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Obviously joe biden is even bragging about the fact that he used leverage on american taxpayer dollars. but more importantly than that, when we start to see the connection between ukraine -- and what we have now is a new government in ukraine. so all of the sudden the protections are falling apart. the president is right to ask about it. certainly -- if he did. heres the thing. you know, we dont even know what the conversation was all about. and i believe -- in fact, i have a strong belief, info...

They want everybody to vote. i dont want everybody to vote. elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. our leverage in the election goes up as the votiining popula goes down. republican elites are not interested in democracy when it gets in the way of what they actually cared about. power. it is important to know the heritage foundation is still the force for republican presidents picking far right judges for the fed...

Concern that we are going to be hearing more and more members of congress and i hope at least republicans as well speak out against. >> i want to get your reaction to this, ned, because i spoke to msnbc national security analyst craig figliuzzi who is pointing out a damaged national security because of this. take a listen. >> lets not forget that one of the key people who knows exactly what happened in that conversation, and this is the president of ukraine. at any time now the president of ukra...

Son, remember the united states is the biggest most important country in the free world. and that in and of itself creates leverage. he cant just dismiss a request from the president of the united states. and i just think it is a terrible tragedy for american national interests. ily leave it to people more expert than i. this is not the way to conduct foreign policy. thank you so much, appreciate your time tonight. >> sure, thank you for having me. >> more on this next, including what all of the...

>> i have a problem with congress asking for a transcript between world leaders. those are confidential discussions, and that is a difficult precedent. >> and not if the conversations involve potential corruption or criminality or the leverage being used for political advantage against our nations interests. >> i think that the ukrainian foreign minister said that there was no pressure applied. >> they made this decision to cut off the aid at any time and this president is nothing if not vindict...

And what you and i have, alex, versus what other countries may have and know about this presidents actions. we have previously warned about it in the context of vladimir putin. he knew that the trump campaign at every opportunity was reaching tout his agents to try to get dirt on hillary clinton and vladimir putin knew that when the press was hot on their tail and congress was hot on the tail, they had every opportunity and sought to cover it up. vladimir putin knew that michael cohen was trying...

>> if you vote on the state level, thats how the districts are done. unless you do something that is abusive of the legal standard, you can play to advantage but i still believe its one thing to say in a poll you care about something but if you dont vote on the basis of that interest, youre not going to get the leverage. the nra beats people with leverage, not money. >> getting to the news. do you remember what happened on monday? >> no. >> no. >> this news cycle is just -- its crazy. every sing...

Really count as much as it should because of the jerry-rigging and all the other things that are going on. >> sometimes. i dont think you want the exception to become the rule. >> no, and you dont want to disincentivize people to not go out. so, yes, you are cite, chris. go out and vote. but there are other things that need to be taken care of as well. >> if you vote, especially on your state level, thats how you fix the districts because districting is done at the state level. and the republica...

Raise the aid. in other words there was no explicit as we pud putt it, quid pro quo. but i think if you read the sentence carefully, its emphasized that that was true in this call. so whether theres, that sort of pressure being applied elsewhere or through other means is something were trying to figure out. >> greg thank you so much for being here. >> absolutely. thank you. >> what are you saying on my twitter and facebook pages? investigating corruption by the previous administration does not c...

Plans are going away, youll be rolled into this new one. so i think theres a reason she has described it that way, and theres a reason shes not comfortable telling us all the taxes that are going to be needed to pay for it, because the real deal is not that appealing to people. charles: you know, dan, you mentioned president trump take a go at her, but republicans really dont have the kind of leverage they had in the past, you know, being so concerned fiscally, concerned with our debt levels ris...