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Jeremy diamond joins us now. >> the president publicly has been criticizing the articles of impeachment and saying this is essentially impeachment light. thats the language he used last night in pennsylvania. but privately, chris, were told the president has been griping about the article cas of impeachment and griping about that fact that hes about to be impeached. thats not a stain he is relishing at all. were also learning their latest official explanation for why, in fact, that nearly $400 m...

Aid to ukraine, saying this is essentially a routine policiry view of this aid. can despite that we know theres no real policy review being conducted of this aid, at least in terms of questions about corruption. we know the department of defense-concluded in the spring that ukraine should indeed receive the security. whats sniff is were seeing them insist the isis a routine matter. and tewing the president directly to this freeze of security aid. this top attorney for the office of management an...

About. >> now witnesses testified about the real motivation connected with the withheld military aid including ambassador bill taylor. here is what he said in his testimony. >> to withhold that assistance for in good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense. it was -- it was counter productive to all of what we had been trying to do. it was illogical, it could not be explained. it was crazy. >> illogical, unexplainable, crazy. mr. goldman, according to the testimony from ...

Connected to the withheld military aid including ambassador bill taylor. here is what he said in his testimony. >> to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the political campaign makes no sense. was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. was a logical, it could not be explained, it was crazy. >> a logical, explainable, craz crazy. so according to testimony, the only explanation for the withheld aid that made sense is that the president was seeking h...

Important that, you know, we get to the bottom of why the trump administration was quietly and mysteriously holding up security aid to lebanon. its very similar to ukraine. lebanon is at a very perilous moment right now. the military badly needed the aid, and the president held it up without any explanation to congress, exactly what happened in ukraine. now im not suggesting theres as nefarious a motive here, but i would hope my republican colleagues would start asking some questions. we have a ...

Happened in 2016. >> and last i want to ask you about the aid to lebanon that was withheld by the administration and then lifted. you recently got back from a trip there. have you gotten any answers to why it was held up in the first place? obviously theres more attention being paid to this sort of thing. >> yeah, so i think its really important that, you know, we get to the bottom of why the trump administration was quietly and mysteriously holding up security aid to lebanon. its very similar t...

Interference in the 2016 u.s. elections. >> one more video clip related to the presidents decision to withhold security assistance that congress had appropriated to ukraine and exchange for announcement of public investigation of his political rival. >> in the absence of any credible explanation for this suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 electi...

The president that. >> let me show you one more clip related to the presidents decision to withhold security assistance that congressed that appropriated to ukraine in exchange for announcement of public investigation of this political rival. >> in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of if 2016 elections and bu...

Investigations of burisma, an alleged ukrainian interference in the u.s. 2016 elections. >> and ill show you one more video clip relating to the presidents decision to withhold security assistance that congress had appropriated to ukraine in exchange for announcement of public investigation of his political rival. >> in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement ...

Otherwise, were at a stalemate. that is way worse than "i want nothing, i want nothing," and appears thats really how this went down. >> mm-hmm. aaron, there may not have been a call on september 9th, but according to the testimony from tim morrison and bill taylor, as elie just said on september 7th, there was a call with a different tone. explain why that call is so significant. >> well, just what elie had said, and also this is coming now in that time frame of just a few days after september ...