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It wouldnt be to ukraines benefit. vindman insisting that he believed that the order was wrong. congressman zeldin claiming to cnn that the sources description was untrue and doubling down on the gops focus on process over substance, saying that the hearings should be televised. they should be televised live. like i said, better be careful what you wish for. the house holding its first vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry tomorrow, so look for that. democrats say open hearings could begin b...

That was perfect. i made a perfect call, not a good call. perfect call. >> well, keeping em honest, what colonel vindman, a decorated -- does not spell perfection. when a republican congressman asked him why he had not carried out the presidents order to pressure the ukrainians. colonel vindman said he felt the order was improper, adding he felt it would be improper coming from a general as well. so thats one headline. in addition, late today another star witness, bill taylor, the top u.s. diplo...

This growing impeachment inquiry, the republicans simply dont know what they dont know. and theres that hinders them in trying to defend this president. bob put it right that a lot of people in the senate are more concerned about keeping the majority there. theyre not sure how to defend this president. his allies in the house have been more vociferous, but theyve had to do it with very little guidance from the white house outside of taking their cues from the presidents angry tweets. the preside...

Not a good call. perfect call. >> at the root of the presidents problems right now is the escalating impeachment inquiry and the escalating criticism from within his party. the president cannot afford skepticism and criticism from the very republicans he may need to keep from being removed from office. and as the white house heads into another week of potentially damaging dech damaging depositions in the impeachment inquiry, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney continued to insist he never said p...

Party over his actions in syria as well as his decision to award the g7 summit of world leaders to his own golf resort, a move he ultimately reversed over the weekend as the pressure from inside the gop built. so its against the backdrop of that three-pronged crisis that the president held court today for a lie-filled question and answer session with reporters that was so full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations that were showing it to you to illustrate his delusions, not to amplify them. con...

Very bad things about her for a long period of time. not good. >> from "not good" to "she may be a wonderful woman." and we have to wonder on this very bad day in a very bad week for trump if hes finally realizing that the impeachment inquiry into his dealings with ukraine is picking up steam and he cant stop it. the white house is trying to delay and slow it down and publicly push their talking points that there was nothing amiss about the july phone call. president trump again today called it ...

President trump again today called it a perfect call, and secretary of state mike pompeo, who earlier this week flat-out said that he is taking all of his direction from the white house, saying this. >> i think the only ones who thinks zelensky was pressured are a hand. of folks in the media and folks on capitol hill who are trying to take down this president. >> no pressure. perfect call. an ambassador sacked, who has now had the chance to speak directly to congress. a bad day in a bad week for...

>> i was on the call. i listened to it and it was consist went what president trump has been trying to do to take corruption out. i found that to be wholly appropriate to try to get another country to stop being corrupt. >> everyone is back with me. so, ann, two different situations there, shall we say. we start with pence. hes involved with this whether he likes it or not and from what we understand hes the one that delivered the message of no aid and maybe he didnt understand the whole context...

Authority in a normal way. vice president pence had an interview on fox where he essentially said the same thing. according to this complaint, people in the white house are worried about this call, what it meant about what the president was doing with his authority. >> and because of the pattern of behavior that led up to it, which will be critical in the investigation where you have the allegation that it was widely understood inside the administration that the ukraini ukrainians would not get ...

Start with you. what we know about the whistleblower complaint if, its true, accurate and the transcript of the conversation is accurate, is that a crime? >> i think theres a pretty good argument that its potentially a violation of the bribery statute. hes a public official, the president was a public official, seeking something from a foreign government official and potentially offering something in exchange, an official act in exchange. so its not detailed in the text of the call we have itsel...