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Heard. >> and this is really critical because as congress is trying to fill out the story here with the evidence to determine that this was really about donald trumps personal interests, not about the nations interests, this is really going to the heart of going around the official process that diplomats go through, george kent, who we know were going to hear from next week, made it very clear, he was one of the ukrainian experts. he was sidelined, he was told to lay low, is what were hearing. a...

Majority of house members that certain articles of impeachment should be adopted. i dont think we will see any surprise witnesses in the future. >> i heard that john bolton saidly testify if a court clears the way, but that will take awhile. is his testimony worth waiting for? >> that is an excellent quest n question. he potentially as the deepest insights at least in terms of how the national security process was working with respect to potential policy options or considerations on ukraine poli...

Sideline the experts and career diplomats? thats why this is so relevant to the impeachment inquiry, because it goes directly to the defense that might be mounted that this wasnt about his personal interests. >> to the defense, jeremy peters, that the president has mounted and one of the things hes said repeatedly is this is a bunch of anti-trumpers as if they had some sort of coordinated plan, deep state plan to get together and get him out of office, its interesting to me, apart from the criti...

Go. maya wiley, along the folks who have beenth following this closely. we can understand how these things stood in. it is not necessarily though easy if you have not been following it. my question to you is how do democrats need to approach this. it becomes clear simple and understand how to make the point they wanted to make. >> public hearings where the public adhere directly from experts exactly what the normal process is. what did not happen here in terms of normal process and what was so d...

Just about corruption, corruption in general. its not just about corruption if its about his political campaign. and thats what the details in these transcripts sound like theyre telling us, although i havent read them yet. >> the other thing, jeremy peters, today, and weve heard this consistently from the president, consistently from his supporters, when theyre asked about details they sort of pivot to the whistle-blower and they have negative things to say, obviously, about the whistle-blower,...

Boss. the president of the united states in making him happy. i think thats what we are seeing here and some concerns we are seeing of his role in the ukraine affair. what we are seeing in terms of his role and taking apart or at least to defend or break up this impeachment inquiry. >> amy, the national security process which is defined by some of the professors that you analyzed. connie rice, she had a lot of push back until she got to the state department. the national security process at leas...

Broader campaign of pressure against ukraine and that campaign was being managed outside of the traditional national security process. and when professionals within the defense department, the state department, the national security council itself, even the intelligence compete, they learned of these details and the witness testimony and what it showed was that every person thought that something seemed sort of odd, off, or improper in this exchange of ideas nap to me is one of of the big take a...

Following a national security process. and i think between whats happening here with the testimony, and what we have and the real legitimate questions that people have, and then whats happening in syria, and the fact of the russians are now involved, i think republicans are asking questions, too. >> bret: buck? >> they call it inquiry and looks more like inquisition. no effort made at transparency here. we have selective leaks day in and day out. how can the american people even decide? ultimate...

History has no comparison to politics and president trump should retract this immediately. a new cnn poll out today found support for impeachment at an all-time high for their survey. 50% of respondents now saying president trump should be impeached and removed from office. however, among republicans, only 6% now support impeachment. down from 14% in a september survey. democrats appear to be slowing down the process. the initial target to complete the impeachment inquiry was thanksgiving. but w...

Impeachment is a lynching? what the hell is wrong with you? do you know how many people who look like me have been lynched since the inception of this country by people who look like you? rush supports impeaching the president as does veronica escobar. >> incredible disrespect to the country is what he did this morning with that comment. it was awful. it was awful. >> on the republican side, reaction ranged from full support for the president. >> this is a lynching in every sense. this is unamer...