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Nut case. this is the same meeting where donald trump said i think the pressures off on this whole collusion, this whole investigation into russia. and then here we find out three years later, not the mueller report, report, but three years later that heed told he told the rus dont worry about interfering in our elections because we interfere in elections too. what is the impact of that? >> first on the transcripts and classification system, the white house is spinning saying that the calls are ...

That was quite a snub. clearly more pressure on the ukrainian president. they sent the energy secretary rick perry instead. michael atkinson, the inspector general clearly under pressure. kurt volker, the now resigned state department envoy for ukraine. you know, all of these people from different agencies. what is the likelihood that theyre going to get access to some of these people? >> an impeachment inquiry gives you far greater latitude to go after people in terms of subpoenas, compelling t...

That the president did something inappropriate and then put it on another server to try to limit it or hide it from people, then they are simply going to try to protect themselves, and that is misusing the classification system. now if they talked about something classified and put it on the system, that is appropriate. sorry. >> that is quite all right. and the post reported a scramble if you will among the pro trump sleuths trying to unmask the whistle-blower and what is concerning you about t...

A code word classified system is meant for highly sensitive, you know, information, things like covert actions. which you cant even talk about. you cannot put things in there because you are trying to conceal something that is personally or politically embarrassing. that is actually laid out in the executive order. so it would be a misuse of the classification system if that was being done. and i believe that it is in congress purview to determine whether there was a concealment of that evidence...

Its why would they do this? and improperly using the classification system is a violation of the law. and these transcripts are not supposed to be classified for political purposes. so if he has other shady dealings, it would be those dealings that would probably be violations of the law. but john, again, i want to focus on what he did with ukraine. i think that is the act that most americans understand and it relates to a future election. and i think thats what the speaker was talking about. >>...

These people who are all pretty torn up about this, they think theyve watched the president, violate his oath, abuse his power and he makes the complaint, takes the risk to make the complaint, and then the acting director of intelligence sends it over to the department of justice for advice on what to do for an explosive complaint like this, and he tells the dni the documents should not be passed along to congress, and the doj basically reaches in and kills it to make sure congress never sees it...

And, quote, multiple state department community intelligence officials were also briefed on the content of the call outlined above. and it gets even worse from there because after the whistle-blower is talking to all these people who are all pretty torn up about this, they think theyve watched the president violate his oath, abuse his power and he makes the complaint, takes the risk to make the complaint, and then the acting director of intelligence sends it over to the department of justice for...

Believe the other allegations in this complaint, right? theres a lot of credibility here. look, this shows pretty astonishing abuse of office. were also showing that not only is the president targeting his political opponents but that the ukrainian government understood what was going on. they were sort of the targets of the extortion. they understood they were supposed to be playing ball. the involvement of rudy giuliani is another very significant sign that the president is not going through o...

They had to conceal it and that they would do that by abusing the classification system. so there are now a number of questions that have to be addressed. i think its very likely that the attorney general needs to recuse and some of these questions will be to be revisited at doj. we learned yesterday that doj had assigned pretty quickly after receiving this transcript that they wouldnt open a case. now i think though they need to go back and look because there are people involved beyond the pres...

In my experience, the only time you would do that is if two leaders were discussing something that was derived from very sensitive information that they needed to prevent that from being shared with other people. in this case, the only reason they would have to secure the dissemination of that information is that this was problematic, that this was embarrassing, this showed the president potentially committing a crime, engaged in acts of corruption. what does that mean? that means they are using...