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♪ rick perry confirmed reports that he will be departing the trump administration by the end of the year and he claims that it has nothing to do with the ukraine controversy. >> what does your departure have to do with ukraine, mr. secretary? >> well, it has absolutely nothing to do with ukraine. it has everything to do with for the last eight or nine months, ive been looking back to texas on a pretty regular basis to roundtop texas, my wife, my dogs and kind of going on to the next adventur...

To rudy or do they just drop everything, and they decided, well, they had to work around it. and so sondland said, okay, well talk to rudy and perry reached out to rudy and eventually i guess all of them spoke to giuliani as well. crazy. >> thats definitely what im going to say. you mentioned pompeo, he says pompeo -- this opening statement he puts this at the feet of the president. but he also seems to throw pompeo under the bus. and not clear he talked about our ukraine strategy. whats not cle...

Ukrainians directly or indirectly in the presidents 2020 reelection campaign." mulvaney denied the administration acted improperly. >> reporter: to do anything to pressure ukraine to investigate the bidens? >> no. >> we have received a statement from mick mulvaney that reads in part "the media has decided to misconstrue my comments to advanced a biased and political witch hunt, adding there was never a quid pro quo with the ukrainians." within the last hour, two administration sources have confi...

We cant show you that live inside the oval office. instead we get notes to our phones from the team inside the room. ill relay that to you the second we get them and ill turn the tape around once it plays out live. no questions to the president on impeachment yet because there are new dwoevelopments on the impeachment inquiry. weve got ambassador michael mckin lie tafg in froestifying f the commits right now. it comes after george kent. kent told investigators that the acting chief of staff nick...

Although i dont know if that is the best for him, because the longer he stalls the longer he doesnt have a defense in the narrative is not his. >> harris: kept the fax be a defense? >> if youre going through actual impeachment. but if he doesnt -- >> harris: oh, i see. public opinion is not impeachment, fulfilled, so on and so forth. i want to get to this. a new fox poll also finds that while 69% find the presidents ukraine news troubling, 62% think the same about the allegations against the bid...

In the benghazi situation. >> theres a clear sir come vengs of diplomatic channels. perry, gord land sondland met. it quickly became clear president trump had been convinced otherwise. he had been convinced ukraine was rampantly corrupt. remember, a key accusation in the whistle-blower complaint said giuliani, a private citizen, presented a policy to ukraine, different from the policy conveyed by u.s. diplomats. >> three sources tell us white house aides scrambled to alert lawyers about what the...

The water louis giuliani he will not testify until there has been a formal impeachment vote and its chairman adam schiff is removed. end of the boyd swooped senator lindsey graham, he has invited giuliani to testify about possible corruption in ukraine. will he accept this offer? rudy giuliani, joseph digenova, are you going to testify with the senate? at >> i have to weigh that with my client, its not a unitary decision but it may affect the other decisions. i would love to testify and give me ...

That leads to nights western roundup. a los angeles jury ruling that her 2013 hit "dark horse" improperly copied a song. the team says the songs simply have similar styles and the ruling hurts all songwriters. a jury will now decide how much perry will owe for the violatio violation. out in seattle, paige thompson, who goes by the online handle erratic charged with a single count of computer fraud and abuse. capital one says he alleged hacker gained access to personal information from about 106 ...

What we are, are four lawmakers who happen to land in the same place on the same issues time and time again. >> joining us now, "new york times" congressional correspondent julie hirschfield davis and perry bacon. perry, striking to me just in the moment reading that that thats a headline. that its such a big headline that a democratic congresswoman is working to set up a meeting with the speaker of the house. what does that tell us? >> i dont know what the word insurgency means to the congressw...

Representing them. so i think you have to note the risks of that strategy, but theres no question that this is the terrain on which president trump wants to fight his re-election race and that he thinks that theres an upside for him in cementing his base by continuing to sound these themes. >> perry, i had a little of a gob smacking moment interviewing a republican senator in the last hour. i asked him about his comments about the squad, calling them whack jobs, which the president quoted in twe...