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Lets talk about this. did the president as much as you can see about the phone call, what were his indications? >> i am, chair of the ukraine caucus urging the vice president and secretaries of defense and state to release the funds and i called the president because we are getting to the deck of the funds have to be released and the president was clear with me he only raised one issue and that was the europeans not doing enough. he said i understand we need to help zielinski, i am worried the e...

Nefarious reason, to exercise leverage for the president of ukraine to dig up manufactured dirt on his opponent, can we agree it was urgent while that aid was being withheld? im talking about the common understanding of what urgent means. inspector general said it was urgent not only in the statutory meaning as everyone understand that term. can we agree that it was urgent? >> it was urgent and important but my job as the director of national intelligence was to comply with the whistle-blower pr...

Dni chief. lets watch. >> it lays out a scheme to use the leverage of the president, to use the leverage of the vital military assistance to a foreign nation to provide or obtain dirt on at 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 desi...

That earlier that month there were instruction to suspend ale help to ukraine. no one knew why this instruction had been issues." senator mcconnell said the other day that he spoke with the with the secretary of defense and secretary of state and he didnt know why the instruction had been given. doesnt that strike you as suspicious, director, that no one one on the national security staff, no one in the senior leadership, apparently, of the party here in congress, that approved the aide, underst...

Well, that lines gone in this administration. the president sees doj as his own fix-it law firm with barr and rudy, you know, being his go-to guys, as evidenced by what was in the phone call. >> the whistle-blower complaint, everything that the white house has sort of permitted to become public and be transmitted to congress is so devastating politically and substantively for this white house. it would appear that the strategy if it was to try to exonerate trump or normalize the misconduct is a ...

Officials, democrats as well as privately republicans is hes raising the issue of a political opponent, joe biden and bidens family to a newly-elected lead tore a vulnerable country invaded by russia, needs military aid, only one week after he had frozen congressionally approved military aid, weapons for this leader so this gives him so much leverage he doesnt have to say anything explicitly and it raises a lot of questions about how hes conducting foreign policy >> chuck, the white house put ou...

Pfiefer who work on the tran skriptd of the call. its disseminated. it suggests part of what got the attention of the whistle-blower is they were handling this call differently. they were trying to restrict access to the transcript of this call. i think it is very important for your viewers to understand, its not just this transcript. what else was going on? why was rudy giuliani flying out to ukraine? why was the state department -- again, based on reports we read -- directing rudy giuliani to ...

Agencies that the president earlier that month had issued instructions to suspend all u.s. security assistance to ukraine. neither omb nor the nsc staff knew why this instruction had been issued. senator mcconnell said the other day he spoke with the secretary of defense and the secretary of state and he didnt know why an instruction had been given. doesnt that strike you as suspicious, director, that no one on the national security staff, no one in the senior leadership apparently of the party ...

Urgent, would be withheld from 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 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 th...

In ukraine. >> absolutely. >> because they felt just nothing serious was happening with this. >> absolutely, the europeans were very much in line with what we were trying to do to get rid of this corrupt prosecutor. and the other thing here is the whole reason were here is because that ukraine needed military aid. it wanted, as he said today, those javelins. and the president knew that created leverage. and you see how that comes up in the conversation. the president says, yes, but there really ...