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Thats his testimony. >> no. >> the omb official. >> told minimum. >> and the president has not allowed the omb official to testify. >> we could clear this up easily. >> that the information came from mick mulvaney. and that came from the president. mick mulvaney is the presidents chief of staff. mick mulvaney refuses to testify in this proceeding. >> right. >> so the only people willing to testify are the individuals who are taking their oath seriously and understand the gravity of the hearings ...

Much in the senate. >> no. there is a real frustration amongst senate republicans who had a closer relationship with john kelly. mick mulvaney is a man of the house. he comes from the house of representatives. hes close to people who are in the freedom caucus. and if youre leader mcconnell, senators told me they wanted don mcgahn in there because if youre going to have a transactional relationship with president trump, its got to work like a machine. get all the conservatives into these judicial...

For a senator to make. and the problem that i think that the president ultimately has here, for years senators have been able to look the other way at some of the things he does because they dont have to vote on it. and eventually at the end of the day there is going to be a trial and all the evidence is going to be laid out. they are going to have to vote on it, and the public is going to be watching closely. and i think the buckets of senators you lay out, there are four senators who are retir...

Is right. the deep frustration about how he is both inside and outside the white house how he has sort of steered the ship during this impeachment inquiry that they felt like the president has been angry at him from the beginning that he has not been able to sort of navigate some of these rough waters, that he hasnt been able to change the story line at all. some of that may be unfair, but he didnt do the president any favors. john kelly point, certainly he had some success keeping the president...

Of the day the maneuver -- his maneuver to pull american forces out of the kurds still standing with us. or will they just remember that speech that he just gave? for me, you know, obviously i focus on the fact that he did withdraw troops, the fact that he did in the same speech go after obama needlessly, right? i focus on that. but i wonder if the average sort of voter, average republican thats still on the fence, if their only takeaway from this was the point was the way in which he delivered ...

Of staff, there isnt anyone who has more face time with a president than his own national security adviser. we did some research on friday in the history of this country sort of short but sorted impeachments there has never been a national security adviser who has testified either in a closed door deposition or in a public hearing if thats the phase we are entering, before. >> its another example of what an extraordinary moment this is for the american presidency that we are in uncharted territo...

He has built a career as a highly regarded figure on the right it. >> would be very difficult to paint john boltons testimony as any part of any sort of deep state plot to remove donald trump. >> and people are making choices. white house counsel pat cipollone with his letter has been trying to prevent testimony and to urge trump administration officials to not head to capitol hill. yet ambassador after ambassador, official after official are deciding to testify on their own. its their decision ...

What we are seeing the democrats now is lay out that they will soon be turning to public hearings. if we see people like bill taylor come up and testify and gordon sondland come up and testify and they give publicly the kind of explosive testimony they have given privately. and youre right, gordon sondlands attorney made it very clear over the weekend that he was not going to be the fall guy for donald trump. if they give that testimony publicly, maybe thats the thing that moves public opinion a...

Inside the white house who presumably can add more light. if he shows up over a dozen times in bill taylors testimony, if he actually does show up and testify on thursday, thats another witness who presumably can provide specific information about what the president himself did. >> mike schmidt, on gordon sondland, hes not john bolton, hes not mick mulvaney. he wasnt in the oval office every day. but his own testimony includes the recounting and i think from documents we have seen from kurt volk...

That to congress. and thats the point about the other folks that the house would like to talk to and that they are closing in on. it would be harder for the house to get to them. but it is that testimony that really moves the ball forward, that really sort of allows the democrats to make a larger argument that would put pressure on the senate republicans. and, look, its going to be very, very difficult for them, and all they really have right now in terms of stuff directly to the president is st...