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Breaking news. "the new york times" reporting president trump, quote, pushed the australian prime minister in a recent phone call to help attorney general bill barr investigate the origins of the mueller probe. one u.s. official telling the "times" the white house restricted access to the transcript of that call. sources say president trump initiated the conversation for this sole purpose. i want to bring in now former federal prosecutor laura coates. so as we look at this in this reporting, the...

Be surprised if we find out that he asked this of other world leaders. this or similar. >> this is different in kind. the u.s. government asked foreign countries to cooperate with our duly constitution investigations all the time. the justice department is looking into how the bogus 2016 story started. i know everyone on the set maybe wants to move on from that and get on to ukraine but that is a legitimate interest and there is nothing wrong with the president of the united states asking a fore...

Name of the game, not digging up dirt or using other nations to be investigative agencies on behalf of things that the president said has already been resolved, it is almost belying his notions earlier saying that he felt confident and exonerated and if he is still trying to build evidence against the origins of the report even after the mueller report has come out, after mueller has testified and after hes claimed exoneration, also that attorney general barr finds himself once again as somebody...

For you here. the presidents personal lawyer rudy giuliani subpoenaed by house democrats and our poll reveals 47% support the impeachment and removal of president trump and now an official confirming to cnn the president pressed the australia prime minister in a recent phone call, pressing the prime minister to help the attorney general with his review of the origins of the russia probe. the story was first reported by the "new york times." but cnns evan perez joins me now with more of his repor...

Who the attorney general of the united states actually works for. that is one part of the equation. there is the current attorney general bill barr, we need to know more about what happened in terms of the call with ukraine and guy back to this again, that in this "new york times" reporting, quote, mr. barr requested that mr. trump speak to mr. morrison. that also calls into question how the attorney general views his own role. >> it does, indeed. and of course it goes back to where you had atto...

There is a saeng, im paraphrasing and i dont it it in front of me suggesting that rudy giuliani is part of and they use this word, part of a scheme to bring pressure to bear for aid to donald trumps campaign with respect to joe biden. and so they are not accusing him of anything yet but by putting that language in the letter and also asking for -- i think it is four single spaced pages of documents relating to all aspects of rudy giulianis business in ukraine and conversations with the state dep...

Decision not to allow the testimony tomorrow, that this has happened more than a dozen times in the last 50 years, that you get this clash between the executive branch and the legislative branch over testimony. >> but why do you think that the white house didnt have a problem with mcgahn testifying before the mueller investigators, but they do have a problem with mcgahn now testifying before the house judiciary committee? >> thats a good question for the white house. but i will say that i think ...