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That cover-up. but now theyre caught. what is this is about is the slow unraveling of that cover-up and the exposure of that wrongdoing. we all know that this is the presidents course of conduct. we all know that that database has other documents in it that they were hiding to avoid embarrassment. hes clearly not bound by any of the traditional norms or rules. i think its the beginning of the end, to be honest with you. but its important that those of us on the committee do this in a thoughtful ...

The normal procedures at the white house, to take the record of this call and to put it in an extraordinary database, the code word top secret database. i spent three years at the white house, i was the white house staff secretary. this is not code word classification. and by the way, its improper and prohibited by executive order to classify things to avoid embarrassment. they did it to hide it. >> the whistle-blower alleges this isnt the first time they did something like this. do you have evi...

Congratulatory tone of the conversation. i think let the audience come to their own conclusions about the nature of the conversation. >> but you didnt see top secret spy craft in there. plans to kill a terrorist chief or discussions about negotiations so sensitive if they leaked out, they may ruin things? >> i didnt see that in yesterdays conversation, no. >> okay. one other thing because you are an expert on this. we noted on the paper there, its not an example transcript, right? but was there ...

Country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. he goes on, quote, theres a lot of talk about bidens son, the bidens stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging about it, but he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it. it sounds horrible to me. so if you take this at face value for one second the president of the united states asking a foreign natio...

Question here is does this phone call constitute an abuse of power by the president. does his asking for a favor -- thats the word the president used, not the word i use, which is gathering dirt on my political opponent -- >> multiple favors. >> multiple favors, all related to his political fortunes, is that an impeachment offense. there are a constellation of questions around that. is it a crime? that, evan says the justice department has concluded it is not a crime. it doesnt have to be a crim...

Allegations of joe and dr. biden, under bidens involvement with this energy company. >> harris: lets get to the politics. i want to kick more facts out. catherine herridge is emailing the entire team with the latest. the whistle-blower, as you said, no firsthand knowledge. and apparently the dni letter did not meet statutory requirements. >> correct. which is why the complete was not transferred. >> harris: i want to go deeper on what it means not to have firsthand knowledge. for us as journalis...

Unmitigated disaster for the conduct of u.s. foreign policy. >> harris: you know the other part of it, mo, really has to do with the anticipation of the foreign leaders who also expect for those calls to be kept confidential. >> sure. but, this whistle-blower pass this information along to the inspector general for the intelligence community. the inspector general found it to be urgent and credible. enough to submit it to the director. it inspector generals dont tend to to go off willy-nilly d j...

So there is that. there is also the broader question of whether you can take what the president says at face value. he tells so many obvious and checkable untruths, including this. >> there has never been ever before an administration that has been so open and transparent. i was the most transparent and am transparent president in history. >> well, all that said, the constitution gives any president, truthful or not, transparent or not, broad authority to conduct foreign policy. the law gives a ...

Virtually any time i speak on the phone to a foreign leader i understand that there may be many people listening from various u.s. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. no problem. knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that i would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially heavily populated call? well, keeping them honest, whether the president is, in his own words, dumb enough, thats unclear. but his larger denial woul...

Complete with politicians so desperate to get elected that as one commentator said today nothing they say or do can be taken at face value. here is what prime minister netanyahu and his rival benny gantz said today when they cast their ballots to vote to smooth the election is close and i can confirm to you this morning its very close i call on all citizens of israel to come and vote just like me and my wife came to vote i wont tell you for whom good luck and thank you for the parties to very we...