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Support their struggle to achieve independence and sovereignty without russian domination, and to get away from their history of corrupt and authoritarian rule. >> well, let me ask you this question. let me follow up on something you said first. i hesitated because i wanted to make sure that i wasnt misreading you. you said that you believe that kurt volker should have shut it down because it is illegal to interfere, right, to have a foreign -- to ask assistance from a foreign country to interfe...

We cant gloss over it. >> well, right. i think what his defenders are saying is hes just so concerned about corruption. which does anybody really believe that? he basically wanted to repeal the foreign -- whatever the foreign corruption act is -- corrupt practices act. the one that basically makes it illegal for american companies to be bribing governments overseas. hes criticized it many times. the enforcement of it has gone down since hes been in office. so this isnt something that hes serious...

I think what his defenders are saying is that hes just so concerned about corruption. which does anybody really believe that? i mean, he basically wanted to repeal the foreign -- whatever the foreign corruption act is -- corrupt practices act. right? the one that basically makes it illegal for american companies to be bribing governments overseas. hes criticized it many times. the enforcement of it has gone down since hes been in office. so this isnt something that hes seriously concerned about....

Announced hell be doing doing exactly just that. he will reopen the burisma case and several other cases that have been dismissed when joe biden successfully got the previous prosecutor fired. >> here now we are viewing all the cases that were closed or split into several parts that were investigated before. in order to be able to rule, to reverse those cases were illegal procedural steps were taken. >> martha: the new prosecutor said hes doing all of this absolutely on his own. >> not a single ...

Nbc news. now the propriety of this request is, of course, far from the abject abuse of the ukraine call and the facts around that. presidents can ask foreign leaders to cooperate with investigations. but the investigation itself here looks like little more than a political vendetta based on conspiracy theories, thats the one barr is pursuing, to undermine the mueller report retroactively. and another instance of president trump using his foreign to advance his own political interests. just like...

The substantive issues we have learned from is the memorandum, which is that the president abused his office, held over the head of a foreign -- to get political advantage, things goes to that, first and foremost, but we do want to understand the effort to cover it up. i think the role of attorney general is something that alarms me greatly, hes identified in the second paragraph of the whistle-blower complaint, yet hes overseeing the agency making the decision to kill this ig report to congress...

Mentioned. >> juan: the reason is not because of donald trump. the reason it came out is because somebody had the heart, had the strength to say im going to be a whistleblower and put my career at risk in order to save this country. >> jesse: juan, can we establish in order to move the conversation along because we will be talking about this for a very long time. >> juan: okay. >> jesse: would you concede that the democrats were suspicious of something donald trump did wrong during the last elec...

For a president of the united states to involve a foreign -- a president of another country in an upcoming campaign in a way that gets that person involved in the campaign that will benefit the president? >> well, no. i dont think it is appropriate. also i dont know that we know thats exactly what happened. >> right. >> i think what we have heard is a snippet of a story from a source that we dont know what it is, that took place in a much larger context. again, that doesnt make this an unimporta...

Tonight, "the washington post" now reporting an official in one of americas spy agencies was so alarmed by a promise president trump allegedly made in a phone call with a foreign , ey lodged an official whistleblower complaint. so, who is now blocking it from being seen? the growing blackface scandal involving canadian prime minister justin trudeau tonight. now a third image has emerged. what the prime minister said before the cameras just today. yet another death linked to vaping tonight, a...

Know, putting on dark makeup seems like a really lazy attempt at costume. surely you can be more creative than that. that being said to hear the words "i am sorry, i made a mistake" come out of a government leaders mouth is so refreshing and its so shocking that, you know, im shocked we all havent gotten into some sort of conniption because i have forgotten what its like to have a leader that can express some level of remorse, regret, and humility to accept it and say it out loud. >> i was stunn...