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Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. Theyve been trying t...

Trump-appointed u.s. attorney that launched this investigation five years ago to get full context. we have pieces and we need to see the evidence and the full picture. >> emily: the 1023 used to not be redacted, we did have the picture. >> kevin: the trump doj evaluated it and declined to engage on because much hearsay conversation within the 1023. then the burisma executive recanted quite a bit of it. >> emily: felonies and misdemeanors. >> if we didnt have republicans in the house, we wouldnt ...

>> so theres plenty of key moments in the transcripts released this week, alayna. but this hit on a theme. george kent said the president wanted to hear three words from ukraines president -- biden, clinton and investigation. what does this say to you about what were going do see next week? >> i think it says it shows exactly what democrats are hoping that the american public can clearly hear from these witnesses. that the president very much did want a public commitment from ukraine about inves...

Zelensky publicly committed to investigate both y burisma and president trumps baseless theory about ukraine meddling in the 2016 election for hillary clinton. without it? no access to president trump. as relayed in a whatsapp message between u.s. envoy volker and andre yurmak, the same day as the phonesa call.th volker -- >> assuming the president convinces trump helles ce investigate, goat the bottom of what happenede, in 2016, we wil nail 2 down a date for a visit washington. >> in another me...

You listen and decide. whats your reaction to the fact that this new prosecutor has been put in place to reopen this case including burisma. >> thank god. the fact is this case was closed in october of 2016 right before the presidential election by pressure from joe biden, a bribe. if they reopen it and they do a thorough investigation that might lead to the president of ukraine who may have been paid to do this. the reality is that this has to be investigated. what democrats have been doing for...

>> roe v. wade. are you familiar with the case? i am >> i am, senator. >> can you sit down with you and four other judges and overturn roe v. wade just because you wanted to? >> roe v. wade is an important precedent to the supreme court. >> what are you doing for lunch, lets overdo roe v. wade -- doesnt work that way. >> i understand what youre asking. >> martha: its been times since justices cavanagh and over louisiana law that requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges 30 miles wit...

He dismisses the case, he dismisses the biden case a couple of months later, he dismisses the burisma case. the only thing i knew that biden knew that he was going to dismiss the burisma case but had an effect of dismissing the other case as well. frankly, i dont think biden knew it, but i cant exploit it, it hasnt been investigated. but because he did it may be on purpose, may be inadvertently, he cut off all kinds of evidence that wouldve explained the steele.ca and made it probably impossible...

There may be one that meets this criteria, but its a criteria that should be met. this is a serious surgical procedure. im amazed that women dont insist that abortion clinics have the most sophisticated medical equipment available and the doctors who perform these procedures should be licensed and should be required to be licensed and have admitting privileges in the hospital in case it goes wrong, which it does. women do die in these. >> martha: the more medical care thats close by in these sit...

The third mistake hes made -- may be the most major investigation hes ever going to be part of. i dont know how long nancy pelosi is going to put up with this. >> martha: whats the impact of that? whats the impact of the case? the lead person on this is making these missteps. how important is it for the big picture? >> how bad was it when mark fuhrman investigated in o.j. simpsons murder? the -- im not prejudging mark fuhrman, but i am prejudging peter strzok. for anyone who wondered if adam sch...

She didnt vote for him, but you still have to respect the fact that lots and lots of people did and he won the electoral college to say thats a threat to democracy and that you happen to disagree with someone? you undermine the election to get rid of someone simply because you wish they were not in office. >> wise words. thank you very much. good to see you tonight. coming up next, the supreme court will take up an abortion case for the first time with justice brett kavanaugh on the bench. gover...