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Everything he was involved in really throughout his career provided the back bone to this testimony to the point where i think we are seeing this as almost a pattern here. no one is questioning the vorasity of anything that hes said. what we have seen in the last few days and even more pronounced is republicans who are trying to poke holes in the inquiry are focussing exclusively on the process. no one has said anything that any witnesses have said including some witnesses for whom they had prep...

To get to that point. we dont know anything about whether or not he is in trouble with the law, but should he, we have two very good examples to see how the president treats his former allies. >> a list of people with legal problems around the president continues to grow. it doesnt seem to have an impact on supporters and how they feel about him, perhaps this is a turning point. i guess were going to have to wait and see, but we do know it will probably play heavily in the 2020 election. and spe...

Successful despite all of the unfairness. so we are looking at corruption. were not looking at politics. >> lofty words from the u.s. president focussing, he says, on corruption as opposed to politics. it is hard, though, to square the circle there with the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine. very stark testimony from kurt volcker. volcker spent more than nine hours talking about what he knows about the scandal. >> he provided text messages showing how the u.s. tied u.s. military aid for ukrai...

Possible and clear and convincing foundations for articles of impeachment. >> what is the kmek and fwlans to the house at the moment? if they do move forward and pass the articles of impeachment, whats the check and balance that the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors were accurately used in the determination for the articles? >> the oath of office and democratic process itself. so there has been talk with the president maybe violated his oath of office. the members of the house of repres...

Maya investigated his case, the more she agreed. >> there was no physical evidence, no dna, footprint, fingerprint. that began a journey for me of having my eyes open to oh my gosh, people are in prison who shouldnt be there. >> reporter: so maya shifted her game know focussing on things that matter most to her like freeing jonathan. >> shes at the top of the mountain in taking a break to help me thats so encouraging. >> were all most at 40,000 signatures. when i give jonathan a voice, so many o...

Okay. director, you were not directed to withhold the complaint. is that your testimony? >> yes, that is absolutely true. >> so you exercised your discretion to withhold the complaint from the committee? >> i did not, sir. what i did is i delayed it because it did not meet the statutory definition of urgent kwern and i was working through -- >> and director, youre aware -- we spent a lot of time focussing on the definition of urgent concern. youre aware the practice of your office has been that ...

Constitution, not about partisan politics. i think its a challenge for the media to do a good job as you did yesterday of focussing on the facts and on what donald trump has now released in terms of a call summary and what happened on that call with president zelenskiy of ukraine. and not being distracted by repeated -- >> yeah. >> -- misstatements and untruths said by either giuliani, trumps personal attorney, or by president trump himself. so this is a challenge for all of us. youre right, its...

Investigation. the leadership is talking about next steps and this is very specifically a threat to our national security and we have to take action on it. >> do you trust speaker pelosi to lead the way on this? >> i think she has been very thoughtful moving forward. and chairman schiff has been very thoughtful. >> you wrote this and it stuck out to me, we have prioritized remaini remaining steadfast in our focus. by focussing on impeachment do you risk losing those issues as a priority? >> i ha...

As much as 21 inches of rain fell in southeast texas h a lot more rain still to come with millions still under flash flood watches tonight. dillon is tracking the storm for us and five others brewing. who is at risk here? >> good evening, lester the tropics are so active right now. we have six named storms three in the pacific, three in the atlantic the one we are focussing on is imelda it is producing massive amounts of rain. especially to the east of houston. south of houston, we have already ...

Send sends? much -- send signals to the rest of the country and what they want more than anything else is set examples and you said its important for felicity huffman but shes going to know her fate in the pavement 15 minutes. laurie laughlin may not know her fate for the next year or 18 months depending on how long they can drag this out and when hay see because were focussing on felicity huffman but theres a bunch of other families in southern california awaiting their turn before the judge an...