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Of value being exchanged, saying that didnt take place so therefore this is not a justifiable intelligence complaint. congress is pushing back hard on that. what is the attorney generals argument? >> its not the attorney generals argument, for starters, andrea. the justice department is saying he played virtually no role in what we learned about today, which is that two things happened when this inspector general said theres a whistle-blower complaint. we learned, number one, this complaint was ...

Politically. >> evaluatehe has. thats why, andrea, youre seeing such a fiery response from vice president joe biden, who was pressed on this topic over the weekend. he said repeatedly the focus needs to be on president trump. yesterday he tweeted out, release the transcript of that phone call with the president of ukraine. of course we expect to hear from him a little bit alert on today. what will he say? i anticipate hell reiterate calls for all this information to be released. notably, biden h...

Leaders, always appropriate, scott can tell you, always appropriate, at the highest level, always appropriate. its just another political hack job. thats all it is. >> reporter: on that point, did you discuss joe biden, his son, or his family? >> it doesnt matter what i discussed. which conversation? >> reporter: july 25th with the president of ukraine. >> i dont know. i really dont know. >> connecticut democratic senator chris murphy joins us from capitol hill, hes on the foreign relations comm...

Happening here. theres the underlying whistleblower allegations and then the fact that congress is not being allowed to see it in detail. and that is an extraordinary assertion of presidential authority. so there is a lot going on here but still a lot we dont know. >> and phil rucker, "the washington post" was the first to break this story about the whistleblower complaint. y youve heard from adam schiff after the house intelligence committee debriefed for three hours or more, the inspector gene...

Phil, what did you hear at the news conference, we didnt hear a whole lot about the iranian sanctions but earlier they did announce they were sanctioning the federal reserve of iran, crippling irans economy. >> it is, andrea, and what we continue to hear from the president is hes considering military options but seems reluctant to make any decisions there. for the time being hes pursuing these economic sanctions, trying to pull some diplomatic levers to retaliate against iran without taking that...

Visit for the president. they are discussing critical issues. everything from trade to security. and of course iran at the top of the list as well. i was able to ask president trump if he was moving toward a military response toward iran for striking the saudi oil fields. he said anything is possible. and of course one of the questions becomes, would australia support such a move. is the president moving to build a coalition, and what role would australia play in that. particularly as both leade...

>> and a lot of followups to the questions we were able to ask in the oval office. i asked president trump just moel moments ago, really, whether he spoke to the president of ukraine about joe biden, as you just played at the top of the show. he didnt deny that, instead saying he didnt want to get into the details of the call. he said he didnt know who the whistleblower is and said he hasnt read the complaint. the following questions become, why is the administration blocking the complaint from ...

Foreign relations committee are raising this issue right now. >> thats right, andrea. if thats what happened, if the president actually withheld american military assistance from a friendly country, ukraine, which badly needs it, in return for that government in ukraine investigating one of the presidents political opponents, thats clearly wrong. its wrong ethically, its wrong local legally, it would be the president putting his own [ inaudible ]. >> and ambassador burns, weve had a problem with...

So at this point, this is a strategy that youre seeing with beto and others employ trying out this sort of little off the beaten path approach to get attention. >> neil: im wondering if others are taking cues about how to do that particularly from tulsi gabbard. what do you think, andrea? >> i agree. its anything for attention. whatever you can do to get to 2% and beyond the democratic debate stage next month. what bugs me about what shes done the last couple days, i thank her for herself but be...

Includes sanctions. the question is what if any further action does the united states want to take, andrea. >> and general mccaffrey, when we talk to military leaders such as yourself, retired military, admiral mccraven was here yesterday, saying the saudis dont want war, iran doesnt want war, and the u.s. doesnt want war. war with iran would be catastrophic and saudi would say vulnerable, they werent even able to spot these incoming cruise missiles and drones attacking their own oil refinery. >...