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Just that the president and his lawyer rudy giuliani sought help from ukraine. do you see evidence so far that there was a quid pro quo? that they used the leverage both military aid and a meeting with the president to get that help, that investigation of joe biden and his son. >> i can promise your viewers well not see evidence that the words quid pro quo were used because in the history of quid pro quo, know nno one ever says got a quid pro quo for you. ukraine depends on the united states for...

Because of turkeys actions, directly related to the green light president trump gave them. >> congressman swalwell, thanks for joining the program. >> significant to hear him say turkey is not a u.s. ally. >> and to use that as leverage would be significant. >> it would. still ahead, a now former ft. worth police officer is charged with murder after fatally shooting a woman in her own home this weekend. and that womans brother is speaking with cnn demanding justice. that is next. its either th...

Whats been going on there suggests to me that rudy giuliani and parnas and fruman were engaged in a shadow foreign policy with their own goals for the president. and it all came to light of course when we discovered that the president was on this july 25th phone call with president zelensky in which he essentially shook zelensky down -- >> do you believe this president knew what giuliani and others were up to in his name or to his benefit? >> well, certainly with respect to the core allegations,...

The door is wide open for resurgence of the islamic state. creating power vacuum begging for the meddling influence of russia. leaving northeastern syria wide open iran to extend reach unimpeded all the way from tehran to the door step of our friends in israel. and destroying the leverage we currently have to compel by bashar al assad to stop slaughter of syrian people and negotiate end to terrible conflict and humanitarian catastrophe. madam president, i want to make something clear, the united...

Have monopolies all over our economy and when you concentrate power domestically, then you empower foreign influences, in particular china to take power over us. you see it with the nba but youve also seen it in corporate america, hollywood. you see are corporations, marriott, apple, all kind of kowtowing to china because china has control over vital services and china is a large market. this was a strategy that was put in place by the clinton administration and in the bush administration and ...

You concentrate power domestically, then you empower foreign influences, in particular, china, to take power over us, and you see it with the nba but you also see it in corporate america, hollywood, our corporations, marriott, apple, all kind of couch yelling china because china is a large market. this was a strategy that was put in place by the clinton administration and in the bush administration and its about concentrating power in a small number. its a whale to deal with it is simple. the fi...

Issues. >> i was going to point out, in that rundown you were talking about, the other part of this is all these things are helpful to vladimir putin. and at some point you have to go, and im not a conspiracy theorist, but oh, my god, this man has to have something on trump because hes putting vladimir putins interests ahead of -- >> i think thats the question, why does the president have vladimir putins foreign policy on the front of his mind more than american foreign policy? >> and you said h...

Trumps personal financial interests in turkey from whats happening right now. it makes it very difficult to ascertain, is donald trump acting in his own personal interests or in americas interests, which in this case, certainly whats gone down the last two weeks has not been in americas national interest. >> he has not canceled a visit that erdogan wanted, that he offered him. maybe thats the leverage that mike pence is going to say to him, youre not going to washington unless this thing is reso...

That makes the u.s. largely irrelevant. not only are the russians act i have active in syria, but putin is in saudi arabia and the uae, united arab emirates today. >> dennis, dont forget israel. they have felt compelled to go running to putin. >> they have, because of the russian presence in syria. but you can imagine whats going on right now when he visits saudi arabia and the emirates and he says, well, the americans couldnt protect you, in fact the americans arent prepared to protect their fr...

One of the key talking points today, the president tweeted this, his supporters on the hill like matt gets have used it, is that the democrats are hiding these interviews because they dont really have anything. right? >> look, this is all derivative of the strategy or at least the leverage the white house put out a week ago, and that is not cooperate because they dont accept the legitimacy of this impeachment inquiry. youve seen different attacks. sometimes they come at it one way, sometimes ano...