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Been so quiet and how uncomfortable will it be for some of them facing tough re-election fights when they come back to washington in a week or so? >> its going to be uncomfortable because its not a scandal thats narrow or a scandal thats narrowing in scope, its ballooning taking in the secretary of state, democrats want to talk to the secretary of energy, its taking in the vice president. this is, again, not a situation thats confined to the president of the united states who, if on truth serum ...

Secretary of state mike pompeo was on the call with the ukrainian president. which created questions that no doubt will be put to secretary of state mike pompeo about his interpretation of the phone call. all of this fuel to the fire is democrats are wrapping up their timeline hoping to have done my perhaps is done with impeachment by the end of this year. >> the president well understood that it was illegal to seek foreign assistance in the campaign. and immediately after moeller testified, tha...

Over the last many months? how is this time going to be different? >> to both their points, they have to narrow in on this message and show whats important and interesting is when democrats retook the house, they focus on a suite of legislation thats focused on fighting corruption. if they go back home to their districts and talk about how its coming from president trump and the white house he has created, and this is just the latest iteration, thats one way to try to narrow that message rather ...

A tweet. so theyre also getting word through the republican chain this has happened. it makes sense in many ways if theyre going to declassify, which adam schiff said today he would going to make it happen, that it would occur before this big hearing were going to see tomorrow with the acting drerk of national intelligence come before congress to have it all out in the open at once. it is kind of amazing the warp speed, though, that the administration is suddenly acting with given how much theyv...

This big hearing that well see tomorrow with the acting director of national intelligence coming before congress to have it all kind of out in the open at once. it is kind of amazing the warped speed, though, that administration is suddenly acting with given how much they have stone walled an issue after issue after issue on this the one issue we now know from nancy pelosi and sources within the democratic caucus that they are narrowing in on, they arent going to broaden it at this point, narrow...

Any, the state department provided to him. >> all the while that you were at the state department and before that at the nsc and the vice presidents office, have you ever seen a private presidential attorney getting help from a state department envoy to lobby a foreign country that has critical interests? ukraine is a small country up against russia. >> no. ive never seen anything like it. if we had been asked to do that, our answer would have been simple and immediate and the answer would have ...

With cory booker putting out this message, its a sign that the field is narrowing for sure. its note uncommon for campaigns to put out a message that we know we need to hit this benchmark or whatever it is to raise money. its not shocking that hes doing this. hes polling at 3% nationalling going in iowa polling at 3%. the quarter two fund-raising numbers werent great. the top fund-raising candidates raising 19 million, he was at 4.5 million. the writing is on the wall. >> a tweet that caught our...

This is an escalation by iran to get out of the sanctions and it affects world economies and it affects our economy here at home. so it is in our national interest to provide the stability that iran has been seeking to undermine litter will i for the last 40 years, including the deaths of over 500 americans in iraq. iran is the bad actor and lets remember that the united states is responding to the acts of iran. >> its interesting and of course weve got the u.n. meeting coming up in new york. an...

Ainsley: go for the key lime next. brian: in my town the house of pancakes ihop closed only thing bad when an ihop closes what comes in next that can use a building shaped like that. like a triangle. maybe have you got to send it to disney or something. how do you have a law office in the former house of pancakes. ainsley: what did this used to be? this used to be a bank. brian: it doesnt have a pointy top. ainsley: maybe ihops. jillian: i would love to be inside your brain for five minutes. bri...

Of this area. republican candidates are seeing that. candidates who won by 20 points in texas in 2014 won by five points or three points or four points. so they can see the narrowing of that gap, and theres a little bit of a panic. at one point the harris county republican party had to commission a 40-page deep dive analysis on whats gone wrong and how do they improve their outreach, particularly to the hispanic community. >> one of the things theyre looking at, and ill talk about this in a bit,...