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Believes that the thing that distinguishes himself from the most recent examples of impeachment, bill clinton and the proceedings that began against richard nixon. he argues they were both guilty of doing something wrong. certainly democrats believe this president has done things that rise to the level of an impeachable offense. he says no, and he believes part of his proof could be reading the transcript of the call. transcript is a word he uses, one we dont use, because its a call summary. its...

I dont get the strategy of the halfway point? >> its not a great strategy. because that, that call summary in and of itself was a smoking gun. so to, whatever they left out, either it was really bad and its actually worse than were hearing, or they were trying to thinking that it was basically going to set state deep 6. remember part of the issue if they moved something that did not have to be in this deepest darkest server basement of national security secrets, so they may have thought they wer...

Explicitly say there were parts of the conversation that he heard that are not reflected in the official call summary. and that is something that perhaps other witnesses will be able to shed some light on. weve known from the beginning that this was not an exact transcript. it is, to the best of our reporting, there is no tape recording of the call, where you could go back and tribe eveansc every word. its done in realtime with multiple people in the situation room who are transcribing, to the b...

Over all of these new developments in the impeachment inquiry. were going to start with nbcs kelly odonnell at the white house. kelly, what does the president gain by pinning this call on his energy secretary? >> reporter: well, it would appear that one of the things the president would be trying to do, jo, is to look for an alternative reason that was not about seeking any kind of help about a political rival. so the president was on a phone call with house republicans friday, the white house s...

In the white house call summary. >> this is an exact word for word transcript of the conversation, right? >> and why kellyanne conways husband is making the best case yet why donald trump is not fit for office. >> i have the right to do whatever i want as president. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. hold on, it has been quite a day. right now we are in the midst as you might know of an impeachment inquiry into the president of attempting to use the fu...

So much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight on "all in". >> well, i would think that if they were honest about it theyd start a major investigation into the bidens. >> the president does it again. >> its a very simple answer, they should investigate the bidens. >> and again. >> likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. >> and again. >> i would recommend they start an investigation into the bidens. >> the president com...

On the document and was put by white house people by trump. and for more im joined by katrina mulligan and also held positions at doj and dni, national intelligence. trump is very clear about this, verbatim, word for word done by stenographers but no one could claim that a ten minute memo which covers ten minutes is a 30 minute conversation. whats going on? >> well, what we saw in the memorandum of conversation which is what we call this type of call summary, its a summary. its not intended to b...

Who would have had access to review these documents that weve looked at, this call summary that gives a reconstructed conversation would have been much more narrow than in past white houses, for example. >> kelly odonnell at the white house, thank you so much. joining me to discuss all of it, michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia and msnbc national affairs analyst. always great to speak with you. new reporting from "the new york times," sourcing both current and former officials saying the...

And it didnt constitute an illegal campaign contribution not the least of which because they found asking a foreign government official to consider an investigation does not constitute anything of value. rob: that what democrats were harping on, asking for help could be a crime. >> you are stuck with one part of the democratic party looks at the 5-page call summary or transcript as obviously a quid pro quo and you could only come to that conclusion if your view of the world and the law is if the...

Coming in and were used to people blowing up the tanks. >> theres another aspect of national security embedded in that call summary were learning more about which is that notion why does he want these servers that are supposed to be in ukraine, well its a conspiracy theory. >> how would hillarys servers show up in -- >> the conspiracy theory is about the dncs not being hacked. that was if you remember the beginning. >> it showed a picture of jack kennedy behind a curtain like 50 years after hes ...