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I want you to do us a favor. look into the dnc and investigate joe biden. that transcript the white house released, there were some parts that werent totally filled out. this guy was on the call and theyre going to ask him, tell us everything you know. >> fill in the blanks. marshall cohen, thank you very much. >> thanks. to talk more about this with me is daniel strauss, politics adviser for "politico" and cnn legal analyst. daniel, you first. several diplomats are set to testify in this impe...

Somehow the ones that were causing them to consider other sites. this seems to be the sentiment of both president trump and mulvaney here. >> mulvaney said there have been a dozen locations and it was doral that seemed to rise above the rest. now, of course, everybody wants to see the list. dont you want to see what the list of the other contenders are to see who is now next in line to potentially host the g7? will we have those answers this week? >> i think there is a list. >> but we may not be...

Is president trump going to put her future in the hands of secretary pompeo or is that something that he would instruct? >> look. right now, i dont think its fair for me to say anything about whether the president is going to take responsibility for something like this or not. we do know that the former ambassador -- i mean, she is another piece of this puzzle and he wants to keep some distance from any sort of dealings that would publicly show he is meddling with ambassadors in the state depart...

Totally -- i mean, i know he is an honorable man. i stand behind rudy giuliani. again, he was a crime fighter from day one. >> a bit of a change from friday when the president was not sure that giuliani was still his lawyer. rudy giuliani tells cnn he is not aware he is underware. >> daniel strauss is with us from politico. thank you for being with us, daniel. lets start with what we are going to see this week from u.s. ambassador to the e russian gordon sondland when he is supposed to be in fro...

Are hearing reports today that the crucial town here has been taken by the turkish military, but other independent reports suggesting that maybe there is still fighting. a key road through syria, through what has been the kurdish held area of syria, it has effectively been taken by turkey, but now reports again that parts of that road have been taken back. so it is a very fragile situation. and this just illustrates that while u.s. forces have pulled back, they are still present and it is just o...

International backlash. but on the fourth day of fighting, the heavy fighting continues, and the u.n. says 100,000 people have now fled, the turk irk defense forces, now saying 415 so-called militants are being killed, we cant independently confirm that figure, but its quite clear, the heavy fighting continues. dara? >> bill neely, thank you, bill. now to new developments from central hong kong and hundreds of mass protesters assembling to support students arrested in anti-government tdemonstr...

>> we would if they give us our rights. just so you understand, the kurds are fighting for their land and somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didnt help us in the second world war, they didnt help us with normandy as an example. >> the kurds helped the u.s. defeat isis and by allowing this offensive, is it going to be more difficult in future times of need to develop alliances? >> no, it wont be. it wont be at all. alliances are very easy. but you know, alliances have tak...

Whose name isnt steven miller, he of course, steven miller being the close adviser to the president, in the white house, has been pushed out of the administration either through firing or through their own resignation out of abject frustration over the fact that they cant get any sort of hold on policy. >> interesting. daniel, i want to turn to part of maries testimony here, and quote, our efforts were intended and evidently succeeded in thwarting corrupt interests in ukraine who fought back by ...

Now to a big court defeat for the president in the battle over keeping his taxes secret. the federal appeals court ruled friday that trumps accountant must hand over financial records subpoenaed by the house oversight and reform committee. lets bring back nbcs jonathan allen and "politico"s daniel strauss, and a 2-1 ruling in the court of appeals saying the accounting firm must comply with the committees request. jonathan, how much closer are democrats to getting their hands on the presidents fi...

Implication being that this has to do with rudy giuliani and his business dealings in ukraine. look, this really doesnt help the administrations case right now, that nothing was below board, nothing was wrong, with how the trump administration was talking with the ukraine government. >> jonathan, adding to daniels comments there, how is the bigger impeachment inquiry, how is this picture, how critical is ivan vichs testimony here? >> what were getting here is details around the larger picture th...