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Committees, so every time a currently serving administration official does show up anyway in defiance of those instructions, it sort of changes the dynamic a little bit in terms of those instructions, in terms of how everybody else in the administration is going to treat their subpoenas, and whether or not that white house instruction that they shouldnt testify is seen as binding or more binding than a lawful congressional subpoena. the witness who, surprise, did show up and testify today for mo...

Completely disempowered from pursuing the aims that they believe were their instruction when they went to those countries. >> so we have u.s. policy based upon alliances versus nato and ceto and all the other alliance pacs weve had over the years. they work well for us, the u.n., eb know what is policy is. we are trying to keep peace in the world, aggression at bay. all the good stuff like russian aggression at bay. all of a sudden you find out when you are working on a ukraine desk, which is th...

Look at what the list said abwh said about the aid. so 18 july, an office of management and budget official informed departments and agencies that the president earlier that month had issued instruction to suspend all u.s. security assistance to ukraine. the white house of course will say that this isnt really related or it is related in a different way, they have given a lot of different explanations. but listen to what michael mckinley, who is an aid to secretary of state mike pompeo, listen t...

Administration to obstruct the lawful and constitutional duties of congress. this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential obstruction of congress charge against the president. i will say this. its quite obvious and we fully expected this. we have seen a serious of shifting, ever changing rationales for this campaign of obstruction. >> joining us now is laurence tribe, harvard law professional, constitutional law. i want to get your reaction to what chairman schiff is saying ...

Lawful and constitutional duties of congress. this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential obstruction of congress charge against the president. i will say this. its quite obvious and we fully expected this. we have seen a serious of shifting, ever changing rationales for this campaign of obstruction. >> joining us now is laurence tribe, harvard law professional, constitutional law. i want to get your reaction to what chairman schiff is saying there, especially since you are...

Move potentially toward in about a months time to write articles of impeachment and the judiciary committee. i want to play tape from adam schiff, chairman of the intelligence committee, what his thinking is as they go forward. listen. >> this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential instruction of congress charge the president. >> obstruction of congress, thats one potential article of impeachment. another one could deal with abuse of power. when you go through this transcri...

Four trump administration officials will be no-shows today. two of them have defied subpoenas. >> its the height of hypocrisy for the president to be asking the whistle-blower to testify and then not allowing his own administration officials who were actually involved in the illegal conduct to testify. and executive prifr lij doesnvi apply. when obstruction of justice, you cant claim privilege. >> do you think this is a separate ground for instruction of impeachment on congress? >> i do, but i t...

Texts caused conrads death. >> and so, i thought that was a very good sign. >> reporter: but the judge wasnt finished. while he acknowledged conrad had taken steps to end his life by placing the water pump in his truck, he said there was that one moment when conrad changed his mind. >> however, he breaks that chain of self-causation by exiting the vehicle. he takes himself out of that toxic environment that it has become. >> reporter: it was then, he believed, michelle became a party to his deat...

A huge amount of take half on the streets he had 6 he claims he praises who is still as them being taken as a spy just a short time ago its to clear this area really has been quite strong crackdown from police today very keen to try and stop the spray system happening before it even really got a chance to get out of the way. and theres been almost 5 months of this. struction in hong kong at this point are there any signs the pro-democracy movements losing any momentum. the streets that you have ...

Hes the lawyer who reportedly tucked it into a super high security server after being told by lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who heard the call that the president had done something wrong on that call. eisenberg responded by tucking that -- the call notes away in that weird place that they shouldnt have otherwise gone. politico.com advanced that story today with reporting that aphorizenbering put the call notes in that special secure server eisenberg went back to vindman and told him vindm...