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>> that was former congressman beto orourke telling sporeuppos hes officially dropping out of the presidential -- even with these latest developments were still more than three months out of the iowa caucuses and a reminder just how early we are in the process is taking place tonight in the hawkeye state. is the annual liberty and justice celebration. it was formerly known as the states jefferson and jackson dinner. the event has a deep place in democratic campaign lore partly because it was whe...

State department, the pentagon. everybody whod be sitting around the table in the interagency process was witting of essentially this corruption of our ukraine policy to make it not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giulianis effort to pressure this government to investigate the presidents political opponents. that is a whole sale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doin...

Of justice -- and this may have predated any investigation, but it shows something deemer which this idea of consciousness of guilt. you dont have to hide things if you think theyre honest and done forthrightly. you worry theres a problem there. and so the mere fact hes storing it in this special safe and asking vindman not to speak about it suggests he knows theres something problematic about it. >> i dont know if you ever experienced things like this, but how would this have been handled? vind...

Send the secretarys consideration an invitation to participate in an open hearing where the departments counsel can be president and the american people can witness. so we might see rick perry on our television sets in an open hearing sooner than we think. like with rick perry its important to know we dont know if many of these witnesses will actually appear for their closed door depositions. if precedent holds most of them will, but nothing is guaranteed with this administration. last night int...

Investigate -- >> okay, were going to move onto another question, but what i would say is we cant determine that yet. >> do you think its okay for president trump to ask china to launch an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden? >> i dont know thats a real request or him just needling the press. >> the question is is it appropriate for a president -- >> is it okay for a president to ask a foreign country to investigate the bidens? >> what do you make of these allegations? >> i said im not g...

Handle the conversation. politico reports, quote, the lawyers then decided to move the record of the call into the nscs top secret code word system. vindman did not consider the move itself as evidence of a cover-up, according to person familiar with his testimony. but he said he became disturbed when a few days later eisenberg instructed him not to tell anybody about the call especially because it was vindmans job to coordinate the interagency process with regard to ukraine policy. nbc news and...

Military aid approved by republicans and democrats from a country that vitally needs it to keep a foreign enemy, russia, at bay, and also dangled a white house meeting all in an effort to get him to open up an investigation into the presidents political opponents. that is illegal. withholding the military assistance is a law the president violated. he abused his power. thats unacceptable. its illegal. and its impeachable. >> during the mueller report, there were discussions and arguments on the ...

Actually. ive watched people who i respect in many respects really become sycophants to this president, they cower in fear of losing power because of him. instead of arguing the substance, because they cant, you cant listen to the evidence and think anything other than that this president is guilty as sin, what they do instead is argue process. now theyre saying, its perfectly okay that he withheld military assistance that we approved in law to get a foreign country to investigate his political ...

>> one of the aspects of the resolution that we passed today authorizes me to begin releasing transcripts. and i would expect that process will begin as early as next week. >> now, as i mentioned later this month house democrats plan to take the impeachment investigation public. but even before the public hearings take place it seems that the investigation has already started putting a dent in president trumps poll numbers among republicans. a new "the washington post" abc news poll finds that 4...

Complaints and then conferred with his deputy about how to handle the conversation. politico reports, quote, the lawyers then decided to move the record of the call into the nscs top secret code word system. vindman did not consider the move itself as evidence of a cover-up, according to person familiar with his testimony. but he said he became disturbed when a few days later eisenberg instructed him not to tell anybody about the call especially because it was vindmans job to coordinate the inte...