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From weird places. but as bob costa is saying, it could emerge from sort of working their way up. there arent that many people between lev parnas and igor fruman. and theres nobody between them and rudy giuliani. and according to rudy giuliani, there was nobody between rudy giuliani. he was there on behalf of the president. this seems like a very ominous sign for rudy and potentially the president. >> i think so. look, the truth emerges when the people who are trying to get to the truth have lev...

These processes develop? >> right now it is very much over the past week while we have been home in our districts working here, celebrating the holidays, it has been very much work that has been done within the committees. when we return this week, we will be having more conversations, but we are unified that we are moving forward, that we are putting the facts out, and we are not going to let the republicans tactics of obstruction stop us from defending the constitution. but what we saw in nove...

Amount to a big shift in the american position and require a new concession from the taliban. one that americans have little leverage to extract. "washington post" reporting the taliban nor the government of afghan indicated a cease-fire was near or even been discussed in resumed u.s. negotiations. maria, rick tyler and ro khanna back with me. let me start with you, congressman. serving up turkey with side of surprise. remembering what happened in september when we learned at the last minute the...

Scenarios, right in you start small and you lay down a principle, and then you get experience doing something and you build on it. so, yeah, thats absolutely one scenario. another scenario is it just sort of drags along, doesnt go anywhere. but again, i think they all get advantage of it and they all want to have leverage. what is different about it is the three of them together. and is now other countries in that area will have to take account of fact that theyre making a claim of, you know, no...

Is an interest of doing that. obstruction of justice. obstruction of congress as well. there is a volume from which to draw. >> there is literally a volume 2. we learned something interesting from one of chairman nadlers letters to the white house, laying out three things. amos-long effort, efforts to cover that up, third, efforts to obstruct the investigation into the mueller probe. and i think thats especially important. for so long we have heard, which i think are justifiable calls to actuall...

Were going to get really really really expert advice on that part of this coming up a little later on in the show tonight. thats a little later in the slow. thats still to come tonight. this new news were learning tonight is that the leverage, the part where president trump didnt just demand they help him with these allegations. he put a suspension on the aid to ukraine. that part of the scandal. the leverage part of the scandal. the withholding military aid from ukraine, we are learning tonight...

>> well, its realistic as far as donald trump is concerned, because as you know hes a transactional leader, and that means when he thinks up a transaction that it should just occur. we saw that when he had his surprise announcement a few months ago that he was going to bring the taliban to camp david. that, of course, shocked the entire defense establishment, and showed that donald trump seems to think in a non-linear fashion and when he thinks it will gain him some form of media publicity or so...

Before streaming on netflix. could these negotiations set a new standard for movie releases? >> absolutely. we are starting to see the industry change in a really big way. essentially movie theater owners wanted to see a 60-day release of "the irishman" they claim, which is true, this is a film by martin scorsese, one of the greatest directors of all-time and should consume it in all of its glory on the big screen. netflix wasnt willing to go above 45 days because netflix has all the leverage. m...

Discussed in the state department? was this something being discussed in the department of defense? >> it doesnt appear that this was something that was being discussed at upper reaches of the u.s. government. and for trump to say, well, the taliban want this and the taliban kind of deny it and say their negotiating position has not changed indicates kind of a credibility gap between what the president says and what the actual truth is. and so he seemed to go a little above -- over his skis but,...

>> and what would the negotiations with the taliban look like? and what would it take to reach a peace deal with them? >> well, you have to understand that they are not playing for half steps in this game. taliban views themselves as the -- the force or the actual government of an islamic state of afghanistan as they existed before the u.s. invasion in 2001, in the post-9/11 era. what they view is that the government of afghanistan will try to partner with them. the united states will withdraw a...