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Instead, in private conversations and in the documents they are continuing to release this week, their counter report, they are arguing that the process isnt fair to president trump and trying to just move on from the actual discussion about the presidents conducting of foreign policy. >> you know, jake, to bob costas point, i mean, its what you do when you have no facts. and whats so interesting is that its sort of described as a fait acompli, how this is all going to end. i hate to use the wor...

United states whether its barack obama, george bush, donald trump at times will go into a war zone to thank our great soldiers. if you are a media person who is in the business, you would think he would refrain from attacking the president before you were actually sure about the facts about what he was doing art. i mean, you had one job in the media. im not a journalist, im an opinion commentator, but your job is to get the facts right but how do you know the facts question right holiday hadnt e...

The white house had attempted to block his testimony and the justice department has already announced it will appeal the judges order, setting up a precedent-setting case at the supreme court, with implications for other witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. it comes amid a new sign impeachment is on a fast track. house intelligence chairman adam schiff announced today he will release a report shortly after thanksgiving revealing, quote, "a fact pattern that is overwhelming, unchallenged and dam...

States on foreign affairs and national security matters. you can almost see with this statement that it was going to come, if you look closely at their initial letter, the attorneys initial letter when they were arguing the differences between the mcgahn case and the bolton and kupperman case. theyre saying its not authoritative. i think thats the key quote there. theyre insisting they look for a final and binding verdict on their fact pattern, their case. so weve now heard from mr. cooper, the ...

Far from ideal, but this is not impeachable because they keep getting confronted with a fact pattern. its farley uniform at this point. up until today at least it doesnt talk -- our friend jeff toobin called it a graveyard for talking points. it certainly has that quality. >> okay. so yesterday what many feared would happen when lieutenant colonel vndman took the stand did come to pass, that is, you heard various republicans try to take different inroads to somehow maligning him. so here are a c...

We are waiting for the next witne witnesses in what is the third day of public testimony in the impeachment proceedings into donald trump to get seated and to get underway. were still digesting this mornings dramatic testimony though and it seemed like a debate over what the definition of bribery is. what does that matter? >> we heard that a lot. i want to look at a key moment here as we widen out that was really important today. when democrats were first talking about potentially impeaching don...

No. in fact, sondland tomorrow is going to be cross examined by the fact he said well trumps a business man, if hes going to dwif somebody something, he wants thome write a check for it. hello, that is fact pattern of bribe bry. trump could not guilty. zelensky needed trump. he needed his approval desperately. he had just gotten elected. russia is breathing down their neck. killing their people. strangling them out of existence. he has to have america. and trump knows this. and trump leverages t...

That i was a judge over, that was heard in committee. this will be in full senate and the judge will be the supreme court justice and this evidence will come out. the fact pattern will be established and lindsey graham as much hes trying to pretend hes no longer a lawyer, he actually knows better. >> can i do one follow up, senator? is a attempted or unsuccessful bribery conspiracy something you can be remove d from office for you should the constitution? >> i think we ought to call governor bla...

Covering multiple sort of threads today on the white house beat, but take me inside the dynamics for republicans and having these two witnesses who were supposed to sort of take the pressure off, perhaps, some of the drama of the morning. they really didnt do the fact pattern that trump is seeking to distract from any favors. >> they were obviously republican-requested witnesses. if you closed your eyes and didnt know who had requested them, you might think they were the other side requesting th...

Are now moving from that argument to the it didnt work argument. >> right? in effect this was ineffective extortion because the aid under congressional pressure was delivered. in your view does that matter? >> no, i dont think it matters. i think that the ukrainians certainly knew that they were under significant pressure to deliver on this investigation. whether it was to achieve a white house meeting with the president of the united states or to get the security assistance i think the fact pat...