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May have worked better for him. now, putting himself into this really gave republicans an awkward situation. and, frankly, it gave adam schiff a whole new opportunity to look at this particular tweet and the timing of it as part of a broader picture of he said obstruction as one of the potential articles of impeachment that could come forward from this. so the white house acknowledging that the president is speaking for himself, has the right to do this, has done nothing wrong. but at the same t...

Kneecapped by the white house and was the target of a smear campaign by president trump and rudy giuliani. joining me now, former advisor to jeb bush. center for american progress, also former advisor to hilary clinton and barack obama. pretty powerful statement by -- by her today. and she -- every time she was very matter of fact. maybe thered be, you know, without -- it -- it was, to me, very effective. she personalized without it -- without it coming -- coming across at sankt moanous. >> it w...

Tangentially paying attention, it makes sense on the surface, right? the call happened on july 25th. she wasnt ambassador then. but having the president of the united states, who weve been told all week long isnt going to pay attention to these hearings thinks theyre a side show, doesnt think this matters. target yovanovitch while she was on the stand entirely blow up the argument that she does not matter. and it threw all the republicans and their questioning off their talking points. you saw t...

He is -- she is the one witness hes attacked so far. so now, all of a sudden, you have to pay attention to her. it makes republicans job of defending him that much more difficult. which, you know, if i had a dollar for every time we talked about that in any other context up here, i would retire, chuck. >> mike mcfaul. i want to focus you and ben wittis on the last thing i -- in my introduction that i played from ambassador yovanovitch because it was the rationale. its the first time i had heard ...

Compartmentalize that is probably going to do this party in if theyre not careful. thank you. up next, roger stone guilty on all counts. what does it mean for the mueller report? and is a presidential pardon on the table? and is a presidential pardon on the table? without my medication, my small tremors would be extreme. without it, i cannot write my name. i was diagnosed with parkinsons. i had to retire from law enforcement. it was devastating. one of my medications is three thousand dollars pe...

>> the challenge for the democrats is to turn to the republicans and say, if you are so sure, why wont you call up mick mulvaney, why wont you tell the president to send up john bolton, because the white house was unsuccessful in blocking kent and taylor, has been successful in keeping a half dozen people from speaking at all. >> sondland is the missing link here. hes the one if you want to draw a direct line between the president and holding up the aid and caring only about investigations, as h...

Know what we have the tape lets play the tape. >> were not going to give you the billion dollar youre not the president. president said i should call him. i said im telling you youre not getting billion dollar i said youre not getting billion im relieving to hear and it was six hours i look at him saying were leaving in six hours and prosecutor is not fired youre not getting the money. well son of a -- got fired. >> i mean when you see the whole thing coming into perspective, it changes the enti...

Know what we have the tape lets play the tape. >> were not going to give you the billion dollar youre not the president. president said i should call him. i said im telling you youre not getting billion dollar i said youre not getting billion im relieving to hear and it was six hours i look at him saying were leaving in six hours and prosecutor is not fired youre not getting the money. well son of a -- got fired. >> i mean when you see the whole thing coming into perspective, it changes the enti...

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Such pressure mounting. ron jo this lasted months and months and months until there was a financial trigger. >> thats right. that is when the quid pro quo was extremely credible people, former ambassadors. i dont think the defense really is or should be that there wasnt a quid pro quo. at this point the defense has got to be that, yes, there was a quid pro quo but whats the big deal. you know how trump is. >> right. >> again, that may not be a legal defense. to the extent that this is a politica...