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Reason why you hear at the end devin nunes says you pound the table when you dont have the facts. he has been doing a lot of table pounding because the facts are stubborn. >> i think the testimony did a lot of damage to stock defenses. and the republicans cling to two defenses. one trying to disassemble everything. they say this is not a wall. >> okay but you build the case brick by brick and the magic words test the republicans adopted that unless the president himself is saying, im committing ...

>> no, answer the question. no one on this planet told you that president trump was tying aid to investigations, yes or no? >> yes. >> so, you really have no testimony today that ties president trump to a scheme to withhold aid from ukraine in exchange for these investigations? >> other than my own presumptions. >> which is nothing. >> reporter: chairman schiff pushing back. >> my colleagues seem to think unless the president says the magic words that, i hereby bribe the ukrainians, that theres ...

And troubling. who had the decision to release the aid, it was one person, donald j. trump, president of the united states. now, my colleagues seem to think unless the president says the magic words that i hereby bribed the ukrainians that theres no evidence of bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. the question is what are we prepared to do about it. is there any accountability or are we forced to conclude that this is just now the world that we live in? getting caught is no defense. no...

Donald trumps reputation. and his testimony just had that crackle of truth and impact. republicans, i thought, were really just didnt know what do with him. >> yeah. >> but i think this investigation, joe, now is on a somewhat different course. its -- you can have more confidence that its going to be steady. i thought the final telling point after the -- after that testimony of david hale in the late afternoon, what was the schiffs closing comments, thats not anticorruption, thats corruption ove...

Place in ambassador volker believed should take place, who was the one standing the way of the meeting? who was the one refusing to take the meeting? theres only one answer to that question and it is donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states. who was holding up the military assistance? wasnt you, ambassador sondland? was it ambassador volker, ambassador taylor, deputy secretary kent? no. was it secretary of state pompeo? no. who had the decision to release the aid, one person. donald ...

Believes should take place and everybody believes should take place. the only question was when? who was the one standing in the way of that meeting? who was the one refusing to take that meeting? theres only one answer to that question and its donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states. so who was holding up the military assistance? was it you, ambassador sondland? no, it wasnt. was it ambassador volker? no. was it ambassador taylor? no. was it deputy secretary kent? no. was it secret...

Close donald trump came to forcing the president of ukraine to say -- investigations, biden and clinton -- the words president trump wanted him to say. after gordon sondland told the president of ukraine that ukraine would get mow more military aid from the united states without a public statement by president zelensky about ukraine investigating joe biden and hillary clinton, president zelenskys staff began debating whether they should comply with president trumps demand and if so exactly what ...

Him refresh his memory. george kent testified under oath that gordon sondland told him that donald trump, quote, wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to a microphone and say investigations, biden and clinton. those were the magic words. those were the words donald trump had to hear before he would hand over military aid to ukraine. investigations, biden and clinton. ukraines survival depended on those three words -- investigations, biden and clinton. but as george kents testimony sh...

Where president zelensky might have said the magic words into a microphone as donald trump wanted, politico pubbilished an article based on a leak that military assistance for ukraine was being held up. and then "the washington post" published a similar story. and as "the new york times" reports tonight, word of the freeze in military aid had leaked out, and congress was in an uproar. two days before the scheduled interview, the trump administration released the assistance and mr. zelenskys offi...

Kents testimony after reports of their testimony had helped him refresh his memory. george kent testified under oath that gordon sondland told him that donald trump, quote, wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to a microphone and say investigations, biden and clinton. those were the magic words. those were the words donald trump had to hear before he would hand over military aid to ukraine. investigations, biden and clinton. ukraines survival depended on those three words -- investi...