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>> maam, in your opening statement, you said how could our system fail like this? >> yeah. >> how is it that a foreign -- excuse me -- how is it that foreign corrupt interests could -- our government? how is it that foreign corrupt interests could manipulate our government? i want you to know, maam, that that is the very question we are determined to get an answer for and i want to thank you on behalf of your country for your service and with our work in answering that question. i yield back, mr...

But what i would say is youve listed a number of actions. i think from my point of view, that doesnt -- that doesnt create a ukrainian government strategy to interfere in our elections. >> i didnt say that. >> mr. jordan, please allow the ambassador to answer the question. >> so i would just say that, you know, u.s. politicians will often criticize policies of foreign -- foreign counterparts. even perhaps during their elections. you know, this -- this happens in politics and i think that it -- i...

Inquirying into an impeachment. this had a story, a narrative about the president threatening to grant or withhold certain privileges and certain military assistance voted on by the congress to ukraine, which is in our national interest to do so because they were fighting the russians. theyve already lost over 11,000, 12,000, 13,000 people fighting the russians. thats why i say all roads lead to putin. putin benefited from our not -- any holding up of that foreign -- that military assistance. pu...

Clearing of the administrative hold on security assistance which had been placed by omb. for more on what was in the most recent impeachment transcript that dropped today, im joined by the national security reporter for "the washington post," john hudson, who has been pouring over this as well. i guess ill start open-ended. what jumped out to me in this testimony was that kind of birds eye view kent has. what did you find most striking in in? >> chris, were talking about george kent who is basic...

Foreign policy all the time. is the thing a legitimate foreign pales ask pursuing corruption or was this a personal thing? if there is any wiggle room there, thats where the republicans -- >> they didnt its personal. the president said these are bad people, they wanted to take me down, talking to the ukrainian officials, direct quotes in these transcripts. you are saying this nation a lot of sense, this is in some way very, very personal for this president. >> as yosh just mentioned, sondland co...

Happened here is probably nothing. >> bill: two more things quickly. adam schiff, will he testify? republicans are saying he should >> no. he is not going to testify. to my mind you wouldnt want him to testify from the republicans standpoint they ought to keep hammering is the fact that this transcript was such a nothing that he had to go out and make a fraudulent version of it to make it sound worse than it actually was. the record doesnt get better than that for them. they should stick with th...

>> joe biden as a vice president stopping a prosecution that would have affected his son. >> but hes also a political rival. >> no, the president mentioned 2016. >> so thats okay? regardless of when, its okay -- it is okay for the president of the united states to ask a foreign -- >> its not impeachable. is that where we are now, impeachable? is it a high crime or misdemeanor? >> were going to get to that in a second. just to be clear, you are saying it is appropriate for the president to have h...

Appropriate? >> joe biden as a vice president stopping a prosecution that would have effected his son. excuse me -- >> and also a political rival. >> no, the president mentioned 2016. he mentioned -- >> so that is okay. regardless of when. it is okay -- it is okay for the president of the united states to ask a foreign -- >> it is not impeachable. >> were getting to get to that. >> is it a high crime and misdemeanor. >> well get to that in a second. we want to get to this. so you think it is app...

Senators relayed to us is that he was proud of his decision to release that transcript because he believes it exonerates him. >> i think that is -- sunlen is right. i think that is crazy. if you look at it, the only thing i could see is it doesnt say hey, man, this is a straight up quid pro quo. but short of that -- >> the sophisticated defense of trump is going to become he shot his mouth off. >> he was just talking. >> just talking. you cant impeach the guy on a off-hand comment and so he made...

Of this investigation where bidens. what you have here is you have theyre moving from closed door to open hearings and democrats multiple officials involved. are arguing this is not to thats what they saw. thats what they saw playing out authorize this inquiry but in front of them. theyre going to use this as a way to push back against the and sondland, according to "the republican arguments that there wall street journal" account of have been no votes to allow this his testimony, even he said h...