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In the spring of 2006 exdeejay was ready, eager. any day now hed be ready to setoff and sail around the world. and suddenly without saying a word to any of his lifelong friends he vanished. >> i was worried sick. and we were all kind of having the same angst that -- that he had just dropped off the radar completely. >> reporter: his friends called each other, compared notes. no one had seen steven for weeks. >> so i called harvey. and i said, "hey, harvey. were all really concerned about steven....

Former white house council don mcgahn. hes been ignoring subpoenas to testify. and a judge saying today we dont live in a world where your status as a former executive branch official somehow shields you from investigation. >> they had the doj there also saying, hey, the executive branch cant sue the congress. but thats not whats happening. its don mcgahn whos being sued because hes taking the lead from the president and its a very outlandish legal claim. >> thank you, i appreciate all of you. t...

Like susan, i want to read the whole transcript. i dont really like getting these selective accounts of what took place during a many hours deposition in which most likely there were lots of nuances that were not talking about. >> can i get to something you said, you said republicans said he didnt see a problem with the call. he did see a problem with the call because he was concerned about it and concerned about it being move. he said he didnt think it was illegal and i think thats an important...

Stronger situations. president trump survived the other episodes where other politicians may have stumbled. and the reason is that theres a through line through the episodes and its something that his supporters have bought from him which is this idea of grievance. the talks in washington screwed everything in america up. screwed you trump supporters and now theyre trying to do it again attacking president trump. and he will be able to sort of spin that and use it as a campaign fuel. the problem...

In general the facts that have been presented to us at this point about president trumps actions and the realtime concerns of trump administration officials are pretty striking. so you can see why they are going to move ahead to these public hearings. >> you say morrisons view of the law is irrelevant and his action is he was worried about the call. >> i think so. it really says a lot about how basically monolithic the testimony has been, this is something the republicans are saying was good for...

Is going to look poorly on this and not a single one took up the call. >> michael, house speaker pelosi said this back in march. she said impeachment is so divisive to the country unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan i dont think we should go down that path because it divides the country and thats not worth it. >> the question to the speaker are the same questions i provided in the letter about the unfair process that we had. what has changed since march? >> co...

But hes also said that he didnt think anything on the call was illegal. the white house says testimony is good for them. how do you see it? >> obviously im looking forward to reading the full deposition. the report of the testimony suggests he did in fact corroborate realtime concerns about the withholding of $400 million in u.s. security assistance to ukraine with the condition being trump wanted the investigations launched. remember that others especially u.s. acting ambassador to ukraine, bil...

Those people have the facts. so whos really in the bubble? >> yeah. whos really in the bubble. >> were all in a bubble. >> you think about it -- no one wants to be in a fact free world. i would rather be aware. ignorance is not bliss. >> they dont check the facts. were talking about the just a basic facts of impeachment. you cant agree on who placed a call. who was on the call. whether or not it was a transcript or full or memorandum. whether or not words were missing. they dont trust the testim...

National security interest for us and ukraine which makes it maladministration on trumps point. >> you say that morrisons claim that nothing was illegal with the call will give republicans something to work with. why do you say that? >> well, for the obvious reason they can say heres another guy who did not see a problem with the call. you know, i do think we have to be a little bit skeptical about morrisons analysis if only because he was aware of the decision by john eisenberg, the lawyer for ...

Ukraine and ukraines know other transcripts have leaked out in the past, but the independence. and this just put everything on president had calls in the past its head and continues to in our with foreign leaders that maybe work we must be doing with were a little unorthodox, but ukraine and the other baltic was it your sense this was in nations. zp really laid out there. a lot of food for thought given terms of the alarm bells being the scandals and levels. setoff here and registered, that sena...