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Was trying to use leverage to get access to people. >> dana: yeah. judgment is questionable. kimberly, you have a book out october 15th called resistance at all costs. well have you back to talk ab that. thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: okay. call it culture coming forward. it started as fun when one person got his sign on espn sparking a flood of donations. instead of keeping the cash he said hed donate $1 million to a childrens hospital. and the des moines register set out to write a puff pie...

About whether you should provide the complaint to congress. >> it did appear that it has executive privilege. i was not stonewalling, didnt receive direction from anybody. i was trying to work through the process and the law the way it is written. >> the complaint alleges the transcript was moved to a secret system in the white house, quote, intelligence information such as covert action. >> there is allegation of a cover-up. >> of this military aid was withheld from an ally fighting vladimir pu...

Country, that foreign intelligence service thereby has leverage over him, right? we know you dont want this out. mr. president, we know what you have been doing with ukraine. you know how much trouble you are going to get in if and when this ever becomes public in the united states. well keep your secret. we know your secret, but well keep your secret if you do something for us. if you do something you wouldnt otherwise do or that would be bad for the united states, we can leverage you into doin...

I think you should ask for vp pences conversation because he had a couple of conversations also. i could save you a lot of time. theyre all perfect. >> ambassador, it seems to me imagine this from the point of view from the ukrainians. and i was thinking this poor guy needs trump more than trump needs him and hes willing to do anything to kiss up to him basically diplomatically. whats he think of trump and whats going on in washington? are we just a totally corrupt state now from the ukrainian p...

Eagle-eyed observer of washington. i wonder what you think. and thats not just in the house that weve seen it, its not just senators obviously putting up different types of pressure, at least with the co-equal branch saying you got to get us the whistleblower complaint, and then the "new york times" coming out for only the second time in the history of the united states to back the impeachment of a sitting president. altogether what do you see as shifting here? >> what shifted is that we all bec...

Whistleblower that raises serious concerns in terms of foreign countrys foreign intelligence services finding out that this had happened and potentially using it as leverage, how serious to you is this alleged misbehavior and do you think that the house of representatives is warranted in their decision to pursue potential impeachment simply over this matter? >> i think this particular allegation is extremely serious. were talking about an abuse of power by the president of the united states to c...

Rooef and donna edwards, former democratic congressman from georgia. let me begin with you, donna, about what that means and what the politics of this moment, which are radically in flux mean for how democrats proceed. >> well, i think it means that democrats have to be very focussed on what i believe is sort of the narrow constraints of the ukraine investigation. i think the ukraine story tells the narrative of why it is that this president and how it is that hes abused power. and, in fact, it ...

A candidate in using that leverage over ukraine. and i think if democrats do that, they have got to do it in a way that, you know, i said one committee, one lawyer, one investigation. i think it has to be very, very focussed. and the momentum is with democrats right now. and you dont want to lose that momentum at this important juncture. >> on the senate side obviously that is controlled right now by mitch mcconnell and the republican majority. jim, you have some familiarity with the man. just t...

Countrys foreign intelligence services finding out that this had happened and potentially using it as leverage, how serious to you is this alleged misbehavior and do you think that the house of representatives is warranted in their decision to pursue potential impeachment simply over this matter? >> i think this particular allegation is extremely serious. were talking about an abuse of power by the president of the united states to coerce the leader of a fledgling democracy fighting for its life...

Official is now compromised, right? because any foreign government that knows that this u.s. official is doing this can blackmail that official. i mean, the u.s. president may be trying to hide the fact that he has done with this ukraine. well have more on that later. the u.s. president clearly has a strong interest. and it not becoming public knowledge he has done this with ukraine. thats a well founded fear on the part of the president. hes getting impeached for this now. but hes gone ahead an...