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Said to be shopping for an attorney. how much of a liability is he for president trump? congresswoman hill giving her final speech on the floor as she resigns amidallegations with a relationship with a staffer. she says shes been forced to give up her seat due to a double standard. straight to the historic day. joining me now susan glasser, michael isikoff and harry lipman. ill start with you. the testimony from white house national security official corroborates claims of a quid pro quo. unfold...

Administration officials are striking. so you can see why they are going to move ahead to the public hearings. >> you say his view of the law is irrelevant. that actions show he was worried about the call. did his testimony help democrats build the case? >> yeah. i think so. it says a lot about how basically mono-lific the tim has been. republicans are saying its good for them. he corroborates taylor. he heard sondland and giuliani. the marquee villains next to trump when they have the trial. an...

That. if the president is eventually impeached by acquitted in the senate and the trial. would that embolden him for reelection? well talk about that. rudy giuliani role in ukraine scandal is extensive and hes said to be shopping for an attorney. how much of a liability is he for president trump? congresswoman hill giving her final speech on the floor as she resigns amid allegations with a relationship with a staffer. allegations she denies. she claims shes been forced to give up her seat due to...

Theme. you mention clinton. he goes on and says everybody knows i did nothing wrong. clinton did things wrong. nixon did things wrong. i wont go to johnson because that was before my time. hes comparing himself to the other presidents. how does that stack up? >> it wont be a surprise if i tell you that hes wrong. what were seeing in the material thats come out from the investigation so far. im talking about things publicly available. not -- >> the transcript. >> this is the key. yes we have gott...

The report of the testimony suggests he did in fact corroborate realtime concerns about the with holding of $400 million in u.s. security assistance to ukraine with the condition being trump wanted the investigations launched. remember that others especially u.s. acting ambassador to ukraine have said he was a key source conveying this information and conveying concerns to realtime. morrison would have been in a tough position to deny the information that taylor already testified to. under oath....

Hes comparing himself to the other presidents. how does that stack up? >> it wont be a surprise if i tell you that hes wrong. what were seeing in the material thats come out from the investigation so far. im talking about things publicly available. not -- >> the transcript. >> this is the key. yes we have gotten leaks from democrats. leave those aside. look at the testimony the statements that have been released. and the call transcript. summary. thats enough for you to see the pattern of abuse ...

His supporters have bought from him which is this idea of brooech grievance. the talks in washington screwed everything in america up. screwed you trump supporters and now theyre trying to do it again attacking president trump. and he will be able to sort of spin that and use it as a campaign fuel. the problem is that if youre a democrat in congress, you have to do your constitutional job which from their point of view is proceeding with this impeachment investigation. >> its interesting he is g...

In general the facts that have been presented to us at this point about president trumps actions and the realtime concerns of trump administration officials are pretty striking. so you can see why they are going to move ahead to these public hearings. >> you say morrisons view of the law is irrelevant and his action is he was worried about the call. >> i think so. it really says a lot about how basically monolithic the testimony has been, this is something the republicans are saying was good for...

But hes also said that he didnt think anything on the call was illegal. the white house says testimony is good for them. how do you see it? >> obviously im looking forward to reading the full deposition. the report of the testimony suggests he did in fact corroborate realtime concerns about the withholding of $400 million in u.s. security assistance to ukraine with the condition being trump wanted the investigations launched. remember that others especially u.s. acting ambassador to ukraine, bil...

>> they dont check the facts. were talking about the just a basic facts of impeachment. you cant agree on who placed a call. who was on the call. whether or not it was a transcript or full or memorandum. whether or not words were missing. they dont trust the testimony. or the reports characterizing testimony. we cant agree on whether or not the sky is blue. its difficult to get through to a certain faction of the public who sides with trump. who just is inclined to be very distrustful of anybody...