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Policy issues. and there are other people who can criticize tulsi. and i dont think she necessarily -- >> we dont want the election stalled again. >> bottom line point. >> true point. were going to have much more on this and much more on the impeachment inquiry making its way through the house and the week of explosive testimony that could change the game in washington. when foreign affairs and judiciary committee member and chair of the congressional black caucus karen bass, congresswoman karen...

Spokesman official there said thats news to us. we never knew anything about any connection between ukrainian aid, military aid being held up in our investigation is. the difference is, the first two things whether europe was contributing, corruption, those are policy issues. holding up aid for policy is okay. but when you hold it up to investigate the political rivals and the democrats were, he did flatly deny there was any connection to investigating biden, but you know, holding up military ai...

But some of us stuck around to have the conversation because it matters. okay, theyre planning on sanctioning turkey towards what end? whats going to happen with that? are we keeping forces in the region? a whole bunch of policy questions that matter that we did discussion. >> does the president have command of those policy issues? >> not really. i think hes off on a number of key points, and the biggest point i tried to explain was we work with partners to contain terrorist threats from groups ...

Productive meeting. but some of us stuck around to have the conversation because it matters. okay, theyre planning on sanctioning turkey towards what end? whats going to happen with that? are we keeping forces in the region? theres a whole bunch of policy questions that matter that we did discuss. >> does the president have command of those policy issues? >> not really. i think hes off on a number of key points, and the biggest point i tried to explain is we worked with partners to contain terro...

Obvious there was some type of serious cam papaign violation h, i know its an allegation, but everything points in that direction. if i had to guess in having interacted briefly with these gentlemen for some time, i think that theyre going to want to cooperate as much as possible. >> you do? >> to protect themselves. >> very interesting given that youve taken a measure of them. i want to play something else for you that is so striking as an echo, you know donald trump, and you guys worked togeth...

Send it over to the federal election commission which theyre supposed to do. >> its a very fair question. indeed our viewers watching this program will know theres a lot of questions left pertaining to giuliani and as you said mr. barr seemed to immediately say there was no probe whatsoever into any of these issues. maybe sdny didnt get the memo. and yet even given that logic you know i have to press you and ask you something else. which is some of your critics are going to look at this and say ...

Directly after donald trumps now infamous call with the ukrainian president. im going to read a little bit of this lead for the benefit of our viewers and see what you think. i know youve been working on these issues. "the washington post" says at least four national security officers were so quote so alarmed they raised concerns with the white house lawyer quote both before and quote immediately after the call according to officials. the nature and timing of these undisclosed discussions indica...

Rights and should be protected. and you have people like the former presidential candidate mitt romney say somethings wrong here. so look at what this is. this is very clear path where the president of the united states, theres a phone call with a record of trying to put his own political partisan business interests, you name it, in front of our countrys. and if he is looking at something of value, that is violation. and it is a narrow focus in the house on this subject, not relitigating the pas...

Of -- the issue of the bidens with president zelensky and -- >> were you ever aware of the administration -- >> what i can tell you is that all of our discussions internally, the president and our team and our contacts and my office with ukraine were entirely focused on the broader issues of the lack of european support and corruption. >> were you ever interested in the bidens being investigated and was that tied to aid to ukraine being held up? >> thats your question. >> adam goldberg is a form...

Opinion amongst republicans, we could look at his fund-raising numbers from yesterday. there doesnt seem to be cracks in that broader public opinion. >> i think he is becoming more and more aware of the fact that this impeachment inquiry is real. he also watched the speaker of the house, who gets under his skin. we have seen this on policy issues in the past, on the mueller investigation in the past and now on impeachment. heres what she had to say. the president is talking about the whistleblow...