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I wonder what your reaction is to these leaked videos? >> first, i think what the president did interfering with the military justice system is wrong. it hurts america, our strength and values, what we fight for and who we are as a nation. the presidents actions really trample on american values. its a shameful day when the president issued his pardons. he should allow the process of justice go forward to show not only americans but the world we stand by our values. >> i want to talk to you abou...

Conscious you have to step down. this case is so wacky, i dont think theres any way to put it, spencer at the same time, according to defense secretary mark esper, who fired him yesterday, was engaged in a back channel negotiation with the white house to try and resolve the gallagher case, to let a review of his status as navy s.e.a.l. go forward but somehow have a guarantee ahead of time at the end of that review, which was supposed to be impartial, that gallagher would get to remain a navy s.e...

Michael steel, maria teresa kumar, and fiona hill former colleague, maybe a future one, ben wittes who is also an nbc analyst. heidi, i want to put up, guys, i want to put up full screen number two. because full screen number two is the email gordon sond land sent that these are basically all the people in the loop in the investigation from donald trump, mike pence, giuliani, pompeo, bolton, rick perry, mccormick, blair. these are all people who havent testified. in a normer investigation, you w...

Documents as well. its not the case if the democrats decide not to go forward with getting more, they wont eventually come out. >> very quickly, i want to ask you this question. we know sdny is investigating parnas and rudy and furman. if adam schiff or the judiciary committee wanted some access either to them as witnesses or anything, is that something bill barr would have to approve? >> well, you know, the new york prosecutors are notoriously very independent. so that normally would not go to ...

>> so is it your understanding then that president trump disregarded the advice of his senior officials about this theory and instead listened to rudy giulianis views? >> that appears to be the case, yes. >> by promoting this theory of ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, was president trump adopting vladimir putins view over his own senior advisers and intelligence officials? >> i think we have to be very careful about the way that we phrase that. this is a view that president putin and...

Overwhelming, chuck. >> is there any threat here that you wish you would continue to pursue that you fear you may not? >> you know, i wish the president would cooperate. and your last guest, andrew weissmann, an experienced prosecutor, i promise you almost every investigation hes been a part of was very much document driven, looking at text messages, emails, financial records. here, its probably the biggest investigation ever in america that has been witness driven. we have not had the documents...

Week until congress is back in session. there should be plenty of time if intel decides to go this route to write up their report. and when congress comes back into session in december, hand it to the judiciary committee and begin the next steps. i have not heard any appetite from democrats i have talked to to pursue the john bolton case any further here. fiona hill, several of them felt like was a pretty good proxy for john bolton. you got the damaging bolton quotes without the risk or the dela...

Ukrainians but to say hey, it wasnt me. it was them. and you know, fionas worked for the president for two and a half years. she had to juggle that kind of disinformation noise in the background all the time. i thought it was important she said what she did today. i hope more americans will listen to that and not play along with putins playbook as we roll up to 2020. >> andrew weissmann, you have had to deal with this. when you sort of -- an investigation, you know theres more to get, but the am...

Going to get acquitted and yet everybody knew he was guilty? >> just to take the republican side of this, it is definitely true that the standard should be really high. in a criminal case, you have an actual standard, which is beyond a reasonable doubt. and here, you are asking to -- the congress to remove a president. so it makes sense that you would want both the crime, so to speak, the high crime and misdemeanor to be serious, and you would want the proof to be compelling. so i think the repu...

But there are big national ambassador volker sent you a security implications tied to this. just imagine the counterfactual text message. here, imagine is donald trump you sent a text message to had done what he did, and we knew that, the white house giuliani, and i think its on released this transcript, we knew he was essentially trying the screen now. to sell our foreign policy for and you said mr. mayor could we his own political benefit, and democrats did nothing. that would be a green light...