>>> TODAY ELIZABETH WARREN DELIVERING A BLISTERING SPEECH.
FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE SENATE
FLOOR, SHE WENT THERE ON IMPEACHMENT.ENT THERE ON
IMPEACHMENT. >> IF ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING IN
THE COUNTRY HAD DONE WHATS
DOCUMENTED IN THE MUELLER
REPORT, THEY WOULD BE ARRESTED
AND PUT IN JAIL. THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS.
THIS IS ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WE TOOK AN OATH NOT TO TRY ON
PROTECT DONALD TRUMP.
WE TOOK AN OATH TO PROTECT AND SERVE THE CONSTITUTION OF THED
SERVE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
AND THE WAY WE DO THAT IS WE
BEGIN IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS
NOW AGAINST THIS PRESIDENT. >> PRETTY BLUNT. PRESIDENT.
>> PRETTY BLUNT. WARREN SAYING IMPEACHMENT
PROCEEDINGS SHOULD BEGIN NOW.
SPEAKER PELOSI, OF COURSE, HAS BEEN VERY CAREFUL ON IMPEACHMENT
EVEN SAYING TODAY, TRUMP IS
IGUODALA
IGUODALA GOADING DEMOCRATS TO IMPEACH
HIM.
HIM.
SHE SAID THE REFUSAL TO COME MOY
COULD BE AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE. AND 2020 CANDIDATE KAMALA HARRIS
SAYS CONGRESS NEEDS TO MAKE A
DECISION ON OBSTRUCTION.
>> WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SUCH A FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE, WHICH ISH A
FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE, WHICH IS WHETHER OR NOT THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OBSTRUCTED
JUSTICE.
JUSTICE.
I THINK IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE
NEED TO FIGURE OUT.
AND CONGRESS HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO LOOK INTO IT.
>> THIS IS POLITICAL BACK DROP
TO THE MASSIVE FIGHT IN WASHINGTON.IVE FIGHT IN
WASHINGTON.
IT COME WITH A RAPIDLY GROWING LIST OF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS.NG
LIST OF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS. MORE THAN 700 NOW SAYING TRUMP
WOULD BE HIT WITH MULTIPLE
FELONY CHARGES IF HE WAS NOT
PRESIDENT.
LOOK HOW QUICKLY, JUST FROM YESTERDAY MORNING TO THEROM
YESTERDAY MORNING TO THE AFTERNOON TO TODAY.
700 PLUS.
700 PLUS. BACK WITH ME, MY GUESTS.
AND E.J. DEION FOR THE
"WASHINGTON POST."
I DONT KNOW.
DOES THIS FEEL AT LEAST IN SOME SENSE LIKE A TURNING POINT TOME
SENSE LIKE A TURNING POINT TO YOU IN THE NERVOUSNESS ABOUT
IMPEACHMENT OVER 2020 POLITICAL
CONCERNS, BUT NOW, THE WHITE
HOUSE SAYS NO MUELLER, NO McGAHN, NO TAX RETURNS.NO
McGAHN, NO TAX RETURNS. DEMOCRATS OBVIOUSLY FURIOUS.
PROSECUTORS WITH THAT LETTER
OFFERING SOME LEGAL COVER.
DO YOU SENSE WERE MOVING ANY
CLOSER TO IMPEACHMENT HERE? >> YES.TO IMPEACHMENT HERE?
>> YES. I AGREE COMPLETELY.
I THINK TWO MONTHS AGO, A LOT OF
PEOPLE THAT, THE COUNTRY MIGHT
BE BETTER OFF IF DONALD TRUMP WERE SIMPLY DEFEATED AT THE POES
BY A HUGE MARGIN.
NOW BECAUSE THE MAY HAVE BEEN IS
TURNING DOWN EVERY SINGLE
REQUEST CONGRESS MAKES, WHETHER
IT IS FOR. AT A OR MUELLERS TESTIMONY.
WELL SEE IF THEY TRY ON BLOCK
IT.
OR McGAHNS TESTIMONY. THIS IS SAYING NO TO EVERY FORM
OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
IT IS MORE THE BEHAVIOR OF A MONARCH OR AN AUTHORITARIANA
MONARCH OR AN AUTHORITARIAN LEADER THAN A PRESIDENT.
AND I THINK YOU SEE IN PELOSIS
COMMENT, SHE WHO HAS BEEN VERY
SLOWLY OF THE VIEW, WERE BETTER
OFF BEATING THEM AT THE POWE.
SHE WANTS THEM ON THE TICKET
WITH THE REPUBLICANS IS NOW
SAYING, CONGRESS CANNOT JUST LIE
DOWN AND ACCEPT BEING TREATED THIS WAY.ACCEPT BEING TREATED
THIS WAY.
IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT TREATING CONGRESS. JUST ABOUT TREATING
CONGRESS. IT IS ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL
ACCOUNTABILITY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.Y UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION.
SO YES.
I THINK WERE CLOSER TO
IMPEACHMENT TODAY THAN WE WERE
EVEN A WEEK AGO. SHE SAID AT THE TIME, IMPEACH IS
SO DIVISIVE TO THE COUNTRY.
UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING SO
COMPELLING AND BIPARTISAN, I
DONT THINK WE SHOULD GO DOWN THAT PATH. WE SHOULD GO DOWN
THAT PATH. ARE WE AT THAT POINT?
>> I THINK WERE RAPIDLY
APPROACHING IT.
THERE IS AN IRONY THAT IT IS
DONALD TRUMP AND HIS
ADMINISTRATIONS BEHAVIOR IN THE
PAST COUPLE WEEKS PUSHING
DEMOCRATS WHO WERE A LITTLE BIT
HES DANIEL TO STAY I-WORD.
TO SAY, WE MAY HAVE NO CHOICE
BUT TO IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT OR START AN IMPEACHMENT REFERRAL OR
HEARINGS.
HEARINGS.
BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED THE RULE OF LAW.ING
CALLED THE RULE OF LAW. I KNOW DONALD TRUMP SEEMS TO
THINK HE IS ABOVE THE LAW AND
ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION.
THEY CANT JUST SAY NO TO
SOMETHING CONGRESS HAS A RIGHT
TO ASK FOR.
SO WE ARE MUCH CLOSER TODAY TO AT LEAST QUING IMPEACHMENTY TO
AT LEAST QUING IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS.
HEARINGS.
>> I WANT TO PLAY THIS.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE
UNPRECEDENT NATURE OF THIS 700 PLUS SIGNATURE LETTER FROM 700
PLUS SIGNATURE LETTER FROM FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS,
INCLUDING YOU.
>> IT IS HUGELY SIGNIFICANT.
IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE
LIKE IT.
WHEN WE REVIEW THIS EVIDENCE, ITS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.E,
ITS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
IF THIS WERE ANYONE ELSE BUT A
SITTING PRESIDENT, THIS PERSON WOULD BE LABELED A FELONY ANDN
WOULD BE LABELED A FELONY AND STARING -- A FELON, AND STARING
DOWN THE BARREL OF A FEDERAL
INDICTMENT.
WHAT YOU HAVE IN THIS LETTER IS
370 PROSECUTORS SAYING WE AGREE,
THE MUELLER REPORT SHOWS THE
PRESIDENT IS A FELON.
>> SO AGAIN, 370 YESTERDAY AT THIS HOUR.N, 370 YESTERDAY AT
THIS HOUR. NOW, 700.
NOW, 700. SO SUMMARIZE THE CASE.
CLEARLY THIS HAS MOMENTUM. >> THE STRIKING THING ABOUT THIS
LETTER IS NOT THAT IT WAS SIGNED
BY POLITICAL APPOINTEES,
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME.
IT IS SIGNED BY CAREER PEOPLE.
BY CRIMINAL CHIEFS WHO EVERY TODAY ARE CHARGED WITH EVERY
TODAY ARE CHARGED WITH EVALUATING THE EVIDENCE AND
MAKING A DECISION ABOUT WHETHER TO INDICT.ECISION ABOUT WHETHER
TO INDICT. HERE HE HAS LOOKED AT THE
EVIDENCE LAID OUT IN THE MUELLER
REPORT AND SAID I WOULD INDICT
THIS CASE.
THATS AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO, JUST BY THEIR TRAINING, BY THEIRST BY
THEIR TRAINING, BY THEIR PRACTICE, LEAVE THEIR POLITICS
AT THE DOOR WHEN THEY WALK
INSIDE THEIR OFFICES AT THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
AND LOOK JUST AT THE LAW AND THE
FACTS.
THEYRE NOT SAYING THE PRESIDENT
IS GUILTY.
THEYRE SAYING THAT THEY BELIEVE
THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO
BRING AN INDICTMENT.
>> WERE YOU SURPRISED THAT IT
HAS GONE TO 700?
BECAUSE I WAS A LITTLE STUNNED
WHEN I HEARD THE NUMBERS.
>> I WAS NOT SURPRISED AT ALL.
I NOTICED THAT SEVERAL OF MY PREDECESSORS IN NORTH ALABAMA
ARE ON THE LIST.
AS ARE PROSECUTORS FROM AROUND
THE COUNTRY.
MANY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IT. THIS IS A RISING UP OF THE
CAREER FOLKS AT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT.
DEPARTMENT. I SUSPECT IF PEOPLE WERE STILL
WORKING THERE, THEY HAD THE
ABILITY TO SIGN THIS, THEY WOULD SEE SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS THERE AS
WELL.
WELL.
>> WOW! >> TAKE A LISTEN TO 2020
REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER, BILL, WHO
ALSO SIGNED THIS LETTER.
IVE BEEN AGREEING THAT IT MIGHT
NOT BE A WISE THING TO DO. I DONT KNOW OF THIS IS PRETTY
TOUGH.
TOUGH.
I THINK IT NEEDS A LITTLE RETHINKING IN VIEW OF THE
BRAZENNESS OF THE RESPONSE BY
BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND MY
FRIEND, BILL BARR.
>> EXPAND A LITTLE ON SOMETHING
WEVE TOUCHED ON.
THIS CONFLICT BETWEEN WHAT ON
ONE SIDE IS A POLITICAL IMPERATIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO
BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT COMMITTED
CRIMES, AS WELL AS A
CONSTITUTIONAL IMPERATIVE. BUT FOR DEMOCRATS, WHO BELIEVE
THE PATH TO VICTORY IS THE
ISSUES.
ISSUES.
IT IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF
CALCULUS.
>> YEAH.
IN D.C., YOU CAN NEVER SFRAET
POLITICS FROM ANYTHING. I WOULD ENCOURAGE MY DEMOCRATIC
FRIENDS TO REALLY THINK THROUGH
WHAT IS AT STAKE HERE.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO
HAVE A FULL AND OPEN HEARING. AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS IN
THIS REPORT.
THIS REPORT.
AND I THINK ONCE THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE FULLY UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED,
ALL THE CONTACTS, ALL THE
OBSTRUCTION THAT IS CLEARLY LAID
OUT, THE 700 DOJ PROSECUTORS
HAVE SIGNED ON. ONCE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND THAT.
UNDERSTAND THAT.
I THINK SOME OF THEM MAY GO BY
THE WAYSIDE.
DEMOCRATS WERE ELECTED TO BE A
CHECK ON DONALD TRUMP.
THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE HOUSE
BY RECORD NUMBERS.
BECAUSE PEOPLE WANTED THERE TO BE A BODY THAT STOOD UP TOE TO
BE A BODY THAT STOOD UP TO DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD TRUMP. AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, PUT FORTH
POLICY THATS WOULD MAKE THE
AMERICAN PEOPLES LIVES BETTER.
I THINK DEMOCRATS HAVE TO GET
OUT OF THEIR HEADS AND
UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AT STAKE.
WE ARE FACING A CONSTITUTIONAL
CRISIS AND IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THERE TO BE AN OPEN HEARING OF
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED WITH
THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION.
>> I FOUND IT REALLY INTERESTING WHEN THEY WERE TALKING TO THEING
WHEN THEY WERE TALKING TO THE "NEW YORK TIMES."
SHE SUGGESTED THAT SHE THINKS TRUMP MIGHT TRY TO CONTEST THE
RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION IF
IT IS A CLOSE MARGIN.
IF WE WIN BY FOUR SEATS, BY A
THOUSAND VOTES EAST, HE WOULD
POISE THE PUBLIC MIND.
HE WOULD CHALLENGE EACH OF THE
RACES.
HE WOULD SAY, YOU CANT SEAT
THESE PEOPLE.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? >> WELL, I AGREE WITH HER.
IN FACT, TRUMP SAID THE OTHER
DAY THAT HES LOST TWO YEARS.
SO HES OWED TWO YEARS MORE. I THINK PELOSI IS ON TOORE.
I THINK PELOSI IS ON TO SOMETHING.
SOMETHING.
>> HE WAS ROBBED. HE WAS RONALDBBED.
IN ANY EVENT, TO GOVERN
OURSELVES, THE MARGIN HAS TO BE
BIG SO EVERYBODY CAN SAY, WERE
DONE WITH THIS.
I THINK WITH PELOSI ON IMPEACHMENT, THE REFUSAL TO LET
WITNESSES APPEAR.
WITNESSES APPEAR.
THE REFUSAL TO HAND OVER
DOCUMENTS HAS KIND OF WRECKED THE STRATEGY SHE HAD IN MIND.
WHAT SHE HAD IN MIND, WE WONT
IMPEACH BUT WEFL HEARINGS.
WERE GOING TO INSTRUCT THE
PUBLIC ON WHAT IS IN THE MUELLER
REPORT AND LET THEM DECIDE. AND THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE
FACE IMPEACHMENT QUESTION.
BUT THAT HE KNOWS THIS
TELEVISION SHOW WOULD NOT BE
GOOD FOR HIM.
SO HES DESTROYING TO BLOCK ALL
THE CHARACTERS FROM APPEARING ON THE SHOW.CTERS FROM APPEARING ON
THE SHOW.
THATS WHY SHE HAS TO RECONSIDER
THE STRATEGY THAT SHE WOULD
PREFER WITH YOU MAY NOT HAVE
AVAILABLE TO HER.
SHE KEEPS THINKING, HES GOADING
US.
TOUGH, TOUGH TIMES.