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Camera, marco rubio saying they dont think the president should have done that. when he makes that argument, he truly feels like joe biden has somehow gotten a pass, meanwhile he thinks every action hes ever taken has been widely criticized or highly scrutinized. thats why hes making comments like that. he feels emboldened after this. he doesnt think this is going to touch him. hes not worried about impeachment, and hes dismissing those claims, and he seemed to enjoy the fact that he had this le...

Offended because of compromise of national security. and second, this isnt relitigating the past, relitigating the election with hillary clinton, this is about the president abusing his office in seeking political dirt about an election thats upcoming. and i think the national security concerns are really what weighed on members, many of them represent districts with large military family populations. they felt this was something they cannot put up with. >> the house of representatives can confi...

Whether or not there was corruption going on, this was a guy that was taken out precisely because he refused to investigate anyone. he was very corrupt, so if biden had been concerned about corruption and about his son being investigated, you wouldnt want to remove this guy with someone who potentially would uphold rule of law. it is a canard, it is being very intelligently promoted by trump and his supporters because they want something else to focus on, but this for the democrats i do think is...

I mean, we were all talking about it saying what happened? what happened in the debate? well, it was a gnat that he killed at the beginning of the debate and it just sat there. he was so busy in the debate he didnt notice it was there and it somehow disappeared in the middle. thanks for watching us. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. both today and over the weekend the president of the united states admitted to talking to a foreign leader about investigating the presidents leading domest...

He ordered administration officials to hold up hundreds of millions in military aid to ukraine back in july, just one week before he asked the ukraine president to investigate bidens son hunters business dealings, despite zero evidence of wrongdoing. little more than a month later, an administration official blew the whistle on his conversation. two days after that, ukraine money was released. sitting with the british prime minister, the president claimed he wasnt using military funds as leverag...

He has evolved, shall we say, over the course of the last few days. >> getting more real. >> admitting it and justifying it. that was a new justification. europe is not paying up. >> thats right. and the justifications keep moving. the president is saying, now, he is holding up the money and he would do it again. we were able to confirm "the washington post" reporting last night, that he instructed the chief of staff, mick mulvaney, to do this. and whether this was leverage to investigate joe bi...

Universe." another says this. "you saw what happened with all the good degrees coverage of hillary clintons emails. that wont happen with us. we learned." lisa boothe, your reaction? >> lisa: i think some of the similarities that were clinton, if you look at the clinton foundation and the idea of utilizing your position to have leverage and to get money, weve seen that with joe biden and his son, hunter. whether its with china or with ukraine. i think theres legitimate questions at the same time...

Process to get them removed, ire to his son. one of the question has to be -- and jessica, will come to you on this -- access. through the prism of looking at leverage and privilege and all of that, did joe biden and access to him influence what was going on with hunter biden? does that matter? >> jessica: every major publication has debunked that narrative. yes, children the people of privilege and former government officials and current government officials get important jobs. the timeline wit...

Washington. the seven of you wrote in this op- op-ed, just an excerpt, that the president of the united states may have used his position to pressure a foreign country into investigating a political opponent. and he sought to use u.s. taxpayer dollars as leverage to do it. he allegedly sought to use the very security assistance dollars appropriated by congress to create stability in the world, to help root out corruption and to protect on national security interests for his own person a al gain....

And you know, the allegations here are so shockingagainst of and national security. and you know, the allegations here are so shocking, a sitting president to use his power to withhold foreign aid potentially to obtain an advantage over a political rival. it is very shocking and something that merits action and the use of all tools to get to the bottom of this and that is what we came together to talk about. >> and congress woman spanberger, what was the turning point for you? >> the turning poi...