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His incriminating phone calls with fox news. so the notion these people havent been heard from at all doesnt wash because theyve been heard from in public, they just wont go under ooet. the people who have gone under oath have largery corroborated the accounts. to broad it out again, its not just call records. what this report does as 300 plus pages is say to the white house, we see your defiance and your bluffs. heres the actual story. do you care to respond? we have judiciary hearings coming u...

The resolution passed by the house. now it seems theyre no longer interested in doing so. first of all, the first is, it allows for the white house to claim it is in fact a partisan process, they dont engage in it, the talking point is able to stand. if theyre not challenged on it, they can still hold true to that particular narrative, the second point, that the white house, the legal team wont have to make any legal defense. they can rely on others doing it for them in congress. people who have...

>> because the whole thing is a hoax. everybody knows it. >> president trump today saying he will not let his lawyers participate in the second round of impeachment hearings as the judiciary committee hears from experts on wednesday. this as the intelligence committee prepares to release its report supporting the charges outlined originally in the whistleblower report. nbc news legal analyst andrew weissman is a former senior fbi official. what do you think a about the presidents decision not to...

Political gain. that is the definition of abuse of power. even many of trumps defenders argue that what he did was undoubtedly bad but claimed that it does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. what has been far more troubling is trumps refusal to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. >> theyre pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bull [ bleep ] impeachment. >> other presidents have contested a specific subpoena or request for documents. donald trump is effectively rej...

Throwing under the bus, the president distanced himself at the very least, the most -- has started to throw giuliani under the bus by saying that, you know, he wasnt really working for him when he was in ukraine. why is the president distancing himself? is it because politically speaking, rudy giulianis becoming more toxic suddenly now? or is there a legal element here? >> yeah, the legal element may be that the president is realizing that all of his bluff and bluster and all of his attacks on t...

This new information still coming out, would it be smart for democrats to slow down and see where all of this takes us? that as the house judiciary committee is taking over and holding its first hearing next wednesday. and its calling the presidents bluff here, inviting him and his lawyers to participate and to question witnesses. you remember thats been an obsession for the president and his defenders, demanding to be able to question witnesses. a senior administration official telling cnn that...

I want no quid pro quo. i want nothing. >> were also getting brand-new information tonight from never-before-seen transcripts including this new detail. the white house never actually asked its own budget office about other countries contributing aid to ukraine until september, which doesnt exactly jive with the presidents claims that he held up the aid because he wanted other countries to pony up. well tell you what else is in those transcripts in a moment. youve got to wonder with all this new...

What the judiciary committee is going to do is allowed to call witnesses. the republican witnesses on largely retold. if the democrats refused to allow the defense to present their side of the case. the prosecutors dont get to choose what witnesses the defense calls. >> charles: that is why the administration has more or less called their bluff. of course, the rules change. maybe we will hear from hunter biden. maybe we will hear from adam schiff himself. maybe we will hear from the whistleblowe...

Himself? is it because politically speaking, rudy giulianis becoming more toxic suddenly now? or is there a legal element here? >> yeah, the legal element may be that the president is realizing that all of his bluff and bluster and all of his attacks on the process are not working. and because he has no defense on the merits, it may very well be that at some point, katy, hes going to have to say, you know what? rudy giuliani was apparently doing wrong in ukraine. he may claim he was doing it for...

Of the mueller probe by claiming he would talk to mueller but he never did. there were the famous written answers. tonight i can report to you that nadler is calling that bluff right out of the gate inviting donald trump or his lawyer to attend the hearing or question witnesses. the offer is not new because under those rules that speaker pelosi and the house passed trump lawyers were invited. this is not just talk. consider that president clinton took up the house on their offer for his lawyer t...