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After tomorrow. that said, the effort to put some real money into that pressure by holding up legally appropriated funds from both the state department and the defense department, those efforts appear to have been illegal or at least judged as such by officials and experts inside the state department and inside the defense department who were scrambling how to figure out -- scrambling to figure out what to do with these illegal instructions. w but on top of all of that, the damage we have just d...

And the appearance of their strength and the implications of that for their negotiating position with russia while they engage in negotiations with them over an ongoing war, that damage is done. that damage is done. and even though this whole scandal is so ham-handed as to be laugh out loud funny every day, right, including rick perry over there bringing the anti-corruption message of the u.s. government and the trump administration to bear, right. thats on one side of the car, where on the othe...

Collapse of the hanoi summit in february with president trump that the united states didnt introduce the new flexibility into its negotiating position with respect to easing sanctions on north korea, that north korea was going to take its policy in a new direction, and they are building up toward ending the nearly 2-year-old freeze on testing nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles which of course the president has claimed as one of the important successes as one of his foreign policie...

Only concern, and being unscrupulous, why wouldnt they work to defeat him in the coming election? >> i think they are. if they looked at the impeachment inquiry right now and they have coming in -- they are going to come into washington on thursday for the 13th round of talks. they have signaled in the last couple days they are just not going to talk about the core issues that u.s. negotiators demand that we discussed, so i think its because they look at trump and they say he might not be here. ...

The first concern, only concern, and being an scrupulous why wouldnt they work to feed him ? >> i think they are. they look at the impeachment entry right now and they have been -- they are going to come in washington for the 13th round of talks. they have signaled the last couple of days, they are not going to talk about the core issues that u.s. negotiators demand that we discussed. i think its because they look at trump and they say, well, he might not be here. we saw a good glimpse of this i...

Illegal, that is fundamentally corrupt, and that should subject him to impeachment. so what were trying to get through all these witnesses coming before the house is a fuller picture of how big this scandal is that may, in the end, convince republicans to come on board and support a process that right now has been started by the democrats in the house. >> beyond what the president did, and it seems like now the likely prospect he will be impeached for it, the bigger lens picture on what he was d...

The democrats in the house. >> beyond what the president did, and it seems like now the likely prospect he will be impeached for it, the bigger lens picture on what he was doing vis-a-vis ukraine is he was really weakening ukraine, that the u.s. has stood up for ukraine since they got invaded by russia 5 1/2 years ago. that we have been a real stalwart ally for them as they have tried to resist russia, not only taking part of their country but occupying another big swath of their country. the pr...

Saying sit down with putin and work it out, to accept the terms that moscow would prefer for the resolution of this conflict. >> in terms of those terms that moscow would prefer, let me ask you about that. because i realize that the war in ukraine has not been a hugely, you know, front page story for the american public for a long time. but it has been something for which theres been some bipartisan accord in washington and in fact some continuity between the obama administration and the trump a...

Pressuring, as we saw him do sitting next to the president of ukraine when he said sit down with putin and work it out, pressuring ukraine to essentially accept the terms that moscow i think would prefer for the resolution of this conflict. >> in terms of those terms that moscow would prefer, let me ask you about that. because i realize that the war in ukraine has not been a hugely, you know, front page story for the american public for a long time. but it has been something for which theres bee...

With the white house, invitations to the white house. these are things the trump white house has actively withheld from ukraine repeatedly since trump took office. but ukraine is further weakened by these now public indications that their new ukrainian president is a sort of is up plikant to the president of the united states and trying to get that support. that makes him look weak too. so the united states in multiple ways has weakened ukraine, put them in a weaker negotiating position than the...