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You know, so it does raise the questions of this was -- if this was all part of a plan to suspend military aid, use it as leverage to get the new ukrainian government to do what the president wanted for his own political purposes, i mean this could get awfully messy if it includes the secretary of state, the vice president, and who knows who else. so, you know, i think the stakes in this have gotten a lot higher. >> john dean, cnns jamie gangel has a new report. its from a source familiar with t...

You had vice president pence meeting with president zelensky in poland and talking to him about corruption. you know, so it does raise the questions of this was -- if this was all part of a plan to suspend military aid, use it as leverage to get the new ukrainian government to do what the president wanted for his own political purposes, i mean this could get awfully messy if it includes the secretary of state, the vice president, and who knows who else. so, you know, i think the stakes in this h...

Admissi admissions of the factual --? you take that and move on with your investigation. >> well take that as an admission that youre throwing up everything as a roadblock. were not messing around. >> i think this is key. im just excited about this, obviously. -- just excited why i keep cutting you off because i have so many questions. when you get to a point when you say enough is enough and weve asked you and you now move forward with the vote regardless of you could be looking at a situation ...

That was trumpaganda in full swing last night on the hannity program. a couple things. i gathered this stuff before the mueller report was over. hes trying to get himself a privilege there. i did this in the context of being the presidents attorney, therefore it is privileged. thats one thing hes trying to do to protect him from having to testify about it, anyway. the second part is what democrats want to get, volker, yavanovitch. was rudy giuliani using the leverage saying the president support...

Whistleblowers 9-page document, whoever he is or she is, keep in mind, if you are going to prove that the president is use offing leverage to get a ukrainian leader to do what he wants to do to help himself politically, why would go so down in the conversation before he even brought up the name biden and it was the ukrainian president that brought up the name rudy giuliani. and ken volcker who resigned over the weekend said ukrainians were not made aware that the assistance that they were about ...

As leverage. mike pompeo might be a witness to that. >> even if he werent in on that phone call, he was named in that memo of that transcript, which would also make him materially important. >> exactly. thats why its all the more disturbing. he may have further knowledge of those allegations of using foreign aid as leverage to pressure the ukrainian leader. >> i dont know what your relationship was with come puello in congress, but he must understand oversight. mike pompeo has responded with a l...

Breaking news. "the new york times" reporting president trump, quote, pushed the australian prime minister in a recent phone call to help attorney general bill barr investigate the origins of the mueller probe. one u.s. official telling the "times" the white house restricted access to the transcript of that call. sources say president trump initiated the conversation for this sole purpose. i want to bring in now former federal prosecutor laura coates. so as we look at this in this reporting, the...

To reconstruct or using the e-mails what actually happened in that call. the other thing is, the ukraine president is saying now that he doesnt want to release this. well, congress, if they wanted, has leverage. theyll have to reauthorize more money going forward. they may be able to apply some pressure on the ukrainian president to say we need this. we may not have heard the last of this. >> margaret, its cnns reporting from friday that it was not just the phone calls with the ukrainian preside...

Commandeered it and calling on foreign leader to help and who knows what hes using as leverage in the process. >> and recently i think we all watched as the president had a meeting with the australian prime minister -- >> right. >> and just to put into context, australia is an important partner. australia clearly for the u.s. -- australia clearly wanted to stay on the right side of the u.s. >> correct. >> that was very clear from this meeting that we saw part of it on camera. so with that expect...

>> reporter: well, president trump called the australian prime minister in recent weeks and he initiated the call for one purpose and that was to get the australian governments help in this ongoing justice department investigation which is examining all of the intelligence and law enforcement activity that was leading up to the mueller investigation. now why would he ask australia? because australia was effectively the reason why the whole thing began. australia government gave the fbi in 2016 i...