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They dont care about almost anything. they dont care about usmca. how about that? i think theyre lousy politicians. two things they have. theyre vicious and they stick together. >> impeachment, syria, the g7, the president saying the constitution doesnt matter. if there is a dam, our question is how much pressure can it take? joining me now from capitol hill, nbc news correspondent geoff bennett, "los angeles times" white house reporter eli stock olz. and pbs news hour white house correspondent ...

What sounded the alarm bells and pushed him to say in this text chain, wait a minute, guys, i dont think this is such a good idea. but it isnt just taylor. i also want to hear from michael duffey who held off funds to ukraine. i want to know his thing in this process, what he felt was the thinking of the white house while this discussion was going on. >> and the chief of staff said what he said. were talking about a message that michael duffey may be able to convey that mick mulvaney may know in...

Things have just gone from very, very bad to much, much worse. >> reporter: so one of the other things chairman schiff has said is its very apparent to him that this july 25th call between presidents trump and zelensky didnt happen in isolation. this inquiry is trying to fig yaur out what happened before the call and after. next tuesday house investigators are set to hear from bill taylor, the state department official who said in that text chain said, it would be crazy for the president to try ...

It eventually happens, he could have an enormous amount of insight and be able to express some of his concerns about what he understood to be happening and the things he didnt understand to be happening. you can see that play out in those text messages between gordon sondland and mr. taylor and kurt volker where taylor keeps trying to have the conversation on the text chain so that it becomes part of the record and gordon sondland keeps trying to pull the conversation from the text chain. >> we ...

Presidents personal attorney with the adviser yarmak and served as arizona state universitys mccain institute. he is not hyperrepublican. he is in touch with yermak, the presidential adviser part of the text chain who volker put in contact with rudy giuliani. a couple of critical texts, one happening before president trumps phone call with the ukrainian president. on july 19th. this is kurt volker. he says he had breakfast with rudy giuliani and he is texting the u.s. ambassador to the rurpen yo...

Shutdown this year. the first one was january 20th. the second one was february 9th for just one day. and now add midnight on 12/22. and all these shutdowns, the republicans have controlled both houses of congress and the presidency. so i mean what gives here? why this at the last possible second? for two years, theyve had the white house, the senate, and the congress. >> reporter: an interesting thing. im on a text chain with congressional staffers where the actual question today is where does ...

And now add midnight on 12/22. and all these shutdowns, the republicans have controlled both houses of congress and the presidency. so i mean what gives here? why this at the last possible second? for two years, theyve had the white house, the senate, and the congress. >> reporter: an interesting thing. im on a text chain with congressional staffers where the actual question today is where does this rank in the history of dumbest shutdowns because there is often an understanding with both partie...

2012 because republicans feel damaged candidates. a place that shouldnt be in play, but it is, tennessee. this is why democrats have an outside shot at winning the senate. former governor phil bredesen is within striking distance of republican representative marsha blackburn. president trumps approval rating in the state is at a staggering 58%. that is what makes this a challenge for democrats. shannon? >> shannon: chad pergram, thank you so much. fox news exclusive. more text messages between f...

>> how does your family feel about that? >> um, they -- they are proud. and it is -- theyre confused by twitter. they dont really know whats happening. they certainly can see theres a lot of interest in it. my dad is a part of a text chain with his elementary school friend. and somebody texted him saturday night and said hey is this your son on twitter? and he was so proud. to get into share that experience with everybody. thats been really special. >> by the way your tweet was your first tweet ...

Different directions. i had my son with me. i had another one of my co-workers with me. we got split up. we started a text chain immediately. then we had to reach everybody through e-mail. our team is all safe. we have a lot of people from our national community there. i tried to get in touch with as many people as i could from nashville. luckily, we havent heard of any of our friends who got hurt yet. but a lot of people did. everybody -- we didnt know where everybody was. the closest place for...