ellison barber responses from 2020 democrats running for president, forelockas thompson in washington. friday is the deadline to turn over documents, house democrats have scheduled 5 depositions beginning next week beginning with state officials who are acknowledging and democrats build case for impeachment, the later says in part it s become clear that multiple state officials have direct knowledge of subject matters of house s impeachment inquiry, the letter signed of the chairman of 3 powerful house committees, schiff and elijah cummings, many pushing hard for impeachment. do i believe that this was an inflection point, tipping point, we have 220 plus democrats positiver in full impeachment inquiry, that s bigger than 6 investigative committees, bigger than our caucus, this is about the american people.
in these hearings, unfortunately. you have staff that s very schooled and educated on the subject matters and ask really good questions. manu raju is on capitol hill outside that house intelligence committee hearing room. is that one of those so-called scifs? reporter: it is in the basement on the house side of the capital. michael cohen making that comment that he will be back here march 6th to finish that testimony. he had a hard out, we re told, and had to leave at 5:00. more questions that this committee has. whether or not the things that he wanted to ask about, whether or not donald trump jr. told the president about the trump tower meeting that occurred in 2016, all of which have been denied by various parties, what they learned from michael cohen. we ll see how much schiff decides to reveal. this is in a classified setting.
operative word, as you put it, really is broadening. relative to mueller, who, remember, has had a specific commission of what he had to pursue, the subject matters announced by schiff today are broader chronologically. they go back in time, and, also, by there s a whole geographic angle. there could be any kind of foreign country at all and maybe the whole kind of mess in the sea shells and other stuff we ve heard just tanning he shagentia. congress has power to really wield great penalties against him. that leaves the southern district of new york, which both has the breadth because it s not limited, and i would say both the power and the sort of culture of aggressiveness to go after him without any holds barred. and, aaron, indeed, to your points, this could have a depth
overseas financial connections. they re not okay if you are running the government and the president of the united states. if you don t want to give up those connections, you should not be running the government, and he was unwilling to give up those connections, so it is completely reasonable for congress to be looking into the leverage that foreign countries may have over the most senior decision maker our country has. you, too, harry, are a man of the law. help us understand this. folks who watch us every night hear us talking about the mueller investigation in the main. they are now zeroing in on something called the southern district of new york, and now this third front, and it seems formidable. how does this change the president s legal exposure? by how much should he worry about this by percentage compared to all the others? well, so congress the operative word, as you put it, really is broadening. relative to mueller, who, remember, has had a specific commission of what
if you are a private citizen or private businessperson to have overseas financial connections. they re not okay if you are running the government and the president of the united states. if you don t want to give up those connections, you should not be running the government, and he was unwilling to give up those connections, so it is completely reasonable for congress to be looking into the leverage that foreign countries may have over the most senior decision maker our country has. you, too, harry, are a man of the law. help us understand this. folks who watch us every night hear us talking about the mueller investigation in the main. they are now zeroing in on something called the southern district of new york, and now this third front, and it seems formidable. how does this change the president s legal exposure? by how much should he worry about this by percentage compared to all the others? well, so congress the operative word, as you put it, really is broadening. relative to