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Edwards. >> yes, very true. thank you. great political discussions today. thats all we have for tonight. well have more tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." >> good evening chuck, thank you very much. we have a big show tonight. trump ambassador sondland under fire for not revealing the phone call he had with donald trump. donald trumps lawyers are down playing the evidence of bribery, rudy giuliani talking about an insurance plan. and did you know the roger stone jury is beginning deliber...

Communicatio communication. take a look at this moment today. >> the president has something that is exculpatory. mr. president, that means you had anything that shows your innocence -- then he should make that known. and thats part of the inquiry. >> juanita. >> look, she knows hes watching. as much as he says hes not, she knows hes watching this with baited breath, huddling with his team in the mouse every day. hes making the case to him, if youve got something, put it up. if not, everything y...

Because as "the washington post" just reported as you indicated, sandys signature appears on one of the, what they call, a portionment letters which is basically one of the letters designed to put a hold on the money that congress had designated to go to ukraine for its own protection against russian aggression. so, if i am -- go ahead. >> i was going to say so this is key. this is the cash for the thing trump wanted. this is what we open the show with speaker pelosi for the first time making th...

Reason to remove a sitting president. >> what is the crime? >> right, if congress does that. the reason the constitution gives is bribery, treason, or high crime. the first two were very much defined at the time. the third is a catch all. all of you please stay with me. lets turn to a member of the intelligence committee, joaquin castro. good evening sir. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> good to have you. you are on this committee. my first question to you is why is the speaker and the c...

What youre saying is that thing that put that powerful politician, that governor in jail, hes still incarcerated, youre saying this thing trump did, the evidence supports its worse than that. >> to me its worse because were talking about national security. were talking about basically selling the national security of the united states for a political favor for a corrupt political motive. and i really dont see anything more serious than that when you come to the issue of bribery or extortion, sha...

Trump. shes obviously the top democrat in power. and several other key democrats have also recently discussed bribery as the article of impeachment that they may lead with against donald trump. so, this is all brand-new this week. pelosi, brand-new today. thats why its news tonight. if you happen to watch the beat, some of this may sound familiar because we have been reporting out the constitutional case here about this for some time. in fact, i wrote in october, on october 20th, about why bribe...

I want to show you as she stepped out to the cameras today and made it clear the speaker says congress can impeach president trump for bribery. >> quid pro quo, bribery. the bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance. thats bribery. its perfectly wrong. its bribery. bribery. and that is in the constitution attached to the impeachment proceedings. >> thats bribery. thats the speaker of the house making headlines today. pelosi making it plain that she views this as a potential way to impeac...

Judiciary committee will probably take up first before the whole body takes it up. but yeah, i thought there was obstruction of justice in the mueller probe so its a discussion well have to have. >> stay with me, robert. im curious what you think of what the congressman just said. you would be an expert witness at one of these hearings. the congressman says theres a reason to include that. i wonder what you think. >> i think that muellers report laid out a very strong case that the president did...

Trump administration in public, threatened in terms of her career. democrats basically are going to dig into all of this and why that is part of the plotting. then you think about what happened this week. i can tell you this is new today, the new numbers we have in, those hearings were seen or heard by over 13 million americans across all the different news channels suggesting the story continues to break through. i want to bring in experts right now. good evening everyone. juanita, speaker pelo...

Demanded it, she said in return for money, and she said thats bribery. >> well, i think theres a very clear mapping of this under the bribery statute. the bribery statute says its a crime to solicit anything of value in the exchange for the performance of official duties. and in this case, the thing of value was the presidents desire to have ukraine aid him in his re-election efforts. the official act was the withholding of the aid. and the solicitation is what weve seen both in the transcript a...