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Last two weeks how it was republicans who wanted to keep engaging with bob mueller. >> right. because the mueller report to them or certainly the way it was portrayed was an exoneration of the president. >> yes. >> as you point out, ned, it was clear from mr. mueller, he said congress needs to take this up and pursue impeachment around the issue of obstruction. because at the time it seemed like that was the end of the story, the democrats were not going to bring it up. it seemed like a done dea...

2018 midterms in an effort to galvanize his political base. this is essentially what he is trying to do here. it has been subsequently been reported he wants to campaign with several of the service members whom he pardoned so i think his political motives come out and theres actually no national security objective in anything that we have seen from this president in this particular case. >> good to see you, ned. have yourself a happy rest of your thanksgiving. >> you too. thanks. >> ned price, f...

Argue the kremlin line that it was ukraine that hacked the dnc server. i dont believe its sitting over there somewhere in kiev. he did show something today, some good today i think. ashley parker congratulations on your monitoring of that debate the other night. youre really something to jump into that scene out there. it was great work. ned price, thank you. edward price -- i know your real name. malcolm, i love your attitude. as we say in philly attitude, you got it. thank you for coming on to...

To this rapidly unfolding story, but its one thing the white house and the presidents allies have always said theres nothing untoward, theres no quid pro quo because the president ultimately released the aid. this now shows perhaps the reason he released the aid was because he knew he was in trouble, he knew there was a whistle-blower complaint coming and that is what prompted him, and it wasnt quite the picture they painted he put a hold on aid but of course they were always going to release it...

That is another channel, all evening ive been seeing people tweet that the democrats are backing off of impeachment and that 30% -- theyve lost 30% support. you know, we -- the democrats are keeping their effort strong and straight and focused. and as it exactly should be because theyre following the constitutional norms and trying to maintain the dignity of this process and be factual. but they are going up against opponents who do not believe that they are even on the same planet and that this...

Behalf of the president. there was the may 23rd meeting where the president told sondland and others, talk to rudy when it comes to ukraine. i just dont -- it was kind of like the air that they breathe, right? everybody kind of knew rudy was the guy, including, i should add, secretary of state mike pompeo, who we know spoke to rudy at least three times this year. and so, it was very much an open secret. its kind of weird that we use the word shadow foreign policy when it was very much out in the...

Alone illegal and a basis for impeachment. >> wow. so, ned, also at the heart of the ukraine questions, which, of course, form the basis for all this, is ever rudy giuliani. and the president seemed to kind of try to distance himself from his attorney yesterday. take a listen. >> what was rudy giuliani doing in ukraine on your behalf? >> well, you have to ask that to rudy, but rudy -- i dont even know. i know he was going to go to ukraine, and i think he canceled a trip. but you know, rudy has o...

Politically, there may be some value from sitting it out, just complaining that its not fair and continuing to maintain that talking point. >> yeah. we heard a lot of that last night. the president held a rally in florida. we heard a lot of the its not fair, and well talk about that later. but ned, i want to go back to the fact that the president was told about the whistle-blower complaint before releasing the aid. this timeline thing. you know, on one hand, you have two conflicting stories here...

Protestations subsequent to now what we know was his knowledge of and sitting in on the phone call of the ukraine issue when he just kept saying i dont know what youre talking about, i dont know anything, nothing to see here. >> ned, you worked at the nsc and were similarly to others assigned from another agency, from cia to the nsc. understandably, the nsc grew after 911 into being a counter terror action group as well. there were a lot of people added. now it is being cut back notably accordin...

Ukraine, not russia, had attacked the 2016 campaign. but that did not stop republican lawmakers from pushing that conspiracy theory on the sunday talk shows. >> senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their e-mails? was it russia or ukraine? >> i dont know. nor do you. nor do any of us. >> the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right. but it could also be ukraine. >> im not at all surprised that russia is gearing u...