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>> i think its an understandable directive. the judiciary committee has long been investigating many of the violations of the president, but this ukraine allegation is head and shoulders one of the most serious and urgent allegations that we have seen come out of this administration to date. and so i think its completely understandable that weve seen this. i think its an allegation that frankly has united more members of the party on impeachment than any other. and so for that, i think its an un...

Says or what impeachment history has been. and just a final question is i hope you would ask guest whos are supportive of what the president did as reflected in that summary, is it okay for the president of the united states to pick up the phone and call bill barr, the attorney general, or a sitting united states attorney in new york or somewhere else and say, you know what? a lot of people say that elizabeth warren or bernie sanders is up to no good. i want you to investigate that. would they j...

Even file a... whoa. whoa. whoa. whoa. whoa. whoa! oops, that cheeky little thing got away from me. my bad. geico. its easy to manage your policy whenever, wherever. can i trouble you for another marshmallow? sources tell cnn nancy pelosi told democrats in a private meeting today she wants them to focus their impeachment inquiry on ukraine as opposed to all the allegations brought up in the mueller probe. so how does one of the more progressive members in her caucus feel about the decision? le...

Otezla. show more of you. sources tell cnn nancy pelosi said today she wants them to focus their allegations on ukraine. so how does one of the more progress of members of her caucus feel about her actions. lets ask congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. welcome back. >> good to be here. thank you these are big decisions, big move, big burden of proof on your party. how do you feel about lets focus on ukraine and this set of circumstances? >> i think its an understandable directive. the judic...

Door meeting that they will have with speaker of the house nancy pelosi where, as we know, she will announce that she is launching a formal impeachment inquiry. top on minds is what is the next step? what does this next phase look like? who will be investigating? we got a hint of that from chairman richard neal who said moments ago he believes that the directive from nancy pelosi and he did just huddle with her, the six committees that are already investigating president trump, they will continu...

By president trump. his so appointee. inspector generals are greatly respected for independence, objectivity and the rest and by law when a complaint comes from a whistle-blower, the inspector general has 14 days to investigate and then the directive of national intelligence has seven days to report it to the intelligence committees of the congress. that is the law. it says "shall." it doesnt say, may, should. it says "shall," thats a fraught with meaning word in the administration, but this adm...

With its leader. this from the "new york times" story. i can read to you mr. trumps directive was communicated to the pentagon and state department which were told only that the administration was looking at whether the spending was necessary the official said. so again, similar here certainly to that reporting the "washington post" came out with a couple hours ago. let me bring in tamara. we were just showing the president today seeming at moments to suggest that, hey, maybe a transcript of thi...

Frozen days before call with its leader." this from the "new york times" story. i can read to you. mr. trumps directive was communicated to the pentagon and the state department which were told only the administration was looking at whether the spending was necessary the official said. so again, similar here certainly to that report in "the washington post" a couple hours ago. you were just being filled in on. let me bring in tamara. we were shown just a minute ago the president today seeming at...

Fact this is something that was a directive from the president to try to hold up the aid for ukraine rather and simultaneously get the country to look into corruption he alleges by one of his political rivals. >> and this phone call between the president and the president of ukraine happened a day after muellers testimony? >> yes. it did. and thats another thing that timing of course is striking. you see his critics and some of this seem to be and jake knows this better, but the sense were getti...

This is damaging him, and they feel good about that part of it. obviously not about the other part. >> we mentioned in the last few minutes that "the washington post" tonight has reported that mick mulvaney was told by president trump to put a hold on that military aid to ukraine a week before the presidents phone conversation with that countrys president. now ive just been handed this. this in the last five minutes, "the new york times" reporting a version of the story. you can see it on the sc...