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Act and reauthorize fisa, is this a momentarily distrust or is this how republicans now feel across the board with our intelligence and some of our law enforcement agencies? >> i think what it is embolmatic of, katy, they do not have anything unified strategy with questions surrounding this impeachment. no strategy whether or not they can defend the presidents actions outright. youve seen this hodgepodge of different strategies whether its complaining that the whistle-blower was having second-ha...

Whistle-blower as a partisan person who should not be believed, who has hearsay and second-hand information, having someone else come out and corroborate that information i think undermines some of those arguments. >> hans, as we know, the state department, mike pompeo, did not meet the deadline, for the subpoenas that were issued to him. whats next? what are the ramifications? >> we dont know what ramifications are for missing these subpoenas. it basically gets down to standoff between separati...

Thought was something that was actionable by the doj. the doj brushes it aside and says its not a campaign finance violation. are they using the code to protect donald trump saying if we cant find an actual crime, theres nothing to see. >> theyre using it as both a shield and a sword and theyre using it inappropriately and unfairly in my view. its great to parse these things out. to impeach the president you dont need a crime but to go after pompeo for what he did apparently being on a call that...

Evidence of wrongdoing by joe biden and hunter biden. as jeremy just said, i think what were seeing here again is very similar to his reaction during the mueller investigation. what were john kelly and mattis and everyone quoted as saying? erratic, unhinged. this is outrageous and it is going to simply add for the democrats more evidence on their side. the articles of impeachment, this is a political battle that this is an abuse of power. >> fraand from your perspective what do you think just ha...

Calls with other world leaders, putin, mbs, were hidden. i mean hes proven credible as the i.g. said. >> look, i think the substance of the phone call that the president had with the ukrainian leader, it was inappropriate. it was certain ill advised, but that call in and of itself in my view and many others, it is not an impeachable act. and that certainly will be debated and can be discussed as we get further information. when we have a whistle-blower report that is -- it is something that is c...

Proven right on at three counts. the president strong armed the ukraines president. the record of the call was moved to a high security server, and calls with other world leaders, putin, mbs, were hidden. i mean hes proven credible as the i.g. said. >> look, i think the substance of the phone call that the president had with the ukrainian leader, it was inappropriate. it was certain ill advised, but that call in and of itself in my view and many others, it is not an impeachable act. and that cer...

About how pompeo was very careful in his response when asked by our colleagues at abc news about any knowledge he had as it related to the whistle-blower complaint. he said he didnt have knowledge of the complaint but we now have confirmed he certainly had knowledge of the call, as he was one of those on that call. but his is not the only name, andrea, thats facing new scrutiny right now. rudy giuliani facing a subpoena for not so much documents but text messages, phone records and other communi...

Forward, it actually matches, for the most part, the transcript. the partial transcript. the summary of the called. >> harris: some people say it doesnt match. >> mary anne: im sorry? >> harris: there is no quid pro quo in it. >> mary anne: there is not, but heres the issue -- we heard from the whistle-blower complaint, and the summary of the call issued by the trump white house, it pretty much matches. what that now begs for is the full transcript. >> harris: oh, i see what youre going with us....

To protect this information. thats where we get into the space of coverup. we dont know what other calls were put there but i think its very interesting that it says that these are not the only ones and we should find out what they a are. >> what do you think about the president calling the sources spies. could this be witness intimidation? whats going on here? >> this is exasperating at any rate. the president should never even have engaged in that conversation. when he does that, it gives the ...

Contextual activity. certainly investigators are going to want to talk to this person. ultimately, as much as republicans are sort of saying this is just hearsay, second-hand information, the rejoinder is youre right, we need to bring in people with firsthand information, get them speaking with congressional investigators and have the white house agree to that process, participate in that process because it is such an incredibly serious not just allegation at this point but even from the most se...