Chief Legal Analyst of CNN: Democrats' hearing on the appeal in Ukraine has not "had a lot of juice"

After a hearing by the Democrats-led House intelligence committee to investigate possible indictment charges against President Trump on Thursday, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said the proceedings lacked " substance "and may not contain enough bite to move the needle.

"There was some kind of unreality about this because the complaint and the transcription, the partial transcript, have now been postponed," he said. "So the fight did not really have much weight, but that was really the problem."

Toobin also defended Acting Director of Intelligence Joseph Maguire, who told the committee that the Justice Department or the White House may have given him bad advice on how to deal with the whistleblowing complaint. against the President.

"The question that the Democrats, in particular, were focusing on was why, when the law says when there is a credible and urgent report of the Inspector General – when the law says it's going to be handed over. in Congress, why was not it delivered right away? " Toobin asked.

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"The troubling thing that Democrats have found is that the two places that [Maguire] went to seek advice … were White House lawyers and the Department of Justice, the legal council office – when Donald Trump, White House leader, and Mr. [Bill] Barr, the Attorney General, is involved in this story, "continued Toobin, so the question was: did he have a really good and fair advice?

Democrats opened an impeachment investigation after Trump had spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about opening an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Hunter was found to have links with Barisma, a natural gas company that paid him $ 50,000 a month while investigating a bribery investigation. Trump said that he wanted answers.

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Lawmakers claim that Trump abused his authority and tried to withhold military funding from Ukraine. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi accused the White House of inciting hiding after Thursday's hearing and said the administration had deliberately attempted to conceal information.

"It's a cover-up," Pelosi told reporters Thursday. "Here we are with another example of the contempt of the Constitution by the President."