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Trump administration officials by the dozen have testified to as well. so this is just a smear campaign. its an effort for republicans to try to distract the country from all of this evidence that is piling up to tell this clear story of a president who is using american taxpayer dollars as leverage to try to get a foreign country to interfere in american politics. >> mike pompeo left for germany today, and on his plane was his top counselor, ulrich brechbuhl, who was supposed to be testifying t...

Confirmed a quid pro quo involving the military assistance. he said that was communicated through gordon sondland to a top ukrainian official. thats very significant because that was the first confirmation that we had that this was actually communicated to the ukrainians rather than just being something that was kind of held out there as leverage that maybe they did or did not know about. in these excerpts, he confirms not just that military aid was withhold but that both ambassadors volker and ...

>> neil: while technically not violating what they had told the president even though others argue theyre certainly tempting fate, they get more and more provocative in the hopes that that will bring the u.s. the toible table. i would imagine the opposite. the same with iran. but its a weird strategy. >> this is particularly strange -- not strange behavior but bad for the iranians because theyre humiliating the trump administration in a way. the trump administration authorized civil nuclear waiv...

An extension of the protest that erupted early last month in the iraqi capital of baghdad. demonstrators are demanding a new constitution, a new government and u.n. supervised elections. as for any common ground between the united states and iran to reduce tension in the region, just yesterday irans supreme leader, the ayatollah, reaffirmed her commitment not to negotiate with the united states amid crippling american sanctions on his country. shannon buried >> shannon: thank you. with that pled...

Asked on the board of burisma? >> i dont think there are a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasnt biden. >> sean: looked like burismas investment paid off in a big way. hunter $1.5 billion private equity deal with the bank of china 10 days after flying with his dad to china. zero experience in china. we cant find experience in private equity either. would any other american get this deal? no. this stinks to high heaven. joe 30330. if you didnt discuss it, in leve...

Acknowledge president trump used military aid as leverage to investigate the bidens. in this shift in strategy they are insisting the presidents action was not illegal and does not rise to the level of impeachable offense. these senate republicans conflict with the argument president trump tweeted last night. false stories are being reported that a few republican senators are saying that president trump may have done a quid pro quo. it doesnt matter. theres nothing wrong with that. its not an ev...

Him in the criminal case. it was deemed by a court later that his criminal conviction was tainted and thereby reversed. so there does have to be some coordination that goes on. to the extent theyre investigating additional crimes to use as leverage against him to obtain cooperation against rudy giuliani, they have to make sure theyre coordinating those efforts. im hopeful that they will. i know the house intelligence committee, for example, has hired some former sdny prosecutors to be their coun...

And goliath battle, and they need all the allies that they can get. one of the concerns they expressed privately, john, was the idea that when you see the u.s. about its commitment to ukraine freezing that aid for months on end, that it sends a bad signal to other allies of ukraine. theyre worried it could spook those allies. what they want to see is a strong and robust show of support from the u.s., not just to negotiate a -- not to just win this war, but also to win the peace because important...

Denying that he said the words that he said. so im -- >> yeah. >> are you going to accept it when your colleagues stand up and say, there was a quid pro quo, it happens all the time. its not a big enough deal? >> well, kate, what am i going to accept? everybody has to make up their own -- >> i care about your opinion. >> by the way, by the way, it doesnt happen all the time. it is true that foreign aid can be with held as a leverage to get countries to change their behavior, but ive never heard ...

Decision about who the most important witnesses are, and try to provide testimony in an orderly way in which the american people can understand the nature of the allegations and the facts involving what is at the heart of this investigation, and that is the presidents abuse of his office to coerce an ally that is fighting off russians in our national security interests, they are fighting off the russians in their interests as well to withhold vital military support from that nation, to withhold ...