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Completely uneventful. but there are three other witnesses who say they were so alarmed by what sondland told those ukrainian officials, in one case lieutenant colonel alexander vindman flagged it to the nsc lawyer because he was so disturbed by this offer that sondland was making. when it comes to volker, weve heard from republicans for weeks who said that volker in his testimony made clear there was no quid pro quo at least in his view. republicans have been calling on democrats to release tha...

Roger stone has pleaded not guilty. the charges involve obstruction, misleading the house, and an additional one of witness tampering afterwards. this is the first trial involving the russia connection and the hacked wikileaks emails during the democratic campaign because the manafort trial was all about bank fraud and tax evasion. at least this testimony could overlap with the impeachment inquiry and the timetable but it could be the first time we look at the unexplored, prosecutable issues, so...

Approach, you know, a debate over a government shutdown. >> one thing thats important to remember is that president trump talked about sending troops to mexico to help them in this fight in his first phone call with the then-mexican president. this is not a new theme, it has unfortunate reemerged with this incident. >> this all comes as the testimony in the impeachment inquiry, jake and roberta, reveals what i would call a real political corruption of diplomacy as we have always known it. it inv...

Back channel to accomplish president trumps personal objectives. all right. well, today theyre set to release the closed door transcripts of the testimony of two men who were involved in that irregular back channel, gordon sold land and kurt volker, two of the so-called three amigos, the third being energy secretary rick perry, deputized by president trump, according to the testimony, to form a shadow foreign policy. sondland told house investigators that rudy giuliani wasnt freelancing in ukrai...

Would be emails coming out that coincided with that messaging. voters might be concerned about a president who is gathering information stolen by russia and using it to his tactical advantage to win an election. >> barbara, i wanted to ask you about lev barn as, the rudy giuliani associate charged in federal court, hes separated from his old lawyer, hes willing to talk to impeachment investigators. this could be a long time down the road. dont they have to coordinate with federal investigators f...

From that july 25th phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine, he refers to yovanovitch as bad news. so he clearly is very aware of who she is at the very least. yovanovitch was asked, according to the transcript, if she felt threatened, and she replied yes. so really damaging testimony, frankly, that was released yesterday on the part of marie yovanovitch. and again, the president not explaining the disconnect there about why he would be talking about her being bad news an...

What are the warning signs for democrats? >> everybody was looking at the national polls. trump never led the national polls. >> i think that everyone needs to remember that the way we win the presidency is not a national poll. it is state by state by state. and good day, everyone, im andrea mitchell in washington where the impeachment inquiry is slated to release yet more testimony today from two state department political invoice who coordinated with rudy giuliani and energy secretary rick p...