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Value of those two things to the ukrainians. a point president zelensky himself made clear. and with good reason. of course it mattered to them. thats why it was used at leverage. something the white house chief of staff openly admitted. >> absolutely. no question about that. but thats it. thats why we held up the money. we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> and then he at the direction of people in this white house lied to your face and said he didnt say that and tried to blame it on ...

Corruption is hollow. the vitally important white house meeting and congressional funding were withheld explicitly to get a statement this president could use to go after his opponents. every person whose testimony that we have seen, spoke of the value of those two things to the ukrainians. a point president zelensky himself made clear. and with good reason. of course it mattered to them. thats why it was used at leverage. something the white house chief of staff openly admitted. >> absolutely. ...

The syrian kurds all seem to be the big losers are they being forced to was damascus and in fact the russians are expected to join the syrian regime but they will post be looking to america who are now moving back into syria to probably give them some leverage for putin the russian president he will see the 19 objective now is bringing damascus an uncritical currently theres no tomorrow diplomatic relations but the message from putin is you have to work together to resolve the key issues of her ...

We will not stand for that. >> joining our discussion now, someone else who was in the room today, congressman david cicilliny, a democrat from rhode island. he serves on the house judiciary committee. what can you tell us about the republican attempts to get a name for the whistle-blower today? >> well, lawrence, first of all, the whistle-blower statute of course protects the identity of whistle-blowers. this is essential so that people can feel comfortable coming forward to report misconduct o...

Substance of the evidence, that is president attempting to interfere in a presidential election, holding out military assistance as leverage to try to get him to gin up a false investigation against one of his political opponents. and, you know, the president admitted that on camera. he released a telephone transcript, a report of that that confirms it. and theres of course the whistle-blower report that details the scheme in its entirety. but we have suksquently heard from a number of witnesses...

Extraordinary amount of leverage. >> sondland claims his testimony that he didnt know the prosecutor stood for the bidens until after august. of 2019. heres what he says. giuliani did mention the name, in august i understood that he was one of many examples of the ukraine companies run by oligarchs and lacking structures. i didnt know until more recent press reports that biden was on the board. again i recall no discussions with any state department or white house official about former vice pres...

The white house not to show up and already an issue for him. also he was concerned about the impact of a partisan appearance for ukraine. on the ability to get bipartisan military aid in the future. even then he was a patriot. thinking about what would the impact be on ukraine. which is vulnerable to the extraordinary amount of leverage. >> sondland claims his testimony that he didnt know the prosecutor stood for the bidens until after august. of 2019. heres what he says. giuliani did mention th...

Statement saying he went to him afterwards and said it was entirely inappropriate and dr. fiona hill also on the security council said the same thing to him. so assuming that hill backs cou some problems here. >> he could. and bolton cut the meeting sort so which translates to me is lucy, you have som backed up by other people. i look at peoples credibility as witnesses to figure out who gravitas to and based on the expertise. n an abuse of sthand account, b power, what was the leverage and why ...

Many of these nations and terrorist groups want to use our citizens as political pawns and leverage and but im so hopeful that we can now find them and bring them home. >> and diane, for your family personally, youve waited for this for a long time ever since james was abducted in 2012 and killed in 2014, and does this give your family some measure of justice or closure? >> well, certainly it does. i agree with the president that it protects our world. this man was out to kill many, many more we...

>> jim baker, youre our legal analyst and former fbi general counsel but assuming this passes on thursday and we assume it will pass and the democrats clearly have the votes, will it give them more legal leverage to get the documents or testimony or documents they are seeking. >> it helps to some degree. i dont see this as a legal issue. this is a political question. the sense is that the republicans are making some -- some hey in the public and so this is an effort to take that off the table bu...