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Guess for me it shed some light on possible other motivations behind the security assistance hold. it should also be noted that jennifer williams is the only official from vice president mike pences office whos been called to testify in the impeachment proceedings thus far, at least that we know of. to the extent that the vice presidents own implication in this scandal really hinges entirely on his assertions and assertions of unnamed people around him that he was totally ignorant of this whole ...

Policy objective of the united states. she says, quote, it struck me as unusual and inappropriate. and the follow-up question, well, how did it make you feel? and williams answers, quote, i guess for me it shed some light on possible other motivations behind the security assistance hold. it should also be noted that jennifer williams is the only official from vice president mike pences office whos been called to testify in the impeachment proceedings thus far, at least that we know of. to the ex...

Tensions with almost everybody whos worked for him. >> all right. thank you. >> thank you, carol. >> are we surprised every single time when the president turns -- how can you be surprised? >> other than it turned out pretty well for jeff sessions whos running for senate now and -- >> just awful. joining us now a member of the house committee, and mia wiley and managing editor of the examiner, jay caruso joins us. >> congressman, "wall street journal" story broke yesterday, who needs white hou...

Talked to trump supporters who voted for bel edwards in this case because they said trump doesnt know louisiana. this, however, off of kentuckys republican loss also this month, what does that say to you about the p the potency of this? >> i wonder what president trump will do this morning with the loss and how he will try to plain it away or maybe hell say it would have been a bit bigger loss if he wasnt there. but what this says is that trump, alone, cannot force an election and the implicatio...

To the u.s. foreign policy interest and were about his own personal agenda. and whats also important to understand is that the president wants to make this about one call and what we learned from the past week is that this is basically a scandal that goes back a full year in terms of their desire to remove marie yovanovitch, the smear campaign against her. kind of all the back-channel meetings that were happening. the sidelining of career officials. this wasnt just one phone call. and even on th...

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...

>> unless youre going to deliver it perfectly. and rudy giuliani didnt deliver it perfectly if it was a joke because the obvious implication and rudy giuliani is a smart man, he knows that if you say i have insurance so my bills will be paid, that people are going to interpret that as i have some secret that i can reveal that will damage trump. i have a mutually assured destruction policy in case anyone tries to throw me under the bus. >> especially when it is about the president. because it cou...

As outlandish as it could be, is that correct? >> its not as outlandish as it could be. >> we have ambassador volker, a long time state department diplomat. youve known ambassador volker for years, correct? >> that is correct. >> a man of unquestioned integrity. >> that is correct. >> and somebody with incredible knowledge of the region? >> very good knowledge of the region. >> and the best interest of the united states? >> im sure thats right. >> and the best interests of ukraine? >> his first ...

Sondland told you that president trump wanted zelensky in a public box, is that right? >> yes, sir. >> by public box, did that mean that private statements, private promises to do this investigation of 2016 and the bidens were not enough, he had to go on tv, he had to go public in some way because the president wanted him in that box, is that your understanding? >> mr. chairman, i dont know exactly what he had in mind and im not sure what ambassador sondland had in mind, who was the one that men...