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Devastating testimony. >> nicolle, to your point, one of the oddest potential defenses that kept being floated today in the line of republican questioning and even sondland at time gesturing at it was, well, we didnt know what investigations meant and whether you could youve miez investigations. the president walked out on the south lawn and was asked what was your goal? and he says i was hoping the ukraine would do a major investigation of the bidens. the son and the father. the potential rival...

Investigation that president trump was demanding about joe biden. jennifer williams in her testimony in her deposition corroborates colonel vindmans claim that the ukrainian president mentioned that company by name and she made a note of it specifically even though the white house call notes dont reflect that the ukrainian president ever mentioned that company. now that may have just been an oversight by the white house notetakers. but its weird that they didnt take the correction on that when t...

President used that word, mentioned that company by name, and she said she made a note of it specifically even though the white house call notes dont reflect that the ukrainian president ever mentioned that company. now that may have just been an oversight by the white house notetakers. but its weird that they didnt take the correction on that when they were told that they missed it. and substantively, if the ukrainian president did specifically mention that company, what colonel vindman has sug...

Lieutenant colonel alexander vindman of the national security counsel that there was in fact a quid pro quo, that a white house meeting and almost $400 million in aid were contingent on manufacturing dirt on the presidents political rival. this comes just two days after the damaging testimony from vindman himself which were still learning more about including an episode in which he was immediately freaked out by trumps phone call with zelensky and went to a white house lawyer whose response was ...

President but in his testimony did corroborate previous testimony from the top diplomat of ukraine bill taier and lieutenant colonel alexander vindman of the national security counsel that there was in fact a quid pro quo, that a white house meeting and almost $400 million in aid were contingent on manufacturing dirt on the presidents political rival. this comes just two days after the damaging testimony from vindman himself which were still learning more about including an episode in which he w...

Air taking the oath. were going to have the facts laid bare in front of the american people, and this is going to get worse for these guys especially in the purple states. its not going to get better. >> claire mccaskill, thank you for your time tonight. let me start by playing what kicked this off as i understand it which was a sort of fascinating moment right after the president released his call notes. he dragged the vice president into it. even the vice president has been intimately involved...

In public. >> right. >> now were going to have public hearings. were going to have people with their hand in the air taking the oath. were going to have the facts laid bare in front of the american people, and this is going to get worse for these guys, especially in these purple states. its not going to get better. >> claire mccaskill, thank you for your time tonight. that was great. >> you bet. >> i want to bring in now nbc news correspondent carol lee. let me start by playing what kicked this ...

Prison. hes not like writing briefs going before a court. the president has new lawyers to do that. the lawyers take care of that. rudy giuliani is just a fixer with a law degree, and he has apparently been tasked with a pretty clear mission by the president which is to manufacture dirt on my political enemies so that i can get re-elected. instead of running a foreign policy for the people of the country that represents our collective interests, donald trump and rudy giuliani are running and hav...

Disparities. its been pentagon lawyer, ryan goodman. the whistleblowers memo says that trump claimed the crowd strike, you remember that company? he says that was a ukrainian company. the white house call notes just say, crowd strike, dot, dot, dot. the whistleblower also wrote that trump urged the ukrainian president not to fire the prosecutor but the white house call notes dont say that at all. in fact, they just say, quote, he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, again, dot, do...

And we now have presidential communications, public statements, call notes, state department text messages, the official testimony. all of it paints this damning portrait of this president abusing his power. this is not a circumstantial case. this is evidence. this is straightforward. lets get to the latest of what were learning this afternoon. i have ken dilanian, hallie jackson, geoff bennett. and jeff, i should start with you since thats where we had new testimony today. apparently more on hi...