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Dollars in order for his own political gain and he admitted it even on the rough transcripts and so i think what theyre hoping to find out from the whistle-blower is a little more about who was involved, when did everything take place and just how deep this actually went. i think they already know that trump obviously directed this to take place but want to know how extensive it goes. >> lets say thats point one. point two certainly will be public opinion, critical in this and if this latest pol...

Took place. but i think that the democrats already feel that they have plenty of information. they feel that trump leveraged, you know, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in order for his own political gain. and he admitted it even on the rough transcripts. i think what they are hoping to find out from the whistle-blower is a little bit more who was involved and when did everything take place and just how deep this actually went. i think they he already know that trump, obviously, directed...

Whistle-blower complaints to congress, because it was a diplomatic call. thats point one. point two, we learned, and this is new today, that while the justice department told the intel community this doesnt fit the whistle-blower statute reporting requirements to congress, the right thing to do is to refer this to the justice department for criminal investigation, and thats what happened, the justice department conducted a criminal investigation about whether the presidents call violated federal...

The white house would let you know publicly that there was sort of inquiry going on? >> you dont know whether the fbi has been contacted or not or if the fbi follows protocol, they wouldnt tell us, point one. point two, and i hope youll let me finish, what we do know is this. a russian oligarch hired hunter biden, paid him $50,000 a month, gave a bucket load of money to his law firm. it may turn out that the -- i said russia, i meant ukrainian oligarch. it may turn out that the ukrainian oligarc...

Understand you have an obligation, a statutory obligation to share intelligence matters with the congress. now, we dont know with respect to the details of the ukraine story that broke in the papers tonight. if its true, of course, it would be an extraordinary story and it would certainly be worthy of serious investigation by the congress if not others. point one. point two is i think joel brenner did a good job of laying out the situation. we have here a situation where the whistleblower has fo...

Some kind of promise. those are the key words that we know so far. were not sure exactly how to connect them. >> yeah, lawrence, its nice to see you. id say three things. one is that it is an unprecedented situation. i dont know of an example, and i havent heard anybody give an example of where a credible and urgent whistleblower complaint hasnt been shared with the congress. and indeed the practice is even to share complaints generally with the congress. if youre involved in the executive branc...

Period should focus this much attention and time on? and what do you make of his putting this case in the framework of youre letting black people down #freerocky. >> thats right. two points. first of all, with respect to the presidents tweet about our african-american community. i pose the question when did we become yours? given the rhetoric out of the white house, our african-american community is not the african-american community of the president, point one. point two, with respect to a$ap r...

The big question is whether that will hold if the numbers start to grow, wolf. >> phil, one of the presidents former aides hope hicks is about to testify before congress. what are we expecting? >> reporter: this is a key component when you talk about the strategy as having as many hearings to testify to try to fight the white house on their decision not to comply with really anything up to this point. hope hicks coming in to testify in front of the judiciary committee on wednesday behind closed ...

Result but that is probably -- probably not a surprise. >> and we saw that in 2016 campaign. >> i want to play a clip from the abc news interview with the president where he becomes angry at his white house chief of staff. >> at some point i might but at some point i hope they get it because it is a fantastic financial statement. it is a fantastic financial statement. and -- lets do that over. hes coughing in the middle of my answer. i dont like that, you know. >> your chief of staff. >> if your...

Believes the constitution gave him the power to fire former special counsel robert mueller. >> article two would have allowed me to fire him but i wasnt going to fire him. you know why? because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didnt work out too well. >> so your position is you could hire or fire anybody and start -- >> and that is the position of great lawyers. >> reporter: he repeatedly cited article two of the constitution but dodging questions about whether he beli...