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Ambassador, a political contributor and appointee. he had no business being involved in ukraine that we can determine because ukraine is not in the eu. so what was he doing involved in all of this, and was getting pushback from william taylor, the subsequent ambassador to ukraine after the original ambassador was pulled back presumably for objecting to the rudy giuliani shadow diplomacy, we dont know. we dont know if she will testify on friday, because she is still a state department officer. do...

To people thinking he has any type of a war room. at the same time, there have been meetings, top officials want there to be a broader all hands on deck approach to the messaging here. all of this comes, and i know shannon has reporting on this as well, as the administration is poised to send out a letter to house speaker nancy pelosi saying we wont hand over documents until you hold an actually vote. republicans are trying to make the case that nancy pelosi held a press conference and this is n...

Ukraine ambassador of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who wulia back by the president of the united states and will be testifying next week, marie jovanovic. this is bill taylor. the only career professional in the mix currently and he was poking back and saying it is crazy to talk about exchanging this kind of political, you know, favors for pressure against a leader. i dont have the exact text in front of me. >> withholds aid for political reasons. >> exactly. >> andrea these are very clear tex...

Significant, andrea. its significant that the presidents top diplomat in ukraine felt as though there was a quid pro quo effort going on as it related to u.s. assistance. the fact that there were text messages that talked about whether or not they were essentially withholding a visit with ukraine contingent on whether this investigation was launched into joe biden. i tried to ask president trump about that directly. he sort of waved me off. he also waved off my colleague kelly odonnell a number ...

That phone call with the president of ukraine and then expanding it, saying china should be investigating as well. he raised china, by the way, andrea, that was unprompted. thats one of the things that makes this such an extraordinary moment and undoubtedly its going to fuel the scrutiny that the president is facing right now on capitol hill. house democrats are going to have a range of questions now not only about ukraine but about china as well. the biden campaign already firing back, saying t...

>> he absolutely is not within his rights to block this testimony. the house or the senate has the ability to compel testimony from these individuals because of the wrongdoing that they may have been a part of or witnessed. >> so, phil, this gets complicated, but the inspector general is also appearing on the hill today with what may be a response to this pushback from pompeo but also, we understand from reuters at least, some other instances of attempts to intimidate state department officials....

Kristen, the white house, fast and furious, striking back today. a lot of developments. we want to talk about the pushback from mike pompeo, the pushback from the president, profanely on twitter. >> thats right, what you are seeing, andrea, is an intensifying standoff between the president trump administration and house democrats. now, just a sort time ago, house democrats threatening to issue a subpoena for documents related to the ukraine matter if they dont get them voluntarily by friday. so ...

Having to take a vote that may or may not be helpful to some of them in these trump-friendly districts, instead shes said shell authorize it on her own power. if they get to the point of passing articles of impeachment, the full house would have to vote on that and send it to the senate. >> kristen welker, youre speeding off here because were so jammed, the president of finland is arriving and there will be a photo opportunity in the oval office, a news conference this afternoon. within this hou...

Guard rails. >> enabling is the right word, andrea. mulvaney is tense to his beef in there in the west wing. he said he had no interest in controlling the president. his twitter feed of what john kelly used to do that he feels trump should be trump and hes not going to stand in the way. you are right. pompeo has a loud voice, hes a supportive one of the president. there is no one around donald trump whos going to tell him no, your behavior is more damaging and accelerate the democrats for impeac...

Mitchell, nbc news correspondent geoff bennett, new york times white house correspondent michael crowley, former deputy assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs michael fuchs and former house intel committee staffer mika o yang. andrea i want to start with you first. the democrats are today making it clear that they want state department employees to testify. how is the state department going to respond? >> well, the state department has already responded with mike pompeos ...