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Background and their political motives. this is-- this sounds more to me like the democrats putting together this piecemeal operation and this information comes out long after the depositions of those individuals. so, how is it that theyre just remembering it? >> thats going to be a big question and another thing that happened outside of impeachment, but related to these many investigations out there, roger stone yesterday convicted of impeding investigators in a bid to protect president trump. ...

September 8th text message to sondland and volker describing his nightmare scenario where zelensky would announce investigations and the money still wouldnt be released and russia would love it. im just wondering if all this shows the presidents interests were different than u.s. national security interests? >> completely, don. i mean, the president had no interest in actually promoting u.s. national security, which would have necessitated giving the aid to ukraine because ukraine is fighting ag...

Problem, gave a soft press response out of the department. apparently issued a memo, but that isnt -- you know, that isnt what trump wanted, and trumps now grumbling amongst his kitchen cabinet that he would like barr to have done more, but he still doesnt want to mess with barr i dont think. >> we have the transcript, john, of bill taylors explosive testimony, reading it on paper, you know, is really one thing, but now the world will hear exactly how this shakedown played out live on tv. what a...

You know, it looks like he went a little of the distance with the criminal division turning down any campaign act violation problem, gave a soft press response out of the department. apparently issued a memo, but that isnt -- you know, that isnt what trump wanted, and trumps now grumbling amongst his kitchen cabinet that he would like barr to have done more, but he still doesnt want to mess with barr i dont think. >> we have the transcript, john, of bill taylors explosive testimony, reading it o...

Also find it hard to believe that his personal lawyer, the little babbling beelzebub, rudy giuliani. >> he also talked about a september 8th text message to sondland and volker describing his nightmare scenario where zelensky would announce investigations and the money still wouldnt be released and russia would love it. im just wondering if all this shows the presidents interests were different than u.s. national security interests? >> completely, don. i mean, the president had no interest in ac...

Thats in "the washington post" saying that president trump wanted bill barr to hold a press conference saying that he broke no laws when it came to this ukraine call but bar declined. what was he thinking? >> well, when you get to the point, don, where bill barr will not defend donald trump, thats a sign the situation is really, really bad because if theres one thing that bill barr has done since taking over as attorney general, it is defend donald trump, and we saw him carrying trumps water whe...

Do. >> has your life economically, financially improved under president trump? >> i have a lot more in my paycheck. >> i do have more in my paycheck as well. >> my stock portfolio is doing great. >> that too. >> maybe thats why i look at the economy different. im not where a lot of you are financially, i dont think. im pretty darn low income. my family has received food stamps personally. >> what do you do for a living? >> until recently i worked at a grocery store. and now i am running a cafe. ...

Pompeos need to be close to president trump and support him in every way has caused him to give up the integrity that i think is an essential element to being a successful leader. im afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. >> a lot to get to in the hour ahead. i want to begin with the breaking news in the impeachment inquiry. i want to bring in max smith and frank bruni. max, i want to start with you because i want to get your reaction to ...

Elected bureaucrats. the secretary of state did not stand up for them. secretary pompeo put a large poster in the lobby of the state department reminding officers some months ago about the need for honor and dignity and duty and to defend each other, and yet he couldnt even support his own people, these people who, you know, they take an oath to the constitution. all federal employees do. not to the president. they honored the subpoena. they told the truth, and i think in a lot of ways, don, for...

George kent, the four principal foreign service officers, white house called them radical elected bureaucrats. the secretary of state did not stand up for them. secretary pompeo put a large poster in the lobby of the state department reminding officers some months ago about the need for honor and dignity and duty and to defend each other, and yet he couldnt even support his own people, these people who, you know, they take an oath to the constitution. all federal employees do. not to the preside...