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Aides before the complaint was filed. word is, the president says. word is also that this intel person went to the legal counsel in their agency first, that counsel reportedly went to the white house about the whistle-blower claim. so they knew in advance too. but the bigger point is this analysis does not depend on the whistle-blower, and you know who knows that? ironically, the president. >> the only thing that matters is the transcript of the actual conversation that i had with the president ...

Remudviewed the whole thing, it not clear this relates to the investigation but let me talk to the media about it. to the congressmans point, slow your roll. lets get to the significant pieces here and if you have in this case a dossier where you dont even know who sent it and youre talking to the media about it, slow your roll. that said, let me tell you one really fascinating piece here, chris, that nobody is talking about. rudy giuliani and the comment you just made that mike pompeo when he g...

>> boy, first if you look at the new dossier, so far today thats a big nothing burger. when you heard there was a democratic congressman who came out of the hearing and said i havent actually reviewed the whole thing yet, its not clear that there was an immediate need to have this briefed to the congress. its not clear that this relates to the investigation, but let me talk to the media about it. to the congressmans point, slow your roll. lets get to the significant pieces here and if you have i...

President. >> the only thing that matters is the transcript of the conversation that i had with the president of ukraine. >> today he was unable to say what he wanted ukraine to do vis-a-vis the biden. his defense of what he clearly asked for just fails. he says it was really just about fighting corruption in ukraine. why did his dod, the department of defense shoot that down with a letter saying ukraine was already taking substantial actions to fight correction. another line. the rules were cha...

Back from the g-7, the point at which you would assume you are pressuring your allies to put forth more aid he still didnt unfreeze this. were four months after this mysterious policy review and when you talk to the office of management and budget and d.o.d., they did not understand why this review was ordered or even what this review entailed and this raises suspicion that this could have been a stalling tactic and it was politically motivated on the part of the president. >> the president tryi...

Appointed by president obama, so that will provoke trump world into thinking oh, hes biased. he is the inspector general who supervised the report on hillary clintons email that actually was highly critical of hillary clintons use of email at the state department, said that she in fact did not comply with the federal records act, found that violation very, very clearly in his report about her email. so, thats the last big moment that we heard from this inspector general in 2016. >> right. and la...

Help investigate the origins of the mueller probe. so lets get thein sight of our correspondents and analysts here. chris, start with the australia piece. because the president pressured the prime minister to get involved. doj investigation into the origins of the mueller investigation, the point being that it was an australian official who actually in a way told on a trump official. >> that is exactly right. so important though the timing is crazy, but important that this is separate from all o...

Whistle-blower preces. this is why, you know, intelligence community officials are now also protected by those protections because you dont want retribution. and for the president, the commander in chief to talk about it like that its just -- its deeply i think disappointing and frankly scary for a lot of people in the community. >> having worked at the cia and also at dod and having i would imagine interacted with all sorts of classified information, what do you make of this use of essentially ...

Again, because -- ive got to see whats so shocking about this is the question was asked almost a month ago, willie, the question was asked a month ago by an associated press reporter are you holding up military aid until they investigate biden? mika and i heard almost two months ago from a former d.o.d. official, hey, you really need to check into this. donald trump is holding up military aid until the ukrainians agree to dig up dirt on joe biden. so the question in all of that is, it seemed to ...

Pentagon knew and when its officials knew ukraine military aid appropriated by congress was being held up at the direction of the white house. "the delay raises questions about whether dod officials were involved in any scheme to target a political opponent." mark esper was sworn in as defense two days before the presidents july phone call with the ukraine president. also of note, three days after that phone call, president trump announces dni dan coates will resign. and then he by passed sue go...