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It is expected one of president trumps most vocal defenders, ohio republican congressman jim jordan, will get moved temporarily to the house intelligence committee for those hearings. were told it hasnt happened yet but something to watch. the white house press secretary weighed in on impeachment this morning. >> i would just implore the democrats to understand that the president did nothing wrong, their sham impeachment has not work and it wont work. lets get to work for the country and do some...

Good work, my friend. let me bring in david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. hes since left the party. glenn kirchner is an msnbc legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor as well. hes stationed outside the roger stone trial, just in case theres any news there. david, let me start with you, we heard the presidents defense under a couple of stories under the impeachment umbrella if you will. your take so far on his defense? >> reminiscent of reagan during iran contra when reaga...

Lutsenko maybe because of giulianis influence. then they closed it again. and if you were running against somebody who has an investigation in corruption against them, thats dirt. that hurts, and we both know it. >> but you know what? we had an election in 2016 where there was an investigation into hillary clinton and an investigation into donald trump. it hurt them both. thats true. but then if youre not afraid of the investigation because you did nothing wrong, should joe biden be that freaked...

The matter said. cnn political analyst and "washington post" white house reporter josh dawsey shares a byline and joins us by phone. tell us more about what youve learned, what the president asked the attorney general to do. >> in the immediate aftermath of a transcript being released on september 25th, anderson, the president was looking for key defenders to go out and say the president did nothing wrong, the president broke no law, the president behaved properly. as youve seen repeatedly, he s...

He wanted attorney general bill barr to come out in public and basically do a repeat of what he did with the mueller report. he came out and said everything was totally fine. the president did nothing wrong, et cetera. now, barr didnt do it and, hopefully, well hopefully learn in the coming days why. but lets be crystal clear. they put out a statement, a written statement, that said, there wasnt even enough evidence for an investigation, let alone any sort of charges. so, they gave the president...

>> no. i disagree with that. then they reopened it under lutsenko maybe because of giulianis influence. then they closed it again. and if you were running against somebody who has an investigation in corruption against them, thats dirt. that hurts, and we both know it. >> but you know what? we had an election in 2016 where there was an investigation into hillary clinton and an investigation into donald trump. it hurt them both. thats true. but then if youre not afraid of the investigation becaus...

The justice department publicly announced they had reviewed it, criminal prosecutor his reviewed the call and determined that the president did nothing wrong, at least when it came to campaign financial laws. that much the president did get. it is clear that the president wanted more from his attorney general. he wanted a public statement from the attorney general, perhaps a press conference, and he did not get that. its important to also note, poppy and jim, that even if the justice department ...

A source confirming to cnn that president trump wanted attorney general bill barr to publicly declare that the president did nothing wrong in the ukraine scandal, a source saying that the president discussed barr potentially holding a news conference to say that the president broke no laws in his phone call july 25th when he asked ukraines president zelensky to investigate joe and hunter biden. trump denies this. as we should note the president often tells lies. the news conference he wanted did...

On in washington, d.c. today is a disgrace. behind closed doors theres a so-called impeachment inquiry that i think the people know is nothing more than a partisan impeachment. its the latest effort by democrats to try to overturn the results of the 2016 election. i think the american people see through it. for people that have questions, again they can look at the transcript, they can see what the president said to president zelensky. i know as the facts continue to come out, people will see th...

Perfect transcript. but even the prospect, even the possibility that president trump actually buys into this explanation that nothing wrong, illegal, there was no betrayal on that transcript, that should be chilling for all of us because when you couple that with what mick mulvaney said in his infamous press conference when he said we do this kind of thing all the time, and when you marry that with whats been reported about donald trump using his personal cellphone, potentially even to call fore...