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Dollars, your and my taxpayer dollars that have been approved by both the house and the senate to use as leverage to force the ukrainian government to investigate a political rival, i.e., joe biden. >> we know, of course, president trump will be watching the proceedings very closely, and hes been in new york this morning after being cheered on by a friendly crowd at the louisiana state/alabama football game last night. once again, trump struck a familiar theme on his feelings about impeachment. ...

Tonight. it was supposed to be to announce the investigations boo the bidens and others. obviously, he did not know what was afoot. has he ever seen anything like it before? what can he help us understand about why this leverage was so powerful? we have anthony scaramucci here and tom steyer here to talk about bloomberg. >> he has a billion dollars. see you in a few minutes. >> so did those democratic victories in tuesdays election means president trumps support in the suburbs eroding? well spea...

Within his rights potentially to hold finance as a leverage for state purpose, but the question why was he holding the eyed if thats what it happened if it was for the purpose of targeting a political rival or broadly routing out corruption, which is arguably a legitimate state interest and thats what it boils down to, how can they prove his intent, if they can. neil: and they cant, right? so even if you have a connection aid was withheld because they were slow on responding to his request, he c...

Is helping president putin. >> it is evident that trump wants to -- if not better but working relations with putin. >> just five years ago, downtown kiev was inflamed as a revolution began. ultimately putin took control of crimea in eastern ukraine and the two countries continue to be at war to this day. with the wilson center in washington, d.c., she says the winner between the united states and ukraine is vladimir putin. >> it is giving him more leverage in this situation. i mean, we saw presi...

And jonathan allen. >> what are your expectations for next weeks public hearings, mouch are we going to learn beyond whats been released in those depositions? >> i think the public is going to learn a lot about diplomacy and i also think the public is going to learn a lot about this for lack of a better term, scheme, that was put in place to try to get ukraine to open up an investigation into vice president, former vice president joe biden. and hunter biden. and the pieces of leverage that were ...

Colonel vindman, obviously is going to be at the top of their list. fiona hill, former top russia advisor on the national security council is also going to be high on that list. anybody who can essentially speak to the public to back up the allegations of a quid pro quo. the first part of that being the idea that the white house meeting between president trump and president zelensky was used as leverage to get these politically-motivated investigations that the president wanted. the second aspec...

Friday with testimony from the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, who was fired six months ago. joining me now, a member of the intelligence committee, democratic congressman andre carson of indiana. congressman, what do you want to extract from these witnesses that you feel the american people need to know? >> thanks for having me, rev. i think its important that these witnesses, many of them will reiterate what was said to members of the committee privately. but also i think they will highligh...

A level of impeachment, youre saying as you just clearly said, he took u.s. congress agreed-upon money, voted-upon money, taxpayers money of the u.s., to use u.s. tax dollars as leverage to get some dirt on his political opponent. is that not an abuse of power that is impeachable, in your opinion? >> absolutely. i think its textbook abuse of power. i think whats important to note, from my republican colleagues, reverend, to constantly talk about rule of law, to constantly talk about the preserva...

Began. ultimately, took control of eastern ukraine and the two countries continue to be at war to this day. with the wilson center in washington, d.c. she says the winner between the united states and ukraine is vladimir putin. >> it is giving him more leverage in this situation. we saw president trump at the press conference at the u.n. general assembly saying i hope that you and vladimir putin can work out your problems together as if it was a little squabble. >> russia doesnt only benefit fro...

Big effort to tackle it. thank you for your time this morning. >> bill: were learning more about the horrific murders of three women and six children in northern mexico. the funerals for that family drawing hundreds of mourners already. >> sandra: new emails raising questions about a key witness in the impeachment probe. what do they mean for next weeks first public hearings? >> the president felt both those things would be helpful in the reelection campaign. to use the apparatus of the u.s. gov...