches and concerns the office or use of power. this is a nonstarter as a matter of constitutional law and they said well, what about perjury? you brought a lot of cases when you were a prosecutor in boston? yes, but as i said earlier, a perjury prosecution partakes the color of an underlying offense. i once prosecuted a guy for perjury for denying he

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really about dismantling this net work of satanic pedophiles which included hillary clinton and john podestasending these people off to guantanamo where they would be tried for their crimes and summarily hung. when that happened it would be called the great awakening. jesse: isn't it also about the trump fight with the deep state in terms of the illegal surveillance of the campaign, the inside hit job that he sustained in terms of comey and mueller and strzok and page and all of that as well? >> so there are many, many facets to this conspiracy theory. one way to think about it. it's a merks ta-conspiracy theory where there are many conspiracy theories weafd waved together. but a lot of it tracked current events during the trump-russia investigation because a lot of the qanon followers believed this was a deep state attempt to take out a sitting president who is really a washington outsider. jesse: one of my good friends is a q guy. he's always saying q said this, q said this. you have got to look into this. epstein and it's all connected. so i thought we would look into it. that's what we a

nominated mexico sombassador to during a couple of months i spent a lot of time in the white and ron h john podesta emmanuel and other senior members of the staff. in january me up 1999, it looks like they are hold to impeach my guy and hearings in the house. the near as we can tell there are a couple of people in this lot about theow a law of constitutional impeachment of a president and other one is very much disqualified by interests, so an experto testify as witness for the defense on the happy to do.was and did. >> tell us about that doing it., just >> well, i think i went in with of other former u.s. attorneys, who were also republicans. impressive tty panel, and i had the additional background of knowing the law of impeachment, and i said sex is not an impeachable offense. it just isn't. has to be something that the office concerns or misuse of power. this is a nonstarter as a matter of constitutional law. about perjury, you brought a lot of perjury cases when you were a prosecutor in boston. said yes, but, as i was saying earlier, a perjury prosecution of the color of the underlying offense

this is a constant we are very actively involved in 2016 as we saw with the hacking from john podesta and others they try to infiltrate our electoral system putting out false information and then very active on social media pitting people against each other over contention of race or immigration and then to discredit our democracy and cause people to hate one another in turn against one another and to get us from within and they continue to do that not just in the context of every two years of national elections. we have every reason to be concerned they will continue their efforts in 2020 and intensify to learn from the rules we try to get around them and i very worried that congress and majority leader mcconnell's leadership has not done enough to help us defend against that threat. >> getting back to your personal story, first of all your son is at stanford and despite the politics of your family he has become a republican, trump supporter and pro-life those positions in many ways that are very different from yours. >> what's that like quick. >> and also you talk about the debates

hollywood" tape, that's when russia began leaking the first emails of clinton campaign manager john podestathe hour. now, the president has claimed falsely that ukraine may have taken the dnc server. no one, not u.s. intelligence, not the senate intel committee or private security firms believes this. and by the way, that server, it still sits in the basement of dnc headquarters. yet it is conspiracy theories like this that the president and the top republican on the house intelligence committee continue to peddle. gop lawmakers like senator kennedy are attempting now to launder those lies by claiming that things such as a 2016 op-ed written by a ukrainian official critical of president trump are the evidence of ukrainian election interference. that is simply not comparable to russia intentionally meddling in our election. so where does that leave us? where does that leave our country? russia you should know is already interfaring in the 2020 election by among many other things, amplifying comments of republican lawmakers like kennedy pushing claims of ukrainian interference. why should thi

i have john podesta on tonight to talk about what it was like during clinton and how they handled thingsifferently and why. we're also going to cover that murder on morningside heights. that columbia university kid. i haven't seen a crime like that, coop, since the central park five. there is a problem in this country with crime, including ho homicide, and this is an example of who is doing it. this is kids this time. we're taking a look. it matters. >> setting the stage for impeachment night. what is happening tonight on capitol hill. man: sneezes skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! janie, come here. check this out. let me see. she looks... kind of like me. yeah. that's because it's your grandma when she was your age. oh wow. that's...that's amazing. oh and she was on the debate team. yeah, that's probably why you're the debate queen. - mmhmm. - i'll take that. look at that smile. i have the same dimples as her. yeah. the same placements and everything. unbeli

"access hollywood" tape, of course very damaging to trump in 2016, did russia begin releasing john podesta's stolen emails? 22 minutes afterwards. it was weaponization of stolen information with intent. >> and if i may just add to that, remember when candidate trump said go get hillary clinton's emails. that night the hacking began in russia. >> we have some news in because the ukrainian president of course who was on the other side of the phone call with president trump volodymyr zelensky has a new quote with "time" magazine. relating to the quid pro quo. he said i never talked to the president in a position from a quid pro quo. i don't want us to look like beggars. we're at war. if you're our strategic partner, you can't go blocking anything for us. i think that's just about fairness. it's not about a quid pro quo. it just goes without saying. bianna, this is the core of the ukraine issue here. in effect you have the ukrainian president saying the strategic partner was blocking the aid here. with effect. >> and remember, he's doing this from the vantage point of being a president of ukrain

i have john podesta on tonight to talk about what it was like during clinton and how they handled thingsver that murder on morningside heights. i haven't seen a crime like that, coop, since the central park 5. there is a problem in this country with crime, including homicide, and this is an ugly example of who is doing it. this is kids this time. we're taking a look. it matters. >> setting the stage for impeachment night. what is happening tonight on capital hill. llergens. if it's not from irobot, it's not a roomba™. we need a solution.ut their phones down. introducing... smartdogs. the first dogs trained to train humans. stopping drivers from: liking. selfie-ing. and whatever this is. available to the public... never. smartdogs are not the answer. but geico has a simple tip. turn on "do not disturb while driving" mode. brought to you by geico. how did you find great-grandma's recipe? we're related to them? we're portuguese? i thought we were hungarian? grandpa, can you tell me the story again? behind every question is a story waiting to be discovered. skip to the good part with alka-se

they say that after those emails were hacked and released by john podesta couple days later ambassador up i heard this from this guy in the spring from george papadopoulos about the emails and russia and the trump campaign and that helps launch this whole investigation. and the i 4 people flynn, papadopoulos, manafort and carter page. at that time this is the key moment. bill prestep says i don't think i should give a defensive briefing because i don't want to tip off a potential russian infiltration. now, if you are bill prestep and you have chris christie and rudy giuliani on the roster for donald trump. two people with impeccable reputations with the department of justice, why wouldn't you call them in and say this is the deal? then you call in the candidate trump, and this whole thing could have stopped in july. it seems to me, even though i have never conducted an investigation like this, this is basic human logic. >> they should have gone to donald trump one-on-one and explained the situation. he is the candidate. we protect that person. i think donald trump would have looked at

podesta, cbs news. >>> democrats want to hear from acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and former national security adviser john bolton . mulvaney also leads the office of management and budget. which put the hold on that money for ukraine. >>> the road to gaining asylum in the united states just got a lot more complicated. the "l.a. times" reports the trump administration has struck a deal with hondurus to send asylum-seekers at the u.s./mexico border there, even if they are not from honduras. on top of that, the times also reports if hondurus or another country rejects a person's petition, they can't apply for asylum in the united states. homeland security is not commenting. >>> bombshell accusations against the mormon church this morning. the "washington post" reporting that a whistle-blower filed a complaint with the irs claiming that they lds church stockpiled $100 billion that was supposed to be used for charitable pretty purposes. they are urging the -- alleging that they could oh billions in texas. the church told us that it is not provide information about specific transactions or financial decisions.