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Presidents attempt keeping his tax private today. the white house says mr. trump will appeal the decision to the supreme court. joining me now is former assistant u.s. attorney from the southern district of new york. nbc news national security analyst, mimi, whats the implication of this, the second circuit of new york, the supreme court has to decide whether or not to take the return, the appeal. thats right andrea. thats because the second circuit of appeals here went out of its way to side th...

Essentially an inadvertent implication when he admitted there was a kind of quid pro quo and then he walked back. we dont need right now. trump needs to focus not on impeachment. when the vote came down as it did on this process and it was only democrats voting for it and only republicans voting against it and to democrats in vulnerable positions voting against it, thats as partisan as you can get. so were democrats surprised? was the leadership surprise while this does look like a cabal? >> its...

The camera, and then take it public. that would be a better process, would it not? >> but theyre going to argue that impeachment is fundamentally different because impeachment has the fundamental implication of affecting an election. we go to the polls, we elect people. the impeachment argument would be that has to happen in public because the voters, the people going to the polls, need to have confidence in the results and also the process. >> its a key point because the republicans are making ...

Explosive allegations related to withholding money from ukraine for political reasons defending the impeachment inquiry as necessary to preserve and defend the constitution. >> right in the here and now, we are keeping the republic from a president who says article two says i can do whatever i want. and not so. >> reporter: the inquiry itself saw new testimony today from timothy morrison, the top adviser on the national security council for russia and europe. morrison is the second official who ...

About the transcript, there are some talk from different witnesses that there might be parts of this that words are left out and the implication is there is more to the phone call that we have a seat. we dont know all about that because we havent seen the back and forth with cross examination at some of these witnesses beyond the opening statement. >> what we know is what the report is, he said there were some words left out. the word wasnt included at the memo that was released, the rough trans...

Transcripts is usually done by the national security staff, the experts, not the legal team. >> can you just talk about -- i mean, my interactions with the person in the white house counsels office and i worked in the white house as did steve schmidt in the days and weeks and months and years after 9/11 where everything had a national security legal implication, i was never sent by a superior up to sort of pull a fire alarm, im sure some viewers in this program think i shouldve been, but i never...

About his views on the proceedings in washington and the implication of state department officials and whether or not he had defended them, last week hend called it all noise. thenle he gave an interview las night in which he is completely defending the president. we had no doubt that he would, would have to do so eventually, but he did it last night. he talked about how he was on the call and theres nothing improper about it. then he i also advanced his own separate potential conspiracy theory ...

Knew how access was controlled so tightly. all the presidents answers wrp simplistic and ad hoc, shooting from the hip on issues of global importance. thats the first meeting at the pentagon that president trump attended. through your eyes and also i think explaining to us what you think secretary mattis was seeing. there are questions now about why doesnt or if secretary mattis will go public with his true feelings about president trump, will he do youthink? and what would he say? >> i think he...

Undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan ports. it is thus far maintained. it" the implication is, that would be unexcept both said something almost identical to that. "to restore ukraines independence, and russia must leave ukraine. this has been and should continue to be a bipartisan u.s. foreign policy goal." in other words, washington may have two parties but only one position on ukraine is allowed here. trump doesnt have it. his phone call was unacceptable because it might preven...

University where he admonished students about cancelling peoplers and that might not be 100% to their liking. he encouraged fox media, "the new york times," the whole gamut. hes being consistent that hes put out a number of years without getting any credit. its one of his better contributions to public debate. i think theres an implication for what hes saying, hey, everybody, lets think about some of the people running and he didnt have to say the name biden because it was implied who, yeah, mig...