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Before congress the day before, quote, as you saw yesterday that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named robert mueller. an incompetent performance but they say a lot of it started with ukraine. whatever you can do, its very important that you do it, if thats possible. zelensky follows yes, its very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. for me, as a president, its very important and we are open for any future cooperation. >> now, its very impor...

Sent. nothing happens, they just have a press conference. >> what was the date of that? >> early september, just two, three weeks ago. you saw pence repeatedly in calls and meetings being the presidents messenger with this broad idea of corruption, going after corruption. we asked pence, did he directly discuss biden with zelensky? and he said, no, but he said we did discuss in great detail corruption and the need to go after it. so for president trump to bring up vice president pence, whats the...

Of it. the next mention came when trump told zelensky that giuliani and barr would call to discuss what trump called, quote, bad people involved with the firing of that ukrainian prosecutor in 2016. then, concerning joe biden and his son hunter, whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. again there, jonathan lemire, talking about a political opponent bringing in the attorney general of the united states on that question with the foreign leader. >> its an extraordinary thing t...

Shattered. but do so raises all kinds of questions about the legality. and then to have barr not recuse himself from this matter going forward is extraordinary. it goes to show you the lengths that the president will go to find sort of damaging information about joe biden. even yesterday as this scandal was swirling, after the memo was released i was with part of the press pool that was traveling with the president all day as he had meetings throughout the united nations, including one with the ...

On the other hand youre hearing from rudy giuliani whos making clear that the presidents priority is can you dig up dirt on the vice president? who are you going to listen to and what challenge does that pose for people that are supposed to be providing a united front around the world? >> josh, good to see you. thanks so much. it goes to show the lengths, again, that donald trump went sending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, to find connections to the ukrainian government so he could use, l...

Bidens son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you do with the attorney general would be great. biden went along bragging that he stopped the prosecution. if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. zelensky then tells trump that he knows all about the situation and ensures hell soon have his own hand-picked prosecutor in place promising, quote, he or she will look into the situation specifically to the company that you mentione...

And you even had an aide to zelensky last night saying we werent going to get the phone call and we werent going to get the meeting and we werent going to get anything unless we talked about the biden investigation. >> this was all released to the white house. back up. sources tell nbc news that the whistleblower complaint at the center of the ukraine scandal has been declassified with minimal redactions and is expected to be released this morning. now, to the 30-minute july 25th phone call that...

For 28 days perhaps, if i have that correctly, that led mike flynn to say, no more distribution outside of the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and then they have to return the notes. thats when they closed in the wider distribution and the more normal distribution of these phone calls to foreign leaders. >> and we see that again in this phone call, its all about personal grievance, not the national interests. bill bill, look how clearly he understood what was at stake here. he knew ...

The conspiracy and then he says theres nothing to see here, move along, move along, suddenly this entire crisis is taken to a new level. >> and it calls into question some of attorney general barrs testimony over the summer on the russia matter where he was asked time and again if the president had asked him to do anything inappropriate and he said no. we have some of the details on this. barr and giuliani were mentioned 11 times in this phone call between president trump and president zelensky....

Pretzels. >> and by 4:00 in the afternoon they said, wait a second, the quid pro quo, were not going to fight on that ground because its so obviously, as david freund said i could prove this to any jury any time and if i couldnt i should be disbarred that theres a quid pro quo. they retreated from that position and by late afternoon they were saying that the quo was successfully separated from the quid. but of course it wasnt. what was so fascinating, and we always have people talking about how ...