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Things that they would normally have to do? >> so, oftentimes it depends where the event is. if its a city-owned facility, nashville as an example, where donald trump will come to a city-owned facility, the city says, okay, well, we own the facility, youre going to have to sign this contract and youre going to have to pay your bills up front. if its not a city-owned facility or a city-owned facility managed by, say, a third party, as is often the case, they have a lot less leverage, and thats wh...

Investigation. first explain the importance of democrats now getting access to this as well as this judge now validating the impeachment inquiry that is underway. >> the judges ruling is not a surprise. because under our constitution, there is no specific explanation as to how the house undertakes an impeachment inquiry. you dont have to have a resolution. you dont have to have the judiciary committee do it. speaker pelosi has wide leverage. the judges ruling constitutionally is not a surprise. ...

Ago. >> there are so many violent federal crimes on the broooks. why arent we talked about those? violent federal crimes. >> what it would be -- >> these people dont -- >> richard, how is this different? how is this alleged scam different than someone who is able to get their children admitted because of large endowments or they got leverage because donations were made et cetera, buildings named after them. are you implying there really is not much of a difference? >> there is, frederica. theres...

Theyre going to get all the information of foreign companies, theyre going to give it to their own chinese enterprises which will out-compete us because theyll know everything we know. the chinese have done this so many times if the past and theyve even bankrupted large companies like nortell networks. this is going to be an effort to sort of crip l hel cripple forn companies and you put them out of business. arthel: how much leverage does china have to enforce the law? >> it has a lot of levera...

It, and well be deciding what were going to do with it in the future. took the oil. we want to keep the oil. >> donald trump declaring an end to u.s. involvement in, quote, endless wars in the middle east, and says he will bring home the 1,000 u.s. troops that have been on the ground in syria. that is not true. his defense secretary announced friday that, in fact, 500 american troops will remain in the country, not to protect our kurdish allies, believe it or not, but in fact, to protect the oil...

Carve out the part that was paid for because there was this big event versus things they would normally have to do? >> if its a city owned facility and weve seen this with certain cities, nashville would be a good example where donald trump would come to a city owned facility, and youre going to have to sign this contract and pay your bills up front. if its not a city own facility or a city own facility managed by a third party which is often the case, they have a lot less leverage. and thats wh...

Another country for a presidential personal favor that is a problem. usually in diplomacy and national security, you use the tools as leverage to get behavior from another country and advancing another political issue. >> and trumps adviser said in her deposition that john bolton then the national security adviser told her to tip off -- to tell the white house lawyers about the activities of giuliani and others calling giuliani a hand grenade who would blow everybody up and now we know that giul...

Quid pro quo? >> that defense erodes every single day. and i want to start where the aid was approved, which was in congress in 2018. and then signed by the president in 2019. so the very second that the president signs into law the aid, the ukrainians know that aid is on the way. they dont know the exact date theyll get it but every second that goes by that they dont have the aid is a second they know that the united states has leverage until that aid is delivered. so the exact date that they k...

Allies stand with us because of their belief in our credibility. when we simply pull back in the face of some military pressure and, listen, i get it. we dont want to be in these endless wars. but, john, this was 2,000 troops. when i commanded that mission in afghanistan, it was 150,000. we had 185,000 in iraq. this small number of troops was leverage. it built our allies and created the conditions to defeat the islamic state. >> talk about isis. >> sure. >> what is your concern now about isis. ...

Ukraine at that time. what do you make of that? >> i would really like for john bolton to be one our witnesses. its not a decision that i will make. >> who makes that decision? >> chairman schiff, of course. in consultation with -- >> he would want john bolton to testify as well? >> we would have to ask him. theres incriminating information in the text, opening statements of dr. hill from the national security council, ambassador yovanovitch, ambassador taylor, ambassador sondland. the most incr...