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Of some of your colleagues that this was terrorism? >> yeah, leland, in fact, i just left a panel discussion with all of the chiefs of the various services, army, air force, navy, marines. the question was asked of them do you believe this was a terrorist attack, and they -- like i -- caution not to jump to any conclusions. the fbi has this case, theyre scrutinizing it closely. but whether its ultimately characterized as a terrorist attack or not, i think we can all agree that it inflicted terro...

Osama bin laden. there have been multiple arrests. any other light you can shed on this investigation? >> not at this time. like i said, my view is let the investigators do their work. in the meantime, we have taken precautions, yesterday i directed that we look at our security precautions across the services in all of our installations and bases and facilities to make sure weve got the appropriate degree of security to protect our service members and their families and our communities and thats...

Evidence, something that would exculpate the president, they would be participating. and we all make judgments in our everyday lives based on circ circumstantial evidence and draw conclusions such as this one. if hes not coming forward, its because he has something to hide. >> jill, if you knew the democrats that mattered to this process were watching tonight from staff to counsel, to members themselves, what would your advice be for what they should be watching for, what they should be mindful ...

Then they lower the bar and say they wont participate. they complain theyre not participating, theyre invited to, and theyin wont. i think all americans can draw a reasonable conclusion which is that if they had something to defend, if they had some good evidence, something that would exculpate the president, they would be participating. and we all make judgments in our everyday lives based on circumstantial evidence and draw conclusions such as this one. if hes not coming forward, its because h...

Multiple officials in the white house. mike quigley joins us now. thank you, congressman. good to have you on. appreciate it. the significance of this discrepancy? >> we said at the beginning, dont read too much into all of this. what we learn from these call records is that it was a whole of the administration effort. what did ambassador sondland say? everyone was in on the loop. they were all engaged in this. clearly this was the administration and the white house working in its entirety, to m...

Has no legal standard, it is a political impeachment. you take the hearsay and innuendo, the conclusions that the adam schiff report provides as a basis for impeachment, you can apply it to any scenario and thereby justify impeachment as you said on "the wall street journal" was saying what we know about joe biden, hunter biden, burisma issue is enough already, if its enough to impeach trump, its enough to impeach joe biden day one, not advocating for that but thats the standard that they are ad...

The political impeachment. if you take the hearsay, the innuendo, the conclusions that the adam schiff report provides as the basis for impeachment, you can imply it to any scenario and thereby justify impeachment, as you said, "the wall street journal" was saying what we know about the joe biden-hunter biden burisma issue is enough already. the facts, active enough to impeach trump, its enough to impeach joe biden, day one. im not advocating for that. that is the standard that they are advocati...

Much developing situation. the military only releasing what they have to, and we know that multiple people are injured as a result. taking place, a and -- >> i dont think you can draw any conclutions. it is too early to draw any conclusions, and we vonl two data points in this, so it will probably be a large number of

You know, where you stand on this? >> as i said, thats what his exposure is. we want to make it as focused as possible and also something that the american people can understand and really bring it down to the hearts and minds and just the gut check of right and wrong. >> give me a sense of what its like on the hill, how those conversations are, how often they r. i know jim clyburn said yesterday, for example -- hes the majority whip for people that dont know. he said were not whipping on this. ...

>> if i could just, you know, push beyond the what to why. i mean, is this tied back to all of this pro-putin conduct? is this tied back to his deep suspicion of his own intelligence community, his own fbi, his own, it would appear, pentagon and other national security agencies? >> well, look. theres reporting that when general kelly, when trump learned that general kelly was creating records of the phone calls used on the white house devices, thats when he went back to what he was doing. and he...