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Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyz...

It was ukraine. where does that come from? we actually now have an origin stor where that came from? this is just recently released by a court order. recently released fbi interview notes with trumps deputy campaign chair rick gates gives us our earliest known appearance of that weird conspiracy theory in the wild from the fbi interview notes with rick gates. quote, gates recalled paul manafort saying the hack was likely carried out by the ukrainians, not the russians. why did manafort say that,...

Reporting in "the wall street journal" although they do not explicitly assert, is whether the career staff said they werent going to keep signing off on this drug deal, on this proverbial drug deal. so the white house had to take those people out of the mix, say fine you guys dont have to sign anything. well instead have the executive director of the wisconsin republican party, hes working around here somewhere, well name him as the guy in charge of signing off on the release or holding up of mi...

Withholding that aid even though career staffers thought that was a crime. "the wall street journal" reported that october 10th. naturally the impeachment com t committees subpoenaed the wisconsin party guy to get him to testify. youve been signing off on what now, and how did you get put in charge of that, and how are you qualified to do that? they subpoenaed him to testify. he refused. hes ignoring the subpoena. in fact, no one from the white house office of budget and management is responding...

Now mark sandy, this guy youve never heard of in conjunction with the impeachment or anything else, mark sandy is saying hes going to testify. and he given his job would appear to be super important to the story because he appears to be the nonpartisan technocratic expert career official who did initially sign-off on holding up this aid to ukraine on the presidents orders and we believe expressing what the president orders was illegal, he appears to be the guy they had to push out, who they had ...

Political appointee the authority to keep the aid on hold after the staff began raising their concerns. the political official like mr. duffy signing off on apportionments is unusual according to staffers. so its weird for a political appointee to be shoved in there to do the job instead while what was his qualification, what was michael duffys qualification for taking over this important process that usually people with decades of technocratic experience are only allowed to run inside the white...

Thats the person who was saying that it was ukraine, not russia. thats where paul manafort got it from. whos constantine kilimnik, hes the guy manafort worked for -- worked with for years in ukraine. who came out of russian military intelligence. who the fbi assesses is still linked to russian military intelligence. so this whole thing that the president and the white house and republicans in congress now are actively promoting, this conspiracy theory that russia didnt intervene in the 2016 elec...

And so at least through july and august and well into september when this whole scheme ultimately got exposed and the whistle-blower complaint got delivered to congress and congress went nuts, through all that time ukraine was not getting its military aid on orders from the president. and in order to carry that out the white house had to install a guy to keep signing off on withholding that aid even though career staffers thought that was a crime. "the wall street journal" reported that october ...

Duffys qualification for taking over this important process that usually people with decades of technocrattic experience are only allowed to run inside the white house? trained expert career staff raised concerns what the president has ordered here is illegal. so they take out those trained career expert staff, and they instead put in this guy michael duffy, this political appointee. what about him made him qualified to do this job instead of the expert career officials? what was his background?...

Oh,. so the president is pressuring ukraine to give him a joe biden investigation. he orders military aid to ukraine with hold while hes putting that pressure on them. the career staff at the white house say, well, okay, mr. president, well put a hold on this for now but we think its illegal to do this in any sustained sort of way. i mean, the implication of this reporting in "the wall street journal" although they do not explicitly assert, is whether the career staff said they werent going to k...