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Loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask so hes going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied that hes going to do it, adding that president zelensky will do anything that you ask him to do. after the call ended ambassador sondland remarked that the president was in a bad mood, as ambassador sondland stated was often the case early in the morning. i then took the opportunity to ask ambassador sondland for his candid impression for the presidents views on ukraine. in particul...

Footing as far as the national security council was concerned. >> john and dana, lets get a better sense of this substance. >> if you connect the dots, mr. holmes and fiona hill are critical for trying to make the case of corruption. republicans are going to argue this is trump being trump, he was working outside the system. maybe you question rudy giuliani, but he wanted his guy, hands on the policy. you may not like it. maybe it got ugly but its not an impeachable offense. thats where the repu...

On in tonights show. as they finish up with these closed-door depositions, the first public impeachment hearings are on the calendar now. so here we go. and remarkably, simultaneous to all of that today in federal court in washington, d.c. they finished jury selection and started opening statements in the trial of the presidents longtime friend and oldest political advisor, a man whos gone to great lengths to make him seem too ridiculous for serious news coverage, a man named roger stone. now, w...

One of the things that has been interesting and actually quite unique about covering this presidency is this president has had a terrible time of it in court. from the earliest days of his administration no matter how many judges he appoints and he seems to think thats his way out of it, but he just loses case after case after case on policy, on his tax returns. now he has impeachment to worry about in congress and multiple criminal cases related to his administration included related to the imp...

He was asked by the committee whether hed ever discussed what he learned from his intermediary with the trump campaign and roger stone told them he hadnt. you will hear that roger stone discussed what he was learning with the senior levels of the trump campaign. you might ask why didnt roger stone just tell the truth to the intelligence committee? the evidence in this case will show that stone lied to the intelligence committee because the truth looked bad. the truth looked bad for the trump cam...

>> in terms of the remaining closed-door depositions i know there was one today where a state department official david hale actually showed up. i know tomorrow youre expecting to hear testimony from a person who worked in the vice presidents office. its the first time as far as i know that a vice presidential adjacent person will be speaking. there was also a decision today to drop a subpoena for an official who had gone to court to try to have a judge decide whether or not he should obey the s...

Authority of congress to do oversight on behalf of officials like this. its a frivolous claim. its going to be disposed of earlier, and as i understand it thats the point behind withdrawing that subpoena, to essentially take away mr. kuppermans dilatory legal arguments and have them advance more quickly through the mcgahn case. >> in terms of his dramatic revision to his testimony we saw from ambassador sondland yesterday, it was a remarkable document saying, i now refreshed -- ive had my recoll...

Federal court is like, forget roger stone. i mean, yes, his criminal liability here is of interest, but forget roger stone. the case is about something way bigger than that, and weve known that was a possibility when we first saw the charges against stone in the way they laid out the case against him in the indictment, but i did not expect it to be like this in court today. just listen to this. we got the transcript today. i had no faith we would get it in time for tonights show, same day that i...

But its about the president. and its in part, you know, while the house is already in the midst of impeachment proceedings against the president, this case that started today in criminal court in washington is about in part whether president trumps sworn written statements about roger stone were true. whether his sworn written statements about what he knew about what stone was doing, whether he was any part of that, this case in part is about whether the presidents written answers might themselv...

Messages, emails, texts, that showed the truth of what happened in 2016 that he had many written records that could help the committee establish what had actually happened. but roger stone didnt do that. he didnt even come close. instead he repeatedly lied to the house intelligence committee. he did it because if he had told the truth, as he said before, it wasnt pretty, it would look bad. and so instead he told these lies. roger stone did all of this to obstruct an investigation by the house in...