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Setup piece that was on meet the press that is informative to the very process, the very history of this recent impeachment inquiry. i want to play that for both of you. >> july 19th, kurt volker texts a top trump donor and u.s. ambassador to the european union. had breakfast with rudy this morning. most important is for zelensky to say he will help investigation. july 25, minutes before that phone call, assuming he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. we will nai...

Campaign. a few hours later responds in a much more formal manner, i breve you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. >> that was a portion of the reporting and the setup piece that senator johnson was critical of. 30 seconds to you. what do you make of that setup piece? it is clearly laying out a timeline. >> i think its very helpful. senator johnson got very angry when it seemed to be showing that there was a quid pr...

The europeans follow up on re-imposing sanctions. so as your setup piece suggests, theyre kind of all over the map. i would think as a start, it would be good to take that video and discuss it with the europeans, take it to nato, talk to various europeans and get some support there because there is a credibility issue with this administration when they say things, you cant necessarily take it to the bank. >> the fact that it was sen com that released it, does that make you more confident that th...

Have seen it already or will it be the grand finale? >> no, it could be coming. someone else might do it. mueller might do the setup piece for it. but look. we already have some of that information. mueller has indicted roger stone for conspiring with wikileaks. which is a russian front. he indicted papadopoulos for lying about meeting with russian agents before the e-mail scandal became known in april 2016. were starting to already see the outlines of a mueller report that does look like he is ...

Her to start her campaign by slamming fox? mara: when i watched that video and closed your eyes, it reminds me of republicans who bash the liberal media. but people dont always close their eyes. her video was a real populist message. the system is rigged against ordinary people. here she says big corporations, billionaires, and they have their media cheer leaders. the republican would have delivered that same message. >> i respect may havele maddow. but this interview she did with elizabeth warr...

Divide us. howie: does it make sense for her to start her campaign by slamming fox? mara: when i watched that video and closed your eyes, it reminds me of republicans who bash the liberal media. but people dont always close their eyes. her video was a real populist message. the system is rigged against ordinary people. here she says big corporations, billionaires, and they have their media cheer leaders. the republican would have delivered that same message. >> i respect may havele maddow. but t...

Student from hang joe continues her work despite the challenges and she inspires others from inside this student dorm room new feminist campaigns are springing up all the time. so if youre richardson is the china director of human rights watch she joins us now from washington sophia thank you so much how prevalent is sexual harassment in china but we dont really know because its very difficult as your setup piece suggests for. women to feel confident that they can then should report those kinds ...

Subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? >> its become clear today, brian, if it wasnt clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the ro...

Subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? >> its become clear today, brian, if it wasnt clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the ro...

>> so ambassador, how unusual is it for the president of the united states or the white house or the state department to have made no statement about what russia has done, in terms of telling those 755 staff to stand down? >> well, first, ive been trading e-mails and meeting with other ambassadors today. and i think this is the largest expulsion in the history of american diplomacy. im glad you brought up 1986 in your setup piece, but this is much bigger and nobody can think of another expulsion...