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Heightened about the explicit use of leverage by the united states of america and president trump on ukraine to get something of value for president trumps personal political interests. this is a fact set i have not encountered in almost three decades as a journalist. one thing im struck by is that president trump, if he were any other president would be advised very strongly to shut up and to stop talking, because the new arguments he makes, first of all, setting a standard that he cant meet, c...

Deployed on as leverage in the united states against the talks in stockholm and beyond that. this is a show of threat for north koreans and a threat if talks break down this relationship could go back to the war like posture both sides displayed two years ago. house democrats demanding documents from vice president mike pence as the impeachment inquiry widens.

Us. >> this is the most fun part of being a prosecutor when you get a great batch of evidence and get to reinstruct whos who and what are they saying. this one, people talk about a quid pro quo which means this for that in exchange. and here they spell it out. the quid is to investigate. and you know theyre connected because of that word assuming. assuming means if they do this, assuming that they investigate, then they will get the reward, which is is the trip to the white house that is about a...

Of leverage, it is it not to hold over the ukrainians head. >> yes. and this is i guess the essence of the whistle-blower complaint, that american foreign policy in essence is being hijacked for the presidents personal gain, that he is deploying rudy giuliani, the attorney general to kind of get people to go after his enemies and hold up the normal course of american foreign policy until that happens. what you see bill taylor expressing concerned about is, right the ukrainians need military aid ...

Something we can start thinking about. >> that really happened. if the first potential article of impeachment is ukraine, might china be article number two? joining us is matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department. thank you for being here. weve had so many conversations. what did you think when you saw donald trump seek out and ask in the case of china, really threaten them with all the leverage, in his words, that he has over china, if they dont cooperate with his political...

Messages between american diplomats shed new light on the transaction trump sought from ukraine and they confirm that a visit to the white house was dangled as leverage. those texts were turned over to congress by former special envoy to ukraine kirk volker yesterday. in the days before zelenskys phone call with trump in july, volker tells his colleagues the goal of the call is for zelensky to say he will help the information. bill taylor warns that zelensky is sensitive about ukraine being take...

Pro quo -- >> look, nobody is counting votes right now. were in an unprecedented posture right now. the president of the united states tried to use the military and national security muscle of our country to shakedown a foreign leader in order to obtain political leverage over an opponent to get him to produce dirt on joe biden. that is an absolutely scandalous and untenable situation were in, and now were seeing his mental state rapidly unraveling on a daily basis where he calls american citize...

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Government to cooperate in proving a conspiracy theory. so this is an evidence that when you have a commander and chief who is consumed with conspiracy theyre res, w theories, he doesnt contain it. its not contained into his angry tweeting. it leaks into american foreign policy and american diplomain a disturbing way with an ally that is locked in a conflict with a far stronger rival that happens to be arguably our chief geopolitical foe that is desperate and dependent upon us. that is the worst...

Privately and possibly to use leverage of funding to get an investigation going against that opponent. i think romney is trying to set out a path, at least say you should not be doing that. >> i know we have not heard from many republicans mr. allen. you must know this. what are the talking points for those republicans who are still sticking with trump. those are tried to make the argument thats highly unusual and so swampy, give me a braeea if we are saying it is unacceptable for children and f...