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Reason the policy was broken in some ways like people like ambassador yovanovitch and bill taylor and others raised flags when they see things running against americas interests. there is plenty of historical precedents for irregular oroz or covert operations. what they see of things that are counter to americas policies and americas interests. thats why you sort of saw president trump moving away from the foreign policy process. he knows and it is pretty clear there were concerns and red flags ...

Show on sirius xm radio, the msnbc app and apple tv. you can always find me on social media, twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, and indeed linkedin. thank you for watching. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace begins right now. ♪ hi, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. we are getting our very first look at the first batch of transcripts from witnesses in the impeachment investigation into donald trump. they provide a breathtaking and disturbing look at how life-long diplomats were t...

Call planned with president zelenskiy later that day. he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring as they added the president to the call. how significant do youe think that is, congresswoman? >> well, i think one has only to look at the text messages that were released, where ambassador sondland indicates to ambassador taylor that he t should call hi. like up said earlier, so they would e avoid a written record theirre conversation. there clearly was an effort to keep part of t...

Sondland said he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring as they added zelenskiy to the call. >> i think one has only to look at the text messages that were released where ambassador sondland indicates to ambassador taylor he should call him like you said earlier so that they would avoid a written record of their conversation. there clearly was an effort to keep part of this process under the radar, outside of the normal foreign policy process in order to really keep people fro...

Giuliani. hes expected as weve been talking about to -- at least according to the "new york times" reporting over the weekend, be somewhat under pressure being that hes being investigated by federal prosecutors manhattan to work hes done with ukraine. tell us how that affects what fiona hill will say today. >> giuliani was on an assignment apparently from the president of the united states go to ukraine, to speak to people in ukraine, to dig up dirt on joe biden and to under mine at that time th...

Basically everything that was happening in the lead-up to this call.s and so she is prepared to testify before congress, according to people we spoke to, that, you know, she saw -- witnessed rudy giuliani and gordon sondland basically do an end run around the foreign policy process thats traditionally done within the ce white house, specifically on it ukraine, and more importantly that they were doing that and had a direct line to the president. so they were cutting out people like fiona hill, l...

Two things. what might she be able to speak to? and tell us a little bit about her and how she stood out among members of the trump crowd. >> sure. well, first, she was someone who is seen as a real russia hawk. she is an expert on russia, a long-time expert on russia. shes served in the trump administration from the early days until over the summer right before -- right around the time this ukraine call happened. so she would have been privy to brian, basically everything that was happening in ...

And tell us a little bit about her and how she stood out among members of the trump crowd. >> sure. well, first, she was someone who is seen as a real russia hawk. she is an expert on russia, a long-time expert on russia. shes served in the trump administration from the early days until over the summer right before -- right around the time this ukraine call happened. so she would have been privy to brian, basically everything that was happening in the lead-up to this call. and so she is prepared...

These officials who may have given some information to the whistleblowe whistleblower. >> who is the person who gave the whistleblower the information? thats close to a spy. do you know what we used to do in the old days? we used to handle them a little differently than we do now. >> lets get your thought. >> its so toxic at so many levels. what seems likely reading the whistleblowers complaint is that the people in the white house had a business every day relationship with the whistleblower. th...

Want, and yesterday i spoke to several people in the foreign policy community that said they were getting calls from intermediaries between jared kushner and others asking for names. its going to have to be someone that can work with secretary pompeo as you heard lindsey graham say, but it is going to be someone thats going to be more someone whos going to call the foreign policy process as opposed to an adviser. thats why its going to be so key for secretary pompeo to fill that kissinger role i...