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I thought the threat to our nation was wellarticulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. My view is that a people cannot depend on the fairness of will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed the reason he requested an investigati...

Elite and criticized for failing to bring corruption cases. senator cruz yesterday also mischaracterized president trumps july 25th phone call with the leader of ukraine. >> theres a difference between foreign interference of the kind russia did, which was hacking into the election creating fraudulent bots, actively trying to deceive people, and law enforcement investigation into corrupti corruption. we cooperate with law enforcement, with countries all over the earth, and one of the central iss...

President zelensky. however, based on the transcripts released on those calls in april and july, president trump never mentioned these points of corruption. he never mentioned the word corruption. does that go to any of these factors with that significance? >> yes, it goes to the one about procedural irregularities and the things that led up to the decision that you figure this mode >> ambassador volker testified that the president never made comments to him about corrupti corruption. >> it goes...

Aide was linked to something and he admitted he didnt even know why he was presuming that. this is good for the president because the transcripts that were released today show exactly what the president has been saying all along. >> if you look at the timeline, and he presumed that they were being tied to the ukraine making a statement about any corrupti corruption. on september 1st in warsaw, he told ukrainian officials what he was thinking and then told tim morrison about it. when he talked to...

Drag a lot more of them down with him. >> the reason i ask you the question is on "meet the press" -- weve done a lot of information about what happened. i fully agree that one doesnt want to make decisions based on half the information and it would be very simple, rick, for the white house or the justice department to not prevent congress from getting the necessary information and, as jennifer says, the whistleblower complaint. but chuck todd was talking to pennsylvania senator republican pat t...

Released. its just an odd series of dates. it doesnt -- we dont know exactly what happened. its just interesting. >> whats also interesting is the reporting a little later in the story that says former national security adviser john bolton wanted to release the money to ukraine because he thought it would help the country while curtailing russian aggression. but trump said, as you just mentioned, he was primarily concerned with corruption. that theme occurs throughout the story, and it has occur...

Attention. former massachusetts governor and 2020 presidential candidate bill weld joins me now. were going to continue our conversation. rejoins me i should say. given this new information, this new reporting from the "washington post," carol leonnig said what a number of members of congress have said today. this could be sorted out with the proper information. if the white house were to actually hand over the information necessary -- >> no, but the cover stories that the white house trotted ou...

Expansionism, was delayed. they would have legitimate questions about that and it seems not only was the money delayed but there was a response crafted that might have been less than truthful. >> well, we dont know what the truth is yet. we dont know the full truth yet. weve had some administration officials, senior ones, tonight tell us that basically trumps goals were to focus on corrupti corruption. that he was worried whether or not the ukrainian government was going to spend the money pro...

Presidential admission for the record books. the president of the united states appeared to suggest that he spoke with a foreign leader about a political opponent and implied that he wanted that leader, the president of ukraine, to investigate that political opponent. its a conversation that sits at the center of a whistleblowers complaint about alleged abuse of power within the white house. now, we know that lawrence typically doesnt play a lot of sound from president trump at this hour, but th...

Creating the corruption already in the ukraine. >> trump and his allies spent days denying that there was any there there and then trump seemed to admit on camera that he had raised the issue in a call with the ukrainian president. and while were at it we should note that numerous fact checkers have not found any evidence of the corruption that donald trump claims exists. trump said at the united nations, "it was a perfect phone call." and this morning the president took things a step further. h...