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The united states. part of that is essential to that is the checks and balances built into our constitution and our form of government. this president wasnt releasing documents. he wasnt allowing subpoenas, people to testify. so this impeachment proceedings process gives us a tremendous amount more leverage with which to make him comply, because hes not above the law, when he does something wrong or that has the implications that we see right now, he should be investigated. he should be held to ...

Nuclear program with the requested that in the future you could leverage more negotiation with them around some of their other bad acting around the world. and when president trump pulled occupant of that deal, i -- out of that deal, i think he lost some of his leverage. and what was predictable was that would escalate and if escalate and escalate because what it does. i think that we have to get back to someplace where all of the united states and its partners are acting in unison with respect ...

That the president used the leverage of aid to try to get the ukrainian president to dig up dirt on vice president, former vice president joe biden. here this week the ukrainian president, zelensky, met with president trump, and heres a what they said. >> it was normal. we spoke about many things. i think and nobody should -- [inaudible] >> in other words, no corruption. chris: zelensky says right there nobody pushed him. >> he could say that nobody pushed him, but understand that the united sta...

That the president used the leverage of aid to try to get the ukrainian president to dig up dirt on vice president, former vice president joe biden. here this week the ukrainian president, zelensky, met with president trump, and heres a what they said. >> it was normal. we spoke about many things. i think and nobody should -- [inaudible] >> in other words, no corruption. chris: zelensky says right there nobody pushed him. >> he could say that nobody pushed him, but understand that the united sta...

Requested that in the future you could leverage more negotiation with them around some of their other bad acting around the world. and when president trump pulled occupant of that deal, i -- out of that deal, i think he lost some of his leverage. and what was predictable was that would escalate and if escalate and escalate because what it does. i think that we have to get back to someplace where all of the united states and its partners are acting in unison with respect to iran. and i do think t...

Whos this zelensky guy and how are we going to keep pushing the story with a brand-new president. >> clearly, the president maybe needed leverage, so what do they do? they force out the ambassador who had been getting into back and forths with rudy giuliani. giuliani canceled his own trip to meet with people close to zelensky. this then, the ultimate snub. vice president pence was going to lead our delegation to zelenskys inauguration. they yank him, and it was meant to send a message. july 18th...

To help him find dirt on his political opponent in 2020. its clear as day in the transcript. and there is leverage there. whether exactly what they knew, i dont think is important. theres always leverage when youre talking to the president of the united states because all leaders of the world want to have a good relationship with the president. its especially important when your country is occupied by putin and you need the leader of the free world to be on your side. and when anybody says let m...

The party will be destroyed and they watch that guy becoming a sycophant to donald trump. what people ask is what leverage does donald trump have on these people. >> what does the president or -- what do they have on these guys? >> those are two wonderfull wonderfully -- tim scott, hes speaking the truth. we have to step back and think when we look past whats going on right now. >> hard to do that. >> let me talk as a political operative here. and what happens here, this is going to come and go....

The fact that the president clearly and has been indicated they did hold up the approved $391 million, almost $400 million in aid to ukraine on military aid to ukraine. when you look at the fact the president in his own summation that was released by the white house said that he did ask for a favor, isnt it going step by step toward a real situation that is going to be difficult for the president and the white house to explain how that was not dealing in his own political interest and using appr...

>> again, at the nse there are multiple types of systems, some for unclassified information, some for classified and then some for whats called code word, which is exsepceptionally classified that even people with top clearance doesnt necessarily get to see. and what breaks with executive orders is anyone taking information from the unclassified system that has no reason to be classified and putting it in one of those higher level systems. i learned on my first day as a cia officer there are man...