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Bid to save the president by sacrificing three of trumps top deputies. thats according to the "washington post" which reports today republicans are sowing doubts about whether sondland, giuliani and mulvaney were actually representing the president or freelancing. they were rogue. in other words, the gop is effectively offering up the three to be fall guys. javid, is this credible? given your knowledge of the bureaucracy? the chief of staff was head of omb, the presidents special envoy, our amba...

Theyre launching a desperate bid to save the president by sacrificing three of trumps top deputies. thats according to the washington post which reports today republicans are sewing doubts about whether sondland, gully on any and mulvaney were actually representing the president or freelancing. they were rogue. the gop is effectively offering up the three to be fall guys. javid, is this credible? the chief of staff was head of omb, the presidents special envoy, our ambassador to the european uni...

Christmas day. the house impeachment inquiry released another batch of witness testimony from george kent. deputy assistant secretary of state of foreign affairs who felt cut out from conversations about ukraine. an go to manu raju just handed this transcript. what are you learning here? >> reporter: just going through it. several hundred pages long. this is a day-long deposition that happened behind closed doors last month, and what we do know already going into this, that he did have concerns ...

Giuliani when it came to ukraine. what was rudy giuliani doing? he was pursuing those investigations, pushing the ukrainian government to look into jb. pushi joe biden and election interference something that could undercut findings of the u.s. intelligence community that russia interfered in the 2016 campaign to help the president. those investigations, of course, could help the president politically if ukraine were to move forward and all of this coming at a time ukrainian aid had been withhel...

That have not complied. >> that is right. it was surprising for them to even invite him. i took that as congressional democrats trying to create a paper trail that they have attempted to get all of these witness depositions, they that i have attempted to get everyone they think is close to the decision making process on ukraine knowing full well that mulvaney was unlikely to appear while he still has that job. >> lets talk about what we learned from the testimony of marie yovanovitch and michael...

That. >> the information john bawl tone might have, what could he confirm? what could he potentially help democrats with? what could worry the white house? >> well, thanks for having me and with respect to ambassador boltons appearance, if he does indeed appear, that would be significant. he was or is the national security adviser. below the president in terms of the national security decision making process he has the most insight, the most knowledge of what was happening or not happening withi...

They can afford to lose some, but it sets us on that koushs towards an impeachment vote. >> another big thing happening today, help us understand the deposition. >> another major deposition, national security council official whose name has come up in the depositions of others time and time again and some have expressed concerned, they are concerned about rudy giulianis behavior. the decision making process, the democrats are moving closer and closer and there is another deposition of somebody t...

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Necessary to be successful in an impeachment fight. so rather than go through a protracted court process, democrats will say were going to consider this obstruction and move on. >> garrett, we heard from the republicans there at the open of the show. have we heard from adam schiff, the house intelligence chairman yet? >> reporter: we are expecting to hear from him any moment now. i was just down outside the skiff where the republicans were speaking. we had been expecting adam schiff, but it was ...

2015-2016 cycle. do you think durham is under some pressure to get it done as quickly as possible and before 2020? >> the only pressure that he has is the same pressure i felt and thats youre using citizens resources. you want to get something done as quickly as possible. i can promise you nobody is saying present something to the grand jury before you are ready. >> dana: brett tolman, always a pleasure to get your expertise. lets bring in charlie hurt, opening editor for "the washington times" ...