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Heard from giuliani. and i think the other thing she makes clear from her testimony if you read it is you have to understand whats happening in ukrain. there are all kinds of factions and i can know mike mcfall knows this very well. there are all kinds of factions inside ukrain. they were using giuliani as much as he was trying to use them. squeshe understood who the good guys were and bad guys were and the people throwing dirt on joe biden were not good guys. >> what president trump calls bad t...

Speaking back in what ambassador mcfall said earlier was the most patriotic of ways. >> trump calls them the doop state. that might bebecomecome a posit word. they theyre patriot said and every time one does it encourages the next one to do it. bravery breeds more bravery. i dont think hes going to be able to plug holes in the ship of state. hes going down one way or another. because every day brings another revolution, another person testifying against him. >> thank you so much. really fascinat...

Whistleblower that he was relaying basically gossip he heard from giuliani. and i think the other thing she makes clear from her testimony if you read it is you have to understand whats happening in ukrain. there are all kinds of factions and i can know mike mcfall knows this very well. there are all kinds of factions inside ukraine. they were using giuliani as much as he was trying to use them. squeshe understood who the good guys were and bad guys were and the people throwing dirt on joe biden...

Bribes whatsoever. that also got slapped down. i think what youre seeing on the personnel front anybody with an ounce of credibility, is being forced out or leaving in droves. and what you have is the hackery that is now taken hold whether its in state, nsa, whether its homeland security and the people who are left are people who really have no loyalty, no expertise other than the ability to suck up to trump. what that means is those people who are professionals who may have gone along with it w...

It off, thats not what the president intended, making it clear that transcript, the presidents transcript was about corruption in the ukraine with a reference to, well look into this because its part of the corruption. >> absolutely right. thats exactly what it was abou about. the democrats have pushed the narrative with the press willing to print anything they say, the president was trying to hurt a political opponent when, in fact, from long before biden was even in the race, the presidents co...

Basically telling taylor knock it off, thats not what the president intended, making it clear that transcript, the hepresidents transcript was abt corruption in the ukraine with a reference to, well look into this because its part of the corruption. >> absolutely right. thats exactly what it was about. the democrats have pushed the narrative with the press willing to print anything they say, the president was trying to hurt a political opponent when, in fact, from long before biden was even in t...

It is clear what zell in ski wants. that will be a process that happens over years and decades, well after president trump is gone. he needs to make that argument. >> there was an unconfirmed report that boy, if the president start the investigation. do you believe that among this investigation in kiev? >> i certainly hope not. i dont believe it. these are a different group of people. theres nothing to the story. i want to emphasize one of your other guests said they have real journalists in ukr...

North korea, on iran obviously and certainly on trade and tariffs. >> shannon, i want to bring in a couple of big brains to join your big brain here. weve got mike mcfaul, international affairs analyst as well as ron insana, cnbc senior analyst. thank you both for being here. again, mike mcfall, ambassador as international affairs, analyst for us as well. ambassador, what do you make of what shannon is telling us that has happened just within the last 24 hours. of course, right in front of us is...

Stories grow. once the media starts learning to police itself and not jump out after every rabbit and chases it and we clear that with third party organizations or through our own research and realize when we are being taken for a ride with real information that may just have a false basis and maybe just a vehicle for the news media to be a megaphone for more distraction. >> mike mcfall, in you are watching a flat screen tv in the basement of the kremlin, are you interested when donald trump com...

Lifting the bans on adoption for americans. thats a concrete thing that vladimir putin could do tomorrow if he wanted to do something to advance u.s./russian interests. he has never done it and our president keeps on trying to placate him, it is not smart diplomacy. i got 30 seconds left. now there are two potential meetings, what should the agenda be, the one or two goals should be? >> one is to push back. you dont have to apiece putin when you meet with him. speak strongly about the things tha...