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Concerned that anything illegal was discussed. he kind of defines the whole argument here. >> i think thats too narrow of an understanding of impeachment. you dont have to commit a crime to be impeached. treason, bribery, i crimes and misdemeanors, and think they thought that was abuse of power. on the other hand i dont think morrison adds that much new. i think we pretty much have the facts of what happened because of a white house release of the phone transcript. it sounded like there was some...

Just in to cnn a key witness taking the stand in the impeachment inquiry into president trump. his name is tim morrison. he is a close ally of former national security adviser john bolton and soon will be leaving his job at the top russia adviser to the presidents national security council. moments ago he told lawmakers he was worried if the transcript of trumps call with ukraine leaked it could hurt morrisons efforts to bolster relations with ukraine according to multiple sources who added morr...

It had nothing to do with a quid pro -- all of those things, which i mean come on. >> well, look, theyre assuming that we dont have eyes and ears, that we shouldnt believe our lying eyes. i mean, its just stunning. anybody can read that phone transcript, and they can read the whistle-blower complaint. those two documents are pretty much aligned. i mean there is no question the president of the united states used his office. he was trying to use his office to get a foreign head of state to invest...

That we dont have eyes and ears, that we shouldnt believe our lies eyes. its just stunning. anybody can read that phone transcript, and they can read the whistle-blower complaint. those two documents are pretty much aligned. i mean there is no question the president of the united states used his office. he was trying to use his office to get a foreign head of state to investigate his principal political opponent. cant use official resources to do that. then theres the issue of the quid pro quo. ...

Posturing. we are good people, they will tell you. unlike you. you never really believed it. now you know its totally fake. the china nba story proves it and by the way the ukraine impeachment saga also does. everyone in washington is tellings you its unbelievable that donald trump would have used a conversation with a d foreign leader to help her politically. never happens. we are not endorsing it, but we would like to give you some context. so last night we showed you a phone transcript or bil...

The china nba story proves a peer by the way, the ukraine impeachment saga also does. everyone in washington is telling you its unbelievable that donald trump would have used a conversation with a foreign leader to help politically. that never happens. we are not endorsing it but we would like to give you some context so last night we showed you a phone transcript where bill clinton who was the president asked tony blair who was the prime minister of great britain for political booster for the 2...

Investigate a challenger? >> absolutely. had i ever received a transcript like the one i saw, president of ukraine zelensky, that would have trigrd an ethics investigation and referral to the doj. you cannot use your official offices for a naked political purpose. thats what that transcript struck me as. an attempt to use your office to get opposition research or dig dirt on your primary, or principal political rival. >> i appreciate the clarity. your former colleagues up on capitol hill, republ...

Allegations, which includes anil he lee gas station that the transcript of the phone call was put into a special server that wasnt able to be viewed as normal presidential phone calls are. and this is being called a coverup by nancy pelosi and others. how do you see that? >> well, first of all, its awfully hard to have a coverup of a phone transcript that now the entire world has read because the white house itself released it. so we had to go through hours of this, based on this allegation. rep...

Russia investigation. and now we have in black and white in both the phone transcript and the whistleblower complaint the president attempting to collude with the foreign head of government implicating his own attorney general, using the poyer bo pow government to investigate a rival. and that is not even getting into the alleged quid pro quo. so i think republicans have to deal with this in a more forceful way. as s.e. said, they have to support a thorough and robust investigation. because ther...

Allegations, which includes anil he lee gas station that the transcript of the phone call was put into a special server that wasnt able to be viewed as normal presidential phone calls are. and this is being called a coverup by nancy pelosi and others. how do you see that? >> well, first of all, its awfully hard to have a coverup of a phone transcript that now the entire world has read because the white house itself released it. so we had to go through hours of this, based on this allegation. rep...