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Turning the conversation to the latter. >> and thats the transition were making this week as the intelligence committee lays out the facts. the judiciary committee will determine does this rise to a high crime or disdemeaner. >> im being rude and looking at my phone because the president is speaking here. hes talking about nato on the south lawn of the white house. he is talking about the economy. these are issues he often likes to tee up. he was asked a question and said in his view that the ra...

The president calling the impeachment process, no surprise here, a hoax. hes also talking the economy and hes talking nato. thats because the president is set to arrive in london tonight to meet with world leaders there, all against the backdrop of torny relations with china, and russia. >> thats not the only controversy ahead, as the president focuses on an international military alliance, theres plenty of focus here on the military back home, with explosive new reporting from "the new york tim...

The nato summit. is the best defense to keep working. he has never said one positive thing about nato. >> that is certainly the image that he is trying to put out there and my colleague nancy coo cook wrote a pete recently saying she spending more time giving off the appearance of working hard to deflect from the impeachment process. >> working hard on what? >> we dont really know. i guess things like nato, i guess things like dealing with the senate and how they will move forward with things li...

Republicans making that same argument here in this case about president trump. so, the chairs have sort of flipped around, but much of the discussion is similar. >> susan, this is a real rogues gallery on both sides of the aisle youve got lawmakers who are going to make a big deal out of the hearing thats going to take place. but it will be less disciplined than what we saw in the intelligence committee. how is that going to happen on wednesday? and as we progress to other hearings in the judici...

Get their arms around how big this process could be. and so we still have big question marks tonight. the bottom line, i think, david, this is an outlying of the grievance and complaints toward the impeachment process. and it is a rain check for perhaps the president will partake at some future point. >> just underscore that rain check, the line that stands out to me in that letter, under the current circumstances we do not intend to participate in your wednesday hearing. again another deadline ...

If youre our strategic partner, then you cant go blocking anything for us. i think thats just about fairness. its not about a quid pro quo. it just goes without saying. trump of course seeking to twist zelenskys words because they had a chance of knocking any sense into the kinds of republicans who at other points in time were moved by the life and death struggles of russias adversaries with a tirade of lies, instead of engaging on the troubling facts of the pressure campaign, trumps lawyer is c...

Ukraine or other things that sort of blow back on president trump, that could really pose a political problem in a way that ukraine hasnt. because going back to what susan said, it hasnt moved the needle, in part because while we can call it bribery or extortion, the american public doesnt seem convinced. the justice department wasnt either. they took a pass on investigating this. so its sort of the democrats trying to convince the country that donald trump committed bribery, and half the countr...

>> i think its what weve seen. i think its the evidentiary testimony, the text messages, some of the email traffic and presented in a very straight forward manner. thats what the staff has been working on throughout the holiday weekend. thats what i think well see shortly. >> thank you very much for welcoming in our coverage on this new week. i want to bring in neal katyal, who has argued dozens of cases before the supreme court. his new book is "impeach: the case against donald trump." good eve...

Kennedy is espousing. how do you react to that, this opinion that continues in washington, d.c. today? yes, the impeachment process is moving forward, but there is something much larger at stake here, and that is our understanding, our belief in what the truth is. >> thats exactly right. and, you know, we can -- what senator kennedy said today is dangerous in two ways. and first is the more factual that russia is the only player involved here who has a vested interest in discrediting ukraine, an...

Trump, putin, and a divided europe. i dont trust anyone. and he talks about basically the kinds of messages that we heard from ambassador bill taylor that, you know, just in the last few days ukrainians have died, ukrainian soldiers have died at the hands of russians. i think 13,000 ukrainians have died in this conflict. is there anything that sobers this up? or is the whole thing sort of lost to the politics of it? >> you see not only president trump, but other republicans continuing to talk ab...