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Get them to where they want to go and leaves him with the likelihood of an acquittal in the senate. >> so the question is legal and it goes to you, is there no way the democrats can compel the testimony of a mulvaney or of a bolton. >> with this new court opinion they have today they do have stronger legal authority than they had yesterday but i think theres nothing to stop bolton or mulvaney from following their own lawsuit and then having multiple cases going up to the court of appeals would b...

S.e.a.l. here with us tonight to talk about all of it is jack jacobs, a heavily decorated combat veteran of the vietnam war and one of only 71 living recipients of the medal of honor. i know the most you discuss navy is in the concept of beat navy but thank you for coming on to talk about another branch of the v service tonight. first question is this, does the president fundamentally perhaps get something wrong about the ethos and culture of the military? >> well, he gets everything about it an...

>> you know, thats a really important question because as it stands there does not appear to be any republican votes to convict president trump although we have yet to even have the vote in the house and the senate trial has not yet begun. but theres certainly a number of republican senators including mitt romney of utah and others that have spoken out that they believe the presidents conduct has been inappropriate and wrong and troubling and certainly would be in agreement with what you just sa...

Discipline. its the backbone of what we do. >> today our secretary of defense, mark esper, said the president ordered him to let gallagher retire without losing his status as a navy s.e.a.l. here with us tonight to talk about all of it, retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs, a heavily decorated combat veteran of the vietnam war, who is only one of 71 living recipients of the medal of honor. i know the most you usually discuss navy is in the context of beat navy, but thank you for coming on to ta...

>> ashley, you couldnt see us but we last saw you when we admired your superb work as co-moderators of the atlanta debate and this next question has to do with 2020. given your emersion interest in the middle of the democratic field and your observations of same, what do you think bloomberg is going to do to that dynamic? just taking the stage we saw in atlanta? >> well, its a great question and part of what he does is just the fact of mayor bloombergs entry into the race is an inindictment of t...

Been called a disgrace by then mayor bloomberg at a press conference when he upset the mayor with a question about extending term limits. to both of you, thanks for hanging out with us late at night on a monday. when you were last in that chair, on live television on this broadcast, your answer about mayor bloomberg blew me away because i didnt know how you felt about him. repeat that for our viewers and in terms of how you now view this race. >> mayor bloomberg is interesting because she has an...

Its one so far he managed to navigate and its safe until the president decides that something has changed. >> id like to read you a quote that you already noel. speaker of the house pelosi, this was back in march. its a standard she held on to until the ukraine story broke. it was recognized by the democrats as something easily understandable and easily explainable when compared to the mueller report and in march nancy pelosi said impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless theres some...

Victory. theyre advancing it right inside our country again and how is it happening this time? its not because people are falling for it, its because people are willingly advancing that conspiracy. >> okay. then just tonight on cnn, senator john no relation kennedy appeared to want to clean this all up. >> he interjected a statement and asked me to react to it. >> what i heard chris say was he made the statement that only russia had tried to interfere in the election. and i answered the question...

Of intervening in that review process? >> well, right now, were not going to do it is what secretary esper says. what message does that send to the troops? >> well, what message does it send? >> that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. its the backbone of what we do. much. >> today our secretary of defense mark esper said the president ordered him to let gallagher retire without losing status as a navy seal. here with us tonight to talk about all of it, retir...

Sondland on the other end of that phone call. what will be your committees first question to him? >> well, the bottom line is, what was he doing? what was the policy he was pursuing and he has now, with his do over, acknowledged that there was a quid pro quo -- there was a quid pro quo, everything depended on ukraine being willing to give the president the investigations he wanted. that was the white house meeting, they had to do the investigations. that was the military defensive aid, they had ...