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>> the precipitous fall of americas mayor. explain how giulianis public image has shifted over the years. >> its fascinating. after 9/11 we remember him standing with first responders, president bush. he was universally beloved as americas mayor. now there is a much more unflattering portrait of giuliani emerging. all of the investigations are swirling around him into his business associates. thats put white hot scrutiny on what he was doing both for the president and for himself in terms of sel...

Got so many shifting stories. he tried this and that. saying nato didnt provide enough aid or its all hearsay. i think everything that the whistle-blower said has now been corroborated. the idea is that the president withheld congressionally appropriated taxpayer paid for aid in order to advance the private, personal agenda. >> and now many are using the word bribery now. the framers do use that word. what does it mean in this context in. >> bribery wasnt even a crime in 1787 but it was one of t...

Lets think about this for a minute. this was americas mayor. and he is a caricature of his former self. his self-dealing and double dealing and do clandestine deals on behalf of the president is unfortunate for our democracy and unfortunate for what we are going through right now. >> and president trump now said he didnt direct rudy giuliani to do anything on his behalf in ukraine and the president added that hes just one of many giuliani clients. what is your reaction to that? do you buy that? ...

Someone who might try to be too powerful, might be involved in self-dealing, corruption or inviting foreign countries into interfering with our elections. so we havent come across this in a generation, thankfully. you dont want to be doing this every year. its a very serious, very solemn occasion and its important that we educate ourselves, those of us who need to be crafting, drafting, amending, voting on possible articles of impeachment. but the american public has a right to know. i think of ...

A smoking gun later on in this case, is leading to some of the confusion about, well, why isnt the public opinion moving? we may find the public opinion is simply set on this. the president, whose approval rating at been stuck at 40% to 41% for months if not years simply just isnt going to move up or down from there. >> right. and republicans keep insisting anyway that simply that call and him asking for a favor, though, is not impeachable. so i mean in this day and age, it seems to be if you ke...

Give an expletive about ukraine. ambassador sondland stated the president only cares about big stuff. i noted there was a war with russia going on in ukraine. ambassador sondland said replied that he meant big stuff that benefits the president, like the biden investigation. was the president putting his own political interests above u.s. national security concerns? >> if this is not the definition of self-dealing, i dont know what is. david holmes is thoughtful and detail- detail-orient detail-o...

Hesitation along the way? >> for public servants, no, real public servants believe in checks and balances, not any kind of loyalty pledge they make to this president. men like david holmes, ambassador taylor, who is still working for the u.s. government, all they want to do is their actual jobs. i think that david holmes wants to get back and he wants to be able to do his job absent influence from the president and proper influence from the president and his inner circle. the issue, fred, is the...

Sponsorship. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. well now move to 5-minute member rounds. i recognize myself for 5 minutes. mr. kent, i want to follow up on my colleagues questions regarding burisma. you testified about a time when an oligarch was self-dealing awarding himself contracts. when was that? >> to the best of my knowledge, he was minister of energy -- sorry, minister of ecology from 2010-2012. at the time, licenses to have substrata exploration of gas for awarded by a subdivisio...

Virtual theft of, you know, for example, the right to certain energy licenses, correct? >> that is one element, yes, sir. >> and the company burisma, its leader has a little bit of a storied history of corruption, doesnt he? >> he was minister of energy from 2010-2012 under the pro russian government and he used his regulatory authority to award gas exploration licenses to companies that he himself controlled. that would be considered an act of corruption in my view, yes. >> certainly self-deali...

2010-201 2010-201 2010-2012. hunter pa eer biden joined buri 2014. >> youve read the transcript of the call, havent you? >> i have but i havent read it for about a month. >> any discussion between president trump and president zelensky about this oligarch who had been self-dealing? >> to my knowledge, no. >> is there a discussion of awarding contracts to oneself in the time frame? >> to the best of my knowledge, no. >> the president brings up this crowd strike, the server and the bide bide biden...