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You could diminish the impact of ground transportation on our environment very, very quickly. >> tucker: ned ryan is ceo of american majority, he joins us tonight. ned, thanks for coming on. as you watch kids standing outside schools, getting interviewed on msnbc, or testifying before congress, express what seems to be totally sincere terror? they are really afraid because they have been told by adults in their lives to be afraid. whats your response to that? >> this is the end result of being i...

Course, when the head of ukraine calls the president of the united states, its not just to catch up like old friends. theres actually an agenda. and the agenda is what support will the united states provide to ukraine, a smallish and vulnerable country, given its proximity to the russian federation. its also training that the united states conducts in western ukraine, its also other military equipment. its also imf loans, its also whether or not states will participate at it minsk processes abou...

Information on my opponent, in effect, the whole conversation is a quid pro quo. its implied. >> ned, i just want to pull back one step here. lets assume no problem, no quid pro quo, just the president of the united states saying to the president of a foreign country i need you to investigate the person who i think i will be running against for re-election. lets just say its nothing but that without any promise that if you do that investigation, i will then do something positive for your country...

Of the most significant and important of the dnis responsibilities to the american people. in addition, it appears to me that the acting dni has no present intention of providing direction to the complainant through me on how the complainant can contact the congressional intelligence committees directly in accordance with appropriate security practices." leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi from illinois. hes a member of the house intelligence committe...

Trump has gone with the latter, his own interests over ours. >> evelyn farkas, you have experience with issues involving the ukraine. were you surprised tonight to see the word "ukraine" in the "washington post" headline? >> no, lawrence, i wasnt surprised at all. i mean, the president seems to be, as ned pointed out, you know, looking out for himself and his interest with ukraine unfortunately has focused on trying to come up with some dirt on president vieden, which really by the way doesnt ex...

Intelligence activity covered by the operations of the director of national intelligence. and so it doesnt matter where that person actually lies, whether its inside or outside the intelligence community. >> ned price, i just want to give you a wide open opportunity here because you just kept throwing things at us last night that i hadnt even thought of in my questioning. so im just going to give you the floor. where do you see this on day two? >> well, i think what weve learned tonight, lawrenc...

All of you for your great reporting and analysis. i want to bring in our national security experts, ned price, former senior council under president obama and nbc national security analyst, tom dupree under president bush. ned, let me start with you, 30,000 foot view, whistleblower, its an extraordinary development in and of itself, much more if this phone call were to relate to personal gain, as some of the signals seem to be pointing to. >> intelligence community whistleblower complaints arent...

Release of $250 million in aid that the administration was withholding from the country of ukraine. but the quo in this case may well have been something for president trump himself, not something for us, not something that served our national interest, but something that served president trumps political interest perhaps. and time and again this has really been the heart of every trump scandal, where his personal, financial or political interests dont align with our national interests. and ever...

Hes a member of the house intelligence committee and the house oversight committee. today he attended the house intelligence committee briefing with michael atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general.en also joining our discussion ned price, a former cia analyst and former senior director and e, spokesperson for the national security council in the obama administration. ned was invaluable to our discussion in breaking news coverage of this last night. evelyn farkas is with us. shes a...

Ned price, senior director at the national security advise under tt obama is back with us. ned, your reaction to the many developments in the last 30 minutes or so weve heard from president trump the trail as well. >> as we listen to president trump respond to this story, we have to keep in mind his playbook. he reportedly labels partisan democrats, even who questions his carelessness and lawlessness. remember mueller and his 17 angry democrats? when he and jim mattis were on the outs, he even c...