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President is doing an aggressive restructuring of the nsc. that could potentially be folded into that. >> pamela, thank you very much reporting live from the white house. lets go to david cicilline who sits on the house judiciary committee which will be drafting articles of impeachment. i appreciate your time. you hear this recording, that the president is considering getting rid of people detailed to the white house. that could include mr. vindman, ms. williams, and sending them back in those c...

Got fiona hill, he was also working as a russian expert. shell shooes going to be in live testimony this week. so will mr. holmes. she says that the u and shes said he was being pressured for the investigations with the leverage being an eight and a meeting. >> what is do and then? >> everything is coming in so far, lots of names, lot of facts. fi fill. its not a shock he was interested into an investigation into the bidens? did trump know there was an

September 15th in order to secure a decision from the president to allow the funds to go forward. >> did you tell ambassador bolden about this conversation as well? >> yes. >> what did he say? >> he said to tell the lawyers. >> why did he say that? >> he did not explain his direction. >> he didnt say that because youre running at 18-day deadline? >> again, i dont know how you directed that, but it seemed reasonable and consistent with what i was going to do that. >> you are going to tell that be...

Taliban hoping for less american troops which the president stopped negotiating about. there is a lot of back and forth. but how this improves the actual situation on the ground, very much remains to be seen. brian: worry about them saying well, we have other guys in there we have got to go grab some other americans and do another swap. pete: exactly. which can is precisely why we dont do these swaps. afghan government taken the lead. steve: if they worked. they will grab more people. pete: of c...

Leverage over ukraine to get dirt on joe biden. >> that point is an important one. because part of the argument to justify the hold is thatser the natural part opolicy, which isnt persuasive at all. it was signed into law by the president. dotting the is, crossing the ts and cutting the check. >> thats why mulvaney to get back the original question. because he is the act omb director. and this is the kujal. the leverage trump had to extract what he wanted from the president off ukraine. also the...

Conditionality thats a part of policy which i think isnt persuasive at all is overridden by the fact that the aid was already appropriated. omb is supposed to be dotting the is, crossing the ts and cutting the check, right? >> exactly. i think thats why these omb officials are important and thats why mulvaney is such an important witness because he is the acting omb director. he really does understand this budget stuff. and, you know, this was the leverage that trump had to extract the commitmen...

With being the acting chief of staff. sandy testified that he had never in his career seen a senior omb official assume control of a portfolio in such a fashion. thats referring to his boss, michael duffy. he raised questions to the general counsel about whether it violated the act of 1974. there are questions for the omb staff. >> the sad thing is this is not supposed to be a politicized process. congress approved this aid. it was supposed to be delivered. why wasnt it delivered? so i think omb...

September 30th, that really means september 15th in order to secure a decision from the president to allow the funds to go forward. >> did you tell ambassador bolton about this conversation as well? >> i did. i did, yes. >> and what did he say to you? >> he said to tell the lawyers. >> why did he say to tell the lawyers? >> he did not explain his direction. >> but he doesnt tell you to go tell the lawyers because youre running up on the eight-day deadline there, right? >> again, i dont know why ...

Released transcripts morrison listened in on the july 25th call as did jennifer williams, an adviser to vice president pence who will also apear tuesday. and said the call struck her as unusual. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman raised concerns after listening to the july 25th call. he, too, is slated to appear on tuesday. >> there is no one star witness that this whole case will rise or fall on. not that we know of right now, but i think vindman is another brick in the wall that house democr...

House democrats are trying to build. >> reporter: former special representative to ukraine kurt volker defendd the presidents actions in closed-door testimony telling lawmakers there was, quote, no leverage implied. >> there was no linkage. and i think further testimony in depositions will confirm that multiple times. >> weve got text messages from vlker and sondland. >> reporter: volkers private text message the morning of the july 25th call revealed ukrainian officials pushing for a white hous...