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Weve been long-time friends. as a lawyer, forget your political views, do you see a potential crime there? >> i think if were going to investigate president trump over evidence that it looks increasingly flimsy to me, the only fair thing we can do in our society is look at the facts of the biden case. i think a fair-minded person would reach that conclusion and thats how i see it. >> sean: emily, youre a lawyer. >> to add two other things to the analysis, to tell you the circumstances and also t...

But it now seems as if the entire u.s./ukraine relationship over the past several months has been viewed by the president as simply a mechanism to try to advance his political interests, and thats likely why this becomes an urgent national security concern, because the focus of our relationship with the ukraine prior to zelenskiys ascension to the presidency was around sending a message to russia that their aggression in the region would be met with a firm response from the united states. by tur...

Mechanism to try to help the presidents reelection, that is of grave consequence to u.s. national security. >> now, the president tried to drag you into this by essentially claiming your contacts with the ukrainian government, your discussions with president zelenskiy themselves should be seen as improper, which is sort of weird what about-ism, he accused you of having threatened the government of ukraine. i have to ask your response to that. >> that is an interesting mind trick by the president...

Learned that. >> juan: yeah, i think a lot of that is speculation. >> dana: oh. >> juan: i hear people saying well, what about joe bidens tax returns? we have never seen trumps tax returns. thats what we know. here is what else we know. we know about this phone call and we know. >> greg: thats its nothing. >> juan: constitution of the united states that says you cant do that. >> katie: where is that? >> greg: you cant call. >> juan: defend and preserve the constitution of the united states. cann...

What aboutism, so what you hear, you are the perfect person to ask about this, joe biden withheld, threatened to withhold millions of dollars in aid from ukraine because of corruption, so whats wrong with president trump threatening to withhold millions in dollars in aid because of corruption. can you explain the difference? >> yeah, well, a couple of things. one is the whole world was pressuring ukraine to disbatch this prosecutor because he was looking -- he was overlooking corruption includin...

Leadership is willing to touch their committee assignments its all kind of moot point. he blended in with the kit criticism of president trump so he kind of play to both sides of it in the real kind of rank attempt at what aboutism. ultimately i think what they are doing is having an impact with the american people because they obviously know that they can get away with this to whatever degree they want. >> julie: zach i want to read part of a statement that came up from the jewish telegraph age...

Thats only comforting if youre okay with senior officials treating him like a malevolent child. here is the thing, some do believe him or what aboutism, deflecting to socialism, the squatter, somehow in hillary clinton. some dont pay attention to what he says but look at what he does and quickly point to the economy. the president supporters cant do the president a la carte. if you support the president youre endorsing what he says as well as what he does. youre saying all this is consistent wit...

Terrible episodes that we just saw and said it was because of video games that video games was the cause of all this. such nonsense like this. the entire word has video games. they dont have killings like this. >> let me press you on that. weve covered that. video games is what aboutism, look at something else. were covering people trying to, within a certain frame, get other people to think, yeah, white supremacy, what is that about? maybe thats not, quote unquote, not a big deal to, quote unqu...

What aboutism. were not being fair. all extremism from any corner that turns to violence as political expression is terrorism. remember this, its not a both sides issue the stats are clear. the antidefamation league says right wing extreme ips killed more people last year than any year since 1995. oklahoma city bombings. over the past decade three quarters of extremist related fatalities have been associated with domestic right week extremist. compared to a quarter attributed to islamic extremis...

Muslim extremist and this whack what aboutism. were not being fair. all extremism from any corner that turns to violence as political expression is terrorism. remember this, its not a both sides issue the stats are clear. the antidefamation league says right wing extreme ips killed more people last year than any year since 1995. oklahoma city bombings. over the past decade three quarters of extremist related fatalities have been associated with domestic right wing extremist. compared to a quarte...