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Appropriated. and most of these questions went to george kent, his body of work in foreign policy is around sort of educating and getting into law the rule of law in these young democracies. it seems like a very, very treacherous precedent to set. >> well, and think about how this precedent could be applied. we might have a president now whose children are engaged in high-level financing of deals around the world using their connections to the leader of the united states of america. and so are t...

That starts both before and after the call. we already know that the ukranians were approached by both sondland and volker about the white house visit, so its not just about the assistance, its about the visit itself ahead of that phone call. so the call itself is not just the important part, its the e preempt to the call and what happened afterwards, too. >> and then number two you have trump and zelensky, who were both on this call, saying there was no pressure on ukraine. do you think this is...

Just 24 hours from now history, public televised impeachment hearings, just the third time the country has ever seen something like this over the air waves, just the fourth time this country has ever gone through this process at all. if it is passed in the house, it moves to the senate where senators will serve as the jury. what are they watching for? joining me now is chris murphy, a democratic senator from the state of connecticut. senator, thank you very much for being with us. how will you w...

Saying there was an ultimatum. its not the military aid or its not the meeting with the president. its a different quid pro quo. its mike pence. but i think the bigger picture here is this guy wants to talk. >> yes. absolutely. and its also an important reminder aside from these impeachment hearings, there is this case in new york thats investigating not only lev parnas and igor fruman but rudy giuliani. as we see these impeachment hearings, we need to know this is still going on. none of the ot...

Testifying to the conditioning of military aid on the investigations of both the bidens and exonerating him. let me read this again. she testified that there needed to be a statement that the government of ukraine would make that would somehow disavow any interference in u.s. election and would commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference. donald trump directs the cia, the fbi, the nsa, i mean, why is he asking ukraine to disavow 2016 election? what is this test...

Might apply. but mostly that he doesnt come at it from the same point of view. he is still operating they say on behalf of the president and they are taking a neutral position and he has already said that there was a quid pro quo. i dont know if we are supposed to use that phrase any more or not. but he said there was a direct link between the security aid being cut off and the presidents desire for an investigation of democrats. he then tried to take it back. both bolton and kupperman havent sa...

Subvert american national security. >> you know what, peter baker, i know youve got some breaking news that im going to get to in a second. but i believe your byline is on that extraordinary piece of reporting when bill taylor first became known. i spoke to a source on the hill yesterday who said -- i said whats been the most dramatic piece of testimony? and he said it is still that opening statement from ambassador bill taylor. and i think you and your colleagues have reported on sort of bill t...

Mulvaney and buolton were on opposite sides of this. mulvaney ordered the security aid suspended while the president was pushing ukraine for incriminating information about democrats. bolton was the one resisting it. the two were on opposite sides. they were known to not get along. so the idea of mulvaney trying to join this lawsuit has ironies on all sorts of fronts. >> mulvaney was uniquely capable of freezing that money despite what congress wanted. of course, hes a former house republican me...

Defending the president? >> well, fredricka, what weve seen so far in this testimony is increasing allegations and corroboration of the allegations that there was some kind of quid pro quo involving security aid to ukraine and these political investigations. now what were hearing from a pair of republican senators is essentially quid pro quo, no big deal. listen to what they said. >> i think weve gotten lost in this whole idea of quid pro quo, and i think senator kennedy got to hit the nail on t...

Officials sounding the alarm about the presidents call and conduct on that call. we dont see anything here. i think the timing of the president deciding to release this now is interesting. of course, this all comes as were learning this is about so much more than just one concerning call between these two leaders. its about a whole of government effort here by the president, directed by the president to pressure ukraines government into carrying out these politically charged investigations and p...