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Which we pledge allegiance. that demand constituted an abuse of power drawing a foreign government into an election process is an especially serious abuse of power because it undermines democracy itself. its as if our founders could see into 2019 and when they did i that saw donald trump corrupting our democracy by saying to president zelensky of ukraine id like you to do us a favor, though. president trumps subversive and illegal action in seeking foreign interference are an a frontary to our c...

Outlined in the friendly foreign government information, you would be looking to protect the election process. >> right. >> which would include the candidate, the campaign, the candidate and the american people. >> okay. so, did they ever brief hillary clinton about efforts to foreign influence involving her campaign, do you know? >> ive heard that i dont know for a fact. >> they did. do it for them. and they stopped it. was there ever a defensive briefing given by the fbi department of justice ...

Presidential election. when we talk about interfere, we are talking about the kind of systemic, government sanctioned interference with our election process that rush engaged in. and i know there is no way ukraine engaged in that kind of systematic interference. and so in all of the documents that you reviewed, 100 witnesses, did you find any evidence that contradicts fbi director statement and that the fbi has no information ukraine tried to interfere in the 2016 election? >> we didnt see any s...

Presidential election. when we talk about interfering, were talking about the kind of systemic government-sanctioned interference with our election process that russia engaged in. and theres no way that ukraine engaged in that kind of systematic interference. so in all the documents that you reviewed, 100 witnesses. did you find10 any evidence tha contradicts fbi director rays statement that the fbi has no information that indicates ukraine tried to interfere in the 2016 election? >> we didnt se...

Gener general. the fbi investigation the subject of this report crossfire hurricane was opened in july 2016 days after the fbi received friendly reporting from a foreign government. the reporting stated in a may 2016 meeting trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, quote, suggested the trump team received some kind of suggestion, closed quote, from russia, that it could assist in the election process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be da...

Protect? >> well, if its a -- the threat outlined in the friendly foreign government information, you would be looking to protect the election process. >> right. >> which would include. >> the candidate. >> the campaign, the candidate and the american people. >> okay. so did they ever brief hillary clinton about efforts to foreign influences involving her campaign, do you know? >> ive heard that but i dont know for a fact. >> they did. good for them. and they stopped it. was there ever a defensi...

Against both of those articles. >> if you look at the transcript of a call, which is actually unprecedented, to release a transcript of a call between two foreign leaders, the paragraph that youre talking about actually talks about corruption. i think we should -- >> reporter: he doesnt mention corruption, though. >> he mentions the 2016 election process, and that was part of corruption in ukraine. we passed a bipartisan -- >> reporter: he never says "corruption" in two conversat n conversations...

Him. i think everybody feel hes biassed his power, betrayed his oath. the founding fathers laid out as special nation formed in the 1700s for the rest of the world, a beacon of hope and liberty where the people, not the king determine who their leaders were and if he get the election process, you lose that special privilege. he used a bipartisan congressional mandated military funds to help ukraine defend from russian aggression and used that for his personal benefit. thats just plum wrong. >> o...

All of our facts exactly right, and we will. and that we present an accurate picture to the american people of the abuses committed are constitution, abuse of power, betrayal of his oath and his corruption of the election process. reporter: the ranking member doug collins wants tomorrows hearing postponed. hes citing a document dump this weekend by democrats. he said it didnt give his staff enough time to prepare for tomorrow. they warrants to get this done because this is very much of a focus o...

Shes out of the race and its still talking about her as a cop versus her job as a prosecutor or ag or what she did in the senate. so these are key pieces about what were looking at, but its to make people understand the disinformation and suppression is a continuum in our election process that we need to be paying more attention to because theres steps being taken and actions that are happening in this time we still havent handled. >> one of the things you talk about, and ive spoken about this b...