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Towards the bill tailors of the world. the first person that objected to this in realtime and away. things are moving away from the trumpian defense of all of us. so we made an animated chart to show you. it starts over the summer, having the discussion about the probes. somlin insisting no quid pro quo bribery. that was before there was an impeachment probe on ukraine. in private taylor objected and told somlin this was a bribery plot. those are your two camp. boom, the whistleblower blows up...

Say it in public under oath. you are looking at where the witnesses stand and where the story is going. a lot of people on the right now alleging the bribery plot, including sondland, trumps ally. you have mulvaney who retracted and then all by himself the president. melissa murray is back with me. thank you for being here throughout our special. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> i walked through that because cases are about evidence. a lot of the evidence is testimony. >> yes. >> what does...

Hearings as the former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch added new detailed to the bribery plot. rudy giuliani trying to oust her so that he could have his agenda move forward. and then as she testified about that and about donald trumps smear campaign against her, the president literally attacked her today during the proceeding leading to this truly surreal moment. >> and now the president in real time is attacking you. what affect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to c...

Ukrainian counterpart. so the first part, the first key piece of evidence that republicans point so is this. they say the july 25th call summary, the best evidence of the conversation shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure. heres the thing. these talking points, this spin, does not exist in a vacuum. house investigators have interviewed some 15 witnesses behind closed doors. theyve released the transcripts of what? 11 of them that the american public can read through. and if you read th...

If its one country versus another? >> i think that the entire narrative was, russia is helping trump, they wanted to move away from that, they wanted to be a different country, a different set of actors. >> take a listen to adam schiff on how this fits in. >> the president enlisted the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further conspiracy theory about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial...

Everyone who watches tv knows rarely do you see foreign heads of state announcing domestic prosecutions as a u.s. news event. but this goes to how important it was as programming, whether you want to call that propaganda, reality show programming, or the heart of the bribery plot, it was programming that trump wanted. >> theyre looking to shape an actor, this is their modus operandi, they have to stick to this notion, it wasnt russia, it was ukraine. >> you said bad faith. a lot of people get in...

When other aides have attempted to testify. call it mulvaney versus trump. mulvaney trying to join a lawsuit against his boss trump. mulvaneys team is in court tonight which makes fitting headlines for a year where it seems like everything has already massachusetts happened. but not this. he is trying to join this lawsuit against trump that basically asks a court to decide if mulvaney should testify against his boss. now that is unusual. mulvaney could just fight this request outright, arguing e...

Could inflict grave constitutional injury on the house impeachment probe. and finally, this brief cites some precedent that trump and presumably mr. bolton may be concerned about, that congress has more power to force testimony when probing, quote, misconduct by impeachable officials. impeachable officials. the presidents the most important impeachable official there. so while these white house officials do follow a long line of aides who do wrestle with these dilemmas, and some of them are real...

Try to do is parcel it out. theres one more piece of news i want to get your action. this is all about sondland who is a trump person. fiona hill saying he was in charge of ukraine and he said on whose authority and he said the president. this is impeachment evidence because of everything that went down. she saw sondland as target for foreign powers basically telling me i can get you into the white house. all this as he makes the bombshell reversal this week. he started by defending the presiden...

Witness account. >> right. >> not a second hand source, not the whistle-blower. the ear witness account at this point that weve had so far. >> youre right ant thabout tha chuck. there are four fact witnesses who went before house investigators in private and testified to the existence of a quid pro quo or a shakedown or a bribery plot. there are six, if you include senator ron johnson and mick mulvaney who admitted to a quid pro quo before trying to walk it back. so on this day, in which preside...