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Be telling. if they release what they call a transcript cooperates with the washington journal. at least by implication, this is what was motivating donald trump, that in and of itself, you dont need the quid pro quo. that will be enough, certainly for democrats. now, if the transcript comes up and ends up undermining that reporting in a significant way and doesnt seem the dominic like the white house is hiding anything, it is going to be very easy for republicans to start shouting. we just dont...

Meeting, whether official or unofficial, with world leaders and the backdrop is going to be that theyre going to be thinking well at any point i could get a call from donald trump with a very clear, even though he doesnt actually ask for a quid pro quo, its to the clear -- not clear the content and implication is clear, if i dont do something were going to lose some financial aid or have some other diplomatic problem. thats a reality that the president is going to be facing with every meeting he...

Makes sense over the near period of years and i think there have been many missed opportunities and i hope that will be in israels future. >> benny gantz is not a dove. he was the head of the military and seen to be more hawkish than benjamin netanyahu and he does to janes implication, he seems to have a better sense of engagement with the global community, the united states and the region . is that a good read? >> it is but it is almost irrelevant to the core issue of peace with the palestinian...

>> the implication seems to be to the ukrainian president if he does what rudy giuliani is asking him to do and investigated the bidens, maybe he will get the money that the president is holding back. >> the white house finally released the aid last week. the details in the whistleblowers complaint are still unknown. president trumps newly appointed director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, is refusing to release it to congress. >> this was about wrongdoing. and the idea that that compl...

Who has been handling this in a much more explicit way. -- rudy giuliani. so the signaling around this and the sequence of events surrounding this call, i think would have been very clear to the president of ukraine. the president of the united states is on the phone with me, he will not let go of the idea that he wants an investigation. these guys are sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that we want. theyre not, they are holding back the chance for me to meet with the president of...

Excuse me. >> that would be the implication. im on the senate judiciary committee, and frankly i was gravely concerned about some of the first actions the attorney general took, the ways in which he slow-rolled and mischaracterized the mueller report in its release. i think this would be a great opportunity for the attorney general to demonstrate some commitment not to any particular president but to the constitution. he is not president trumps personal lawyer. that honor belongs to rudy giulian...

Senator chuck grassley has long channelled whistle blowers. my hope is that senator grassley will prove his continued commitment to the idea that whistle blowers help keep our country accountable and open. he also will press for that. >> lets talk about why youre there in iowa. youre campaigning and i have to ask you, we know the doj is involved in advising the dni to withhold the whistle-blower complaint from congress. is attorney general bill barr trying to cover up the presidents wrongdoing? ...

Criminally speaking? >> first, the statute im referring to, title 18 of the u.s. code, actually says it could be direct or indirect. so alex, if ive got the ability to give you a ton of cash, and you know that, and i say, alex, i need you to do me a personal favor -- you can infer that that favor is tied to me giving you that cash. and it doesnt have to be direct. and plenty of public officials throughout the united states have been convicted for corruption simply because of an indirect inferenc...

When you met that the whistleblower was motivated at all by politics? >> i dont want to get into the specifics of what happened in the meeting yesterday, but let me characterize two things. number one, the inspector general, his testimony to us yesterday was beyond careful. he absolutely refused to talk about the substance, as has been reported in the press, and he was beyond careful. look, hes a smart individual. he knows that doing the right thing, coming to the congress and saying, im seeing ...

Somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful. >> it does matter what was discussed in that conversation. >> how can you say it doesnt matter what i discuss. of course it matters. he doesnt know the identity but you hear he is another party and this is somebody from the intelligence community presumably so the president yet again is saying that the intelligence community is bias, that this is somebody -- hes from another -- how do we know this person is a democrat i...