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Judiciary committee. thank you for being there. let me begin with that? what is your response to your republican colleagues who say the president is just joking? >> well, do they think he was joking when he withheld $391 million in security assistance to ukraine and sent people over there, including rudy giuliani, to shake them down to extract from them a commitment to investigate joe biden to enleash prosecutors and investigators on joe biden? was that a joke too? look, i think anybody looking ...

In jest, as was apparent to any objective objecter. it wasnt apparent to any objective observer, and talking about trade negotiations, saying, i think it would be okay for you to investigate the bidens, yori dont think thats funny. >> you can believe its a perfect call or you can take the pompeo route that quid pro quo is really another way of saying compromise in diplomacy, or you could take the marco rubio, its all just a joke line. again, i dont think china or ukraine thinks its a joke when t...

People could identify with arafat, and they could see israel as the oppressor. >> while the palestinians hadnt by 1974 got the palestinian liberation that they were seeking, theyd certainly put themselves on the agenda at a very high level indeed, and this had happened fast. >> in a historic vote today, the united nations general assembly supported the palestinian claim to statehood. and a second resolution also passed that would give the palestinian liberation organization a formal place at the...

Clapper said? >> director clapper is a very wiseman. in fact, it is something that we should all be concerned about. its also something our adversaries are well aware of. when the leader of the united states is so easy to distract by either flattery or some other provocative activity, it is a threat to the rest of us and it becomes even more important that professionals are in place to look out for the national security interests of the nation. >> how worried are you at this point when you look ...

Are in a very good position right now, despite the witch hunt which hurts or country and hurts america. but iran wants to do something. north korea wants to do something. and china would like to do something. [ inaudible question ] >> i dont know. that youd have to ask -- is the justice department investigating joe biden? that youd have to ask attorney general barr. but i can tell you just as an observer what i saw biden do with his son, he is pillaging the countries and hurting us. how would yo...

Warning that if he was impeached it would trigger a "civil war." im joined now by an astute about serv observer of these thing. there is a lot going on, but widening out with you as we sometimes do, what do you see here? >> i think that it is trumps grandiosity. and you know we know this, the people who have observed him long before political life knew this about him, but he imagined himself on a skap of great consequential actions and his potential removal from office would create a fissure the...

Something, iran would like to do something. we have a lot of countries in a very good position now despite the witch hunt that hurts our country and hurts america. iran wants to do something, north korea wants to do something and china would like to do something. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> that youd have to ask -- is the justice department investigating joe biden? that youd have to ask attorney general barr. i can tell you just as an observer, what i saw biden do with his son hes pillaging th...

Before as his time as vice president in relation to what his sons companies and his sons dealing was in those two countries. but he wants to claim it has nothing to do with 2020. at the same time, he is hinting there will be a investigation from the justice department. have a listen. >> is the justice department investigating joe biden? well, that you would have to ask attorney general barr. but i can tell you just as an observer, when i saw biden do with his son, he is pillaging these countries...

For impeachment has gone up, there was a poll showing that 40% of republicans dont realize that trump asked the president of ukraine for dirt on joe biden. i mean, thats amazing. >> yeah. dana, kurt volker is testifying as we speak. the guys a trump appointee. he was inside the ukraine issue himself personally for months. you know, hes not a pass is of observer here. but you see the trump attack machine already going in describing him as not being on the trump train. theyve done this before. hes...

Form but this is transcript-ish and written like a transcript. >> and comma for comma, word for word, implying that it was the complete transcript. >> right which is interesting because unless people are taking notes in shorthand i dont know how anybody would be able to recreate that unless it was a natural transcript. >> and the interesting transcript, you have mike pompeo, the secretary of state saying he is effectively ordering or at least not cooperating with the congressional subpoenas of s...