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It has proven to be born out already. to dismiss this as a political hack, it seems to me to be an effort by the presidents defenders to try to make something -- to make nothing out of something and there is something here. >> what do you make of the attempt to, you know, turn the conversation to negative information about this unknown whistleblower and even donald trumps seeming threat to the people who spoke to this person? >> yeah, it is somewhat worse than just the classic blame the messenge...

Not going to do you a favor because he needs the almost $400 billion of military assistance for the who the war hes fighting. hes stuck. he has to kind of do something, right? i think that probably what volker wanted to do was try to help the ukrainian president not get in hot water with our president, not get in hot water with the law and certainly not interfere with american democracy. >> i think its important for people to understand that when donald trump is making -- asking for favors, i me...

Laid out my duties. if i saw something in terms of the collection of intelligence that was illegal, i had a duty to report it. and that is something that the american public has to have trust and faith in the intelligence community, that we keep secrets not protect presidents, but to protect the nation. and part of the check is the whistleblower avenue. and to think that whistleblower you saw wrongdoing, spoke out and wrongdoing committed by the person who holds the highest office in this countr...

Russia probe into donald trumps campaign. and it seems at the same -- that donald trumps world believes that the origins of this were in this sort of crack pot theory that it started with ukraine. so could it be possible that this very obedient attorney general could be attempting to make real this conspiracy theory through an investigation that has something to do with ukraine? >> oh, sure. i think that we have several things going on. one, barr may be telling the truth in the sense that we alr...

President. as to the allegations in the complaint, its clear to me that its a narrative being created from second-hand sources. >> well, the gop is standing by their man. it makes me wonder if allegedly extorting a foreign leader for political gain doesnt break the republican cycle of fear and obedience to the dear leader could this infamous trump threat actually be true? >> i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters, okay? >> joining me now is r...

Becomes what is the tipping point where history -- the train of history is gone, its rolling down the tracks toward donald trumps impeachment and the world is looking in horror at all of the sycophants for him. at what point do they then say, do you know what, enough, im getting off of the trump train? >> well, look, the political cowardice that theyve shown up until this moment, up until the moment this ukrainian story broke is despicable and none of them are going to come away completely clean...

Abuse -- contempt of congress by him, those things will be considered later. >> house speaker nancy pelosi wants to focus the impeachment inquiry on the allegation that trump tried to get ukraine to dig up dirt on his political rival, something democrats have called a shakedown. after trump appeared to call for the deaths of the whistle-blowers sources in the white house, meeting members of his own administration could witness intimidation also be on the table as an article of impeachment. joini...

They used to kill spies. let me splay ythe play you kama her exchange with barr back in may. >> has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone, yes or no, please, sir. >> the president or anybody else. >> seems that you would remember something like that, be able to tell us. >> yeah, but im trying to grapple with mean, there have b discussions of matters out there that they have not asked me to open an investigation, but -- >> perh...

Information that we need to discharge that duty. and i dont think that we go into that limiting ourselves as to what we can and cannot look at. i think that we need all the facts, we need the information to make sure that we are protecting the nation. and that is what this is about and we have to make sure that were doing that. >> congressman crow, congresswoman spanberger, thank you both. up next, have the democrats learned a lesson after the clinton email story line from 2016? inside joe bid...

That theyre being told. they have to be told a balanced view. a lot of this goes back to common core curriculum and in public schools. no dissent is allowed. parrot the al gore line. if you really want to protest do something challenging. why would you skip school? thats an easy thing for kid to do. give up social media for a couple days. give up your iphone and tablet. see how long they go without social media that would be a protest that would be worthy. brian: mark, they do have solutions and...