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Dots. >> if we go local, the dots get disconnected because people across the country do not vote to approve school budgets unless they have kids themselves in those local schools. we can look at town after town where they will approve firefighter raises, police officers raises, that impacts the whole town and city, it is a different story when it comes to education. how do you solve for that? >> i think the argument that i would make from this data is we need leadership not just from the bottom ...

Nail if t manila. >> theres a lot of countries hes catering too but with russia theres a connection. and at this point people are seeing the obvious and connecting the dots. isnt it kind of alarming that russia has such a hold on president trump that ultimately might be a question that were addressing? >> night kind of alarming, this is extraordinarily alarming and -- >> its remarkable. >> trump supporters have to understand that donald trump betrayed israel, donald trump helped isis, donald tru...

Nowhere on there but hes like the elephant in the room, right? hes -- because we know not only is he just friends with these guys, these are the guys he was using for that, you know, rooting out corruption scene he was doing over at the ukraine. so, theres going to be a big connecting the dots here. and i will say that on the one hand its going to be frustrating for us because we may not hear about those connections for a while because now were back in a grand jury investigation mode. but i have...

Today was to prove thats all a bunch of hot air. if you want to testify, even if youre still working for the u.s. government, you can. >> when you take this together, the way that actual ukrain issue is shifting, at a certain point if we simplify it. theres a lot of names and details to it. is this a scandal that started out looking like international watergate but now has elements of iran contra? >> those are hard dots for me to connect. i do think it is really important to keep it simple here....

Election. so while i think speaker pelosi is wise, i totally understand the desire to keep the inquiry focused, she might consider connecting the dots. and there is a pattern of behavior that compromises the integrity of the elections. >> shes resisting that at the moment. let me go to this. because the white house as we said at the top and some of the presidents supporters have pointed out that there has been no vote on a resolution to again -- theres a full house vote on this inquiry. i want y...

Investigate biden. i think theyre far more comfortable focusing on process than anything else. >> david, what do you make of yovanovitchs opening statement? a printed version of her statement was distributed to "the new york times" and "washington post," your newspaper. she says there was a concerted campaign, end quote, to end her tenure. how damning is that? >> good morning, fred. i think its potentially very damning in part because she defied the state department and the white house by going ...

If you want to testify, even if youre still work interesting the u.s. government, you can. >> when you take this together, the way that actual ukrain issue is shifting, at a certain point if we simplify it. theres a lot of names and details to it. is this a scandal that started out looking like international watergate but now has elements of iran contra? >> those are hard dots for me to connect. >> let me follow up and let you go. the dots being the biden stuff is abusive power for election year...

Giuliani being in their sights himself. i thought that was evident even from the paper yesterday. he was nowhere on there, but hes like the elephant in the room because we know not only is he just friends with these guys, these are the guys he was using for that, you know, rooting out corruption scheme that he was doing over ukraine. so i mean theres going to be a big connecting the dots here. and i will say that on the one hand its going to be frustrating for us because we may not hear about al...

Bunch of hot air. if you want to testify, even if youre still work interesting the u.s. government, you can. >> when you take this together, the way that actual ukrain issue is shifting, at a certain point if we simplify it. theres a lot of names and details to it. is this a scandal that started out looking like international watergate but now has elements of iran contra? >> those are hard dots for me to connect. >> let me follow up and let you go. the dots being the biden stuff is abusive power...

>> the republicans are trying to pressure speaker pelosi to hold a vote on the impeachment inquiry as they battle over whether the white house should share documents and witnesses with house democrats. but the president is still not totally willing to promise his engagement with this impeachment process. should the house democrats do what hes calling for. >> robert costa, msnbc political analyst, thank you so much. connecting the dots, how much will president trump have to answer for these giu...