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That whatever directive president trump mayor may not have given some of these officials, his administration was clearly under the impression that a meeting with zelensky was going to be contingent on the ukranian president convincing him he would investigate these issues that the president is so interested in. >> i also think, because we had this mini argument in our newsroom this morning that it is not crazy from the ukranian side to be trying to figure out, how do i get in the room with the p...

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Something to say that i think is very important to the american people and the united states congress. so we need to bring him in. we need to talk to others that have information that maybe we dont know about yet. the witnesses who are going to be coming forward can give us other names and more information and we need to have a very methodical way of guesting to the bottom -- >> do you believe at a minimum, do you believe hell be able to answer as to whether it was the secretary of state mike po...

Representing potentially a compromising situation for national security. >> he used that database or whoever did this. it remains to be seen, who made that call. to put it on the special information database in the national security council. we still dont know who ordered that. i am telling ya, i dont believe that it was nscs lawyers who issued that directive. lawyers you know as well as i do -- >> quickly if you will and well get a quick break and you guys will come back. >> lets do a quick bre...

Obstruction of justice -- im sorry. it would amount to evidence -- it would go toward the house impeachment inquiry, right? that would be evidence theyre trying to not work with congress, this administration, and it could make things even worse for them. so were still waiting to hear from the state department here. >> david, in the middle of all this is the presidents personal attorney rudy giuliani. hes a central figure in the whistle-blower complaint throughout and he says his outreach -- giul...

The attorney general of the united states is acting for all practical purposes like the presidents personal attorney? >> yes, i think thats a really big question here. the attorney general has thus far escaped some of the scrutiny that i think is going to fall upon him in the coming weeks, which is that why did the doj in the first place construct the acting director joseph maguire not to direct the complaint to congress, and when this was deferred to the criminal department, why did they declin...

The national security council -- directed the transcript of the presidents call with president zelensky of ukraine to be moved to a highly secure computer system. the question is, why was it moved? to back was this a one-off directive, or is it standard operating procedure at the white house to keep all transcripts with foreign leaders on the system? the white house will not talk about that aspect of it. all we know right now is that the transcript was moved, but we have no idea of the context o...

Producing texts that show that the ambassador or the appointment on ukraine was in cahoots, if not assigning you to do it suggests that it wasnt just freelancing but that it was an administrative directive to find dirt on a domestic political opponent which further expands the scope of this scandal. so, yeah, rudy is not exactly the worlds best lawyer right now. hes causing more trouble for his client than he is helping solve. im sure there are people in the administration who would like nothing...

Ground that, no, hes just talking about corruption. if he throws in the word corruption a couple times when giving that directive or suggesting that to his own attorney general, if its not okay with your own attorney general or your own united states attorney -- and i dont think it is. i think its a horrible -- and that would be an impeachable offense on its own. then how can it be appropriate to do that with a leader of another country with all the foreign policy implications on top of it? >> i...

Thinks theres a deep state, spies all around him. in this case, people he could be working closely with who were so concerned about what they were seeing that they were telling other people that this could have represented an abuse of power. thats why you see him lashing out today and essentially saying, wow. these people should be handled and handled harshly. >> jen, you, woulded in the obama white house and state department. what was your read on how this was handled? both the call and then wh...