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Among the many questions being raised tonight as we learn about the white houses efforts to limit access to president trumps calls with a lot of people, not just the ukraine president, but with putin and the crown prince of saudi arabia and what the president told russian officials in the oval office in 2017 while dismissing their election interference. so lets bring in jim baker and jim sciutto. you know jim sciutto is an anchor here. jim baker is not a journalist, hes someone with legal acumen...

That something very bizarre and unusual was going on here with rudy giuliani obsessing about ukraine, forcing out the u.s. ambassador, a well respected woman for no apparent reason. don junior, the presidents son, involved in a public campaign to oust her. again, they were openly saying -- not in secret. they were openly saying, we demand an investigation for political reasons. so there is an enormous number of facts. theres an enormous number of witnesses too here by the way. >> but, you know, ...

>> but, you know, garrett, when youre looking at these types of issues, why you did things may not be enough to rise to the level of impeachment because the american people must feel that it is overwhelming. youre going to nullify an election. so what categories of activity have to be involved in this in terms of on the state department level and coordination level to make this more than a bad phone call and political acumen? >> well, i think one of the clearest pieces of evidence that we have s...

And i also found it very significant, the seven moderate democrats who wrote the op-ed this morning, one of them is mikie sherrill who lives not far from me in montclair, new jersey, who is very much a moderate democrat, now talking impeachment. >> let me ask you this. if you were nancy pelosi right now, would you go this route? its politically difficult. but is it unavoidable now? >> its a tough question. im not the speaker of the house and i dont have her political skills or acumen. this is a ...

Out about impeachment, something that both biden and warren have had to answer to on the field. at this point the bigger national scandal isnt the presidents law-breaking behavior, it is the democratic partys refusal to impeach him for it. and it goes on a little bit longer here, we have the rest of this tweet: its one thing for a sitting president to break the law, its another to let the integrity of our democracy. its desperate penned when we -- threatened when we do nothing about it. dom, to ...

Really, really, really hard to, you know, impress the american public, you know, with his skills and his political acumen, i think that the senator just is not presenting the american public with a reason to put him in office. to the point of -- >> so youve why joe biden should step aside in the campaign. >> yes. >> i imagine this would be at the top of the piece. >>well, i think it would be an addendum to my essay on why mr. biden needs to leave the race. i think theres no such thing as benevol...

Bolo time. be on the lookout. the white house cheered last week as the number of confirmed judges on its watch crossed the 150 mark. president obama couldnt clear 100 in the same amount of time, and both presidents of course can thank senator mitch mcconnell slowing obama nom nips way down,encely in the final two years of his presidency. president george w. bush, by contrast, got more than three times the number through in the same amount of time despite democrats controlling the senate then. an...

The white house cheered last week as the number of confirmed judges on its watch crossed the 150 mark. president obama couldnt clear 100 in the same amount of time, and both presidents of course can thank senator mitch mcconnell slowing obama nominees way down, especially in the final two years of his presidency. president george w. bush, by contrast, got more than three times the number through in the same amount of time despite democrats controlling the senate then. and then there are the demo...

Thing that could truly destroy the american experiment. >> he says a leader must display strategic acumen that incorporates suspect for those nations that stood with us when trouble loomed. includes the interest of as many nations as we can make common cause with, we can better deal with the imperfect world we occupy together. absent this we will occupy an increasingly lonely position, one that puts us at increasing risk in the world. i mean, the presidents go it alone attitude was on display ag...

Unified together is the one thing that could truly destroy the american experiment. >> he says a leader must display strategic acumen that incorporates suspect for those nations that stood with us when trouble loomed. includes the interest of as many nations as we can make common cause with, we can better deal with the imperfect world we occupy together. absent this we will occupy an increasingly lonely position, one that puts us at increasing risk in the world. i mean, the presidents go it alon...