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Successfully off impeachment and the presidents base is very fired up, but what is clear is that theres mounting evidence coming in these impeachment depositions suggesting that the president did carry out some kind of a quid proquo involving security aid to ukraine and this coming week, we could see additional current and former administration officials disc s discussing this. however one top official close to the president has said he will refuse to testify when he was called to sit for a depo...

And of course the focusing on this whistleblower despite the fact we have seen numerous current and numerous officials corroborate key aspects as it relates to this quid pro quo surrounding security aid to ukraine. the president though will face the potential testimony for more officials this week who could also corroborate those aspects of that whistleblower complaint. one of those is potentially the form er national security add virz, john bolton. democrats are seeking his testimony laettner t...

Leaking investigations to benefit the white house. he told his aid -- he said i dont want to be part of any drug deal by mulvaney, sondland. they want to ask about his opposition to the july 25th phone call that took place between president trump, president zelensky of ukraine. they will ask him about the money that was suspended for ukraine security aid, what he knows and how that was linked if at all to conditions. mick mulvaney, chief of staff, did tell us at a briefing, it was late, too, amo...

Vindman said he quote, did not think it was proper for the president to ask a foreign power to investigate a domestic political rival. that gets us to wednesday. two career state department diplomats testify the president displayed a deeply pessimistic view of ukraine. katherine croft and christopher anderson said president trumps attitude was out of step with most white house and state department officials. they viewed support for ukraine as critical. then on the last day of testimonies, that w...

Political rival. wednesday two aides, catherine croft and christopher anderson said the presidents attitude was out of step with most white house and state department officials. they viewed support for ukraine as critical. then on the last day of testimony, thursday, the nscs senior director, tim morrison corroborated earlier testimony from ambassador bill taylor. morrison testified he was told the president wanted a top ukrainian officials to announce an investigation. a political one that co...

Proceeding. >> reporter: trump has been urging his party to defend his actions and his move to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival, joe biden. will you do that? will you all go on the record and say that the president did nothing inappropriate? >> very clear, yes. theres nothing in that phone call that is wrong or impeachable. >> reporter: meanwhile, down in the basement of the capitol, another key witness was testifying. timothy morrison, a top official on the national security ...

Illegal about the call. morrison also told investigators that a conversation he had several weeks later with gord sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the eu and a trump backer gave him reason to believe that the release of aid to ukraine might be conditioned on a public statement that it was reopening an investigation into the energy company burisma. and he confirmed the substance of u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylors testimony as accurate. last week you may recall taylor testified behind clos...

I think obviously a lot of people have read that transcript, rough transcript or incomplete transcript or however we want to frame it and come to a different conclusion. if he did that on a television thing, its a way of daring the other side and say see whats wrong with this and try to explain to the public, a public that may or may not be paying much attention, that may or may not get into the nuances of the phone call or the nuances of the testimony that surrounds the call.hepl n its not just...

Call took lace which is to say while rudy giuliani is putting pressure on the ukraine yarngs while the ukraine has been told they get no meeting with the white house unless they produce the statements that the president wants about investigation of democrats, while security aid has temporarily been suspended at the very same time the president makes the call. so all these things add up. its not just the call. it would be a showmans way of approaching it and it would be a daring way of challengin...

An investigation into the energy company burisma. and he confirmed the substance of u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylors testimony as accurate. last week you may recall taylor testified behind closed doors that morrison had alerted him to an effort by the president to withhold security aid for ukraine that had been approved by our congress in exchange for those investigations. all of it leading up to our kickoff discussion on a thursday night. and for that we are joined by peter baker, chief ...