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Launching hours of rockets into many southern israel. further up north and its also carried out many strikes in the gaza strip now what has been a bit different and this time is that its about. a set that theyre holding it islamic jihad responsible usually you know in statements you read that its hamas to hold him responsible for anything coming out of gaza hamas is ruling the gaza strip this time to talk it was clearly the islamic jihad hamas had showed support of the group and showed solidarit...

International arena, see a meeting with the u.s. president in the oval office as the white house as a -- as the ultimate sign of endorsement and support from the united states. >> president zelensky was a relatively new president, is that right? >> thats correct. he was elected on april 21st and his government was formed after parliamentary elections in july. >> would a white house meeting for president zelensky boost his legitimacy as a new president in ukraine? >> it would primarily boost his ...

Obama. >> okay. >> as we heard from bill taylor yesterday one of the issues with the aid it was not delivered until september 11th, two days after this entire issue exploded and taylor said that that was an issue of leverage for ukraine in its negotiations with russia. as it relates to gordon sondland whose testimony we will be looking forward to next wednesday, the president, you were with me in that news conference yesterday, he brushed it off and the entire inquiry and the hearing as a sham, ...

Being withheld as leverage. and even if that hadnt been explicitly told to the ukrainians as it was, their impression would be in order to get the money theyd have to start acceding to the requests the presidents representatives are making. to me it looked corrupt on the face of it, which is tart of the reason i wanted to go to ukraine, but now we know it was actually explicit. >> you just highlighted something i wanted to follow up on, which were republicans making the narrow argument, which i ...

Process of notification, which, of course, the administration didnt do. of course we all suspected that it could be that the aid was being withheld as leverage. and even if that hadnt been explicitly told to the ukrainians as it was, their impression would be in order to get the money, they have to start acceding to the requests the presidents representatives are making. to me it looked corrupt on the face of it, which is tart of the reason i wanted to go to ukraine, but now we know it was not i...

Article i and branches of the united states government. >> well, and whats interesting is that for the first year or so of the presidents term he often bragged about the fact that he had given more aid to the ukrainians than president obama did until, of course, he figured out that he could use that aid as leverage to get help for himself politically. and so, yes, the president is able to dictate a lot of american foreign policy, but amongst the tools he has at his disposal is not the withholdin...

Its so important because were talking about some of everyone understands theres nothing wrong with the outside channel everyone was complaining about. president, if he is representing part of the outside channel, you the united states, saying its have volcker and sondland and in the national security interest of this country to go after corruption in the ukraine. what did the president say? perry, three highly respected people. the president doesnt trust the joe biden, burisma, not because burea...

Opportunities that come with dems with adam schiff playing that. i do not think able the bug eyed zombies. to defend themselves for the might of felt like they were under pressure, running out of stuff, but theres actually this is worse than a horror film. its pornography for democrats. nothing that theyve shown thus. >> greg: they got way better here hold this. stuff! this is what i think it is follow that spud. amazing for taylor mightve been [ tires screech ] remember the safe word? mad that ...

Much faith in him that he can do i didnt hear it myself. this, but maybe he was i heard it from somebody else. pressured. >> dana: the other thing that bill taylor said about zelensky its typical for a boss to was that he was new and he was excited about him because he was assign a job to somebody else. going to start doing some of the things that united states had been asking for. especially when you dont trust >> greg: he didnt seem like the people around you because they are ultimately talkin...

Of this to me. inappropriate for the president hes somebody who from the day to use the investigations as he came in and gave his leverage to the aid you guys and deposition, republicans said release this whole transcript. the legislative branch had this is a guy who exonerates the president. and in his transcript, he is already deemed worthy of them certainly much more diplomatic and much more careful about how receiving? >> when the executive branch is raising the issue of corruption, he descr...