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But, shazam, last week, you come forward with supposedly this new information . There is nothing different in there than what we had on the transcript. Maybe thats the reason their star witness, their first witness didnt bring it up. But they had to have something. So you are their closing witness because you overheard the president talking to Ambassador Sondland. Sir, if i can answer. I see four seconds left on the clock. Mr. Holmes, you may take as long as you need. Thank you, sir. I believe t...

Trump is in a much weaker position vis-a-vis his own party because he has this track record of not getting more votes than a democrat. >> does it feel to you like donald trump is even actually running? he made this announcement like a month ago and then other than had lunch with anti-semites and, you know, various disreputable characters, hasnt really done anything. it isnt like he is out building houses for habitat for humanity. i mean, he is not doing anything >> i wouldnt hold your breath for...

The 21st century will have certain aspects that are similar with the 19th and certain that are similar with the 20th. the world will be multi-polar. there will be many powers that matter. united states obviously. china, russia, europe, india, perhaps others. similar to the 19th century. the problem is there are going to be some with the 20th century. competing with fundamentally different economic and political models, ideas, democracy versus alternatives. i think this aggression in europe is th...

>> translator: we need to not escalate things. i would continue to hold discussions with president putin. what do we want to do collectively? we want to stop the war russia has war without waging war and without escalation. >> lets get more on this from nic robertson from brussels. good morning to you. we heard president macron kind of suggest, nic, that perhaps the u.s. position and the eu position vis-a-vis russia. whats your read of this? >> reporter: well, going into this, the united states ...

Was necessarily well-prepared, and i also dont think that he had the distinct agenda going it and when you couple that with what hes done with regard to the pipeline for instance and weakening our position vis-a-vis russia, i think with a strong leader like putin seems to be in the country that we did a tremendous disservice to us vis-a-vis that relationship. >> sandra: do you give him credit for sitting down with putin? >> i think its something he should do. i think it happen too soon and i thi...

Some of the disagreements here are about just how much of -- or what kind of a threat is china and what should be the approach. the approach if we go back 10, 15 years the idea was cooperation work. that has changed. not all the nations have gone along with that. not all the nations see china as the same apocalyptic new cold world kind of terms. >> the french president, emmanuel macron, has called for a measure of independence in europes position vis-a-vis china. they dont just want to follow wh...

Critical of president trump, who was then the nominee for the republican party for making comments about ukraine, crimea, and russia. >> may i interrupt you there? let me be very specific about what those comments were. the president, when he was a candidate, said, quote: the people of crimea, from what i have heard, would rather be with russia than where they were. so, ambassador charlie is responding to that in that article, correct? >> thats correct. he just uses this as a peg. because, to be...

You know, what is the presidents personal lawyer doing conducting foreign policy? i think thats the big vulnerability here. but yesterday focused a lot on foreign policy. i think that was a concern for the democrats for two reasons. one is im not sure our position vis-a-vis ukraine actually sort of captivates the publics imagination and then second, you know, foreign policy is entrusted to the president. you know, i think what were going to see is the republicans make a potentially valid point i...

Confidence. but perhaps the most poisonous of the new impeachment obsession is the harm that it does to the presidents ability to conduct foreign policy. its already weighing on trump when he goes into meet foreign sileaders. >> im walking into the united nations to meet with the biggest leaders in the world and i hear about the word "impeachment." >> laura: experts are saying that this affects our position vis-a-vis north korea, too. >> the message is, i am calling the shots now. i think he fee...

It may be hurting our confidence. but perhaps the most poisonous of the new impeachment obsession is the harm that it does to the presidents ability to conduct foreign policy. its already weighing on trump when he goes into meet foreign leaders. >> im walking into the united nations to meet with the biggest leaders in the world and i hear about the word "impeachment." >> laura: experts are saying that this affects our position vis-a-vis north korea, too appear to speak of the messages, i am call...