striking about how lisa murkowski said yesterday and she is an exceptionally independent republican senator. i m not entirely surprised she would be one of the next voices to speak up. is the way she was talking about it as essentially a breach of the separation of powers between the congress and the presidency. this is something that gives people in the republican party who are uncomfortable with the way the president is behaving but don t want to say exactly all the things that democrats are saying to talk about the prerogatives of congress, the powers of congress and the need for the president to respect things the congress does like appropriate money for military assistance. car carrie before we go, let s we forget the fact that the president is making money off the g-7, emoluments claus, really really clear, lettered of the united states cannot profit take money from foreign governments. legally where is this going to fall? the g-7 will be at doral. the president and his money
saying today that he s sending a letter to the speaker saying that the white house will refuse to turn over documents requested in the impeachment inquiry unless there is a full vote in the house. we have california congressman ted lu with us. thank you for joining us. thank you, brianna. you re on the house intelligence committee. tell us is the president here what are you reading here what he s asking of the speaker? sure. let me first say impeachment is one of the greatest powers of congress. it should always be our last option, reserved only for those instances until we can t wait until the next election. we re at one of those times because the president continues to solicit foreign powers to interfere in our electoral politics. if he wants to clear his name, he can provide all the information. instead he s refusing to provide it, obstructing it. if he wants to have a vote of congress, that s fine. a majority of congress have
he isn t actually involved because of his role in the department of justice. the whole idea of the whistle-blower escalating this through the department of justice means that if there was obstruction, the doj possibly had a critical role in keeping this from congress and congressional oversight. and that would certainly implicate barr. here we have him taking very strong steps to distance himself from everything that is going on. congressman lieu, what do you see important tonight? thank you, ari, for your question. you are absolutely correct that the house is going forward with the full force impeachment inquiry, but i do want to note that impeachment is one of the gravest powers of congress, second only to the power to declare war. it should never be our first option. it has to be our last option. so we re going to follow the facts where it may lead. the facts that have already come out are very damning. it shows that the president of the united states was pressuring a foreign po
schiff tells cnn his committee expects a hearing as soon as next week, this as the rest of congress is on break. in addition, sources say the panel will hold another closed door briefing with intel community inspector general michael atkinson next friday. e i m joined now by a member of the house judiciary committee, california democratic congressman ted lieu. good to see you, congressman. so impeachment can you hear me okay? yes, fredericka. okay, goody. impeachment has been discussed on and off over the past couple of years and this week was very sig canal because you ve got the house speaker who has said there have been violations of law and violations of the constitution on the heels of that whistle-blower complaint. why in your view was this the breaking point? okay. thank you, fredericka, for your question. let me make clear impeachment is one of the gravest powers of
shepard: nancy pelosi and others had concerns that getting straight into impeachment proceedings might be something that could hurt you in elections, especially those in swing districts. what is your level of concern about maintaining control and having a shot at the u.s. senate in the wake of this? impeachment is one of the gravest powers of congress. second only to power to declare war. should never be our first option. always has to be the last option. we should never want to do it. we have to follow the facts. we shouldn t be doing this for political reasons and should not not do this for political reasons. has to be based on the facts. shepard: are you convinced that the items that the whistle-blower has brought forward, are you convinced that all of that is true and if so how? i m a former prosecutor. you don t just look at individual items in isolation. you have to look at entire context. so the whistle-blower complaint reveals that this was a month s