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Its backup saying we passed a law. you cant just do this on the fly and say "no." what else are we learning. >> i agree that its more details on the time line. when it comes to raising more questions, i mean, its just another reminder of the fact that democrats still dont have first-hand knowledge from mulvaney or from the omb director who actually made that direction to hold the aid and why he did so. we know that it was unusual and unorthodox and testimony has shown that omb took this decision...

Political purposes. and that of course is precisely what donald trump did. he decided to use this money as a leverage to put zelensky in a box as he told ambassador sondland. he wanted to put zelensky in a box in order to extract from him the political dirt on joe biden he was looking for and this omb official said this looks very strange essentially and asked questions about the lawfulness of what was taking place. >> we see that. just beginning to go through the transcripts. the deputy associa...

Testimony would be more gripping. hes acting like his testimony would be gripping, but we just dont know. i understand why youre drawing that conclusion. but john bolton, somebody that close to the president came in to testify, isnt that kind of the -- >> the reason people think it would be so powerful is so far the republican argument has been no one has drawn this link between trump and the question about this leverage for the aid. they think bolton can do that because bolton was pushed out of...

Avoids testifyi avoid testifying to congress. there are a lot of people looking to this judgement tonight to understand what is going to happen to don mcgahn. i imagine the white house is very uneasy this evening. >> well, i think they are. look, it is several more steps before we get the truth out of don mcgahn. the justice department, as you reported, ali, is going to appeal and seek a stay. even if mcgahn -- if that stay is denied and hes forced to come before congress, he can assert executiv...

Theres no indication in his report the investigation looked at trumps taxes, outstanding debts, curious relationship with deutsche bank or long history of financing real estate projects with foreign cash of unknown origin. precisely the places where russian influence efforts were most likely to surface." they continue, "was russia using economic or other leverage to manipulate trump? did that explain trumps bizarre coddling of putin and his reluctance to impose sanctions or say a harsh word abou...

All and it really puts a powerful piece of leverage behind the house committees, the judiciary committee, the intelligence committee to get the ball rolling of high-profile witnesses who they have been absolutely barred from talking to so far. >> glen, let me ask you about this particular part of the judges opinion i want to read to you. when the doj insists that presidents can lawfully prevent their senior level aids from responding to compelled congressional process and neither neither the fed...

They continue, "was russia using economic or other leverage to manipulate trump? did that explain trumps bizarre coddling of putin and his reluctance to impose sanctions or say a harsh word about russias illegal seizure of crim crimea, its use of chemical weapons in england, its attempts to hack the u.s. election system? that central question, whether russia had trump under its thumb, was the focus of a secretive counterintelligence investigation that, according to mueller, was hived off from hi...

With the kurds who are the primary and lets look at the scale here. in these forever wars, we had 150,000 troops, we had 175,000 troops in iraq. this is not that. we have withdrawn 95% of the troops. this is 2,000 troops in syria. 2,000 troops in iraq. a handful of troops scattered around the region, 10,000 troops in afghanistan. it is a relatively small investment that will pay big dividen dividends, big doors swing on small hinges. this is a very, very sensible deployment and you understand le...

Escalated into a murder plot. instead, she said it was simply preparation for her pending divorce. >> and i told the attorney about it. and the attorney said, whoa, youre good because, he said, thats good evidence. >> she wanted to be able to just have leverage and be able to embarrass him. >> reporter: danielle told the detectives another reason was plain old curiosity. >> i had to see for myself that it was a girl. it broke my heart. >> how did you -- >> i dont know why because i was cheating ...

Fred in some way. >> so frank already had the $100,000, so now hes on the hook big time to fred. and fred says to get off the hook youve got to make this happen. >> correct. >> then slates wiped clean. >> yes. solution of all debt. >> fred was the mastermind using his financial leverage to manipulate frank who in turn hired nick for a bargain basement price. but fred didnt know the cops even suspected him, didnt have any idea, for example, that they were tapping his phone. so when fred actually ...