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>> and its interesting that the president does feel the need to point out there is no quid pro quo here. the question of what you want from ukraine can be seen as a pretty standard question from your ambassador in the region dealing with some of these issues. one piece of the context thats important to remember here is that the president had just had a phone call about ten days earlier with ron johnson who raised these same questions, who is also specifically alarmed about the idea of quid pro q...

Bidding and we cant figure out why giuliani was doing the ukraine work for free on behalf of the president. so theres lots of dots to connect here but it does suggest that this ukraine story, which we know is corruption at its core, may be connected to some of the strange things that have been happening surrounding turkey. >> im shocked that rudy giuliani believes he does not need a lawyer at this time. hes got a counterintel and a criminal investigation going on by trumps d.o.j. i know it belon...

Confirm gordon sondlands testimony. >> it really was striking. when i read gordon sondlands opening statement this morning when it came out, its online. i would encourage everyone to read it. i thought this was the most consequential witness we have seen come forward yet. sondland connects the dots here not just to rudy giuliani but to the president of the united states, which i found so striking. the narrative that had been emerging over the last couple days was that rudy giuliani was free-lanc...

Trumps making and it is on a long list of crises of donald trumps making and thats why dude got to go. and when i am commander in chief, we will stop this madness. >> secretary castro, your response. >> you asked the question how are we going to get people to trust us again? the first thing is weve got to boot donald trump out of the oval office so people will trust us again. i also want people to think, the folks this week that saw those images of isis prisoners running free, to think about how...

Funding and foundations. >> im bill hemmer. good morning, everyone. why were they monitoring the a lot coming our way the next few hours. well hear from republican presidents lawyer and his leaders. we will hear from speaker son? steve: sure. and keeping an eye on people pelosi. she indicates no vote, no problem. on television of all things. that is not flying with the and i know you have filed a white house on the impeachment freedom of information act push. all that coming up here. request so ...

Everything in between i feel has tested all of our abilities to stay up on what matters, to keep all the dots in your head so you can see when they do connect. but the basic rules are the same. try to increase the amount of useful information in the world. try to make sure youve read everything and youve got a good sense how these things fit into context. >> well, you have to make sure youve read everything ill say on behalf of the beat start right here. rachel maddow. again, the book "blowout."...

Flynn doing a sentence because he was doing some things in which he was getting paid by foreign governments as well and not admitting to it. from what you heard giuliani was doing, does he face the same kind of legal jeopardy mr. flynn and mr. manafort have faced? >> he certainly faces the possibility, the strong possibility of that kind of jeopardy. weve talked about this before in the context of mueller. criminal cases which require prosecutors to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt are ...

The white house. that was the agency that stopped the money from going forward to ukraine. this was a mysterious halt on this funds. and the fact mulvaney is integrally involved in this scheme. which bolton called a drug deal. makes it look like a quid pro quo. bolton saying he was worried giuliani and mulvaney were trying to pressure the ukrainians to deliver something for the president political aspirations in exchange for funding or white house visit. thats what the democrats are trying to pu...

That mulvaney is not just the chief of staff of the white house, he was also the office of management and budget director for the better part of two years within the trump white house, and that omb was the agency that basically stopped the money from going forward to ukraine. this was a mysterious halt on this -- on these funds, and the fact that mulvaney is now integrally involved in this scheme, which bolton allegedly called a drug deal, makes -- makes it look much more like a quid pro quo. li...

Out. its all behind closed doors, but we are all getting the highlights here. and its no longer a question of what happened, it happened. we have the texts, we have all of this testimony now, theyre just going to be connecting the dots of how they did it. >> so, bob costa, the white house has done everything in its power to slow down or stop the impeachment inquiry saying publicly it wont cooperate. but what fiona hill proves is that there are people who are willing to go around that and there m...