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Taylor testified that yermak expressed concerns. testimony showed that he was an intermediary to secure a mowing for the newly elected ukrainian president. he says once we have a date, well call for a press briefing where they plan to announce, quote, burmisa investigations. it was point to as the meeting for lenk. >> so she just laid out all of these key players. of course, also including lev parnas and igor fruman. in reporting by vicky ward, weve learned both the men had a meeting with the pr...

Youre not dealing with seasoned professionals. proef diplomats. proef intelligence people who will tell you more about who it is that youre dealing with. things can go sideways quite badly which is what happened in this case. you have the tres amigos, rudolph giuliani, and these former soviet criminals. corrupt guys who are now in jail. the idea is we need to find somebody. i think this is happening with happening inside the trump administration. the president was saying we need to find somebody...

As corrupt. giuliani tried to overturn that decision. now the jue associates. giuliani did not work alone. he was assisted in ukraine efforts by lev parnas and igor fruman. prosecutors alleged theyve been advocating for the remove of yovanovitch. they met with the former congressman pete sessions of texas who wrote in 2018 to secretary of state mike pompeo that yovanovitch had bad-mouthed the president. according to the indictment, they pledged to donate $20,000 to sessions campaign. they have b...

Counsel robert mueller testified to congress about 2016 election interference. the next day, president trump talked by phone with ukrainian president zelensky and pushed him to investigate the bidens. >> on july 26, gordon sondland follows up with the president speaking to him directly assuring him that zelensky will do anything you ask him to do. and he used some choice language to drive that point home. joining us, senior political analyst and editor at the atlantic. the cia chief of russia an...

Vice president joe biden and his son hunter. >> days later were told that he insinuated to people that he clearly believed he had been given a special assignment by the president. some sort of james bond mission. the white house did not respond to repeat requests for comment on. this reporting, steve hall is back with us now. first lets get to the role of these two men. they are now under criminal indictment. theyve been charged and arrested as they were trying to heave the country on a one-way ...

Donald trump is essentially stomping on ambassador stevens grave to get across something that he wants to accomplish something that he personally wants as opposed to using the proud tradition of the state department for what it really is, which is to further the interests, the national security interests of the united states. and the dulling of that spear, i think, is beginning to happen. its already happened, and i think its going to last for a considerable time into the future. its going to ta...

Ambassador. in my line of work, perhaps in yours as well, all we have is our reputation. so this has been a very painful period. >> the president has criticized her repeatedly including the july 25th call with president zelensky calling her bad news and saying she would go through some things. >> i was shocked and devastated that i would feature in a phone call between two heads of state in such a manner where president trump said that i was bad news to another world leader. and that i would be ...

>> basically saying she is responsible for somalia. adam schiff read that tweet live during the hearing and the president was asked about his intention with that tweet. >> i have the right to speak. i have freedom of speech just as other people do. >> with your freedom, were you trying to intimidate ambassador yovanovitch? >> i just want to have a total, i want freedom of speech. that is a political process. the republicans have been treated very badly. >> were you doing it to be intimidating? >...

And thats really the way it will be for the foreseeable future for ukraine of the it is very important to the united states national interests because of the russia angle. so it can be complicated for people who arent familiar with that area of the world. as you saw ambassador yovanovitch today, thats the acknowledgement that it is really critical in pushing u.s. national interests forward. as opposed to donald trumps personal interests. >> a david versus goliath. you have this little country tr...

Now heres a witness who can provide a firsthand account. gordon sondland is a firsthand account as well. so the republicans have to decide, are they going to try to shift gears, to throw some of these folks under the bus? i think a lot of them were surprised by what came out last week. >> so help us set up. he was on the call. hes describing based on david holmes testimony exactly what is the essence of it against the president. damn of u.s. national security interests in ukraine with regard to ...