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Corroborating key testimony from witnesses in the process. according to the "new york times," the attorney for parnas says rudy giuliani instructed parn parnas, warning if ukraine did not announce an investigation into joe biden, then the u.s. would freeze military aid and vice president mike pence would not attend zelenskys inauguration. "the times" says parnas believed he was acting on behalf of president trump when he carried that directive out. i want to bring in cara snell to talk about all...

Here is the power of the willing witnesses. all these people who have testified, right, most of them are career professionals in the government. they are seeing things that truly alarm them and they are choosing to defy the presidents directive and obey the directive from congress to show up and talk and thats because they think what they have to say is really important for the country to hear. >> in the case of that, the case you just mentioned where the subpoena was withdrawn, do you think tha...

To all of those things, hes deceptive. thats problematic. theres no obligation to cooperate with authorities, but when you do, be clear if that cooperation is false or misleading in any way, then it becomes a problem. and clearly he has a false or misleading problem to the extent bringing it back to bannon, that bannon is saying that hes the access point. here you have someone saying, ive had no communication with anyone in the trump campaign. last i recall, bannon was the chief strategist. that...

Essentially the white house win snz. >> so delay favors the status quo, and in that case this means the executive branch. so congress has gone to court over the tax returns bought congress has not gone to court over the impeachment inquiry. they withdrew a subpoena from this one witness, charles cupperman, who he went to court himself. he said wait a second, i dont know what to do. the president is telling me not to talk, i want the courts to settle this. and congress said this is going to take ...

This week are about investigations and money and who blocked it, right? one of those came from the transcript we got yesterday of george kemps testimony, quote, potus, the president, wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to the microphone and say three words, investigations, biden and clinton. so you have that. and then you have bill taylors testimony tieing it directly to the president saying the directive to omb to block the money came from the president. but who talked to omb? mic...

If these -- this directive of a quid pro quo didnt come from the presidents mouth, then he is not guilty of a crime. so that means laying this at the feet of mick mulvaney, rudy giuliani, and gordon sondland. the question here is are these three witnesses going to play ball? this also banks on the fact that we know all of the information already. but as john boltons lawyer told "the new york times" today, there are quite a few meetings that house investigators dont know about. so it remains to b...

Directly from mulvaney before the investigation goes public next week. the house committee had already subpoenaed him back in october but that was for documents. now, they appear to want an answer as to whether mulvaney carried out the presidents directive to disk suspend aid to the ukraine. experts say the president will likely exert executive privilege and argue that mulvaney has immunity from complying with the subpoena. we will find out more tomorrow. >> shannon: breaking news on the 2020 el...

Specifically those with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney initially mislaid our subpoena the house committee setting up the impeachment inquiry are now signaling they badly want to hear directly from mick mulvaney before the investigation goes public next week. the house committees have already subpoenaed him in october but that was for documents, now they appear to want an answer as to whether he carried out the presidents directive to suspend aid to ukraine but experts said the president wil...

Frank, on the hill with you, that those transcripts could be released any time now, so people can stand by for those. phil, lets talk about mick mulvaney. its been a rough few weeks for him at the white house. now hes waving off a subpoena. on the one hand, maybe thats one way to get back in the presidents good graces. on the other hand, were hearing he was told to ignore it. >> hes following the directive that president trump and white house counsel said, which is for everybody in the white h...

First-person cable back to secretary pompeo. and im quoting now from his testimony. i wrote and transmitted such a cable on august 29th describing the folly i saw in withholding military aid to ukraine at a time when hostilities were still active in the east and when russia was watching closely to gauge the level of american support for the ukrainian government. i told the secretary that i could not and would not defend such a policy. so what he was seeing by that time was what he testified he f...