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Want to muddy the waters by having yet another innuendo-based evidence. you want to have an understanding of what the call was about, why this person felt so comfortable in an open setting having a conversation he had for many weeks on end to give me information about what the presidents true thoughts were. and, again, was sondland freelancing this entire thing? was he confused about what the directive was actually going to be, or did it actually rot from the head? >> thank you all. i appreciate...

Begin to make the case of how the presidents directive played out into a quid pro quo of some sort. thats what they stayed focus on yesterday, listening to the republican arguments, the republicans were all over the place and how they were pushing back. this is hearsay or now he did gave aid to ukraine eventually or there really was no cohesive pushback from republicans. the one thing republicans did not relieve yesterday was to find the actions of the president. what their strategy seems to be,...

>> the gentlemen woman will suspend. >> reporter: with republicans denouncing it as a partisan sham. >> id like to congratulate you for passing the democrat star chamber additions held for the last weeks in the basement of the capitol. it seems you agreed witting or unwittingly to participate in a drama, but the main performance, the russia hoax has ended and youve been cast in the low rent ukrainian sequel. >> reporter: taylor going back one week before that july phone call recalling a video co...

And its also their interpretation of what they thought was going on, right? they dont have any sort of firsthand knowledge that this was the presidents directive. so i think that is the line of questioning theyll get at. and its a fruitful line of questioning. its a powerful argument. they can insulate the president from some of their claims and say essentially, you know, these were people who werent really in on what the presidents thinking was. this is just their interpretation. something else...

Elections. it was also clear that this condition was driven by the irregular policy channel i had come to understand was guided by mr. guiliani. in a regular nfc secure conference call july 18th, i heard a staff person from management and budget say there was a hold on utility assistance to ukraine, could not say why. towards the end of an otherwise normal meeting, a voice on the call, the person was off screen, said that she was from omb and her boss instructed her not to approve any additional...

It was also clear that this condition was driven by the irregular policy channel i had come to understand was guided by mr. giuliani. in a regular nsc secure video conference call i heard a staff person from the office of management and budget say there was a hold on security assistance to ukraine but could not say why. toward the end of and other wise normal meeting, a voice on the call, the person was off screen, said she was from omb and her boss had instructed her not to approve any addition...

Address this in real human time frames. i will say the craziness continues. for the president to assert based on nothing, the transcripts were doctored and dont really reflect the deposition of the witnesses we heard from and those transcripts are reviewed by those witnesses and their attorneys before they are released for accuracy but secondly to have the chief of staff of the president suing his own white house to get a decision about whether or not hes required to respond to congressional dem...

Maybe not as explosive. the other but, taylor may have records of talks with sondland and volker but the one person he doesnt have direct notes on is president trump. do you know the tapes were nixons own voice but taylor never spoke directly to the president. so where is the directive? >> well, basically he provides, taylor provides, the road map that the investigators have used to bring in all of the others. that helped to bring out sondland, for example, changed his testimony in part because ...

And britain wanted to attack iraq with the support of a u.n. resolution when the u.s. struggled to get support the countrys national security agency asked british intelligence to try and win over 6 uncommitted nations on the security council and h a h e c h q katherine gun received the directive but didnt agree eventually she had it sent to britains observer newspaper which then revealed the plan on march 4th 2003 . that caused the scandal in britain and beyond. simply understand im not going to...

Youll see them live on msnbc. barbara mcquade also wins best backdrop of the morning with the big house over her shoulder. >> thank you. still ahead, the supreme court is set again to defer the daca program. we will speak with janet napolitano who signed the directive aimed at protecting the dreamers. plus, the number two in the senate, dick durbin joins us. but first, bill karins has a check on the forecast. >> that was a perfect backdrop because michigan is where all the horrible weather was...