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To get put back on the phone call. trump was trying to get zelensky to produce some sort of recording that vice president biden talking about corruption. president szelensky talking abot burisma. those are two huge key points. it was impeachment inquiry which may have been a quid pro quo involving the presidents desire to get the investigation into the bidens. >> so i just want to share what we have next to us. it is important because the president said it was a word-for-word transcript right he...

>> it seems like all day and all night. many hours credit. i didnt have a clock on him myself. i noticed after several hours, i was talking to the congressman in new jersey, he says many of the things members of congress have been looking for corroborated and it had just begun. it was early afternoon yesterday. >> lets bring us up to speed on vindmans testimony related to how donald trump called it a transcript. it is not a transcript, it is a memo memo memoiralizati memoiralization. according t...

Trumps long held view of ukraine as a corrupt country. former advisor, chris anderson will be testifying as well. "i want to reiterate that my colleagues and i in the foreign service are non mf partis-parti. i will take that commitment as well as my oath to defend the constitution seriously." alexander vindman claims the white houses memo detailing the phone call between trump and skelet zelensky was not so accurate at all. anna palmer is joining us now. >> what do you expect for the kmi committ...

Threat of this fire zone. the flames could turn on a dime with how fast these winds are moving and how powerful this wind storm is. this will be dangerous in of itself. there is a fire storm that could shift and move at any point. the whole valley is covered and unfortunately we are covered in smoke right now. >> you are in the middle of one area and there are fires across northern california and southern california. look at all those california wildfires right now. steve is just in one place th...

Below the line, were in a recession. the new bar here says 1.9. there hasnt been a 4 since the year 2000. >> right. you can see growing economies at 4, 5, 6%, but this has been the longest economic expansion in u.s. history. when were at 2%, we call it ba barbecue growth, not really blazing but not growing. >> but not a recession. >> but not a recession, and werent the numbers better than expected? >> better than expected, but not on fire. around the world is not very healthy. but the economy is...

Arou alexander vindman told members of congress that he tried to edit the white house memo detailing the july 25th phone call between president trump and president szelensky to include details that is were owe mmitte. this was a direct contrast from what we heard from president trump regarding the same transcript to the call. >> they tried to take that conversation and make it into a big transcribed. i released an exact transcript. >> they did not know i had a transcript done by talented people ...

Ruhle." we are learning more today of the intelligence work that led up to the raid against isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi, northern syria compound. u.s. middle east based officials knowledgeable of the operation told "the washington post" that the informant cultivated ahead of the raid was a person facilitated baghdadis movement in syria and helped oversees construction work on his syrian safe house. the mold details knowledge of baghda baghdadis whereabouts proved to be critical in the raid....

Come forward and it is actually true. the other thing thats interesting around katherine croft, for those of us in washington for a long time, livingston, he was a former member in congress and one time thought to be the next speaker in the house during the impeachment trial. he actually called croft several time and trying to get mary yovanovitch and also saying that. neither of those things are true. it is an interesting thing. lawmakers would want to get to the bottom of them. it is not a sur...

Focused on processed questions. if you dont like private testimony, the public testimony will come shortly hereafter. the issue is they are trying to paint a picture of what they call a witch hunt or a procedural effort to get rid of the president and largely ignoring the content of the issue, the abcs. how do democrats hope their message gets out to the american public? >> well, when this go to a public portion, what they are going to do is take the best aspects of the testimonies that they hea...

Happened. a lot of the iraqis zunis were collaborating with isis. we offered them the money, thats help. thats not the reason. >> you mention the syrian kurds helped in the intelligence and outcome of this raid. that is reminder that they continue to be our allies in that part of the world even though the u.s. turn its back on the kurds. >> yes, this gives you an indication of how close that relationship was. they found this guy, they cultivated him and at a certain point, they handed him off to...