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Here today is certainly a decision she does not make lightly. and if shes doing it without the express support of the state department, she is certainly risking a lot. >> hans, you are at the white house. and i know that you have been talking to officials who are waiting to see exactly what we had just been waiting to see, which was the arrival or not of the ambassador. we now know shes obviously in the building. >> she arrived and we dont know if shell talk. in some ways they are flying just as...

About the trump administration and your reporting and what youre hearing this morning from white house officials. are they going to block her or not? >> reporter: there are two things going on. number one, they dont know, there just as alert to whats happening on capitol hill as jeff is, because certain white house officials that ive been talking to dont actually know if she is going to appear. so it is a test case in that sense. >> the expectations are as we heard from jeff, seems like everybod...

We think where those two meet we dont know yet. the president clearly has a really strong red wall in terms of protect k him in the senate on the impeachment inquiry. even now he does, but what portman is doing is interesting because i think it has the potential to give kind of an escape hatch to the republicans who want to criticize the president for what he seems to have been doing on the ukraine without favoring impeachment, and that is precisely what portman does. he says what the president ...

You can get to the president. when bill shine was the communications director, he was a very close friend of sean hannity. >> so the parallel universes of fox news and the trump white house, they both seem to be engulfed tonight in the same inability to respond to this situation. >> yeah, the speed by which this has become a firestorm has overwhelmed their ability to respond. i just think historical context to point out, this will be a test case, because fox news was created for republicans so t...

Why talk to other people when you can get to the president. when bill shine was the communications director, he was a very close friend of sean hannity. >> so the parallel universes of fox news and the trump white house, they both seem to be engulfed tonight in the same inability to respond to this situation. >> yeah, the speed by which this has become a firestorm has overwhelmed their ability to respond. i just think historical context to point out, this will be a test case, because fox news wa...

Blue seat, congresswoman aoc quoted a saying "if were going to make these changes, they need to come from safe blue seats, and lipinski tonight told "politico" that democrats should not be fighting against each other, they should actually be fighting against the trump agenda. its going to be interesting. >> shannon: its an interesting first test case to see what her endorsement does or doesnt do in this primary. well watch it. thanks, david. >> you bet. >> shannon: a gruesome discovery, more tha...

The procedural rules you cant completely do this, they have to not engage they have to try to shut it down as quickly and as early as possible there seemed to be a lot of debate going on right there in the moment about privilege i mean, this is a bogus privilege thats being asserted. so either they should have said from the beginning that theyre just going to let him make these bogus privilege assertions, or theyre going to hold him in contempt, one or the other there seemed to be a lot of debat...

The limits of what we thought were the powers of chairmen in this process, because they are abusing this hearing process and there really isnt a way to get them to behave the way theyre supposed to in these hearings. >> well, i think to the extent possible, and i realize under the procedural rules you cant completely do this, they have to not engage right? they have to try to shut it down as quickly and as early as possible there seemed to be a lot of debate going on about -- right there in the ...

Theres only so much we can do and if the federal government doesnt do this, you know what, i guess we have to sue the federal government >> well, there are people suing the federal government already theres the julianna case taking part out in oregon which is the test case for that its not brought by a state, its brought by individual plaintiffs, but i think thats the case there a state has particularly strong standing to deal with public nuisance because theres a big body of law that says that ...

Longer have to fear the nra. they should fear moms and students and the community groups because theyre going to continue to do this. look at arizona. you have a candidate in mark kelly who led a gun rights group running for the senate, and i think that will be a real test case if he can win. >> heidi, theres also news about corporations saying enough is enough. what sort of power do they have to change the status quo? >> the corporations are calling on congress to change the status quo. but acc...