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In stonewalling. theyve given away very, very little. this one i think the dynamic is reversed in which the democrats actually have much more leverage than they had in the past starting with this report from the whistle-blower, that person i think is -- van is absolutely right, they have been extremely brave putting career and possible safety at risk. but coming up with that road map as anderson called it, is really important for the committee. theres a lot of internal sleuthing which would have...

American assistance and hes forced to engage in this exercise where he agrees to investigate a political opponent of the president. when hes talking about the importance of the relationship. >> i cant understand how the president or anyone around him with a straight face could say this was about u.s. concern over ongoing corruption in ukraine because just basically if you are the president of the united states and you are really concerned about current corruption in ukraine, you have many levers...

Held in congress, and would be withheld on the basis of advice given by the subject or subjects of that complaint. the conflict of interest is all too apparent, all too palpable. it is indeed a minor miracle that we got the complaint at all and that we got the transcript at all. at the end of the day, what is alleged in this whistleblower complaint goes to the very heart of the presidents oath of office. that he faithfully execute the laws of the country, that he defend the constitution, and if ...

Administration. in that it lays out a scheme to use the leverage of the presidency, use the leverage of the vital military assistance to a foreign nation to provide or obtain dirt on a political opponent. its hard to imagine a more serious set of allegations than those contained in the complaint. the complaint goes further, obviously, than the record of the call in that it also alleges that there were efforts made to conceal this scheme. by moving communications onto servers that were designed f...

Up and handing -- wanting to hand it over to rudy giuliani, his personal attorney, asking for a favor? is it clear to you what went on here? >> i dont think theres any question but that that transcript is a smoking gun that points to a president having used his office and his responsibilities as commander in chief in dealing with military aide. having used that as leverage to try to get the president of the ukraine to investigate a political opponent. there isnt much question when you read that ...

For 5 weeks yet and so he had his power checked yesterday by the supreme court and now he wants to go next month and meet with e.u. leaders and see if he can get this last minute deal but after what happened yesterday the supreme court his position his leverage with them is even weaker than it was just 48 hours ago isnt it i think so i think thats thats it his chances of getting a deal a really very slim and partly because they dont believe he can get it through parliament he could come up with ...

>> there is an allegation of the cover-up. >> if this military aid was withheld from an ally that is fighting off putins russia and it was done so to be used as leverage to get dirt in a u.s. political campaign, dont you think that should be investigated? >> i have no situational awareness if that was withheld or why it was withheld, mr. chairman. >> i can tell you we are going to find out. >> but the complaint relied heavily on media reporting, which republicans compared to the democrat-funded ...

Withheld from congress. and to do so would be on the basis of advice given by the subject or subjects of the complaint. its all too apparent, all too palpable. it is indeed a a minor miracle that we got the complaint at all and we got the all. at the end of the day, what is alleged in this whistle-blower complaint goes to the very heart of the presidents oath of office. that he faithfully execute the laws of the country, that he defend the constitution. if, as it alleged, if as this record of ca...

We want to know what role rudy giuliani had in all of this. you want to know what role bill barr had any of this. we want to know what ukraine understood was expected of them before they even had this a july phone call with the president of the united states. we know what we have to do, and of course, we will be guided by the evidence we find along the way. >> reporter: what potential crimes do you see? >> look, i think there are a any number of potential crimes when the president is soliciting ...

>> shannon: so lets talk about this. after the president -- as much as you can speak freely about the phone call -- what were his indications to u.s. why why that aid wasnt moving? >> im cochair of the ukraine caucus. ive been urging the vice president, the secretaries of defense and state to release the funds and on that date i called the president because we were getting to the point where they had to be released and the president was very clear with me, he only raised one issue, and that issu...