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  • OF CONGRESS.

  • >> Sandra: A LOT TO TAKE IN

  • THERE.

  • >> Bill: CERTAINLY IS.

  • ANDY MCCARTHY, GOOD MORNING TO

  • YOU.

  • WE'RE THROWING A LOT AT OUR

  • VIEWERS, A LOT IS COMING AT US

  • EVERY DAY AND HOUR.

  • WHERE SHOULD WE PUT OUR EYES

  • TODAY?

  • >> I THINK THE BEST PLACE,

  • BILL, WOULD BE CAPITOL HILL

  • WHERE WE JUST HEARD FROM

  • KATHERINE.

  • WE UNDERSTAND THE PRESIDENT IS

  • GOING TO SUBMIT THIS LETTER TO

  • THE HOUSE.

  • I THINK IT'S THE RIGHT THING

  • FOR HIM TO DO.

  • THE CONSTITUTION REPOSES THE

  • POWER TO IMPEACH SOLELY IN THE

  • HOUSE, NOT IN THE SPEAKER OF

  • THE HOUSE, IN THE HOUSE.

  • AND IT ACTUALLY WOULD BENEFIT

  • THE HOUSE EVEN THOUGH AS

  • SPEAKER PELOSI SAYS THERE IS

  • NOTHING IN THE CONSTITUTION

  • THAT REQUIRES THAT THEY TAKE A

  • VOTE BEFORE THEY DO AN

  • IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.

  • IF THEY WANT TO GO INTO COURT

  • AND TRY TO ENFORCE ANY

  • INFORMATION DEMANDS AS I'VE

  • POINTED OUT, WE DON'T HAVE

  • SUBPOENAS AT THE MOMENT.

  • WHAT POMPEO HAS IS LETTERS FROM

  • CONGRESS ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE.

  • IF THEY WANT TO GO INTO COURT

  • AND TRY TO ENFORCE THESE

  • INFORMATION DEMANDS THE FIRST

  • THING A COURT IS GOING TO WANT

  • TO KNOW IS HAS THE HOUSE VOTED

  • TO HAVE AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY?

  • A LOT HINGES ON THAT INCLUDING

  • HOW MUCH EXPANSION A COURT

  • WOULD GIVE A PRESIDENT'S CLAIM

  • OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE AND

  • PRIVILEGE OVER MATTERS THAT ARE

  • IN THE PRESIDENT'S DUTIES UNDER

  • ARTICLE 2.

  • SO I THINK SHE IS RIGHT.

  • THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A VOTE.

  • THERE IS NOTHING THAT REQUIRES

  • THEM TO HAVE A VOTE.

  • BUT IF THIS IS GOING TO BE REAL.

  • IF THEY REALLY HAVE GROUNDS TO

  • SEEK THE PRESIDENT'S

  • IMPEACHMENT, THEY NOT ONLY

  • SHOULD HAVE A VOTE BECAUSE IT'S

  • IN THEIR INTEREST WHEN THEY GO

  • TO COURT TO HAVE A VOTE.

  • THEY SHOULD BE PROUD TO HAVE A

  • VOTE.

  • IF THEY REALLY THINK THERE ARE

  • GROUNDS TO REMOVE THE PRESIDENT

  • OF THE UNITED STATES FROM

  • POWER, THEN THE HOUSE SHOULD

  • SPEAK AS ONE AS AN INSTITUTION

  • AND VOTE THAT WAY.

  • >> Bill: DO YOU SEE A SMOKING

  • GUN LURKING OBVIOUS OR NOT.

  • IF YOU'RE THE PRESIDENT ALL

  • THIS WHAT WOULD CONCERN YOU THE

  • MOST?

  • >> I WOULD BE MOST CONCERNED

  • ABOUT THE WAY AMERICANS ARE

  • CONSUMING THE COVERAGE.

  • THERE IS A LOT OF REPORTING

  • THAT IS SIMPLY INACCURATE ABOUT

  • WHAT IS GOING ON.

  • FOR EXAMPLE, THIS WHOLE IDEA

  • THERE IS AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.

  • THERE IS NOT.

  • THE IDEA THERE ARE SUBPOENAS.

  • THEY AREN'T.

  • THIS IS ALL THEATER AT THIS

  • POINT.

  • A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CONSUMING

  • IT AS IF IT WERE TRUE ON FACE

  • VALUE.

  • I REALLY THINK IF I WERE THE

  • WHITE HOUSE, WHAT I WOULD BE

  • WORRIED ABOUT IS BREAKING

  • THROUGH THAT.

  • >> Bill: I'M NOT QUITE SURE I'M

  • ENTIRELY CLEAR ON WHAT YOU'RE

  • SAYING THERE.

  • IF YOU'RE THE WHITE HOUSE

  • YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT

  • SPECIFICALLY?

  • >> I'M CONCERNED, FOR EXAMPLE.

  • LET'S TAKE ONE THING.

  • THE TERM QUID PRO QUO, RIGHT?

  • THERE IS ALWAYS QUID PRO QUO

  • WHEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES DEAL

  • WITH EACH OTHER.

  • THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER THERE

  • WAS A QUID PRO QUO.

  • IT WERE BIZARRE IF IT WASN'T AN

  • EXCHANGE.

  • THEY ARE ALWAYS PURSUING THEIR

  • INTERESTS.

  • WAS THERE A CORRUPT QUID PRO

  • QUO IS THE QUESTION HERE.

  • WAS THE PRESIDENT LEVERAGING

  • HIS POWER OVER FOREIGN AFFAIRS

  • EXCLUSIVELY TO GET THE

  • UKRAINIANS BASICALLY TO WORK ON

  • THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN.

  • ON THE OTHER HAND, IF WHAT THE

  • PRESIDENT WAS ACTUALLY DOING

  • WAS TRYING TO LEVERAGE THE

  • UKRAINIANS TO ASSIST IN

  • ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR'S

  • LEGITIMATE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

  • INVESTIGATION INTO THE

  • INVESTIGATIONS THAT WERE

  • ATTENDANT TO THE 2016 CAMPAIGN,

  • THAT'S NOT ONLY NORMAL, IT IS

  • ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE.

  • IF IT'S PITCHED TO THE PUBLIC

  • AS IF WAS THERE A QUID PRO QUO

  • ABOUT 2016, WHAT THE PUBLIC IS

  • TAKING FROM THAT IS THAT THE

  • SUGGESTION THAT THERE WAS A

  • CORRUPT, IMPROPER DEAL.

  • AND THAT IS BROUGHT TO THEM IN

  • THE CONTEXT OF BEING TOLD THERE

  • IS AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY OVER

  • IT AND THAT THERE ARE SUBPOENAS

  • PENDING DEMANDING THAT THE

  • EXECUTIVE BRANCH TURN OVER

  • INFORMATION THAT IT'S

  • WITHHOLDING ABOUT THIS.

  • >> Bill: THE WAY YOU FRAME THAT

  • IT'S IF THE BILL CLINTON MATTER

  • CAME DOWN TO THE MEANING OF THE

  • WORD IS IS.

  • YOU ARE DESCRIBING WHETHER IT

  • WAS 2016 OR 2020.

  • I WANT TO GET A BETTER ANSWER

  • ON THAT -- A MORE COMPLETE

  • ANSWER AND WE'LL PUT YOU ON

OF CONGRESS.

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