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Impeachment. what do you expects going to happen? this could roll out and flicker on our television screens over the next few weeks, and then it goes to the senate w.s your prediction? >> i think right now on the evidence that exists, i think we will see the president likely impeached by the house. the house democrats have indicated a clear commitment to that. you saw republicans voted almost en bloc against the inquiry in part about the concerns over the process by which it came to be and the p...

The public a service if you did. the whistleblower gave a false report. and because of that false report, people thought bad things were done. and then you had schiff go out and speak before congress and before the american people and give a false story. he made up a story. and then i released, after all this was done, i released, and everybody said he didnt do anything wrong. but the whistleblower should be revealed, because the whistleblower gave false stories. some people would call it fraud....

Not end up in his removal, those will be remembered come the ballot box next november. >> its resonating so far with house democrats. the challenge now is will it resonate with americans, broadly speaking? will it resonate with senate republicans? and the white house doesnt seem to have a clear strategy in countering the facts. but they do have a strategy in terms of sending rudy giuliani or others out there to talk about the process and muddying the waters on intent. the presidents intent has t...

Gotten a full read what every single person is saying because theyre concerned what some of these administration current and former are saying and what the house democratic investigators are doing, slowly piecing together a picture of exactly what happened when this aid from the moment the aid was withheld until the moment it was released and what all of the reasons were around that. what weve seen so far, largely from the career folks on the state department side and the embassy and ukraine wha...

Conflict. kurdish forces say they have plans in place to withdraw their forces from the city today and the turkish defense ministry says its going to let that happen. going so far as to provide a list to the united states of safe roads too allow the kurds to accomplish that. a possible complicating factor is the turkish backed militias that are currently surrounding the city. u.s. officials say there are elements in the militias of isis and al qaeda. its unclear at this point just how much contr...

Him, because of that. and, you know, its -- its just not something they seem to be prepared for. >> abby, it seems like the most interesting person who will testify could be gordon sondland, because he was blocked. so his testimony was blocked last week by the state department. he is the ambassador who is not a career diplomat. he was a supporter of president trump and he was, you know, given this ambassador to the eu role. and so, is it your impression that the white house and the state departm...

>> america tries to advance its interest around the world and i am confident that i feel pressure. when i talk to your foreign minister, who pressures me all the time, its totally appropriate. right? nations do this. nations work together. they say, boy, goodness gracious, if you can help me with x, well help you achieve y. this is what partnerships do. its win-win. >> reporter: the open question from that answer, for instance, is when he talks about nations advancing interests, whose interests ...

Light and redirect and assemble on this and i think that makes it really tough for the campaign and republicans to hit the sunday talk show circuit and credibly defend what happened. >> told richard engel last week that there is no evidence that hunter biden or joe biden did anything wrong under ukrainian law. the question we started this all with is, will the presidents gop wall break? will it crack? do you see any evidence that it could fall away as this process unfolds. and its going really r...

The ink thing about sending out rudy giuliani to mess around in ukraine whenever you have state department employees, defense department employees -- >> chris wallace tried to ask him that question and he wouldnt answer it. if it was such a perfect call, why are all those government agencies backing away from this and getting as far as they can from this. why the ag had nothing to do with it and the state department is saying they didnt know about it, even though they set up giuliani with ukrain...

An impeachment inquiry. thats an important distinction. but that they support democrats getting to the bottom of all of this. and right now, even though democrats are on this two-week break, you do have the house intelligence committee continuing with a pretty packed schedule. they have a number of depositions lined up with people who played a significant role in this sort of ukrainian gambit at least as outlined by the whistle-blower report. and democrats and the acting director of national int...