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United nations in september. you have to couple this with what we also learn yesterday from "the new york times." far from being able to keep president trumps demands out of earshot, president zelensky at the time, the aide was finally released just as this was about to boil up and become public was preparing to go on cnn. they had the cnn -- he was going to do it. he was going to do it for a simple reason. he had to do it. this is not something ukraine can do without and president trump knew th...

President trump and zelensky with them announcing those investigations. this is still on the mind of the ukrainian officials even after the security assistance. >> quickly, how much trouble is rudy guiliani in? >> he should be in enormous trouble because hes trying to usurp the role of people in diplomatic relations and at one point, even violate the law. john bolton is saying he doesnt want to testify because he would be viewed as partisans. the ukrainians were told according to everything we k...

Brianna. >> manu, thank you so much. we have the transcript in hand. i want to talk briefly now with the folks i have here on set. this is from bill taylor, as you heard from may nu. this is a key diplomate working in kiev. actually, stand by. were going to talk about, as we wait to see the ex eithers, lets talk about the importance of this. this is -- the person who were going to hear in the public hearings next week. >> he looked at that 14-page opening statements where he made very clear that...

Sondland says he now recalls telling a ukrainian official on september 1st, quote, resumption of usaid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that had been -- that we had been discussing for many weeks. that anti-corruption statement was supposed to target the bidens. sonld lands revision blows up the time lyme being peddled by the white house i. tess first clear acknowledgement that a request for an investigation was on the table after ukraine was t...

About this. we have francesca chambers, laura coates and gloria borger with us. lets talk about what we heard from kaitlan collins, which is that bill taylor is really the witness that the white house is worried about. is this the witness they should be most worried about? >> absolutely. this is the person who really revealed to the american public that he had skepticism all along to taking on the role, skeptical about the treatment of yovanovitch. it seems as though there is this quid pro quo b...

Peddled by the white house. it was on the table after ukraine was told in late august the aid was being held up. trump allies say that was not the case and could not be used as leverage. majority senate leader mitch mcconnell doesnt think that moves the needle at all >> im pretty sure how it would end today. it would not lead to a removal. >> investigators have requests white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney testify on friday it. seems unlikely he will comply with that request. last mon...

Democrats here? >> he doesnt suggest all this has been freelanced. when you talk about what is good enough, frankly, you talk about prosecutorial discretion and prerogative in a criminal case. when it comes to impeachment, were talking about whatever it is congress says is sufficient to constitute abuse of power. frankly, the pure breadth of this system that youre seem outlines the abuse of power that youre seeing that is part and parcel to the impeachment inquiry for a variety of reasons. the n...

If the ukraine were to knuckle under, in effect, what he called a nightmare scenario, russia would be laughing the whole way. >> i highlighted that. lets come back to that quickly. what would you mean by a nightmare and what would the russians love? the nightmare is where president zelensky goes out and makes an announcement that hes going to investigate burisma, he might put that in a series of investigations, he would mention these two and he goes on and on and on, worried that the security sy...

A lot of reasons why people will forego high profile representations and rudy guiliani represent as particularly especially thorny one. >> the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine set to testify next week and weve now seen his closed door testimony where he clearly lays out a quid pro quo, gordon sondland, former ambassador for ukraine, and leverage and what does that tell you? >> gordon sondland probably talked to lawyer also. he gave particular testimony he realized wouldnt sit well and age well. its ...

Leverage. they are very wealthy. they have a nexus between government and business and, yet, they are completely out of touch with the average person that drives on the 99 freeway or tries to get to work on the 101 or evacuates his home because he is afraid he is going to be burned alive in it or he has insulin in the refrigerator and he has to shut the power suddenly goes off or walking into a hotel and the doorman says check your feet you might have a needle or feces on it. and it cant go on a...