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Are the calls for his resignation . I will speak live with congresswoman some lee. Then the gops broken priorities, instead of focusing on the looming Government Shutdown, the erosion of our democracy, talking about John Fetterman in shorts, seriously. And two of the worlds most influential men are pushing the world on this good evening, im mehdi hasan. One of the main reasons americans are so fed up with washington d. C. , so distrustful about, government so angry about the state of our public ...

Least so far, who spoke directly to the president. americans are skeptical about testimony, especially an aide who overheard this phone conversation? >> of course, theres a number of witnesses who are going to be coming to testify before us this week and next week. many of whom spoke with the president. on top of that we have mick mulvaney, who basically blurted out a very candid admission the other day, in his opinion its normal practice to have these types of quid pro quos, in this case, condi...

Your republican colleagues? >> im not sure. i think this is chapter one in a process. i do think it went really well from the standpoint of some very compelling witness testimony. i thought the decorum was very good. it was handle in a dignified manner. credit goes to chairman schiff. we learned new information you probably already talked about, namely the president may have been more deeply involved in this pressure scheme involving ukraine and his political rivals. >> what about that phone cal...

Side. they are trying to deflect detention from the substance of the allegations which are very serious. and namely did the president abuse his office or export the ukranian president to basically investigate his political rivals leveraging military aid and other benefits that the ukranians receive from us. >> people who are criticizing the impeachment and supporting the president have said if democrats wont call hunter biden to testify, this whole thing is a sham. why dont you counter that and ...

Testimony thats come out recently gets more of a central row in the extortion bribery scheme, whatever you want to indicate. fiona hill, the top russian adviser in the white house, when her testimony was released the other day, i thought one of the key points was it wasnt just giuliani who was cooking up this pressure scheme against the ukrainians. it was giuliani and mulvaney. and as you noted in your wonderful setup, when john bolton referred to the fact that i wont be part of any drug deal, m...

>> so i dont want to comment on text messages. >> good morning. welcome to a.m. joy. well republican congressman would like to not comment please about text messages particularly when those text messages reveal the extent and the brazenness of the attempted dirt for aid shakedown of a u.s. ally, ukraine carried out by a rag tag team of tump associates including a hotel magnate who became a u.s. ambassador with no qualifications other than giving $1 million to the trump inauguration. the u.s. env...