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The numbers have come along as the process has happened, right? >> yeah. >> as mueller spoke you saw more democrats come out and obviously with this latest revelation with ukraine more democrats came out. the more information that comes out you have more democrats. the other thing thats happened here is some democrats were just sitting on the sidelines waiting on nancy police toe come out with the "i "word, and they were deferential in terms of the entire process so you saw people kind of peelin...

Putin whether cybersecurity, metaling in elections the list goes on. thats why congress provided the fund fog the ukrainians. >> you have a reason why you did it. they told you it was held up for interagency process. process pch the president admitted in the past two day thats not true. do you have a problem with that. >> listen i dont have the answer as to exactly why the money was held up. its not just ukraine its other countries as well. i do know philosophically the president has held up mon...

Theyre not given any answers and theyre told there are unspecified concerns from the president. when concerned lawmakers on capitol hill call to say it is part of a review process, theyre looking at this aid and not to give any more details. what we are trying to figure out, john, is exactly why the president froze the aid a week before the phone call. the white house officials last night insisted to us repeatedly that it was not a quid pro quo, that it was actually as part of a legitimate revie...

Inquiry, but again, she stuck pretty closely to the presidents own word and this is a president that already admitted this act, this basically trying to pressure a foreign leader to interfear with an american election that would benefit him in that way and that was enough for nancy pelosi and those democrats that come along and say this impeachment inquiry was necessary. >> go ahead. >> i just think its important to underline the fact that what congress really needs to do and what i think the sp...

That would help distribute this aid on the why. >> it wasnt clear to them. theyre saying it was this interagency process. really what were described to by sources is it started in the west wing and there wasnt a lot of communication to the pentagon to capitol hill, to other people, why they were freezing this in particular. thats why when you saw them release it, it caught them off guard. didnt sound like ukraine was getting this aid which we should remind people is how they protect themselves f...

Contained in that phone call. this all kind of is related potentially to the substance of the whistle-blower complaint theyre still trying to get out of the administration. the fact that this all happened around the same time period raises new questions about that timing and how thats going to play out is probably not going to be with lawmakers just letting this go without asking a lot more questions. >> i mean, josh, the connect the dots game isnt all that hard. of course congress wanted to kno...

Biden doing anything wrong and this is something that has been looked into and i want to make a point here i think what we need to talk about right now is what did the president right now do or not do and one thing we know he did, congressman and this is aukraine a week before the call. we no he that a week before the call he directed mick muffly his chief of staff to hold up the aid. new congress. i want to give you a chance to respond. you were told the delays in the aid were part of the inter...

He is so tough he got fuss to iraq. he wasnt getting along with people in the administration that i consider very important. >> michael, do you remember the time that the president on this network said that he was his own best adviser? trusted his own visit very best of anybodys. is he his own national security adviser? and what are the risks of this? the president down playing having any sort of dissent from a national security adviser. does it undermine the credibility of who comes next, numbe...

United states of america has to preconditions. >> youre exactly right. be a strong second lead here and government. you share those same fierce as donald trump often talked fire its striking to me and i pentagon official, dont you? and fury. suspect a few other people that >> well, i do. john bolton meant it, whether it it was a very good report from was north korea or iran or just today on the anniversary of the inspector general about anybody else. september 11th, we are talking he rarely met ...

Actually to surface them in dlib berra at this interagency process. what donald tr least pretends to see the world the way he does, someone who can whisper into his ear and give private candid advice and usually keep that advice private. donald trump doesnt want to hear the views of national security counsel staff. he want this whisperer and i think hes going to have a very hard time finding someone whos both competent and willing to take this job. >> i mean, there is no deliberation, theres no ...