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Including at the top of the hour. You mentioned his meeting with the leader of venezuela, this is one of several one on ones that the president has today. Msnbc happens to be able to be in the room, interacting with the president. One of our teams producers is there. Ill be in the room for the meeting with the president and the leader of ukraine in just a bit. It is now 10 00 and were going to get to breaking news. As this moment is Trump Administration is releasing what the president describes ...

Campaign. He did not do that. And if he abused his power, most likely he would tell president zelensky that he was asking to help his president ial prospects . You would never engage in conduct nor explicitly say, in this case, president zelensky, im going to bribe you now, or im going to ask you for a bribe, or im now going to extort you. This is not the way these things work. Getting back to you, we talked about hunter biden. Hunter biden had been on the board of burisma going back to 2014, co...

Weve heard testimony already. mr. trump said to president zelensky that he should speak to two people, his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the attorney general barr, correct? >> yep. >> immediately after this call memorandum was released, isnt it the case that attorney general barr and the department of justice issued a statement about his role in all this? >>. >> he did. >> lets put up the statement. slide 13, please. t from the department of justice. the president has not spoken with the a...

Important first because she can speak to the view from the ground. about what was actually happening in ukraine whenever giuliani was essentially under taking this freelancing effort on behalf of the president of the united states as private political interest. and effort that efbtly forced her out of her job. and yovanovitch is going to speak to what was actually happening in ukraine. what the president was attempting to pursue through giuliani and the second smear campaign aimed at her. recall...

Clearance. it is unusual what was done here. one explanation is this is a consciousness of guilt. there is awareness that there is a problem. obviously it has become on enormous problem. to cover it up, to deep six it in some code word national security database which would never include something as banal as a call memorandum even if it was confidential is a red flag for me. by the way, there is reporting out there that there were other call transcripts put in the database. i would like to know...

Elliott. if they wanted to go after corruption, even a u.s. citizen in ukraine, we have an agreement between the two countries with the whole protocol in place and it goes to the d.o.j. he would have known that if he wanted to do it the right way if he cared about corruption. he had his guy doing this. rudy is the key. >> in mob prosecutions, thats called a bag man. when you have someone being the fall guy for the underlying offense that youve committed, lets look at what starts with the whistle...

Between the two countries with the whole protocol in place and it goes to the d.o.j. he would have known that if he wanted to do it the right way if he cared about corruption. he had his guy doing this. rudy is the key. >> in mob prosecutions, thats called a bag man. when you have someone being the fall guy for the underlying offense that youve committed, lets look at what starts with the whistle-blower report, is corroborated in that call memorandum and is corroborated in the testimony of prett...

Assertion that it was the whatever, but not the name of it. so that suggests perhaps there whistle-blowers complaint that somehow the basis for this whole republican party led in part by were some gaps, some liberties representative cheney have seen unreliable information. taken in the note taking. their bonds with the president >> the whistle-blower said what do you have to report on that in the transcript? fray, especially in policy. terrible things about the call, >> its important to remember...

Call, the white house has published this relatively detailed call memorandum in which it has confessed to the core of the wrong doing. we can see right there in black and white the president of the united states pressuring a foreign leader to investigate family of a political rival, pressuring a foreign leader in order to substantiate this. that is abuse of office. that is impeachable, full stop. people like morrison will be able to fill in the details about what has happening. we know that john...

You interestingly, though, think its not totally necessary, why? >> i think its not totally necessary because if you remember -- im also old enough to remember when the white house chief of staff said into a microphone at a press conference essentially an admission of impeachable conduct. backing up the original call memorandum, just for folks to remember, there was a memo of the call with the president of the united states and the prime minister of ukraine asking for dirt on one of his politica...