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President are flailly to figure out how to deal with all of this and president trump continues to want to manage the situation himself by repeating things that are not true. of course, its all about how long is this going to last? how tinble is this especially as we get into te part of these hearings that are going to become public in the coming days. >> and ive said this every day this week so i am a broken record, but its far beyond the whistle-blower complaint and one phone call. it is now sw...

Colonel alexander vindman worked for the president. and so, you know, in many ways its, you know, corroborating what you hear from other witnesses. and lawrence, if she said something today that exonerated the president or was an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of where all the arrows are pointing in this scheme, i could tell you that. but thats not what occurred. we saw more corroboration of this shakedown scheme from president trump. but also to you your point about rudy giuliani, we ...

The same role that lieutenant colonel alexander vinldmdman wod for the president. in many ways its corroborating what you hear from other witnesses. and lawrence, if she said something today that exonerated the president or was an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of where all the arrows are pointing in this scheme, i could tell you that. but thats not what occurred. we saw more corroboration of this shakedown scheme from president trump. but also to you your point about rudy giuliani, we...

Hope for is the context around this transcript because this transcript is damning. but he is hoping for i guess someone who said it was actually opposite day on the call on july 25th, and everyone was saying the opposite of what they meant. obviously thats not the case. the witnesses are all coming forward and corroborating exactly what the whistle-blower said. >> what strikes me is someone who covered the donald trump campaign before he became president. i have stayed in touch with some of the ...

Distance growing between the white house and the justice department, which is traditional, but just not in these times in the trump presidency, obviously. >> evan perez, covering the justice department, thanks very much. joining us to discuss, cnn political analyst astead herndon, national political reporter for "the new york times" and michael cohen is an attorney specializing in whistle-blowers. michael, this attention and, in fark fact, amplifying attacks on the whistle-blower. a sitting pres...

Investigations. bolton became so angry and he said we dont do politics here and he terminated the meeting immediately. so this suggests that john battlon, who has been a major conservative voice in the administration, felt that any discussion of these investigations was totally improper in terms of the way to conduct foreign policy. and i think thats a very, very important corroborating witness for the democrats that will prove to be very damaging to the president. >> thats john bolton. i think ...

Other questioning for other people whomp deposed. gordon sondland is expected to testify in a public hearing. sondland said on the phone there was no quid pro quo. he said mike pompeo gave his blessing to rudy giuliani to carry on this sort of shadow ukraine policy. volker voiced concerns that giuliani could cause problems. >> i would be interested to see whether ambassador sondland or ambassador yavonovitch told the truth under oath. it seems like only one of them is. that would be an interesti...

Sorry, boris. >> reporter: he has better hair. >> that we can agree on. joining us to discuss all of this on a serious note, former federal prosecutor and of course he worked on the watergate investigation. and robert, lets begin where boris ended. do you support what we saw last night at the rally, the president again efforts to unmask the whistleblower in violation of federal law? >> i think that the issue about the whistleblower and corroboration seems to get in the way of the obvious reality...

This is almost certainly something that democrats will wind up challenging in court. so prepare for that legal fight. and of course all of this is happening against the backdrop of president trump expanding his attacks on this whistleblower. just yesterday before departing for a rally in kentucky, the president again reiterated his attacks on the whistleblower suggesting that this persons account of his call with president zelensky was a fabrication and that this person was just out to get the p...

Will not disclose fraud in government. >> and there were some that disagreed with rand paul today. lets play that sound. >> the whistle-blowers, particularly those blowing whistles on action -- [ inaudible ] so going after the whistle-blower is miss directed. >> we need to know who this person is because without the complaint there would be no impeachment inquiry. >> so two very different takes. mitt romney saying protect the whistle-blower identity and lindsey graham saying out the whistle-blow...