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Not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giulianis effort to pressure this government to investigate the presidents political opponents. that is a wholesale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doing to do trumps bidding. >> barbara, ben just reminded, we havent heard from rudy giuliani in a few days. one week ago we were talking about how he had butt dialled an nbc reporter...

State department, the pentagon. everybody whod be sitting around the table in the interagency process was witting of essentially this corruption of our ukraine policy to make it not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giulianis effort to pressure this government to investigate the presidents political opponents. that is a whole sale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doin...

>> its the guy who works in the state department, the pentagon. everybody whod be sitting around the table in the interagency process was witting of essentially this corruption of our ukraine policy to make it not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giulianis effort to pressure this government to investigate the presidents political opponents. that is a whole sale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the ta...

Investigation if all you cared about was corruption angle back to susans point you are hearing trump hammer in on as i didnt view biden as a arrival didnt think he had a shot. and triing to distance himtz from anything about politics and trying to make it all about corruption. >> youre ending -- perfectly transcriptioning bus i want to get to jeremy diamond at the white house. and the exact point melanie is raising there, jeremy. donald trump saying that he -- this isnt base politics. this about...

Learning from polls the tweets do not work. if anything they backfire. this is not helping him at all but the walls are closing in on him. >> i think they rev up the base quite a bit. people say fight back. for people that are just going to follow trump -- >> yeah. but -- >> does help. >> small ball. >> thats that small and shrinking base. >> theyre sticking with him. >> they have to express concern. >> thats key. >> okay. but youre doing that. to what end? >> that we have to go back to the prin...

You dont think if mitch mcconnell and paul ryan went to trump and said youve got to fire this guy, we cant support his agenda, hed have been fired right there. the issue for the fall is that donald trump has disgraced the office of the presidency and these are just going to be examples of the insidious corruption. there will be plenty more between now and then. >> alexi, what do you think? how much are the republicans going to have to answer for scott pruitt on the campaign trail? >> i think as ...

Out during the midterms and say, you know, im the president, were the party that will drain the swamp? >> i think thats part of it. i dont think anything is impossible for trump. he is perfectly capable of declaring himself to be draining the swamp even as we see things like this happening which are, you know, objectively very swampy looking. i dont think that he suffers from cognitive distance from that regard. we have a story this "time" magazine about how serious these revelations are and wha...

Democratic senators have a point of curiosity also. they want to take a look at this. what would be the thought there, michael? what would they be looking for? >> well, this again is the corruption angle, whether or not this money was being paid to cohen so that cohen could influence the presidents thinking about the at&t/time warner merger. if there was an effort there to corruptly influence the decision making around that antitrust action, that would be actionable, potentially and thats what -...

Hes taking this step now out of sympathy for the iranian people. >> i was going to say i dont think he necessarily has to pull out of the deal in order to use the sanctions especially the human rights and corruption angle. it gives him the ability to pressure. theres a way to add voice to the issue without making the u.s. the central character or protagonist. spotlighting human rights abuses, providing perhaps some communication support as iran cracks down on the internet, and galvanizing others...

Relationships and admiration for dictators overseas. i believe that he has some of the same ideas about leadership or domination that they do. i think he is dishonest with the american people. where are his tax returns? we dont know much about donald trump. >> okay. mr. trump is an imperfect candidate. >> imperfect? you are kind. >> you said both candidates are corrupt. >> absolutely. >> why do you call mr. trump corrupt? you may not agree with him. he may have made ill-advised statements and so...