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Giuliani, and ultimately directed by president trump. we have heard several ways of describing this shady, shadow operation, shadow diplomacy, rogue back channel. ambassador taylor, you have described what you encountered as the top diplomat on the ground in ukraine and i quote, highly irregular informal channel of u.s. policy making. you testified that the channel included ambassador volker, sondland, secretary perry, and as you later learned, the presidents personal attorney, rudy tgiuliani. i...

Giuliani was going rogue here, right? >> no, i mean, look, rudy giuliani has had a very long relationship with the president. its very clear that he was acting -- if not on his orders, as certainly with his tas id approval. and one thing weve learned when you step back to all of this, as we head into public hearings this week, we have learned so much about rudy giuliani that he was indeed running this shadow operation. and in some respects it wasnt even a shadow operation. it was right there in ...

Mentioned bill barr. in your world, when you were with the state department, when you were a representative to the united nations, under what circumstances would the attorney general be involved in your dealings with other countries? >> quite a bit. its not unusual to have the attorney general, the justice department involved in the interagency process. the national security council has representatives of the pentagon, the cia, the commerce department depending on what the issue is. but almost a...

There and they didnt like that. they wanted to get rid of yovanovitch, who was standing up to the corruption. they wanted to get rid of people who had been replaced on the board of these oil companies. remember, bill perry was trying to put some of his own guys on that board. theyre all trying to get back into the treasure trove of oil money. and frankly, theyre using giuliani and the president to do it. and it didnt work but it might have worked, in which case that would be extremely dangerous....

We know you cant do it. we know ivanka trump did it. i got a whole read out on it. >> you are literally hitting at the heart of whats wrong with this impeachment process. >> the hypocrisy of it. >> the democrats are assuming guilt before innocence. >> congressman, im saying if youre upset about what bidens son did and i think im one of the few people on television who said i dont like what his son did. i think its wrong and i think the vp knows and thats why he wants to change the rules if he ge...

Im being facetious. we know you cant do it. i know ivanka trump did it. >> you are literally hitting at the heart of whats wrong with this impeachment process. the democrats are assuming guilt before innocent. >> congressman, im saying if youre upset about what bidens son did and i think im one of the few people on television who said i dont like what his son did, i think its wrong and thats why he wants to change the rules if he gets to be president. im saying the idea that this president was w...

The house expects to hear from christopher anderson who will tell investigators, according to the testimony that we obtained, that john bolton once told him that he, bolton, viewed rudy giuliani as an obstacle to properly engaging ukraine on a range of issues. this is another echo that weve heard in testimony from career diplomat after state department official about the curious and concerning role that rudy giuliani played in trying to pressure -- in terms of pressuring ukraines leaders to manu...

And his republican defenders is that his conduct is simply indefensible. the very simple fact is we know from the white houses own notes after the ukrainian president said they needed more american weapons and funding for that, trump responded, i would like you to do us a favor though and then asked him to manufacture dirt on his political opponent. thats just one snap shot of what we have since learned was an enormous shadow operation within the u.s. government directed personally by the presid...

It is a very simple case. the problem for the president and his republican defenders is that his conduct is simply indefensible. the very simple fact is we know from the white houses own notes after the ukrainian president said they needed more weapons and funding for that, trump responded, i would like you to do us a favor though and then asked him to manufacture dirt on his political possibly. thats just one snap shot of what we have since learned was an enormous shadow operation within the u....

>> what is a former white house official supposed to do? the new chapter in the ongoing standoff in the trump administration, and democrats in the house went to a third branch of government on friday. kupperman launched a lawsuit, asking the courts for guidance. is he immune to the process? or can he testify and avert an attempt of congress citation from democrats. he shares a lawyer with john bolt bolton, the former national security adviser who compared trumps shadow operation, to a drug deal....