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He wants to testify?re because - >> this was buried in a letter from boltons attorney and it was really kind of a tease. he has said he will only appear before these congressional investigators unless a judge tells him its okay to defy this white house edict that white house officials not appear before the impeachment committees. in the letter he wrote this. bolton was personally involved in many of the events, meetings and conversations about which you have already received testimony as well as...

>> are you still of the belief that banks were not at fault for what happened during the crisis? >> okay. were going to talk about that? the government -- the government, main street, people were overstating their financial statements to get larger houses. there was a governmental edict to those banks that they needed to lend more money in those areas. theres a -- there was a very big nexus and triangle there that caused that crash. >> several points on the nexus but not saying wall street. >> i...

Such as cross examining witnesses and documents and subpoena power all these things. due to your mind and to your trust nancy edict, do you think that by granting the republicans this wish list of things that she and the democrats have painted republicans into a corner to the point where they will sort of rue the day when they ask for these things, or in other words, be careful what you wish for? >> yeah, i think precisely that. i think nancy has been nothing, if not methodical, in her approach ...

Hey. ♪hey. you must be stevens phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. i want to return to the news that has broken over the course of this hour, first reported by "the new york times," but its based on the opening statement that is due to be delivered tomorrow morning by lieutenant colonel alexander vinman. hes the top national security expert on ukraine at the w...

Colonel alexander vinman. hes the top national security expert on ukraine at the white house. he is planning to testify to the impeachment proceedings tomorrow, in defiance of this white house edict that says that white house officials are not allowed to testify. now, we also have a copy of the -- of colonel vinmans opening statement and i want to tell you another couple of things that are in here that are going to make tomorrow a very big news day. colonel vinman says, quote, i want the committ...

And what is going to happen is without an official impeachment inquiry vote, and they have not done that yet, we are going to now see impeachment inquiries by edict of the speaker the house, whoevers in power against the other parties president. and this is a concerning moment in american history. and i hope that the house can get this back on track and actually take that vote to launch an impeachment inquiry. >> harris: do you think that that gets lost in translation? you can see it outer scree...

He was so disturbed by the quote implication that foreign governments were being approached to procure negative information on political opponents. the other, the unwarranted firing of marie yovanovitch, danya, what new legal questions does this raise for you? >> i think it raises the questions that are exactly under investigation right now. i dont know that mr. mckinleys testimony in particular raises any new red flags. as i said, its completely consistent with the testimony of the other witnes...

State mike fuchs. what is the significance of the president of the united states? >> theres significance on two front. the fact the ambassador was here at all is itself significant. it was an open question of whether or not she would show up. when you saw her make her way in, she was accompanied by her outside legal team, not a state department counsel, not a state department lawyer. so the fact that she is testifying despite this white house edict that no one comply with this impeachment inquir...

Thats intimidation. >> this goes along with the mueller investigation with the very fact that the impeachment inquiry prods the president to do more things that will be pointed to as unsuited for office or just illegal or obstruction of justice. he seems to be going down that road. whats striking is you probably remember back in the clinton impeachment days, theie dictiona -- edict in the white house is were not going to talk about it. the staff isnt going to talk about it, the president isnt go...

Of this permission to indict, did that come from william barr? >> well, it would have come at least from the deputy attorney general who works directly for william barr, so i imagine that the leadership of the department of justice gave the u.s. attorney the green light to proceed. >> what makes me nervous about that is this notion that william barr would be willing to carry out what trump sees as the edict to go after his enemies, meaning anyone who is investigating his connections to russia. >...