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Speak at the polling is also showing that people are not only not persuaded by what they are hearing, they are saying they be persuaded. look, im a democrat and i thought representative scalises advice to my party was very goo good. we won the midterms based on health care, the environment, gun violence prevention. those are the issues on which the democrats can win. they are not going to win the election on impeachment, and if the president sticks to what bill clinton said and talks about the i...

President of the united states was trying to get the president of ukraines cooperation in looking a the an american citizen? >> well, i dont think theres anything to look into in the sense that the president has voluntarily provided the transcripts of the conversation. youre telling me, which im not aware of the con tengtents of t april conversation but the president earlier today said he was going to release that. and the white house may have released that tonight. >> we know there was another ...

Case. counselor, always a pleasure. >> thanks for having me, chris. appreciate it. >> good. just to check a box of transparency here, did you have anything to do with any of rudys efforts with ukraine? >> no. it was not in my jurisdiction or my zone, so that was not something that i was familiar with or really involved with at all. >> so you werent brought in for legal advice, for counsel? >> i will never discuss what legal advice i give the president of the united states. >> okay. >> as my clie...

Giulianis involvement. with all due respect, i invited him back on the show. theres no reason for this to be personal. i think hes been inconsistent on things. was he there alone? was he there for the state department? did the president know? did he not know? that matters. >> can i ask you a question? >> was the state department involved? why was the a.g. involved? >> hold it. first of all, has there been any evidence of anything involving the a.g.? no. was rudy giuliani -- >> well, other than t...

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...

Peril, which is one of the reasons we have institutional norms that generally speaking prevent the president from dealing directly with the united states attorneys office with regard to an investigation. the president must go through the -- the norm is to go through the white house counsel. >> here you have him -- >> deals with the deputy attorney general and the deputy attorney general then deals with the u.s. attorneys office. >> that didnt happen here. the question is what happens if the pres...

Rudys efforts with ukraine? >> no, that was not something i was familiar with or involved with at all. >> so you werent brought in for legal advice -- >> i will never discuss what legal advice i give the president of the united states, who is my client. so im not going to answer that question. but i will tell you this was not something i was involved in. i didnt know the players of who was doing what here. this is something the fair was involved with. he understood the ins and outs with. this is...

Thing. can i -- >> i think you have to be very careful about that? >> might i respond? >> i think with regard to the error in judgment, i think youre unwise to travel down that road because its filled and fraught with all kinds of peril, which is one of the reasons we have institutional norms that generally speaking prevent the president from dealing directly with the united states attorney a office with regard to an investigation. the president must go through the -- the norm is to go through t...

The rest of their lives. we need to become a modern society. we need to honor workers rights, the right to unionize, the right to establish worker cooperatives, and we also need to join the international community by signing and ratifying the u.n. convent on economic, social, and cultural rights. i mean we need to catch up to the rest of the world, and then we need to lead the rest of the world not just on climate change, but on social issues and on economic issues so that we can actually act li...

Did the president know? did he not know? was the state department involved? who gave different stories about holding up the funding, why was the a.g. involved? >> hold it. has there been any evidence of anything involving the aj.g., n? >> other than the president offering him up as hired help to the president of ukraine. >> you had rudy giuliani on you. >> this has been an issue that rudy has been very clear about -- >> hes been concerned about it for a long time. he hasnt been that clear. but h...