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Vice president joe biden. detail was reported in "new york times" but witness unnoticed until after release of july 25 call transcript, and whistle-blower complain, times originally dropped news this piece of information in 13th paragraph of a story about the aid freeze, like their coverage of holocaust, they dropped things in 13 paragraph. what jews in europe were being exterminated, no question about it read chapper chapter 6 in m, you have join me most week nights levin tv, 844-levin-tv or in...

Vice president joe biden. detail was reported in "new york times" but witness unnoticed until after release of july 25 call transcript, and whistle-blower complain, times originally dropped news this piece of information in 13th paragraph of a story about the aid freeze, like their coverage of holocaust, they dropped things in 13 paragraph. what jews in europe were being exterminated, no question about it read chapper chapter 6 in m, you have join me most week nights levin tv, 844-levin-tv or in...

Underscoring rudy giulianis influence over president trump and their push to investigate joe biden. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. "the wall street journal" is reporting president trump recalled the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch because she wouldnt dig up dirt on joe biden. the president was asked why the ambassador was recalled earlier talking to reporters, he danced around the question, did not give a straight answer. should point out in the last few moments, cnns michael wa...

With the president. it wasnt until he saw the comments that the president made not only last week but this week, saying, i want to interview the whistle-blower, did he seem to kind of wake up and go, oh, yeah, im the guy who protects whistle-blowers. i dont necessarily think that hes, you know, kind of a canary in the coal mine when it comes to republicans. >> democrats are very clear-eyed in the senate and they know there has to be 20 republicans that would come and vote for impeachment at that...

Ukraine and what donald trump was up to in ukraine. its not a surprise to me that theyre the first people who are going to testify in front of that impeachment inquiry. the republicans used to be more hawkish about this, they used to say we werent doing enough to support ukraine. now republicans have done a 180, saying theres nothing wrong with this call transcript. its a window into the cynicism of the republican party. >> as we head into the next couple of days with mike pompeo essentially thr...

Those people are on the outs. those people were clearly uncomfortable with that rudy giuliani was up to in ukraine and what donald trump was up to in ukraine. they represented that bipartisan policy and its not a surprise to me that theyre the first people who are going to testify in front of that impeachment inquiry. the last thing, rachel thats really important is the republicans used to be more hawkish about this. the criticism we got in the obama administration from people like lindsey graha...

>> i think what my colleague josh and i learned in the course of the last 24 hours, in addition to the details of the whistleblower complaint, which are very logical and methodical. what we learned was that basically, its been collected a long time, the presidents paranoia about people leaking information about his conversations has been an escalating paranoia. and he has instructed his team to clamp down on who gets to listen in to calls. and also, who can potentially read the readouts from his...

Now. >> reporter: total panic is what one person close to the administration is describing whats happening inside. theres always an aspect of crisis response where how do you get the right message. its always difficult for a white house to triangulate and say the right thing, but more difficult now. >> carolyn, youre also talking about people who know about how these national security pieces of the puzzle move around and it seems this morning that one of the big focuses is on why this key inform...

What else is in your reporting that is relevant now to this whistleblowers complaint? >> i think what my colleague josh and i learned in the course of the last 24 hours, in addition to the details of the whistleblower complaint, which are very logical and methodical. what we learned was that basically, its been collected a long time, the presidents paranoia about people leaking information about his conversations has been an escalating paranoia. and he has instructed his team to clamp down on wh...

Whistle-blower complaint. well find out in what form and so on. that is being viewed as signs that the president is concerned about this. my understanding is theyre going through a disclassification process right now. and so itll be interesting to see what form it comes out in. but as for this call transcript which alisyn, you were mentioning a few moments ago, that could be revealing. i talked to two white house officials last night who said prepare to be underwhelmed by the transcript of that ...