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The employee. this doesnt prohibit anyone else from revealing the identity of the whistleblower, congress and the press included. the biggest lead, the democrats have been telling this over and over again. the presidents conversationn with the ukraine president wasas improper. i will say this. listen closely. not only did the president say nothing improper during that july 25th phone call, he made important points about the fact that other nations in the region are not pitching in enough to supp...

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Fairway. that was one of the many shocks we faced. >> i want be to read something you said, it would be political suicide to admit trump was catching us off guard. anything less would imperil mattiss reputation. its a no-win situation for somebody like secretary mattis in that case? >> its a challenging situation but i thought the secretary handled those kinds of situation as well. wed be on international travel traveling on the e4b and you would have press gagless. hed be hit with a challenging...

Impeachment inquiry move go forward. >> its a little early to tell, chris, because this was just recently announced. republicans were caught off-guard. a lot of people are talking about this. but certainly i think theres a handful of republicans in the house -- >> thank you. thats news. up next all eyes on the star witness tonight. youre watching "hardball." n thr witness tonight. youre watching "hardball. performance comes in lots of flavors. theres the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of s...

I mean, bob, as you reflect on u.s. military off-guard and - also, intelligence, right? >> i used to deal with the iraqi tribes. i had never seen them in this case, go this far. to come out like this. and what struck me about it. its not just hubris. the man was charismatic. beautiful arabic. educated. and for sunni muslims, he was a beacon. i dont think a lot of people felt how violent this was going to get and self-defeating. his departure is going to set it way back. he is a political figure ...

Be the discussion of today. we are waiting for a press conference that could begin at any moment, hallie. >> i appreciate that from turkey. so heres the thing. if the military was caught kind of off guard by the presidents pullout of troops from syria, theyre not planning to make that mistake twice if it happens in afghanistan. according to our exclusive nbc news reporting from the pentagon. nbc news has learned the defense department is drawing up plans for a full withdraw of troops from afghan...

Get over it. theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> and then, for the real head-scratching moment, only hours later, mulvaney was walking back the argument, claiming in a statement, he hadnt said just what you heard him say. quote, let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and an investigation into the 2016 election. mulvaney appeared to be road-testing a new white house argument that aid was withheld to pressure ukraine to investi...

I have news for everybody. get over it. theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> only hours later, mulvaney was walking back the argument, claiming in a statement, he hadnt said just what you heard him say. quote, let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and an investigation into the 2016 election. mulvaney appeared to be road-testing a new white house argument that aid was withheld to pressure ukraine to investigate a conspiracy th...

Off-guard. jay sekulow said the white house legal team was not involved in the acting chief of staffs press briefing. a justice department official said mulvaneys claims that the d.o.j. was involved, thats news to us. and seems like the president was left out of the loop, as well. >> are you aware he suggested a quid pro quo. >> somebody said he did a very nice job. i look at all of this and turkey and the great thing that happened in syria. mick is a good man. i have not heard anything about it...

Its funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happens, as well. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. i have news for everybody. get over it. theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> hours later, mulvaney was walking back the argument, claiming in a statement, he hadnt said just what you heard him say. quote, let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and an investigation into the 2016 electio...