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Griff: lucky for you. terry joins us live from the commands center. general, good morning to you. where is santa? >> well, good morning to you as well. its great to be talking to you from colorado springs this morning and honor and privilege to be the nearnd of norad by national command with canada. santa is in the south pacific heading towards russia. griff: general, we were just following you on twitter. looks like the folks in the islands have been reported a big red sleigh in the sky? >> tha...

Was keeping president trump abreast on all these progress. so if president trump wants to turn around now and talk about oh, he was doing his own thing, there were numerous opportunities for him to tell his lawyer to knock it the hell off if he actually wanted to. >> thank you both for your time tonight. next, devin nunes, the top republican in the impeachment inquiry is now implicated in the presidents scheme to get ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden. what to make of all that in two minutes. e...

Point, he literally tells zelensky on the phone call to talk to rudy.ll he tells him to talk to two people. he will try -- he tries to do this with all things, sort of bend reality to his will, but there is no question hes directing people in conversation to get in contact with rudy. >> no, absolutely. and look as betsey was mentioning earlier about how in the open and how public this was, and it wasnt actually a secret. at best it was an open secret that giuliani was acting on president trumps ...

Done or negotiated because the way we have the alleged middleman in the plot by being granted a presidential pardon in exchange for information which would be information that he provided was quickly followed by the arrest of a multi specimen this this is mr gorgon phatic now mr fedak is reported to be requesting immunity in exchange for information so what do you make of this wheeling and dealing. well of course mr finnick has been at least for the last 2 days asking for presidential immunity t...

A microphone and announce publicly that he would investigate the 2016 election meddling, which is a theory that his own homeland security advisor basically called whack-a-doo. talked about efforts to change the presidents mind. to disavow him of his conspiracy theory and the president wanted an investigation into burisma. this was run through the regular channel, not the irregular channel. >> yeah. yeah. thats right. he was rejecting the idea that there was a rogue operation. this was not just a...

Been raised what it was and why the president was there. we are not expecting to see him in public today, though we will tomorrow based on the schedule weve gotten because he has a cabinet meeting. >> an op-ed in "the washington post" by karen who writes, quote, medical privacy is something that should not be granted to the most powerful person in the world. do we know, kaitlan, if there is anything that explicitly says any law by which the american public needs to be kept abreast of a president...

Abreast of what the ukrainians were doing with regard to investigations or lack there of. is that true? >> all i know from ambassador sondland is what he testified during his deposition that i attended. i asked questions, heard his answers. he provided an addendum. i would have a follow-up question. he said that he had a presumption in his addendum. where did he get that from if the president of the united states firsthand information told you there was no quid pro quo and he didnt want anything...

In the court of law rather than for instance in the u.s. where most of the cases now are being treated with the espionage act which and intelligence circles has absolutely nothing to do with the public interest defense either you or well aware that this is a moment in whistleblower history in the united states it was a board has helped to bring on presidential impeachment hearings that start this week what do you make of whats happening there. unfortunately i havent really been able to keep. abr...

Three amigos. gordon sondland, curt vkurt vold rick perry. president trump himself asked to be kept abreast of the investigations. this draws a district line between this entire ukrainian gambit and president trump himself. >> i just want to note once again as im looking at this statement coming from the democratic leadership, it only takes them six words to get into his biography. west point graduate, vietnam veteran, decorated by the way, non-partisan diplomat. this is going to be a very inter...

Giuliani, then the question, the real question is are you talking about the president of the united states. was he in power to do what he did by the president of the united states? did he keep the president of the united states abreast of everything he was doing? i think thats the real question. >> all right congress mam, well leave it there, you lost a big colleague this week. >> a horrible loss. >> and a great man. >> congressman, thank you. >> appreciate your time. up next, more trouble and...