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Tries to turn the public attention away from the russian interference into elections of 2016 in the united states. >> you say "alleged." do you feel that in russia people think there was no russian information campaign, information war in 2016? because, you know, most -- its not just the united states, most western intelligence agencies believe it happened. most independent observers believe it happened. >> well, you know, i think that there is the official narrative in moscow. we never interfer...

That the president would have to take to notify congress. as far as you know, was there ever a note that was sent out to congress? >> there was no such notice, to my knowledge or preparation of such notice to my knowledge. >> there was never rescission or reprogramming of that money? >> no, sir. not to my knowledge. >> instead what happened was omd devised an alternative solution in providing footnotes to implement the hold and their payment time in august when the department of defense no longe...

Are you doing enough? ask your doctor about xarelto®. to learn more about cost and how janssen can help, visit xarelto.com. ambassador gordon sondland takes center stage at this mornings impeachment hearing, joining us now, elie honig. explain to us why gordon sondland is so. >> hes important because he made a donation and then was nominated by donald trump as ambassador to the eu in 2018. footnote, ukraine is not part of the eu. three reasons gordon sondland is

>> i think its kind of a footnote, but because roger stone has spent his entire life making himself into a very colorful character, its really hard. you cant avoid cutting in to put this piece of breaking news out. he was one of the presidents confidants, flashy dresser -- howard: yeah. >> -- self-made dirty trickster -- howard: self-promoter, yeah. >> you cant possibly avoid that, yes. howard: stones defense described him as an exaggerator when he claimed to be a conduit e between wikileaks and...

Messages, they are gold. they are trying to build a picture of this deal. arms for interference. that is what it was. they amended that step, as you will say, i will say as a footnote, you have to wonder if they are advising them to invoke their fifth amendment right. and she going to go in there and say apparently even my amended story is not, shall we say, complete. >> if he does that, what position does that put the republicans in. >> that puts them in, say he comes in and he gives it up @ly....

Footnote to that investigation? >> i think its kind of a footnote, but because roger stone has spent his entire life making himself into a very colorful character, its really hard. you cant avoid cutting in to put this piece of breaking news out. he was one of the presidents confidants, flashy dresser -- howard: yeah. >> -- self-made dirty trickster -- howard: self-promoter, yeah. >> you cant possibly avoid that, yes. howard: stones defense described him as an exaggerator when he claimed to be a...

Documents. secondly, its not a subpoena directed at the president himself. its directed at the trump organization and a separate one at the accounting firm so its not against the president. thirdly, it doesnt have anything to do with the presidents official duties. so for all those reasons, they say, the president is not immune from this kind of a subpoena. this early in a criminal investigation. they note, for example, that presidents have been subpoenaed in the past. president jefferson, presi...

The presidents lawyers prevail, whether its in the second circuit or in the supreme court. i think theyve lost this one. >> did you just cite a footnote by number? >> afraid so. >> so thats the legality of it. i want to go back to that if i have time but i want to bring in elise jordan, who we all know, former white house aide to george w. bush. the politics of this as well. at a time when it wasnt so clear necessarily that donald trump would be the next president of the united states he neverth...

And anti-russia, said he was the subject of bitter complaints from some republicans who knew him. two years ago conservatives were publicly charging that this man was working from inside the building to undermine the trump administration. according to the real clear politics investigation piece last night, they were right. the man worked as a professional left-wing activist to attack donald trump, he held meeting with adam schiffs staff members several of whom are his former colleagues from the ...

In other words, more than two years ago, conservatives were publicly charging that this man was working from inside the building to undermine the trump administration. according to the real clear investigations piece last night, they were i right. the men worked as a professional left-wing activist, he also held meetings with adam schiffs staff members, several of them wore his former colleagues from the obama white house. and tonight we can tell youm it seems likely that this man, the man in qu...