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Military headquarters in kabul and at the white house to distort statistics to make it appear the united states was winning the war when that was not the case. nbc news has not independently verified the documents and interview notes as obtained by the "washington post." the military "times" asked leaders about this report. army command sergeant major john troksle, the very enlisted adviser to chairman of the joint chiefs of staff army general said he didnt reed ready "the washington posts" afgh...

Explanations and if so what kdi the evidence show president trump was motivated by this? >> a good question. two questions. one is evidence and one is assertions and opinions. based on evidence, there is no evidence to support any of the three things you just mentioned. no evidence to think the president acted towards ukraine because of his concerns about corruption. thats not the motivating factor. no evidence giving enough money motivated him. certainly no reasonable belief, given all the evid...

Assertions. >> were just getting this in. i wonder if you know ashley hurt call lon, but republicans say she will be the republican judiciary committee staffer asking questions this morning. she normally is assigned to the house oversight investigations committee but shes going to be -- shes the chief counsel of oversight investigations for the house judiciary committee and so were going to see a new face today. >> yes. >> representing the republicans. >> i think one thing that is unambiguously ...

The lack thereof there are four facts that will never change. both president trump and president zelensky say there was no pressure. second, the call transcript shows no conditionality between aid and an investigation, three, ukrainians were not aware that aid was withheld and when the president spoke. and fourth, ukraine didnt open an investigation but still received the aid and a meeting with president trump. i want to move on to the idea of hearsay and the fact that this report contains so mu...

Discuss the facts within our lack thereof, there will be arguments that will never change. both president trump and president zelensky says theres no pressure. plus there is no conditionality between aid and investigation. ukrainians were not aware that aid was withheld, and ukraine did not open investigation but still received a meeting with president trump. i want to mr. castor, did the democrats impeachment report rely on hearsay to support their assertions? >> yes, it did. >> how many times ...

Consider those three explanations? and if so, what didmm the evidee show about whether president trumps request was actually motivated by those concerns? >> its a very good question. there are two things that were discussed here today. one is evidence and one is assertions andd opinions. based on the evidence, there is noe, evidence to support any of those three things that you just mentioned. there is no evidence to think that the president acted towards ukraine because of his concerns about co...

Can discuss the facts within or thefa lack thereof, there are fr facts that will never change. both president trump and president zelensky say there was no pressure. second, the call transcript shows no conditionality between aid and an investigation. three, ukrainians were not aware that aid was withheld when the preside presidents spoke. and fourth, ukraine didnt open an investigation but still received the aid and a meeting n th president trump.d i want to move on to the idea of hearsay and t...

Grisham had to say -- "the assertions made for this story are not only false, they are a disgusting attempt at invading the privacy of the first family. this is not journalism, it is fabricated tabloid trash." quickly, did the trump administration ever give you an official response to the story? im sure you reached out. >> no, they didnt respond to this one. theyve said in the past that media reports were the way they initially found out about undocumented workers and therefore they took action ...

Participate in a reasonable way in this process. not even a case of the white house raising privilege arguments or specific assertions of privilege or immunity in a lot of these cases. the president of the united states is just telling people not to answer subpoenas outright. nadlers specific response here and the general behavior of the committee makes relatively clear what theyre going to do here, if the president decides to continue in this course of obstruction, that is going to become the b...

Campaign trail. unsubstantiated claims spread by president trump and went back and forth with that voter. when we asked about it afterward he said i was trying to shut it down. i didnt lose my temper. i just wanted to shut this down and tell this man this wasnt appropriate in this setting. what i was curious about, brooke, what i asked him about was, look, do you ever get frustrated youre here in iowa eight days trying to take your message to voters and this is the questions that follow you arou...