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Supposed to freeze us in our tracks. >> quid pro quo. quid pro quo. nice production values. but thats another way of saying light, leverage. we all use it. its the engine of daily function. if i ask my assistant to fetch me a gram of goat tranquilizer i dont have to say fetch me a gram of goat tran if -- tranqur else. the paycheck is leverage. its constant. as we are doing adult foreign policy, trump kept hearing about the anonymous resisters deep inside the white house. they are like rats in th...

Supposed to freeze us in our tracks. >> quid pro quo. quid pro quo. nice production values. but thats another way of saying light, leverage. we all use it. its the engine of daily function. if i ask my assistant to fetch me a gram of goat tranquilizer i dont have to say fetch me a gram of goat tran if -- tranqur else. the paycheck is leverage. its constant. as we are doing adult foreign policy, trump kept hearing about the anonymous resisters deep inside the white house. they are like rats in th...

People, but there was a third leverage point that was introduced today by jennifer williams transcript. ms. williams is vice president pences russia and europe adviser. she suggested that maybe the decision -- president trumps decision to stop vice president pence from attending president zelenskys inauguration in may could have been related to this because at the time the president we know was in contact with rudy giuliani and with ambassador sondland about pressing ukraine to do these politica...

Which we dont know at the moment, follow the page 1 trail. >> i think thats right but a lot of it can be followed just by documentation. there has to be memos that came over. there has to be directives that came over. the whole idea behind this, its so out of the ordinary in the first instance. this is money that had to go to ukraine. they were being -- in a real war with the russians. they needed this aid. everything weve seen shows that this is the leverage that donald trump was using as part ...

Which were eventually delivered but democrats allege the $400 million of military aid was held up by the president who tried to use it as leverage to pressure ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son, hunter. republicans today digging in in defense of the president. >> you know, thats a thing about facts. they dont change. we have the call transcript, we have the two individuals on the call, president trump, president zelensky, there was no link, pressure, or pushing wh...

West. in february mass protests forced viktor yanukovych into ex-siel. a month later russia sent special operations troops to crimea. today theyre still fighting to regain its lost land. >> to really maintain that independence is really completely conditioned on the ongoing assistance from the united states. so it gives the united states and the president in this instance tremendous leverage. >> this is a country thats effectively a buffer state, isnt it? >> yes. at the moment what we have is th...

The transcript of the call. >> right. but he also knows that yovanovitch had gotten letters from poroshenko saying how much he liked her, and he felt her loyalty could have -- zelensky felt her loyalty was probably closer to poroshenko, the person he beat in the previous election. >> what do we care what they say about the relative leverage of a u.s. diplomat when they are working for us. dont we want foreign powers to like our diplomats and work with them and have a good relationship? >> absolu...

Between continuing some form of witness intimidation. >> one would be abuse of power, the president using his office to get dirt and using that as leverage to get dirt on an opponent. and then theres obstruction of congress part which you mentioned there. are we looking at two articles of impeachment being formed before our eyes? >> well, remains to be seen but those are good nominees for tat. look, today was another significant brick on the load. but that load has gotten so heavy that the shock...

People. but i do -- just do want to add that there was a sort of a third leverage point that was introduced today by jennifer williams transcript. ms. williams is obviously vice president pences russia and europe advisor. she suggested that maybe the decision, president trumps decision, to stop vice president pence from attending president zelenskys inauguration in may could have been related to this. right? because at the time, the president we know was in contact with rudy giuliani and with am...

Wanted to get rid of her so they could exercise the leverage over president zelensky that they wanted. she was a real corruption fighter. they were on the side of the corruption. theyre trying to exploit the corruption and direct the corruption at zelensky so the president could get the favors that he wanted. she got in the way because she was forwarding the real american policy which was to oppose corruption in ukraine and to try to nurture and strengthen democratic institutions there all over ...