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Presidents personal lawyer. at one point fiona hill describes to lawmakers that she told kurt volker, who is a special envoy to ukraine, that he should not be dealing with rudy giuliani, the presidents personal lawyer, when it came to ukraine. and that was in early july, and he said back to her essentially that he was trying to fix things and that they had to deal with giuliani in order to fix the negative perceptions that were out there. but she came back at him and said, quote, but i expressed...

Race and be more helpful that way. ill let you take a crack at that, by also want to ask you about some of your own reporting. gene tweeted this last night, quote, it gets even more interesting, gene rights, i hear from a good source that eric holder has been consulting strategists about possibly jumping into the democratic presidential race. gene, what more can you tell us about that? >> thats basically all i can tell you about that. >> thanks for being here, gene, have a good weekend. >> but d...

Perception is clearly different and one of the perceptions that i think we underestimated was the degree to which nato was seen as the enemy it was seen as the hostile and the soviet and therefore by extension and to russian alliance and i think that the offer to say well you can come into it just sounded to them as something they didnt want to really know but i think that we also made mistakes we didnt engage the ordinary well a middle ranking officers level we didnt really get through to peopl...

Calculation both by the democrats how to proceed and by the republicans in the senate about how to respond, assuming against where everybody thinks that its going. sondland so far is the closest person in terms of the direct conversations with the president. but when you look at sort of the picture at large, were still fundamentally dealing with the same question, which is, do the americans -- does the american public believe that any of this, even if it was the worst case scenario that people a...

You screaming from the roof tops. it says, okay, you do not know where that interview would have occurred. i dont. or on what network i -- i dont know. but something president trump would obviously see. okay. fox on tucker, the fact that the president wanted a public announcement, that would explain why this is so consequential, right? >> yes. and i think thats so important is that what they really wanted was zelensky to state publicly that he was going to be investigating the bidens and the bas...

And i think thats so important controlled the house the senate is that what they really wanted was zelensky to state publicly and governors mansion. that he was going to be investigating the bidens and the its a huge win for us. basis of the 2016 election democrats ran on issues people care about. interference. lowering prescription drug it wasnt a commitment to prices. actually investigate, which, you informsing in education. know, could have happened, you investing in education. know, quietly,...

Things written down. this is a public servant who did write it down and has it there to tell the american public, and this can go a long way towards shaping public understanding and perceptions. >> right, of what went down. >> of this piece of the process. >> of what was going on at the time. if the house is teaming up something that the senate will ultimately judge, theres two ways to look at that sort of firewall you described. one is if it really doesnt move at all, it frees the house up to m...

Peter thinks of this. were used to when we talk about the economy and politics, were used to talk together economy driving peoples perceptions of politicians, of leaders. if the economys good, the presidents awarded and gets re-elected. if the economy is bad hes a one termer. but im looking at these numbers and i think it does raise the question is opinion of trump driving opinion of the economy? >> or is trump driving it? >> thats exactly the questionawquestion we want to answer. i have a hunch...

Some new breaking details of the timing of the impeachment inquiry. congressman engle saying that the closed door depositions will wrap up this week and then transcripts will be release and congressman heinz saying that he expects the public hearings to begin in the next two the three weeks. joining me now to discuss it all is congressman steve cohen from tennessee, and serving on the house judiciary committee, and here we go. about the public hearings, my friend, how do we expect this new phase...

And realize the gravity of the situation. you dont just casually move to impeach a president. its not been done many times. and its a burden that you need to accept and understand the responsibility of. >> yeah, absolutely. and clearly, youre taking that responsibility. but do you think you have heard right now enough to impeach this president? >> well, i do. i think that when the military officer just laid it all out and the serge de affairs laid it all out, plus the president said it on televi...