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Crime. for many politicians and both parties in congresses and state houses, basically everywhere but the white house, bribery can get you a ticket straight to prison. and a bribery plot is still a felony, even if there is no official money involved or even necessarily an explicit quid pro quo spelled out that is what the precedents say, which should weigh on the mind of any politician in any party caught up in a bribery plot, whether its successful or not. now what congress does with tomorrows ...

And i testified about the mueller report, congress was still using this process of bouncing back and forth five minutes a side between the republicans and the democrats. what we learned during the intelligence committee hearings was how effective the use of staff attorneys is in telling a cohesive narrative. these hearings, or at least this first day that maya and i have talked about thats more about the law, one would hope they would use that sort of a process again so that the american people ...

Office of governor effective immediately. >> losing the big job for bribery. for worse for him, he was convicted in criminal trial. 18 charges including bribery, attempted extortion, fraud, conspiracy and noticeably obstruction related charges like lying to the fbi. he got hit with a 14 year prison sentence. hard time because bribery is a serious felony. you can see him right here reporting to prison for the first time in denver in 2012. he remains there to this day. here is how he looked from a...

That everybody knows is what really makes this audaciousauda >> it is so interesting to see how president trump was sticking with the words quid pro quo when frankly the conversation has moved on to using the english words of extortion and bribery. why bribery? because that is specifically listed as one of the things as an impeachable offense. >> right. thats something we covered a lot and goes to the power of having that testimony by someone who is currently employed by the president. i dont kn...

2016 election, and as sure as we are sitting here, you know theyll do the same thing in this country and in other countries to attack upcoming elections. >> bluntly, donald trump doesnt feel attacked, he feels helped, as you pointed out. he was helped last time. he isst seeking help this time. >> the mueller makes that point. >> thats the problem. thats why theres a bribery plot at the center of this. he said a it on the white house lawn, ukraine investigates the bidens, what are you looking for...

President who believes they are above the law. >> above the law. that is how chairman schiff has closed this jam-packed set of impeachment hearings over basically these two weeks. what comes next? we can tell you. theyre writing a public report to detail the key findings, which will include evidence drawn from todays testimony from donald trumps former expert fiona hill who detailed the bribery plot. >> ambassador sondland leaned in basically to say, well, we have an agreement that there will be...

But we have gordon sondland saying, let me be clear under questioning. donald trumps goal had nothing wd with this. this is an alleged interference and a bribery plot to take out the bidens. take a look. >> what did ambassador sondland say to you? >> he said he doesnt really care about ukraine. >> did he use slightly more colorful language than that? >> he did. >> what did he say he cares about? >> he said he cares about big stuff. >> did he explain what he meant by big stuff? >> i asked him, wh...

Southern district of new york. former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, nbc news and msnbc legal analyst, chuck rosenberg. politics editor for the root and msnbc political contributor, jason johnson. we are also joined by former u.s. ambassador to russia and msnbc international affairs analyst michael mcfaul. paul butler, georgetown school of law professor. former federal prosecutor and an nbc news and msnbc legal analyst. let me start with you, ari melber. weve been staring at the t...

He phoned it in. he saw a bribery plot. he knew that it was political and wrong. he phoned it in through private channels and he went about his work. this is not someone who reads in any way as grandizing, looking for the spotlight. he said under oath that he phoned it in because he thought it was wrong, and he went on with his work and his duty through official channels. he did not think that he would be testifying before the cameras or to the american public, and in our experience, i do think ...

And towards this ukraine plot confession. mr. sondland, famously, well hear from him tomorrow, and today, mr. volker. we were discussing this before he began with a member of the intelligence committee who was in a tight-lipped way citing news accounts. now you have the news, which is that volker and sondland are moving closer to whatever you want to call it, a ukraine plot, a conditioning government action on getting reelection help, which is a no-no, or what we have reported as a potential imp...