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Investigation, while it found there was insufficient evidence to prove that there was a conspiracy, did determine there were as many as 140 contacts between the trump campaign and russia and found that there were ten instances of possible obstruction by president trump. and so there were real findings that were yielded from that trump which complicates of theory that this investigation was purely politically motivated. so president trump right now speaking on the white house south lawn before he...

Suspicions, his theory, or is there something more going on? do we know who is being investigated? >> well, it has certainly opened up president trump to that type of criticism, andrea. particularly you have jerry nadler saying this is essentially the president using the justice department to attack his political enemies. i put that question to mark short, who is of course the chief of staff for vice president mike pence, who disputed that thats whats happening here. but it does fit into the fac...

Conversations that were taking place here about ukraine, about those investigations that president trump was asking for. we know that he wasnt on that july 25th phone call. but certainly you would anticipate that the administration, the white house, would be concerned if he were among those going to capitol hill to testify. tim morrison, one of the russia advisers here, who we believe was on that phone call, those are the reports, we dont have that confirmed ourselves, but all signs point to the...

Require him to be knowingly going along with that. there are reasons for concern but there are also reasons for us to do what were not very good at which is to stay tuned and recognize there is so much we dont understand about whats going on here. >> a lot we dont understand, we should not be jumping to conclusions. but kristen welker, it has to be alarming to the democrats running this impeachment inquiry that a whole other criminal investigation to some of the former officials who were front a...

That you see authoritarian leaders use across the globe. it creates joifgds fustificatio leaders to dismantle institutions and im concerned thats what we see at this point. >> trump is basically saying, if you choose to serve the united states government, youre an enemy of the country. its outrageous, but thats what hes saying. youre an enemy of the country if you work for the country. >> what does a strong country consist of? its got to have not just a strong man at the top but strong independe...

And more concerning, andrea, this will send a signal to intelligence analysts that you should follow the truth as long as the truth does not lead you to president trump. >> we are trying to get to the truth of a lot of thung things. one of his texts is crazy to withhold security assistance for help of the political campaign that seems to validate the quid pro quo. what is about these ambassadors who are coming and how critical this is to the inquiry and to whats going on in the state department?...

For itself. i dont speak for the administration. i spoke for myself and my client. but the administrations goal is a little different but not terribly different. it is policy change in iran. >> i speak for myself and my client, andrea. how does that echo if his clients have agendas against the united states diplomatic core? >> first of all, the testimony to the hill from former ambassadors and current ambassadors is that rudy giuliani is speaking for the president but was taking over ukraine pol...

There were thousands and thousands of people that ive never seen in that street. because people all over. i was not you dont be frightened i mean that in their mum it was not identified with that kind of people that i was seeing on the street. andrea and zena has worked with the pro independence council and national assembly in the past and hes helped organize the peaceful demonstrations during the day he says many frustrated protests just feel they havent been heard. the message that the europe...

Administration. and it does come as the impeachment inquiry is intensifying on capitol hill. escaping, u.s. military personnel, this is whats most were expecting mulvaney to essentially say that hes not important, evacuating long held going to comply with that subpoena deadline for documents positions or handing them to the russians or bombing them so they that was set for today, andrea. all eyes now on rick perry who dont get in the hands of the has said that these going to syrian-backed opposi...

Mean i think the majority of the american people are disgusted with this. but we have let them down in a way that is incomprehensible but more importantly, putin right now is the one who is seen like he has won that day. the fact that we are bombing our military bases because russian troops are moving in. >> by the way, andrea, before you jump in here, i want to play a piece of nancy pelosi today because we now know what set the president off. it was connecting the two to putin. take a listen. >...