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All the leaders in congress have been working on this for a while. >> this is why i moved there earlier than nancy did because i have seen them withholding people to come forward and do interviews to testify in front of congress. hold back documents. its almost as if this president is doing something that for me who swore an oath to uphold and defend the constitution, our constitution has checks and balances. the executive branch cannot refuse to submit itself to the checks and balances of the c...

Steve was talking about has not been there for the last two years for impeachment. what she did yesterday by announcing the formal beginning of impeachment enkwinquiry is building the leverage. as the hearing get going and people start learning and paying attention and understanding whats going on. those democrats who were elected in the 2018 midterm elections from districts that president trump won in 2016 had been holding out these last two years. not wanting to get into a discussion about thi...

National security officials at the white house leading up to the presidents phone call. sessions that led some participants to fear trump and those close to him were prepared to use u.s. leverage for trumps political gain. and some senior officials worked behind the scenes to hold off a trump meeting or even a phone call with president zelinsky out of concern the president was use information to press kiev about joe biden and his son. >> it sounds like, chris, from what congressman swalwell said...

The other way in favor of impeachment that republicans went to the white house and said mr. president, if you dont resign, you will be impeached. at this point, i dont see any republicans who would do the same thing if we got to sort of a richard nixon moment for president trump going to the white house and saying mr. president, if you dont resign, you will be impeached. the numbers that steve just talked about are consistent with some other numbers. there was a university poll out last month th...

Involved and it cast the refusal to send that whistle-blower complaint to congress in a very, very dark light. thats the other headline from me. >> you sit on the cleanse committee. you guys will be interviewing the director of national intelligence in a key hearing tomorrow. whats going to be your first question to him? >> well, im going to want to understand why hes the first director of national intelligence in american history or since the creation of that office who refused to send a whistl...

The republican perspective on this, somebody i know is a friend and ally of the presidents. congressman matt gates who is joining us from capitol hill. i know you have had a busy morning as well. have you had a chance to review and read these transcripts that were talking about? >> yeah, ive had the chance to review the transcripts and chat with the president about them. >> were you at the white house? >> yeah, we went over to the white house. >> who is we? you and democrats, just republicans? >...

Department was giulianis efforts and was that something president trump himself actually lended his endorsement to? >> i want to read part of what the "washington post" reported. it says, quote, several officials described tense meetings on ukraine leading up to the presidents phone call on july 25th. sessions that led some participants to fear that trump and those close to him appeared prepared to use u.s. leverage with the new leader of ukraine for trumps political gain. and now were going to ...

He wants you to deal with his private attorney, you will be as the president says in this phone call in essence punished. >> you say being investor of ukraine is stuff and requires professionalism. this is a tough neighborhood as our own bill neely discovered when he was covering an ongoing conflict back in february. sfo >> watch. >> ukraine fighting to survive. its troops take us to the front line where they are battling russian separatists. we sprint across open ground and in to trench warfare...

Complaint to be provided to congress. as all of this unfolds, the washington post reports on divisions within the white house over ukraine. trumps attempt to pressure the leader of ukraine followed a months long fight inside the administration that sidelined national security officials to exploid the u.s. relationship. several officials describe tense meetings at the white house leading up to the presidents phone call on july 25. sessions that led some participants to fear that trump and those c...

I told the director that im going to call on him to explain why he is the first director to with hold a complaint in violation of the statute. >> earlier today, the senate unanimously passed a resolution calling for the whistleblowers complaint to be provided to congress. as all of this unfolds, the "washington post" reports on divisions within the white house over ukraine. trumps attempt to pressure the leader of ukraine followed a months long fight inside the administration that sidelined nati...