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In their phase one trade deal. china threatened retaliation. on the streets of hong kong, protesters celebrated having hundreds of american flags and holding up signs thanking president trump. the president has been undecided on whether to back the bill because of the delicate trade negotiations. he signed yesterday. just a few hours after he signed the bill and a significant provocation, chinas regional ally north korea fired off those of two projectiles which the south korean army say were fir...

Insurance policy idea if it was about the bidens? >> it didnt make any sense. >> but heres also part of the thing. you have to remember donald trump is like -- because hes a cult-like leader, he gets people and he isolates them from everybody else. rudy doesnt listen to his advisors anymore. hes caught into that web of trump. so he may feel he knows other things. maybe hes he just talking trumps language. maybe hes just making a whole mess of it so we talk about it for all i know. >> thats part ...

Raises with zelensky. before he ever gets to the 2016 election interference and the bidens, hes talking about whether germany and other european countries are spending enough. so its likely that was part of the mix, and thats why this makes it not quite as clean a case on the military aid suspension as the democrats have presented so far. >> you know, of course on that point, manu, the idea that the president made that statement in terms of asking for a favor and reminding about essentially the ...

Little more muddled than some of the coverage tonight is suggesting because the fact that his superior at omb, the political appointee, mike duffy, did come back with those questions about what other european countries were spending in terms of aid to ukraine, go back to the transcript of the july 25th call, and its the first thing that president trump raises with zelensky before he ever gets to the 2016 election interference and the bidens, hes talking about whether germany and other european c...

Taxpayer money as leverage and they dont want to face that, and so they just engage individual kind of what about this or what about that, and we should be focused on is on the presidents actions and theyre not able to do that. >> all right. senator hirono, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. aloha. >> and next, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, they have set their sights on a new target. >> michael bloomberg plans to bypass human beings. >> all he has to do is take out his checkbook. >> by...

Explanation but one, and that was the president wanted this leverage to get ukraine to do his political dirty work. >> now that report will then be handed formally over to jerry nadlers judiciary committee. and if there is an impeachment, they actually write the article or articles of impeachment, and theyre getting right to it with a hearing on wednesday as we mentioned which will focus on the legal and historic precedence. but i want to turn to one more thing before we go, we like to look at a...

Trump is like -- because hes a cult-like leader, he gets people and he isolates them from everybody else. rudy doesnt listen to his advisors anymore. hes caught into that web of trump. so he may feel he knows other things. maybe hes he just talking trumps language. maybe hes just making a whole mess of it so we talk about it for all i know. >> thats part of the problem too, right? because if you worked for any elected official, there are all these sort of extra governmental people around, right?...

Including active grand jury investigations, active indictments, these criminal cases that butt right up against the impeachment proceedings on capitol hill. i think thats an underappreciated part of how this is going, the kinds of pressures on the people involved and how this may ultimately unfold. were going to get really, really, really expert advice on that part of this coming up later in the show tonight. were getting advice from somebody who among other things was a key member of the specia...

Part of this coming up later in the show tonight. were getting advice from somebody who among other things was a key member of the special counsels team among prosecutors working for robert mueller. that is still to come tonight. this new news were learning tonight is that the leverage part of this scandal, the part where president trump didnt just demand that ukraine help him with these investigations, he leveraged u.s. policy toward ukraine to try and force them to do it, he put a hold on ukra...

Appellate process because as were learning, these issues are resolved on the issue of speed rather than waiting a few minutes for an opinion. >> july, what ajulia, what are f these testimonies released last night. how do their testimonies add to the impeachment inquiry? >> yeah, their testimonies are quite a bit. we saw, essentially, it was obvious to them that giuliani wanted there to be investigation into biden which is going to play very well for democrats going forward in this -- in the inqu...