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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...

About enough, the fact we have 360 billion in tariffs in place right now, two years ago, we were promised it would crash the economy, inflation would go through the roof. every expert was wrong, all the experts said it will destroy the economy, here we are in an amazing period of economic growth. >> record highs, charles. look at s&p earnings, not getting hit that hard. earnings over the last quarter, down a couple percent and ratcheted down further. to your point about tariffs, get the trade de...

Of the process. the impeachment process in the house. it will be decided whether or not through the courts whether they can testify, and perhaps they will be key witnesses when it gets over to the senate? >> you know, i think thats right. i would simply say this. we know that this is a president who does not want to be impeached notwithstanding all of his bluster. be sure if any of the witnesses, bolton, mulvaney, pompeo, perry, had information would exonerate the president, you sure as heck bel...

Subpoena. so its only these brave folks who are serving in the state department, in the intelligence agencies and defense department that are coming forward. so the president has all of the information that he claims would be exculpatory supposedly but doesnt present it. its obviously bogus him offering to testify, its his usual bluster. he should be providing the information that presidents like nixon and clinton did. >> the state department has all sorts of documents and notes that they are no...

This would be a shock if it actually happened, kate. lets not forget that president trump repeatedly talked about sitting for an interview with robert mueller during the russia investigation. its something that he said he was looking forward to doing before ultimately showing that it was just bluster and declining to do so, kate. >> i was going to say, ask robert mueller how well that worked out. >> reporter: right. >> great to see you, boris. thank you very much joining me right now for much mo...

To help us understand what really took place? >> what if he tries to plead the fifth? is he allowed to plead the fifth in front of congress? >> that -- that train has left the station. ambassador sondland, the american people have a right to know exactly what took place. you started with that testimony. you amended it. and i -- i still believe he has the opportunity to straighten out this given the clear, consistent testimony of almost everyone else whos testified. you know, you take the preside...

They had to kick off a member, bring him in so he could sit there and have moments like that, which you completely crushed today. jim jordan had nothing to say back to that moment. and of course obviously its donald trump who started all of this. >> well, thats right. jordan is a performer, and what he does is incredible bluster. he speaks so fast i get a headache and i cant quite keep up with it. but when you peel it back, whats he saying? and usually its nothing related to the central question...

This. >> well, thats right. jordan is a performer, and what he does is incredible bluster. he speaks so fast i get a headache and i cant quite keep up with it. but when you peel it back, whats he saying? and usually its nothing related to the central question of whether the president abused his authority to get advantage in a political campaign. and he is attacking the whistle-blower and threatening his identity even though everything the whistle-blower has said has been corroborated. and bottom...

Misinterpreted. its a fascinating development in all of this. >> go ahead, dana. >> knowing their very poor relationship as kaitlan just laid out, you can call them strange bedfellows right now. it looked like what kuperman was doing and his former boss john bolton was doing with this lawsuit was saying, im out, guys. you can make this decision for me because they dont want -- if they testified they want to be dragged into it for historys sake. you wouldnt think that the sitting acting chief of ...

A large amount of election fit she spayed because the last elections here where in april now with just 6 months i mean people are called out again faced with the same parties again the same procedure now and the same slogans so what has changed in the meantime and nothing really so you get a strong feeling of that plus the campaign was short it was like luster there were no posters no slogans some realities but really not much because the parties agreed on not spending any money because they tho...