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That not a lot of people want to talk about. >> lisa ling is here with me now. lisa, this is fascinating and troubling, what youre focusing on in this first episode. what was it that drew you to this for the series? >> well, people are talking about it. parents are talking about what to do because their children have accessed pornography. and even if you have the most stringent filters on your phones, its so easily accessible. kids are pretty adept at bypassing things, but also if you put simple...

The substantive issues we have learned from is the memorandum, which is that the president abused his office, held over the head of a foreign -- to get political advantage, things goes to that, first and foremost, but we do want to understand the effort to cover it up. i think the role of attorney general is something that alarms me greatly, hes identified in the second paragraph of the whistle-blower complaint, yet hes overseeing the agency making the decision to kill this ig report to congress...

The president has said he would have bill barr contact the ukraine, along with rudy giuliani, and after all of this house speaker pelosi is -- in her words, going rogue. ellie hoenig, you think barr should recuse himself from this matter. what is this about for you. its a no-brainer. at an absolute minimum, hes a witness. donald trump alludes to him a few times. we dont know for sure whether bill barr did the things he said he would do. ill have the attorney general get together with my personal...

Because things are moving quickly. they have been in discussion with the whistle-blowers attorney about potential getting he or she in front of that committee. of course, to hear that testimony likely behind closed doors. >> kaitlan, to you. were hearing a list of -- the list is starting to grow and its just beginning of white house administration officials that could be called up to capitol hill for testimony on -- as part of this investigation. what are you hearing from there in terms of -- we...

Ive seen memos like this. you dont codeword classify something like that. codeword documents are among the most sensitive information you can imagine. the raid against bin laden, things that will cost somebody their life if it gets out. so that fact that they were classified in that manner may have been inappropriate, but it sure speaks volumes how they were trying to keep this quiet. >> "the washington post" is reporting that to move a call like this to this code-level protected system, a offic...

About, how quickly they want to move through this. many democrats say theyre trying to have articles of impeachment voled on, the committee that would move articles of impeachment, potentially by the end of october, setting up potentially a full vote on the house potentially by thanksgiving. speaker of the house nancy pelosi has been very noncommittal in terms of that timeline, but this morning she said they should move with purpose but not haitily, clearly not trying to send the impression they...

Talking about this allegation, moving this call to the server, the whistle-blower says for political reasons, not national security reasons, if it was done without the knowledge of the president, does that change things for you? >> no, the presidents conduct is what we should be first and foremost focused on. everybody else is maybe trying to cover it up or clean it up. the president is the one who is, by his actions, doing things that are an abuse of hi office, potentially illegal, threatening ...

Any normal context themselves would be concerning. why is the president talking about the ukrainians striking a peace deal with the russians? what does he mean when something is going to happen to the woman who used to be the u.s. ambassador as hes criticizing. some things are going to happen to her, hes alleged to have said. theres alarming kernels of attention in there. but the big thing is, what did the president do? who saw those actions? what really happened? thats what weve got to focus on...

So they may be shady, but at least theyre incompetent. sure, look, of course its a -- >> everybody gets talking points, democratic white house sends out talking points as well. but beyond that point, please continue. >> sorry to get sdrablgted. your point is a fair one. its a reason to be cautious, but look how well the whistle-blower complaint matched up against the memorandum that was prepared by white house officials in the situation room. this is clearly a well-informed person with a lot of ...

That things have changed now. they realized what democrats have undergone, how fast-moving this is. thats left a lot of people on unsure footing here. theyre not confident that that strategy of blocking officials from going up there would technically work anymore. thats really something we have noticed here in the white house. they essential feel like theyre starting over. theyre trying to figure out what the strategy is. they didnt expect this. the ground shifted underneath them pretty quickly....