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>> i have already exchanged an opinion. >> mr. president, i think you have been clear in your directive all along through trade negotiations in your view on universities. we will follow-up. >> president trump: i can give them my word that i want him coming here. want the greatest talent in the world coming to the universities, harvard, yale, princeton, the school of finance, stanford from all of these great schools. we want them coming here. and that is what we have. that is one of the reasons w...

Democrat colleagues cherry picking text messages when the full text of ambassador volkers testimony last week would have exonerated this president, lets release it. im all for bringing the ambassador in but lets only do so after we release the full. >> sandra: fired up mark meadows. the impeachment process hasnt been fair is what he says as democrats slam the state department to block the ambassador this morning from appearing before congress. senator marsha blackburn will join us for her reac...

Department of defense because some of these departments act more independently than others, and we have seen traditionally that the pentagon preserves its independence. thats a crucial reporting point, figuring out who gave the directive to sondland not to testify, regardless of what the president is claiming on twitter because that doesnt always match up with reality in terms of the way information and directives flow throughout this administration. >> all right. garrett hague on capitol hill, ...

The impeachment inquiry declared today, announcing their intention to subpoena the united states ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland. that decision came after sondland was directed at the very last minute, flew in from brussels, to sit for a joint deposition. he agreed to do it. it was called off. apparent tweets, the presidents directive came straight from the white house. there are more questions about the relationship and possible orchestration between trump and sondland. this b...

Department to freeze the aid and convene to congress that the aid was being slowed because of an inter-agency process. according to press reports officials at the state and defense department were alarmed and they tried to get that directive reversed. and so we need to understand why that aide was being frozen and what was conveyed to mick mulvaney and also to officials at state and defense department and if reasons for freezing the aid were given. it doesnt sound like they were. and i think eve...

It with past year. >> he insists he has support for the withdrawal but several of the colleagues have sharply criticized the move. last december defense secretary james mattis resigned over a disagreement on pulling troops out. >> i understand both sides of it. i fully understand both sides of it. i campaigned on the fact that i was going to bring our soldiers home. >> president trump was also itching to take on the impeachment inquiry. >> the inquiry is a scam. >> democrats sent subpoenas to th...

Intelligence-related scandals. and just frankly hoping that people out in the rest of america will turn off their televisions rather than engage any further in this argument. its as good a strategy as any at this point without any other clear directive from the white house about how they want republicans to go forth and defend this president. >> last week, anna, we had dick durbin on this show and praised mitt romney for coming out and basically saying the president, that he was worried about th...

With ukrainian president zelensky, which is at the center of the impeachment inquiry. that news prompted another round of misleading criticism from the president who said quote, the first so-called secondhand information whistleblower got my phone conversation almost completely wrong. so now word is they are going to the bench and another whistleblower is coming in from the deep state. contrary to that tweet from the president, however, numerous revelations over the past two weeks have actually ...

They are finding different ways to excuse the presidents comments, trying to defending the comments without defending the substance. >> or even changing the subject. >> it does sound like they are uncomfortable with the idea that they are being forced to endorse this behavior of asking foreign governments to interfere with the 2020 election by investigating top rivals of the president. so theyre looking for different ways to get away from it without going against the president, because they know...

Anthony, great to have you here in studio. so much has happened overnight. people are just waking up to these text messages between these diplomats. and they seem to spell out the road map for the directive that theyve been given. either from rudy giuliani or the president. let me take you through a couple of them. this is one from the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. do we still want zelensky to give us an unequivocal draft with 2016 and burisma. in other words, is zelensk...