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Of course the justice department would then play a role in enforcing the subpoenas. so you can see that there is plenty of leverage here for the administration for the white house, for the state department, for pompeo to play this out, to delay and delay and delay. and we know that the democrats have their own game plan, which is to try to wrap this up and try to do this as quickly as possible. the two things are in conflict. so well see whether or not they can find some arrangement to try to an...

That. he said no. then later here said yes, he is working with the state department. he seemed to be telling the truth. those texts he put out with volker seemed to suggest he was working. is there a situation or a circumstance where that is okay for a civilian to be working with the state department doing these types of things with ukraine? >> its highly unusual. i dont know if it been done in the past but it is highly unusual, not something ive seen in 15 years in government. i think mixing po...

Classify documents. and one of the first things you learn when youre a new cia analyst is you cant just classify something if its embarrassing or politically sensitive. there are reasons and rules why we classify things, so it was inappropriate and frankly violated, you know, an executive order thats on the books how you classify things by moving it from an unclassified to a verified classified system. i think its important especially in communicating why this whole thing is different that we fo...

In front line districts calling for an impeachment inquiry on monday night, beginning a flood of over 90 new calls to investigate the president. also a former cia analyst who served as the secretary of defense for national security affairs under president obama. congresswoman, reflect how you feel four days later after you co-wrote that op-ed and we still i dont think had the rough notes of the phone call. do you feel that op-ed and your decision of the impeachment inquiry has been vipdicated? >...

Leverage? how is that okay? so i feel a sense of urgency going forward. >> do you believe this rises to an impeachable offense? >> i would say so, yes. it is a felony to accept help from a foreign country. for the president, literally, as we say, shaking down a foreign leader for his own political ends, using his power, that is called abuse of power. >> if the house of representatives goes ahead and votes by a simple majority, 218 votes, to impeach the president, then it goes to the senate, wher...

Needed american support. and we chose as a congress, republicans you just mentioned, in a bipartisan way to get them the aid that they needed. here is a president that didnt deliver that aid -- actually actively held it up and used that leverage that he had to pursue a personal end. thats pretty dramatic and pretty much of a betrayal of your office. >> let me get some other stuff in. im going to read passages from the complaint that directly name the attorney general william barr here, at least ...

Mentioned in the phone call that the president had with the president of ukraine, not to mention that at least three times giulianis name is heard at the same time at the same time as attorney general barr. what was he doing? at whose behest? >> it was clear he was trying to get dirt on joe biden, his son hunter biden, the democrats, hillary clinton. he was trying to collect as much negative information as he possibly could. >> i assume thats at the presidents behest. but he should testify to th...

Why would white house lawyers be asking for this to be placed somewhere where fewer people could see it? >> for the affaorementioned reasons. the lawyers probably more than anyone else realized the import of that dialogue, that conversation. and of course the thing that strikes -- came to my mind is this is one call. what about others? makes you wonder about the phone calls with vladimir putin, just to name one. >> so does that suggest to you -- and again, this is not the only time this happened...

And we chose in congress in a bipartisan way to get them the aid that they needed. and heres a president who didnt deliver that aid, actively held it up and used that leverage he had to pursue a personal end. thats pretty dramatic and pretty much a betrayal of your office. >> i want to lead some passages from the complaint that directly name the attorney general william barr here. it says this interference includes among other things pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the preside...

Think everybody has a good reason to fear that there is a mistake which leads to an escalation and they completely describe the potential of danger we would see here. what we what we should not underestimate is that there is a war going on since ford obvious people are dying in mass is theres a bargain every day in jenin and what we see is the repercussions the ripple effects which are coming from there and its a combination i would say between this war and the tensions which saudi arabia and ir...