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Transcript also contains ellipsis at three points where mr. trump is speaking. colonel vindman told investigators that at the point of the transcript where the third set of ellipsis appears, mr. trump said, there were tapes of mr. biden. lets get right to the reporter who broke the story for us. political reporter for nbc news jonathan alan and from the white house nbc white house correspondent kelly odonnell. jonathan, lets just start with you. the fact is vindman is directly contradicting what...

Higher court ruling. but it puts the democrats in a much stronger position to get the entire unredacted mueller report. >> all right. i want to just repeat this for our audience. the chief judge for the d.c. district court issued an opinion and order releasing the house -- to the house judiciary committee all portions of the mueller report that were redacted pursuant to 6 e. also states the department of justice has to send this to the house judiciary committee by october 30th. next wednesday. j...

Impeachment. you have the whole impeachment clause of the constitution, ali, is 31 words. so when you get into how do you do the trial? and what rights are afforded the president? none of that is stipulated and required. so youre back, whether you think this is the founders genius or the founders vagueness, you are back into a modern debate over what it should look like. >> im going to give you a break for a second, ari, so you can come up with some kind of rap lyric while i talk to jonathan ala...

Would be good for the administration. now, that stuff is going to go to the democrats in congress on top of the whistle-blower testimony weve discussed, on top of new witnesses that are verifying and corroborating what the whistle-blower said. so when you talk about a president whos worried about articles of impeachment, this breaking news, this court handing more evidence over to the congress. it could inform potentially a whole other article of impeachment if they get into obstruction of the c...

Thank you for being here this morning. can i just get your reaction to the clip we played of mick mulvaney to jonathan alans point saying what he said and admitting to things that are potential impeachable offenses, but also breaking the law. >> they went from a defense of saying we didnt do it to a defense when they said so what if we did and that is the normalization that the trump white house industries to do. in my view with all of the focus on mulvaney, i dont think that was a surprise, i t...

And accepted russias help to, again, unfairly tilt the playing field in his favor. if we dont wrestle this monster to the ground now via an impeachment hearing, dont we think the president will be emboldened to lie, cheat and steal, maybe call in some of his new newly acquired friends, kim jong-un, vladimir putin, to tilt the field in his favor. the only option is to open impeachment hearings and wrestle this thing to the ground. >> thank you for joining me. i want to pick up that conversation, ...

Report actually included instances of obstruction of justice. theyre making the calculation its just bad politics for them to move forward. i think pelosi doesnt want to run into a wall of the senate voting no on removal and certainly doesnt want to lose her house majority. >> always good to see you. jonathan alan, nbc national political reporter. former special counsel robert mueller says he doesnt want to testify before congress about his report. will the house judiciary committee be forced to...

Subpoenas, evidence, and go to court. that would change nothing. >> do you think your committee is in a position to or wants to to continue to go after testimony from both barr and mueller? >> well, personally i think barr has proven himself to be not very honest and kind of a spin master. im very less interested personally in hearing from him. we have expressed an interest in hearing from mr. mueller and i know there are ongoing discussions with him. so we will see how that turns out. >> you me...

Since special counsel robert mueller spoke out clarifying that he could not exonerate the president from obstruction and had he had the evidence to do so, he would have done so. with me now political reporter jonathan alan. that number, a few days ago, i was reporting it was in the 30s. tell me whats going on and why speaker pelosi continues to downplay the calls for impeachment. >> i think a couple of things are at work here. it is growing. when nancy pelosi said the other day that it was 38, t...

News "washington post" survey at an all time high. now at 60% in the abc poll with a 36% approval rating. for now, this is the only poll to show trumps approval that low. the question is, is this poll an outlier or a start of a trend that couldnt come at a worse time for republicans? on the line two months from now. our legal panel for a friday night. for the news hour on pbs, white house reporter for the associated press and jonathan alan, political reporter. thank you for being with us. thomas...