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Seats, to be elected in places where voters may not typically vote for people like us or with our bank accounted. >> navy veterans. air force veteran, ex-cia officers. a band of sisters that banded while storming the unframiliar terrain of of this. >> translating their service is what they did with their 180 on starting an impeachment inquiry. going from no to yes after herring president trump admit he spoke to ukraines leader about joe biden. >> the specker of having the sitting president of th...

The russians know this. as long as the calls remain secret theres leverage. the president has to know they have. for them the calls remaining secret is only in their best interest. also if putin doesnt want that out. hes a clear message. dont release the phone calls. >> you are one of the people that signed the letter in support of the impeachment inquiry. heres part of it. to invite additional foreign interference into the democratic process. that would constitute abuse of power and represent a...

The house speaker. >> to have the president of the united states use leverage over a foreign leader on an opponent. that very idea cut for us former national security people close to the bone. >> it was a great example of the power of teamwork and the power of putting country above party. >> was it all for one and one for all. >> oh, absolutely. we were all texting each other. we were like, this all changed. this is a bright line. >> backing an email is politically risky, already some the most v...

The respect of the institutions that would compel people to cooperate, but that is not what were seeing here. so what leverage, members of congress, you know, other investigative arms, what leverage is there to compel this cooperation? >> look, i think the leverage is limited because of the whole aspect of time, right? i think they want to do this quickly. they are bringing him before the committee, before there is a deadline for documents, and so that is kind of od to me because normally before...

Keeps us in the weeds a little bit from the bigger story, which is what the president did to use his leverage to get dirt on a political opponent. that is the story. that is the big thing here that was different enough for myself and my fellow national security freshmen to come out for an impeachment inquiry. but, you know, were doing a methodical process now. im really glad to see that a number of the committee members are staying behind. theyve been asked to stay behind here in washington to f...

Lets bring in former fbi special agents and cnn legal and national security analyst asha. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> lets start with the conversations we learned between the president of the united states and president putin of russia, the president and saudi crown prince, mbs, mohammad bin salman. there will undoubtedly be people who want to know what was discussed that warranted a tighter-than-normal control over these conversations. are you comfortable with the declassification ...

Depending on the answer. >> that issue right now is whether or not the administration used foreign aid, economic and military aid, to ukraine, as leverage to get dirt on the bidens, joe biden and his son hunter. >> exactly. that is one thing volker could really shed light on. the idea that there were different choke points at which this military aid was held up and the what house wasnt communicating even with republicans on capitol hill about the reasons why. the question for him would be what w...

Always a dangerous game and never worth it. i think that its been cloudy at best starting with your interview with mr. jewgiuliani. i think hes acknowledged the very basic top line fact here, which is that the president used his leverage on ukraine to get them to provide dirt on a political opponent. he acknowledged it in front of you, in front of everyone else. thats what changed for me is they were open about it. they didnt seem to be shameful about it, and i just cannot accept that, as an arm...

And netanyahu. what has he offered and traded away of u.s. national security? >> or with held. talking about the ukrainian call. what was the leverage he was using. the post reporting during the 2017 conversation with russian diplomats trump also seemed to invite russia to interfere in other countries elections. its shocking. will we ever find out who the other countries were? >> we have some ideas. they have tried in europe and elsewhere. when you tell a country like russia say we dont have any...

Veteran hoolihan and alyssa slanberger. a band of sisters who are in the unfamiliar terrain of politics? being able to text folks and say i am really being hit up on this issue. how have you been handling it? im not sure how to translate my service into something thats relatable. how do you guys do that. >> translating their service is exactly what they did with their 180 on starting an impeachment inquiry, going from no to yes after hearing president trump admit he spoke to ukraines leader abou...