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You know, we were just talking about donald trump throwing mike pences name out at the press conference yesterday. youve spent time with pence, what was -- is that trump saying if i go down everybodys going down? >> it brings up some questions about what president pence -- excuse me, what president trump -- >> its early in the morning. >> hold on one second. hey, donald, dont do -- >> its okay. >> donald -- >> vice president pence. >> do not hold that against bob. >> i need this coffee. covering...

For any elected leader of a country to be in. >> its extraordinary. >> but for a young guy just nau inaugurated, you can understand it. >> what he is doing it is trying to save his country. hes got vladimir putin who is taking over crimea. hes got troops pushing in and have invaped h have invaded his country. you have congress passing out the weapons and donald trump has frozen it. the financial finals and "wall street journal" have been saying that zelensky desperately needed the weapons and de...

Well see that on msnbc, of course. its important to see all of this in the context of what came before the july phone call. that call between president trump and ukrainian president zelensky now in question. not the first time, of course, the first time the two men had spoken. ukraine elected its knew leader on april 21st of this year, mr. trump seized on the moment as an opportunity to press his case. within hours of mr. zelenskys victory, mr. trump placed a congratulatory car as he was en rout...

Weapons five days or six days before this phone call and then say immediately after the javelin request on the call from zelensky, yes, but i have a favor. and then to bring up crowd strike and the clinton emails which is the whole origin of the mueller probe and segue right into joe biden and speak about the attorney general. the justice department is pushing back he didnt do anything. but the fact is that the president of the united states invoked the attorney general and said that -- >> he im...

Russians. >> right. >> and then the internal guy that hacked it was killed by the clintons. its up there with pizza gate in terms of outright conspiracy theory. >> the president of the united states responds to a request from a dem democratic ally for weapons to push back vladimir putin who has invaded his country by talking about seth rich. >> its easy reading that transcript to whiince on behalff zelensky. he said i stayed in trump tower, i love you, i agree with you on everything. but if you ...

Yesterday, which was a summary of the phone call between the president where he asked pretty explicitly, first of all, dove into conspiracy theories about the 2016 campaign but then went right to what he called, quote, the other thing. which is the joe biden story which we now know wasnt an isolated moment. there was a lead-up to that beginning from the moment that president zelensky was elected in april, that president trump called him and began to push this idea of corruption and said im going...