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That system was reserved for very sensitive matters, covert operations at the united states. things that dealt with sensitive human intelligence sources for instance. we dont put things on that server just because theyre embarrassing. and you certainly dont put things on a server just because you realize the president of the united states may have committed an impeachable crime in a phone call with a foreign leader. so its rather extraordinary to me that the lawyers, the people keeping people on...

Things that dealt with sensitive human intelligence sources for instance. we dont put things on that server just because theyre embarrassing. and you certainly dont put things on a server just because you realize the president of the united states may have committed an impeachable crime in a phone call with a foreign leader. so its rather extraordinary to me that the lawyers, the people keeping people on the right side of the law were instead trying to conseal information. and theres no other re...

The reason he was so concerned, he testified, because he was worried that this could undermine national security, undermine bipartisan support for ukraine by the presidents ask of president zelensky of ukraine to open up an investigation into the bidens. now, there are other information, information we are learning about things that came up through this day-long deposition yesterday. one of which was about that call transcript, the rough transcript the white house released. the white house said ...

Speaker pelosi has met their major procedural objections. >> but republicans still say that process is partisan, unfair, and ridiculous. >> the speaker is going to try to dress it up a little bit, put a little lipstick on the pig, as they say, at this vote on thursday, but its not going to change anything and i think youre going to see every single republican vote against it. >> on top of the proposed expansion of the impeachment inquiry, house investigators heard from the first witness wad from...

For others who are not members of the united states senate. so there are all kinds of pe permutations, the impact of which we dont know. i wonder how this is playing in the rest of the country. the national surveys to me look like the same as the presidents voters approval. new data in from wisconsin, if we can put that up on the screen, this comes from marquettes law school, should not be impeached, say wisconsin voters. 51% should be, 44%. im still not sure this is a winning issue for democr...

Evidence confirmed evidence, not just the testimony of people like gordon sondland and bill taylor, but actually that call transcript that the white house itself has released. they have enough evidence and enough of a record to move forward and actually go to an impeachment vote itself. now as sabrina mentioned, theres indications there may be a much wider ranging wrongdoing going on here. and so theres a lot more facts out there to be discovered. and so the balance that the house democrats have...

The detail was reported in the "new york times" but went with relatively unnoticed until after the release of the july 25 call transcript, and the whistle-blower complaint that times originally dropped the news this piece of information in the 13 president paragraph of the story about the aid freeze. much like their coverage of the holocaust dropping thingses in 13th paragraph. when the jews in europe were exterminated no question about it. read chapter six in my book as i spell it out there don...

Featured some of the same talking points that the president has been using over the last several weeks and saying that there was no quid pro quo, that this was about rooting out corruption and so on. it sounds like they had to go back and rework that statement. >> well, i dont understand how mulvaney could also in that same press conference stand there and say that the dirt on the bidens, that had nothing to do, that that was not part of the quid pro quo. >> right. >> even though weve all now se...

So the president has always -- is always trying to spin things obviously, but clearly there is a violation of the law baked into that rough call transcript. the thing that they were clinging to over these last couple of weeks, anderson, was that there was no quid pro quo. and i think there is just no way around it. the acting chief of staff blew that up today inside that briefing room. >> and the president was on camera with george stephanopoulos a while ago saying oh, yeah, it would be no probl...

Press conference, stand there and say that the dirt on the biden, that had nothing to do, that that was not part of the quid pro quo. >> right. >> even though weve all now seen the rough transcript in which that is item number two, after the conspiracy theory about, you know, the server being in the ukraine. >> thats right. and keep in mind, i mean, the president and his defenders for weeks have been saying there was no quid pro quo, but in the rough call transcript, the president admits -- he s...